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[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 7 by lynxian

2013-11-09T04:26:16+00:00

Translation reserved for Orinjido Scans.

If you translate this into another language, PLEASE credit me (lynxian) as the original Japanese to English translator in your release. If you can't/won't do that, then don't use my translation.

Holy crap, what? Yes, after lord knows how long, it's another chapter of Haru Polish! Honestly, this series is one of my easier ones to translate, so I'm going to work on finishing it up.

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[p001]

(top) Chapter 7: Mino Pottery and the Shirakawa-go Village

[p002]

Shun: Steady...
Shun: Urk.
sfx bubble: Clonk

Wakana: You have to bring it to a definite stop, Tachioka-kun.
Shun: R...right...

Wakana: You won't be able to swing the katana unless you build up your strength.
Shun: Yes...
Shun: I'll work harder.

[p003]

sfx bubble: Clonk

sfx bubble: Clonk

sfx bubble: Clonk

Shun: H-hey, Hasegawa!

[p004]

Hina: I'm not improving at all!! My head hurts!!
Shun: There, there. How about we start with a lighter weight wooden sword.

Shun: Ouch.
Shun: My hands have blisters, too...

Shun: My upper arm's sore...
Hina: Mine, too.
Wakana: You two really won't be able to swing a katana like that, you know.

Wakana: You
Wakana: won't be able to slice anyone.

[p005]

Hina: Right...

[p007]

Hina: Wooow!

(Shun): Why?

(Shun): Even though she was worn out from swinging a wooden sword too,
(left of Haru): Ah, this is hard...
(Shun): even though she shouldn't have more strength than me,

(Shun): why
(Shun): is she able to swing a katana so smoothly?

[p008]

Haru: Hey, how'd you do?
Haru: Did you get a good grip on it?

Shun: Um...
Shun: Well...

[p009]

Wakana: Nihon-me "Ushiro."
(Ushiro = behind)
Wakana: She did it perfectly, didn't she?
Ogami: Yeah.

Ogami: She only saw it once, but...

Ogami: the way she raised her left knee,
Ogami: and the timing of her waist turn...

Ogami: she's able to do them without being taught.
Ogami: The same goes for the way she carries her body and swings a katana.

[p010]

(Ogami): That...
(Ogami): can cut.

[p011]

Wakana: Did something happen, Ogami-senpai?

Wakana: Your face is pale.

Ogami: Nothing in particular.
Ogami: I'm just lightheaded.

Wakana: ...But you're sweating an awful lot...
Ogami: I'm telling you to drop it.
Ogami: Don't worry about me.

[p012]

Ogami: Okamoto.

Haru: How was it, senpai? My swordsmanship!
Haru: I can already swing a real sword!!

Ogami: Yeah...
Ogami: That's true.

Ogami: But

Ogami: you need to put more strength into it.
Ogami: You can swing it, but at this rate, you'll injure your arm in no time.

[p013]

Haru: But even Katayama-senpai swings it around with those thin arms, doesn't she?
Wakana: Eh?

Wakana: ...That's not true at all, Haru-san.
Wakana: I'm worried that they're becoming rather beefy, you see.

Wakana: I can keep a firm grip on it because of my large biceps...
Hina: I wanna see!!

Wakana: Wha...?
Hina: I wanna see your biceps!
Haru: I wanna see them, too!
(right of Hina): C'mon~

Wakana: But it's not exactly something I want to show people...
Ogami: What's the problem with showing them?

Wakana: Alright.
(Wakana sfx): Ahem.
Wakana: Well, then... just for a bit...

[p014]

Wakana: There!

(above trio): Ooooh!
Wakana: Aaand that's all!!
Wakana: I won't show them anymore!!

[p015]

Hina: That's so cool! I want to build up a ton of muscle, too~
(Shun): Is that so...

Haru: Alright.
sfx bubble: Grip

Haru: I'll get even stronger too,
Haru: and quickly wield a real sword!!

Wakana: Aaand time's up on your katana usage.
Ogami: Give it here.

Haru: Whyyy!
Wakana: If we let you hold onto it for a long time, you'll end up going off into your own little world.
Ogami: Do practice strokes with a wooden one.

[p016]

Haru: I totally won't go crazy like that, though~
(left of Haru): Again...
Wakana: We're not going to risk it.

Haru: Ahh, I really wanna get my own practice sword soon...
Hina: I'm gonna make mine look cool!

Shun: Our own practice swords, huh...
Shun: But where and how would we get ahold of them?
Shun: I guess we could buy them on the net...

Wakana: Oh, about that,
Wakana: I was thinking we'd go put in an order to have katana made for everyone.
Hina: Where're we gonna go for that?!

Ogami: Gifu.

[p017]

Hina: Gifu Prefecture?!
(left of shadow): It's hand power.
Shun: The Gifu of Hida-Takayama City, Sekigahara, Hida beef, Mino pottery and Gero Onsen fame, where Mr. Malik was born?!

Wakana: Speaking of Gifu, there's also the village of Shirakawa-go.
Ogami: Takayama ramen, too.
Haru: Do we really have to go all the way out there to get a sword?

Wakana: Of course, there are places much closer to us, but...
Wakana: Ogami-senpai was rather adamant about it.

Wakana: Is there some reason for that?
Ogami: Who knows...

[p018]

Wakana: Putting aside Ogami-senpai's evasiveness, Gifu's Seki City is the leading blade producer in Japan.
Wakana: I figured we could use Golden Week for a field trip to go take a look, but
Wakana: what do you guys think?

Haru: Uwaah! A trip with everyone?!
Shun: If we're going to Gifu, does that mean we're gonna stay overnight?
Hina: Yaaay! I wanna go!!

Hina: What about snacks?!
Wakana: Hm?

Hina: Is there a 500 yen limit?!

Wakana: As if...
Wakana: We aren't children anymore, you know.

[p019]

(Wakana): The limit is 800 yen!!

(Hina): Nice!!

Haru: Going on a trip to get my very own katana...
Haru: It sounds kinda cool...

(Haru): Just what sort of adventures... and trials are waiting for us...?
Demon: If a katana is what you desire, you must come and defeat me.
Mage: Only the chosen one may draw forth this katana!
Shun: Yeah, no.

[p020]

???: Good work today.
???: You too~

Hina: I wonder what kind I'll get.
Hina: I can get a cool design added to it, too.

(Haru): I can't wait~
(Haru): I really want to hold my very own katana as soon as possible.

(Shun): A trip... a co-ed trip...
(Shun): I'm... kinda already getting nervous.

(Shun): Come to think of it, how much is an imitation sword, anyway?
(Shun): There's travel expenses, too.
(Shun): I wonder if we're taking the Shinkansen.

[p021]

(Shun): I'll have to ask my mom for some money...

Girl: Hey,
Girl: you guys are from the Iaido Club, right?

(Shun): Wh-what the?!
(Shun): What's with these scary senpai?!

Hina: Yup, that's right.
Haru: Do you need us for something?

[p022]

Girl: Why don't you stop playing around with that Iai stuff?
Girl: Could you just quit already?

(Shun): Huh?! They're picking a fight with us?!
(Shun): Why?!

Hina: No way!!

Haru: Why do we have to listen to you and quit?!

[p023]

Girls: What'd you say?

Shun: Okamoto! Hasegawa!
Shun: C'mon!
Shun: Let's go, okay! Let's go!

Boy: Give it a rest.
Boy: You're scaring them.

Boy: Sorry for being so abrupt.
Boy: We're members of the Kendo club.

Boy: Let's get along as fellow practitioners of martial arts.
Shun: L...let's.

[p024]

Boy: The dojo you're using...
Boy: originally... belonged to our Kendo club.

Boy: That Ogami in your group arranged it on his own accord and stole it from under us.
Boy: As a result, we're stuck using a cramped space with the girls...
Shun: O...ow...

Haru: W-what are you doing?!
Hina: Stop it!!

[p025]

Hina: Ah...
Boy: Ogami from the Iaido Club was problematic,
Boy: quarreling with the Kendo club, and ultimately resorting to violence against the captain.
Boy: According to the rumors, anyway.
Boy: Please be extra careful, president.

(Hina): That's right, I remember now!!
(Hina): As the student council president, investigating that was also my goal!!

Hina: Hey, Kendo Club! Don't cause any more trouble!!
Hina: I, Hasegawa Hinako, a member of this Iaido club and the student council president, won't allow it!!

Boy: Quit your whining.
Boy: Going and taking advantage of our kindness...
Shun: Owowowow!

[p026]

Boy: It's all because you lot had to join up.
Boy: The Iaido club should have been long gone by now, but
Boy: thanks to all of you joining, they avoided being demolished.

Shun: Uwaah!

Haru: P-
Haru: Please stop!!

Boy: This is the hand of someone who has seriously swung a wooden sword every day.
Boy: Those little games of yours can't produce this level of strength.

Haru: S...

Haru: Sto...

[p027]

Boy: Say you'll quit, and I'll release his hand.
Boy: With all of you gone, the club will successfully meet its end.
Shun: Guwaa!

Boy: Go on, say it!
Boy: It'll be easier for everyone.

[p028]

Boy: Agh...
Boy: Guh...

Girl: Wh-what's wrong?!

[p029]

Boy: Ga-guh gaah...
Girl: Get ahold of yourself!

Ogami: What do you think you're doing to my kouhai?

Boy: Ogami...!!

[p030]

Ogami: If you have business with the Iaido Club,

Ogami: then I'll be your opponent.
Girl: Eep...

Ogami: Bring it.

[p031]

Ogami: Come...

Girl: Ahh...
Girl: Uwaa...

Girl: What are you lot up to?

Girls: Captain!!

[p032]

Cap: What's the matter, Ogami?
Cap: You're making quite the frightening face.

Cap: Alright, let's get going.
Girl: Ah...
Cap: Don't go causing so much trouble for the other clubs.

Girl: This guy weighs a ton!
Girl: Seriously, what a pain.
Cap: Ogami...

[p033]

Cap: You're...
Cap: being pulled even further in than before.

Cap: You had best...
Cap: take care.

(Haru): Ogami-senpai...
(Haru): Something seems... off about him...

[p035]

Wakana: Hm?
Wakana: What are you all doing, hanging around out here?

Shun: Erm...
Hina: Nothing.
Hina: We're heading home.

Sign: Girls' Locker Room
Cap: Listen.

Cap: Don't involve yourselves
Cap: with Ogami... or the Iaido Club anymore.

[p036]

Girl: ...But why...
Cap: You will be at risk if you do.

Cap: At one point, my brother's best friend attempted suicide.
Cap: It was due to anxiety over his entrance exams or something similar...

Cap: It was... the same sort of feeling you get from Ogami.
Cap: You could think of it as being clothed in a dark... sinister air...
Cap: Or being drawn into another world...

Cap: Keeping away from people like that is for your own good.
Cap: Ogami,
Cap: What's all this about you telling us to get out?

Ogami: Sorry, but I want to use this dojo.
Cap: Stop screwing around. What sort of arbitrary--

[p037]

Ogami: Please...

Ogami: I want a place where I can swing a katana.

Box: I didn't know what his goal was, but... I understood, at least, that getting involved with him was dangerous.
Box: After that, he quit the Iaido Club... and I figured he had achieved his goal, but...
(Cap): From the way he looked today, that doesn't seem to be the case at all.

[p038]

Cap: Anyway... just forget about him.

Cap: Unless you two want to get dragged in, as well.

[p039]

Cap: Still...
Cap: why would he return to the club?

Cap: Did he
Cap: find something...?

sfx bubble: Haah
sfx bubble: Haah

sfx bubble: Haah

sfx bubble: Haah

Ogami: ...Your house is in the other direction, isn't it.
Ogami: Why did you come this way?

[p040]

Ogami: Okamoto...

[p041]

Haru: I've been worried about your state of mind for a while now, senpai...
Haru: I'm sorry for following you...

Haru: But even though you aren't doing Iai kata,
Haru: you've had a sort of bloodlust surrounding you this while time...

Haru: A...and
Haru: it's as if you're really going to be killed...

Ogami: ...It's because of that lot from the Kendo club.
Ogami: And I'd always kept it in check, too.

Haru: Kept it in check...?
Haru: Just... what is it...?

[p042]

Box: The journey to Gifu...
Box: What awaits them is a cursed katana.

Box: Is what coils around Ogami-senpai truly that katana's curse?

Box: If so, is it something which can be undone?
(right of Hina): 800 yen~ 800 yen~

Box: The key lies
Box: in the ability to hear the katana's voice.
Box: In Okamoto Haru...

[p043]

(top):
Straight to the point!
Sword Seminar, Iai course
(top, white banner): Art: Minamoto Yuu
(above leaf line):
Miscellaneous info on Iai and Japanese swords | Number 3 is "The History of Japanese Swords, Part 2"

Speech bubble: It's surprising how similar the histories of computers and Japanese swords are~

(black banner): From a weapon to a symbol
(quick note: the bolded parts here are also part of the translation)

Ooishi: Woah, that's a new iPad, isn't it? Is it yours, headmaster?
Headmaster: Indeed. Jealous, are we?
Ooishi: Even though you're an Iai teacher, you're surprisingly fond of new things, huh.
Headmaster: What are you saying? This is the same as the samurai's katana having become shorter.
Ooishi: Huh? What do you mean?
Headmaster: You can carry a laptop, but they're quite heavy and unwieldy, and, in my case, I had no choice but to take one with me when it was indispensable. However, I can carry this normally, it's easy to take out, even on the train, I can use it to show data to people, and it's very convenient when I suddenly want to look up something.
Ooishi: That's true~
Headmaster: It was the same in the Sengoku era. Disputes occurred not just on the battlefield, but also in cities and towns. It was a world where you didn't know when you would be attacked next. For that reason, they always wore a short sword that could be drawn at any time.
Ooishi: I see. So you're saying that this is the Sengoku era of business.
Headmaster: ...I don't really get what you're saying, but whatever. After the battle of Sekigahara, there was an era of peace established by the Tokugawa Shogunate and practical use of katanas became near-nonexistant. Even so, the style of samurai who carried both a katana and a short sword continued. In other words, they wore katana for protection purposes and as a symbol to denote samurai status. Subsequently, you could say that the katana's appearance having remained largely unchanged to this day is because there was no longer a need to revise it, as it wasn't used in actual combat anymore.

[p044]

(black banner): The start of modern-day Iai
(quick note: the bolded parts here are also part of the translation)

Ooishi: So without any fighting, Iai and other sword techniques went into decline, right?
Headmaster: On the contrary, they became quite popular.
Ooishi: Why's that?
Headmaster: I believe that samurai came to regard them more as a means of training their minds and bodies than a way to polish their skills to cut people for actual combat. For that very reason, the study of Iai and other sword techniques continued through the Edo era, and some several hundred schools were born.
Ooishi: Ohh, makes sense.
Headmaster: As was mentioned before, the Iai created by founder Hayashizaki Jinsuke was a technique of drawing out the long sword hung from the left hip, blade-down. However, the seventh head to take over the teachings of the Hayashizaki Musou-ryu, a man named Hasegawa Chikaranosuke Hidenobu, is said to have changed it in the Kyoho era (1716-1736) to a technique of drawing out the katana worn at the hip, blade-up. By that point, it had been more than 100 years since the peaceful Edo era. The Hasegawa Eishin-ryu started by Hidenobu was the foundation of modern-day Iai.
Ooishi: So then, the Iai techniques taught nowadays weren't used in actual combat?
Headmaster: During the small span of the Bakumatsu era, and the upheavals, Boshin War, etc. therein, there were times when Japanese swords were used to fight. However, after the Meiji Restoration, a sword prohibition was put in place and katana became wholly unnecessary. Even so, the continuance of Iai and other sword disciplines, as well as their being taught even in the present day, undoubtedly point to their effectiveness in training the mind and body.
Ooishi: Training the mind and body, huh. I'm still awful at it, but I've got to work hard and train, too.

Ooishi's speech bubble: I borrowed the headmaster's iPad, but I don't get how to use it at all...
(left of large Ooishi pic): When it comes to Iai and digital stuff, I still have a lot to learn...
Headmaster's speech bubble: I'm far from losing to a youngin'.

(aaand I'd have done page 45, but Minamoto's handwriting is hard to decipher.)

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 6 by lynxian

2012-09-12T14:01:08+00:00

Translation reserved for Orinjido Scans

[p001]

(right) Ripped clothes, a torn skirt...
(left) Ehh! What will happen to Haru-chan's body?! (--er, was this that sort of manga?)
(bottom right) Totsuka Masahiro x Minamoto Yuu
(bottom left, white circle) This time, the comedy is reaching new heights ♥
(bottom, center) Chapter 6: Sweat and Muscles
(bottom, above logo) An Iai comedy♡ of beautiful girls♡ and real swords!!

[p002]

Box: I'm Tachioka Shun.
Box: A first year at this Shikinomori High School.

Box: I've said it before, but
Box: I'm bad with women.

Box: ---But that's not particularly strange at all!!
(above cat) Cat
Box: Men and women are completely different beings, after all!!

Box: I mean, I don't know how I'm supposed to touch them!!
どうやって触れあったらいいかなんてわからないだろ!!
Box: That sort of thing is completely normal!!
(left of Shun) Uwaaaaa

Box: ---Yet
Box: I can come in contact with this Hasegawa Hinako girl without any problems.

[p003]

Box: I can touch her, too.
Shun: Ooh, so stretchy~
Hina: Don't pull my cheeks!
Box: Someone this stumpy doesn't seem like a girl at all.

Box: Still,
Hina: Nnnggg
Hina: Quit pulliiiing!

Box: This girl's inability to deal with men goes far beyond that.
こいつの男の苦手っぷりは度を超えている
Box: 1st year Okamoto Haru.
(Haru, in gray): NOOOOO!!
(Shun, in gray): H-
(Shun, in gray): Huh?!
(Haru, in gray): There are boys nearby...
(Haru, in gray): Scary...
Box: As a result, we haven't progressed one bit with club activities.

[p004]

Ogami: Before you wield a katana, do practice swings and build up your physical strength.
Ogami: Now use this bokutou and do just that!!
(Bokutou = wooden sword)

Haru: YEEEEEE
Haru: EEEEEEK!!

Ogami: Hurry and take it, Okamoto Haru.
Haru: KYAAAAAA!

Haru: NOOOOO!!
Ogami: What's the matter? Why are you running away, Okamoto Haru?

Wakana: Ogami-senpai... I'll deal with her...
(sfx around Ogami) Irritated
(Ogami): There's no progress... at this rate, we won't be able to do a thing.

[p005]

Hina: Hey, when is this gonna start being a hot-blooded Iai manga?
???: Even if I have to use force.
Haru: HIGYAAAAA!
Shun: Who knows...

(Haru sfx) Worn out

Satsuki: What's up, Haru? You're way too haggard.
Yayoi: Are club activities really that tiring?

Yayoi: That's a real problem, huh~
(Haru): I can't tell them that we haven't done anything yet...

[p006]

Satsuki: At a time like this, a bento will cheer you right up.
Satsuki: How about we eat outside today?

Haru: YAAAY, bento!!
Satsuki: Oh my, she's already fully recovered.

???: We have to do something
???: about her.

Wakana: You mean Haru-san?
Wakana: Even if you say that, I don't know what to do either...
Wakana: Puberty is a difficult time for girls, you know.

[p007]

Ogami: She can't be taught anything like that,
Ogami: and we can't get anything done.
Wakana: It's certainly troublesome...

Ogami: Isn't there some way of dealing with it?
Wakana: This isn't the sort of problem that has a simple "we'll manage somehow" solution.

Wakana: Let's slowly watch over
Wakana: her growth.

Ogami: You're saying to wait until she's finished puberty, huh.
Ogami: I don't have the time to do that.

Wakana: Time?

Wakana: That's true, you'd have already graduated by then.
Ogami: That's not it...

Ogami: Soon...
Ogami: I will turn 18...

[p008]

Wakana: Hm.

Wakana: That aside, is this alright, Ogami-senpai?
Wakana: You're going to end up with no time to eat your lunch.

Ogami: Don't worry about that, Katayama.

Ogami: After all, I don't have friends to eat bento with.
Ogami: I always waste lunchtime wandering around without eating anything.
(Wakana): Ah...
(Wakana): How can he say something so lame in such a cool fashion...

[p009]

Girl: Heey, Wakana,

Girl: Was that your boyfriend just now?
Girl: He's kinda scary but cool.
Wakana: You have it completely wrooong~

(Wakana): A boyfriend, hm...
(Wakana): Even if there were only a boy interested in Haru-san...
ハルさんに気になる男子でもできたら...

(Wakana): ...it might end up immediately resolving things.
(left of Wakana) Fufufu
Box: --However,

Box: The reality was something not nearly that fortunate.
現実はそんなに甘くないのでした
Box: It was more like...
もっとなんかこう...

[p010]

(crow sfx) CAW!

Yayoi: Kyaa!

Yayoi: Geez. The crows are eyeing our bento.
Satsuki: I guess it was a bad idea to go outside.
Haru: It's pretty dangerous.

Haru: Let's watch out for attacks from above and eat!

Haru: Ah!

[p011]

Satsuki: Where are you going, Haru!
Haru: Waaaaait!!
Haru: That's my bento!!

Haru: I think it ran over here...

(sign) Equipment Room

Haru: Where aaare you? Please come ouuut.
Haru: Give back my bentoooo.

[p012]

Haru: Okay, now there's nowhere left to run~
Haru: Be good and give it back~

Haru: There, there.
Haru: You really shouldn't cause mischief like that.
(above cat) Mrow~

Haru: If you're good, I'll give you some of my side dish.
Haru: It's mom's special chicken and cheese.

Haru: C'mon, let's go.
Haru: Lunchtime is ending.

(sfx) 1, 2!
(sfx) 1, 2!

(sfx, top) 1, 2!
(sfx, top) 1, 2!

[p013]

sfx bubble: 1, 2!
sfx bubble: 1, 2!

Player: Alright, time to get changed.
Players: Ossu!!
Player: Be quick. We're losing time to eat lunch.

[p014]

Players: Aghh, I'm hungry!!
Players: I'm so hungry I could die!
Players: Either way, I'm just hungry!!

Player: I'm seriously hungry.
Player: Aren't you, Tsukasa?

(Haru): ...Wh

(Haru): What should I do...

[p015]

(Haru): Why... are they showing up here one after another...
(Haru): I ended up hiding right away, but...

Player: My stomach's running on empty today.
Player: Right back at you, so's mine.
逆にハラへるわ
(Haru): I can't get out of here like this...
(Haru): Hurry up and leave......!!

Player: Alright, let's get changed and go eat!!!
Players: Yeaaaah!!!

[p016]

(Haru): Th-
(Haru): They're getting undressed?!!

[p017]

(Haru): Wh-why are they undressing in a place like this...
(Haru): What should I do, what should I dooo!!

(Haru): If I'm discovered...
(Haru): Somebody save me...!!

[p020]

(Haru): YEEEEEEEEK!
(Haru): HIGYAAAAA!

sfx bubble: Clatter

Players: Hm?

Players: Did you...
Players: hear something just now?

[p021]

Player: Yeah, I did.
Player: There a mouse in here with us?

Player: Inside...

Player: these vaulting horse boxes...

[p022]

(left of cat) Meow~

(cat sfx) Meow~
(cat sfx) Meow~

Player: So it's just a cat.
Player: Let's hurry up and get changed already.

Player: Huh?
Player: Where's my bag?

[p023]

Player: You said there's a lot of money in there, so you hid it, didn't you?
Player: Even though you called it a lot of money, it's just 5,000 yen, right?
(about $60)
Player: That ain't a lot at all.

Player: That's right, I put it inside this vaulting horse box...

[p024]

Haru: KYAAAAAAAAAAA

Player: UWAAAAAAAAH

Haru: KYAAAAAA!
Player: UWAAAAAH!
Players: Wh-what the?!
Players: Something's in there!!!

[p025]

Haru: Ah...........................
(sfx) Fshhhh

Players: Ehh?!
Players: Wh-what happened?!

Player: ...?! Why's there a girl in here...?
Player: And she even collapsed, to boot.

Players: Oi, get ahold of yourself!
Players: Oi, you okay!!

Players: This's bad. She's lost consciousness.
Players: Just what the heck happened!!

[p026]

Players: Open your eyes!!
Players: Don't die!!
Players: Pull yourself together!!

(Haru): UWAAAAAAAAAAAA
(Haru): AAAAAAAAAHHHHH

Satsuki: Haru~
Satsuki: Just how far did you go?

[p027]

Players: Heave-ho!
Players: Heave-ho!
Players: Heave-ho!
Players: Heave-ho!

[p028]

Player: Hold on, we'll get you to the infirmary right away!!
Player: Don't die before we get there!!

Players: Heave-ho!
Players: Heave-ho!
Players: Heave-ho!

Yayoi: That was...
Satsuki: Haru... just now, right...

[p029]

Ogami: ...Okamoto's not here?
Hina: Was she absent today?

Wakana: Nope.
Wakana: Evidently she left early, carried on the shoulders of a naked portable shrine.

Box: Er...
Box: and so,

[p030]

(right) The next day.

Haru: Morning, Tachioka-kun!!

[p031]

Shun: Mor...
Shun: ning...

Haru: Let's do our best in club activities today, too.
Haru: So we can quickly wield katanas!!
Shun: Y...yeah...

Haru: Well, see you later.
Shun: Yeah...

[p032]

(right of Haru) Morning~

Haru: Good afternoon, Ogami-senpai!!
Haru: I'm in your care again today!!

[p033]

Ogami: ...what happened...?

Wakana: Who knows...
Wakana: I guess she's the sort who's affected by shock therapy?

Wakana: She ended up shocked stiff
Wakana: from over-stimulation.

Ogami: ...well, whatever the reason,
Ogami: we'll finally be able to move forward.

Ogami: Still...
Ogami: I just don't understand pubescent women at all.

[p034]

???: Before wielding a katana, you first perform a "sword salute."

Ogami: We'll teach you the standard etiquette,

Ogami: in order to ensure you properly perform it from here on out.

[p035]

Wakana: This is the start of the sword salute.
Wakana: And the following is how it ends.

[p036]

(above Hina) Heey,
Hina: Do we always do that?
Wakana: Yes, we do.

Hina: Isn't it a pain?
Wakana: Not at all.
Wakana: We have to do it at the start to calm ourselves.
今にやらなければ落ち着かなくなります

Hina: Hmmm.
Hina: So that's how it is.

Ogami: Okamoto.

Ogami: I'll loan this to you.
Ogami: Try giving it a swing.

[p037]

Haru: Can I really?!

Hina: What about me, what about me?!
(right of Hina) Hey, hey!
(around Wakana) Yes, yes.
Wakana: Let's just watch first.

[p038]

Haru: ...but I don't really know any kata or anything...
Ogami: It doesn't matter.

Ogami: Do whatever you'd like.

Haru: Okay!!

[p039]

(Haru): The weight of iron...
(Haru): The feeling of the hilt grip...

(Haru): I was finally... able to hold one again...

(Shun): ...she's crying?

[p040/41]

(Haru): Yeah.
(Haru): This is it.

(Haru): This sensation!!

[p042]

(Haru): The sensation of becoming one with the katana!!

(Haru): The katana guides my actions.
(Haru): Where should I move? Where should I cut?

[p043]

(Haru): Every sweep of the sword
(Haru): makes me happy!!

(Ogami): ...As I thought, this girl
(Ogami): seems able to converse with katana.

(Ogami): If it's her,
(Ogami): she might be able to hear the voice of "that katana".

Box: ...at that time,
Box: I didn't really know... whether this aspect of Okamoto Haru was incredible or not.

Box: I was just

[p044]

Box: struck by the beauty of it.
(right) Conquering her internal troubles (androphobia), a new talent is likely... to bloom!!
(bottom) Continued in the December issue.

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 2 by b3nriya

2012-06-08T03:31:17+00:00

Reserved for Kuudere Scans

pg. 02
panel 1: Hello
I'm Okamoto Haru
everyone calls me Haru
that's how it is
panel 2: this spring i've enrolled into Shikinomori High School
i'm 15 years old
i was born on the 20th of April
my blood type is B

pg. 03
panel 1: i don't understand zodiacs very well
since i'm born on the 20th of April would i be Aries or Taurus
since that day is just inbetween i don't read magazines
panel 2: do i really not have one
is it perhaps Aldebaran ...
panel 3: as for my club i have chosen the Iaido club
since i can swing a japanese sword which i absolutely adore (or something that
looks like it)there
panel 4: but the club members are just me
and Katayama Wakana-senpai however

pg. 04
panel 1: if we don't find more club members we won't be acknowledged as a club
i have to do my best and do some recruitment
panel 2: or else we will be in serious trouble

pg. 05
panel 3: iai hizanobu (iaido knee stance)
panel 5: 4th form

pg. 06
panel 1: tsuka ate (hilt thrust)

pg. 10
panel 1: two she slashed two people
panel 2: from the sitting position she pierced the enemy in front of her
panel 3: and then immediately pierced the enemy behind her
panel 4: and then she deals the finishing blow
to the staggering enemy in front of her
panel 5: at the end she clears away the blood
and sheathes her sword

pg. 12
panel 1: is there still
one person left?
panel 4: Wakana: Haru-san
this was the 4th form of the iai hizanobu
the hilt thrust
it is a form for crossing swords with two people in the front and back while being
seated

pg. 13
panel 1: you will only work on the iai hiza
Haru: ... two people ... is it
panel 2: right i misunderstood
panel 3: can you please give it to me next!
Wakana: no
panel 4: it's still to early for you
the first thing you must do is
panel 5: gathering clubmembers!

pg. 14
it doesn't matter if they are beginners or experts or if they are male or female
because if you find one after the other they can take part in the club activities
this year
panel 2: Haru:*sigh*
panel 3: what is this ...
i got myself in trouble ... a little ...

pg. 15
panel 1: hey hey have you heard?
near Nanohana park a random attacker has appeared
panel 2: a senpai from 2nd year was cut by a flower petal
scary
that's a suspicous rumour
that senpai just wanted to have some attention always such idiotic things
excuse me
panel 3: would you be interested in iaido?
the iaido club is recruiting new members
panel 4: iaido?
what is that iaido Haru-chan
i got it it's the one where you shoot the arrow at the target
that's kyuudo

pg. 16
panel 1: It's where you swing around japanese swords (or something that looks like it)
it's so flashy
woah
interesting isn't it
panel 2: right!!
panel 3: but sorry
we have decided on our clubs already
ahh ...
panel 4: Iaido was it?
panel 5: sounds good
i would like to hear about it in detail

pg. 17
panel 3: iaido is where you use a katana
you do various slashes
we had a club like that in school
panel 4: ah ah

pg. 18
panel 1: aaaahhh
aaahhh ...
panel 2: noooo
ah uhm!?

pg. 19
panel 1: wahhh
wait Haru
where are you going Haru
panel 3: wait a second you made Haru-chan cry
you guys are the worst
EEhhh!!!
panel 4: haa... haa...
panel 5: i was scared ...
really Haru
you can't do that running away like that
but ...

pg. 20
panel 1: i'm scared ...
of guys ...
panel 3: i'm okay with male teachers
panel 4: as well as little boys
panel 5: but ...

pg. 21
panel 1:guys of the same age ...
are scary ...
however i think about it i don't get it ...
panel 2: i can't properly look at their face and
talking to them is absolutely impossible!
panel 3: what to do i'm in trouble
in trouble

pg. 22
panel 1: what are you laughing about Yayoi and Satsuki
th that's because
nowadays something like a man ... !!
panel 2: you're mean
i was seriously worried
panel 3: sorry sorry Haru
here wipe your tears
panel 4: here wipe your nose
panel 5: well you were in an all girls school all the way from kindergarten to
middle school
i can't be helped right

pg. 23
panel 1: but Satsuki as well as Yayoi were together with me
i have an older and younger brother
and i have a boyfriend
panel 2: *sigh* it's a good thing i have to do something like co-ed
because of it i too will be able to have a decent school life
panel 3: but what will you do about the recruitment for the club
but rather than girls wouldn't boys be more interested in something like iaido
but since you can't call out to boys ...
panel 4: Yayoi and Satsuki why don't you join as well
were already good with our club activites
the go home club

pg. 24
panel 1: Yayoi: then i'll go back
Satsuki: i'll go to karaoke with the boys
do your best at iaido Haru
Haru: how coldhearted
panel 2: that's right!
panel 3: they said that an attacker has appeared
yeah near the park isn't it scary that it's so close
panel 4: if the iaido club beat and caught that one
wouldn't that be a good advertisment?
(haru: i'm doing iaido!? criminal: no people: i'll join!!)
if they hear about this incident the students will surely be coming to join one after
the other

pg. 25
panel 1: and you would use a katana!! yeah that would be good!!
it's the only way!!
panel 2: we're leaving it to you Haru!!!
i see!!!
huh

pg. 26
panel 1: nice idea hitting two birds with one stone !!
yes and if i immediately decided i can borrow the sword replica
uh uhm Haru-san?
it was a joke a joke
panel 2: only

pg. 27
you're a nuisance

pg. 28
panel 1: what's with that tone
it felt bad
huh but
wasn't he also a little cool
he seemed to be a 3rd year
panel 2: where?
did your eyes get bad
i don't understand what exactly you liked there
panel 3: but isn't he likely to be
the attacker
huh
panel 4: they made a road near the school
maybe it could be one of the students of this school
but that person just now said...
panel 5: but he could be hiding a knife in his pocket
he could suddenly snap and go on a rampage with a loud voice
he could be of that type

pg. 29
panel 1: how scary he went to the roof
surely he killed someone because he saw his knife and now he's grinning
but the story of the attacker itself is just a rumour
panel 3: Haru we're leaving
ok
get home safely
later

pg. 31
panel 2: huh?
you want me to lend you the sword so you can beat the attacker?

pg. 32
panel 1: yeah
panel 2: aah don't ignore me
panel 3: i won't allow such a dangerous thing
panel 4: uhh ...
don't bother explaining we're not in kindergarten anymore
really now
panel 5: Katayama-senpai are you returning already?
what about club activities
today i have to return earlier because i have to study
panel 6: then i will do it alone
th
that's not allowed

pg. 33
panel 1: i will be the person in charge for this now
i can't take my eyes off of you!
panel 2: because
once this kid grabs a Katana
she is a little ...
scary ...

pg. 34
panel 1: what connection is there between Haru-san and swords
i never thought there would be such a reaction when she held a sword for the first
time
as if destiny almost repeated itself ...
panel 2: to be defeated
by a single woman ... makes me a little anxious
panel 3: but
panel 4: i worry too much

pg. 35
panel 1: anyway if you didn't say such an idiotic thing just now
if we don't get attacked by the attacker before it gets dark we will return
aahh
panel 3: weell
panel 4: i got Katayama-senpai
that's good that's good
after i quickly gather club members we can do club activities
panel 5: so cool i'll make invitation posters and paste them inside the school
i will surprise her with a ton of new members who want to join
(i'm in the iaido club -> we're joining)

pg. 36
panel 1: i'll do it really well of course i have to do it with a brush
panel 2: uhm ... what was the symbol for iai again ...
since it's the first one it would be a failure ...
if i write that the exercises are painful nobiody will be interested
should i put in some illustrations, easier said than done ...
panel 3: right i'll draw a picture anyway
i'll do a manga ... a 4-koma!!!
panel 4: ahh it's difficult
a 4-koma is confusing
panel 5: eehh if i increase the number of komas
it'll become a 6-koma manga
panel 6: *sigh*
mangas are so difficult ...

pg. 37
panel 1: such an exhausting work every month dozens of pages ...
come up with the story and divide the frames then put in the words ...
drawing the pictures putting in the patterns and the tone
a mangaka is really amazing right ...
he is a superhuman ... no a god ...
panel 2: but manga is also illegaly uploaded on the internet resulting in downloads
and stuff like that...
so we should pity the mangaka ...

pg. 38
panel 1: for us and for the mangaka we can do it
by buying a lot of magazines and comics we can contribute
so the japanese manga industry won't decline

pg. 39
poster: iaido club
the grade or being male doesn't matter
a good place for iai
it's flashy
you can swirl around a katana
we have a cute senpai
it's flashy!!!
apply here
(comic: iaido-kun today i'm going to do iai ei ei)
panel 3: ahh it got quite dark already

pg. 40
panel 2: i'm scared
who else wouldn't be
panel 3: hey are you alone
panel 4: i'm alone too
that's good let's go home togeth ...
panel 5: flee

pg. 41
panel 2: Haru-san
must have returned well
panel 3: but
what if she really takes the sword to go out and meet the attacker
panel 4: it's dangerous it's dangerous
panel 5: for Haru-san
would cut

pg. 42
panel 1: uwahhh

pg. 43
panel 1: aaahhh
panel 2: aahh
panel 3: hii hiyah

pg. 44
panel 3: hehehehehe
help ...
panel 4: he ...
panel 5: ah

pg. 45
panel 7: i forged a katana that will protect the newborn
like that i have put my soul in it

pg. 46 - 47
panel 1: they'll always be together in her heart
panel 2: i can clearly feel it we're close to the curse
while it will be swayed by it's power
but

pg. 48
panel 1: to clear away the calamity
it's necessary to lower the power of the curse

pg. 49
panel 3: into the school ...!!

pg. 50
panel 3: run it's dangerous

pg. 53
panel 1: before me
panel 2: you're at the mercy of my blade

pg. 54
panel 4: th ...
that ...

pg. 55
it's a toy

pg. 56
panel 1: i am Tachioka Shun
like Haru i'm a freshman at Shikinomori High and i am 15 years old
I'm born on the 20th of March and my blood group is A
panel 2: i don't understand zodiacs all that well
if im born on the 20th of March would i be Pisces or Aries
as expected it's either Aphrodite or it doesn't exist
panel 3: when i entered school i suddenly got into trouble

pg. 57
panel 1: it is
that there are so many women
panel 2: i can barely talk to them and i can't look at their face properly
i'm one of these good-for-nothings
since i was at an all boys middle school i am immune against women
panel 3: i don't think it was the same in grade school
once they enter high school they really change
it's scary ...
i can properly enjoy my highschool life like that

pg. 58
panel 1: if i don't somehow ...
think of that day
panel 2: there was that one cheerful child in our class
Okamoto Haru our names were the same however they were read differently
panel 3: just like me Haru was born in spring
why don't i talk to her ...
panel 4: would you be interested in iaido?
the iaido club is recruiting members
panel 5: that's it club activities
if we enter the same club we can become friendly
yes let's do it

pg. 59
panel 1: yep i have to muster my courage
i have decided what i want to talk about
panel 2: i would like to hear about it in detail
panel 3: nooo
panel 4: you guys are the worst
panel 5: was my way of talking that bad?
panel 7: because i worried too much it became dark already
i'm hungry

pg. 60
panel 1: oh? this is ...
Okamoto Haru
panel 2: she's going home alone ... that's my chance
will she hear me if i call out?
but what if she runs away again
panel 3: ... this time i will be even more polite
soft and gentle
panel 4: hey are you alone i'm alone too that's good let's go home togeth ...
panel 5: run
panel 6: no i messed up
i'm bad
from here on i will never talk to a girl or have a conversation my highschool life is
finished

pg. 61
panel 5: so cool

pg. 62
panel 1: i want to be like him ...
strong like him ... and have long legs ...
panel 2: ah... uhm...
are you ok are
you hurt
panel 3: damn
i'm lame
panel 4: damn
damn it
damn it
i will get stronger

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 1 by b3nriya

2012-06-07T03:46:30+00:00

reserved for Kuudere Scans

pg. 05
panel 1: Haru
panel 2: Haru
panel 3: It's Haru
I became a highschool student

pg. 06
panel 1: ojii: oh haru it's good you came
obaa: did you come to show us your new school uniform
panel 2: i wanted to show you earlier
it really suits Haru right
panel 3: ojii: you're a highschool student already you've really grown up haven't you
Haru; although i stopped growing last year
panel 4: ojii: well we waited so long now she came our Haru
obaa: we should raise your allowance right
panel 5: Haru: no i don't need something like money
other than that ... well
panel 6: ojii: what is it Haru what else do you want
Haru: you know it already

pg. 07
Haru: I have grown up i already became an adult
ojii: ah
panel 2: Haru: once i became an adult you made a promise
that
panel 3: ojii: that ...

pg. 08
panel 1: Haru: thank you for the treat
Grandparents: ahh!!!
panel 2: please wait Haru!!!
Haru: umphh!!!
panel 3: Katana! Katana!!!
ojii: calm down! Haru!!!
Haru: but you told me !!
panel 4: you ! waah !!
ojii: yeah i remember it clearly ...
panel 5: 12 years before
Kyaa ... !!!

pg. 09
panel 1: obaa: What are you doing Haru!!!
panel 3: it's dangerous to have something like this
Let go!! Quickly!!!
Haru: oh
panel 4: obaa: you can't put such a dangerous thing in a place where a kid can reach
it
ojii: no i'm sorry i'm sorry
panel 5: ... that's strange
the string shouldn't have come undone
panel 6: Haru: give it give it
obaa: show me your hand! Look! Have you hurt yourself anywhere else!?

pg. 10
panel 1:Haru: noo
Haru wants to have it!
panel 2: stupid you never told me! meeh
ojii: Haru children mustn't touch such a thing
panel 3: Haru: ... then will it be ok once i grow up?
ojii: mhh ... once you grow up is it
panel 4: Haru: good once Haru becomes an adult
you will give this to Haru!!!
panel 5: ojii: ah ...
yeah it will be ok once you become an adult
well but i guess it won't ...

pg. 11
panel 1: ok Haru now listen carefully
panel 2: a highschool student is not a grown up
Haru: but just now you told me that i'm an adult!!!
panel 3: no no give me the Katana give it to me i want it uwooh !!!
ojii: what part of you is grown up
panel 4: why do you wnat that katana Haru
panel 5: Haru: that is ...
panel 6: because it is amazingly beautiful
panel 7: and i want to feel and touch that tip

pg 12
panel 1: ojii: ha ha ha!!!
so that's it, it was beautiful
panel 2: here have a real good look Haru
Haru: huh
panel 4: uhm
panel 5: a bamboo sword ...?
panel 6: ojii: since you were little we thought it would be unreasonable to have a
real sword
Haru: you're lying ... but
ojii: if i remember that time correctly ...
panel 7: the sword
what happened to it ... ?

pg. 13
panel 1: nevertheless you did well at your school entrance celebration
panel 2: what a waste i specially dressed in my school uniform and came to this
distant place ...
Haru: what a waste i specially dressed in my school uniform and came to this
distant place ...
ojii: she got so shocked she is speaking out what's on her mind
panel 3: take care

pg. 14
panel 2: forgive me
Haru
panel 3: i have seen it before ...
it's the real thing
i certainly am worried about money so i have sold it
there is a recession after all so it can't be helped ...

pg. 15
panel 1: with such a blue and black light shining so misteriously
after seeing it and being drawn into such a light you became like this
panel 2: after you have seen it once you can't forget it
surely ...

pg. 16
panel 4:friends: hi there Haru
isn't it good we got into the same class
panel 5: Haru: good morning
what happened aren't you feeling well that's unusual
after waiting so long for today i thought i would surprise you all ...
i didn't get it ...
i didn't get ...

pg. 17
panel 1: Haru: the japanese sword ...
friends: you ... you can't bring it even if you get it
(on newspaper: student bringing japanese sword to entrance ceremony news flash)
panel 4: Haru we're going to look for a table in class
panel 5: sorry
just go ahead

pg. 19
panel 2: a katana!?

pg. 20
panel 2: a katana!!!
panel 3: senpai: who!? what are you!?
panel 4: Haru: a japanese sword!? how!?
how can you have this katana in school!?
senpai: she's not listening
panel 5: i don't know about real ones
this one is a sword replica
but you use it in the same way
panel 6: Haru: sword replica ... it really is
after seeing it up close i noticed it too

pg. 21
panel 1: senpai: that's because i had it tailor-made by a skillful craftsman
the details as well as the brilliance of the blade are different
Haru: wow such a high quality product isn't it!
panel 2: I am Okamoto Haru i'm a freshman
panel 3: Wakana: right ... i'm second year Katayama Wakana
but is this ok?
Isn't the school entrance ceremony about to begin?

pg. 22
panel 1:Haru: Have you ... stopped club activities?
Wakana: yeah ... the club disbanded on it's own
panel 2: Haru: such a thing! i'll enter as well so please continue!
the Japanese Sword Lovers Club!!!
Wakana: ... that's wrong!!!
panel 3: Iaido what i am doing is the Iaido club

pg. 23
panel 2: Iaido ... if i remember correctly
that's where the masters are slashing straw right
panel 3: there is also a club for this in high school
since you don't have a real one you have to use a sword replica to imitate it ...
panel 5: Wakana: you ... uhm
Haru: just Haru is ok
Wakana: do you like Katanas Haru-chan?
panel 6: Haru: yeah! since like forever it has been my most favorite thing!!! i believe
that one day i will have "MY" japanese sword!
panel 7: Wakana: what will you do once you hold the Katana in your hands?

pg. 24
panel 1: Haru: I think i'm going to put in on the shrine in my room and decorate it
i'm going to worship it everyday from dusk till dawn
once in a while i'm going to remove it to watch it shine
i'm going to sing it's praise to everyone
panel 3: Wakana: ... that's out of question

pg. 25
panel 3: the Katana
panel 4:is a thing born to slash people
it can't be used for anything other than that
panel 5: something like this is not just a simple decoration
that is my opinion

pg. 26
panel 6: Haru: no way ...
this is no imitation ...
she is slashing

pg. 27
panel 3: Even though it's not real
she isn't cutting anything
even though she has a sword replica
then even though there should be nothing before my eyes
panel 4: what is she slashing so surely

pg. 28 - 29
panel 1: Iaido
a military sword art using japanese swords
compared to other martial arts it doesn't have things like opponents or matches
instead you are meeting imaginary enemies you created yourself and slashing them
every technique from drawing the sword until sheathing it was made into one martial
art which is very special even from a global viewpoint

pg. 30
panel 1: Wakana: except for me every other club member was just like you ...
although they didn't understand the true meaning of a katana they joined the
Iaido club just for show ...
panel 2: just because they wanted to have a sword
because they wanted to swing it
because it was cool ...
panel 4: that is except for that one person who taught me Iaido ...
panel 6: since that person has quit this club i should leave here as well ...

pg. 31
panel 4: since all the Senpais have graduated i am the only one in this club
i should use this opportunity to end it
panel 5: please feel free to make the Japanese Sword Lovers Club if you prefer it
well then
panel 6: Haru: uhm ... Katayama-san
panel 7: if you like ...
could you ... let me swing that sword one last time ...

pg. 32
panel 3: Haru: wow it's heavy
panel 5: Wakana: this sword replica has a proper blade however so be careful
when using it
Haru: ye yeah
panel 7: Wakana: grab it a little further down with your right hand
Haru: yeah

pg. 33
panel 2: upsi daisy
Wakana: stop swinging firmly without disconnecting
panel 3: Haru: this ... surely is expensive isn't it ...
Wakana: 150000 (around 1900 USD)
panel 4: Haru: ju ... !!!
panel 5: Wakana: put your heart into the swings
Haru: y ... yes!!
i absolutely can't damage it
panel 6: because it's heavy i can't swing the sword countinuosly
panel 7: what am i doing wrong
panel 8: the movement of the sword forcibly stops ...
something like that ... is not beautiful

pg. 34
panel 1: should be more like this ...
panel 3: ah a band of light how pretty
panel 4: i got it
if i don't overdo it and move the katana the way i like
panel 5: the katana becomes a part of me
no
panel 6: i have to move like am a part of the katana

pg. 35
panel 3: that was a good swing
panel 4: but this doesn't work Haru-san i told you earlier
panel 5: a katana is meant to slash people
panel 7: swing it just as if there were opponents in front of you

pg. 36
panel 1: opponents ...
panel 2: nooo even if it is meant as an example cutting people is a little ...
panel 3: that's right
something more unlike a human ... a different kind of thing
panel 4: for example the monsters you see in games
monster monster
panel 5: What is that
where should i cut such a thing
panel 6: a more ... human-like thing ...
at least walking on two feet ...

pg. 37
panel 2: yeah a zombie!

pg. 38
panel 2: ... what the?
does she really swing a sword for the first time
panel 3: although her form is messed up
her swordsmanship isn't shaking
panel 4: it's natural
panel 5: ahh i remembered
panel 6: definitely that time
i was called

pg. 39
panel 2: i wanted to swing it
panel 3: ah ...
panel 4: this time it's the same
panel 5: with this person

pg. 40
panel 1: Haru has so much feelings for the sword
panel 2: As i thought she is ...
like her dad
panel 3: when Haru was born
it was a stormy spring night
panel 4: she was born healthy but she was very small and weak
like she was about to disappear
panel 5: this night seems to be dark
panel 6: right ...
since it's so late it would be better if dad as well as mom would return

pg 41
panel 1: what about Yoshiko-san?
don't worry anymore she is sleeping well now
panel 2:i believe you two want to think of a name for your grandchild
right ... being named after the spring is a girly name ...
panel 3: right ...

pg. 42
panel 2: father...?
panel 3: my father who had appeared there
believed he was Haru's grandfather

pg. 43
panel 1: ojii: what do you want here ...
did you come here from Gifu?
oyaji: what about the child?
panel 2: ojii: yes ... she was born
but she is very weak
panel 3: oyaji: this
was forged for the child
panel 4: ojii: forged no way ...
a katana!?
panel 5: ojii: didn't you retire already ...
oyaji: i forged it since it was necessary
panel 6: swords are meant for cutting people but
even so at the same time they are also meant to protect

pg. 44
panel 2: it was forged for the child that was born
this radiance will protect the child's life force
panel 4: father are you alright it's impossible for one year
panel 5: don't worry the small child will get stronger ...
... if it takes this thing in

pg. 45
panel 1: ... well then
tell everybody to take care
ojii: fa- father
panel 3: ... thank you

pg. 46
panel 2: nurse: it's good she became healthy again
mother: yes and she drank some milk too
so much that i'm lucky i didn't weaken
panel 3: nurse: what is that?
mother: that's something my granddad brought me
panel 4: something to protect
but i didn't look inside

pg. 47
panel 1: thanks to this the child was saved
panel 2: since my father was devoted to his job he neglected the family but
but he forged the swords for the family of course
panel 3: Haru became healthy the next day after my father had left
i guess he wanted to leave something for the family in the end ...
panel 4: after Haru grows up a little more i'll give her that sword
until then i will keep it in custody
since it was too strong to bless

pg. 48 - 49
that child
can touch the soul of the sword

pg. 50
panel 2: Wakana: this can't be
panel 3: the way she is behaving with the sword
panel 4: if this goes on she will no longer be able to return
Haru-sa-

pg 53
panel 3: Haru: huh
where is the zombie?
panel 4: oh? what are you doing Katayama-san?

pg. 54
panel 2: Katayama-san?
panel 3: Wakana: Haru-san
why don't you try doing Iaido?
panel 4: huh
panel 5: if you are serious you can reach the upper stage
if you train yourself you will be allowed to really swing it

pg. 55
panel 1: Haru: seriously!?
amazing! i want to!
panel 2: if i find more club members the iaido club could survive leave it to me
it won't! but keep looking
panel 3: yes i did it
panel 4: Wakana: ... i didn't see it
but if this child is polished
she would touch the soul of the katana
but it might be very dangerous
if it is the essence of the sword

pg. 56
panel 1: Wakana: ... by the way is it ok?
the school entrance ceremony
Haru: ah i forgot
panel 2: perhaps it hasn't started yet
Wakana: wait a second
the sword ...
panel 5: Haru: Sorry for being late

pg. 57
panel 1: *screams*
panel 2: Wakana. *sigh*
panel 3: friend: well at least it was good for the highschool newspaper
(newspaper: Freshman carries a japanese sword at the entrance ceremony news flash)
panel 4: Club members wanted!
Iaido club

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 2 by lynxian

2012-03-02T01:38:26+00:00

[p001]

(top right) Chapter 2: Haru and Boys
(top left) 21st century Japan.
(top, curving right) Beautiful girls breathe new life into the Japanese sword!! ---what an exaggeration!
(left) Totsuka Masahiro x Minamoto Yuu
(right, above logo) A comedy of beautiful girls and Iai!!

[p002]

Box: Hello,
Box: Okamoto Haru here.
Box: Everyone calls me Haru.
Box: If you want, you can too.

Box: This spring, I entered Shikinomori High School.
Box: I'm 15,
Box: was born 4/20 and have blood type B.

(bottom) The story so far -> The heroine's name is Okamoto Haru. Aside from the self-introduction you can read up there, she is actually a girl who carries a destiny connected to Japanese swords. Unaware of that, she joined an Iaido club simply because she "likes Japanese swords", but...

[p003]

Box: As for my sign...... I'm not really sure about it.
Box: Being born on 4/20 makes me either an Aries or a Taurus.
(right of sheep) Meeeh
(left of cow) Mooo
Box: Since the day is right in the middle of them, magazines list it differently.

Box: So it comes down to whether I'm Mu
Box: or Aldebaran......
(Aries Mu and Taurus Aldebaran are characters from Saint Seiya)

Box: I decided to join the Iaido Club as an extracurricular,
Box: so I'll get to wield (something like) the Japanese swords I love so much.

Box: But the only members
Box: are me and Katayama Wakana-senpai.

[p004]

Box: If we don't find one more person interested in joining, we won't be recognized as a club.
Box: I have to try my best and look around for people to recruit, but......

Box: There is
Box: one very troubling thing----

[p005]

(right) ---Kneeling Iai---

(left) Yonhon me

[p006]

(top)"Tsuka-ate".
(Yonhon me Tsuka-ate = striking with the butt of the hilt)

[p007]

sfx bubble: Swish

[p010]

(Haru): Two.
(Haru): She cut down two.

Narration: From a kneeling position, make the enemy in front flinch by attacking with a thrust of the sword hilt.

Narration: Immediately after, strike the rear enemy.

Narration: Then, deliver a final blow
Narration: to the faltering enemy in front.

Narration: Finally, clear the blood off
Narration: with a resheathing maneuver.

[p012]

(Haru): There was
(Haru): -----another one?

sfx: Phew

Wakana: Haru-san.
Wakana: Just now, that was the Iai Kneeling Form Honyon me
Wakana: Tsuka-ate.
Wakana: A kata where you cross swords with the two enemies kneeling in front and behind you.

[p013]

Wakana: It is the sole Iai technique performed from a kneeling position.
Haru: ......two... was it?

(Haru): I see.
(Haru): So I guessed wrong.

Haru: Please lend it to me next!
Wakana: No.

Wakana: It's too early for you yet,
Wakana: and besides, there's something you have to take care of first, isn't there.

Wakana: Gathering members!

(bottom right, star) This is a work of fiction, and any likeness to real people or organizations is entirely coincidental.

[p014]

Wakana: Whether an upperclassman or a first year,
Wakana: male or female, anyone is fine.
Wakana: Just one more.
Wakana: If we can find just one more person, then we'll be able to continue club activities this year.

Haru: Haah...

Haru: I get that, but...
Haru: There's... a bit of a problem...

(sfx) Ding dong

[p015]

Students: Hey, hey, didja hear?
Students: A slasher appeared nearby, in Nanohana Park.

Students: A 2nd year senpai got her bag sliced.
Students: Scaaary
Students: What a suspicious story.
Students: That senpai is just aaalways telling lies so she can bask in the attention.
???: Umm...

Haru: Are any of you interested in Iai?
Haru: The Iaido Club is currently recruiting members~

Students: Iai? What's that, Haru-chan?
Students: That thing where you hit a target with an arrow, right?
Students: That's archery.

[p016]

Haru: It's where you swing around (something like) a Japanese sword! It's sooo cool!
Students: Ooh.
Students: Sounds fun.

Haru: So, then!!

Students: But sorry.
Students: We've already decided on our club activities.
Haru: Ah......

???: Did you say Iai?

Boy: Sounds neat.
Boy: How about telling me all the details.

[p017]

Students: Iai's that thing, ain't it? With a katana.
Students: Where you cut up all sorts of stuff.
Students: This school had a club like that?

Haru: Ahh
Haru: Ah

[p018]

Haru: Ahhhhhhhh
Haru: Awaaa...

Haru: NOOOOOO!!!
Boys: Wha
Boys: Huh?!

[p019]

Haru: UWAAAAAAAAAH!
Girl: Haru, wait up.
Girl: Where are you going, Haruuu!!

Girls: Making Haru-chan cry,
Girls: You boys are the worst.
Boys: EHHHHH!!!

Haru: Hah...
Haru: Hah...

Haru: That was scary......

Girl: Geez, Haru.
Girl: That's no good, suddenly running away like that.
Haru: But...

[p020]

Haru: Boys are......
Haru: Frightening......

(right of Haru) Good morning.
(left of teacher) Morning.
Haru: I'm fine with male teachers.

(right of Haru) Morning~
(left of children) Good morni~ng
Haru: And with little boys.

Haru: But...

[p021]

Haru: Boys of the same age...
Haru: I just don't know what they're thinking,
Haru: and it's frightening......

Haru: I can't look them straight in the face
Haru: or hold conversations with them!

Haru: What'll I do, this is a probleeem.
Haru: So troublinggg

(above right girl) Ahaha
(above left girl) PFFFFFTT

[p022]

Haru: Wh-why are both of you laughing, Yayoi, Satsuki!
Satsuki: B-because
Yayoi: Saying that sort of thing about boys, in this day and age......!!

Haru: So meaaaan.
Haru: Even though it's seriously troubling me!

Yayoi: Sorry, sorry, Haru.
Satsuki: Here, dry your eyes.

Satsuki: Here, blow your nose.

Satsuki: Well, your elementary and junior high schools were both all-girls.
Yayoi: There's really no helping it, no helping it at all~

[p023]

Haru: But Satsuki and Yayoi went to those, too.
Satsuki: I have older and younger brothers, though.
Yayoi: And I have a boyfriend.

Haru: Ahhh~
Haru: I should've gone to co-ed schools.
Haru: I wonder if I'll be able to have a normal school life from here on out...

Satsuki: But what are you gonna do about looking for club members?
Yayoi: Even though boys would probably be more interested in something like Iai than girls,
Yayoi: you can't really talk to them...

Haru: Satsuki, Yayoi, join the cluuuuub.
Yayoi: We're not doing any clubs.
Satsuki: 'Cause we wanna take it easy~

[p024]

Girls: Well, we'll be heading back.
Girls: We're going to do karaoke with the boys.
Girls: Haru, good luck with Iai, kay?
Haru: Ahhh! You're heartless!!

Satsuki: Oh, I know!

Satsuki: They've been saying that a slasher's appeared, right?
Yayoi: Yeah, in the park nearby.
Yayoi: How scary that it's so close.

Satsuki: If the Iaido Club defeats and catches him,
Satsuki: it'd be a good advertisement, wouldn't it?
Haru: How about the Iai Club now?!
Slasher: Uwaaa.
Girls: We'll join!!
Satsuki: Hearing about it, students would definitely sign up en masse.

[p025]

Haru: A sword to beat a knife!! Yeah, that'd be good!!
Satsuki: Well, that's that!!

Girls: We'll leave this to you, Haru!!

Haru: That's it!!!
Girls: Eh?

[p026]

Haru: Nice idea, killing two birds with one stone!!
Haru: Alriiight, now that that's decided, I'm gonna go borrow an imitation sword right away---
Satsuki: Uh, er... Haru-san?
Satsuki: It was a joke. I was joking.

???: Move it.

[p027]

Boy: You're in the way.

sfx bubble: Step
sfx bubble: Step
sfx bubble: Step

[p028]

Satsuki: What was with that way of talking.
Satsuki: Such a mean guy.
Yayoi: Ehh, but y'know,
Yayoi: Wasn't he kinda cool?
Yayoi: He's probably a 3rd year.

Satsuki: How was he cool?
Satsuki: He had a nasty, dark expression.
Yayoi: That's fine, isn't it?
Yayoi: You really don't get it, huh, Satsuki.

Satsuki: Ah, actually, a guy like that
Satsuki: could be the slasher.
Haru: Eh?

Satsuki: The slasher's been appearing near this school pretty frequently.
Satsuki: The culprit could turn out to be a student at this school.
Yayoi: But pinning it on the person just now with only that......

Satsuki: He carryies a concealed knife in his breast pocket,
Satsuki: and then suddenly snaps, yelling in a loud voice while going wild.
Satsuki: I'd say he's that sort of type.

[p029]

Satsuki: How suspicious, for him to be heading up to the rooftop.
Satsuki: I bet when he's alone, he looks at a knife and grins.
Yayoi: The talk about a slasher seems like a rumor, though.

Satsuki: Haru, we're going~
Haru: Ah.
Haru: Don't leave me behind!

Haru: Waaait!

[p031]

Wakana: Huh?
Wakana: You want to borrow my katana to use in defeating the slasher?

[p032]

Haru: Yes!

Haru: Aahh, don't ignore me and leave!

Wakana: There's no way I'll let you do something that dangerous.

Haru: Uu...
Wakana: Don't make me explain the particulars. You aren't in kindergarten, after all.
Wakana: Honestly.

Haru: Katayama-senpai... you're going home already?
Haru: What about the club?
Wakana: Today, I need to hurry home and study.

Haru: Then I'll do club activities by myself!
Wakana: Ab
Wakana: Absolutely not!

[p033]

Wakana: Right now, I'm the one responsible for what happens at the club.
Wakana: Don't do anything where I'm not watching!
Haru: Ehhhhh

Box: Besides...

Box: Letting this girl have a katana
Box: Is a bit... frightening...

[p034]

Box: What is it that exists between Haru-san and the katana.
何だろうハルさんと刀のは
Box: That reaction wasn't the sort you'd expect of someone handling a katana for the first time.
Box: It's almost as if she were born predisposed to them......

Box: Is that really
Box: something a single girl could manage? ...it makes me a little uneasy.

Box: But

Box: Maybe I'm worrying too much.

[p035]

Wakana: ---anyway, don't say such stupid things.
Wakana: You can't attack the slasher. Please go home before it gets dark tonight.
Haru: Aah!

(sfx) Slump

Haru: Hmph!

Haru: Katayama-sanpai's so stingy!!
Haru: OK, fine.
Haru: Then I'll quickly gather club members so we can do club activities!

Haru: I'll make a cool recruitment poster and post it up around the school,
Haru: and she'll be completely surprised when we get a whole ton of new members!!
(on posters) Recruitment Poster
Haru: What do you think of the Iai Club now!?
Students: We'll join!!!

[p036]

Haru: If I'm gonna make it stylishly cool, then I've definitely gotta write with a brush.

Haru: Er...m.
Haru: What kanji do I use for Iai...
Haru: Starting off with this sort of roadblock...

Haru: If I only write things formally, people won't be interested.
Haru: Putting an illustration on will make it easier to understand...

Haru: I know! If I'm drawing a picture anyway, then
Haru: let's make it a manga...... a 4-koma manga!!

Haru: Hrmmmm, this is hard.
Haru: I just can't get it to work with a 4-koma format...

Haru: Agh, the number of panels keeps increasing.
Haru: It's become a 6-koma manga.

(Haru) Phew...
(Haru) Making manga is really hard......

[p037]

(Haru) What a difficult job, churning out several tens of pages every month...
(Haru) Thinking up the story, dividing it into panels, putting in the dialogue... drawing the images, inking them, and putting down the tone...
(Haru) Mangaka are really amazing... they're superheroes... no, gods...

(Haru) Yet despite that, for manga to be illegally uploaded and downloaded on the internet...
(Haru) it really leaves me feeling sorry for mangaka......

[p038]

(Haru) What we can do for their sake---
(Haru) is to buy magazines and comic volumes in recognition of their achievements!
(Haru) To prevent Japan's manga culture from falling into decline!!

[p039]
(Poster)
(top left) Seeking!
(top) Iaido Club
~any school year, any gender~
(Basically, Haru starts to write the wrong kanji for "Iai", then crosses it out and writes the word in katakana instead)
(center, bubble shape) Iai's strong points!!
(flower) IT'S COOL!!!!!
(flower) You can swing a katana around!
(flower) There's a pretty senpai in the club.♡
(flower) It's cool!
(bottom box) For more information
(left, bubble) Iai-kun
Iai-kun: We'll do Iai today too!
Iai-kun: There.
Iai-kun: There.

(sfx) Completely immersed

Haru: Ahhh.
Haru: It's completely dark out already.

[p040]

Haru: Scaaaary.
Haru: I wonder if anyone else is around~

???: Hey, you on your own?

Boy: I am, too.
Boy: If you'd like, how about walking home toge---

(above Haru) Fleeing.

[p041]

Wakana: Haru-san.
Wakana: I wonder if she got home alright.

Wakana: Still,
Wakana: if she really ended up encountering the slasher while carrying a katana......

(Wakana) That would be dangerous.

(Wakana) Haru-san would probably
(Wakana) cut him down instead.

[p042]

???: UWAA
???: AAAAAAAAH

[p043]

Slasher: Auuu.

Slasher: Agh---

Boy: Hiiii
Boy: Higyaaa!

[p044]

Boy: H-h-h-h
Boy: Help...

Boy: H...

Slasher: Guh

[p045]

(Great Grandfather) I forged this katana to protect the newborn.
(Great Grandfather) That is the sort of soul imbued within it.

[p046/047]

(Great Grandfather) That spirit will always be with her.
その心と常に共にあるように

(Great Grandfather) I worry it will be a little too powerful for her. It might be closer to a curse.
(Great Grandfather) There may come a time when she must wield that power.
(Great Grandfather) However,

[p048]

(Great Grandfather) To drive away calamity,
(Great Grandfather) A power resembling that of a curse is necessary.

Slasher: Ah...

sfx bubble: Crunch

Slasher: Ah...
Slasher: Au

[p049]

Slasher: Auugh!!
Boy: Ah.

Boy: He's going into the school building...!!

Slasher: Ahh
Slasher: Auuugh

Slasher: Ah.

[p050]

Slasher: Aguuaah!!

Haru: Run away, he's dangerous!!

[p051]

Slasher: Auu

[p052]

Slasher: Kah

[p053]

Boy: Don't

Boy: go waving around a knife in front of me.

[p054]

Haru: Th...
Haru: That's...

[p055]

Boy: It's a toy.

[p056]

(right) Side B
(left) Chapter 2

Box: I'm Tachioka Shun, a student at Shikinomori High School as of this spring. I'm 15.
Box: Born 3/20, blood type A.

Box: I don't really know my sign.
Box: 3/20 is either Pisces or Aries.
Box: So it comes down to whether I'm Aphrodite or Mu...
(Pisces Aphrodite and Aries Mu are characters from Saint Seiya)

Box: Upon entering school, I was suddenly met with a problem.

[p057]

Box: There are
Box: a lot of girls here.

Box: I can't talk to them or even look them in the eye.
Box: The reason I'm this hopeless is
Box: all due to my having attended an all-boys junior high school. I have absolutely no resistance to women.

Box: Even though I never thought much of them during elementary school......
Box: for girls to change this much upon becoming high school students is
Box: scary...... I wonder if I'll be able to have a normal high school life like this.

[p058]

Box: Somehow, I have to do something......
Box: is what I'd been thinking.

Dark Box: One day, an interesting girl appeared in class.
Dark Box: Okamoto Haru. Her name was written with the same character as mine, though with a different reading.

Box: Haru, huh... she must have been born in the spring, like me.
Box: I wonder if I'd be able to talk to her......

Haru: Are any of you interested in Iai?
Haru: The Iaido Club is currently recruiting members~

Box: I see. A club, huh.
Box: If we join the same club, we might get to know each other better.
Box: Alright, that's gotta be the way to go!

[p059]

Box: Okay.
Box: Now that that's decided, first is to speak to her.
Box: I'll gather my courage, and

Shun: How about telling me all the details.

Haru: NOOOOO!!!
Shun: Wh
Shun: Huh?

Girls: You boys are the worst.
Shun: EHHHH?!!

Box: ......Somehow, it went horribly.
Box: Was my way of speaking really that disgusting?

(sfx) Completely immersed

Shun: Crap, it's gotten completely dark while I was worrying.
Shun: I'm hungry...

[p060]

Box: Huh? That's...
Box: Okamoto Haru.

Box: Is she heading home alone? ... this is my chance.
Box: Should I try calling out to her?
Box: ......but if she runs away from me again...

Box: ......this time, I'll be more polite.
Box: Kindly, clearly...

Shun: Hey, you on your own?
Shun: I am, too.
Shun: If you'd like, how about walking home toge---

(above Haru) Fleeing.

Box: --no good. I give up.
Box: I'm just a disgusting guy.
Box: At this rate, I'll go my whole high school life without speaking a single word to a girl...

[p061]

Slasher: Auu
Shun: UWAAAAA!

Shun: Uoooh!!

Box: So
Box: So cool...

[p062]

Box: If I were like that, too......
Box: If I were that strong... with legs that long.......

Haru: Uh...
Haru: Umm...
Haru: Are you alright?
Haru: Any inju

Box: Dammit.
Box: I'm so uncool.

Box: Dammit.
Haru: Ah...
Box: Dammit, dammit.
Box: I wanna be stronger!
(bottom right) The day when Haru and Shun can exchange words is still a long way off...

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 5 by lynxian

2012-02-18T04:11:12+00:00

[p001]

(top right) Chapter 5: A Curse and Swords of the Heart
(above Hina) Jinbei would have been better...
(Jinbei are what she's wearing in the thought bubble, and are men's summer clothes)
(left) [Girls] who look good in [yukata] are [great]!
(I've put the yellow parts in brackets, for reference)

[p002]

Box: I have the same dream often.

Box: A dream of being taught to fight with swords.

Box: I've had it over and over again,
Box: since the time I was very young.

[p003]

Box: At the part where I'm killed, I wake up.

Box: It's the worst.
Box: For a little while, I'm unable to move my body.

Box: But I've also not let myself simply be killed.
だが俺もやられてばかりじゃいられない

Box: In the dream, I've grown.

[p004]

Box: I've honed my technique while awake, too.
Box: It's a strange story, but
Box: I've trained my body so that I won't be killed in the dream.

Box: I even went so far as to create an Iaido Club at school.

Box: But

[p005]

Box: No matter what I do, I can't win against the final swordsman.
Box: I am invariably cut down.

Box: Always,
Box: in the same place.

[p006]

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

sfx bubble: Hah
Ogami: I was...
Ogami: killed again... huh.

[p007]

Box: My body is sluggish.
Box: On days when I have this dream, I'm absent from school and don't go out until the afternoon.

Box: If I told anyone this sort of story, they would probably laugh at me.
Box: I'm talking about a dream, after all.

Box: But I understand
Box: that this isn't just a dream.

Box: The place where my head is always cut.
Box: In that very same place,

Box: I have a bruise.
Box: One that looks just like a katana injury.

[p008]

(black) It's a curse.

Box: If this keeps up, in the end I'll
蝕まれて恐らく最後は
Box: likely really be killed.
Box: What happens in the dream will become reality.
Box: That much, I know.

Box: Lately, the bruise has been getting bigger.
Box: I've been having the dream more frequently, too.
Box: So much so that I'm certain I don't have any time left.

[p009]

Girl: Ah!

Girl: You're wandering around naked again.
Girl: I've told you to stop doing that, haven't I!!

Girl: Hey, are you listening to me, oniichan?
Girl: Really, it's aaaalways so impossible to tell what you're thinking.

[p010]

Girl: And besides, what's with that moody
Girl: older brother-type character, are you trying to be cool?
Girl: Don't be stupid! You're just morose.

Box: My younger sister...
Box: Kyouka.

Box: Even though she was very attached to me in the past,
(top) Oniichan, wait for me~
(right) Oniichan,
(center) let's eat them together!
(left) Waaah! Oniichan, my leg huuuurts
Box: what's with this confrontational attitude lately. This rude treatment...

Box: Perhaps
Box: this is also connected to the curse.
Kyouka: You're not listening again.
Kyouka: Give me a break already!

[p011]

Box: Still, there is no way I can tell Kyouka about this sort of thing.
Kyouka: And don't go strolling around in just pants like you did the other day, even though I had friends coming!!
Kyouka: It's perverted.
Kyouka: Or more like you're just stupid.
Box: She would just worry about me.

Box: But...

Box: A high school student dreaming of being chopped up by a katana...
Box: I'll have to deal with it myself...

[p012]

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

[p013]

Haru: A dream.

[p014]

Haru: Ah.

Haru: Looks like
Haru: I have a bit of a fever.

Haru: Yesterday...

Haru: It's because I saw Ogami-senpai's Iai...

sfx bubble: Knock
sfx bubble: Knock

Mother: Haru, please get up already.

[p015]

Father: Haru's still not up yet?
Mother: It's seems she's uncharacteristically gotten a fever.
Mother: Thermometer, thermometer...

Father: WHAT!!
Father: A FEVER?!!

Father: F...for Haru, who's always so energetic, to get a fever...
Father: H-h-h-h-hospital! Ambulance!
Mother: You're getting a little too worked up, dear.
Mother: It's nothing serious.

[p016]

Mother: She's just developed a slight fever.
Mother: She'll go to school once her temperature goes down.
Father: Is it really okay not to rest first?
Father: Shouldn't we play it safe and hospitalize her?!

Father: That's right.

Father: We need that thing at a time like this...

Father: The katana my grandfather crafted for Haru's sake!!
Father: It's the Japanese sword that's at my dad's house right now.

Father: The katana that saved Haru's life when she was born.
Father: That's right. If that katana were here, she wouldn't have come down with a fever in the first place!

[p017]

Father: It's mostly because you selfishly say you don't want a katana kept at our house....!!
Mother: Of course I'd say that, it's not safe!
Mother: It was really dangerous when she actually drew it out at grandfather's house!!

Haru: ......were you just talking about katanas...?
Mother: There's no way we'd have that sort of conversation!
Mother: Come now, go rest in your room!

Haru: Katana......
Mother: Yes, yes, let's get some sleep until the fever goes down~

[p018]

Father: My father promised, didn't he.

Mother: That katana may belong to Haru, but
Mother: It's absolutely too early to hand over something that dangerous.

Father: Yeah... once she's become a proper adult and goes to become a bride, we decided we'd let her keep it.
(Mother): I don't know what to think of including a Japanese sword with wedding garb, though.

Father: When she becomes...

Father: WHO IS GOING TO MAKE A BRIDE OF MY PRECIOUS ONLY DAUGHTERRRRR!!!
Mother: Don't start roaring so early in the morning, you'll trouble the neighbors!!

[p019]

???: UWAAAAAA!

Shun: GAAH!!

Shun: ZUGEEEH!!

Shun: GYAAAAAAAAAAHH!

[p020]

sfx bubble: Fwump

Shun: OWWWWWWW!
Brother: You're really loud in the morning, niichan.

Brother: What're you crying about.
Shun: Idi... Like hell I'd be crying!!
(left of brother) Pfft

Shun: Ughh... I had a terrible dream.
Shun: It's from club activities.
Shun: All because I saw Ogami-senpai's whatever-it-was kata...

Shun: Ahh... I've got some sort of fever.
Shun: That incredible bloodlust really effected me...

Shun: Tell mom I'll be a little late today.
Brother: What, playing hooky?
Brother: Freshman blues, already?

[p021]

Box: ----and so, today, these 3 were late.

Box: By the way, as for these two...

[p022]

(sfx): Staaaaaaare

Haru: What? What's wrong, Yayoi, Satsuki?
Haru: Is something on my face?
Satsuki: Yeah.
Yayoi: A lot of rice.

Satsuki: Haru having a fever and being late is, y'know.
Yayoi: I think such rare occurrences happen sometimes.

(Shun): Okamoto, too...
(Shun): It must have been because of yesterday...

[p023]

Shun: Weeell, I had one too.
Shun: That was a real shock yesterday, huh?
(Shun): Isn't this my chance for a conversation about something we have in common?
(Shun): But still...

Yayoi: Oh, that's right!
Yayoi: I'll give you a piece of my karaage, Haru.
(Karaage is a sort of food preparation similar to tempura)

Haru: Yaaay!!
Yayoi: You'll feel better if you eat a whole lot.
Yayoi: Here, have this octopus weiner.
Satsuki: Then I'll give you a meatball, too.
Satsuki: And some tamagoyaki.
(Tamagoyaki is a kind of Japanese omelette)

(Shun): That's right, I can give her some of my side dish.
Shun: If you'd like, would you care for some of my mini tomatoes?
(Shun): That's it!! I'll enter the conversation like that!

Boy: Yo~ Shun, let's eat.
Shun: Ah- just a sec!! Right after this.
Shun: My lunch today is......

[p024]

(Shun): The whole thing is light brown......

Boy: Wow, that's really the sort of lunch you'd expect of a guy.
(Shun): Mom... I've said how much I like Rousong, but...
(Rousong is a dried meat product that has a texture similar to coarse cotton)
Shun: Whatever, let's just eat.

[p025]

Haru: Club time, club time~

(sfx) Diiiing dooong
Haru: Today I'm gonna swing a katana--!!

Haru: But...

Haru: Like I thought, boys are really scary...
Haru: I really can't get used to them......

Haru: No one's coming.
Haru: Alright, I'm not gonna waste any time.
Haru: I have to swing senpai's katana around secretly.
Haru: And I know where they keep them, too.

[p026]

Haru: If I open the hidden door over here...

Haru: There they are!

Haru: Waah, so high up~
Haru: I can't reaaaaach.

[p027]

Ogami: Yo...
Ogami: I've been waiting for you.

Ogami: You're
Ogami: Okamoto
Ogami: Haru, right.

[p028]

Haru: Yee
Haru: eee
Haru: eeep

Ogami: Don't be so scared.
Ogami: I'm not really giving off any bloodlust or anything, you know.

Ogami: ...please listen to me.

Haru: Eek...

Ogami: The Japanese sword
Ogami: is something which was created for the purpose of killing people.
Ogami: It is a killer's tool.
Ogami: You know that, right?

[p029]

Ogami: In the past, a lot of blood was shed when katanas were put into practice.

Ogami: Yeah... this is a story about the past.
Ogami: The katana was truly a killer's tool...

Ogami: But it leaves behind a curse.
だが呪いは残る

[p030]

Ogami: My family have been masters of the sword for generations.
Ogami: Maybe you would have an easier time understanding if I called them swordsmiths, instead?
Ogami: I say that, but my grandfather was the last of them...

Ogami: Among swordsmiths, there are craftsmen of varying levels.
Ogami: For example, those who are masters at engraving ornamentation into a katana,
Ogami: or those who are masters at sharpening completed katanas.

Ogami: My ancestor was a master at creating a sheath to perfectly match a katana.

Haru: Yeeeeeeeeeeek

Ogami: Don't get scared.
Ogami: Listen.
(Haru): It's not the story I'm scared of, but you!!

[p031]

Ogami: Inside my grandfather's cellar, a single katana lay sleeping.

Ogami: When I was 3 or 4,
Ogami: I was playing in the cellar and discovered it.

Ogami: I felt as if it had called to me.
Ogami: Drawn to that katana,

Ogami: I drew
Ogami: it from

[p032]

Ogami: its sheath...

[p033]

Ogami: Blood flowed from my head and I, who had drawn out the sword, collapsed.
Parent: Touji?!
Parent: Oi, hang in there!

[p034]

Ogami: And like that, I came down with a high fever and practically teetered on the border of life and death for 3 days and 3 nights.

Ogami: Yet the strange part was how there was not a single wound on my forehead, from which the blood would have flowed.
Ogami: ...instead,

Ogami: A small, small
Ogami: bruise appeared.

Ogami: Ever since,
Ogami: I began to dream of
夢を見るようになったのは

Ogami: Fighting with a katana...
Ogami: Dreams in which I could even sense...
Ogami: the distinct smell of fresh blood.

[p035]

Ogami: And the bruise has steadily gotten larger.

Ogami: This is a curse.
Ogami: Are you going to laugh?
Ogami: No, you would probably understand, Okamoto Haru.

Ogami: Because...

Ogami: you give off the same scent as I do......

[p036]

Ogami: ......That's it.

Haru: Stay away...

(Ogami): That bloodlust, as if she'll tear a person to pieces.
(Ogami): Like I thought, she really is the same as me---

[p037]

Haru: Stop it......
Haru: Don't come any closer......

[p038]

Ogami: So you felt it...
Ogami: The curse......

Haru: Scary...
Haru: I'm scared...

Ogami: Always carrying a katana within your heart.
Ogami: Something from which you cannot part,
Ogami: that clings to you.

Ogami: It is proof that you are a person who has been pulled into the world of the katana.
刀の世界に取り込まれてしまった者の証だ
Ogami: Just like me...

[p039/040]

Ogami: You can see it, can't you, Okamoto Haru.
Ogami: You should be able to see the bloodlust an opponent aims toward you.
殺気を向ける相手には見えるはずだ

Ogami: Iaido is where you cross blades with an imaginary opponent born from your own heart.
Ogami: I believe this katana brought forth from the heart is the end result.
その行き着く所のひとつがこの心が生み出す刀だと俺は考える

Ogami: While polishing your technique with Iai,
Ogami: Don't you think it would be possible to control the curse?

[p042]

sfx bubble: Badump
sfx bubble: Badump

Ogami: ......Oi.
sfx bubble: Badump
sfx bubble: Badump

sfx bubble: Badump
sfx bubble: Badump

Ogami: Hey.

Ogami: Hey, stop it, Okamoto.
Ogami: I'm not an enemy.
Ogami: Restrain yourself.

[p044]

(Ogami): This girl...

Shun: Wah...

[p045]

(Ogami): What's with her...
(Ogami): Something's off.
(Ogami): She's different from me.
(Ogami): Is she not cursed after all...?

(Ogami): Why is she smiling...
sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

[p046]

Ogami: Oi.
Ogami: Stop already, Okamoto.

Ogami: Tch.

Ogami: I told you to stop!

[p047]

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

[p048]

sfx bubble: Hah
sfx bubble: Hah

(Ogami): Why
(Ogami): is she smiling.

Wakana: Haru-san?!
Wakana: What did you do, Ogami-senpai!!

Ogami: Katayama.
Ogami: I finally... understand your feelings.

(Ogami): She has no relation to my curse.
(Ogami): I wanted to try polishing her ability.

[p049]

(Ogami): This Okamoto Haru,
(Ogami): I just simply---

Ogami: I'm going to teach her.
Ogami: Teach her about Iai from the ground up...

Hina: What?
Hina: Did something happen?
Shun: Beats me. I can't make heads or tails of it.

(right box) Starting next time, it will finally become a hot-blooded Iai manga...?!

-------

Notes:

Page 30: Toushou (刀匠) and Toukou (刀工)
Both of these words translate into English as "swordsmith", but Ogami purposefully makes a distinction between them. There's a slight difference in nuance in the Japanese - apparently toukou is used for generic sword craftsmen, whereas toushou tends to be used for master smiths. You could probably say it's a matter of difference in experience.

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 4 by lynxian

2012-01-17T01:09:37+00:00

[p001]

(top) With a total of 5 members, the Iaido club.
(right) Totsuka Masahiro x Minamoto Yuu
(left, title) Babies and Breasts
(left) Now, from today on, club activities start!
(bottom, above logo) A girl x sword comedy!!

[p002]

(right) Iaido club, first year, Tachioka Shun. Resistance to women: zero.
???: You there,
???: I'd like to ask for some directions...

Shun: Hm.
Shun: Me?

Woman: Is there a police box in this area?

[p003]

Shun: Awa awa
Shun: Awa
Woman: Hm, I see.

Woman: Thank you.
Shun: Awa

Shun (thoughts): Dammiiiit, that was so uncool.
Shun (thoughts): Losing it over something like this, I'm such an idiot!!
Shun (thoughts): I'm such an idioooooooot

Shun (thoughts): Like this, I definitely won't be able to do club activities!!
Shun (thoughts): What am I gonna do!!

[p004]

Shun (thoughts): The Iaido club's activities are done together with girls!
Top Box: Katayama Wakana
Right Box: Hasegawa Hinako
Bottom Box: Okamoto Haru
Shun (thoughts): And there are way more girls than boys!!

Shun (thoughts): Not to mention, the only other guy is
Shun (thoughts): a frightening senpai whose thoughts I can't read at all...
Box: Ogami Touji

Shun: No!

Shun: There's no reason to dwell on it so much.
Shun: It'll be fine if I treat them normally. Just like normal.
Shun: If I get nervous, things will take a turn for the weird.
ビクビクするからおかしな事になるんだ

[p005]

Shun: Hey there, what sort of conversation are you girls having?
(left of Wakana) Oh my, Tachioka-san.
(left of Hina) Good day.
Shun (thoughts): Just like that, I can enter into a conversation with them normally.
Shun (thoughts): It's perfect.

Shun: Alriiight.
Shun: Let's do this!!

Box: Shikinomori High School

Box: Iai Dojo

[p006]

(Hina sfx): Staaaaare

Hina: Hey, Haruko-san.
Haru: It's Haru. Okamoto Haru.

Haru: What is it, Hanako-chan?
(left of Haru) Ehee~
Hina: Hinako. Hasegawa Hinako.

Hina: Look at that over there.
Haru: Yeah, I'm curious about that too.

Wakana: Wh...what? You two
Wakana: are staring at my chest too much.

[p007]

Hina: Are those really yours?
Wakana: Yes, they are...

Haru: What did you do to make them so big?
Wakana: I didn't really do anything in particular...

Haru: She's saying they got so big even though she didn't do anything.
Hina: You think she bullied cows and stuff when they were smaller?
Wakana: Please don't talk about things like a curse making them larger.
そんな呪いで大きくなったみたいな事言わないでください

Hina: You know, girls with huge chests exist to look down on those smaller than theirs.
Haru: Really!
Wakana: That's not true at aaaaall~~~

Hina: They completely disregard the personalities of those smaller than themselves.
Haru: That's scaaaary
Wakana: Oh just stop that already.

[p008]

Wakana: I don't think anything of the sort!!
Wakana: Rather, when you stare at me with those eyes, it really bothers me!

Hina: That's what she says.
Haru: People who've got those really talk differently, don't they~
よゆーのある人は言う事が違いますなァ

Haru: I bet having a large chest also means giving out a lot of breast milk...
Haru: Babies must like it better when their mother has big boobs.

Wakana: Just because someone has a large chest doesn't mean a large amount of breast milk will come out.
Haru: Eh, really?

[p009]

Wakana: Breast milk isn't decided by the size of the breast, but by the amount of milk secretion hormone.
Wakana: That's why it doesn't matter how small yours are.

Wakana: By the way, when you're pregnant, your breasts stretch and grow larger.
Wakana: Furthermore, during the lactation period,
Wakana: usually your cup size goes up by 2.
Haru: Wooow, 2 cup sizes!

Haru: By if the size doesn't matter for how much milk comes out, I wonder why women's breasts expand.
Hina: That's obvious, Haru-chan.

Hina: It's because of males.

[p010]

Hina: In order to draw the male's eyes!! The female's chest becomes larger for that sole purpose!!
Hina: A female's instinct is to seek a male!!

Haru/Hina: How leeeeewd
Wakana: Didn't I already say they're not large because I wanted them to be!!

Wakana: But even if I had wanted to draw a man's attention, I still have to put something on underneath.
男の目を引きたかったら中にパットでも入れればいいだけ
Wakana: I have to wear a bra that hurts just by walking... it's really a nuisance!
下着付けなきゃ歩くだけで痛くて... 本当邪魔 !

(coming from the door) Kyaa kyaa kyaa kyaa

Shun (thoughts): This is too high a hurdle.
Shun (thoughts): I can't join this sort of conversation at all.

[p011]

Box: ----Whatever, we'll leave the breast conversation at that

Box: and start up the beginning of this hot-blooded Iai manga.
Wakana: Alright, with that, let's begin today's club activities.

[p012]

Wakana: Why are you such a distance away, Haru-san!
なんでそんなはじっこに行っちゃうのハルさん!
Wakana: Come closer!
Haru: B-but but......

Shun (thoughts): Huh? So I really am being avoided after all?

Haru (thoughts): There are boys closeby......
Haru (thoughts): Scary......

[p013]

Wakana: Well, whatever. Let's get started.
Wakana: As yesterday was devoted solely to introductions, today we'll begin in earnest.

Wakana: Well then, Ogami-senpai, I'll leave it to you.
Ogami: Hm?

Ogami: Why are you passing it on to me?
Wakana: That's... because you're the head of this club...

Ogami: Why the heck am I the club head.
Wakana: That's... because you're the most senior person in the club...

Wakana: Weren't you the one who created this club in the first place!
Wakana: Who else but you can do this!
Ogami: I don't like dealing with that sort of trouble.

[p014]

Hina: Theeen I'll be the club head!
(her dialogue gets cut off and partially covered up, obviously)
Ogami: Katayama, you do it.

Wakana: I suppose there's no helping it.
Wakana: Alright, I will take the position.

Wakana: ----now then, first of all
Wakana: is how to handle a katana.
刀の扱い方からでも

[p015]

Wakana: It's best to hold the real thing, but
Wakana: since we don't have any spare katanas here...
Hina: Ehhh~ I wanna hold one!

Wakana: Ah, Ogami-senpai has his here.
Wakana: Will you let her use it?
(above Haru) A katana!!

Hina: Yaaay, loan it to me, loan it to me!

Ogami: Guess I've got no choice.
Ogami: Be careful with it.

Hina: Ah.

(sword sfx) Clatter

[p016]

Ogami: ...oi.
Hina: I-It's heavier than I thought it would be.
Hina: Sorry, sorry.

Haru: Looks fun...
Wakana (thoughts): Haru-san is wavering between there being boys and there being a katana.

Hina: Can I take it out? Hey, can I?
Wakana: Before that, it's proper etiquette to perform a sort of sword salute to your opponent--

Hina: What a paaaain, I wanna draw it out already.
Wakana (thoughts): ...well, since it's her first time, it'll be fine for today.....
(left of Hina) Kay?

(right of Hina) Preparations complete.

Wakana: Hold the hilt in front of you and the blade behind.
Wakana: Keeping your right hand on the hilt and your left hand close to the sheath's base, quietly draw out the sword without shifting left or right.

[p017]

Wakana: Once it has been slightly removed, next you draw the sword from the sheath in a sliding motion.
Wakana: You cannot stop partway.

Wakana: If the katana rattles around inside the sheath, the blade will suffer damage.
Wakana: Draw it out in one stroke.

[p018]

Hina: Like this?!
Shun: Dowaa!

Hina: Ah.

Hina: No good, no good.

Hina: Uwaa...

Hina: So this is an imitation sword, huh.
Shun: So cool~

Hina: It looks like the real thing.
Ogami: OI.

[p019]

Ogami: Don't touch the blade with your bare hands!
Ogami: They're oily, aren't they!! The blade will rust!! You idiot!!
Hina: I'm not an idiot, I didn't know!! I can't do anything about it now!!

Ogami: What the hell's with you, talking to your senpai like that.
Ogami: Give it back already!!
Hina: Right back at you, talking to the student council president like that!!
Hina: Hmph!!

Wakana: Yes, yes, everyone get along now~
Wakana: Please listen to what I'm saying~
Wakana (thoughts): I feel like I've become a kindergarten teacher.

Wakana: Once the sword has been drawn, the thumb of your right hand is placed near the top of the hilt in such a way that
Wakana: it is only touching the index finger.
Wakana: Use the first knuckle joint as a guideline for the other fingers' placement in order to maintain a tight grip on the hilt.
第一関節を中心に小指の方から順に強く締めて持って下さい

[p020]

Wakana: With the sheath, draw your elbow back and place your thumb at the mouth as if to block it.
(above Haru) Katana~
Hina: Wait, don't just say all of that at once!
Hina: What's the mouth? Say it so it's easier to understand.

Wakana: Then let's do it once together.
Wakana: Grasping the mouth... the sheath's opening with the middle finger,
Wakana: we guide the katana so as to let it slide into the body of the sheath.

Hina: Err
Hina: Like this...
Hina: And there.

Hina: OW OW!!
Wakana: Ah, be careful.

[p021]

Wakana: When performing the resheathing maneuver, I also often do that.
Wakana: My hand slips and I end up stabbing my left hand.
Wakana: The injury is always right here.

Wakana: You have to be even more careful with a real sword,
Wakana: Because you'll cut yourself rather sharply if you make a mistake.

Hina: Slooowly
Hina: Slooowly
Wakana: While doing that, return the sheath you pulled back to its original position.

Hina: I did it!
sfx: SMACK
Ogami: Don't make a sound with it!!

[p022]

Hina: But that's what they do in period dramas. It's cool.
sfx bubble: Shink
(actor sfx): Thud thud
Ogami: That's a stage play.
Ogami: If you sheath it like that, the rivet on the hilt will come loose!!

Wakana: You see that and this sort of thing a lot in period dramas.
sfx bubble: Ching
Wakana: It makes this sort of sound when the hilt's rivet is loose, so it's really bad.

Wakana: If you swing the katana in a situation where the rivet is loose, it's dangerous because the blade will just slip out of your hands.
Hina: Kaaaay
(man sfx) Slip

Wakana: ---now then.
Wakana: How about we see an Iai kata in action.

[p023]

Wakana: Ogami-senpai, if you would.
Ogami: Give me that!

Ogami: Ippon-me is fine, right.
(Ippon-me = a slash to the front)
Wakana: Yes.

Shun (thoughts): Kata? What's a kata?
Shun (thoughts): I joined without having any background knowledge of this stuff.

Ogami (thoughts): Good grief.
Ogami (thoughts): Group activities are such a pain, like always.

Ogami (thoughts): But... well.
Ogami (thoughts): I'll bear with it for a while.

[p024]

Ogami (thoughts): Until I've accomplished my goal, that is.

[p025]

Ogami (thoughts): Seated Set, Ippon-me.

Ogami (thoughts): "Mae"
(Mae = front)

Wakana: Sensing the killing intent of the opponent seated opposite you and drawing your blade.
Wakana: That is Ippon-me "Mae".

Hina: The opponent sitting opposite you...?
Hina: But there's no one there.

Shun: Like you'd sense the killing intent of an imaginary enemy.

[p033]

Shun (thoughts): It's real.
Shun (thoughts): Even I... could sense the enemy's killing intent through this person.
Shun (thoughts): He had to kill... or he would have been killed.

Hina (thoughts): What was that?
Hina (thoughts): What just happened?

Hina (thoughts): In this peaceful town,

Hina (thoughts): In this tranquil school,

[p034]

Hina (thoughts): One person
Hina (thoughts): slaughtered another.

[p035]

Hina (thoughts): This
Hina (thoughts): This sort of
Hina (thoughts): No matter how much you say it's an imaginary enemy... this
Hina (thoughts): This sort of thing

Hina (thoughts): I can't do...
Hina (thoughts): this sort of dangerous thing...

Wakana: You do not attack of your own accord.
Wakana: The presence of the enemy's malice is what causes the start of the technique.
Wakana: Without being able to help yourself, you kill the enemy----

[p036]

Wakana: That is Iaido.

[p037]

Ogami: The new members?
Wakana: They've already gone home.

Wakana: Having been affected by Ogami-senpai's killing intent,
Wakana: they're unsteady on their feet.
Wakana: Particularly Hasegawa-san and Tachioka-san.

Wakana: Seeing your kata so suddenly was probably too strong a stimulus for them.
Ogami: If they get scared and quit, it's not my problem.

[p038]

Ogami: However, Okamoto Haru is a different story.
Ogami: If she quits, it'll be troublesome.

Ogami: But what's with her. She was scared before she even saw my kata.
Ogami: I wanted to see her swing a katana, but...
Wakana: Hah...... you'll have to excuse her...

Wakana: Certainly, she'll have to do it one way or another.
Wakana: Even though she's a main character, she doesn't stand out.

[p039]

Wakana: But still...

Wakana: Why are you so persistent toward Haru-san?

Wakana: Like I thought, you sensed something from that girl, didn't you...?

Ogami: ......that's right.
Ogami: I'm hungry,
Ogami: so get me something luxurious at that family restaurant over there and we'll talk.

sfx bubble: Kathunk

[p040]

Wakana: I don't have the money for that right now,
Wakana: so this is the best I can do.

Ogami: Misfortune...
Ogami: No, should I call it a curse?
Ogami: The thing that manages to follow me regardless of what I do.
俺にまとわりつくそれをどうにかする為だ

[p041]

Ogami: My family have been scabbard masters for generations.
Ogami: They gained that name from restoring katana and crafting scabbards, but

Ogami: The katana is a tool created for the sake of slaughtering people.
Ogami: Moreover, there is something profound associated with it. There are things which can curse and things which can become cursed.
それに関わりの深いものをつくるんだ呪われる事も祟られる事もあるんだろう

[p042]

Wakana: Misfortune? A curse?
Wakana: And connected to you...?

Wakana: Are you serious...

Wakana: So how is that related to Haru-san...?
Wakana: Just what... are you intending to do with Haru-san?

Ogami: For one can of coffee, that's all you'll get.
Ogami: There's nothing more to say.

[p043]

sfx bubble: Clunk

Ogami: Later, Katayama.
Wakana: Ah...

Wakana (thoughts): Misfortune... a curse...

Wakana (thoughts): It's not real... right...

Haru: Hah
Haru: Hah...

[p044]

Haru: Hah...
Haru: My heart's still pounding.

Haru: That was incredible...
Haru: Ogami-senpai's Iai.

Haru (thoughts): Katayama-senpai's kata also... sent shivers down my spine, but...
Haru (thoughts): Ogami-senpai's was even more... incredible...

Haru (thoughts): How to put it... you could call it bloodcurdling....
Haru (thoughts): It was as if he had really crossed swords with someone.
Haru (thoughts): As if he were swinging the katana with his life on the line...

[p045]

Haru (thoughts): How was that sort of Iai possible.
Haru (thoughts): I want to know.
Haru (thoughts): I want to hurry up and hold a katana, too.
Haru (thoughts): I want to try...

Haru (thoughts): crossing swords with that senpai...

Haru: No good, that's dangerous.
Haru: Geez,
Haru: I was thinking something pretty risky just now, wasn't I?

[p046]

Box: There's no
Box: time...
(left) What is the "curse" Ogami-senpai spoke of?! And its relation to Haru is?!

-----
Notes:

Page 40: Noroi (呪い) and Tatari (祟り)
Both technically mean "curse", but the nuances between them don't translate well into English. As for the difference in their meanings, even native Japanese speakers seem to have trouble explaining. From what I gather, tatari tends to indicate that the speaker was cursed as a result of having done something - basically, bringing it on themself. Evidently, it often connotes nature-based or spiritual forces at work. Noroi tends to indicate that someone else cursed the speaker and often connotes a more human involvement. With the dialogue in question, Ogami first says "noroi" - meaning his curse came from an outside source, but then changes to "tatari" - meaning he bears the responsibility for having become cursed.

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 1 by lynxian

2011-11-01T23:52:19+00:00

Translation currently reserved for Playground Scans

[p002/003]

(top)
From Totsuka Masahiro of "Bamboo Blade" fame x Minamoto Yuu of "Asu no Yoichi!" fame
Comes the start of a collaborative tag-team sword girl comedy, at 60 pages!!
(right, chapter heading) Chapter 1 / Okamoto Haru and the Japanese Sword
(left)
The Japanese sword----
That sharp, gleaming aura.
Within that radiance,
Girls grow even more and more beautiful!!

[p005]

Box: ------Haru (spring)

Box: Haru (spring)
(Haru is both her name and the word for spring.)

Haru: I'm Haru!!
Haru: I've become a high school student!!

[p006]

Grandfather: Oh, Haru. you've come at a good time.
Grandmother: Came to show what you look like in your school uniform, did you?

Haru: I wanted to show grandma and grandpa as soon as possible.
Grandmother: You're certainly happy. It suits you very well, Haru.

Grandfather: Already a high schooler, huh. You've gotten so big.
Haru: Even though I stopped growing a year ago.

Grandfather: Look, gran.
Grandfather: Haru took the trouble to come visit. Look.
Grandmother: How about I give you some pocket money.

Haru: That's okay. I don't need any money.
Haru: Instead...... y'know.

Grandfather: What's that, Haru, there's something else you'd like?
Haru: Geez, you should know alreaaady.

[p007]

Haru: I've gotten bigger, right? I'm already an adult, right?
Grandfather: Y...yeah.

Haru: You promised I could have it when I became an adult, right?
Haru: T-h-a-t. ♡

Grandfather: That......

[p008]

Haru: I'll just help myself~ ♡
Grandfather: AH!!

Grandfather: Wait a minute, Haru!!
Haru: Fugi!!

Haru: Katana! Katanaaaaa!!
Haru: You said you'd give it to meeee!!
Grandfather: Calm down!! Haru!!

Haru: Gimmeeeee!! Uoooo!!
Grandfather: Hrm, that you remembered so well is a little...

(right) 12 years earlier
???: KYAAAA!!

[p009]

Mother: What are you doing, Haru!!

Mother: It's dangerous, you know! Carrying around something like that!!
Mother: Let go of it!! C'mon, quickly!!

Mother: Grandpa!! You shouldn't leave such a dangerous thing where children can reach it.
Grandfather: Sorry, my bad.

Grandfather: ......how strange.
Grandfather: I thought I'd tied the cord in such a way that it couldn't be unsheathed...

Haru: Give it back, give me!
(I worded it this way on purpose, since Haru uses a childish version of the verb "to return". Instead of 返して, she says かして)
Mother: Let me see your hands!! Are you injured anywhere?!

[p010]

Haru: Noooooo!
Haru: Haru waaants that!

Mother: Don't say such ridiculous things!
Mother: Hng--
(around Haru) UWAAAAAAAA
Grandfather: Haru, this is something that children shouldn't touch.

Haru: ....so if I become an adult, it'll be okay?
Grandfather: Hm...
Grandfather: That's right. When you're an adult.

Haru: Then, when Haru becomes an adult,
Haru: Give this to Haru!!

Grandfather: Ah...
Grandfather: Ahh, that's fine. When you're an adult, okay?
Grandfather (thoughts): Now then, what shall I do...

[p011]

Grandfather: Alright now, Haru. Listen veeeeery carefully.

Grandfather: A high school student is still not an adult yet, you know.
Haru: But you just said before that I was an adult!!

Haru: Noooo noooo gimme the katana gimmeee I want itttttt uooooooo!!
(below Haru) UWAAAA
Grandfather (thoughts): Just how are you an adult.

Grandfather: Why do you want that katana so much, Haru?

Haru: Because...

Haru: It's really beautiful.

Haru (narration): I want to hold it again, like that time before.

[p012]

Grandfather: Haahaahaa!!
Grandfather: I see, so it was beautiful was it!

Grandfather: Come, look veeeery closely, Haru.
Haru: Ehh

Haru: Huh?

Haru: A bamboo sword...?

Grandfather: You were young, so it's understandable that you thought it was the real thing.
Haru: No way... but
Haru: I'm sure, back then...

Haru: You mean it wasn't
Haru: a katana...?

[p013]

Grandfather: Even though that's the case, if you'd like, you can use it in celebration of having entered high school.

Haru (thoughts): Even though I specifically wore my school uniform and came all the way out here in high spirits...
Haru: Even though I specifically wore my school uniform and came all the way out here in high spirits...
Grandfather: She's in such a state of shock that she's saying exactly what she's thinking.

Grandmother: Be careful on your way home~

[p014]

Grandfather: I'm sorry,
Grandfather: Haru.

Haru: What I saw back then...
Haru: It was definitely the real thing.
Haru: I bet they had money problems and had to sell it.
Haru: We're in a recession, so there's no helping it......

[p015]

Haru: Amidst a bluish-blackish light, it gleamed ominously.
Haru: Looking at that light, it felt as if I was being drawn in.
Haru: Shivering as if the very depths of my soul had been frozen.

Haru: If you see it once, you probably won't be able to forget it.
Haru: Definitely......

[p016]

(sign, small print) Shikinomori High School
(sign, large print) Entrance ceremony

Girl: Ossu, Haru.
Girl: It'd be nice if we're in the same class~

Haru: Morning...
Girl: What happened? It's unusual for you to be in such low spirits.

Haru: Even though I thought I could finally surprise everyone today... I didn't get it...
Haru: I wasn't able to bring it here...

[p017]

Haru: That Japanese sword...
Girl: You... even if you had it, you can't bring it here with you.
(headline, top) dent admits to bringing Japanese sword
(headline, bottom) ance ceremony
(the full headline is "high school student admits to bringing Japanese sword to school entrance ceremony", but it's obviously partly cut off.)
(headline, black) Huge panic

Girl: Haru~ let's go check out our classroom.

Haru: Sorryy
Haru: Go on ahead of me.

[p019]

Haru (thoughts): A katana?!

[p020]

Haru: A katana!!

Wakana: Who's there?!
Wakana: What do you want?!

Haru: A Japanese sword?! How?!
Haru: Why is there a katana at school?!
(sfx around Haru) Scamper scamper
Wakana (thoughts): She's not listening.

Wakana: ...there's no way it's the real thing.
Wakana: This is a fake sword.
Wakana: It was made as an imitation.

Haru: A fake...
Haru: It's true.
Haru: Looking at it up close, you can tell right away.

[p021]

Wakana: That's because it was made-to-order, created by a skillful craftsman.
Wakana: The details of construction and gleam of the blade are different, though.
Haru: Uwaa~ it's a real high-quality item!

Haru: I'm Okamoto Haru.
Haru: A first year.
Haru: You're my senpai, right?

Wakana: Yes... I'm second year Katayama Wakana.
Wakana: More importantly, is this alright?
Wakana: The entrance ceremony has started, hasn't it?

Haru: But even if it's a fake, how come it's at school?
Haru: Why are you waving it around here?
Wakana (thoughts): I see, she doesn't listen to what others say.

Wakana: It can be used for club activities.
Wakana: This is the end, so I felt like swinging the sword here.

[p022]

Haru: You're... quitting the club?
Wakana: Yes... the club itself it being dissolved.

Haru: No way! I'll join, so please keep it going!
Haru: A club for people who love Japanese swords!!
Wakana: ...you're wrong!!

Wakana: Iai.
Wakana: What I was doing was part of the Iaido club.

[p023]

Haru (thoughts): Iai... I think that's
Haru (thoughts): when an expert slices through bales of straw and whatnot - that sort of thing.

Haru (thoughts): So high school has those types of club activities.
Haru (thoughts): They can't bring real swords, so they imitate the action using fake ones...

(Haru sfx): Staaaaare

Wakana: You... erm.
Haru: Haru's fine!
Wakana: Haru-san, you like katanas?

Haru: Yes!
Haru: They've been my absolute favorite for a long time!! Someday, I think I want to have my own Japanese sword!

Wakana: If you had a sword, what would you do with it?

[p024]

Haru: I think I'd make a shrine in my room and use it as ornamentation.
Haru: And every day, morning and night, I'd pray to it.
Haru: And then, occasionally, I'd take it down and gaze into the blade's light.
Haru: And I'd try to accompany that by reading a poem, and
(left of Haru)
Japanese sword
Beautiful today as well.
Ufufufufu

Wakana: ...I don't need to hear any more.

[p025]

Wakana: A katana

Wakana: is something that was born to kill people.
Wakana: It has no other purpose.

Wakana: It isn't just some sort of decoration.
Wakana: That is what I believe.

[p026]

Haru (thoughts): No
Haru (thoughts): It isn't an imitation.
Haru (thoughts): It's really cutting.

[p027]

Haru (thoughts): Even though it's not a real sword,
Haru (thoughts): Even though it's a fake that can't cut anything,
Haru (thoughts): And there doesn't seem to be anything in front of her,

Haru (thoughts): She's cutting something.
Haru (thoughts): I'm sure of it.

[p028/029]

Box: Iai.
Box: A type of martial art utilizing the Japanese sword in a sword-drawing technique.
Box: Unlike other martial arts, there exists no opponent to fight. Instead, you cross swords with an opponent created from your own imagination.
Box: A technique that includes from the time a sword is drawn to the time it is returned to the scabbard as a single iteration of the martial art. Viewed in a global sense, it is very unique.

[p030]

Wakana: Except for me, all of the other members were like you...
Wakana: They joined the Iaido club without an understanding of the katana's true essence, seeing nothing but its outward appearance...

Wakana: Because they wanted to hold a katana,
Wakana: Because they wanted to swing one,
Wakana: Because it was stylish...

Wakana: That's right.
Wakana: Except for the person who taught me Iai...

Wakana: When that person quit this club, I thought I would leave it, too...

[p031]

Wakana: Once the upperclassmen graduated, I was left as the club's sole member.
Wakana: I figured I'd take the opportunity to just shut it down.

Wakana: If you're interested in a club for people who love Japanese swords, then please feel free to create one.
Wakana: If you'll excuse me.

Haru: Um...
Haru: Katayama-san.

Haru: If it's alright with you...
Haru: Since the club is ending... I was wondering if you would let me swing that katana...

[p032]

Haru: Wah
Haru: It's heaaavy.

Wakana: Even though it's a fake, it still has an edge, so think before handling it.
Haru: Ye
Haru: Yes.

Wakana: Grip it a little lower with your left hand.
Haru: Yes!

[p033]

Haru: Whoops
Wakana: Once you fully swing it,
Wakana: Firmly bring it to a stop.

Haru: This... is definitely expensive, isn't it...
Wakana: 15,000 yen.
(About $195)

Haru: Fifte...!!!

Wakana: Take care while swinging it.
(left of Wakana) Fufu...
Haru: Ye...yes!!
Haru (thoughts): I absolutely can't damage it......

Haru (thoughts): It's heavy, so it looks like I can't swing it like a katana...

Haru (thoughts): Something's different.

Haru (thoughts): For a katana's movements to be forcefully stopped is...
Haru (thoughts): Somewhat...... lacking in beauty.

[p034]

Haru (thoughts): More like this...

Haru (thoughts): Ahh, that obi of light is
(An obi is the kimono sash worn around the waist.)
Haru (thoughts): so pretty.

Haru (thoughts): I get it.
Haru (thoughts): Instead of trying so hard, it's better to just let the katana move as it pleases.

Haru (thoughts): As if the katana were a part of me.
Haru (thoughts): No,

Haru (thoughts): If I become part of the katana,
Haru (thoughts): I'll move with it.

[p035]

Wakana (thoughts): ......she might have a talent for this.

Wakana: But doing it like that is no good.
Wakana: Haru-san, I said it before, didn't I?

Wakana: That the katana is something which exists to kill people.

Wakana: Please swing it as if there were an opponent in front of you.

[p036]

Haru (thoughts): An opponent......

Haru (thoughts): Hmmm. Even if it's imaginary, cutting a person is a little difficult...

Haru (thoughts): That's it!
Haru (thoughts): Something that's not human.... something completely different.

Haru (thoughts): Something like a monster out of a video game.
Haru (thoughts): Monster, monster......

Haru (thoughts): What the heck.
Haru (thoughts): Just where and how am I supposed to cut something like that?

Haru (thoughts): Something more... humanlike...
Haru (thoughts): At least something that walks on 2 legs......

[p037]

Haru (thoughts): Yeah, a zombie!

[p038]

Wakana (thoughts): ...how?
Wakana (thoughts): This is her first time swinging a katana, isn't it?

Wakana (thoughts): Her form is all over the place, but
Wakana (thoughts): There is no hesitation in her swordsmanship.
太刀筋はブレがない

Wakana (thoughts): It's natural.

Haru (thoughts): Ah.
Haru (thoughts): I remember.

Haru (thoughts): I'm sure, back then,
Haru (thoughts): It called out to me.

[p039]

Haru (thoughts): Saying it wanted to be swung.

Wakana (thoughts): Ah...

Wakana (thoughts): This girl
Wakana (thoughts): Is the same

Wakana (thoughts): As that person.

[p040]

Grandmother: That Haru would harbor feelings of that extent toward the katana,

Grandmother: As I thought, it's because of father-in-law...
Grandfather: It seems so.

Box: Haru was born
Box: On the night of a spring storm.

Box: The birth went well, but she was incredibly small and weak.
Box: Almost as if she would disappear at any moment......

Father: Tonight is a critical time.
Grandfather: I see...
Father: Dad, mom, it's late, so you should head home.

[p041]

???: What about Yoshiko-san?
Father: There's nothing to worry about. She's getting a good rest right now.

Father: Have faith you two, and think about a name for your grandchild.
ふたりは信じて孫の名前でも考えていてくれ
???: That's right... a girl's name connected with the idea of spring...

Grandfather: Ahh...

sfx bubble: Splash

sfx bubble: Splash
sfx bubble: Splash

sfx bubble: Splash

[p042]

Grandfather: Dad...?

Grandfather (narration): The one who appeared there was my dad.
Grandfather (narration): -----In other words, Haru's great-grandfather.

[p043]

Grandfather: Why are you...
Grandfather: Did you come all the way from Gifu?
Great-Grandfather: The child?

Grandfather: Ahh... she's already been born.
Grandfather: But she's awfully weak...

Great-Grandfather: I
Great-Grandfather: forged this for that child's sake.

Grandfather: Saying "forged", you can't mean...
Grandfather: A katana?!

Grandfather: Didn't you already retire...
Great-Grandfather: This was necessary, so I went ahead and forged it.

Great-Grandfather: The katana is a thing which kills people.
Great-Grandfather: However,
Great-Grandfather: At the same time, it is also something which protects.

[p044]

Great-Grandfather: I forged this for the newborn's sake.
Great-Grandfather: That radiance will protect her and give her the strength to live.

sfx bubble: Cough

sfx bubble: Hack
sfx bubble: Cough

Grandfather: Dad, are you alright?
Grandfather: Overdoing it at your age---

Great-Grandfather: Nevertheless, be careful.
Great-Grandfather: For so small a child, this is too strong a power......
Great-Grandfather: ......moreover, there's the possibility it will consume her.
......それに取り込まれてしまう事もある

[p045]

Great-Grandfather: ...well then.
Great-Grandfather: Give everyone my regards.
Grandfather: Ah- dad.

Grandfather: ......Thank you.

sfx bubble: Splash

[p046]

Nurse: It's really a relief, isn't it? That the baby's gotten healthier.
Yoshiko: Yes, she's drinking a lot of breast milk and
Yoshiko: It's almost like we just imagined her being so weak.

Nurse: What's that there?
Yoshiko: Something my father-in-law brought.

Yoshiko: It's like some sort of protective charm.
Yoshiko: But we mustn't look inside the wrappings.

[p047]

Yoshiko: I'm certain she was saved thanks to this.

Box: That dad, who lived only for his work and went so far as to turn his back on his family,
Box: would just go and forge a katana for his family's sake was something I'd never imagined.

Grandfather: Haru grew healthier, and the next day dad passed away.
Grandfather: In the end, it's as if he did leave something behind for his family......

Grandfather: When Haru gets a little bit older, I'll give her that katana.
Grandfather: Until then, I'll keep charge of it.
Grandfather: Since this sort of divine protection seems a bit too strong for her.
ちょいと加護が強すぎたようだから

[p048/049]

Wakana (thoughts): This girl can also
Wakana (thoughts): Feel the soul of the katana.

[p050]

Wakana (thoughts): This is bad.

Wakana (thoughts): She's
Wakana (thoughts): Gotten too caught up in the katana.

Wakana (thoughts): At this rate, there will be no turning back.
このままだと帰ってこれなくなる
Wakana: Haru-sa------

[p053]

Haru: Haa
Haru: Haa...

Haru: Huh?
sfx bubble: Haa
sfx bubble: Haa
sfx bubble: Haa...
Haru: Where's the zombie?

Haru: Oya? Katayama-san, what happened?

[p054]

Haru: Katayama-san?

Wakana: Haru-san, would you----
Wakana: Like to give Iai a try?

Haru: Eh?

Wakana: For high-level practioners, carrying an actual sword becomes a necessity.
Wakana: In other words, they are permitted to wield a real sword for the purposes of training.

[p055]

Haru: A real sword?!
Haru: Wow! I want to!

Wakana: If we find one more member, the Iaido club will be able to continue.
Wakana: Can you think of anyone?
Haru: Nope! But I'll definitely find one!

Wakana (thoughts): ......I've started wanting to see it.
......見てみたくなった
Haru: Okay, let's do this!
Wakana (thoughts): This girl's polished form.
この子が磨かれてゆくのを

Wakana (thoughts): Being able to feel the katana's soul----
Wakana (thoughts): Though it will probably be incredibly dangerous,
Wakana (thoughts): if that is the katana's true essence...

[p056]

Wakana: ......by the way, what about
Wakana: the entrance ceremony?
Haru: AHHHH I forgot!

Haru: It must've already starteeed.
Wakana: Wait a

Wakana: The katana......

(white sfx): Sound of the door opening

Haru: Sorry I'm late!

[p057]

(above school, right) WAAAAH!
(above school, left) KYAAAAA!

Wakana: ...si~gh.

(newspaper, right side, black - partially cut off at the top) Shikinomori Times
(newspaper, top) Freshman carrying Japanese sword barges in on entrance ceremony
(newspaper top, black) Huge panic
(newspaper, center, large text) Iaido Club
Girl: Good thing it's only the school paper, huh?

(bottom box, small print) Now recruiting!
(bottom box, large print) Iaido Club

[p060]

(right) The Iaido Club's future... is stormy?!

(bottom) Totsuka Masahiro x Minamoto Yuu

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 3 by Jiyuu2k

2011-10-07T16:07:21+00:00

p3

tachi iai no bu nana hon me - sanpou giri

立ち居合いの

p08

wa

cool

this was the "tachi iai no bu nana hon me"

sanpou giri wasn't it?

its a kata in which you have opponents in three directions, in the front, left and right.
the point is to overwhelm the front opponent
気で圧すること

otherwise while you are attacking the opponents on the left and right the front opponent will attack you
左右

p09

ho
i see you've studied a bit

yes! instead of doing my homework
宿題そっちのけで

so, how about you let do it as well?

NO

even if you give me that look its still NO
a

as well as puffing
ふくらんでもダメ

oh yeah, i'm changing the subject but
did you know, haru?

they say that the slasher showed up yesterday

p10

ehhh

your ran into the slasher?!
あなた通り魔に出くわしたの！？

yes

and you're talking so indifferently
そんなあっけらかんと

please explain what happened in details haru san!

umm

in front of the school gate, after school

a man waving a kitchen knife and wearing a hoody
包丁持って

and a a kid was down and couldn't stand up
男の子が腰抜かして

then a senpai holding a tanto did "that"<アレ> and trampled him
そこに男の先輩が
短刀でアレして踏んづけたんです

after that the guy holding the kitchen knife ran into the school building

i don't get anything she's saying
how can she be so all over the place!
構成力

p11

that senpai that trampled the guy with the kitchen knife

that person is a former member of the iaido club
probably

is that so?

now that i think about it

over here

he had a cut scar that seemed to be from a sword

p12

theres no mistaking it. its Ogami senpai
3rd year Ogami Touji senpai

the guy who built the Shikinomori school iaido club

when I

saw his iaido i joined the club

it was during my first year, i Casually peeked into the iaido club
何気なく

p13

what i saw had nothing to do with martial arts
武道とは名ばかりのお遊戯が繰り広げられていました

but the person outside it all that had a different atmosphere around him
纏う人が

was Ogami senpai

p15

kyaaa

the sword he held seemed extremely sharp
shining
dangerous
怪しく

as if blood was really dripping off of it
したたり落ちているかの
太刀

p16

what are you doing?

ah...

this was dangerous, what were you doing swinging a sword in a place like this?!

don't you have a doujo?! practice inside it!

oh, sorry

i don't get along that well with the guys from the club

here

p17

p..
please let go of me

i can stand on my own!

your hips are giving in

we
well

its because i really thought you were gonna cut me

this is a mozoutou
it doesn't cut

plus

i wouldn't dare cut you
お前きられるってタマじゃねえな

p18

though if i had to say

i'd say that you might cut me

you
is there something in your heart that you'd like to cut?

wha

i don't understand what you are talking about
i'll be going now

good bye!

p19

hey, wait

as an apology

you can swing this around

just this once

its as if ogami senpai could
seen into my heart

p20

it was then that i joined the iaido club and ogami senpai taught me the basics of iaido

but ogami senpai was

when did you get to my sword

i just cant let my guard down around you now can i?
油断も隙も

noo
just a little bit more

and that ogami senpai

left the iaido club after that
その後

yes

ogami senpai was really serious about his iaido
and that didn't fit this club back then

p21

even though ogami senpai founded this club

he just left it

i think thats just way too selfish

and irresponsible

then how about you go and ask him to come back to the club?

ehh

t.. to ask a guy...

thats a bit...

i can't even talk to them..

p22

thats right

it should be interesting to let ogami senpai meet haru chan

oh yeah, class is gonna start soon
授業が

you too haru, go back to you classroom

ohkay

what should i do if if there will really be guys in this club..

hmm
うむ

are there only female members in the iaido club?

thats gonna be hard joining like that

なんてハードルの高い部活なんだ

could i really join the club like that?

p23

but i must join this iaido club

so i won't be scared of a kitchen knife swung at me like that again

I

will become a samurai!

what is that girl

p24

a peeper?

Outrageous
but why would she do that to the iaido club
けしからん

p25

to the iaido club?

i have no intention of going back there, katayama

bye

ah
please wait ogami senpai

p26
what is it?
what is it?

a women

theres a women with ogami

what

he's always alone

what the hell

its different from the way the club was back then
the senpais who were always playing around have graduated

and theres someone i would like you to meet in there

that first year over here

wrong

huh...?

don't misunderstand it

that wasn't why i quit

p27

its just that over there

no matter what i'd have done i would have never reached my objective

i hope you understand that

objective..?

as long as you are there i'm sure the iaido club will be ok.

so i wasn't worried when i quit

bye then

p28

katayama senpai

lets go haru chan

ah..

p29

what the hell were you doing

ogami,you bastard

don't fuck with us

get him
get him
いじめてやる

p32

ugh

p34

its morning

no, its the middle of class

p35

ogami

you slept during my class again didn't you

i hope you're prepared

why don't you come over here and solve this problem

i won't forgive you till you do it

ahh

the bell rang so i'll be going now

hey! you! wait ogami!

we're not done yet!!

oga-

p36

oh well

this will be all for today

sensei!

what is it?

you're spoiling ogami too much

it'd be better if you were a bit more strict with him!

you are right, but theres nothing to do about it

do you know why?

that is because he is

beutiful

p37

beautiful guys will be forgiven for whatever they do
i too got fooled by beautiful guys in the past

but i forgive then, because they are beautiful

beautiful guys are a national treasure
just by being there they make women everywhere happy

its ok if they are a bit selfish
多少

i hope all of you understood, make sure to remember that
よく覚えておいて下さいね

well then, good bye

seeing that dream

happens to me all the time

p38

but what is she

why did she appear there

that first year over here

first year

ogami senpai?

going to the first year building...?

p39

its heavyyyyy

i can't hold it
持てないよ

yayoi
satsuki
help me

but you see

we don't have cleaning duty today

i'll give you a gum so..

a gum is not enough..

it has to at least be a chocolate

right?

uwa

here here don't cry haru

we'll help you

p40

i've found you

p41

i nee to talk to you

noooo

why are you running away

noooooo

ma-ai is it
間合いか

she just wouldn't let me in it

this is a katana's ma-ai

p42

what is she?

she isn't normal thats for sure

umm

she's not good with guys

hey

nooo

even if i have to force my way i need to talk to her

p43

wha

p44

stop it

don't get near me

p45

wait ogami senpai!!

katayama

what is she

first year

okamoto haru

p46

an iaido club member

i see

i get it

i'll come back to the iaido club

starting from today

p47

haru are you ok?

it was so scared

okamoto haru is it..

theres no mistaking it

she's the same as me

connected to katanas from birth
因縁

p48

i'll train her at the club
奴を部活で鍛えてみよう

i'll teach her the spirit of kenjutsu through iaido
剣術の理念を居合で叩き込む

i might grasp something that way..
no, i will definitely grasp something

i don't have much time left

okamoto haru
i'll use her and definitely

p49

B side

chapter 3

i am hasegawa hinako

i'm a second year here at shiki no mori

i might not look like it

p50

but i'm the Student body president

i hate wrongfulness
あたしは曲がった事が大嫌いです

i have been like that since i was small

next time you bully akemi chan i won't forgive you!!

damn it, i'll remember this hina!!

p51

hina chan!

you can't go around fighting with boys

but he was the one the bad one

thats not it, i'm telling you that a girl like you should be doing such
barbaric things

you should be more ladylike
もっとおしとやかにしなきゃ駄目でしょう

hmpf
hmpf
ふんだ
ふんだっ

it its like that then i should have been born a boy.

if i'm not a boy

then i can't live freely....?

p52

i want a toy gun

here

a doll

i want to play baseball

here

a piano

p53

hina chan, its time for practice

today you'll be doing "saita-saita"

its a piano recital
発表会よ

make sure to wear the dress

lets add a ribbon as well

hina is so cute, she's like a princess

kiiii

i dont want to
i dont want to

i just want to live a honest life!!

to be true to myself

why do the people around me decide all of this for me

p54

yes!

i'm nominating myself to the student council

hina chan you're being reckless

you should just leave stuff like that for the guys

i'll do it!

its something i decided by myself!

i won't lose to any guys

hina chan is cute isn't she?

she's so small

right, i'll vote for her
い票

hina chan was chosen
当選

congratulations~

p55

to live honestly!!
to live strongly!!
regardless of being male of female!!

to let your true self out!!

iai...?

are you interested?

n-no

p56

i though that after the graduates left it got disbanded,
but they still exist.
it would have been ok if they were closed
卒業生が抜けて廃部になったかと思いましたがまだ存続してるみたいですね
無くなってよかったんですけど

because they had fights with the kendo club,
and we've gotten complaints from female students
about them swinging swords dangerously
流派のぶつかり合いでよく剣道部と揉め事起こしましたし
刀を振り回して危ないと女子生徒から苦情が寄せられたり

is that so?
a problematic club?

thats no good isn't it..

katana

i'll go see

ah-
chairman

p58

a club activity of swinging a katana(like object) around...

what a dangerous thing
as the student chairman i must put as stop to it as soon as possible!!

that..
heavy looking with a sharp and shiny blade(like object)

swinging it around with all her might..

mr. president i have something to talk to you about
校長先生

oh,
student chairman hasegawa kun

here, a candy.. eat it..

not that, i need to discuss club activities with you

p59
i have a business trip so lets do that in another time
出張

a..

come on, satsuki yayoi

just for today, come to the club..
today is the club observation day
見学会

eh
we are busy

you should just go by yourself

you'll be able to get close to plenty of guys
押し寄せ

nooooooooo

she was in the doujo back then

oh, thats right

today is the club observation day＜not sure＞

今日見学会とやらをするんだ

p60

good
all of the members will be there and i'll persuade them all
よし
丁度いいそこで全員を説き伏せよう

that they shouldn't join a club like that

swinging something dangerous like that..

with something so cool..
in a cool hakama like that...

like..

like..

p61

i hope ogami senpai will be here soon..

a guy is coming here..

scary...

he is coming to you haru
ハルの所にやって来るよ

he arrived

p62

umm

i came to observe the iaido club

actually i came to join the club

uwa
there really are only girls here!!

hey! don't run myself!
don't lose like that!!

so just write your name, year and class over here

p63

yo

i came

from yesterday

another guy....

write your name, year and class over here

i need to write it as well?

wait!

you came to observe right?
write your name, year and-

n-no, you're wrong.
i...

i...

such a dangerous..

cool...

cool...
cool...

p65

came

to join
yes

please write your name, year and class over here

ok

if i'll be here there won't be any issues!

wait

this reason..

might not be so honest

and so...

p66

3rd year
ogami touji

2nd year
katayama wakana

2nd year
hasegawa hineko

p67

1st year
tachioka shun

1st year
ogamoto haru

p68

shiki no mori school iaido club

the shiki no mori school iaido club was saved

存続決定

ah
i forgot about an advising teacher

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 3 by lynxian

2011-09-29T03:55:21+00:00
[p001]

(top right) Chapter 3 / Katayama-senpai and Ogami-senpai
(top left)
Haru Polish
From the strongest combination comes a sword x girl comedy!!
(left side) Totsuka Masahiro x Minamoto Yuu
(right side) Here it comes, the Iaido club!!
(bottom)
She loves Japanese swords,
But she can't deal with boys at all.
For Okamoto Haru, this is the greatest trial of her entire life (!?)
-----the hunt for new club members!!

[p003]

Wakana (thoughts): Standing Iai, seventh form. Sanbou giri.
--(TL note: Sanbou giri = three directional cutting)

[p008]

Haru: Waaah~
Haru: So cool!!

Wakana: That just now was the seventh form standing Iai
Haru: Sanbou giri, isn't it!

Haru: A kata that cuts in 3 directions, at enemies in front, to the left and to the right.
Haru: The point is to overwhelm the front enemy's spirit!

Haru: If not, then while you are slicing at the enemies to the left and right, you will be attacked by the enemy in front.

[p009]

Wakana: Heeeh, you studied a bit before coming.
Haru: Yep, I did that instead of my homework!!

Haru: By the way, isn't it about time you let me---
Wakana: Absolutely not.

Wakana: Even if you make those eyes at me, it's still no!

Wakana: Even if you puff up your cheeks, it's still no!

Wakana: Ah, that's right. It's a change of topic, but
Wakana: Did you hear, Haru-san?
Wakana: Yesterday, the slasher actually appeared.

[p010]

Wakana: WHA
Wakana: You ran into the slasher?!

Haru: Yes.
Wakana: What an indifferent reaction...
Wakana: What happened? Tell me everything in detail, Haru-san!

--(TL note: These are Haru's bubbles going clockwise, starting from the top right. And yes, it IS supposed to sound a little convoluted.)
Haru: Uhh
Haru: In front of the gate after school
Haru: A man carrying a kitchen knife and wearing a hood waved around the kitchen knife and
Haru: A boy fell down and couldn't get up and
Haru: Then he went into the school waving the kitchen knife and
Haru: There was a senpai with a short sword who got all angry and stepped on him.
Wakana (thoughts): I couldn't understand a word of that. It made no sense.
Wakana (thoughts): This girl can't organize information at all!!

[p011]

Wakana: That male senpai with a short sword who got angry and stepped on the slasher...
Wakana: Is probably a former member of this
Wakana: Iaido club.

Haru: So that's how it was?

Haru: That reminds me
Haru: Right here...

Haru: There was a mark that looked like a katana injury......

[p012]

Wakana: Without a doubt, that's Ogami-senpai.
Wakana: Ogami Touji-senpai, a third year.
Wakana: He's the one who created this Iaido club at Shikinomori High School.

Wakana: I
Wakana: joined this club after witnessing his Iai.

Wakana: When I was a first year, I inadvertently peeked in on the Iaido club.

[p013]

Wakana: It was a martial art in name only which had developed into a game.
武道とは名ばかりのお遊戯が繰り広げられていました

Wakana: However, outside there was a single person who had a different air about him.

Wakana: That was Ogami-senpai.

[p015]

Wakana: Kyaaaaa

Wakana (narration): That person's long sword was incredibly sharp.
Wakana (narration): Dubiously shining,
Wakana (narration): As if blood were actually falling from it.

[p016]

Ogami: What are you doing?

Wakana: Ah...

Wakana: That's dangerous, isn't it!! Swinging around something like that in a place like this!!
Wakana: You have a dojo, so please do that in there!!
Ogami: Aah, sorry.

Ogami: I don't fit in with the other club members.

Ogami: There.

[p017]

Wakana: P
Wakana: Please let go of me!!

Wakana: I can stand on my own!!
Ogami: You're practically shaking in your boots.

Wakana: Th-that's because
Wakana: I thought you were really slicing things......

Ogami: This is an imitation blade.
Ogami: It can't cut anyone.

Ogami: Besides...

Ogami: There's no way I would cut you.
お前斬られるってタマじゃねえな

[p018]

Ogami: If anything,
Ogami: You seem more likely to.
お前の方が斬っちまいそうだ

Ogami: Do you
Ogami: Have something within your heart that you want to slice up?

Wakana: I

Wakana: I don't know what you're talking about.
Wakana: Sheesh, I'm leaving.
Wakana: Goodbye!

[p019]

Ogami: Wait.

Ogami: I apologize.

Ogami: You can give swinging this a try.
Ogami: Just once, though.

Wakana: Ogami-senpai seemed to
Wakana: completely see through what I was feeling.

[p020]

Wakana: After that, I joined the Iaido club and Ogami-senpai taught me the basics of Iai.
Wakana: But Ogami-senpai is---

Wakana: My katana, when did you...
Wakana: I wasn't negligent and you would have had no opportunity!
Haru: Waaaah, and I was so cloooose.

Haru: So, that Ogami-senpai
Haru: Quit the Iaido club after that, right?

Wakana: Yes.
Wakana: For Ogami-senpai, who wanted to seriously perform Iai... this club was probably a poor match.

[p021]

Haru: But even though it was a club he created by himself---

Haru: For him to up and quit on his own like that---

Haru: I think it's way too selfish!!
Haru: I think it's irresponsible!!

Wakana: Then, what if I left it to you to get him to return to the Iaido club?
Haru: Eh

Haru: L...leaving a boy up to me...
Haru: That's a little......
Haru: I can't even talk to one...

[p022]

Wakana (thoughts): That's true.
Wakana (thoughts): It might be a bit interesting to try having this Haru-san meet Ogami-senpai.

Wakana: Oh no, class is going to start. I have to change clothes.
Wakana: Haru-san, you quickly return to your classroom as well.
Haru: Kaaaay......

Haru: Having club activities together with boys, just what would I do if that happened...

Shun: Erm...
Shun: Are there only girls in the Iaido club?

Shun (thoughts): What a high hurdle for a club activity......!!
Shun (thoughts): Would I really be able to join such a thing?!

[p023]

Shun (narration): But I absolutely must join this Iaido club.
Shun (narration): In order to become a man who isn't scared if someone jabs something sharp at him......

Shun (thoughts): I'll
Shun (thoughts): Become a samurai!!

Shun (thoughts): ...what's with that girl...

[p024]

Shun: Peeping?
Shun: How rude.
Shun: ...but why the Iaido club?

[p025]

Ogami: To the Iaido club?
Ogami: I have no intentions of returning, Katayama.

Ogami: Later.
Wakana: Ah- please wait, Ogami-senpai.

[p026]

Students: What's going on?
Students: It's a girl.
Students: A girl's come to see Ogami.
Students: Whaaat?
Students: It's always, always only him who gets their attention.
Students: That bastard, mocking us.

Wakana: It's different from the old Iaido club.
Wakana: The senpai who came only to play have already graduated.
Wakana: Furthermore, there is a person I would like you to meet.

Wakana: The first year over th-
Ogami: You're wrong.

Wakana: Eh...?
Ogami: Don't get the wrong idea.
Ogami: That wasn't the reason I quit.

[p027]

Ogami: It's just that there,
Ogami: No matter how much time passes, I won't be able to accomplish my goal.

Ogami: It's because I realized that.

Wakana: Goal...?

Ogami: If you're there, the Iaido club will be fine. Katayama.
Ogami: That's why I was able to quit without any worries.

Ogami: Later.

[p028]

Haru: Katayama-senpai...

Wakana: Let's go, Haru-san.
Haru: Ah...

[p029]

Students: What's with that attitude!
Students: Quit mocking us!
Students: You bastard, Ogami!
Students: Meanie, meanie!

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

[p032]

Ogami: Kua...

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

Ogami: Hah
Ogami: Hah

[p034]

sfx bubble: Haa
sfx bubble: Haa

sfx bubble: Haa...

Ogami: Morning, huh...
Student: That's way off! It's the middle of class!

[p035]

Teacher: Ogamiii
Teacher: Did you doze off in my class agaaain?
Teacher: You didn't come prepared, did you?

Teacher: Now then, before we leave, I'll have you solve this problem.
Teacher: Today, I won't let you leave until you can do it.

Ogami: Ah----

Ogami: The chime rang, so I'm heading out.
Teacher: Hey hold on a- wait, Ogami!!
Teacher: Class ain't over yet, dammit!!

Teacher: Oga...

[p036]

Teacher: Well... that's alright.
Teacher: Let's end here for today.

Student: Sensei!
Teacher: What?

Student: I think you're too easy on Ogami.
Student: You should have spoken more sternly!!

Teacher: That's true... I'm really very forgiving of him.
Teacher: But I just can't help it.
Teacher: Do you know why?

Teacher: It's because
Teacher: He's a good-looking guy!!

[p037]

Teacher: Anything a good-looking guy does can be forgiven.
Teacher: I've also been deceived by many men.
Background (right guy): Eh? Who's this, you ask? My girlfriend, she's my girlfriend. Did you think you and I were in a relationship?
Background (girl): Hi there, auntie. <3
Background (left guy): This month is 20,000 huh. That's hardly anything at all... hm, no, it's nothing. <3 Thank you for all your hard work. <3 By the way, I know money is tight now, but could you lend me some?
Teacher: ---But, I forgive them.
Teacher: Because they're good looking.

Teacher: Good-looking guys are this country's treasure.
Teacher: Just by having them near, women will become happy.
Teacher: A little self-indulgence like that is a good thing.

Teacher: You understand, don't you everyone. Please remember it well.
Teacher: Well then, goodbye.

Ogami (thoughts): When I have that dream
Ogami (thoughts): It's always the same thing.

[p038]

Ogami (thoughts): And yet, what was that.
Ogami (thoughts): Why did she appear.

Wakana: The first year over th-
Ogami (thoughts): First year.

Wakana (thoughts): Ogami-senpai?
Wakana (thoughts): He's heading for the first years' building...?

[p039]

Haru: It's heaaaaavvvyyyy~~
Haru: I can't carry thiiiis

Haru: Yayoiiii, Satsukiiii, gimme a haaand.
Yayoi: But y'know,
Satsuki: We aren't on cleaning duty.

Haru: I'll give you some gum if you do~
Yayoi: Not just for gum.
Satsuki: It has to at least be for chocolate, right~
Yayoi: Right~

Haru: Uuu--- auuuu----
Yayoi: C'mon, don't cry, Haru.
Satsuki: Yes, yes, we'll help.

[p040]

Ogami: Found you.

[p041]

Ogami: I have to talk to you.

Haru: Hyaaaaaaa!

Ogami: Why are you running?

Haru: NOOOOOOOOO!

Ogami (thoughts): Distance between opponents, huh?
Ogami (thoughts): This is the distance between katana opponents.
Ogami (thoughts): Like this, it's as if she's preventing me from proceeding.
こいつそれに進入させないようにしている

[p042]

Ogami (thoughts): Just what is this girl...?

Ogami (thoughts): Surely, it's not just a matter of what she is.
Yayoi: Ummm...
Satsuki: That girl isn't good at dealing with boys...

Ogami: Oi.
Haru: NOOOOOOO!
(above Haru) Hyaaaaaaa!

Ogami (thoughts): Even if she doesn't want to, I have to talk---

[p043]

Ogami: Wh......

[p044]

Haru: Stop...
Haru: Don't come closer...

sfx bubble: Haah
sfx bubble: Haah
sfx bubble: Haa...

sfx bubble: Haah

[p045]

Wakana: Hold it, Ogami-senpai!!!

Ogami: Katayama...

Ogami: What the heck is she?

Wakana: First year,
Wakana: Okamoto Haru.

[p046]

Wakana: A member of the Iaido club.

Ogami: ...is that so.
Ogami: I understand.

Ogami: I'll return to the Iaido club as well.
Ogami: I'll come from now on.

[p047]

Satsuki: Haru, are you okay?
Haru: That was scaaary~~~~

Ogami (narration): ......Okamoto Haru, huh.
Ogami (narration): There's no mistaking it.

Ogami (narration): She's the same as me.
Ogami (narration): Someone whose fate has been intertwined with katana since birth.
生まれついて刀と因縁じみたものがある

[p048]

Ogami (thoughts): I'll see about training her during club activities.
Ogami (thoughts): With Iai, I'll instill in her the principles of swordsmanship.

Ogami (thoughts): I think it's something I can grasp.
何か掴めるかもしれない
Ogami (thoughts): No, I will definitely grasp it.
いや必ず掴む

Ogami (thoughts): There isn't any time left.

Ogami (thoughts): Okamoto Haru
Ogami (thoughts): Using her, I will definitely---

[p049]

(top left) Chapter 3
(top right, circle) Side B

Box: I'm Hasegawa Hinako.
Box: A second-year student at Shikinomori High School.

Box: Though I look like this,

[p050]

Box: I'm the student council president.

Box: I absolutely hate cruelty.
Box: I've been like that since I was little.

Hina: If you bully Akemi-chan again, I'll teach you a lesson!!
Boy: Dammiiiit, I'll remember this Hina!!

[p051]

Mother: Hey, Hina-chan!

Mother: Don't you know you shouldn't get into fights with boys!!
Hina: But the boys were up to no good.

Mother: That's not what I mean.
Mother: I'm saying that girls shouldn't do such violent things.
Mother: It's no good if you won't act more gracefully!!

Box: Those expectations.
ふんだふんだっ
Box: If that's how things were, it would have been better if I were born a boy.

Box: If I'm not a boy,
Box: Am I unable to live my life freely......?

[p052]

Hina: I want a toy pistol.

Mother: Here you go,
Mother: They're dolls~ <3

Hina: I wanna play baseball.

Mother: Here you go,
Mother: A piano. <3

[p053]

Mother: Hina-chan, it's time to practice~ <3
Mother: Today we'll be playing "Saita, Saita".
--(TL note: "Saita, Saita" is apparently a Japanese folksong.)

Mother: It's your piano recital~ <3
Mother: Let's wear a dress for it.

Mother: Let's put a ribbon on, too.
Mother: You look just like a cute princess, Hina.

Hina: EUUUGHH
Hina: No, no, no!!

Box: I just want to lead an honest life!!
Box: Being true to myself, without any falsehoods!
Box: Why does everyone around me decide things of their own accord?!!

[p054]

Hina: Yes!

Hina: I'm going to run for student council president!

Students: Hina-chan, that's excessive.
Students: It's better to leave stuff like that to the boys.
Hina: I'm doing it.

Hina: I decided it on my own!!
Hina: I won't lose to the boys!!

Students: Hina-chan's pretty cute.
Students: And small.
Students: Alright, let's put in a ballot.

Students: Hina-chan, congrats
Students: On being elected~

[p055]

Box: Living honestly!! Living strongly!! Regardless of whether you're a boy or girl!!
Box: Stay true to yourself!!

Hina: Iai...?

Student: Are you interested in it?
Hina: N-not at all!

[p056]

Student: After the club lost students who graduated, I thought it became obsolete but looks like it's still continuing.
Student: It'd be better if it disappeared, though...
Student: Their school of thought clashes with that of the Kendo club, and has resulted in friction between them.
Student: They wave katana around in a dangerous manner, and we have received complaints from female students.

Hina: Really? It's a club with problems?
Hina: That's unacceptable!
Box: Katana...

Hina: I'll go look!
Student: Ahh! President-

[p058]

Box: Some sort of club activity where they wave around (something like) a katana......
Box: How dangerous is that?! As the student council president, I must make them stop immediately!!

Box: That sort of... the main thing is what is done with that gleaming, sharp blade (like thing)...
Box: To wave it around so forcefully, using all of one's strength...

Hina: Principal, I have something to talk about!!
Principal: Oya, if it isn't the student council president Hasegawa-kun.

Principal: Here, candy. You can have it.
Hina: Not that, it's about a consultation concerning club activities.

[p059]

Principal: I'm off on a business trip now, see you later~ <3
Hina: Ah...

Haru: Hey, Satsuki~ Yayoi~

Haru: It's just for today, so come to club activitieeees.
Haru: We're being observed todaaaay.
Yayoi: Ehhh, but we're busy~
Satsuki: Haru, wouldn't it be better if you go alone~?

Yayoi/Satsuki: You might get inundated with a whole ton of boys, you know~ <3
Haru: HIIIIIIIIIII!

Box: She was in the dojo just now...
Box: That's right, today we're doing a sit-in observation!!

[p060]

Box: Alright, it's the perfect opportunity. I'll prevail on all the members there!!
(right of girl) Ah, it's Hina-chan.
(left of girl) How cute~
(left of boys) Osu, Hina-chan.
Box: You can't enter a club with activities like that!!

Box: Waving around something dangerous like that...
Box: Something cool like that... Wearing those cool hakama...

Box: Like that...
Box: Something like that...

[p061]

Wakana: I wonder what's keeping Ogami-senpai.
Yayoi: The boys are coming~
Haru: I'm scared...
Satsuki: They're coming right to where you are, Haru.

Yayoi: They're here.

[p062]

Shun: U...umm~~~
Shun: The sit-in for the Iaido club...
Shun: I mean, I came hoping to join.

Shun (thoughts): Uooooo, there's really only girls here!!
Shun (thoughts): Eeeeeh, don't run away, self!! Don't falter in a place like this!!

Wakana: Well then, write your name, year and class here.
Shun: Ah- yes!

[p063]

Ogami: Yo.
Ogami: I came.

Shun (thoughts): From yesterday!!
Haru (thoughts): Another boy...

Wakana: Write your name, year and class here.
Ogami: I have to write it too, huh.

Hina: Hold it!

[p064]

Wakana: You're here to observe, right? Write your name an-----
Hina: That's not it, I---

Hina: I'm---

Box: This sort of dangerous...
Box: Cool...

Box: Cool...cool...

[p065]

Hina: I want to
Hina: Join.

Wakana: Alright.
Wakana: Your name, year and class, please.

Box: Yeah.
Box: If I'm here, I won't let any quarrels break out!

Box: Hold on...
Box: This reasoning is
Box: Not honest at all...

Narration: In any case,

[p066]

(right)
3rd year
Ogami Touji
(top)
2nd year
Katayama Wakana
(left)
2nd year
Hasegawa Hinako

[p067]

(top)
1st year
Tachioka Shun
(left)
1st year
Okamoto Haru

[p068]

(top) Box: Shikinomori High School Iaido club
(right)
The Shikinomori High School Iaido club
Decides to continue!!
(left) Box: Starts now

Wakana: ---Ah. I forgot about a faculty advisor.

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 2 by Jiyuu2k

2011-07-12T18:10:33+00:00
p1
21st century japan
21世紀日本。

chapter 2/ haru and a guy
第２話/ハルと男の子

bishoujo give new life to japanese swords
美少女達が日本刀に新たな命を吹き込む！！

is a bit exaggerated!
ーってなんて大袈裟な

bishoujo iai comedy
美少女居合いコメデイー！！

new serialized manga
新連載
chapter 2
第２回！

minamoto yuu X totsuka masahiro

ｐ２

hi
こんにちは

i'm okamoto haru
岡本春です

everybody just call me Haru
皆からは
ハルってよばれています

->そのまんまです

this spring i've entered Shikinomori highschool
この春
四季ノ森高校に
入学しました

i'm 15
１５歳です

i was born on the 20th of april
my blood type is B
４月２０日
生まれの
B型です

the name of the heroin of this story is Okamoto Haru, Read herself introduction up here ^ she actually has a destiny related to japanese swords
このお話はー＞ヒロインの名前は岡本春　自己紹介はうえ（＾）を読んでもらうとして、実は日本刀と何やら因縁

without knowing that she joined the iaidou club just because she "loves japanese swords"
を持っている女の子。　本人はそんな事は知らず「日本刀が好き」というだけで居合道部入部したのですが

p3

i don't really understand constellations
星座は

the 20th of april is either an Aries or a Taurus
牡羊座牡牛座

that day is exactly between those two, so magazines say its special
丁度この日は　中間なので　雑誌によって　違うのです

well then, am I a moo
果たして

or am i an Aldebaran
アルデバラン

i've decided i'll join the iaido club

as i get to touch my loved japanese swords(well something like that)

but, only me and katayama wakana senpai are in the club

p4

but if we don't get one more person to join the club it won't be acknoledged

we need to go ahead and persuasuate people

one more...

its really troubling

p5

iai hiza no bu

居合膝の部

yon\shi honme
四本目

p6
tsuka-ate
柄当て

p10

two

she cut them both

from seating she daunted the foe in front of her with the hilt
姿勢

then immediately　stabbed the foe behind her
すぐさま
背後

then she finished off the foe in front of her
そしてひるんでいる前方のてきに
とどめの一撃

and finally she cleared the blood
血を払い

seethed
納刀

p12

there is

another one?

Haru

what i just did was

iai hiza no bu
yon\shi honme
tsuka-ate

its a kata in which you cut down seated foes from front and back
前後

p13

its the only iaido knee technique

唯一の居合膝の業なの

two is it...

i see

then i just got it wrong

next give it to me!

no.

its too early for you
but more importantly we have something else to do

gather members for the club

p14

this work is fiction, and is not related to any real person or organization
この作品はフクションであり、実在の個人。
団体等にはいっさい関係ありません。

its ok if it'll be an upperclassman or an underclassman,
a guy or a girl
上級生

just one more person.
if we find just one more person this club will be able to operate for this year as well
活動

ahh....

yeah.. about that..

it's a bit of an issue..

ちょっと。。
困ってしまいました

p15

hey hey did you hear about it?

they say a slasher appeared at the nearby hana park

菜の
花公園
通り魔が

and that a 2nd year senpai got his bag cut

scary..

that story sounds fishy
怪しい

from what i heard that senpai is always full of lies
その先輩注目浴びようとしていっつもウソばっかなんだって

umm--

do you happen to have any interest in iaido?

i'm from the iaido club, trying to recruit members
部員募集中

iaido?
what is iaido haru chan?

its that thing, you know..
where you shoot arrows into targets
的

thats kyuudo

p16

you swing a japanese sword (like) around. its really cool..

eh...

sounds interesting

then!!!

but, sorry..
we've already chose our clubs..

did you say iaido?

sounds good

could you tell me some more about it?

p17

iaido is that thing with katanas...

where you cut things..

to think that a club like that exists in this school...

ahh..
ah..

p18

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

auahhhhh

noooooooooooooooooooo

ah?

what?!

p19

uwaaaaaaa

Haru, wait

where are you going, Haru!!

hey, you've made haru cry...
you guys are the worst...

ehh!?

ha..
ha...

i was so scared..

really, haru you...

you shouldn’t just start to run away like that..

but..

p20

it was so frightening...
おっかないんだもん

the guys..

male teachers are ok

little kids are ok

but..

p21

guys at the same age...

i just can't understand what goes through their heads..
同年代

its scary..

i can't look at their faces properly

so not even talking to them, having them start talking with me!
外

what should i do.. this is a problem..
a problem..

p22

why are you laughing? yayoi? satsuki?

b..
but...

but nowadays to be so... of guys...

you are so horrible~~~~

and i was seriously consulting with you

sorry, sorry haru
here, i'll wipe your tears for you

here, blow your nose

well, both your primary school and your middle school were girls only

well you are this way than i guess thats just how it is
小学校

p23

but you both were the same

i have both an older and a younger brother

and i have a boyfriend

ah..

i should have gone to a co-ed schools
共学

i wonder if i'll ever have proper school life like this..

buy what will you do about your club search for members?
勧誘

iaido seems like something boys will be more into than girls
if you aren't gonna invite any boys then...

you both should just join!

we don't want to join any club

we wanna take our time..

p24

well then, we'll be going..

haru you give it your all with iaido

we're gonna go to a karaoke with a couple of guys

wha!
you cold hearted !!
薄情

oh, i know!

didn't they say that a slasher has appeared?

yeah, at the park nearby
scary isn't it?　lets stay away from there
近づかないどこ

if the iaido club apprehended him
woulnd't that be good CM?

uwaaa

what do you think about the iaido club now?!

i wanna join!!

there will surly be students that will hear about it and will want to join

p25

its only natural to bring a sword to a knife fight <<- actual translation lol>
yes, thats right!!
刃物

thats the only way!!

we'll leave this to you haru!

*_* thats right!!!

eh?!

p26

nice idea, its really two birds with one stone!!
now that its decided i'll just go borrow the mozoutou

ah,
umm
haru san?
it was a joke.. we were kidding..

move it

p27

you're in my way

p28

whats with him,
talking like that.
makes me sick

ah?
but you know..

wasn't he a bit cool?
i wonder if he's a third year

how so?
he had a bad look in his eyes.
and he seemed so dark

thats what’s good
you just don't get it satsuki..

someone like him

might just be the slasher..

eh?

the slasher has been appearing near this school right?
it could just be that he is a student here..
出没

to say that about him just because of is a bit much.. isn't it?

hiding the knife in his pocket
懐
suddenly snapping and going wild
that kind

p29

he's just suspicious, just now he probably went up to the roof
to be alone. so he could take the knife out and stare at it, all the while having a smile on his face

though the entire slasher rumor just sounds like a lie
ってか
通り魔の話自体デマっぽいけどね

haru, we're going

ah

don't leave me behind T_T

wait

p31

ah?

you want me to lend you the sword so you could take care of the slasher?

p32

yes~

.....

aaa
don't walk away and ignore me!

it's obvious i won't be able to allow such a dangerous thing

don't make me explain this, you are not a kindergartener after all
sheesh
説明
幼稚園児

katayama senpai, are you already going home?

what about the club?

i have to get back early today to study

then i'll practice by myself!

yo-

you can't do that!

p33

i'm responsible over the club right now

so while i'm not watching over you can't do anything over there.

ehhh

moreover

letting this kid hold a sword is

a bit...
scary..

p34

i wonder, during the time haru had the katana

it just didn't look like it was the first time she held a katana
as if she had some kind of a connection to it since birth

leaving her alone

unmanaged
手に負えるか
is a bit stressing

but

am i worrying too much?

p35

anyway, don't go suggesting stupid ideas,
and go home before its dark so you don't get attacked by the slasher

whaaa

fuu~nda

katayama senpai is such a cheapskate!!

ok then
ok then

i'll just gather members so we could start practicing soon

i'll make a cool invitation poster and spread it all over the school
勧誘ポスター
and a ton of new people will come to join the club and suprise her!!

p36

in order to make it cool i guess theres no choice but to use a the fude
筆

emm

what were the characters for IAIDO again...
such a failure from the start..
つまずき

just stiffly writing won't get them interested won't it..
堅っ苦しい

i'll just have to add illustrations to make it simple to understand

i know!
if i'm gonna draw anyway

i should just make it into a manga...
a 4 koma manga!!

urmmm
its difficult ~

a 4 koma is unclear
まとまらないよ

yes, i'll just add more panels

it turned into a six panel<6 koma> manga

fuu...

making a manga is difficult huh?
....

p37

doing something so troublesome every month, and for 10 pages....

thinking of the dialogs,
splitting it into panels,
を割って
writing the text in..
drawing the paintings,
adding spreads,
ベタ
placing tones
---
really, mangakas are amazing..
they are some kind of superman..
超人
no, they are gods...

but even so, mangas are being uploaded and download from the internet illegally all the time..

then, all of those mangakas are actually poor

p38

we must all do what we can for all of those poor mangakas

that is, to buy lots of magazines and comics!

to prevent japanese manga literature from declining!!
衰退

p39

aaaa

it got completely dark

p40

its scary

i wonder if theres anyone else around

hey, are you alone?

i'm by myself as well

if you'd like we could go home toge-

p41

haru san

i wonder if she got home by now

but,
if she would have really took the sword
and encountered the slasher

dangerous dangerous

haru san might have had

cut him down instead..

p42

uwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

p43

auu

aaaa

hiiiiiiiiiiiii

nooooo

p44

hhhhhhhhh

help meee

he

a

p45

i've made a katana to protect her

that is the kind of spirit i put in it..

p46

that heart and eternity exist together
常つね

that kind of strong feeling could be a bit close to a curse
少々強
念

and sometimes she might show off that power
振り回される

but

p48

to survive the worst
降りかかる
払う

a power such as that is required
呪い

aaa

aaa

auuu

p49

auu!!

ah

he's running into the school!!
校舎の中に

aa

auu

aa

p50

auuu

carefull!!
run away!!

p51
auu

p52

ka

p53

before me..

don't you dare wielding a blade

p54

th

that

p55

its a toy

p56

story 2
第２話

B side

my name is Tachioka Shun and i'm 15.
シュン
starting with this spring i'm a student
here at the shiki no mori high school

i'm was born on the 20th of march and i'm an A blood type

i don't really now much about constellations
so i don't really know if the 20th of march is the pisces
or the Aries＜the ram>
牡羊座あ　星座

so what am i? an Aphrodite?　or a muu?
果たして俺は
アフロディーテ
ムウ

just as i joined this school i've found out i have a problem

p57

and that is

that there are lots of girl

i cant talk to them,
i can't even look at their faces

why am i such an incompetent?
ヘタレ

middle school was a guys-only　so i have no idea of how to handle girls

even though they never bothered me when i was in primary school

do they change so much when they become highschoolers?

its scary...
this way i'll fail to have a normal high school life

i have to do something

was what i though one day

when i found an interesting girl in the class

okamoto haru
her first name is written the same as mine, though her name is read differently

haru eh..
i wonder if like me she was called like that because she was born in the spring

i wonder if i could talk to her..

do you happen to have any interest in iaido?

i'm from the iaido club, trying to recruit members

thats right! a club!

if well both be in the same club we could get to know each other better

that has to be it

p59

right

now that its decided i first need to talk to her

gotta get my courage

could you tell me some more about it?

noooooooooo

w-wha

you guys are the worst

what did i do wrong

was the way i spoke so bad?

while i was worrying about it, it got completely dark

i'm hungry

p60

hey, isn't that..

okamoto haru

is she going home by herself?
thats my chance, should i talk to her?

but what if she runs away again

this time i have to think it through

lively and gently

hey, are you alone?
i'm by myself as well

if you'd like we could go home toge-

its no good
i give in, i'm repulsive

i'll just go on and finish high school without ever talking to a girl

p61

auuu

uwaaa

uoo

co
cool

p62

if only i were more like him..

so strong...his legs were so long

u umm

are you o.k.?

are you hurt?

damn

so uncool

dammnit

dammnit
dammnit

ah..

i want to be strong

its still a long way off till haru and shun will talk

[English] [Translation] Haru Polish 1 by Jiyuu2k

2011-05-14T22:47:24+00:00
p5

haru
haru
i'm haru!!

i've become an highschool student!!

p6

oh haru,
its great you came

did you come over to show us how you look in your school uniform?

grandpa
grandma
i wanted to show you as soon as possible

aren't you happy..
it looks great on you

you're already an highschool student..you've really grown

though my height haven't changed this year

oh, grandma haru went through the trouble of coming over..

i'll get her some allowence

nah, i don't need any money.

more importantly..

what is it haru? is there something else you want?

ohh even though you already know that...

p7

i've grown.. i'm already an adult..

ah...

we've made a promise that you will give it to me once i become an adult..
t-h-a-t <3

that...

p8

itadakimasu~ <3

ah!!

wait haru!!

fugi!!

katana! katanaaaaa!!

you said you'd give it to meeeee!!

hey calm down!! haru!!

to think she'd actually remeber it though

=12 years ago
kyaaaaaaaaa!!

p9

what are you doing haru

its dangerous having something like that

let go of that!!
come on, quickly!!

aaa

grandpa! you can't leav something dangerous like that somewhere a child could reach

oh, sorry sorry

strange, it was closed with a string so it would not be possible to draw it

gimmeeee!
gimmeeee!

show me your hand!
are you hurt anywhere?!

p10

idontwanto!!!!!

i want that!!!

don't say stupid things!

haru, that is something children musnt touch

then, once i get older it'll be ok?

hm.. thats right. once you become an adult

then once i become an adult

give it to me!!

ah....
sure sure, once you become an adult

hmm, well what shall i do now...

p11

thats right Haru, listen carefully

highschool students aren't adults yet..

hmph, just a second ago you said "aren't you an adult.."!!

idontwanna i wanna get the katana
i want to get it
i want it
aaaaaa

an adult?! where?!

what is it, why do want the katana so much Haru?

cause...

its really pretty...

again, i want to hold it like the last time

p12

ha ha ha

i see, because its pretty, eh?

here, look carefully Haru
hm

wait
a bamboo sword?

you were little, its no wonder you though it was a real katana

no way.. but

definetly back then...

it was

nt a katana....?

p13

if you still want it i'll gladly give it to you as a present for entering school

even though i went though the trouble of coming all this way and wearing this uniform and being in high spirits

even though i went though the trouble of coming all this way and wearing this uniform and being in high spirits

its so much shock she's just saying everything she's thinking

take care on your way back

p14

sorry

Haru

what i saw back then
it was definatly real

he must have sold it because he needed money.
theres an economic depression so it cant be helped

p15

it was somewhat blue
and gave a shomewhat black radiance
and it glowed somewhat suspiciosly

when i watched that ligh it felt like ill get sucked in

i was shivering to the depths of my heart. and i was completly frozen

once you see something like that its impossible to forget it

definatly..

p16

hi Haru

it sure would be nice to be in the same class

good morning

what happened,?you don't look too well.

even though i planned to supprise everyone today.. i didn't get it..

i didn't bring it

p17

katana

you...
even if you do get it, you can't bring it to school.

Haru
lets go see the table arrangements i the class

sorry

go ahead, ill come later

p19

katana?!

p20

katana!!

who?!

what are you doing here?!

katana!?
why?!
why is there a katana at school?!

she's not listening

obviously its not real
this is a Mozoutou

an Imitation Sword

a Mozoutou..
it really is

once you look closely you can tell

p21

a skilled craftsman custom made it so its details and the brilliance of the blade are different

woah~
then it’s a high class item isn't it?

i'm okamoto haru
i'm a new student here

you're my senpai right?

right.. i'm katayama wakana, a 2nd year student

more importantly, is it ok?

isn't the entrance ceremony is starting?

but even though it’s an imitation how come you can bring it to school?
why are you swinging it over here?

i get it. she’s not someone who listens to other people

i used it as part of a club

because it’s the last time I felt like swinging it over here..

p22

a club..
you're leaving it?

no.. the club itself is being dissolved

what!
I’ll join the club so please continue!

the japanese sword appreciation club

thats wrong!

iaido

the club i was in was the iaido club

p23

if I’m not mistaken iaido is

the thing in which masters cut straws or something like that

a club like that existed

because she couldn't use a real sword she used an imitation sword

you.. erm

you can call me haru

haru chan, do you love katanas?

yes!
since a long time ago it has always been one of my favorite things!
some day I want to have MY katana

and what do you want to do once you get your own katana?

p24

i'll make a shrine for it and use it to decorate my room
as well as pray to it every morning and every evening.

and once I a while I’ll take it out and look at the light coming of it

I’ll enjoy that and write haikus about it.

...there’s nothing to talk about

p25

a katana is

a tool born for cutting people down

and not for anything other than that.

it’s nothing like a decoration

that is my philosophy

p26

its different
she's not imitating moves

she is really cutting

p27

even though it’s not a real sword

even though is a mozoutou which can’t cut anything down

and even though there shouldn’t be anything before her

she is definitely cutting something down

p28-29

iaido

a butojutsu type martial art which uses japanese swords were used

different from other martial arts in that instead of fighting other opponents, you cut down imaginary enemies on your own.

in worldwide perspective its a very special kind of martial art in which a technique sarts by drawing the sword and ends when it is returned to its scabbard

p30

everyone else in the club were just like you...

they all joined the iaido club because of the looks of the katana without giving any though to its true nature

they just wanted to hold a katana in their hands
to show it off

because it was cool

right,
except for the one who taught me iaido

i probably too should have said my goodbyes to this club when he quit it

p31

now that my seniors are Graduating i am left as the only member..

that opportunity is now over

if you really want to you are free to open up a japanese sword appreciation club yourself

well then

umm

katayama san

if you may...

could you let me swing that katana a couple of times

p32

uwa

its heavy

even though its a mozoutou handle it properly considering its weight

oh

yes

place your left hand a bit lower

yes

p33

otototo

swing from the start
and properly stop it.

this..
is expensive right....

150000

one hundred and fifteen....!!!

keep that in mind while you swing

ye..
yes!!

i mustnt damage it..............

its heavy so i shouldn't swing it around..

something is wrong

forcefully stopping its the katanas movement is

somehow
not beautiful

p34

more, like..

ah, a band of light..

pretty

i get it

instead of forcefully stopping it, i should let the katana more how it wants

the katana should be a part of me

no

i should move like i became a part of the katana

p35

that might be good swing

but that way is no good, haru san don't you remember what i just said

a katana is a tool made for cutting people

swing as if there is an opponent standing before you

p36

an opponent...

hmm
even though its imaginary killing a person is a bit..

i know

something which is not human..
something else

something like a monster from a game

monster
monster
......

what the hell

what and where am i supposed to cut in something like that

something with a bit more..
of a human form...

should be at least 2 legged
.....

p37

yes
a zombie

p38

why?

it should be her first time swinging a katana

her form is all over the place, but

there is no spec in her cuts

its natural

ah

i remembered

back then

i was called

p39

it wanted to be swung

ah

that kid

is the same

as that person

p40

haru is so looking forward to holding the katana

after all your father's ...

isn't it..

when haru was born

during a night in a spring storm

she was born really small and weak

looking like she could just disappear any moment

looks like tonight is the climax

is that so..

its late so it'd be best if you two head back

p41

how is yoshiko san?

she's not in danger, and is sleeping right now

you two don't need to worry. try to think of a name for your grandchild

right..
a name fitting to a girl born in the spring

aah

p42

father..?

and what appeared over there was my father

in other words
haru's grand grandfather

p43

what happened that you're here..
all the way from gifu

the child?

ah.. she was born

but she is really weak

this

i've forged it for her

forged it, you can't be..

a katana?!

weren't you retired

it was necessary so i forged it

a katana is for killing people
but

at the same time it is also a tool for protecting people

p44

i've forged it for this newborn

that glow shold give her power and protect her

father
are you alright?
forcing without regarding your age

but be careful
for such a small child that power will be too much

it is also possible she will be taken by it

p45

well then

give my regards to everyone

ah
father

thank you

p46

isn't it great she's gotten stronger

yeah, and drinks lots of milk
even though she was so small, its like its not real

what is that?

father brought it

its something like a?charm

but its not allowed to look inside

p47

it must be what saved her

that workaholic that never looked back to his family

not to mention forging a sword for his family’s sake

the day after haru became energetic the next day father passed on

i guess that in the end he did leave something to his family

i'll give this katana to haru once she get a little bigger.
until then i'll hold on to it

as this devine protection is a bit too strong for her

p48-49

this kid too

can touch the katana's soul

its bad

she got too engrossed with the katana

if this goes on she might not be able to go back

haru sa-

p53

wha

the zombie is?

hey, katayama san what happened?

p54

katayama san?

haru san, you..
would you like to try iaido?

eh?

high leveled iaido practicers (jouidansha) need to use real swords
in other words they are allowed to use real swords for practice

p55

real swords?!

awesome! i'd like to do that

if we find another member the iaido club will be able to continue
do you have someone?

i don't! but i'll find someone for sure!

i've come to want to see it

her polished form

yosh!
i'll do it

being able to touch the katana's soul

though it might be very dangerous

but if its the real nature of a katana...

p56

by the way, are you sure its ok?
the entrance ceremony

aaaaa
i forgot

it already started

wait

the katana

sorry i'm late!

p57

good that its only the school newspaper