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[English] [Translation] Shibatora 93 by Kouri-chan

2009-09-13T07:41:33+00:00

For use of Deadbeat-Scans only.

Note:

Shibatora c93 by Andou Yuma x the artist dude

Key:
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A new dialogue = new bubble

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magazine text down the left side of page: The internet cafe workers who know the sneak photo female high-schooler duo's "secret", have locked onto their targets with complete animosity!

(page01)

magazine to the top left: Ruka & Yurie, within 2km of destruction?

Yurie: Doing that...
Yurie: isn't too good...

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sfx: grab
File93.AUCTION MASTER

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(page02)

Guys: Oh~~ No worries! It's on us!

Girls: Thank you very much, internet cafe misters! [K: actually, they say more of a 'we won't hesitate to spend it' literally but it's usually tled as thank you very much]

Guys: Aah... don't call us that!

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Fat Guy: I'm Ei-kun. [K: Totally unsure here, so I'll just keep using Fat Guy and Slicked Back]

Slicked Back: I'm Junsu. [K: again, unsure]

SB: You should know! Like in the Japanese national team.

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SB: I've also decided to retire and be myself.

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Yurie: Is this okay? Letting us in free...

sign: MANGA.NET
poster: MANGA.NET HOT HOT

Guys: It's no problem! The boss has pretty much given workers like us the responsibility of dealing with the records.
I guess we're playmakers?

small bubble: No. 10 shirt? [K: in Japan, dunno about other countries, the playmaker traditionally has the No. 10 shirt. OOOOO ANK KNOWLEDGE :D]

small bubble: You're continuing it... ha ha ha...

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SB: Just choose any single cubicle you like.
Yurie: Ah... okay, thanks for the trouble.

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sfx: roll
sign: Closed today

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(page03)

Girls: This really isn't too fair to the other customers...
Guys: It's no big deal, really.

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Guys: All right! Well, take your time.
sfx: close

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sfx: nod

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Ruka: Such good timing!
sfx: tik tik
Ruka: We can even delete the pictures in the free inbox.

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Ruka: Well? Delete everything?
Yurie: Mm, yeah.

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Yurie: Ah, oh yeah!
Yurie: Also...

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(page04)

Yurie: we have to delete all the pictures in the phone memory card...

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Guys: Right! Stop... that's it~
Yurie: Ah! What are you doing? [K: or what do you want]

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Guy: Eh...? Are these the panties of one of your friends?
Guy: High schoolers now are pretty complicated!

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(page05)

Guy: We know everything! You've been earning money this way, right?
This is a crime, you know!

Girls: What...?

Girls: They... they found out!

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SB: To the police statino! We are bringers of justice, after all!
We can't allow these things to happen again...
sfx: click click [K: lol he's scrolling through the pics -.-]

sfx Fat Guy: hya hya uhya

Yurie: W... wait!

FG: As long as we call the police, you girls will be arrested, and once your school is notified, you're 100% going to be expelled.

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FG: And then you'll be forced to live a life like ours!
But that isn't actually too bad, right, Jun?

SB: Yeah, Ei-kun!

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sfx: step

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Yurie: Please don't tell! We won't do it again!
Ruka: W... we apologise! Please don't inform our school... [K: they are kneeling down]

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(page06)

SB: Well...
you regret it?
sfx: pat

SB: That's good!
Ruka: Eh?

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SB: We're not bad people,
SB: so we won't tell the police or your school!

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Yurie: R... really...?
Ruka: Really?

sfx: nod
nod

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Yurie: That... That's great! Right, Ruka?
sfx Ruka: Whoo...
Ruka: Yeah... it is!

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Ruka: We really won't do it ever again!
Actually, we just decided to stop...

Guys: Really?

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(page07)

SB: Looks like we were just on time, Ei-kun.
FG: That's right, Jun.

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Guys: We almost missed being able to earn this situation! [K: crappy tl i know ><]

Girls: What?

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SB: Everybody...! We're done talking...!

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all sfxes i don't know ><

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(paeg08-09)

Guys: Come quickly...!

bear sign: Mr. Bear
ogre sign: Mmmm... I don't know. it says 'Mr. half fish person'
Horse sign: Mr. Italian Purebred
frankenstein: Mr. Frankenstein

Guys: The auction hall is here...! [K: or you know, the place for auctions... :<]

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(page10)

Guys: These are the targets for today!
Two little princesses!

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Ruka: W... wait, what targets...
We...
Ruka: would never do such a thing!

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sfx: punch

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Ruka: Aah!
SB: Don't whine over there!
Didn't you tell me you regretted it?

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SB: Taking sneak photographs of your friends' panties,

sfx: pull
pull

Ruka: No~~
Ruka: Help!

SB: and then selling it to adult men for money, right?

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(page11)

SB: As long as you endure a bit, it'll be over soon! It's not like you're losing any body parts!
In fact you might even gain some!

SB: The number of people, maybe?

FG: That's right, that's right! Ha ha ha ha!

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SB: And if you work harder, you can even earn pocket money!
SB: How about 1000 per person?

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FG: Hahahahaha! Not bad! Then after 10 you'll have 10,000!
FG: Cheap!

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Yurie: What do we do? What...
We're finished, Ruka...!

Yurie: What will happen to us...?

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Ruka: This is karma...
because we did those things...

Ruka: That policeman just now was right...

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(page12)

Guys: All right! Then we'll start the bidding for the pretty long-haired girl!
How's a 50,000 starting price sound?

Mr. Italian Purebred: 50,000!
Hooded.. dude: 50,500! [K: alternatively you could replace with 50! 50.5! 50... 50... 60!]
Mr. Alien: 50,000... 50,000... 60,000!

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Mr. Bear: 80,000!
sfx: roar / ooooooohhh
Frankenstein: 90...
Frankenstein: 90... 90... 90...
Half Fish: 100,000!

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SB: Okay...! Mr. Half Fish's bid 100,000! 100,000!
Is there a 110,000?

Ruka: I... I don't want to do this...!

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Ruka: I... I...
sign on cash register: No scratching

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SB: Mr. Frankenstein's done 110,000!
sfx: shake
shake
shake

fist: clench

SB: Oh oh oh!

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(page13)

Ruka: If it'll be like this...
[OH NO SCISSORS]
Ruka: why not just die...

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SB: Good! Next up is...
sb: dunno ><

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SB: Eh?

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sfx: bang

Guys: Ooh...

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(page14)

FG: Ooh... Ugh...
FG: Ppfgh...

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[OH TAKETORAAAAAAAAAAAAA]

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(page15)

FG: Pwuah!
FG: Waaah!

sfx top: roll roll roll
sfx bottom: splish splish splish [ew.. his drool..]

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Ruka: Ah...

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SB: Fuck! You fucking kid!

sfx: clunk

sfx men: chatter...

SB: You're messing this fucking thing up...!

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sfx: whizz
sfx: whoosh

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sfx: stick
SB: Aah!

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(page16)

Taketora: Police!
sfx: fall...

SB: Kghh...
SB: Ugh...

Taketora: Freeze!

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sfx: clank

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Taketora: Also, due to the selling of the girls' bodies, I will question everybody present. [K: lol probably phrase it more indirectly...]

MR OBAMA LOL (actually apparently he isn't): P... police?
OBAMA'S signL Mr. Little Beard

Mr. Bear

Mr. Italian Purebred

Mr. Frankenstein [throwing away money]

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(page17)

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Taketora: Are you all right?
Taketora: That was close...

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Girls: Aaaah... [K: they are sobbing...]

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(page18)

Kojiro: Oh~~ That really was close!
Taketora: Yep.

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TAketora: I saw the Hands of Death at their backs,

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Taketora: and then I saw that there were two men following them.

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Taketora: I thought something could happen so I followed them.
Taketora: It really was a close shave!

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Kojiro: Then what about those two girl sneak photographers?
Kojiro: They won't be let off so easily, right?

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Taketora: Yeah... actually, they both didn't seem to know that their actions constituted as a crime,

Taketora: but because of the danger they were put in, I think that they understand now.

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(page19)

Taketora: Luckily, we were able to lock all the messages used to distribute their photographs,
Taketora: and prevent them from spreading out.

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Taketora: But that was all due to the family courts.

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Miyuki: Ooh...
Miyuki: Are they in love with you, Taketora? [K: her nickname for him.. ><]

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Taketora: What? What are you saying?
How could that happen!

Miyuki: No, it's a definite! ...if it was me I'd fall in love with you.

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Miyuki: DON'T CHEAT ON ME...

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Taketora: What... what cheating!
I'm not even your boyfriend or anything...

Miyuki: You are my husband!

Taketora: I'm telling you...!

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(page20)

Taketora: ...Actually, the Hands of Death I saw at their backs had not disappeared.

Taketora: But, at that time, I hadn't noticed...

[the one page is a huge panel of them hugging and crying]

magazine text: No way! The tragedy hasn't ended yet?

Next-> File.94 "The Sorrowful Young Girls" [K: but we all know how accurate this is]

[English] [Translation] Shibatora 92 by Kouri-chan

2009-09-13T07:10:00+00:00

Note: Okay, I guess we can all come to a consensus that the previews for the next chapter cannot be trusted in terms of actual chapter names.

Shibatora c92 by Andou Yuma x the artist dude

Key:
\ = panel change
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A new dialogue = new bubble

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(page01)

Bubble 1: But we can't even see who they are.
How would be punish them?

Bubble 2: Idiot, that's easy! At least we know what school they're from.

Bubble 3: What? How?

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File92. Chasing the Sneak Photography Offenders

Slicked Back: [Sorry I don't know... >< It's something about 'don't tell me you.. respond/induce... youth?' Maybe it's 'Don't tell me... you can induce young people?' Especially since sB is totally doing some creepy spark stuff with his hands.]

sfx SB: Will fill in once I receive furigana :]

FG: Is that even possible?... Didn't they take out their wallets when they paid us? [K: there's something about travel tickets too]

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FG: So inside...

STUDENT ID

First year in school [K: Prolly not correct, I really didn't get this... also, I don't get how she can be a third-year in high school when's she SIXTEEN] Year 3, Class 1

Name AOYAMA RUKA
Born MAY 13 1992 (16 yrs)

Distributor 52-1, No. 2 Daikuruma Street, Nakano, Tokyo [K: Nooby with JP addresses... may have gotten pronounciation wrong ><]

Kouenji Girl's Secondary High School

person is a student of our school.

FG: should also be her student ID.

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(page02)

Tamaki: Whoo...
Tamaki: so I ended up just going home yesterday.

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Taketora: Oh! Good morning, Ayukawa-san!

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Tamaki: Shibata? Don't tell me you didn't go home!?

Taketora: I did,
just for 2 hours.

Tamaki: 2... 2 hours?

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Taketora: Yeah, I noticed something,
Taketora: so I came back.

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Tamaki: Oh...
what was it?
Taketora: I just found something recognisable.

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Taketora: Look, in this photo... look!

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(page03)

Taketora: Through the window, you can see something that looks like a tower.
Tamaki: A tower?

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Taketora: Ayukawa-san, you used to work in the traffic division, so do you have any impression of this place?
Taketora: Where you can see a tower that looks like this, and it's near a girl's school in Kouenji...

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Tamaki: Girl's school?

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Taketora: Yes, look at this photo.
sfx: tik tik
Taketora: Here they've taken a photo of the toilets in the corridor, but there's only a female toilet.

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Tamaki: It's true...!
Tamaki: Well, I did study at a girl's school in the past, and only the teachers used the male toilets.

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Tamaki: They had no sense of modesty because they were in a girl's school, huh...

girl: I'm so hot!
sfx skirt: shake shake?

sfx phone: snap

Tamaki: I can understand why they'd get photographed so easily.

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(page04)

Taketora: Now we just have to find out where this white tower is...
Tamaki: Mm... is there a tower like this in Kouenji?

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Tamaki: If there was one...
Tamaki: I think it would be a chimney from a hot spring or a garbage incinerating plant...

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Taketora: Hot springs?

Taketora: That's it!

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Taketora: How would be fine that...
Hmm...

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Yuuji: Oh, that's easy!
Yuuji: I'll tell you how, try it with your computer.

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(page05)

Yuuji: First open up a search engine and use "Kouenji" and "hot springs" as the search terms.

sfx: ?

Taketora: Mm.

Yuuji: After the search results appear, copy the addresses of the web sites in the first few pages,
and then from these search "girl's high school".

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Taketora: Ah! Got it! There's only one!

o Print [] Print Preview
--
Home Chat Map News Society G-Mail more
New (N)

in Google box: No. 2 Daikuruma Street Nakano girl's high school

Mixed basketball technique Tokyo prelimenaries
25 ~ Jan 10 Tokyo Tokyo Elite Middle School Sports Committee

Yuuji: Then it has to be that one, right?

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Yuuji: Then use the address of that girl's school and start a map search.

sfx: tik tik

Yuuji: Now we can see photographs of certain areas.

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Yuuji: As long as you rotate it, you can see the whole thing.
boxes: Road Pictures . Other . Map

[box on left]
Start plan
Map)

Taketora: Ah! Got it! It's this chimney... it's exactly the same as the photo!

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Yuuji: Are you good?
Taketora: Thanks, Yuuji.

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Yuuji: Wait, if the photo distributors were female high schoolers,
the EXIF data [K: not sure about proper technical term] may still be there.

Taketora: What's that?

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(page06)

Yuuji: Now, as long as a photo is taken by a certain machine, the photo file will automatically record certain information such as the camera model and date taken,

Yuuji: and if the photos were simply copy-pasted, that information wouldn't have been deleted. Besides, you need special software to delete it,
and female high schoolers probably wouldn't work to such a high standard.

Taketora: Possibly.

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Yuuji: First move your mouse pointer to the picture and right click, [K: LOL THIS CASE IS SO TECHNICAL]

Preview
Edit (E)
Print (P)
-
Set as Desktop Background
* [don't know]
-
Send (N)
-
Cut (T) [K: ok japanese have weird shortcuts]
Copy (C)
-
Create Shortcut (S)
Delete (O)
Rename (M)
-
Properties (P)

Yuuji: Click on "Properties", and then click on the "Details" tab.

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Yuuji: Then you can see the data recorded for the photo.

P2342352 Properties
General/Details

Property / Value
Width / 192
Height / 256
Horizontal Resolution / 72 dpi
Vertical Resolution / 72 dpi
Bit depth / 24

Taketora: It really came up...

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Yuuji: There should be the maker as well as the model of the camera right?
Taketora: Mm... yes.
Yuuji: That's the model of the phone.

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Taketora: You really helped me out a lot!
Taketora: Once I know the phone model, I can filter out even more factors! Thank you!

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Yuuji: If you have any questions just ask me,
Yuuji: bye for now.

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sfx: ?

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(page07)

Katou: Was that Shibata on the phone?
Yuuji: Yeah.

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Katou: You were helping him with a case, right?

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Yuuji: It's nothing big,
Yuuji: he did help me out after all.

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Katou: That's true, too. [K: MMMMM FOR THE LIFE OF ME I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HE MEANS ESPECIALLY SINCE THE NEXT PANEL IS YUUJI GOING ALL O.O "......"]

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(page08)

Shinjo: Woah...

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sfx: pitter patter

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Shinjo: What's up with you?
Taketora: Sorry, we're just about to go out.
Shinjo: Ah? To where?

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Taketora: To the possible school of the female sneak photographers!

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Shinjo: ...What?

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Tamaki: There's no mistake!
Tamaki: Even though the uniforms weren't photographed especially clearly...

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(page09)

Tamaki: But I think after seeing the skirts... that the probability of it being this school is very high.

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Taketora: Good! We'll request help from the principal regarding this case.

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Taketora: Eh?
Tamaki: What is it?

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Taketora: Those are the two girls at the station last time that were...
Taketora: sneak photographed under the skirt.

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Taketora: Hey! You two...!

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Ruka: Ah! It's the policeman from last time!
sfx: ?

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Taketora: What timing,
Taketora: actually...

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(page10-11)

DUN DUN DUN HANDS OF DEATH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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(page12)

Yurie: We're going to be late, we have to hurry.
Yurie: Come on, Ruka!
Taketora: Ah!

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Taketora: Hey... please wait!

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Policeman: Hey, kid!
If you want to look for your sister, you'll need to register at the counter!

Taketora: Wha... no, I'm...

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Tamaki: What's wrong, Shibata?

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Taketora: No... nothing.

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Taketora: They couldn't be...

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(paeg13)

Bubble 1: Oh~~

sfx: riiiiing
sfx: riiiiing

sfx bubble phone: ?
sfx bubble phone: ?

sfx: riiiiing

Bubble 2: We reaped a lot today too!

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Bubble 1: Bye!
Bubble 2: Oh, crap! We have a face shot here!

Bubble 3: Oh yeah! It looks like Mukui! What should we do?
Well, we can't see who it is at one glance anyway...

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Yurie: Yeah...

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Yurie: Who cares? Just sell it!
I hate Mukui anyway!

Ruka: Me too!

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Ruka: She acts like she's such a celebrity,
Ruka: just because she models for "Glitter*Devil" [K: magazine name needs rewriting]!
small text: And she even has buck teeth... [K: not sure about this]

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(page14)

BUbble: Ah! What's this... safety shorts! Deleting~
sfx: click click

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Taketora: Hi!

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Taketora: I need to talk to you guys about something...
are you free?
yurie: Ah.

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Ruka: Eh... Uh...
Ruka: Sure!

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SB: Hmm... they followed that kid.
A boyfriend of one of them?

FGL What? But he looks like a middle schooler, doesn't he?

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FG: Who cares who he is...
FG: It's nothing to do with us anyway!

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(page15)

Yurie/Ruka: Can we ask what this is about? We have to go to tuition classes!

Taketora: I apologise, I'll keep it short.

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Taketora: Actually, in that man we arrested last time's memory card...
Taketora: we found some other sneak photos that were distributed.

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Taketora: And they appear to have been taken in your school.
sfx: ?
Ruka: Oh...

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Taketora: Have you heard anything about it?
For example, like news about someone being sneak photographed?

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Yurie: We... We... haven't heard anything... right, Ruka?

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Ruka: Yeah, nothing.

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Taketora: Really...?
Do you know anyone who carries a phone with a high-resolution camera?

sfx: ?
Bubble: What?

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(page16)

Yurie: Many people have those phones, don't they!
Ruka: Yes, our school is a private school, so there are lots of rich bitches... [K: ok don't use rich bitch it's a term coined by me and i don't think Ruka would really use that to a policeman but you know loaded people]

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Taketora: I see...
So... if you hear anything, can I ask you to please contact me?

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Taketora: I'll use infra-red to send the number to you.

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Girls: Ah... we already have it.

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Taketora: And here is my email address and mobile phone number. [K: SUCH MANICURED NAILS]

sfx: slip

Girls: Oh...

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Taketora: No matter what, I hope...
to stop these sneak photography acts from continuing.

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(page17)

Taketora: I believe that the people who did this probably didn't think about it that much, and maybe thought all this was fun.
Taketora: Or maybe they just wanted to earn a little pocket money. But it isn't that simple.

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Taketora: Because in certain pictures you can see the photographed girls' faces,

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Taketora: and if those pictures were to be distributed onto the Internet. [K: or on..]

Taketora: I think the affected would be extremely hurt.

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Taketora: Besides, if the culprits are students at this school,

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Taketora: I would also worry for them.

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(page18)

Taketora: If they got comfortable with committing such crimes...
Taketora: there could hence be some deviation from their path in life.

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Taketora: If you find something out please inform me at once.

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Yurie: I... I understand,
let's go, Ruka.

sfx: ?

Ruka: mm... Yeah.

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sfx: ?
Taketora: It's definitely them.

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Taketora: And the phone models they had in their hands just now...
Taketora: were the same as the ones shown in the data from the sneak photos.

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Taketora: I have to stop them...
Taketora: No matter what...

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(page19)

Taketora: I have to do it now, when I can still see the "Hands of Death"...
Taketora: and when they haven't been pulled into the world of death!

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Ruka: I've decided! I'm not doing it any more!

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Ruka: I... sort of understand what he's saying.
Ruka: I won't take sneak pictures any more!

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Yurie: True...
Yurie: Yeah...

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(page20)

Yurie: Doing that isn't too good...

[K: THE BACKGROUND IS THE SLICKED BACK AND THE FAT GUY LOOMING OVER THEIR BACKS]

magazine text: FOUND YOU!

Next-> File93. "Dangerous Costume Party?" [which, in the next page (double chapter issue), was TLed as AUCTIONMASK -.-]

[English] [Translation] Shibatora 91 by Kouri-chan

2009-09-13T07:05:45+00:00

For use of Deadbeat-Scans only.

Note:

Shibatora c91 by Andou Yuma x the artist dude

Key:
\ = panel change
------ = page change
A new dialogue = new bubble

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(page01)

text down side (in magazine scans - omitted in tankouban)

Taketora, who captured that unscrupulous old pervert with his outstanding intelligence, has no idea that the two female victims are actually habitual [K: or repeat] sneak photographers.

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Girl: That working-class guy was just so stupid.
Girl: There are so many ways to get rid of the shutter clicking sound in your phone.

Girl2: Yeah, yeah!

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Yurie: Crap! We're totally late!
sfx: flick
Ruka: Really? It's all that working-class guy's fault!

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Ruka: Speaking of which... Yurie, don't you think that that policeman's really cool?
Ruka: He's got to be a kendo master, right?

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SHIBATORA

Ruka: Oh! His entire body radiated such masculine hormones... [K: or something else.. like figurements... not that that's a word. The katakana should make it clear, though.]

Yurie: Come on, Ruka!
Yurie: No matter how you look at him, he looks exactly like the kiddy type you hate!

File91. Legitimate Punishment [K: or Official. And yes, i know how much this title differs from last week's preview.]

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(page02)

Yurie: How can you like a policeman!?
Yurie: Most importantly... you can't forget that you yourself are a sneak photographer! [K: seems like sneak photographer is bolded]

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Ruka: I know...
sfx: flick

Yurie: What's with that challenging tone you're using...
Yurie: Besides, didn't you say that you didn't anyone without the Three Highs?

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Yurie: Policemen don't seem like they have a lot of education, and their wages must be pretty low, huh?
And he pretty much was a midget...

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Ruka: Whatever! I'll take my mother's advice, but that's it! [K: take, but not follow]
Yurie: What~~~?

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Yurie: You... you're really...

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(page03)

Ayame (?): He's the worst!
Ayame: That man!
Taketora: Yeah!

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Tamaki: But it's been happening a lot lately-
sfx: shiver
shiver

Tamaki: You feel so disgusted when you think that your photo might be looked at in that way by somebody.

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Taketora: It's unforgivable!
Taketora: That adults, that should be examples to children, could do such a...

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Shinjo: Huh? Saying such things...
Shinjo: Didn't you check that carefully just now?

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Taketora: Shin... Shinjo-san.
Taketora: What are you talking about?

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Shinjo: I'm talking about the memory card you got from the sneak photo man!

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(page04)

Taketora: I didn't look!
That man wasn't under the jurisdiction of the youth division, so I handed the case to Director Chiba.

Shinjo: But, to make sure you should have...

Taketora: I didn't look means I didn't look!

sfx Tamaki: shiver shiver

Tamaki: It's Shinjo that wants to see it...

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Chiba: Shibata.
sfx: don't know
Taketora: Yes, Director Chiba.

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Shinjo: Hmph! This suckup!

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Chiba: About that sneak photo man's memory card...
You need to take a look at the contents.

TAketora: Eh?

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Taketora: No, I... Uhm...

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Shinjo: Come on! Go look! This is work!
sfx: pat

Tamaki: So he himself wants to look...

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(page05)

Chiba: This is the last image, so it's the one that you arrested him for, right?
Chiba: Look, this is them right?

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Taketora: Ah, yes...
That's definitely them.

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Chiba: Even though there were many sneak photos in there,
Chiba: but that man said...

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Chiba: that almost all the photos in there
Chiba: were not taken by him.

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(page06)

Shinjo: He just wants to go free, right?
Shinjo: He believes that if he says he bought them, we wouldn't interrogate him...

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Chiba: He doesn't look like the lying type.
Shinjo: Eh?

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Chiba: Look... see?
Even though there are photos set in the station stairway,

sfx: clatter [K: sfx in a photo.................... oh well xD]

Chiba: But no matter how you look at this photo, it's in a school, isn't it?

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Chiba: And there are some scattered photos in their that look like they're from a changing room.

Guys: R... really. [K: Or 'it's... it's true.' I can't really tell from the Chinese, you can interpret it both ways]

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Chiba: Even though we have no way of confirming which school it is,
Chiba: but the chance that these photos of the victims were taken by girls from the same school is very high.

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(page07)

Taketora: What?
Taketora: G... girls taking sneak photos of girls?

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Chiba: It exists!
Chiba: You can say that this is the most basic problem in sneak photography.

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Taketora: W... why would that do that?
SHinjo: Do you have to ask? To earn money, of course!

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Shinjo: In the changing rooms in school or in the sports grounds,
female high schools students take sneak pictures with their phones,

Shinjo: and sell these pictures on the Internet to earn some pocket money.

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Taketora: T... they wouldn't...

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Shinjo: To kids today, this is a small thing.
Shinjo: Actually, it's nothing to get so worked up about.

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(page08)

Chiba: Looks like that sneak photo man saw them on online discussion boards, followed the instructions...

Chiba: and then bought these photos from somebody.

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Chiba: Look, some of these photos are face shots.
Chiba: If we don't control this, there'll be a big problem!

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Chiba: If somebody starts to distribute the photos he bought on the Internet,
Chiba: then we can never take it back.

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Chiba: It would bring the person in the photo great pain once she knew about this.

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Taketora: B... but, wait.

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Taketora: The criminal is receiving payment,
and he's doing so by mail. [K: Sorry, this is where the trans gets a lil fuzzy because they use so many technology terms..]

Taketora: We can just track these payments to find them, can't we?

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(page09)

Chiba: But this is really a very careful sneak photographer.
Payments are all handled through e-Wallet, and files are transferred through free email providers.

Chiba: So everything is done and dusted online...

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Taketora: Eh? E... e-Wallet?
Taketora: What's that?

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Shinjo: Hey, hey...
Shinjo: You can't not know this!

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Shinjo: It's an ID number that you use to buy things online.
sfx: tik tik tik
Shinjo: Look!

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Shinjo: As long as you fill this box with the English or the ID number of your e-Wallet you bought online or in a convenience store...

screen: Please enter the code: [] [] [] [] [
button: Clear

-

email address: [K: I think]

Once entered in... [K: don't really know]

Shinjo: you can buy things online without needing to use cash or a credit card.

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Shinjo: But...
Shinjo: even though they're high school students, it's not that simple.

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(page10)

Shinjo: Mmm... Almost all the internet trails seem to be coming from internet cafes in the Kouenji district.
This means we're responsible for this.

Shinjo: But it's not like there's only one internet cafe.
If we want to lock in on our target, we would probably have to spend a lot of time. The internet police in the office say that too.

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Shinjo: And it's not some big pivotal crime,
so maybe they'd find it difficult to accept the case...

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Shinjo: Yes.
And the criminals should probably be high school girls, so even if they're caught their punishment wouldn't be severe.

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Taketora: W... wait! How can you say that this isn't a big crime!?
Taketora: If we think more of those girls in the photos, then it's a disturbing crime...!

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Shinjo: What I'm saying...

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Shinjo: is that to conduct such an exhaustive search, we would need to apply for assistance from the main branch!
sfx: grab

Shinjo: How would we, the youth division of this small district...

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Chiba: Actually, I would like to try too, but it looks like we need to look at other ways.

sfx: click

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(page11)

Taketora: I...

Taketora: I'll do it!

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Chiba: ...how do you plan to handle this?

Taketora: How to handle this...
first, identify the victims...

Chiba: I see...

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Chiba: Then I'll hand this to you. Try it!
sfx: light movement

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Taketora: Uh... wait... *** [K: he's saying something equivalent to 'team leader'.. probably at Shinjo.]

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(page12)

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Tamaki: Shibata, you should be finishing up, huh?
sfx: don't know
Tamaki: No matter how many more you look at you won't find any...

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Taketora: Mm...

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Tamaki: And even if you manage to deduce which school it is,
their identities still aren't clear.

Tamaki: Unless you plan to go to that school, take this photo and ask them one by one, "Are these your panties"... would you do that?

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(page13)

Tamaki: So to identify the girls in the photos would be extremely difficult...
Tamaki: Not to mention identifying those who took the photos...

Taketora: But all we can do is try!

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Taketora: If we just leave them there, the amount of victims will increase,
Taketora: and besides, the girls who did this probably don't know how despicable their actions are.

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Taketora: Using these sorts of methods to earn illegal money,
Taketora: if they don't realise how far astray they've become...

Taketora: I worry instead for the girls who take sneak photos.

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Tamaki: Shibata...

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(page14)

Taketora: If they keep on like this...
Taketora: they'll definitely be caught in something terrible!

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Tamaki: That's true.

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Tamaki: Okay! Then we'll try again!
Tamaki: Even if nothing pops up today, there's still tomorrow!

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Tamaki: This is something only females can help with, right?
Just tell me everything, Shibata!

Taketora: Thank you, Ayukawa-san.

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(page15)

sign: MANG
INTERNE

Yurie: So? Any mail, Ruka?

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Ruka: We hooked something!
A bunch of old perverts!

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Yurie: What about the e-Wallet ID?
Ruka: Wait! I'll try downloading music!

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sfx: tik tik
button: Clear
Ruka: Okay, done!

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Ruka: It worked! It's the real thing!

Yurie: Great! Then I want [xxx]'s new song too! [K: just left out artist name because unsure of Japanese pronounciation]

Ruka: No problem! Just wait a moment. After the download I'll put it in the SD card.

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Yurie: But we've already bought our fill of music and games with these e-Wallets~~
I really want more makeup or clothes!

Star: bookmarks
paper with no sign: Deleted amount ?

tabs: Music DVD Games

under earth: Saving...

under bar: Estimated time left 3 sec (0.99MB of 4.20MB
Downloaded to
Download [speed but cut off] 941 kb/s (or sec)

Auto-close window after download finishes

Open file (O) Close

Ruka: Yeah...

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(page16)

Ruka: The person who taught me this way of receiving money...
Ruka: told me that doing that wasn't too appropriate, so I shouldn't do it...

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Yurie: Hey! Ruka, who are you talking about?
small text: I've been meaning to ask for a while...

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Ruka: Sorry, this is a secret.
Yurie: Just tell me a bit!
Otherwise I can't let it go!

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Ruka: Then I'll just tell you the name...

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Yurie: Sure!

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Ruka: It's someone called "Katakirou of the Car Business"... [K: horrible translation, i'll redo this when raws come out.]

sfx: WHAT

Yurie: God! That doesn't sound too good!

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Ruka: There's no problem! I didn't come into direct contact with him,
even though I don't know who he is, but he didn't know who I was, either.
Yurie: Oh... then that's okay.

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Ruka: OK! The download's complete~
Ah! We have to send the sneak photos to those geezers!
sfx: tik tik

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(page17)

Shopkeepers: Thank you for your patronage.

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Fat guy: Those two girls came again.

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Slick back: Looks like they're doing "something", aren't they?

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FG: I thought that too. That's why I installed a program.
SB: Ah?
SB: What?

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FG: Oh... nothing much...
FG: Just a program that tracks all their activities on the computer.

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FG: Want to see?
sfx: fwump
SB: Ohhh! Sure! Of course I do!

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(page18-19)

FG: They went on free email, and the password is...
sfx: tik tik
FG: OK! Oh! Looks like they sent something out...
small text: Let's see...
Oh oh oh! Sneak photos! Those two girls aren't as straightforward as they look!

FG: And there are many email orders too!
My God! Kids these days are incredible!

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(page20)

FG: Yes!
FG: We need to punish them for this...

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FG: And we have to do it severely too...

magazine text: Next->File 92. "Clues left in the Photograph"

[English] [Translation] Shibatora 90 by Kouri-chan

2009-09-13T07:04:03+00:00

For use of Deadbeat-Scans only.

pg01

random text on the side (usu taken out for tankouban though): Sprinting off everyday to do things. The only time to be calm is the warm breakfast-time, and the cook is, of course, Taketora.

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Mitsuki: Mm... so that Oni's now gone to Yuuji's company to work?
Taketora: Yeah, since Asakura's injuries haven't completely healed yet.
[small text] They just happened to have a vacancy.

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Mitsuki: He's just been released from jail and doesn't seem like the smart type. Can he cope?
small text above soup: fuuu (blowing)
Taketora: He'll be OK!

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Taketora: Katou will definitely work hard.
Taketora: I believe in him!

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Mitsuki: ...oh yeah, you should be getting to work, right?
Taketora: Eh? It's still early...

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Mitsuki: Oh, but it's been this time for a long time already...

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Taketora: What-! Why didn't you say so earlier!
Mitsuki: Dear, be careful on the road! [K: or whatever she uses to address her husband]

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pg02

Taketora: I'm going to be late-! [K: all long dashes]

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File90. sneak shot

sign: no idea, sorry...

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Taketora: pant
pant
pant

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small sfx: no idea << I need the raw for this ><
large sfx: stare-

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sfx: pant
pant

Girl: M...
M...
Morning.

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pg03

sfx: smile

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sign: don't know ><
sfx: flash [K: the sfx means it's lit]

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sfx: OOHHH
bike sfx: whirrrrrr

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Friend: What? Come on, XXXXX!

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Yurie: AAAAH! Ruka! I said hi to him!
Yurie: Didn't you think that that boy was cute?
Yurie: Probably a middle-schooler. I think younger than me by 1 or 2 years?

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Ruka: I don't know... I have no interest in guys younger than me.

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Yurie: Whatever! It's good that you aren't interested!
small text: This way I won't have to worry about you stealing him away!
You're so pretty that if you like this type, I'll get mad!

Ruka: Huh? What's so good about that kid?

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pg04

Ruka: I won't settle for anything less than the Three Highs!
Yurie: What Three Highs?

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Ruka: High level of education, high salary and high height.
Ruka: I heard that this was the expectation of boyfriends in the past.
small text: That's what my mother said.

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Yurie: What? I don't get it!

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Ruka: Anyway-!

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Ruka: Anyone that looks like a kid is a no.
small text: I really won't go for that.

Chiba: Even though you are really enthusiastic when working,
but if you don't manage to overcome this bad habit... [K: lateness]

Taketora: pant...
pant...
pant...

Yes! I'm really sorry!
I'll buy a new alarm clock!

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pg05

Taketora: Huh...
I should really get a new alarm clock...

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Man: Nonsense!
Taketora: Eh?

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Taketora: Hm? They're the girls from just now...
Taketora: Why are they still here?
small text: What about school?

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Taketora: What happened?
Man: Oh, are you a friend of theirs?

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Taketora: No, I'm not...
Yurie: It's him!

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Yurie: This... this person took a picture of Ruka's underskirt in the staircase of the station!
Man: What are you talking about!

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Man: You just want to frame me with these words!
Man: You brats...

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pg06

Ruka: Huh? What are YOU talking about, geezer!
I heard the sound of your phone taking photos!

Ruka: Even though you tried to block it with a cough, but my ears are really sensitive and I heard it all!

Man: What? Nonsense, you skank!

Ruka: Skank?
small text: Calling me a skank!

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Taketora: Can both of you calm down?
Taketora: Let's calmly go over the situation again.

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Man: ...I was only climbing the stairs,
Man: so how could I take those pictures? You have to look at who you're talking to! [K: if you could find a phrase that incorporates sneakily taking pictures into one phrase yeah that would be great XD]

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Ruka: Then take out your phone!
Ruka: The proof should be inside.

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Man: I know! You're trying to extort money from me with these methods...
Man: This has become quite popular amongst female high schoolers lately!

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pg07

Man: Which school do you study at? Let me see your student ID!
Ruka: What?
Ruka: You're covering up your embarrassment with anger! [K: ok that is a lame way of putting it, would be nice if it was shorter]
If you take out your phone, I'll show you my student ID!

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Man: Really?

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Man: All right, then I'll let you see my phone.
Man: If there are no pictures of you inside...

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Ruka: What...?

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Man: I'll tell your school that you two threatened me!
Man: You'll both be expelled!

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Yurie: That's fine, right? Ruka...
Ruka: No problem!
Yurie: Eh?

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pg08

Man: All right! Then just take it and check!

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Ruka: click click

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Man: Well?
Are there any photos?

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Yurie: There aren't... what should we do?

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Ruka: You have another one, don't you?

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Man: Want to check my briefcase?

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Man: Or check my pockets?
Man: I won't scream pervert even if you two touch me.

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Taketora: Can you allow me to check for them?

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Man: Eh?
Man: Go ahead...

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pg09

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Taketora: It looks like there aren't any other phones.
Ruka: What?
Ruka: But he really...

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Man: See, you really threatened me! [K: alternatively replace all threatens with blackmail]

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Man: Placing the crime of taking sneak photos on an innocent working-class member...
Man: planning to extort money from him, right?

Ruka: N... no, we wouldn't do this...

Man: I'll tell you up straight. Don't think that just because you're protected by juvenile law nothing much will happen to you.

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pg10

Man: Once I go to the police station and accuse you, you might as well just wait for your expulsion!
Man: This matter will spread quickly. You'll be seen as criminals and pictures of you will be all over the Internet.

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Man: In this society, once you take one wrong step...
Man: your life is over!

Man: In the end you'll be so low that you'll work in a nightclub...

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Yurie: S...

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Yurie: Sorry! We were wrong!
Ruka: W... wait! Yurie!

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Man: Wrong...
Man: What?

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Man: You have to be joking! I had a very important meeting today.
Man: It's all over because of you!

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pg11

Man: Kneel down and apologise!
Then I'll forgive you!

Girls: This...
Girls: Here?

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Taketora: Asking them to kneel here...
I think we should just go to the police station and talk it over.

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Man: No, it's fine!
Man: We don't need the police for this,

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Man: hurry up, kneel and apologise, and I'll forgive you!

Yurie: Hey... we have no choice... just kneel.

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Ruka: I... I understand.

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Taketora: Please wait.

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pg12

Taketora: Please let me look at your phone again.

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Man: You won't find something that isn't there no matter how much you look!

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Taketora: True...
sfx: click click

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Taketora: Not just sneak photos... there isn't even one photo...
phone: No photos present. [K: or something tech lingo-y]

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Man: Because I wouldn't even use my phone to take pictures.

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Taketora: But this phone...
one of its biggest merits is its high photo resolution.

Taketora: Would someone who doesn't plan to take photos with it actually buy it? Really...

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pg13

Taketora: Not even one photo on it, maybe...
sfx: click click

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Taketora: As I thought!
Taketora: You've set it so that photos are saved directly to the memory card.

Man: surprise/shock

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Ruka: Eh?

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Taketora: But there isn't a memory card in the phone...
Taketora: What's going on?

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Man: I really don't know a lot about mobile phones. Maybe I set it by accident?

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Man: I haven't installed those memory card things since I bought it,
you can search me if you don't believe me!

Man: And my briefcase too.
Man (smaller): And my suit pockets...

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Taketora: You... look a little nervous. You pushed your glasses up quite a few times.
Taketora: Are you focusing on where everyone is looking at?

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Taketora: Your shoes are also polished well,
Taketora: And the buttons of your suit are buttoned neatly.

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pg14

Taketora: But why is it only your tie that's so loose?

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Man: S... so what?
The weather is very hot today...

Taketora: But...

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Taketora: why is your shirt buttoned up so high?

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TAketora: You saw the the high school girls were looking for you, and recognised the danger.
sfx: reach
Taketora: So you took the memory card out of your phone...

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pg15

Taketora: And hid it here!

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Taketora: At that time you panicked, and just slipped it in your tie. That's why it looks so messy.
Taketora: And if you tried to fix it, the card might fall out...

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Taketora: That's why you let your tie stay loose.
Taketora: This is that memory card, right?

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pg16

Ruka: You... you lowlife!
Ruka: So you really...

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Man: Return it, ingrate! [K: ok, seriously, don't use ingrate. My insult vocabulary isn't that large so i don't know what a professional would say]

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Man: I...

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Man: I'll get you!

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Man: Aah!

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pg17

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Man: Ooh...
Man: Cough! (or Hack!)

sfx: splat splat

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Taketora: I apologise for forgetting to take this out sooner.
sfx man: quiver quiver

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Taketora: I'm a police officer from Ko...(the name of the province) Youth Group (sorry I don't know the appropriate terminology, I would need the furigana for that ><)

Taketora: and I'm arresting you for the crime of taking sneak photos! (K: again, something more cool sounding XD)

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pg18

Man: P... police?
Man: No way...

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Taketora: He may have been a repeat offender.
Taketora: Thank you for your help.

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Yurie: no... no way...
Yurie: He's an adult?
Yurie: Shock...

Ruka: So... so cool...

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Taketora: Could I ask you to follow me to the police station? I need you to record down what happened.
Girls: Yes... of course!

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pg19

Yurie: Ah, we can't! We have an exam to get to!
sfx: bow

Taketora: Eh, is that so?

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Yurie: Yes! So can you just clear that memory card for us, Mr. Policeman?

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Yurie: Come on!
Ruka: Oh... yeah.

Taketora: Hey! Wait...
Taketora: Can you contact me after...

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Taketora: Be... be careful...

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Yurie: That shocked me! I didn't think that he could be a policeman!

Ruka: But you really can't tell!

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Yurie: Speaking of which...
sfx: click click
Yurie: That was really annoying.

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pg20

Yurie: To think that we'd become victims of sneak photos...
small texT: ha ha ha...

Ruka: Idiot! There are many ways to mute the phone!

Phone:
top: Display all photos

buttons: left: Back
middle: Show (or Select)
right: Delete

magazine text: The "crimes" fill up the screen!
"The weak victims" are actually a fierce female sneak photo pair!

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Yurie: We took a whole load this morning too!

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Ruka: What do you say to raising the price of face shots to 500 yen each?

Next-> File91. "How to take sneak photos of JK"

[English] [Translation] Shibatora Volume 1 by caesarpk

2008-06-02T18:52:20+00:00

Hello guys, I'm member of Deadbear-scans, and we would like to present you all of the first volume of Shibatora! Go to our main website and dowload them. I know we released chapter one before, but that version was not perfect, but this time it is.
Also, We just acquired our own download host, and the bandwidth is so much wider than MF.
Here's a short summary:

Officer Shibata Taketora works in the police box (a small police office). He may have a child-like face on the outside, but he's more serious than anyone in his pursuit of justice! With his goal being to become a detective working in the youth crime division. He has the ability to see "that" and a big heart but it's still a struggle for him to rise up the ranks.
The summary doesn't do the series justice it's illustrated by Masashi Asaki who also was the artist for psychometer eiji, Ikebukuro West Gate Park and IWGP Denshi no Hoshi amongst other things so you know the art is gonna be good! The series author is Yuma Ando a pen name for Shin Kibayashi, the creator of Getbackers (under a different pen name).

Enjoy :)