Marmalade Boy Volume 1, Chapter 3 pages 83-119 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Matthew Akira Klippenstein Additional editing by: Jeanne Hedge Scott Henry Chris Rijk Last revision : 08-31-96 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 83 1 2 Jin: Well, I'm goi-i-ing. Rumi/Chiyako: See you later. Youji chair FX: Youji: Ah, wait, Jin. I'll go too. 3 4 ribbon tying FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 84 1 --------------------------------------------------- p 85 1 narration: Soon I'll have to go to the dining room. narration: But if I go, I'll end up meeting Yuu... Miki: (Yesterday, I passed on dinner, stayed in my room and avoided seeing him...) 2 narration: What did he mean... ...by that. 3 Miki dramatic FX: narration: Oh no-o-o. Grr... narration: I don't know what sort of expression I should make when I meet him! 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 86 1 narration: Well, he thinks I was asleep... narration: So I can pretend like I don't know... 2 door FX: 3 4 Yuu: Good morning. 5 Miki heartbeat FX: Miki: G-good morning. Where's everyone? --------------------------------------------------- p 87 1 Yuu: They left for work a long time ago. Miki: I... See. That's right, hm... Yuu: Since we're so close to school, we can take it easy, right. 2 narration: By the way... caption: Although he may not look like one--a bank clerk caption: Believe it or not--a company man caption: Works for a cosmetics manufacturer caption: Works for a maker of Western-style liquor 3 newspaper FX: newspaper: Mainichi Newspaper means "daily", so the name of the paper is the "Daily Newspaper" or "Daily Times" or "Daily Chronicle" or something like that. (Sorta like the "Daily Planet" hey?). Anyway, a newspaper of this name, , really does exist.> 4 Miki: ......... Miki FX: 5 Yuu: What? Wanna see the paper? Miki: Ah! Uh-uh. Not really... --------------------------------------------------- p 88 1 newspaper FX: 2 Yuu: Here. 3 Miki: ......... Why are you handing me only the TV section? Yuu: Because you only look at that part, don't you? 4 Miki: HOW RUDE!! I READ OTHER PARTS! Yuu: Sports page? Human interest stories? 5 Miki: ......... caption with arrow pointing at Miki's head: Because they're direct hits, she can't talk back. Yuu: Hey, your toast! 6 7 Miki: Say, can you get the jam? The apricot one. --------------------------------------------------- p 89 1 Yuu: There's none. Yuu: We ran out. Yuu: There's only this. 2 Miki: Huhhh? Marmalade? I don't like that very much... Yuu: Don't be so picky. Miki: Bu-u-ut. The skins... They're bitter... 3 Miki: ...... Miki: You're just like marmalade, Yuu. 4 Yuu: Huh? 5 Miki: Even though you actually have some awfully bitter points, unknowingly, everyone's being deceived by the sweetness on the surface. 6 Miki: Marmalade Boy! Miki: Right? Isn't that perfect?! --------------------------------------------------- p 90 1 Yuu: Hmm... Yuu: I see. 2 Miki: Yeah, yeah. Good analogy, if I do say so myself . Yuu: Then, Miki, you're this... 3 Yuu: One who's only prickly and peppery. MUSTARD GIRL! Yuu: Perfect . 4 Miki: ......!! Miki chair FX: Yuu: Well, then I'll be going on ahead. 5 Miki: Ah! Wait a minute, Yuu! The dishes! Go and clear the table! --------------------------------------------------- p 91 1 Miki: Grrrr! No fair!! Miki: (What's with him?) Miki: (He hasn't changed at all!) water FX: 2 Miki: (...... What happened yesterday was some sort of accident.) Miki: (Grrrr. I'll put that out of my mind!!) 3 Miki: (I'll make as if it never happened!!) 4 5 door FX: Chiyako: Miki-chan? Miki: Yes? --------------------------------------------------- p 92 1 Chiyako: Won't you come down for a bit? We have some delicious cake... door FX: 2 Chiyako: Ah! You were studying? Miki: Uh-huh. Homework. I don't understand it at all... 3 Chiyako: If it's math you're doing, Youji's very good at it. Why don't you get some lessons while eating cake downstairs? Miki: Really? Then maybe I'll do just that. 4 video game FX: Yuu: Ah! There, there. More to the right! Right! 5 video game FX: Jin: Ahhhh... Yuu: Jin-san, you're worse than ba-a-ad. 6 Youji: ...and so, you get the answer. See? Miki: Ahhhh. I see-e-e. I get it, I get it! --------------------------------------------------- p 93 1 Miki: You're an expert at teaching, Youji-san. Amazingly easy to understand! Youji: Really? text: Mathematics I 2 video game FX: Yuu: Oh, is that today's homework? Lucky! Let me copy it later! Jin: Ah... 3 Miki: No way-y-y! Yuu: Feh, you scrooge . Youji: Come over here too, Yuu. We'll do it together. 4 Jin: Wait, Yuu-kun! Coach me a little more!! Jin FX: Yuu: Jin-sa-a-an. Give it up already. You don't have the talent... 5 Jin: C'mon, don't quit on me now... Miki: Papa is pathetic at shooting, isn't he. Chiyako/Miki/Youji/Rumi: AH HA HA HA! --------------------------------------------------- p 94 1 Miki: AH...! 2 Miki chair FX: Youji: Miki-chan? 3 Miki: Ah... Thank you, Youji-san. I understand it fine. It's all right now, so I'll do the rest by myself, 'kay! 4 Chiyako: Miki-chan, another cup of tea...? Miki: That's okay! I don't want any. 5 Miki: Thanks for the treat! Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 95 1 and 2 Youji/Chiyako/Rumi/Yuu/Jin: ......... 3 door FX: 4 narration: Oh no! narration: Before I even knew it... 5 narration: That abnormal family is something... Miki: (...I've gotten used to!!) --------------------------------------------------- p 96 1 narration: Even though I was determined not to be infected... That cheery atmosphere... Miki: (I totally screwed up!!) 2 Meiko: Why? It's okay, isn't it, if you're getting along cheerfully. 3 Miki: It's not okay! I'll definitely be the only one to keep my normal sensibilities. Miki: I won't poke my nose into their affairs... But I won't join in their company! 4 Meiko: Rather than saying that kind of thing, you could just be friendly. Miki: NO! --------------------------------------------------- p 97 1 Yuu: Mi-i-ki-i-i. Finished cleaning? 2 Miki: Uh, yeah. Just a bit more. Yuu: Then, I'll be at the entrance!! 3 Meiko: Ohh...? Going home together? Miki: Th--! Miki: That's not it!! Don't misunderstand! 4 Miki: Today's my mama's birthday! And so we decided to pool our money and we'll buy a present together. I can't buy anything decent by myself, can I?! Therefore... 5 Meiko: Hmmmm. Meiko FX: Miki: That's all it is, y'know! --------------------------------------------------- p 98 1 Meiko: Although you say this and that... 2 Meiko: Things seem to be going well at your place, Miki... 3 Yuu: I wonder if Rumi-san will be pleased. 4 Miki: She'll be pleased! If it's that earring, then it's exactly to Mama's taste! Miki: Because it makes one look younger. Yuu: I'll tell her. 5 Miki: We're ho... noise FX: 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 99 1 Miki: What was that noise just now?! What hap... Miki/Yuu FX: 2 3 Miki: M-Mama...? Rumi: It's nothing. The vase broke, that's all. You two-- go to your rooms! 4 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 100 1 2 Yuu: A fight... Yuu: ...wasn't it? That atmosphere... Yuu: ...on top of that, was pretty tense. 3 Yuu: It doesn't seem like the time for a birthday party. What should we do about dinner...? Yuu: I'm hungry... Miki: ......... 4 Miki: (Why...?) Miki: (They were always getting along so well!) Miki: (What happened...?!) --------------------------------------------------- p 101 1 Yuu: I don't completely understand the details, but... 2 Yuu: Somehow, it seems your parents and mine had a clash of opinions. And so, it seems to have turned into a fight! Yuu: Jin-san was saying. 3 Miki: I see... 4 Miki: It's sorta unpleasant, isn't it... Being so tense at home. I hope they make up soon... Yuu: Well... 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 102 1 Ginta: ......... 2 Meiko: Worried? Ginta FX: 3 Ginta: I-it's nothing like that! 4 Ginta: Nothing like th... 5 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 103 1 noise FX: 2 Miki: Geh! Again... 3 4 5 Rumi: I can't take it any more! I can't continue on with a life like this!! 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 104 1 Chiyako: You're right... Sixteen years of married life is a long time, after all. Chiyako: Changing partners after such a long time was more than we could handle. 2 Youji: That's true... Jin: If it's come to this, then all we can do is go back to square one. 3 Jin: We'll cancel the shared living arrangements. 4 Miki: (HUH...?!) --------------------------------------------------- p 105 1 Miki: W-wait a sec, wait a sec! What the heck... Jin: Miki... Jin: I'm sorry. 2 Jin: It was impossible, after all. In spite of your opposition, Miki, we began this life. Jin: We've ended up hurting each other so much... 3 Miki: End...ed...? Jin: The only relief is that we haven't entered the new names into our family registers yet. Youji: Yeah. ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (4): When I was a student, I--a tennis fan--was a member of the tennis team. And so that's why I made Miki and Ginta a part of the tennis team, too, but since that's not at the heart of the story, I regret that I can't write too much about situations regarding team activities. How to be a ballgirl, and the menu of training exercises--I'm confident I can write about such things with realism... Since becoming a member of society, I chiefly take my pleasure from watching games on TV, scarcely having any spare time to play myself. And so, in order to watch tennis, I finally joined WOWOW too, but (Since WOWOW's movies are subtitled I can't watch while working, so I didn't intend to join, but just because of tennis...) I don't have the spare time to hook up the deco-o-oder!! It's been this way for over a month now. I missed the Davis Cup... Somehow, I have to hook it up before the Australian Open in January... --------------------------------------------------- p 106 1 Jin: We'll go back to our lives as they were before, and cut our ties completely. Jin: We'll never meet again. 2 Youji: Right... Youji: That's good. 3 narration: I-I can't keep up! Things are moving too fast! Miki FX: narration: Why did it suddenly turn out this way?! 4 Yuu: Then... Am I transferring schools again? 5 Chiyako: I'm sorry, Yuu. It would be better if we severed all contact with the Koishikawas, so... --------------------------------------------------- p 107 1 Yuu: That's too bad... Yuu: I wonder if I can go back to my last school. Yuu: Just when I'd finally gotten used to this school. 2 3 Miki: Wai... 4 Miki: Wait a minute!! --------------------------------------------------- p 108 1 Miki: Is it all right to simply come to a conclusion like that?! Won't you regret it?! Miki: Didn't you carefully think through and decide about the divorce and remarriage?! 2 Rumi: What's the matter, Miki...? You were so opposed to this. Jin: It'll be the way you've always wanted it to be!! Aren't you happy? 3 Miki: Sure... It's what I wanted... But... Jin: But? 4 Miki: I... Still think a family like this is weird... But, individually, you're nice people... Miki: So I was beginning to think that maybe it looks like this would work out pretty well... --------------------------------------------------- p 109 1 Miki: And yet, everyone simply changed their feelings like this... It was only for a short while that we lived together, but to cut all ties like that... Jin: Miki. 2 Jin: Then, you aren't dissatisfied with life as it is right now? 3 Miki: Huh? Miki: Ah. Yeah... Sorta... 4 Jin: Is it okay if this continues forever, then? Would that be better? Miki: Huhhh? Miki: Ah... Yeah... narration: Huh? Why? narration: Somehow, we got off-track... ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (5): I recently bought Minami Saori-san's "best of" CD called "Recall." Minami Saori-san was my favorite idol singer when I was a child, and is the person who sang the original song "17 (Years Old)" that was covered by Moritaka Chisato-san. When I listened to it, it was full of songs that made me think, "I'd quite forgotten it, but there were songs like these, weren't there, that I used to like a lot," and I was completely filled with nostalgia. Among those songs was a piece called "Wounded Generation," and this is, sort of, a song that sounds like it's about Miki and Yuu. It's not quite "perfect!!", but it's pretty close. Somehow, it seems I came across an image song, and I became happy. If all you hear is the title, you'd just get the feeling like it was sorta intense, and it's not like that. If you care to, give it a listen, 'kay. --------------------------------------------------- p 110 1 Jin: Ohhhh! I see, I see. I'm gla-a-ad!! all: YAY! 2 narration: Huh? narration: Huh? Huh? 3 Youji: Sorry to scare you. Youji: We were worried over whether or not you had really accepted this life, Miki-chan, so we put on a play. Jin: You were deliberately being stubborn so that you wouldn't get used to things, weren't you. But I'm glad. You told us your true feelings... 4 Miki: A play...? Then, everything up to now was... A lie? Rumi: That's right. We're sorry. We have no reason to fight. It's going so well. --------------------------------------------------- p 111 1 Yuu: Sure enough... I thought that might be the case. 2 Youji: Ah, you found us out? Yuu: Sort of... What you were saying sounded like actor's lines... Jin: How sharp, Yuu-kun. Rumi: But this was done quite well. script: Scenario. A production by Koishikawa Jin. 3 narration: Y... Chiyako: It was like being an actress, and that was fun. Youji: But that vase was a waste. And that glass that was broken today, too... 4 narration: YOU GUY-Y-Y-YS!! Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 112 1 Miki: WA-A-A-A-A-AH! 2 Miki: BWA-A-A-A-A-AH! 3 Jin: Miki! door FX: Youji: Miki-chan. 4 Rumi: We're sorry! We were wrong. Chiyako: Please, come out! 5 Miki: SHUT UP! GO AWAY-Y-Y! Jin/Rumi/Chiyako/Youji FX: 6 Jin: We ticked her off completely... Chiyako: We overdid it a bit, huh. Jin: Yeah. Youji: That's why I told you we'd better stop. Rumi: You can't say that after it's done. We're all responsible. --------------------------------------------------- p 113 1 Miki: (Cruel! Too cruel!! Toying with a person's feelings.) Miki: (That's it. I'm leaving!! A house like this!! I'll definitely leave them!!) 2 Miki: (But that isn't possible right now... It's a shame, but I don't have the money... That's it!! I can go to a university out in the country.) Miki FX: Miki: (I won't let them complain. I'll even get an allowance out of them! Ah, but if I do that, I'll be separated from Meiko... That's no good...) ribbon: The Rather Pragmatic Miki 3 window FX: 4 Miki FX: Yuu: Miki! Open up! --------------------------------------------------- p 114 1 Yuu: Whew-w-w. Miki: Wh-where'd you come from...?! 2 Miki: How'd you come over?! Yuu: I climbed along the wall from the next window. I had quite a thrill! 3 Miki: Y-you're kidding... Miki FX: 4 Miki: What are you doing so recklessly?! You'd be seriously injured if you fell!! Yuu: You were so surprised, the tears stopped. 5 Miki: Now that you mention it... ...... They stopped... 6 7 Rumi: What? Rumi: Sounds like she's talking with Yuu-kun. Chiyako: Ehh?! How'd he get in? --------------------------------------------------- p 115 1 Yuu: This time. It was a bit too cruel... 2 Miki heartbeat FX: Yuu: Ah wait, it's all the time, huh. 3 Yuu: When you're tested with a lie... ...you get hurt. Yuu: It's only natural that you're angry. 4 Yuu: But... Our parents... Yuu: Were worried all this time about making you give your okay against your will. --------------------------------------------------- p 116 1 Yuu: Even if it took using measures like this... They wanted to make sure that you didn't dislike them, Miki. 2 Yuu: And so... I ask that you forgive them. Yuu: Okay? 3 4 5 Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 117 1 narration: Although he's always... 2 narration: Just teasing me... 3 narration: When he's so sincerely sweet to me... narration: I end up not knowing what I should do... --------------------------------------------------- p 118 1 door FX: 2 Rumi: Miki! Chiyako: Miki-chan, we're sorry... 3 Miki: It's okay already... But... Miki: You're getting me my favorite dish for dinner tomorrow. 4 5 Rumi hug FX: Rumi: I'm glad...! I'm sorry, Miki-i-i! Jin: You saved us, Yuu-kun! 6 narration: That it would end up... --------------------------------------------------- p 119 1 narration: ...that I'd never be able to see Yuu again was an unpleasant thought. I was thinking that I didn't want to be separated from him. 2 narration: Even though he's elusive... And I don't understand him too well... Before I knew it... 3 narration: Yuu's presence in my life... narration: Had grown this huge... ---------------------------------------------------