Marmalade Boy Volume 1, Chapter 4 pages 121-155 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Matthew Akira Klippenstein Additional editing by: Daniel Lee Jeanne Hedge Last revision : 11-30-95 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 121 1 narration: It's summer break. 2 Miki forehand FX: writing at bottom margin: There are club activities even during summer break. 3 Namura-sensei: Yeah. Looking good, Koishikawa!! You've added a lot of speed on your service. 4 Namura-sensei: Now you just have to increase your service percentage a bit more... Miki: Eh heh. Okay-y-y. 5 6 Miki: Huh...? Miki: (Yuu...?!) --------------------------------------------------- p 122 1 --------------------------------------------------- p 123 1 Miki: What's wrong? You're not in a club. What are you at school for...? Yuu: To see you in your tennis outfit, Miki... 2 Miki: WHA-A-AT?! blush FX: 3 Yuu: ...couldn't possibly be the reason. Stu-u-upid. 4 Miki: (......... Spiteful person...) Miki: Where did last month's niceness go?! 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 124 1 narration: But really... What did he come here for...? 2 3 4 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 125 1 2 3 Meiko: Matsuura-kun. 4 Yuu: Akizuki. Meiko: I never thought I'd meet you in a place like this. Not many people come to this library. 5 Yuu: Looks like it. It appeals to me... Yuu: I like old buildings. 6 Meiko: I like it a lot here, too. Because it's so peaceful I can collect my thoughts. --------------------------------------------------- p 126 1 Yuu: A club? Meiko: Yeah. We have club meetings here... And since I was here, I thought I'd collect some material. Yuu: The literary arts club? Are you writing a novel? 2 Meiko: Uh-uh. I don't write stories. I just like to read. Meiko: So I'm looking over various things on my favorite authors, and organizing them... 3 Yuu: Reviews, huh. How wonderful. Meiko: It's nothing so fancy as that. It's just a collection of writings. 4 Yuu: Let me read it next time. 5 Meiko: Okay. 6 book FX: book: Quarterly SESERAGI Touryou University (-affiliated) High School Literary Arts Club <*Translation note: is the "murmuring of a stream".> --------------------------------------------------- p 127 1 Meiko: 450 yen! Thank you for the purchase. 2 Meiko: I'm sa-a-aved. My club is short on funds... Oh, and if you like, there are back issues, too. Yuu: ...... 3 4 Miki: Ah! Meiko! 5 6 Meiko: Practice is over today, right? Let's go home together. Miki: Sure! Wait just a minute while I go change my clothes. --------------------------------------------------- p 128 1 2 Meiko: I ran into Matsuura-kun at the library earlier. Miki: Yuu?! 3 Miki: (He went to the library...? Why there?) Meiko: How's summer break going? 4 Miki: What do you mean, "how's" it going?" Meiko: While your folks are at the office, it's just you and Matsuura-kun, isn't it? Are you two getting along? 5 Miki: Yeah... But... Oddly enough, we haven't been seeing each other. 6 Miki: I have my club activities, and Yuu's been working at a part-time job and stuff, and isn't around home too much... And recently, he went off on a trip somewhere by himself... And, actually, I see him less often than when there was school. Meiko: Hmm. --------------------------------------------------- p 129 1 Meiko: You seem disappointed, Miki. 2 Miki: It--! Miki: It's nothing like that!! 3 Miki: Nothing... Like that, but... narration: But... 4 narration: This summer break... narration: I was thinking that maybe I'd get to understand Yuu a little more. 5 narration: As usual, he's full of riddles... Miki: (He hasn't spoken to me about the part-time job or the trip either...) 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 130 1 narration: Come to think of it... I sorta get the impression that Yuu and Meiko might be alike. narration: They always hide their true selves behind a smile... 2 Miki: (Ever since 1st year in junior high, we've been close friends, but still, there's something mysterious about Meiko...) 3 Miki: AH! 4 Miki: (Oh no! What the heck am I thinking?! ) Miki: (Mixing up a dear and close friend with a weird guy like that!!) 5 Miki FX: Miki: I'm sorry, Meiko!! Meiko: Huh...? 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 131 1 Miki: Wonder Dog? Yuu: You mean, that newly-completed theme park? 2 Chiyako: Right. I got some tickets at the office. You want them? Miki: I want!! Chiyako: My company's running a beer garden inside the place. 3 Miki: Yippee! I've wanted to go to this place. There are several simulation games there... Yuu: Hmm. That sounds like fun. 4 Yuu: Do you have a club activity tomorrow? Miki: Uh-uh. Yuu: Then, wanna go? 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 132 1 Miki: Huh...?! 2 Yuu: A bad time? Miki: Uh! Uh-uh. 3 Yuu: Then, it's settled. 4 Yuu footsteps FX: 5 6 narration: The two of us... Going? narration: Somehow, that... --------------------------------------------------- p 133 1 narration: ...sounds like a date. 2 arcade game FX: 3 Miki: (Wahhh! I'm not hitting anything at all!) arcade game FX: 4 Yuu: A rank of 'D'?!! Yuu: That's pathetic! Miki: Shut up! What about you?! Yuu: An 'A' of course! --------------------------------------------------- p 134 1 Miki: Say, look, look! That! So cu-u-ute!! 2 Yuu: You mean, *that* one? Miki: Huhhh? It's cute! How nice. I wish I had it... 3 Yuu: Can't be helped, hm. Well, I'll get it for you. 4 Yuu: This sort of thing is my specialty. 5 Miki FX: narration: It would be nice... ...if he could always be this sweet. --------------------------------------------------- p 135 1 Yuu: ALL RIGHT! Great success!! Miki: Really!?! 2 Miki: ......... 3 Miki: THAT'S NOT I-I-IT!! Yuu: Ehhhh?! Yuu: What? Didn't you say that one was cute?! Miki: This isn't the one I was talking abou-u-ut! 4 Yuu/Miki FX: 5 Arimi: ......... --------------------------------------------------- p 136 1 2 Miki: Well... Maybe... If I imagine it's cute, there won't be room for negative thoughts... Miki: It's a kappa so I'll name it "Katchan". Yuu: Let's go in there! Miracle Illusion! 3 Miki: Ahh, a "hall of mirrors," hm. 4 bilingual sign: Entrance 5 Arimi FX: Yuu: ?! 6 Arimi: It's been a while, hasn't it, Yuu. 7 Yuu: Arimi...! --------------------------------------------------- p 137 1 Miki: Wowww... So pretty... 2 Miki: ...isn't it, Yuu. 3 FX: Miki: Huh? 4 narration: I wonder if he went down a different path... Miki: Oh well, that's okay. 5 Miki: Huh? Miki: I was just here. 6 Miki: Huh?! Miki: A dead end. 7 sidebar caption: Lovely Katchan --------------------------------------------------- p 138 1 Miki: WAHHH! Which way's the exi-i-it!! Miki FX: Miki: I'm scared. Yuu-u-u!! Where are you-u-u?! 2 narration: 15 minutes later. Miki: Got out at last... bilingual sign: Exit Miki FX: 3 4 narration: Yuu! narration: He came out ahead of me. 5 Miki: Yu... 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 139 1 Yuu: Ah, Miki. Over here, over here. 2 narration: Wow... A pretty girl... Miki: A... A friend? 3 Yuu: A classmate during junior high. Suzuki Arimi-san. Yuu: And she's Koishikawa Miki, the one we were talking about just now who shares the same house. 4 Arimi FX: Arimi: Pleased to meet you. 5 Miki: Ah, pleased to meet you... Miki: (Ahhhh. She's REALLY cute.) --------------------------------------------------- p 140 1 Arimi: Then tell me your new address and phone number, please. Yuu: Sure. 2 Arimi hand FX: 3 4 narration: H... narration: Hey-y-y! narration: Not that I care, but isn't she sticking too tightly-y-y?! 5 guy: Arimi! Are you still there?! 6 Arimi: I'm coming now! 7 Yuu: You've got a boyfriend? That's good. --------------------------------------------------- p 141 1 Arimi: I've only dated him 2 or 3 times, and only because he insisted. I'm going to dump him soon. 2 Arimi: Sure enough... You're better. 3 Miki: Geh! 4 Arimi: Bye. I'll call, 'kay! 5 Miki: (Wha...) Yuu: She hasn't changed, has she... Miki: (What's with that gir-r-rl?!) --------------------------------------------------- p 142 1 Miki: "Sure enough, you're better..." ...was what she was saying... Yuu: Mm-hmm... When we were in 3rd-year junior high, we went out together. 2 3 Miki: Hm...hmmmm... Miki FX: Miki: I see... 4 Yuu: It was only 3 months... Well... But we did the usual things... 5 Miki: THE...! Miki FX: Miki: THE USUAL THINGS!?! You did?! --------------------------------------------------- p 143 1 Yuu: Yeah. Christmas... Hatsumoude*, Valentine's Day, birthdays... <*Commentary: is the first visit to a temple in the New Year.> Yuu: Various events like that that couples manage to do. 2 Miki: I...see. Things like that. 3 Yuu: ......... Yuu: You were imagining something else just now, weren't you. 4 Miki: Wa--! Was not!! Yuu: Ohh, Miki, you pervert. Miki: Was not, I tell you!! 5 Yuu: Do you want to know how far we went? Miki: I DON'T WANNA KNOW!! 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 144 1 Yuu: We didn't do... Anything. 2 Miki: ......... Liar... Miki FX: 3 Yuu: It's true. Yuu: 'Cause my first kiss was with you, Miki. 4 5 Yuu: You were awake that time, weren't you? Miki: Y-- You knew...? 6 Yuu: No. Your body reacted back then, so... Without really knowing why, I wondered if you were awake. Miki dramatic FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 145 1 Miki: Wh... Why...? Miki: Did you do... Such a thing? 2 Yuu: ...... Why? Yuu: The devil made me do it... 3 Miki: ......... Yuu: Wahhh! I'm kidding, I'm kidding. It's a joke!! 4 Yuu: It's obviously because I like you, Miki. Miki dramatic FX: 5 Miki: QUIT TEASING ME!! Yuu face FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 146 1 Miki: All you ever, ever do is make fun of me...! Miki: And you're never completely serious when you speak to me!! 2 3 Yuu: Hey, Miki... Miki: It's okay, already! Miki: I don't care!! 4 5 Yuu: Agai-i-in. You got mad. --------------------------------------------------- p 147 1 2 Meiko: Good morning, Ginta. Meiko: Haven't seen you in a while! Ginta: 'Morning. 3 Meiko: Tanned, aren't you... Ginta: I went to the beach. girl 1: A date?! Yuu and Miki?! 4 5 girl 2: Yup. At Wonder Dog. I happened to see them. girl 1: Wha-a-at? So it's true after all. Ahhhh. What a shock. --------------------------------------------------- p 148 1 2 Ginta: What's with that Miki...? Although at first, she didn't like Matsuura and his family that much... Ginta: A guy like that. What's so great about him? 3 4 Meiko: Hold on, Ginta. Meiko: You're in no position to say something like that, are you? 5 6 Meiko: Ever since *then*, it seems that Miki hasn't found someone to like... But lately, little by little, she's starting to be attracted to Matsuura-kun. --------------------------------------------------- p 149 1 Meiko: I think that's great. Matsuura-kun is probably a far more serious person than he appears to be. Meiko: I want Miki to fall in love and be happy. 2 Meiko: Ginta... You seem to be pretty worried about Miki and Matsuura-kun recently... 3 Meiko: But don't interfere with them now when it's too late. 4 Meiko: You have no right to do so!! --------------------------------------------------- p 150 1 window latch FX: 2 3 Miki: Ginta-a-a. Have you locked all the windows? Ginta: Yeah... Miki: Then all we have left is the log entry. 4 Ginta: What a hassle. Doing weekly cleanup duty so soon after the new school term begins... Miki: But we're lucky since there are so few days this week. Let's see... Today's absentees are Suzuki... 5 6 narration: Suzuki Arimi... narration: She's phoned Yuu a few times since then. --------------------------------------------------- p 151 1 narration: She wants to go out with Yuu again. Yuu... I wonder what he'll do? 2 narration: In the first place, why did they break up? narration: A fight...? Did their love disappear naturally? narration: "We did the usual things." "Christmas, Hatsumoude, Valentine's Day..." 3 Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 152 1 Ginta: Miki? What's the matter? Ginta: You're making a weird face. Miki: AH! 2 Miki: Ahhhh. Sorry, sorry. Let's see. Today's comments... 3 Miki: There isn't anything in particular to write, is there. Ginta: Huh...?! 4 Ginta: Are you eating something? Miki: Yeah. 5 Miki: A new candy. Want some too, Ginta? Miki: It tastes good. bag of candy: Muscat Kiss 6 Mio: The taste of a pure kiss. Muscat Kiss . Ginta: Ahh... The one where Hagiwara Mio does the commercials. Miki: Yeah, that's right. She's so cute... --------------------------------------------------- p 153 1 Ginta: The taste of a kiss, hmm... Ginta: I wonder if that's true. 2 Miki: ...... Well... Miki: (I was surprised and taste wasn't what was on my mind.) Miki: (Back then...) 3 4 Ginta: Shall we try and see? --------------------------------------------------- p 154 1 2 Miki: Huh...? 3 4 Miki: (Ginta...?!) --------------------------------------------------- p 155 1 top caption: "Shall we try and see?" 2 narration: ......... What are you saying, Ginta? --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Rumi <---> Youji Miki <---> Yuu ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | | v v v Jin <---> Chiyako Ginta Arimi ---------------------------------------------------