Marmalade Boy Volume 1, Chapter 5 pages 157-193 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 Daniel Lee Last revision : 11-30-95 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 157 1 narration: Ahh... I get it. narration: Watching me get flustered... Ginta in Miki's thought-bubble: (Bwa ha ha! I startled you-u-u. Obviously, I'm joking. Stu-u-upid.) Miki: ...is what his scheme is. 2 Miki: (I'm not gonna fall for tha-a-at.) Miki: Okay. Shall we try it? 3 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 158 1 Miki: Just kidding. That kind of joke isn't your style, Ginta... Ginta chair FX: 2 Miki: (Huh...?) 3 Ginta hands FX: Miki: KYAAA...! --------------------------------------------------- p 159 1 Miki: ...!! 2 --------------------------------------------------- p 160 1 Miki: No!! dramatic FX: 2 Miki: 3 4 Ginta face FX: Miki: WHAT'RE YOU DOING?!! --------------------------------------------------- p 161 1 2 Ginta: Ouch... 3 Ginta: What?! You said it was oka-a-ay! Miki: There's no way it could be okay, stupid! 4 Miki: Ginta, you idiot!! 5 door FX: Miki footsteps FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 162 1 2 Ginta: Shi-i-it... 3 Miki: (I can't believe it!) Miki: (What are you thinking, Ginta?!!) --------------------------------------------------- p 163 1 narration: Why is he doing that sort of thing to *me*?! narration: That guy! Would just any girl do?!! 2 narration: Scum!! I can't forgive this!! I'M SO MA-A-AD!! 3-4 school bell FX: sign: Year 1, Class B Namura-sensei: A-a-all right. Then, that's it for today! --------------------------------------------------- p 164 1 Miki chair FX: 2 Meiko: Huh? Miki, are you going home? Aren't you on cleanup duty this week...? 3 Miki/Meiko tag FX: 4 Meiko: Huh? Meiko: I'm doing it? Ginta: MIKI! 5 Ginta: There's something I have to tell you. 6 Miki: I don't want to hear it. --------------------------------------------------- p 165 1 Miki: Right now, I don't even want to see your face, Ginta. Miki: Don't speak to me!! 2 3 Miki FX: Ginta: Miki...! 4 Yuu: What's with them? A fight? Meiko: It looks like Ginta did something. 5 Meiko: Even though I told him not to interfere... I wonder if I set him off instead. Meiko FX: Yuu: Eh? Meiko: Oh, nothing... --------------------------------------------------- p 166 1 2 3 Miki: AH! 4 5 Miki: (Suzuki Arimi...!!) 6 Arimi FX: Arimi: Hello. --------------------------------------------------- p 167 1 Arimi: Is Yuu still in class? I wonder if he's coming out soon. Miki: Huh? Yeah... 2 Ginta: Miki! Wait! 3 Miki: Oo. Miki: What a pest... 4 5 Miki: I'm sorry-y-y. Were you waiting?! Arimi-san!! Arimi: Huh?! Miki clasp FX: Miki: Then, shall we go-o-o? ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (6): As was announced previously on page 23 of volume 9 of "Handsome Girlfriend," I was challenged this spring to a set of peppermint and cosmos planting. And then this time...! NOT SO MUCH AS A SPROUT EMERGED . Why-y-y? Now I'm discouraged. Immediately after I planted and put them out on the veranda, it poured continuously for a few days, but maybe I shouldn't have neglected them, not putting them in my room, after all? (I seem to hear the voices of the readers' minds saying, "Of course!!" but...) Anyway, it looks like I have zero gardening talent... But I'm undaunted. I'll challenge it again someday!! --------------------------------------------------- p 168 1 Arimi: Wh-what?! Yuu is the one I'm... Miki: Shh! Please don't say a thing and come with me!! 2 Miki: It's been a while, hasn't it. How have you been? Ginta: Mi... 3 Ginta: ...? 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 169 1 Miki: (Doesn't look like he's following...) Arimi: My arm... It hurts... 2 Miki: Oh! Ah! I'm sorry!! Miki arm FX: 3 Arimi FX: 4 5 narration: Although I was in a panic, I took someone I've just met... narration: ...and did something pretty daring with her... Miki: Umm-mm-mm... Thank you for playing along with me. You saved me. Really, I'm sorry. Miki FX: Miki: Well, see you later... Miki FX: 6 Arimi: Wait! Miki FX: 7 Arimi: That isn't all, is it? It's not right to go and haul someone off to a place like this. Miki: R-right... --------------------------------------------------- p 170 1 Arimi: You put me through a lot of trouble, so let's have some tea. I want to talk with you for a bit, too... Arimi: Of course... It's your treat, right? 2 Miki: Sure... Miki: My treat... 3 4 Arimi: Then, I won't hold back. Let's e-e-eat . 5 Miki: There it goes. Arimi: Say... --------------------------------------------------- p 171 1 Arimi: That guy earlier. What was that? Is he following and bothering you? Miki: Huh? 2 Miki: No... He's a friend, but... We're having a little fight... Arimi: Hmm. 3 Miki: Uhh... Is this okay? You promised Yuu... 4 Arimi: It's okay. It wasn't really a promise. 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 172 1 Arimi: I decided on my own to just wait around for him. He won't just simply see me. Arimi: So I cut my afternoon class. Miki: You've decided to go out again? 2 3 Arimi: What have you been hearing about me from Yuu? Miki: Huh? Miki: He says you're his old girlfriend. Arimi: That's all? 4 Arimi: Anything about how we started going out and why we broke up? 5 Arimi: I see... He hasn't told you about it... 6 Arimi: That's just like Yuu... He doesn't like to talk about himself, does he. --------------------------------------------------- p 173 1 Miki: Y-yeah... Miki FX: narration: Sure enough... 2 narration: ...she knows Yuu well. 3 Arimi: I don't think that's fair... So I'll tell you the whole story, 'kay. 4 5 Arimi: Since I was in a different class from Yuu, I hadn't spoken to him until we were both on the Field Day Planning Committee during fall of 3rd year junior high. Arimi: Of course, I knew his face and his name. Yuu stood out. --------------------------------------------------- p 174 1 Arimi: But I wasn't particularly interested. I'm not one who just goes for looks, and there were plenty of boyfriends... booklet: Program Arimi: But when I spoke with him, I instantly fell in love. 2 Arimi: He was the first guy with whom I'd spent so much time that was so fun. I was convinced that, "this guy's the one!" Arimi: And so, right away... I confessed my feelings to him. 3 4 5 Yuu: If it's you we're talking about, Suzuki, you aren't in need of guys. Yuu: It doesn't have to be me... 6 Arimi: That's no good! Arimi: It has to be you. --------------------------------------------------- p 175 1 Yuu: I'm flattered, but... 2 Yuu/Arimi: "I'm not interested in going out with girls right now." 3 Yuu: EH...?! Arimi: Hmm. Just like the rumors said. Arimi: You really do turn down girls that way. 4 Arimi: I understand. All along, girls who confessed their feelings... Girls who were older, younger and no matter how cute, have been devastated by the same line. 5 Yuu: ...... If you understand, then why...? 6 shameless plug: Please look at Volume 2, too, 'kay? --------------------------------------------------- p 176 1 Arimi: I'm confident... Arimi: ...that we're perfect for each other. 2 Arimi: For just three months. Have a try at going out with me. Arimi: Because, then, I think you'll understand how fine a couple we are. 3 Arimi: If the 3 months go by and you still don't feel like making me your sweetheart, then I'll definitely give up. Okay? 4 Yuu: But... Arimi: It's wrong to reject without giving it a try! 5 Arimi: Please, just 3 months!! That's okay, isn't it?! --------------------------------------------------- p 177 1 Yuu: 2 Yuu: Yuu: You're really pushy... This is a first. Yuu: I give in! 3 4 Arimi: Those three months then... Were really fun. The two of us studied for our entrance exams in haste and went to play or talk on the phone... Arimi: We hit it off together awfully well, and Yuu must have had fun, too. 5 narration: Despite that... Yuu: These three months have been great fun. You're a nice person... Yuu: But... --------------------------------------------------- p 178 1 Yuu: Just as I thought... I can't think of you as more than a friend. Yuu: I'm sorry... 2 3 Yuu: Arimi!! 4 Arimi: In your whole life... Arimi: ...a normal love will be impossible for you!! 5 6 Yuu: You might be right... --------------------------------------------------- p 179 1 2 3-4 5 Arimi: Because of the shock that day, I couldn't sleep. 6 Arimi: But, c'est la vie. I thought of giving up. Arimi: High school is different, and I was going to search for a new love again. 7 Arimi: But there's no one... Who matches me as closely as he does... That's what I was thinking when... Arimi: We met again at Wonder Dog. --------------------------------------------------- p 180 1 Arimi: I... Can't give him up after all. Arimi: Even now... I love him... 2 3 Arimi: And you? Miki: Huh...? Arimi: Yuu. You like him too, don't you? 4 Arimi: I won't lose. Arimi FX: 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 181 1 2 narration: "I won't lose." narration: Despite being told that... 3 narration: Yuu isn't anyone... That I particularly... 4 narration: Sure, Yuu's presence has loomed large lately... narration: But that's because he's pretty much family... 5 narration: And the reason I'm terribly concerned is... Because he's a guy I don't really understand... 6 narration: It's that I've come to like... narration: A guy like that. = "not". That is, she can't quite bring herself to say she has *not* come to like him. She tries again in the next panel.> --------------------------------------------------- p 182 1 narration: It's that I've... narration: ...come to like... 2 Miki: Ah! 3 signs: Koishikawa Matsuura 4 Miki: (Ginta...!!) --------------------------------------------------- p 183 1 Miki: You there. Get out of my way... I can't get in my house. 2 Ginta: No... 3 Miki: GET OUTTA MY WAY!! 4 Ginta: I WON'T!! 5 Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 184 1 Miki: All right then! If you've got something to say, why not just spit it out?! Miki FX: 2 Ginta: ......... Don't be so mad. 3 Miki: "Don't be mad?!" Get real!! 4 Miki: Aren't we "friends?!" Sure, I liked you a long time ago, but you were the one who turned me down, weren't you, Ginta. Miki: And so, I resigned myself, and lately, it's come to where I can think of us as dear friends who truly overcame any gender distinctions! 5 Miki: Despite this, why did you... Miki: ...do something that would ruin our friendship like that?! --------------------------------------------------- p 185 1 Ginta: That's why... That's...! 2 Miki: Even though I think you're a nice guy... Every now and then you double-cross me, Ginta! 3 Miki: Two years ago as well, you showed off to everyone a love letter that someone wrote in desperation... Ginta: THAT'S NOT TRUE!! 4 Ginta: That was... What happened then was... Ginta: ...NOT THAT! 5 6 Ginta: And besides, you're to blame for that, too!! Miki: Wha?! --------------------------------------------------- p 186 1 Miki: Why-y-y am I to blame?! Sure, if you're saying it was bad to send you a love letter, then maybe so, but...! Ginta: It isn't that. 2 Ginta: That letter! Where did you put it?! 3 Miki: Huh? Miki: What do you mean, "where?" In your schoolbag. Miki: There was a magazine inside, so I put it in that... 4 Ginta: That magazine... Ginta: Wasn't mine! 5 6 Miki: WHA-A-AT?! --------------------------------------------------- p 187 1 Ginta: That day... Ginta: After school, I was shooting the breeze with everyone when... 2 boy 1: Ginta-a-a. Where's my Jump? boy 1: It's not in my desk!! Ginta: Ah, I'm sorry. 'Cause it's in my schoolbag. Go ahead and take it. 3 letter FX: 4 letter: Miki boy 1: Ahhhh... 5 boy 1: Hey! This! boy 1: It's a love letter! --------------------------------------------------- p 188 1 boy 1: From Miki to Ginta!! narration: There wasn't time to stop him... 2 Ginta: In a flash... Ginta: It was passed round and read. 3 4 Miki: Th-- Miki: That's how it was... Miki FX: Miki: (I'm an idiot... ) 5 Ginta: If I could have... I would have liked to have read it at home, alone. 6 Ginta: Truly... I was terribly... Ginta: ...happy to get that letter. --------------------------------------------------- p 189 1 Miki: Huh...? 2 Miki: B-but... You clearly said that I'm no different from your male friends... Ginta: That's not true, either!! 3 Ginta: You probably don't know, but...! Ginta: At that time, you were pretty popular among all the guys in class!! 4 Miki: HUH? Ginta: Saying stuff like how you were often smiling and cheerful, and lively and cute... Ginta: ...Yamazaki and Shibata raised a fuss... --------------------------------------------------- p 190 1 boy 1: Ginta... boy 2: You seem to be pretty friendly with Miki, but... 2 boy 2: We like her, too, so... boy 1: Don't steal a jump on us! Jump" is NOT present in the Japanese line. It just happened to turn out that way in the English translation. ^_^> 3 narration: They said, "don't steal a jump," but I definitely wasn't willing to be kept from speaking the truth to you all this time, Miki. narration: But I didn't have the nerve to make enemies of those guys. 4 narration: And so... narration: I lied... Ginta: What are you talking about? C'mon-n-n. Ginta: I don't care about Miki at all. It's just that we're in the same club, so we often speak to each other! 5 boy: Is that true? Ginta: It's true, I say. We're just friends. boy: Well, then, it's okay... --------------------------------------------------- p 191 1 narration: I explained it away with a lie like that. Ginta: I like girls who are more feminine. 2 narration: Then... boy 1: You don't care for Miki at all, do you? 3 boy 1: Is that what you're saying, Ginta? 4 Ginta: Yeah... 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 192 1 Ginta: I had no other way of answering. Ginta: I couldn't possibly have imagined... Ginta: ...that you'd time it perfectly and hear that... 2 3 Ginta: I hurt you so much and I thought it was hopeless. Ginta: Just cutting my hair couldn't atone for that... So I thought that it was all over with you already. 4 Ginta: 'Cause I was wrong... To tell lies to Yamazaki and the others... Ginta: I had no excuse. Ginta: And so I couldn't tell you my true feelings until now... --------------------------------------------------- p 193 1 Ginta: But... Ginta: Truly, I've liked you all along, too. 2 Ginta: I'VE LIKED YOU... ...ALL ALONG!! Text at bottom: Marmalade Boy [1] /End --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Rumi <---> Youji Miki <---> Yuu ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | | v v v Jin <---> Chiyako Ginta Arimi ---------------------------------------------------