Marmalade Boy Volume 3, Chapter 1 pages 2-43 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Additional editing by: Matthew Akira Klippenstein Daniel Lee Jeanne Hedge Chris Rijk Last revision : 08-31-96 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 2 heading: Introducing the Cast of Characters caption: Matsuura Yuu Shares same house with Miki. Looks cool, but is mean?! caption: Suou Ginta Miki's classmate. Tennis team. caption: Koishikawa Miki Brightly spirited and simple (?) personality. caption: Suzuki Arimi Yuu's old girlfriend. Still likes Yuu. caption: Akizuki Meiko Close friend of Miki. Her mysterious aspect is alluring. text: The Story up thru (2). Miki and Yuu come to live in the same house due to their parents announcing that they're swapping marriage partners. Miki gradually becomes attracted to Yuu, who sometimes displays sweetness despite being mean. At a time like that, Ginta suddenly made a confession to Miki. Miki, having been confessed to by Ginta who she liked long ago, becomes confused about her own feelings... Meanwhile, Yuu and Ginta paired up and played a tennis match. After that match, Yuu's ex-girlfriend, Arimi, hustles Ginta away. Seeing that Ginta and Arimi are getting close, Miki is very much worried... But that was actually Arimi's plan, a secret scheme that will make Miki jealous and pull her apart from Yuu! Finally, their parents' marriage swap was concluded, and the next day, their parents left on a honeymoon. Miki, who for two weeks is living alone with Yuu, will...?! --------------------------------------------------- p 3 1 Yuu: Miki-i-i. Yuu: I'm hungry. Make me something to e-e-eat. 2 3 Miki: No. Why don't you do it yourself? Yuu: Ehhhh? C'mon-n-n. Make something... 4 Yuu: Okay-y-y? Yuu: Mi-i-i-ki! I sa-a-aid... 5 Miki: ......... Miki hair FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 4-5--TITLE PAGES Title: Marmalade Boy [3] --------------------------------------------------- p 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 7 1 2 Yuu: ...... 40 points! Yuu FX: 3 Yuu: You really have no talent for cooking, huh. Can't you at least make fried rice a little more properly? Yuu: Why does the rice clump together like this? Miki: ......... ===Bottom Filler=== FREE TALK (1): Hello. Yoshizumi here. Thank you very much for reading volume 3. Well, in volume 2, when I wrote that I "am collecting angel marks," lots of people sent them in. (I received over 50.) Really, thank you very much. I feel I should write thank-you cards, but when I'll have the spare time... I'll definitely write, so please wait patiently, 'kay? In addition, thank you very much to all who sent me a birthday present, too. text on right side: This is the can of toys! (For boys.) It's more like it's canned than a can with a lid. Same design as the packages of chocolate balls. It contained a Kyoro-chan keyholder and pin, sunglasses, paper that dissolves in water, and many other things. --------------------------------------------------- p 8 1 Miki: That's why I said, "why don't you do it yourself." As if you couldn't prepare it much better than me... 2 Yuu: That's for sure. The au gratin I made yesterday was delicious, if I do say so myself. Yuu: But it's such a bother, so I won't do it any more. 3 Yuu: Come to think of it, Rumi-san's cooking also leaves something to be desired. I bet it's genetic. There's no chance you'll get good at it in the future either. Yuu: Miki: SHUT UP! GRR!! 4 water FX: narration: Our parents, who lack common sense, set out on their honeymoon. Yuu and I were left behind, alone together in this house. 5 Miki: (But, would you leave behind a boy and girl of our age? Generally speaking. Really, our parents are outrageous...) dishes FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 9 1 narration: There are also times when we go out to eat or have food delivered... But mostly, I'm conned into making the meals. I--so weak at cooking--am scoffed at by Yuu... Miki: How pitiful that I can't talk back. Miki FX: 2 narration: Oh well, but he does eat every bit of my cooking, even though he complains about it... So that makes me a little happy, but... Miki: Say, Yuu. 3 Yuu: Hm? Miki: You know very well my cooking is poor, right? Miki: Let's eat out all the time from now on. Even you don't want to eat my cooking anymore, right? notation with arrow pointing at Miki: Actually, she doesn't want to eat it herself ---> 4 Yuu: That's okay. It isn't so bad that you can't eat it. So you cook it. Miki: WHA-A-AT?! C'MON-N-N. WHY...? --------------------------------------------------- p 10 1 Yuu: Because you're cute when you're preparing meals with all your heart. 2 3 Miki: (Damn-n-n. Those are words that could kill... ) 4 narration: Could he be aware? Of my feelings... --------------------------------------------------- p 11 1 Miki: Hmm... It isn't here, is it... 2 Yuu: What are you doing? 3 Miki: I was thinking that the tree wasn't around, so I'm looking for it... Yuu: Tree? Miki: Yeah. Tomorrow's Christmas Eve, right? 4 Miki: We decorated one every year, so I thought it was around here somewhere... Yuu: Come to think of it, it seems like we decorated one every year, too. But I wonder if we brought it. 5 Yuu: What if they were relying on each other's tree, and got rid of their own... Miki: That's very likely! 6 Miki: ......... That it's a Christmas without a tree... Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 12 1 Yuu: Then, shall we go buy one? Yuu: We do have the card that our folks left behind, so... 2 Miki: Y-yeah!! 3 4 Miki: Yayyy! Trees , trees! 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 13 1 Miki: Wowww! This is so pretty! Let's go with this one. Yuu: Stupid. That'll be in the way. Something that huge. This one's good enough. 2 Miki: Ah! This angel ornament is super-cute!! Oh, these gold apples are lovely, too . Yuu: Even if we buy that much, we can't use them all to decorate!! 3 Miki: Ahhhh! Lots of candles are being sold over there! Miki: Yuu: (It's not a good idea to come to a shop like this with a girl, is it...) 4 dramatic FX: 5 caption: Miki Koishikawa Horoscope: Aries Bloodtype: A --------------------------------------------------- p 14 1 Yuu: (So heavy...) Yuu FX: Miki FX: Miki: I'm satisfied . 2 3 4 narration: Lots of couples... narration: I bet they're all sweethearts. Miki: (How nice.) 5 narration: But I'm sure we also seem that way to others. Miki: Tee hee! --------------------------------------------------- p 15 1 narration: That's right... 2 narration: Those two... narration: What could they be doing now...? 3 narration: It's winter break. So they're on another date, aren't they... Miki: ......... 4 Yuu: MIKI! Miki: Ah! 5 Yuu: Don't just space out! The signal is red!! Miki: S-sorry... 6 caption: You Matsuura Horoscope: Gemini Bloodtype: B --------------------------------------------------- p 16 1 Yuu: But you bought too much. Ahh, so heavy-y-y. 2 Miki: What a slacker. It's only this much. You don't have the strength, Yuu. Yuu: What!?! 3 Yuu: It isn't because I don't have the strength. It really is heavy. Yuu: Hold it and see, you jerk. Miki: That's a lie. You're a weakling, Yuu. Miki: Nyaah, nyaah. 4 Yuu FX: Yuu: Don't make fun of my strength. If I really wanted to, I could lift you up with one hand! 5 Miki: Oh, come on. Telling a big one like that... --------------------------------------------------- p 17 1 Yuu/Miki FX: 2 --------------------------------------------------- p 18 1 Miki: Wha! What are you doing?! Hey! Let me go!! Yuu: Shut up. I'll let you go already. 2 Miki's shoes FX: 3 guy: Yuu: Well! Yuu: You were lifted, right? Miki: ~~~~~~ girl: 4 Miki: What are you doing all of a sudden?! Stupid!! Everyone's laughing! Grrrr. I can't believe it! Miki fists FX: Yuu: Oo-wah. Ow-ouch... 5 Kijima: Yuu! It's Yuu! --------------------------------------------------- p 19 1 Kijima: Yo! 2 Yuu: Boss! It's been a while, hasn't it. Kijima: It's been a while, nothing. Hey! Suddenly canceling your part-time job... 3 Kijima: You said you'd be working during winter break too, so I thought there'd be lots of female customers looking for you again, but I was disappointed! Yuu: Ha ha! I'm sorry . 4 Kijima: Well, it can't be helped this time, huh. I'll be counting on you again at the next break! Yuu: Sure! Kijima: See ya. 5 Miki: Who's that? Yuu: The manager of the used clothes store that I worked part-time at during summer break. Yuu: He's a strange man. 6 Miki: Your part-time job was in a used clothes store? Why did you quit over winter break? --------------------------------------------------- p 20 1 Yuu: Because... Our parents went on a trip... And you said that there weren't any club activities during winter break... 2 Miki: ? Yuu: If I'd started working, there would've been days that I couldn't come home until very late at night... 3 Yuu: You wouldn't feel safe being home alone, would you? 4 Miki heartbeat FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 21 1 narration: For my... ...sake? 2 Miki: Th-thank you... 3 Yuu FX: Yuu: Well, what's the use, huh. 4 Miki FX: Miki: (What's the use?) 5 6 Miki FX: narration: He's always like that... He says something mean, but it's really something else. --------------------------------------------------- p 22 1 narration: That's one of the things... ...I like a lot. Yuu: Oh! That's it. Let's buy a cake, too, and go home! 2 Miki: Okay! narration: This winter break... narration: ...is one where I can have Yuu's smiling face all to myself. --------------------------------------------------- p 23 1 narration: I wonder if I owe a bit of gratitude to our parents who lack common sense? --------------------------------------------------- p 24 1 Miki: Wowww. Looks delicious!! 2 Miki: The tree was beautifully decorated, too... Christmas should be this way, after all, hm! Yuu: Mi-i-ki-i. Let's hurry and eat! 3 Miki: Ah, hold on, hold on. Before that, let's light the candles. Miki: Turn out the lights... Miki: We went to the trouble of buying them. 4 5 candle FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 25 1 Miki: The candlelight's beautiful, isn't it. It's like I'm being drawn in... Yuu: Yeah. 2 narration: Oh? An unusually... narration: ...straight reply. 3 4 Miki: (HUH...) Miki heartbeat FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 26 1 Miki: ( What's this? Why...) 2 Miki heartbeat FX: Miki: (...is he looking at me instead of the candles?) 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 27 1 doorbell FX: 2 Miki: WH--! Miki: Who is it at this hou-u-ur?! 3 Miki: Yes. Who... door FX: 4 voices: MERRY CHRISTMAS!! party poppers FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 28 1 Arimi: Good evening, Miki-san!! Did I surprise you? 2 Miki: ......... 3 Yuu: Huhhh? Yuu: What are the two of you doing? 4 Arimi: It's Christmas Eve, so we were out on a date... But sure enough, it's the more the merrier on a day like this... So we decided to come here to have fun. Here. This is something for you. Yuu: Oh! Thank you. caption over box: Fried chicken. 5 Yuu: Well, you came at a perfect time. That cake is a little too large to be eaten by two people... Arimi: "Two people"? What about your folks? --------------------------------------------------- p 29 1 Arimi: A 2-WEEK HONEYMOON?! Ginta: THEN, RIGHT NOW, THE TWO OF YOU ARE IN THIS HOUSE... 2 Arimi/Ginta: ........... Miki: C-c'mon. Don't imagine weird things! We haven't done anything, really... 3 Ginta hand FX: Ginta: Come here a sec, Matsuura! 4 Ginta/Yuu FX: 5 Yuu FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 30 1 Ginta: Okay, you jerk. If you do anything weird to Miki just because the two of you are alone together, I'll simply... Yuu: That hurt, y'know... 2 Yuu: Anything weird? What sort of thing? 3 Ginta: WHA--! Ginta: What do you mean, what sort of...? Uhh... 4 Yuu: If you don't tell me clearly, I won't know what you mean, will I. What mustn't I do? Hm? Yuu: C'mon, say it. Ginta: ~~~~~~ WH-- 5 Ginta: WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EVIL LIKE THAT, YOU DIPSHIT! ALL YOU SIMPLY HAVE TO SAY IS, "I WON'T"!! C'MON, SAY IT!! Yuu: (It's fun teasing this guy, too, huh.) --------------------------------------------------- p 31 1 2 narration: The point was to show off Suou-kun's relationship with me to Miki-san, but it's a good thing we came. narration: I won't let the two of them spend a Christmas Eve alone together!! 3 Miki: You said you were out on a date... With Ginta... 4 Arimi: Yup! We were together all day. Arimi FX: 5 Arimi: After eating lunch, we went window shopping, and then, chatted at a coffee shop... It was a lot of fun . Miki: H-hmm... --------------------------------------------------- p 32 1 narration: I'm just joking. narration: Actually, we only met a little while ago and came straight over here... 2 doorbell FX: 3 Miki: Yes? Miki: People are coming by often today, aren't they. door FX: 4 5 Miki: RO-- Miki: ROKUTANDA-KUN?! --------------------------------------------------- p 33 1 Yuu: Hey, it's another visitor... Yuu/Ginta: ARG! 2 Tsutomu: "Arg!" is no way to respond, is it?! What rude guys you a-a-are!! Yuu: Ah, sorry. It slipped out. Ginta: Tsutomu. How come you're here?! Ginta: Just when I was thinking that you were a character who would never appear again! 3 Tsutomu: To tell you the truth... 4 Tsutomu FX: narration: I saw Arimi and Ginta on the train... 5 narration: And when I followed without thinking, they went into this house, so... --------------------------------------------------- p 34 1 narration: I got the idea that there was a Christmas party here... 2 narration: And so I thought maybe I could get you to let me join in too, so I went to a nearby liquor store, and bought some champagne... 3 Tsutomu: You guys are cold! Even though you know of my love for my Arimi... Tsutomu: Why didn't you invite me?!! 4 Miki: No... Umm. Because it's not really... ...a party. 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 35 1 Miki: Yuu, bring out the plates and forks, please. For five. Yuu: Okay. 2 Tsutomu: ...... This is Koishikawa-san's place, isn't it? How come Matsuura knows where the forks and stuff are? 3 Yuu: Didn't you see the nameplate? Yuu: This is my house, too! 4 Tsutomu: EH?! SO... Tsutomu: YOU GUYS CAN'T POSSIBLY BE LIVING TOGETHER... 5 Arimi: It's not a joke! Ginta: Don't say weird things! Usually, their parents are here, too!! --------------------------------------------------- p 36 1 Tsutomu FX: Tsutomu: So 2 families are living in the same house? Tsutomu: Why in the world...? Tsutomu: Are you related? 2 Yuu: "Why...?" 3 Yuu: It's too much trouble to explain. Ask Suou. Ginta: What?! It's too much trouble for me, too!! Arimi: You don't have to know that sort of thing. It's none of your business. 4 Tsutomu: WH-- 5 Tsutomu: WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE BEING LEFT OU-U-UT?! THAT'S CRUEL! Ginta: SHUT UP, YOU! BE QUIET! Arimi: REALLY! YOU'RE USUALLY LIKE THIS! Yuu: ...... Somehow, I've gotten a headache. Miki: Me, too... Miki: Why has it turned out like this? --------------------------------------------------- p 37 1 Miki: Now, now... Miki: It's Christmas Eve... Don't fight. Let's be friendly. Oh, that's it. Shall we play some cards or something, everyone?! 2 Miki: I'll go get them right now, so wait just a sec, 'kay?! Miki: (What am I worrying about them for?) 3 4 Miki: Let's see... I think it was around here... --------------------------------------------------- p 38 1 Miki: F-found it! 2 Ginta: This is your room, Miki? 3 Ginta: It's quite girlish, isn't it. 4 Ginta: Hmm. Miki: GI... GINTA!! --------------------------------------------------- p 39 1 Miki: C'mon, you idiot! Don't come in without asking!! Miki FX: Ginta: Oh. 2 door FX: 3 Ginta: Damn. What's this? Stingy. It's okay. It's only your room... 4 Miki: No-o-o!! It's embarrassing! Miki: It's a mess... 5 Ginta: ...... And Matsuura? Miki: Huh? --------------------------------------------------- p 40 1 Ginta: Matsuura's... Been inside, hasn't he? 2 Miki: ...... Sure. 'Cause he's family. Miki: Depending on the circumstances, there have been times like that... 3 4 Ginta: Sure enough, I'm going in once more. Outta my way!! Miki: Hey! What are you talking about?! Grrrr!! 5 Miki: If it's a room you want to see, then you should get Arimi-san to show you hers! --------------------------------------------------- p 41 1 Ginta: She means nothing. Miki: Liar! Because you're seeing her often, aren't you. Even today... 2 3 Ginta: If you tell me not to see her... Ginta: Then I won't see her anymore. 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 42 1 Ginta: If you choose me, I won't see Suzuki-san anymore. Ginta: But if... ...it's no... 2 Ginta: Then I'm going to give up on you... Ginta: And go out with her. --------------------------------------------------- p 43 1 Ginta: It's all up to you. 2 --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Miki <---> Yuu ^ ^ | | v | Ginta (-?-) Arimi Meiko <---> Natchan ^ | | Tsutomu Rumi <---> Youji ^ ^ | | v v Jin <---> Chiyako ---------------------------------------------------