Marmalade Boy Volume 5, Chapter 1 pages 2-41 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Yutaka Sasagawa Additional editing by: Jeanne Hedge Scott Henry Last revision : 09-08-96 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 2 heading: Introducing the Cast of Characters caption: Akizuki Meiko Close friend of Miki. A person of solid character. caption: Koishikawa Miki Likes Yuu Brightly --> Spirited and --> Simple personality. caption: Suou Ginta Miki's classmate. Confessed his feelings for Miki... caption: Miwa Satoshi Student body president. Is Yuu's half-brother?! caption: Matsuura Yuu What's his relationship with Miki? Shares same house with Miki --> Looks cool, but --> Is a bit mean. caption: Suzuki Arimi Yuu's old girlfriend. Still likes Yuu. text: The Story up thru (4). [paragraph 1] 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. [paragraph 2] One day, Miwa Satoshi, the student body president, suddenly approaches Yuu!! When a dangerous rumor seems to be growing, it's Miki who stands resolutely against it, but has she somehow swung and missed?! [paragraph 3] When looking into the connection between Yuu and Satoshi, who have quickly become close friends, Miki and Meiko trail after the two of them after school. And then, they met Miwa Yoshimitsu, an architect who is Satoshi's father. Actually, it's said that this Miwa Yoshimitsu is Yuu's real father! [paragraph 4] Miki also goes along with Yuu and Satoshi, who say they're going to confirm that in person. But, contrary to expectations, Miwa Yoshimitsu replies that "I am not your father," and... --------------------------------------------------- p 3 1 Miwa Yoshimitsu: I am not the solution in your search for your father. He's someone else. 2 3 4 Miwa: That... But that can't be... 5 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Oh, brother. I don't understand the reason at all. Miwa Yoshimitsu: What in the world possessed you to think that way? --------------------------------------------------- p 4-5 (TITLE PAGES) 1 title: MARMALADE BOY [5] --------------------------------------------------- p 6 1 --------------------------------------------------- p 7 1 Miwa: I read it in mother's old diary. That you were having an affair with Chiyako-san, and... Miwa: That Chiyako-san quit at the office, married, and that the child she gave birth to is surely your child, father... 2 Miwa Yoshimitsu: ......! Is that true? Miwa: Why would I be lying?! 3 Miwa Yoshimitsu: I give up... I knew your mother suspected I had a relationship with Chiyako-san, but... Miwa Yoshimitsu: That she distrusted me to those lengths... 4 Miwa: Did you really have nothing to do with Chiyako-san? 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 8 1 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Nothing happened. Miwa: Even though you told that to mother, she didn't believe you? 2 Miwa Yoshimitsu: No... I didn't dare correct the misunderstanding. Miwa: Why not?! 3 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Because it camouflaged my going out with other women. 4 FX: 5 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Miwa Yoshimitsu: And what about you, Matsuura-kun? Why did you think I was your father? 6 Yuu: By accident, I found an old letter that my grandmother sent to my father. --------------------------------------------------- p 9 1 Yuu: "Can you really have a successful marriage with a woman who is carrying a baby by a former lover?" "Can you continue to love that wife and that child?" Yuu: "If you've already decided, then I won't say anything more, but I worry whether you can find happiness." That's what the letter contained... 2 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Did it say in that letter that I was the "former lover"? Yuu: My grandmother seemed to think so. Father didn't seem to say it straight out like that, but... 3 Miwa Yoshimitsu: That, too, is a misunderstanding. Your grandmother was mistaken. 4 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Be resolute and try asking your parents... Yuu: I can't do that! --------------------------------------------------- p 10 1 Yuu: I don't want it to become an unpleasant situation. I can't ask them... 2 3 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Then, ask your grandmother-- the one who wrote that letter. Miwa: She passed away. 4 Miwa Yoshimitsu: I see... 5 Yuu: It really isn't you? 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 11 1 Yuu: Because... Even if you had no relationship at all, it isn't natural that everyone's mistaken about you and my mother! Miwa Yoshimitsu: No. But... 2 Yuu: It's you, isn't it?! Yuu: Please tell me the truth! I beg you! 3 4 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 12 1 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Really, I'm not... 2 3 Miwa Yoshimitsu: To tell you the truth... I did indeed fall in love with your mother. Miwa Yoshimitsu: Thinking that I wanted to go out with her, I told her so. Miwa: (What cheek!) Miwa: Even though you have a wife! 4 Miwa Yoshimitsu: But she didn't tell me yes. She had a sweetheart with whom she was going out since the time she was a student. That person is probably your father. 5 Miwa Yoshimitsu: Of course, as far as getting her to go out to eat with me on her way home from work, there were a few times. But that's all it was. --------------------------------------------------- p 13 1 Miwa Yoshimitsu: I was rejected. 2 3 Miwa: Ohh. Is that it... 4 Miwa: This isn't a joke! Father, because you fell for Chiyako-san and, even in spite of the situation, hit on her, a misunderstanding like this was spawned!! Miwa Yoshimitsu: Ooo... I see. S-sorry. --------------------------------------------------- p 14 1 Miwa: What have you done?! All this time, in my heart and Yuu's, we became convinced that it was like that. Miwa Yoshimitsu: S-Satoshi, calm down. Miki: Miwa-san... 2 Yuu: It's okay already. Satoshi-san. 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 15 1 Yuu: It's okay... 2 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 16 1 2 Miwa: My mother. Why doesn't she divorce a guy like that? Miwa: Even now, I'm sure he has 2 or 3 women. 3 Miwa: I wonder if she has a weakness for falling in love. Maybe she just puts up with it and doesn't want to part with him... 4 Yuu: I smell the sea... 5 Miwa: Huh? Yeah... The beach is over there. Yuu: Hmm. --------------------------------------------------- p 17 1 2 Yuu: Satoshi-san... Please escort her home. Miwa: Huh? 3 Yuu: I'm going for a little walk before going home. Somehow, I've suddenly gotten the urge to see the ocean. Bye... 4 Miwa: YUU! 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 18 1 Miwa: I thought that if I had a kid brother like you... It would be fun, but... 2 Yuu: 3 Yuu: I didn't really want an older brother like you, Satoshi-san. See ya! 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 19 1 Miwa: ... I did something bad, hm. 2 Miwa: Well, if he has the spirit to say spiteful things like that, then he's all right, huh... Miki: Miwa-san! 3 Miki: Umm. I'll be going after all. Miki: Sure enough, I just can't leave him alone... 4 Miwa: Yeah... 5 Miki: Then, excuse me! Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 20 1 2 3 waves FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 21 1 waves FX: 2 waves FX: 3 Miki footstep FX: 4 Miki: Let's go home now. Yuu... --------------------------------------------------- p 22 1 waves FX: Yuu: Yeah... A little while longer. Miki: But you've been like this for an hour already. 2 Yuu: That's why I told you to go home ahead of me. 3 Miki: ......... 4 waves FX: 5 wind FX: Miki: Wah! Miki FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 23 1 Miki: Hey, the wind's gotten chilly. You'll catch cold. Miki: Let's go home, 'kay? 2 Yuu: Ahhhh... Come to think of it, it is a bit cold. Miki: "Come to think of it..." 3 Yuu: Will you warm me up? 4 Miki: Huh...? 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 24 1 2 Miki: W-- Wait a minute, Yuu-u-u. --------------------------------------------------- p 25 1 Yuu: I thought he was the one. All along. 2 3 Yuu: DAMN IT...! --------------------------------------------------- p 26 1 2 --------------------------------------------------- p 27 1 --------------------------------------------------- p 28 1 waves FX: 2 Yuu: When I found out that I wasn't my father's real child, I was terribly shocked. Yuu: I could only think that I shouldn't have been born... And I came to feel as if my very existence was being denied. 3 Yuu: For about a month, I didn't even want to speak to my father or mother... And I didn't even want to see their faces, either. 4 Yuu: But... I stopped to think hard about several things... waves FX: Yuu: For a mother who didn't have an abortion and gave birth to me... ...and for a father who, although I'm not even related by blood, treated me with love and raised me... ...I came to think that I should be grateful. --------------------------------------------------- p 29 1 Miki: (That's why he's so sweet to Chiyako-san and Youji-san...) Yuu: But the shock was a shock. 2 Yuu: Since then... I became a person who couldn't trust anyone. Yuu: I became afraid of trusting and being betrayed. Yuu: I became unable to reveal my straight self. 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 30 1 Yuu: I came to think that... "It doesn't matter." 2 3 Yuu: Ah-ahh... But still... Yuu: To think that "Miwa Yoshimitsu" wasn't my father, and Satoshi-san wasn't my big brother... 4 Yuu: Even though I was convinced it was so all those years... What an idiot... Yuu: My real father... Where could he be? --------------------------------------------------- p 31 1 Miki: It's okay, already... 2 3 Miki: As to where your real father is, it's okay already. Miki: There's us... We're your family! 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 32 1 Miki: Sure it's a bit... I mean, it's pretty... ...different from the norm, and it's a strange family... But... 2 Miki: We aren't related by blood, and... ...Youji-san and Papa and Mama and... ...me and... Miki: ...of course, Chiyako-san, too... Miki: I think that we're a precious family, and we all love you, Yuu...! 3 waves FX: 4 Yuu: Yuu: That's true... 5 Yuu: When I heard the story about the marriage swap... Yuu: To tell you the truth, that also gave me a shock! --------------------------------------------------- p 33 1 Yuu: I thought that my father and mother had overcome many things, and were deeply in love, but... "To switch partners so easily?"...I asked. 2 Yuu: But I was made immune from shock... So it was easy to pretend that it didn't matter. Yuu: I mean... Instead of just pretending, I was truly able to easily think that way. 3 Yuu: I lost all my innocence... 4 Yuu: But you were completely different. When you met everyone for the first time, you sort of cried and stood against it... Miki: Be-- Because that was... --------------------------------------------------- p 34 1 Yuu: Unlike me, you're gentle, genuine, and you do everything from the bottom of your heart... Yuu: And you don't hide what you're thinking at all, and just show your feelings. 2 Miki: You mean I'm simple, don't you. Well, so what? 3 Yuu: That's why... I love you. 4 waves FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 35 1 Miki: ......... Really...? 2 Yuu: I even said it before. I said that I saw you sleeping and, without thinking, I kissed you because I like you. Yuu: Though you didn't believe. 3 Miki: I-- I... Miki: I love you, too, Yuu! 4 --------------------------------------------------- p 36 1 Yuu: Stupid. 2 3 Yuu: Don't only be swayed by the mood and say something just because. Miki: I'm-- I'm not saying it just because. I really... 4 Yuu: In this situation, wouldn't you be saying the same thing even if Suou was the one here? Like before, when you were flirting with him at our front gate. Yuu: Even he's someone that you... 5 Miki: You're wrong! Miki: Sure, I like Ginta a lot... But that's as a friend! 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 37 1 Miki: When I found out that Meiko and Natchan were going out together, I... ...felt like Meiko was being taken away by Natchan, and I hated that. Instead of me, Natchan was the most important one to Meiko, and that made me awfully sad. Miki: That's when I understood. 2 Miki: Ginta and Meiko are the same. He's a dear friend who I didn't want taken away by Arimi-san... Miki: But you're different, Yuu. 3 Miki: You're someone I love. One who always makes my heart throb to the point where I'm vexed. Miki: You're the only one, Yuu! --------------------------------------------------- p 38 1 2 3 4 Miki heartbeat FX: Yuu: Your lips... Are turning blue. --------------------------------------------------- p 39 1 Yuu: They've grown completely cold... Yuu: And it's all my fault. I'm sorry. 2 3 --------------------------------------------------- p 40-41 1 waves FX: --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Miki <---> Yuu Satoshi (Miwa) | | v Ginta <-?-> Arimi Meiko <-/-> Natchan ^ | | Tsutomu Rumi <---> Youji (Rokutanda) ^ ^ | | v v Jin <---> Chiyako ---------------------------------------------------