Marmalade Boy Volume 8, Chapter 3 pages 69-99 Written and illustrated by Yoshizumi Wataru Translation & editing by : Craig Nishida Additional translation by : Paul Hirose Last revision : 98-02-08 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: mboy-trans@soyokaze.biosci.ohio-state.edu --------------------------------------------------- p 69 1 2 phone FX: 3 phone FX: 4 phone FX: 5 phone FX: 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 70 1 Yuu: Yes? Ahh, Mother. Yuu: Uh-huh. I'm well. How about you? Yuu: Ahh... Sorry. That's right. Yuu: I still have a little more work left to do... 2 Chiyako: More wo-o-ork?! We're already into August! When in the world will you be able to come home? Ahh-ah. How boring! Rumi: It's a "no"? Jin: Sounds that way. 3 Yuu: I'm sorry. I'm trying my best in the first year, and if I take the credits, then the rest will be a breeze. 4 narration: Actually, I was able to finish up any such work a long time ago. narration: Except for my summer job, I don't have anything special to do, and have pretty much more time than I know what to do with. narration: But... narration: ...I can't go back home to Tokyo. --------------------------------------------------- p 71 1 narration: Seeing Miki would be... narration: ...painful... 2 Yuu: Bye... I'll call again... Chiyako: Ah! Wait a moment. Miki-chan says she wants to talk to you. I'll put her on, 'kay? 3 Yuu: EH?! W... narration: Miki is...?! 4 Miki: Ah, Yuu-u-u? It's been a while! How have you been? 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 72 1 Miki: You sorta have a lot of work to do? Architecture school is hard, huh. 2 Yuu: Ahh... No... Miki: But, y'know, come back here for a little break. 3 Miki: Our parents miss you now, and they're annoying me. I can't possibly entertain them all by myself... Jin: What? Rumi: How rude. 4 Miki: All your friends want to see you, too, so please make the time somehow. Yuu: Uh-huh... But... 5 Miki: It's always all right to be here... 'Kay? . Her line can also be interpreted as, "I'm all right (all the time)."> --------------------------------------------------- p 73 1 Miki: Bye... I'll be waiting...! phone FX: 2 3 4 narration: "It's always all right to be here..." narration: "I'm all right..." that Miki used, for an = "I". can also mean "I," rather that the more literal "this way" or "here".> 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 74 1 narration: Her cheerful voice that was the same as long ago... narration: "I've recovered...and I'm all right now..." Is that what she wanted to say? 2 narration: Miki... 3 4 5 ---------------------------------------------- p 75 1 Chiyako: WELCOME BACK, YUU-U-U ! party popper FX: banner: A FERVENT WELCOME party popper FX: Youji: WELCOME BACK! caption with arrow pointing at speech bubble above: Since it's Sunday, everyone is here. Rumi: WE WERE WAITI-I-ING!! 2 Yuu FX: Yuu: Ruins the atmosphere... 3 Youji: It was hot, right? Drink some cold barley tea, or something. Chiyako: Tonight it's a yakiniku party! Please look forward to it . 4 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 76 1 Miki: Welcome back, Yuu. 2 Yuu: I'm home. 3 Miki: Yuu, you aren't tanned at all, are you. Aren't you playing sports? Yuu: Uh-uh... Miki: That's no good. You'll lose your health. Look, I'm a nice shade, right? 4 Miki: I joined a tennis circle. I'm together with Ginta and Arimi-san, too. Miki: Recently, there was a summer training camp... 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 77 1 2 Miki: Tastes good . 3 4 Jin: A-a-all right. After we eat we're all playing with fireworks, huh?!! Miki: Yayyy! 5 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 78 1 narration: She's the cheerful Miki who was here before. 2 narration: She's the Miki... narration: ...whom I love... 3 narration: She's really recovered... narration: I'm glad... narration: I wonder if she found a new boyfriend or something. 4 5 narration: Even though I forced her away... narration: ...feeling sad...is stupid. narration: Isn't it okay like this...? --------------------------------------------------- p 79 1 Jin: Yuu, you try this too. Here! Yuu: Ah, okay. 2 sparkler FX: 3 sparkler FX: 4 narration: Miki is all right now. narration: She recovered. 5 narration: Now it's time to think about myself. 6 narration: I have to forget about Miki. narration: I have to give up... narration: ...everything... 2 3 Miwa: It's been a while, so what do you think of Tokyo, Yuu? Compared to Kyoto, which one's hot? Ehh? Are you serious? 4 Miwa: Ah... phone FX: Suzu: Welcome back, Yuu-sensei! How are you? Suzu's feeling super-fine!! caption with arrow pointing at Suzu: Was here to play ---> --------------------------------------------------- p 81 1 Suzu: Say, say. I want to see you-u-u. Let's meet. Come over here no-o-ow. Yuu: Ha ha... I get it. I'll come. Yuu: You're still the same, huh? 2 phone FX: Miki: Are you going to Miwa's place? 3 Yuu: Uh-huh. Miki: Then, shall we lock up and leave together? I have some shopping to do, too. 4 5 6 Miki: Y'know, Suzu-chan was waiting for Kei-kun at Bobson's the other day. Yuu Ohh? Those two know each other? --------------------------------------------------- p 82 1 Miki: It seems they've become friends lately. Or rather, maybe I get the impression that Suzu-chan has taken a fancy to him all on her own. But Kei-kun doesn't seem to think it's bad, either. Yuu: I see... 2 Miki: Is Takayama-san from Kyoto? What's she doing over summer break? 3 Yuu: .... Uhh. 4 Yuu: She's a native of Shizuoka... (That is, if I remember correctly.) But she was saying she'd be traveling to America over summer break. Miki: Hmm. Then, you can't see her for a while... You must be sad... Yuu: Well, it can't be helped. 5 Yuu: How about you, Miki? Have you found someone you like? 6 Yuu: Ahh. I'm sorry! If you don't want to tell me... --------------------------------------------------- p 83 1 Miki: The one whom I like... Miki: ...even now, is you, Yuu. 2 3 Yuu: Huh...? Miki: I know about Takayama-san, and I've resigned myself, so I no longer cry or become troubled... But the feelings of love can't be changed just like that... --------------------------------------------------- p 84 1 Miki: A one-sided love which I know I can't get you to look back at... ...is very hard, but... Miki: But even just having someone to love is something to be happy about... And trying to suppress the feelings makes it even more painful... Miki: And so... Will you allow me to love you? 2 Yuu: Mi... Miki: It's all right. I won't put you to any trouble. 3 Miki: I'll continue to properly do things with you as family... And so, beyond that, I won't make any demands. --------------------------------------------------- p 85 1 Miki: Just, in my heart... Yuu: NO! 2 3 Yuu: Something like that is no good. I'd be troubled by that! 4 Miki: Why...? 5 Miki: I said I won't put you to any trouble! My feeling of love for you, Yuu... Don't feel like you have to destroy it. I just want to treasure it! Miki: Why won't you allow me at least that much? --------------------------------------------------- p 86 1 Yuu: It's absurd... Something like that! Why don't you understand?! Miki: I just don't!! 2 3 4 Miki: It's okay! Grr! Miki FX: Miki: They're my feelings. 5 Miki: You have no right to say anything, Yuu! Your feelings got cold all on your own, too. I'll love as I please, too!! Yuu: Wha...? --------------------------------------------------- p 87 1 Yuu: Hey, Miki! Miki: Ahh, I give up! This conversation is over already! 2 Yuu: Mi... Miki: Ah! That garden's wonderful! Miki: Full of sunflowers! 3 4 5 Yuu: Miki... ===Sidebar=== FREE TALK (6): He's forcibly kissed by girls... (On top of that, it's always out in public.) "It's even done for 12 seconds like that, and even though you leapt up and said, 'what was tha-a-at?', you felt what it was, Miki!!" and "Keep away from me sometimes, Yuu!" and such--it was I who put the stuffing into my own characters (^_^). That Miki was only wearing pink and blue combination outfits was disappointing. (I don't like this combination...) Somehow, it seems that theme colors were decided on, and perhaps for more than 70% of the time, it was these colors. It was a pity that the foreign characters were all speaking Japanese perfectly. I often find in anime and manga where someone is "transported to a strange world (going to a foreign country), but where everyone speaks Japanese... (Continued in (7)) --------------------------------------------------- p 88 1 Miki: Wait a minute! 2 3 Miki: I'm sorry... Right now, just a moment... Don't...come over here. 4 5 6 --------------------------------------------------- p 89 1 Yuu: MIKI! Yuu FX: 2 --------------------------------------------------- p 90 1 2 Miki: Even though I told myself I mustn't... 3 Miki: If I cry here it's ruined. Miki: Although I tried desperately... ...to endure it, I... 4 5 --------------------------------------------------- p 91 1 2 Yuu: I'm sorry, Miki! 3 Yuu: I'm sorry... --------------------------------------------------- p 92 1 Yuu: That I got cold is a lie. Also, what I said about going out with Takayama-san... Yuu: The truth is, I love you, too. Yuu: I love you, Miki! 2 --------------------------------------------------- p 93 1 Yuu: But... Yuu: ...no matter how much I love you... ...it's no use. 2 Yuu: WE CAN'T, MIKI!! 3 Miki: ...... What...? Miki: ...are you saying, Yuu? --------------------------------------------------- p 94 1 Miki: What does this mean...?! 2 3 4 Yuu: They were in my father's graduation album. --------------------------------------------------- p 95 1 Yuu: You get it, right? My real father is... ...Jin-san. Yuu: We're half-siblings... 2 3 Miki: You're joking... I don't believe this. 4 Miki: I won't believe it! 5 Miki: So cruel... All 4 of them. Miki: Why hide such an important thing...?! --------------------------------------------------- p 96 1 Miki: I'm going to ask Papa and the others and make sure! If we don't get a proper explanation, then I won't accept th... Yuu: STOP IT! 2 Yuu: It won't change the fact that our only choice is to give up, right?! Yuu: If we were to dig it up now, the family would only be thrown into confusion! 3 Yuu: That's why... Yuu: ...I kept it to myself... 4 5 6 Miki: No... Something like this... Miki: I can't stand this...! --------------------------------------------------- p 97 1 Miki: NO-O-O-O... 2 3 Chiyako: Huh? Miki-chan doesn't want dinner? Rumi: Yeah. She said she sorta wasn't feeling good. 4 Rumi: Though she was saying if she slept she'd get well... Chiyako: Is it heat-stroke? --------------------------------------------------- p 98 1 Miki: I have a request. 2 3 Yuu: What is it...? 4 Miki: I want you to go with me on the Kyushu trip you promised me before. 5 Miki: Then... Just during the trip, I want to go back to being the two people we once were... And go all out and have total fun, like we're a couple of sweethearts... Miki: I want one last memory. 6 Miki: And then... I'll give up once and for all. I'll forget everything... 7 --------------------------------------------------- p 99 1 Yuu: I understand. 2 3 4 plane engines FX: --------------------------------------------------- -------------------End of Chapter------------------ --------------------------------------------------- Scorecard: Miki <---> Yuu Meiko <---> Natchan Kei <---> Suzu Rumi <---> Youji ^ ^ | | Ginta <---> Arimi v v Jin <---> Chiyako ---------------------------------------------------