Just Her In This Big Wide World by Fuji Tamaki TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by — for example, page one is: —1 ### Panel numbers indicated by - for example, panel one is: -1 ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —035 -1 Just Alone In This Big Wide World Fuji Tamaki —06 -1 I was naughty kid, way back when. The kind to always be wandering around the woods. But that doesn’t fly with a pack of girls. -2 This big leaf is the plate, ok? It looks like a viking ship! Mi-chan, you cook something, ok? -3 I was bored. There weren’t many kids in the countryside. What are you gonna do? Sigh -4 Hokay! Tonight, we’re having frog steak! Yoink -5 Kyaaa! Mitsko-chan, you’re mean! Wha…? -6 Ahahaha Hahaha -7 That’s awesome! Looks delish! I’m lovin’ it! —37 -2 I just moved here. Let’s be friends! -3 Whisper Whisper Whisper -4 Ok… But… You, like… Look like a frog. Your eyes all bug out. sfx- Smirk Smirk -5 Then you’re a piggie! All fat ’n stuff! -6 Waaaaah Uh… Uh… -7 And you’re like a deer. You look smart and I like your face. -8 I keep bees. Y’know… bees? You’re Mi-chan, right? I remembered, ‘cause you seem cool. —38 -1 Oh, them? They came from the direction of the mountain. Seems like they may be an apiarist’s kid. Api… rist? -2 They keep bees and collect the honey. The travel around the country, following the flowers when they bloom. -3 Hmmm -4 But no one thought it was good for me to hang out with her. -5 Kyaa Kyaaa -6 Hurry it up! Hyaa Huff Kyaa Let’s go! Kya! -7 She was rude and had a foul mouth. Normal girls couldn’t keep up. Too hard ###lower right Wheeze Huff ###bottom You’re slow! All of you! -8 Geez, Mi-chan is the only one Who’s worth anything here. But she favored me. -9 But it was special… Kind of a heartbreaking feeling. —39 -1 I can’t take it! -2 We won’t play with Ha-chan anymore! You go play with her, Mi-chan. Eh? But, that’s… Sorry, ok? ###handwritten -3 She’s just gonna move again soon anyways. And then things will go go back to the way they were! sfx- Hmph! -4 Really…? Well… Maybe we’ll do that… I lied to their faces. I was excited. No one wanted to be my friend anyway ###handwritten -5 Kya Kya Kya Kya ### L-shaped panel -6 I got a special education from Ha-chan. Playing in the mountains was so fun. Let’s go to the river! The river! ###handwritten Kyaa Kya -7 Hey… You shouldn’t touch those. Some frogs have poison, ok? -8 Really? sfx- Ribbit Ribbit You know your stuff, Ha-chan! —40 -1 Beam! -2 Come this way! I’ll teach you about poison mushrooms! -3 We’d hang out right after school. And from morning to night on weekends. -4 That shell is poisonous! Don’t touch it! -5 That one will sting you! Don’t get close to it! -7 You know all about poison, huh? You like dangerous stuff? -8 It’s not like I like it. But you have to learn about the things you hate. Like whether it’s ok to just hate it, or if you’ll run into it again. If you don’t know, you don’t understand. -9 Ha-chan, You come off like a wild child, but with this stuff, you’re like an adult. What the heck? —41 -1 Mi-chan, What’s the stuff you don’t like? -2 Mm, Well… Boys? Boy are dumb. Mom and Dad divorced too, so… -3 Whoa! Me too! Me too! I hate boys too! They’re gross and awful! -4 Kyaaa! -5 I hate my dad and uncle too. -6 I like bees though. So I stay with them. You… wanna see the bees? -7 I wanna see! -8 Jacket and hood, ok? -9 There’s a net! -10 Bzzzzzzzz —42 -1 Bzz -2 Buzz ### repeat -4 Buzz -5 Kyaa! There’s so many! I bet I’ll get stung! Quiet! Don’t scare them! sfx- Buzz ###repeat -6 Hyaaa sfx- Buzz ###repeat -7 Bzz Bzz —43 -1 Hey… This vibration. Bzzz -2 The way they buzz… It vibrates and feels nice. Sometimes it tickles too much and I get a shiver through my body. Bees use vibration to heat up their bodies. They hibernate through the winter. Pretty cool, huh? -4 You’re all warm, right? …I love bees. -5 Vibration? I don’t get it! I don’t like it! -6 Ahaha Ok, let’s go someplace else! -7 Kya Kya —44 -1 Where should we eat our lunch? The beach! -2 Huh. Looks like it’s gonna rain. I was clear a minute ago ###handwritten sfx- WHooooOooo -3 Sfx- WHooo sfx- Rumble Rumble -5 Flash -6 Ka-thoom Kyaa! —45 -1 Shhhhhaaa Kya KYa -2 Splish Splash -3 A shelter! A shelter! sfx- Splish Splash Splish Booom Shhhhaaa -4 Flash Huff Huff Huff -5 Booom Rumble Rumble -6 Rumble Rumble… Ka-thoom Haah Haah -7 Hnnnngh Shiver Shiver -8 She’s more scared of thunder than poison. -9 Ka-booom -10 Too proud to say anything, even though she’s scared. Her little shivers, which she’s working so hard to keep in, are like the tiny hum of bees. —46 -1 The tiny vibrations That give off body heat. -2 What’s going on? This feels good… -3 I want to hold her forever. -4 sfx- Crackle Snap Today we’re cuttin’ the weeds sfx- Shhhfff -5 Hide! sfx- Whoosh Wha?! -6 Wha? You surprised me! ###handwritten Look! There’s a nasty poison frog. Have you seen that one? —47 -1 It was dressed in green. Bowlegged. Hunched over and looking around. Some strange guy. -2 That really is a disgusting critter. Yeah… It’s a poison wart frog. At nightfall, they all go wandering around… They strip the females naked and spread their semen everywhere. -3 From a stick thing in their crotch, They spray a white liquid. -4 In Ha-chan’s eyes was a deep hated. And without thinking about it, I… That’s disgusting. Wouldn’t it be best to just kill it? We have this sickle, right? We should just do it. -7 Fufu… That would be awesome. But you shouldn’t do it. If you touch it, your body’ll rot. -8 Because it’s poison, see? —48 -1 Mitsuko, you’ve been out playing until dark, right? But you need to play in the daytime now. People say there’s been a suspicious person around here. Wha? -2 Well, I guess it’s ok, I can play with her from the morning. I always want to be… With the bee-girl. But… -3 Plink -5 Ha-chan! -6 What’s wrong? You’re hurt! -7 My dad and uncle got into a fight. I got caught in it. A fight? It’s not big deal. —49 -1 It looks like my uncle did something bad. Like the police might arrest him soon. So dad’s gonna take me and we’re gonna get away from here. -2 So this is goodbye. I came to say that. -3 Eh?! -4 This is too sudden! Can’t you get them to make up? -5 We’d have to move on soon anyway. We only can be in the same place a couple weeks. So it’s about time. -6 I hate my dad, but… I hate my uncle even more. So it’ll be better. But…1 -7 Mi-chan… Once I’m grown up, I won’t be a kept bee. I’ll be a free bee. I’ll find a way we can always be together. Not just a few weeks, but forever and ever, ok? —50 -1 So, that’s why… The hands Ha-chan held mine in… -2 Were quietly shaking and warm. -3 Gentle. Just like a honeybee. -4 See you later, Mi-chan! sfx- Whoosh Someday! Bet on it! -5 Ha-chan! All I could think of was… -6 Was that I… Wanted to go along with her. sfx- Whoooooooosh -7 No matter where she went. —51 -2 Well, I was a kid. I cried up a storm. Ok, see you. See you tomorrow! -2 I didn’t know a thing about her. sfx- Yaawn So tired The stupid name everyone in the neighborhood gave her was “Hachi”. I keep asking about her afterwards, but… ### hachi means “bee” and was what “ha-chan” was taken from -3 I wonder what she’s doing now. Is she on her own? Did she grow up to be a fine bee? -4 I’ve never been able to forget her. Her vibration. The vibration of insects. So adorable. Nowadays I go to a prep school. I plan to study insects in college. -5 I’ve never, never been able to forget… sfx- BadaBadaBada… —52 -1 BamBamBamBam BamBamBamBam Clang Clang Clang So loud! Caution! Construction ###sign -2 And now The vibrations are strong Well, they’re working hard, late at night ###handwritten Well, gotta be used to it do road work. -3 sfx- BaBaBaBaBaBAN -5 Whew Ok! Break time! —53 -1 Heey! Finish up over here! 
This is up next ###handwritten And it’s payday… -2 Riiight! -3 Whish -4 Wait! -5 Right now, this girl has… -6 Domesticated large vibrations… She’s earning her own money… -7 And she has the same smile as back then. -8 All I could think of was… —54 -1 That I wanted to go along with her. No matter where she went. -2 It was the second time I thought that. -3 I want to do that With her -4 Forever And ever -5 Just Her In This Big Wide World