Hanabi by Arai Sumiko 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 //0 /1 Hanabi ### big letters Or something like that //1 /1 Prolog - Or something like that //2 /1 My first love was like fireworks. sxf: Whumpf Owwww… Jeez! Kuwabara! //3 /1 You punch like a fucking gorilla! Yeah, more of a gorilla that someone who just got whooped! /2 Shit! Fuck off! C’mon, Kenta let’s go. sfx: Shuffle sfx: Wha… /3 Here… sfx: Ba-boom //4 /1 Let’s go home, moron. I remember that the fireworks were going off /3 In the opposite direction of me, who just fell in love. Doing that shit? In junior high? //5 /1 That fuckin’ Nakayama. He got busted in class about liking you, Kobayashi. So he goes and plays soccer with your geta? Fuckin’ brat. ### Geta are the wooden sandals worn with Yukata sfx: pit pat sfx:: ka-booom That night, Kei-chan was pissed. /2 sfx: ribbet ribbet For me, it felt like that geta, lost in the woods back there, had already filled it’s purpose . /3 sfx: Boom sfx: Boooom sfx: Pop…. sfx: ribbet sfx: ribbet /4 It was only the fractured rhythm of the fireworks, and the sound of the frogs in the rice fields Plus the sound of what my heart was yearning for, that I was listening to. //06 /1 It was the final winter of high school when I stole her first kiss. sfx: ka-clack ka-clack ### big letters on left /5 …Oh shit I went and did it. //7 /1 sfx: ka-clack ka-clack /2 The lights of a passing train were reflected in her eyes. /4 sfx: sfx: ka-clack… So pretty. Made me remember the flickering fireworks. //8 /3 Letter of Acceptance Test Number Name: Kuwabara Kei /6 At the beginning. //9 /6 And at the end. //10 /1 Since then, I haven’t gone to see fireworks for a while. /2 But this year, I thought “what the heck”. /4 As long as I can hold this girl’s hand… /5 Or so I thought. //12 /1 …Kobayashi? It’s so strange. /2 It’s not like I hear the sound of fireworks launching. Nao? /4 So why is she always… //13 I’m begging you… Don’t launch any. //15 /1 Kei-chan (17) Everything is annoying. Someone messing with her. ### pointing at hair Maybe in the basketball club? Wanna go home. ### thought balloon Go ahead, say whatever you want. ### left of big letters at top If it’s for Kobayashi, she’ll even beat up the boys. @ At the fireworks festival So stupid. ### word ballon in middle She smiles normally. Twang ### above heart Kobayashi’s memory of falling in love for the first time. ### below arrow Kei-cha… ### word balloon Kobayashi (17) Somehow, love is heavy for her. ### big letters at bottom Plays the flute in wind ensemble. But I’m strong too! ### word balloon Can I touch her…? ### thought balloon Crying, laughing. Fidgeting. Busy girl. //16 /1 Last Winter of High School //17 /1 Soooooo coooold! /2 I wish we didn’t have to have bare legs, Kei-chan. Kobayashi, hush. I can’t focus. /3 …ugh We’ve still got 15 minutes until the train… Kei-chan, pay attention to me… Just study. /4 sfx: glance Hey… what? //18 /1 Are you really going to go to a Tokyo University? I’m going to. Assuming I get in. Ehh? Nooo waay! I mean, come on! You’re going to get in. /2 Look, that’s why you have to open that reference book. sfx: Blunt Ugh… Ok… /3 sfx: sniff So cold… /4 Heeeey Kei-chan, I can’t! It won’t go in my head… Let’s play Shiritori. Shiritori! ### Shiritori is a word game where you start a new word with the last syllable of someone else’s word. You foul out if you repeat a word, can’t think of one, or if you say a word ending in “N”. sfx: wah wah Wha? Why the hell would we play a child’s game like that? Puuuhleeeeease! You’ve been my friend since junior high, right? Ok, fine! I got it! Get offa me already! Ok, then! “Shiritori”! //19 /1 Eheheh Yaaay! “Ri”… Ritomasu shikenshi ### Litmus Paper Don’t hit me with chem terms “Shi”… …”rasu”. ### shirasu is boiled white fish /3 Oh, come on! Foul! You’re gonna make me want some… “Su”… “Su”… /4 …ki. ### suki means I love you /5 Wha…? //20 /1 ”Ki”… sfx: ka-klack ka-klack /2 “Ki”… /3 Ki… /4 …su ### kiss, of course sfx: ka-klack ka-klack sfx: ka-kla //21 /1 sfx: ka-klack ka-klack /2 sfx: ka-klack ka-klack //22 /1 “Su”… “Su…” …“kebe” ### sukebe means pervert /2 You’re using that word after doing that to me? But forget that, what the hell were you doing? In a moment, at platform 2… Oh, the local train’s here //24 /1 Kei-chaaan Why did you go home before me yesterday!? I told you. Cram school. You didn’t tell me! sfx: wah wah Even after I got an “A” rank on the last mock exam? Even though you said you’d give me a reward? Were you lying to me!? Hah? I didn’t say tha You did say that! /2 I hate this! I hate this! There’s only a little time until graduation, and… Mmm Shaddup already! Kiiiiiss