Foam On The Water by Sugano Manami 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. —01 -1 sfx- Bloop Blub Recently it feels my breathing has been really shallow. Restless love - A 16p one-shot! ###vertical -2 Like my lungs aren’t functioning well. -3 Like maybe I’m not really human, and I somehow forgot. -4 That maybe I’m a mermaid that ended up on land by mistake. -5 Ah… I see… —02 -1 Since I’m a gill-breather and pretending to be human… Each and every day is so hard to breathe. But do mermaids breath through gills? Dunno ###handwritten -2 Blub Bloop -3 sfx- Ka-Bloosh Dying for breath, just like normal! -4 Ah… sfx- Siiiigh -5 I wanna return to the sea! sfx- Sigh What the hell are you talking about? I thought you’d never get out of the bath. ###handwritten —03 -1 The mangaka of “Miss Sunflower” gives us a new one-shot! If I were to Put these feelings into words They’ll become foam and disappear ###vertical text Foam On The Water ### both small and big characters at bottom Sugano Manami ###under panel —04 -1 Damn, girl! Your back is so tight! -2 All your autonomic nerves… Pass around the spine. Or so I’m told. sfx- Mush Mush Owowow! -3 The reason your breathing is so shallow, Moe, is because your autonomic nerves are in disarray. -4 The autonomic nerves are divided into the sympathetic, and the parasympathetic nerves. They say that when those two get out of balance, your body and mind gets out of whack. The main culprits are stress and poor living habits… sfx- Blahda Blahda Blah Sure can tell you’re a nurse in training… ###handwritten —05 -1 Ok! Massage time is over! Thank you! How was it? ### handwritten right Feels much lighter. ###handwritten -2 Well. If you eat properly, get moderate exercise, and get enough sleep, you’ll get better, I think. -4 Shwoosh -5 My childhood friend is… —06 -1 Transcendently cute. -2 Moe? Hya? No! It’s, ah… -3 Yeah, Yuka you sure know how to care for someone. After I called, you came right over to check on me. It’s, y’know… Kinda always hard to breath… Sorta like that? ### the 3 lines above are handwritten Hah? -4 That’s because… —07 -1 Don’t just keep me waiting! -2 Be sure to eat up! -3 Soak in the bath for at least 10 minutes! Taking a bath’s a paaain! -4 But you were in total mom mode there! -5 You can’t pin this on me! You’re the one with a slovenly way of living! Be grateful to a sweet old friend with a bad habit of being nice! Who the hell’s a “mom”?! ###hand written I know, I know… -6 Such bullshit… I had been worried about you living alone, Moe, and sure enough…! Yup, mom. —08 -1 You’re gonna make a great nurse, Yuka. Oh? Well, thanks. -2 sfx- Hehe Lemme see you in your scrubs. You’ll definitely rock them! -4 What you’re imagining is just cosplay, right? Reality is different, ok? Really? —09 -1 Oh, hot milk! I put in honey too. -2 sfx- Phoo Hey, Yuka… -3 sfx- Sigh As a nurse, I’m guessing you’ll go to mixers with the doctors, huh? —10 -1 Hah? Siiiiigh… Y’know… -2 My autonomous nervous system’s a wreck due to stress. -3 Stress…? Like, over what? -4 You get stressed out, Moe? —11 -1 Stress over love stuff… -3 Whaa?! —12 -1 Wait… Seriously?! Who?! Who is it?! I can’t tell youuuu… -2 If I told her, would my stress go away? Dish! —13 -1 Hm-nn. I’m a mermaid. -2 This love will never be fulfilled. -4 If I tell her, just like in the fairy tale, everything will turn into foam and disappear. -5 Moe Let’s go home together. —14 -1 That’s why I always need to keep pretending to be a human. Because I want to stay by the one I love… I’ll always have stay like this… forever… —15 -1 Siiiigh -2 I think being out of breath like this is gonna last my whole life… sfx- Siiigh Hey! Don’t just change the subject! Who are you in love with?! Tell me! -3 I told you, I can’t say. sfx- Whssh —16 -1 I’m getting out of breath now too! Eh? Why? My childhood friend is… As always… —06 -1 Transcendently cute! Endlessly close, on parallel tracks. ###vertical Please look forward to Sugano Manami-sensei’s next work! ###underpanel