Watashi Dake Ni Misete Hoshii by nekohariko 22 ### The title means “I Want You To Only Show Yourself to Me” , but I think a better title is “Only Show Yourself to Me” 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. ### The page counts seem to skip around a bit. —12 -1 I Want You To Only Show Yourself to Me —15 -1 Spring. ### School starts in spring in Japan. Entrance Ceremony. -2 This girl… ### box So cute! And that girl… -3 Oh, and her too! Slim… ###handwritten -4 And her. So fair… ###handwritten Cute! -5 sfx- Th-thump ### repeated Girls that go to big city schools They are all SO DARN CUTE! —16 -1 ah —17 -1 sfx- Th-thump ### repeated I can still remember the first time I saw Ruriko-chan. -2 She was clearly something special. I bet if you got close, she’d smell nice. So delicate that without thinking about it, I wanted to protect her. -3 I thought she was type to get friendly greetings and praise from everyone around her. Surrounded by people, smiling brightly. Someone completely different from me. That’s what I thought. ### box -4 Hey, Sawa-san, you’re so cuuute, huh? I bet you had all the guys back in junior high. -5 But Yeah They all loved me. It sucked. —18 -1 Heh… heh. Must be rough… Haha ###handwritten Yeah, right…? -2 It’s not like I wanna be popular with the guys. -4 Ahaha ###handwritten I ended up in the same class with Sawa-san. She’s always alone. Oh, got a hangnail. -5 Even from this distance, I can see she’s got long eyelashes. Her profile’s so pretty… —19 -1 Waugh! She caught me looking at her! I’m just fascinated! Sorry! -3 Hey… Tano-san, right? ### The kanji for Tano can be read as “cultivated fields”. Blunt way to indicate this character is a country mouse. -4 Today everyone’s going to go get tea after school. Want in? -5 Ah Uh Today, I have… Something to do… S-sorry… Whaaaat? Ok, then, next time. Y-yeah. -6 From the time I was born up through my recent junior high graduation, I lived in the countryside. I just moved here a week ago. -7 The big city’s scary. -8 I wanna go back to the country… —20 -1 Ah… Sawa-san? Yeah, I was in junior high with her. She never hung out with the girls much. Since she was swarmed by the guys. -2 Hmmm. But I get what you mean. She’s kind hard to approach. -4 sfx- Phweeee Gather up! Pair up with whoever is nearest to you and stretch. -5 The nearest… ###handwritten Um… Ah Yoshida, let’s pair up! -6 Uh uh uh… Didn’t the teacher just say to find the nearest person and not leave people out? —21 -3 Crap I looked at her again. -4 Hey. Hey! -5 Um You want to pair up? —22 -1 Eh Ah Y-yes! -2 What’s your name? Ta… Tano Komugi ### Komugi can be read as “flour” Ow… Owie… ###handwritten lower right Hmn ###handwritten Ok. I’m Sawa Rurika. -3 I know. Ah but her first name “Rurika” It really suits her… -4 Grasp -6 Hey, Tada-san… —23 -1 Aren’t you looking at me a lot? Wha? -5 sfx- Th-thump ### repeated —24 -1 What do I do? Did I make her feel bad? How do I tell her I don’t mean anything bad by it? -2 Until recently, I was living in the country. -3 It’s better to get this out right away. And I’ve never seen anyone as cute as you. -4 Cute? There’s not many girls that would call me cute. Wha? Everyone say so, though… But they don’t really mean it. -5 It’s all lies. What they are really saying is “Yeah, she’s cute but I don’t like her.” “She pisses me off.” So… -7 B… But… —25 -1 But I really do think you’re cute… -2 sfx- Phweeee Gather up! —26 -1 So -2 “I really do think you’re cute.” That’s kinda Kinda like a confession or something?! I-I didn’t mean to… ###bubble Morning Morning ### handwritten -3 That’s was embarrassing… (Next day, coming back to earth.) Saying something like that… She’s going to think I’m weird, right? -5 Oh, the have a new strawberry one! Start from today, it says… ### handwritten Let’s go, let’s go! Tada-san, you want to come? —27 -1 Uh… Ah, well… ### lower right I just said no recently… It’d be bad to keep refusing… ### lower left That’s… -2 But, but… -3 Um -4 Sorry, But Tada-san promised to hang out with me. -5 Wha? -6 Ah, I see. There’s a coupon for this store, you can have it. —28 -2 You just seemed like you were in a bit of trouble. -4 I-I’ve never been to a Tokyo cafe… Too scared… Don’t even know how to order. I just know I’d make a fool of myself. I can’t… Bread ###bag Strawberry ###juice box -5 Ahaha Really? ‘Cause of that? If it’s your first chance since you just moved here, you should just go. -6 You could just follow behind someone and say “I’ll have the same”. —29 -1 Wha? -2 Wha? Mango orange passion yogurt, with extra whip, light syrup and add chocolate chips. I’ll… I’ll have the same. Ok. -3 sfx- Th-thump ### repeated Out in the country - no cafes! There were only a couple girls my age in class… The big city really is scary! -4 But -5 You did it! We ended up ordering the same thing, tho. ###small I can’t escape the fact that I’m front of a cute girl! —30 -1 If I’m too close, I’m afraid I won’t be able to contain my feelings… -2 If I never came to the city, If I stayed in the country, I’d never have to face these feelings. -3 Ah Come to think of it, it’s my first time alone with another girl at a cafe too. -4 R-really? —31 -1 I want to get closer to other girls, but they don’t like me. Eh? -2 It’s nothing. I’m just living a lonely life without love. sfx- Mutter Mutter -3 Ah This is Delicious. -4 She smiled! Hurry up and try it! ### handwritten —32 -1 Yeah, Sawa-san’s… Really cute. -2 Ok, see you tomorrow at school. Yeah. It’d be nice if she’d show me that smile. -3 Just every once in while would be fine. -4 But I want her to show it only to me. That’s What I thought to myself.