女らしく(More becoming a woman)
Page 1
Panel 1:
Manabe: Oh, you're starting school today?
Randou: Yeah. I never thought I'd ever wear a girl's uniform...
Panel 2:
Randou: (When I first woke up after the bus accident, my face had become Kurimi
Rina's face. Somehow, they mixed me up with Rina's older sister Yuna)
Panel 3:
Randou: (And because of that, I've come to live life as Kurimi Yuna.)
Panel 4:
Manabe: You should watch your skirt. If anyone sees in between your legs,
you'll be found out.
Randou: GAH! DON'T LOOK!
(That's Dr. Manabe, the guy who did this to my face)
Page 2
Panel 1:
Manabe: If you're worried, I'll perform the sex change operation for you at any
time. I've never done it before, so I want to try it once...
Randou: (non-bubbled text: I SAID NO)
(He's a skilled surgeon... but as doctors go, he's a pretty damn weird one.)
Panel 2:
Randou: Have you found out anything about Rina-chan's big sister yet?
Manabe: Nope.
Panel 3:
Manabe: I've looked at all the accidents and reports in the Hokkaidou area for
the past two years and found nothing.
Randou: Is that so...
Panel 4:
Randou: Even if the news is grave at the end, I have to keep looking... for
Rina-chan's sake and for my own.
Panel 5:
Manabe: By the way, are you going to make it to class on time?
Randou: Geh!
Panel 6:
Randou: CRAP!
Page 3: cover
Page 4:
Panel 1:
Rina: Congratulations, it's Onee-chan's debut!
Panel 2:
Yukie: Okay, let's take one more!
Keiko: Haha, Yuna, you look so glum!
Panel 3:
Yukie: Hey, on the way home let's take one at a print club too, okay?
???: Sure, let's go!
Panel 4:
Midori: The school made a pretty interesting decision, didn't it?
Yukie: Yeah, twins in the same class!
Panel 5:
Rina: Isn't it great, Onee-chan?
Yuna: Yeah, it's pretty reassuring, hohohoho...
Panel 6:
Randou: (I'm thankful that I can be with Rina-chan... but I really don't like
these groups of girls...)
Panel 7:
Randou: (And I don't know where it's safe for me to look...)
(Given how short the skirts are in Pretty Face, he has a pretty good point
on that one)
Page 5:
Panel 1:
Midori: Hahaha, that's right!
Panel 2:
Keiko: Geez, Midori, I can see your underwear! (small text: "you're so
nasty")
Midori: What's wrong? It's not like any boys are looking
Randou: (Well, there's one with the best seat in the house...)
Panel 3:
Rina: Onee-chan, the next class is in the chemistry lab. Let's go!
Randou: (But...)
Panel 4:
Randou: (Even though I knew that being the newcomer would make me stand out,
being someone's twin makes me the focus of way too many eyes. I'm getting
pretty mad at people staring at me like this...)
(small text: "Look, over there, that one!" "Whoa!")
Panel 5:
Student: Hey, that's her, isn't it? The new girl in the second year, she's an
older twin, or something.
Panel 6:
Student: I heard they're both really cute. Let's go see what they look like!
Page 6
Panel 1:(Best panel in the book!)
Randou: WE'RE NOT ON FUCKING
DISPLAY, ASSHOLE.
(Literally, "don't look so familiarly at us". Same thing)
Panel 2:
Students: W...we're sorry.
Panel 3:
Rina: Onee-chan!
Randou: Eh?
Panel 4:
Yuna: Just kidding! Did I scare you?
Randou: (crap, I almost gave myself away there)
Yuna: It's just a joke, a joke!
Panel 5:
Sign: Chemistry lab 1
Rina: Onee-chan, you've changed a lot, haven't you? You've become... I don't know, wilder, maybe.
Panel 6:
(To help explain this wild take... pishi is, among other things, the sound
of glass cracking)
Page 6
Panel 1:
Randou: (WHAT?!)
Yuna: Is that strange? Am I a weirdo?
Rina: Not at all. It makes things more interesting, so it's fine with me.
Panel 2:
Yukie: Well, you do seem a lot like a guy sometimes...
Keiko: Hahaha, that's pretty pathetic
Panel 3:
Randou: (Crap, I keep letting my guard down...)
Panel 4:
Randou: (The day they find out that I'm a guy is the day that it's all over.
Alright, I have to be more feminine... feminine...)
Page 7
Panel 1:
Randou: WHAT THE HELL-
Panel 2:
Yuna: What are you boys doing?
Randou: (More feminine...!)
(It's a little hard to translate what Randou does right here. He starts to
spit out his standard invective, and then halfway through changes "Ittai
nani wo shiteru, temeera" to "ittai nan nan desu ka,
anata-tachi?" It'd be pretty smooth, except that it isn't.)
Kinoshita: O... ossu, Yuna-san!
Panel 3:
Kinoshita: Have you given any thought to joining the karate club yet?
Tamura: By all means, please join our club!
Panel 4:
Yuna: Why would a girl like me join a club like karate?
Kinoshita: No, don't waste your talent like that! With your strength, you'd be club president in no time!
Panel 5:
Randou: (Fuck off... after talking all that shit about Randou, I wouldn't join
the club if it would save my life)
Yuna: Please, don't waste your time...
(The kanji for "Randou" are given the furigana "ore", so
Randou in this case is both third person and first person at the same time.
Convenient, isn't it?)
Panel 6:
Karate club: Yuna-san!
(Small text: Please! Don't say things like that!)
Yuna: I said no~
(I have to differentiate this from the I SAID NO that he keeps giving
Manabe. Manabe gets "Shinee tte no". Very male, very rude, very
Randou. The karate club is getting "iya desu~", which is about as
feminine as you can get for a refusal)
Panel 7:
Yamagami: Outta my way.
Page 8
Panel 3:
Yamagami: Don't clog up the middle of the hall, you little slimeballs.
(Yamagami calls them octopi, which doesn't really register on the list of
English insults. Slimeball's close enough for my purposes)
Panel 4:
Randou: (Huh? That's Yamagami of the judo club, isn't it?)
Panel 5:
Randou: (He was a mouthy twerp, and I remember kicking the crap out of him
because of that)
Panel 6:
Randou: (And now he's kicking around the karate club... what's going on?)
Yuna: That's the judo club's...
Page 9
Panel 1:
The sound effect here, and the leaf floating around, are cliches of
emptiness... the sound is a cold wind blowing through)
Panel 2:
Yuna: ??
Panel 3:
Kinoshita: Shit, I'm sick of that fucking Yamagami! Back when Randou was still
around, he was nothing.
Panel 4:
Tamura: Over the past year he's gotten big all of a sudden.
Kinoshita: There's nothing we can do about it... he's stronger than us now.
Panel 5:
Tamura: We were better off when Randou was still alive.
Kinoshita: Just a look from him would shut anyone up.
Panel 6:
Randou: (I get it... since I haven't been on campus, the balance of power's
shifted.)
(Then: the karate club is eating the judo club, which is so small that
there's only space for the "ju" kanji, meaning gentleness)
(Now: The judo club is sitting on the karate club, which only has space for the
"kara" kanji, which is emptiness/the sky)
Panel 7:
Randou: (Those fuckwits, have they finally come to appreciate me?)
Kinoshita/Tamura (?): But it'd still suck if he came back.
Panel 8:
Club member: Uwa! Dammit, no! We're better off the way we are now than we would
be if he appeared again. (small text coming from outside the window:
"Yeah, you're right")
Page 10
Panel 1:
Kinoshita: But if Yuna-san joined our club, things'd change fast!
Tamura: Yeah! However long it takes, we'll get her to join the club!
(small text: "Let's do it!" "Yeah!")
Panel 2:
Randou: (Those little... is that what this was all about?)
Panel 3:
Randou: (This isn't funny... Because of what's going on, I have to act more
like a girl. But if I don't do something...)
Panel 4:
Yuna: I need to get rid of this whole rivalry. What would be a good feminine
solution to it? Hmmm...
Panel 5:
Rina: Onee-chan! Your legs, your legs!
Panel 6:
Rina: You have to be more careful. I heard that there's a lot of boys who're
checking you out, Onee-chan.
Yuna: Checking me out?
Page 11
Panel 1:
Rina: Yeah. Onee-chan, you're so energetic and bright, you're getting pretty
popular with the boys.
Randou: (Hmm, that's how it is...)
Panel 2:
Yuna: Wait, so that means that since you look like me, you're pretty popular
with the guys too?
Randou: (Nooooooo)
Panel 3:
Rina: Not really... because I'm the more serious type, I'm not very
attractive...
Panel 4:
Randou: (That's not true! There's a guy right in front of you who'd do anything
for you!)
Panel 5:
Randou: (Hmm? Do anything for you...?)
Panel 6:
Sign: Judo Club
Panel 7:
Yamagami: Who said they had business with me?
Page 12
Panel 1:
Yuna: Umm... my name is Kurimi Yuna. And... I've fallen in love with you,
Yamagami-senpai!
Panel 2:
Yamagami: With me?!
Panel 3:
Yuna: Yes! I love strong men... will you let me root for you from now on?
(Ouen has a lot of meanings. To help, to support, to cheer for... "root
for" gets the point across pretty well)
Yamagami: Yeah, that's fine...
Panel 4:
Randou: (If he falls for me, he'll listen to anything I say)
Panel 5:
Randou: (So, he has a pulse after all... he looks like the type that hasn't
talked to very many girls.)
Yamagami: Aw, shucks...
Panel 6:
Yuna: But... I heard one shocking little thing
Randou: (Ugh... I feel sick)
Yuna: Yamagami-senpai, is it true that you don't get along very well with the
karate club?
(I don't know what's more disturbing, that Randou has feminine wiles, or
that he's using them)
Page 13
Panel 1:
Yamagami: Yeah, we're like cats and dogs with those guys.
Yuna: Eh? That's terrible! I don't like violent guys...
Panel 2:
Yuna: Okay! I'll make a promise.
Panel 3:
Yuna: If you want me to be nicer to you, you'll have to be nicer to the karate
club, okay?
Panel 4:
Yeah, sure! I never really gave a crap about 'em either way, so it won't hurt to be a little nicer to the little turds.
Yuna: Really? I'm so glad!
Panel 5:
Randou: (Alright! That's all there is to it)
Panel 6:
Judo club member: Hey, she's pretty hot.
Member #2: It looks like Yamagami's fallen for her.
Panel 7:
Member #1: Oh? He's not the kind of guy to keep his hands to himself.
Y'know, things that're too good to be true like this don't happen all the time. So on this special occasion, we'll treat her special...
Page 14
Panel 1:
Yuna: Hmm? Senpai is looking for me?
Panel 2:
Judo club member: Yeah, so could you come with us for a sec?
Yuna: ? Well, I guess that's okay...
Panel 3:
Yuna: what, are these guys trying to intimidate me, or something?
Panel 4:
Kinoshita: What?!
Panel 5:
Kinoshita: Guys, bad news!
Panel 6:
Kinoshita: Yuna-san was with those guys from the judo club...!
Panel 7:
Yuna: Huh? It's so dark in here...
Page 15
Panel 1:
Judo club member: Yeah. And no one's going to come here.
Panel 2:
Yuna: Ah!
Panel 3:
Yamagami: I've been waiting, Yuna-chan...
Panel 4:
Yamagami: Since we've all gotten friendly, let's get to the fun stuff, shall we...?
Yuna: Yamagami!
Panel 5:
Randou: (WHAT?! This gorilla's in heat?!)
Panel 1:
Yamagami: You like me, don't you?
Yuna: Wai...wait!
Randou: (Aaaaagh, my sex appeal plan's backfired!)
Page 16
Panel 1:
Kinoshita: Stop right there!
Panel 2:
Kinoshita: What are you bastards doing to Yuna-san?
Judo club members: The karate club?
Panel 3:
Yuna: Kinoshita... Tamura... Endou!
Panel 4:
Kinoshita: Why you...!
Panel 5:
Judo club: So you wanna fight? That's just fine by me!
Karate club: Don't underestimate me!
(One of my favorite phrases in Japanese, "namen ja
nee"/"nameru na" literally means "don't lick me".
Which has the connotations of "don't look down on me, because I have the
skill to kick your ass". Isn't idiom great?)
Page 17
Panel 1:
Randou: (I wanted to make them friendlier... but this is just plain carnage!)
Panel 2:
Kinoshita: Guhaa...
Panel 3:
Randou: (God, they're so weak!)
Panel 4:
Kinoshita: You... bastards...
Panel 5:
Kinoshita: I won't let you lay a finger on Yuna-san...
Panel 6:
Kinoshita: Yuna-san is the most important person in the world to us! We'll
protect her no matter what!
Randou: (Kinoshita...)
Panel 7:
Yamagami: Stubborn little punk!
Page 18
Panel 1:
Yamagami: Wake up, you fucking wimp!
Panel 2:
Randou: ENOUGH!
Panel 3:
Randou: The guy's already down, isn't he? Do any more to him and you're less
than a man.
Page 19
Panel 1:
Judo club member: Wench!
Panel 2:
Judo club member: What'd you do?
Panel 3:
(the text under this just says "headbutt", which is a pretty accurate
description of what's goin on in the frame)
Panel 5:
Kinoshita: Awesome... with just one hit...
Panel 6:
Randou: (I'm surrounded by fuckwits... they ruined my plan!)
Panel 7:
Kinoshita: Yu... Yuna-san...
Page 20
Panels 2, 3:
Kinoshita: Wh...why?
Panel 4:
Randou: And YOU guys will get what you deserve for having the gall to leave
this all to a girl!
Panel 5:
Randou: If you were men, you'd pay your debts yourselves!
(Literally "you'd pay for your own sparks"... I'm not sure on this
one)
Panel 6:
Randou: DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!
???: GYAAAAAA! Yuna-sann!
Page 21
Panels 1,2:
Just like a video game, Randou has an anger gauge... although it's more like
'excitement')
Panel 4:
Randou: A...
Panel 5:
Randou: Augh, I let myself go again! This is just like what the old me would
do!
Page 22
Panel 1:
Randou: I'm not acting more feminine at all!
(small text underneath: "Night has completely fallen")
Panel 2:
Kurimi-mama: Yuna... what happened? You're bleeding!
Panel 3:
Yuna: Um... my period...?
(Shades of Maxwell Smart here. "Would you believe Passover?" ^_^)
Kurimi-mama: What are you talking about?
Panel 4:
Kurimi-mama: Papa! Get the first aid kit!
Rina: Onee-chan...
Kurimi-papa: Don't worry, papa is here for you!
Randou: (The road to being a girl is still a long one...)
Omnipotent: (That's what Randou fervently thought)
Doki Count (the number of times the sound effect “doki” appears in this chapter): 17