From: tkim@sdcc3.ucsd.edu (Tonghyun Kim)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.manga
Subject: KOR VOL.18 Translation
Keywords: KOR, translation, Orange Road
Date: 7 Nov 92 22:13:56 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego



	              KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD VOL.18


Original story and art copyright (C)1992 Izumi Matsumoto/Shueisha
    English translation copyright (C) 1992 Tonghyun "Vajra" Kim

			Ver. 1.0 11/7/92


  		   THE TWO THAT CAN'T TURN BACK
		

Oniichan => older brother
Oneesan => older sister
Senpai (sempai) => A way to address your seniors in the school or
company.
Shinichi (Harada) => A delinquent who has a crush on Hikaru. Appears
only in manga.


* Page numbers in parentheses are for Widebans.


p108 (p246)
MANAMI: I'd like to reserve an airplane ticket.

MANAMI: Round-trip to Hokkaido. Yes...for my father.

MADOKA: I'm Ayukawa Madoka.

MADOKA: To LA on 20th. Yes, just one.

[MANAMI: Huh? That's...Ayukawa-san...!]


p109 (p247)
MADOKA: No...One way ticket will do it.  Yes...it's for myself.

MANAMI: Mado...

[MANAMI: Eh? One way ticket!?]

MADOKA: Oh dear.

MANAMI: Hello.

MANAMI: Are you going to America?

MANAMI: Again...to see your parents?


p110 (p248)
MANAMI: But to reserve an ONE WAY ticket...

MANAMI: Will this trip be a long one?

MADOKA: Yes...I might not come back at all.

MANAMI: Stop that! You're kidding again.

MADOKA: Say...Manami-chan...


p111 (p249)
MADOKA: I want you NOT to tell anyone else...that I'm going to
America.

MANAMI: Eh?

MANAMI: Y...Yes.

MANAMI: Please.

MADOKA: The school starts again from tomorrow. Did Kasuga-kun go
to the seminars without skipping?

MANAMI: Well...as usual, Oniichan (did skip the seminars).

MADOKA: Will Kasuga-kun be able to make it to the college?

MANAMI: I have no idea.


p112 (p250)
[KYOSUKE: When the summer vacation was over, an incident 
occured at the school.]

[KYOSUKE: A teacher's meeting was held in a hurry at teachers'
office ...]

[KYOSUKE: And various rumors spread among students.]


p113 (p251)
[KYOSUKE: Everyone in the school was talking about the incident.]

[KYOSUKE: But I never imagined that things would turn out like
this...]


p114 (p252)
KOMATSU: Hey, did you hear about it?

KOMATSU: The story that the agents from several productions came 
to this school in order to recruit Ayukawa as their talent.

KOMATSU: They must've set their eyes on Ayukawa at that audition.
AWESOME!

HATTA: You mean the one that never got aired on TV?

KOMATSU: But...what do they see in a girl like Ayukawa?


p115 (p253)
KOMATSU: Well, she looks good and she was the best singer at that 
audition but...

HATTA: Then she meets all the requirements.

KOMATSU: But she's a delinquent.

KYOSUKE: In what way?

KOMATSU: Eh?

KOMATSU
I don't know whether it's because she entered the audition without 
school permission or her part time job at ABCB but it's true that
she's currently under the suspension.


p116 (p254)
[KYOSUKE: That's true...because it, she's currently under the
suspension.]


p117 (p255)
[KYOSUKE: But Ayukawa isn't the only one who entered the contest!]

KYOSUKE: I don't think Ayukawa is a delinquent.

KOMATSU: Well, but they say "A tall tree catches much wind."

KOMATSU: Where are you going, Kasuga?

KYOSUKE:  Well...Tell the teacher that I went home early.


p118 (p256)
HATTA: But these days I came to think that Ayukawa is not a
delinquent.

HATTA: It is true that she was a delinquent and was all nerves in
Jr. high years. She was an unapproachable person and she actually got 
involved in fighting quite often.

HATTA: Perhaps it's just my imagination but I think she changed 
after Kasuga came to this school.

HATTA: Actually Ayukawa might be a better girl than we think.

KOMATSU: Why do you think so?

HATTA: Think about it. We also entered that audition. But why only 
Ayukawa got suspended?
 

p119 (257)
HATTA: If it were us, we would have said that it's just not us who 
entered the audition, to save our ass.

KOMATSU: OK...! Hatta, come with me.

HIKARU: Are you going to just sit here and watch?

HIKARU: It isn't fair that Madoka-san took all the responsibility
and got suspended!

KURUMI: It's not fair!

MANAMI: Yes...I think we should honestly tell them that we also 
entered the contest.

HIKARU: OK! Then we're gonna do it.


p120 (p258)
MASTER: I know there is no excuse for her breaking the school 
regulation of prohibiting students from having part-time jobs.

MASTER: But I'm the one who should take the responsibility since 
I'm the one who hired her even though I was aware of the regulation.

MASTER: Please withdraw the suspension on her.

PRINCIPAL: How are you going to take the responsibility?

MASTER: I won't let this happen again. To make sure that my store 
won't be of a nuisance to your school ever again...


p121 (p259)
MASTER: I'll permanently shut down ABCB as of today.


p122 (p260)
MADOKA: With this incident, I made a decision...


p123 (p261)
MADOKA: So I don't need this picture anymore....

MADOKA: I guess I'm weak willed after all...

MADOKA: What have I been expecting...?

MADOKA: I've been thinking that things will change someday...

MADOKA: When I wake up one morning...

MADOKA: But even the all-mighty god can't change this simple math
that...


p124 (p262)
MADOKA: 1 + 1 can't be 3!


p125 (p263)
MADOKA: I wish I weren't a woman...


p126 (p264)
MADOKA: Hello?

MADOKA: Eh? You're...

[KYOSUKE: No one's at home.]

AGENT 1: Excuse me. Are you a classmate of hers?

AGENT 1: Do you know her whereabouts by any chance?


p127 (p265)
AGENT 2: Wait a minute!

AGENT 2: I'm from the Sun Production.

AGENT 3: Hey, we have the priority!

AGENT 1: I guess I'm a bit late in introducing ourselves but I'm
from Fujisan Music...

KYOSUKE: Get the hell outta here!

KYOSUKE: Ayukawa got suspended because of you people!

KYOSUKE: Ayukawa will never be a singer or an actor!


p128 (p266)
MADOKA: Me? A singer?

MADOKA: That doesn't sound too bad.

HAYAKAWA: Really? I thought you would say "NO" right away.

MADOKA: I was wondering what kind of business the super star 
Hayakawa Mitsuru wants to do with me...Did your manager ask you 
to do this? OR...

MADOKA: Are you back to your playboy self?

HAYAKAWA: Hey, stop that...


p129 (p277)
HAYAKAWA: I promised Shiori that I'll quit being a playboy! And 
I'm NOT here on behalf of someone.

HAYAKAWA: I guess I'm like Salieri in the movie AMADEUS.

MADOKA: Oh dear, Salieri was a more industrious and serious 
musician.

HAYAKAWA: Don't try to make fun out of what I've said. I'm talking 
about the musical TALENTS.

HAYAKAWA: Anyway, all I wanted to say is this, Ms. Mozart.

HAYAKAWA: I know that it's foolish of me to encourage a future 
rival...but the people in the music industry were saying: 


p130 (p268)
HAYAKAWA: We want to hear your voice again.

MADOKA: I'll think about it.

HAYAKAWA: Thank you. I'll tell my manager about it.

MADOKA: But...before that, I have something that I must do.

HAYAKAWA: I'll be patiently waiting for your reply.


p131 (p269)
PRINCIPAL: Wait. Please calm down. You don't have to go that far, 
Master.

PRINCIPAL: Please look at that.

KOMATSU: WE also entered that audition. So please don't let just 
Ayukawa receive the suspension!

HIKARU: That's right. Suspend all of us!

TOBA: That's right. Although I'm a teacher, I've seen to that
audition, too. What's wrong with students freely enjoying the music?

PRINCIPAL: Well, well. You too, Toba Sensei...?

PRINCIPAL: It's true that we discussed about it in a teacher's 
meeting but we have never decided on any kind of suspension!


p132 (p270)
KOMATSU: Huh...?

PRINCIPAL: Ayukawa Madoka-kun phoned school and said like this. 
"Please let me have a disciplinary confinement so that I won't be of
any nuisance to the school."

PRINCIPAL: That's what we're now discussing about. That's not 
something a student can decide by herself. We want her to come 
back to the school as soon as possible.

HIKARU: Madoka-san...asked for it by herself...!?

PRINCIPAL: I don't want to put our school in shame by suspending 
this many students at once...And there's no data that tells that
doing part-time job and music makes grades worse.

PRINCIPAL: Especially in case of Ayukawa-kun, strangely she 
suddenly jumped into the top-class after the spring of 9th grade.


p133 (p271)
HIKARU: Madoka-san asked for the disciplinary confinement in her 
house...? What's on her mind?

[MANAMI: TO America...?]

[MADOKA: Yes...I might not come back at all...]

[MANAMI: Unless what I'm thinking is wrong...I have a bad feeling 
about this...]

KOMATSU: Who the hell was it? The bastard who spread the rumor 
that Ayukawa got suspended?

KOMATSU: Ah! Hey, Sayuri-chan!!

SAYURI: Oh dear. Good afternoon.


p134
SAYURI: Hmm...a false rumor? I think it's because she was having 
affairs with that Kasuga guy. A good lesson for her!

[SAYURI: After all, I'm the one who spread the rumor.]

KURUMI: Please come in.

HIKARU: Hello. I'm coming in.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(p272)
SAYURI: Hmm...a false rumor? I think it's because she was having
affairs with that Kasuga guy. A good lesson for her!

[SAYURI: After all, I'm the one who spread the rumor.]

HIKARU: What do you mean by HER?


(p273)
HIKARU: Are you talking about Madoka-san?

SAYURI: That's right. Don't you know about their relationship?

HIKARU: Relationship...!? What do you mean by that?


(p274)
SAYURI: To tell the truth, those two are...

KURUMI: Please come in.

HIKARU: Hello. I'm coming in.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++



p135 (p275)
KURUMI: Hikaru-chan's face was so funny then.

HIKARU: But I couldn't help it!

KURUMI: It's so funny that I have to hold my sides.

KURUMI: Why didn't you say something, Hikaru-chan?

HIKARU: But I got dumbstruck by her gross misunderstanding, rather
than getting mad at her.

KURUMI: Without knowing that his "real" girlfriend is right before
her eyes!

KURUMI: To say that Oniichan and Madoka-san is a couple bonded by an
unbreakable tie!


p136 (p276)
HIKARU: This time I'll tell Madoka-san about this and see what kind
of expression she'll come up with.

KURUMI: Isn't it obvious? She'll laugh to death.

MANAMI: Please don't do that, for god's sake!


p137 (p277)
HIKARU: Manami-chan..!?

HIKARU: What? What are you talking about? Did I just say something 
wrong?

MANAMI: Nothing....

[MANAMI: But if it goes on this way...]

[MADOKA: I might not come back...]


p138 (p278)
MANAMI: Hikaru-chan!

MANAMI: I...I have one thing to ask you.

MANAMI: Please stay outside, Kurumi.

KURUMI: Miser! Why?

MANAMI: Whenever I clean up the closet in Oniichan's room, I
notice...

MANAMI: This...


p139 (p279)
MANAMI: Is this hat yours?

HIKARU: Huh? No.

MANAMI: I see. As expected...

HIKARU: What a pretty straw hat!

HIKARU: Huh?

HIKARU: This is...Madoka-san's?


p140 (p280)
HIKARU: Why? Why does senpai have this?

MANAMI: How can you tell it's Madoka-san's?

HIKARU: Because it has been hanging on the walls of Madoka-san's
room from the time when I was little. This hat is supposed to
Madoka-san's most precious treasure which she got from her first
love...

HIKARU: Now you mention it, I think I haven't seen it since 
sometime ago...

HIKARU: I think it was around the time you transferred to our 
school. This?

MANAMI: That hat has been here since the day we moved in.


p141 (p281)
MANAMI: I've been thinking that the hat was Hikaru-chan's gift to
Oniichan...

MANAMI: I asked him about the hat when he first brought it. Then 
he got shy and said like this, as if he were joking:

MANAMI: "I fell in love with her but I don't know who she is..."

[HIKARU: To think of it, I first met senpai on the day he
transferred to our school.]

[KYOSUKE: You're the girl who gave me the hat yesterday...]

[HIKARU: ...Hat!?]

HIKARU: That's right. He said something about hat then.


p142 (p282)
HIKARU: And I asked Madoka-san about it because senpai seemed to 
know Madoka-san.

HIKARU: If he is a friend of Madoka-san...

HIKARU: And Madoka-san said "I don't know a scum like him!"

HIKARU: But why would...Madoka-san...tell such a lie?

KURUMI: Ah! I remember! Hikaru-chan was smoking then.

MANAMI: Hey, Kurumi!

HIKARU: Please don't say that! That senpai... the one I love saw
that I was smoking... That he thought me as a delinquent. That's something
a girl...


p143 (p283)
MANAMI: Hikaru-chan wasn't the only one who thought so.

HIKARU: How can it be...possible?

HIKARU: I'm leaving!

MANAMI: Hikaru-chan!


p144 (p284)
YUSAKU: How courageous of you to come here alone.

SHINICHI: Same to you.

YUSAKU: I warn you again, GIVE UP Hikaru-chan!

SHINICHI: Let's start it right away. Including this, how many times
have we fought?

YUSAKU: Seven times. No matter how many times we fight, the result 
will be the same.

SHINICHI: I'll keep fighting till I win!


p145 (p285)
MASTER: Welcome...

MADOKA: I'm sorry for absenting myself for several days without
notice.

MASTER: Madoka-kun!

MASTER: What's wrong? To get drunken this far...

MASTER: Hey, I'm not up to this kind of job.


p146 (p286)
MASTER: Huh? You didn't meet him? He was here until a moment 
ago, worrying about you.

MASTER: So you didn't meet Kasuga-Kun?

MADOKA: No, I hid from him.

MASTER: Why?

MADOKA: I don't have confidence in myself. IF I meet him now...If I
see Kasuga-kun's face now...

MADOKA: I have no idea what I might say to him....


p147 (p287)
MASTER: Ayukawa-kun.

MASTER: I'll forget what I heard tonight.

MADOKA: Thank you, Master...

MADOKA: Say...Master, please fire me.

MASTER: ...OK.

MADOKA: Thank you. Now I'm free. I don't have to worry about 
giving you any more troubles.

MASTER: But I didn't fire you. Think of it as a happy retirement. 

MASTER: Ayukawa-kun, please go back to the school. Everyone is 
waiting for you.


p148 (p288)
MADOKA: Master...

MADOKA: I'm thinking about quitting the school and going into the 
music business.

MASTER: For what (Whom)!?

MASTER: For Hikaru-chan?

MASTER: If you think so, Ayukawa-kun...You're WRONG.


p149 (p289)
MADOKA: Maybe you're right.

MADOKA: I was just kidding, Master. Come on, don't take it
seriously...

MADOKA: Say...Master...

MADOKA: Three years ago, when Hikaru first called Kasuga-kun her 
boyfriend....

MADOKA: I said to her "I see. Do your best. I'll stand by your side
to help you."

MADOKA: I promised her...


p150 (p290)
MASTER: You've endured long enough. You've exhausted yourself, 
playing the role of big sister who's always concerned about her 
younger sister's well-being...


p151 (p291)
MASTER: Hi...Hikaru-chan!

[MASTER: Oh no, was she here all along?]

MASTER: Hi...Hikaru-chan...

HIKARU: Why? Why does everyone hide things from me?


p152 (p292)
[HIKARU: Madoka-san, senpai and Master...!!]

MASTER: Hikaru-chan!

[HIKARU: What am I? Was I just a clown who've been fooled by 
everyone for three years?]

[HIKARU: Senpaiiiiiii!!!]


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(p293)
HIKARU: Senpai...please tell me it's a lie...senpai...

KYOSUKE: Hello? Kasuga Residence.

KYOSUKE: Hello...Hello?


(p294)
KYOSUKE: Hello...Hello? Hello? Who is this?

KYOSUKE: Ayukawa? Is it Ayukawa? Where are you? I'm so worried 
about you.

KYOSUKE: Hello? Ayukawa!
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++


p153 (p295)
MANAMI: I'm sorry...

KYOSUKE: I see.

MANAMI: I'm so sorry.

KYOSUKE: It's already too late. And it's a problem that I have to
take care of.

KYOSUKE: It's all my fault...


p154 (p296)
[HIKARU: Please...Senpai...! Senpai, please tell me it's a lie...!]

[HIKARU: that senpai loves Madoka-san...]

[HIKARU: I...I can't see him.]

[HIKARU: Although I'm right here and I want to see him so badly ...]


p155 (p297)
[HIKARU: Still I can't see him!]

YUSAKU: Hey, hang on. You really are nothing but a big mouth.

SHINICHI: Shut up. Let me go alone. What a shame. I can walk by
myself.

YUSAKU & SHINICHI: Hikaru-chan!!


p156 (p298)
HIKARU: I...I got rejected.

HIKARU: I...I think I'll cry every night for about a year...

YUSAKU & SHINICHI: H...Hikaru-chan.


p157 (p299)
YUSAKU: Please turn your attentions to us, as little as it might be.
We won't mind if it's after you're done with crying.

SHINICHI: Yeah. It doesn't matter whether it'll take 10 or 20 years.
We'll be waiting for you forever, fighting like this...


p158 (p300)
KYOSUKE: It has already been a week since the last time I saw
Ayukawa.

KYOSUKE: She's not at home...I guess the suspension was a shock, 
even for her.
<<<NOTE: In Shonen Jump version of KOR ending, Ayukawa did get 
suspended. Matsumoto forgot to fix this in the compilation version. >>>

KYOSUKE: Where? Where are you now, Ayukawa?

KYOSUKE: Anyway, I have to see Ayukawa and...

KYOSUKE: and...


p159 (p301)
MASTER: No, I haven't seen her.

KYOSUKE: I see.

MASTER: Kyosuke-kun.


p160 (p302)
MASTER: People around her are making too much fuss.

MASTER: She's just an 18-year old girl. For now...they should leave
her alone.

MASTER: But Kyosuke-kun...

MASTER: Please take care of Ayukawa-kun...


p161 (p303)
KYOSUKE: I searched through every place in this town that she might
have gone to.


p162-p164 - no dialogues


p165 (p307)
KYOSUKE: I was really worried about you, desperate to know your 
whereabouts...

MADOKA: I...

KYOSUKE: I...


p166 (p308)
KYOSUKE: I'll quit being Yuujyuufudan (indecisive/irresolute) and...


p167 (p309)
MADOKA: Is it REALLY OK for you to say that?

KYOSUKE: Eh?

MADOKA: I decided...to go to America.



			ETERNAL SUMMER!

+++++ADDITIONAL TRANSLATION FOR THE WIDEBAN++++++++
(NOTE: I only translated the parts that were not included in 
compilation volume 18, since p169-189 of Compilation vol.18 already
has been translated by none other than Hitoshi Doi. His translation
can be found at ocf.berkeley.edu FTP site)


Compilation p169-181 => Wideban p311-323

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
(p324) - No dialogues


(p325)
HIKARU: Why did you hide such an important thing from me?

MADOKA: What are you talking about? Don't be silly. Kasuga-kun is
yours.

HIKARU: Please stop hiding things from me! *ONEESAN*!! You're 
going to America because of me, right?

HIKARU: We're not real sisters but you were more precious to me 
than any real sister could ever be!


(p326)
MADOKA: Then I guess our relationship is over... I have been 
such a bad sister.

HIKARU: I...Frankly, I HATE you, Madoka-san...

HIKARU: But up to now, you always had to endure hardships for me. 
You were torn apart between senpai and me but you always yielded 
to me. 

HIKARU: So this time, I'll yield.

HIKARU: I...I'll let senpai go free. 

HIKARU: I feel better after slapping Senpai.

KYOSUKE: Hi...Hika...


(p327)
HIKARU: You're really a coward, Madoka-san! Where can you run 
away to after playing with feelings of senpai and me?

HIKARU: That's not like you, Madoka-san!

HIKARU: Please...

HIKARU: So please don't run away... I also have to go through the
torment whenever I think of senpai... It's so hard for me to
endure... 
I feel lonely...

HIKARU: And I think this can't happening to me...

HIKARU: This can't be...

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Compilation p182-186 => Wideban p328-332

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

(p333)
MADOKA: You miscounted it again.

KYOSUKE: It's 99 steps that are infinitely close to 100 steps!


(p334)
KYOSUKE: Welcome back, Ayukawa.

MADOKA: I'm back, Kasuga-kun.

KYOSUKE: Did you come back to answer my question?


(p335)
KYOSUKE: LIKE or LOVE?

MADOKA: LIKE!

KYOSUKE: Eh?

MADOKA: But...

MADOKA: It's "LIKE" that's infinitely close to "LOVE".

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Compilation p188-189 => Wideban p336-339

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

(p340)
KYOSUKE: Say, Ayukawa...

KYOSUKE: Don't be surprised when I tell you this.

KYOSUKE: To tell the truth, I am...(an esper)



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