Kimagure Orange Road "Spring = a Shock!" Volume 7, Story 4 WB Volume 4, Story 8 Written and illustrated by Matsumoto Izumi Translation by : Hitoshi Doi (10 Nov 1989) Additional translation by : Craig H. Nishida Compilation by : Spencer C. Hastings Editing and Additional help by : Paul Hirose Craig Nishida Spencer Hastings Thomas Wyatt Jordan Lampe Last revision : 06-30-95 Comments? Corrections? Suggestions? Please send them to: kor-trans@gnu.ai.mit.edu NOTE: WBp#'s are printed first, Normal manga pages in parentheses() NOTE: Translation is done from the WB manga, so there may be a few extras to those of you not having them. Example: The subtitles on page 157 (71) are only in the WBs! --------------------------------------------------- p 157 (71)--TITLE PAGE [Madoka, in her new high school sailor uniform, stands outside the front gate of the school. She leans back against the wall, just around the corner. Approaching the gate, Kyousuke, also in his new school uniform, looks about in search of someone. Around him the cherry blossoms fall.] MAIN TITLE (at top) Spring = a Shock! SUB-TITLE (at bottom) Since It's Spring, Even Her Sailor Uniform Is Tinged with the Pink of Cherry Blossoms. Quietly, She Tries to Waylay You. --------------------------------------------------- p 158 (72) 1 [View looking straight up at the sky. Branches of cherry blossom trees frame the panel.] narration: Spring 1985... 2 [Shot of a pedestrian overpass, and a coffee shop.] Hikaru: [off] It finally starts tomorrow, doesn't it... High School! 3 [Hikaru, in sweater and cap, pulls at her drink through a straw.] 4 [Kyousuke, smiling, drinks from his mug.] Kyousuke: Yeah. --------------------------------------------------- p 159 (73) 1 [View pans back to show them seated at a window table.] Hikaru: [smiling] I wanna hurry up and see your school uniform. Kyousuke: Ha ha! 2 narration: That's right! High school will start tomorrow at last. 3 narration: I've changed schools many times, so I should be used to this... 4 [Hikaru's smile fades as she grows thoughtful.] 5 [Kyousuke notices.] narration: But all day today, I've been truly restless, and somehow edgy. 6 [Hikaru turns to look out the window. Her eyes are damp with tears.] 7 Kyousuke: What's wrong? --------------------------------------------------- p 160 (74) 1 Hikaru: [forcing a smile] I'm a bit sad after all. 2 [She pulls down on her cap to hide her eyes.] Hikaru: I know that the high school
is nearby, but... When I think that you're going to be a high school student... 3 Kyousuke: Hikaru-chan... 4 Hikaru: [eyes still hidden by the cap] I feel as though... You're going terribly far away from me. 5 [Kyousuke portrait--he looks somber as her words have touched him.] 6 Kyousuke: [brightly] It won't be like that. 7 [She reaches across to rest her hands on his.] Hikaru: I wish I could be closer to you. --------------------------------------------------- p 161 (75) 1 [Shot of an intersection.] 2 [Kyousuke runs down the sidewalk, under wet skies.] sign: [partial] ...Toiletries. in katakana above the = toilet articles.> Kyousuke FX: 3 [He finds refuge against the side of a building.] 4 [Overhead view as a girl under an umbrella walks by, close to where Kyousuke stands.] sign: Nitta Osteopathy Clinic Kyousuke: [surveying the weather] (Damn! What rotten luck.) 5 [Of course, the girl is...] Madoka: Hey! --------------------------------------------------- p 162 (76) 1 [She stands in full-page, full-length portrait--in jacket, miniskirt and boots.] Madoka: What are you doing here? 2 Kyousuke: [embarrassed] Just what it looks like... Getting out of the rain... 3 narration: I get to go to high school with Ayukawa. Kyousuke: What about you? 4 theater marquee: [partial] ...Rift in the Green Madoka: [pointing up] Just what it looks like. 5 Madoka: I have 2 free passes that I got from Master... Kyousuke: All right! --------------------------------------------------- p 163 (77) 1 billboard: [at top] Also Playing: First Dream -- A Cat Who Swims Like a Fish...* billboard: [main section] A Rift in Classes Is a Rift in the Green Starring: Irie Takako, Ikebe Yoshi* <*Translation note (CN): The 2nd halves of these are cropped out of the wideban panel.> sign: Castor Theater small sign: [far left] Clinic 2 actor: [high school student] Why, why are you saying you want to break up? 3 actress: [high school student] I found out how truly boring you are after we ended up in different classes! actress: Because you're indecisive and unreliable! 4 [She turns and walks away, leaving behind a shocked boy.] actress: Farewell. 5 actor FX: 6 [In his seat, Kyousuke sweats, blushes and winces.] narration: Wha... 7 [Madoka's eyes grow large.] --------------------------------------------------- p 164 (78) 1 [They exit the movie theater.] Kyousuke: (What a movie!) 2 Kyousuke: [unhappily] (But, if you think about it, maybe that's the way it is...) 3 [Madoka notices his somber mood.] sign: Perm 4 Madoka: You're worrying about that movie, aren't you. sign: Fresh Meat 5 Kyousuke: [nervously] N-nothing like that! sign: [top] Plastic Model Railroad Radio-controlled sign: [bottom] Jumbo Figure Goods received one after another inside! 6 [Madoka gives him a knowing look.] --------------------------------------------------- p 165 (79) 1 Madoka: [gently smiling] All girls aren't like that. 2 [Her pov of him. He looks back with surprise.] 3 Madoka: [averting her gaze] But... 4 [She tosses back her hair and looks up at the sky.] Madoka: I hope we can be in the same class. 5 Kyousuke: [smiling] Eh? 6 Madoka: Oh, nothing. sign: Tatami Store --------------------------------------------------- p 166 (80) 1 Madoka: Well then... Now it's time for me to go to ABCB! 2 [The sun breaks through the clouds.] Kyousuke: Oh, it's stopped raining. 3 [Shot of the clearing skies.] narration: I'm sure we'll have nice weather tomorrow! 4 [They walk down the sidewalk together. Kyousuke stretches his arms in the air.] narration: Somehow I feel like we'll be in the same class! sign: Hermitage of Splendor truck: Ham --------------------------------------------------- p 167 (81) 1 [Exterior shot of the Kasuga apartment building.] narration: And on the next day, the new school year arrived! 2 [A grey panel.] Kyousuke FX: [off] 3 [His pov of the rest of the family at the breakfast table. They all stop and stare.] 4 Kurumi: Oh no! A cold, oniichan? Kyousuke FX: Kyousuke: [still in his pajamas] It doesn't feel that way. 5 Kyousuke: But since I woke up, my sneezing and tears haven't stopped. Kyousuke FX: Manami: Oh, that's... 6 Manami: Isn't that the hayfever that's been talked about lately? Kyousuke: What's that? corresponding to what we Americans call "hayfever", or "allergy to pollen". This is just a guess, but perhaps it was not a commonly known term in 1985 Japan, among the typical (young) readers of KOR. Hence this explanation.> 7 [Exterior shot of the Kasuga apartment building.] Manami: [off] It's a sort of allergy and they say that the sneezing, runny nose, and tears don't stop. narration: Despite the fact the skies are so clear, my health is playing tricks... Somehow, it feels ominous... Kyousuke FX: [off] --------------------------------------------------- p 168 (82) 1 [Exterior shot of a school building. The cherry blossoms are in full bloom.] 2 [Kyousuke's pov of the class listings. At the top is a header. Below are the various class groups, followed by teacher's name and the names of all the students in that group. In view here is the list for 1-C.] listings: [header] ...School Year Class Groupings 3 student 1: Oh, I'm in class B. student 2: What? So we're in the same class again. 4 [Kyousuke walks through the crowd, dressed in his new, black, school uniform.] Kyousuke FX: narration: At the very start of high school--I'm not feeling lucky. 5 [Komatsu and Hatta run up from behind.] Komatsu: Hey! We're in the same class again. Kyousuke pratfall FX: 6 [Shot looking up at a nearby school building.] narration: Just as I predicted! Kyousuke FX: [off] --------------------------------------------------- p 169 (83) 1 Kyousuke: Ohh? So we're in 1-F. 2 Kyousuke: (More importantly, what about Ayukawa...) 3 [He takes a look at the board.] 4 sign: 1-A 1) Ayukawa Ma... 5 [Dreamy view of another school building. The panel is framed by cherry blossom trees.] --------------------------------------------------- p 170 (84) 1 [Kyousuke's eyes grow large.] 2 [A second look at the board.] sign:1-A 1) Ayukawa... 2) Ishimaru... 3 [He goes into shock.] Kyousuke FX: 4 Kyousuke: (W-we're in different classes!!) 5 [He collapses to the ground on his hands and knees. Komatsu looks on.] Kyousuke FX: 6 [Komatsu stands near and smiles. Hatta bends down to get a closer look at Kyousuke.] Komatsu: What happened...? Are you that happy...? Being together with us. --------------------------------------------------- p 171 (85) 1 [Isolated shot of the sign outside classroom 1-F.] 2 [Students mill about, chatting, getting to know one another...] guy 1: [to a group of 3 girls] Wowww! You're a surfer. guy 2: [to another guy] What club do you want to join? 3 [Kyousuke sits alone at his desk next to the window.] 4 [Deep in thought, he gazes out the window.] narration: It seems like I've gotten far away from Hikaru-chan as well, and... What's more, Ayukawa is in a different class... 5 [He glares at Komatsu and Hatta, busy joking around with each other.] narration: But these guys alone are sticking to me like glue... 6 [He clutches at his head.] narration: My worst fears have come to pass! --------------------------------------------------- p 172 (86) 1 [He visualizes the movie he saw--only, with Madoka in the lead role.] Madoka: [sternly] I found out how truly boring you are after we ended up in different classes! 2 [View pans back to show that Kyousuke is in the lead male role. Madoka walks away, looking back with a final sneer.> Madoka: Farewell. 3 [Back to reality. Kyousuke collapses at his desk.] Kyousuke: (It's all over!!) 4 Komatsu: [smiling] What happened? Are we sad to be separated from Hikaru-chan? 5 Kyousuke: [rising in anger] Leave me alone! 6 [Kyousuke looks up to find the entire class staring at him. Komatsu's eyes have grown large.] class FX: 7 [Kyousuke sits.] Komatsu: You're frustrated, is that it? class FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 173 (87) 1 [Kyousuke rests his head on his desk, but is surprised to hear...] Hikaru: [off] SEMPA-A-AI!! 2 Hikaru: [off] Yoo-hoo! Sempai! narration: That voice... Hikaru-chan? 3 [Zoom in at his face. He still rests his head on the desk, and his face has become flushed.] narration: What's this? I'm starting to hear the voice of Hikaru-chan, who shouldn't even be here. Maybe I've finally... 4 [With a wide grin, Komatsu comes by and pats Kyousuke on his shoulder.] Komatsu: Your wife's calling you-u-u! 5 [Rather dazedly, Kyousuke raises his head and looks around the room.] Kyousuke get-up FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 174 (88) 1 [His pov of a radiantly joyous Hikaru, waving to him.] 2 [Kyousuke facial portrait--he stares in surprise.] 3 [Another view shows that he's looking out the class window, across at another building. On the same floor of that building, Hikaru stands at the window, waving and shouting. Kyousuke smiles.] Hikaru: I can't believe it... It's like a dream. My class is next to yours. 4 [A view from Hikaru's side.] Hikaru: It seems like it's closer than before. Now we'll always be together! 5 [Kyousuke's new classmates stop and stare out the window.] girl: What in the world? class FX: 6 Komatsu: [grinning widely] Oh, that's his wife!! Kyousuke: [livid] That's a lie!! --------------------------------------------------- p 175 (89) 1 [Kyousuke sits at his desk and smiles out the window at Hikaru, who hasn't stopped waving and smiling.] narration: But with Hikaru-chan so close, everything looks a lot brighter. 2 Kyousuke: [checking his eye] Oh, come to think of it, my sight isn't blurred by tears any more. The hayfever seems to have settled down. 3 [Rising to his feet, Kyousuke goes to the window to look down...] Kyousuke: ! 4 [He looks down at the class assignment notice board, which sits below Hikaru's class' window. Yes, she's still there at the window, smiling and waving.] 5 Kyousuke: I wonder if there was a mistake or something with my name, so that I wasn't listed in Ayukawa's 1-A class? 6 [He flashes with the Power.] narration: All right. I'll play my Power card, and use my super-vision!! 7 [A zoom view of a portion of the student list to class 1-A.] sign:1-A 1) Ayukawa Mamoru 2) Ishimaru Kintarou 3) Ueda Bakunosuke --------------------------------------------------- p 176 (90) 1 [He grasps the window in relief.] Kyousuke: Huh?! "Ayukawa Mamoru..." 2 Kyousuke: [smiling] (O-ohhh! So it was my mistake!!) 3 narration: Th-then, where in the world is Ayukawa...?! 4 [He turns at the sound of...] door FX: 5 [Isolated view of the lower legs and skirt of a girl who's entering the classroom.] 6 [Kyousuke's face flashes with surprise.] --------------------------------------------------- p 177 (91) 1 [It's Madoka, who stands at the door, looking about the room.] 2 [Her pov of some chattering classmates.] class FX: 3 [His pov of her--she brushes her hair back from her eyes and still searches about the room.] narration: I jumped to the wrong conclusion because of the hayfever... 4 [She spots him, and both smile.] 5 [In fact, he looks positively ecstatic.] 6 [His pov of her as she salutes him smartly.] caption: 1st-year, Class F. Ayukawa Madoka... narration: I guess Day One of high school passes safely...?! ---------------------------------------------------