Kimagure Orange Road "The Parallel Trip!" Volume 8, Story 3 WB Volume 5, Story 1 Written and illustrated by Matsumoto Izumi Translation by : Craig H. Nishida Compilation by : Spencer C. Hastings Editing and Additional help by : Paul Hirose Craig Nishida Spencer Hastings Thomas Wyatt Michael Chin Jerry Lee Last revision : 07-17-95 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 7 (53) are only in the WBs! --------------------------------------------------- p 7 (53)--TITLE PAGE [Hikaru, in shirt and shorts, jumps in the air, kicks up both heels, and throws out her arms in a cheer.] MAIN TITLE (at top) The Parallel Trip! SUB-TITLE (at bottom) Bursting with Cuteness, the Eternal Summer Girl! ------------------------------------------------- p 8 (54) 1 [Exterior shot of a school building.] school bell FX: Hikaru: [off] Sempa-a-ai! 2 [Kyousuke's pov--with a brilliant smile, Hikaru presents a 3-level stack of boxed lunches.] Hikaru: It's lunchtime... dramatic FX: 3 [Kyousuke recoils in shock, and his classmates look on in nervousness (guys) or merriment (a girl).] class: 4 [Komatsu and Hatta peer in for a look.] Komatsu: Whoahh. Today's menu is calf pie on Black Sea caviar, and foie gras...! narration: Even though I've moved to the high school section, my relationship with Hikaru-chan has become anything but more distant... 5 [Running, she drags Kyousuke off. A female classmate smiles and waves a hankie in farewell.] Hikaru: Well, the weather's nice today, so let's go out to the playground! narration: Things just keep on escalating. --------------------------------------------------- p 9 (55) 1 [Madoka leans back against a tree, reading a book.] 2 Hikaru: [off] Madoka-sa-a-an!! [She looks up.] book: City of Vanity --Kobayashi 3 [Hikaru and Kyousuke approach her, on the run.] Hikaru: Why don't you eat this box lunch with us?!! I made an extremely delicious one today. 4 [Madoka portrait--eyes grow large.] 5 [Kyousuke and Hikaru portraits--Kyousuke sweats and blushes as Hikaru smiles sweetly over his shoulder.] 6 [With all three seated on the grass, Hikaru throws up her arms and smiles. Madoka watches her, still wide-eyed.] Hikaru: Go on, eat! narration: The three of us together... Somehow, it was strange. --------------------------------------------------- p 10 (56) 1 [Kyousuke watches Madoka as the two girls merrily smile.] narration: But just once, I'd also like to try eating a box lunch made for me by Ayukawa. 2 dream Madoka: I made an extremely delicious one today. Just for you, Kasuga-kun...! 3 dream Madoka: [smiling and feeding him] Say, "ahh". dream Kyousuke: Ahh. narration: Having this sort of thing happen once in a while would be okay, wouldn't it? 4 Hikaru: [wide-eyed smile] Oh yeah. Just once, I'd like to try eating a box lunch made by Madoka-san. Madoka: What? [Kyousuke clutches his chest.] Kyousuke: Ah! 5 Hikaru: [turning to him] I'm sure it would taste good. Right, Sempai?! Kyousuke: [nervously] W-well... 6 Hikaru: [hands clasped together] Please, Madoka-san!! --------------------------------------------------- p 11 (57) 1 Madoka: [nervously] S-sure. Okay... 2 [A view of the sky and a nearby school building.] Hikaru: [off] Then, it's a promise! 3 [Kyousuke portrait--he smiles.] narration: This is wonderful! 4 [Exterior shot of the Kasuga apartment building.] Kurumi: [off] Hooray-y-y Thanks, Dad! 5 [Isolated shot of a cake in an opened box. A hefty slice has been cut out of it.] Kurumi: [off] A cake! It's a cake! Kyousuke: [off] If you eat that much you won't have room for dinner! 6 Kurumi: [winking, with a fork in her mouth] That's okay. Then I won't need dinner. Kurumi FX: 7 Kurumi: [smiling] Unless it's my favorite curry rice. Then it's a whole different story! Manami: [off] I'm home... 8 [Manami prances in, beaming a smile.] Manami: Ta-dah! Kurumi, tonight it's curry! [Kyousuke breaks out in laughter as Kurumi pauses in eating and starts sweating.] --------------------------------------------------- p 12 (58) 1 [The four sit at the table, eating dinner.] Manami: What's the matter, Kurumi? Aren't you going to eat? You like curry, don't you? Kurumi: I'm full. 2 Kyousuke: [stifling a chuckle] If *I'd* eaten four slices of cake... Kurumi: [indignant] It was THREE slices! 3 Takashi: [smiling] Well, it seems to be the luck of the draw. Manami: Luck of the draw? 4 [Takashi portrait.] narration: If she hadn't eaten cake, she would have eaten the curry, but... Telling Kurumi not to eat cake set before her eyes is a more difficult thing to do than having an out-of-shape manga artist pin down Andre the Giant. But the problem is this. If Manami had arrived home just a step sooner and Kurumi had known that we were having curry for dinner before eating the cake... 5 [A diagram shows the 2 forks diverging from the decision point.] diagram: [left fork] Eat cake ===> Can't eat curry ===> This ended up a big mistake diagram: [right fork] Don't eat cake ===> Able to eat curry ===> Joy, joy 6 Manami: I see. Sorry, Kurumi. 7 Manami: If I'd only known the first part! Takashi: But you didn't know, and while returning home, you came across something nice by accident. --------------------------------------------------- p 13 (59) 1 Takashi: When you stop and think about it, it's a strange thing. If Kurumi's Power hadn't been discovered in the last town, we might not have moved into *this* town... 2 [Kyousuke stops and stares at his glass.] narration: Then it follows that I wouldn't have met either Ayukawa or Hikaru-chan. Kyousuke: (That means, for me, moving was good...) 3 Manami: If we hadn't moved then... I wonder how we would have turned out. 4 Takashi: Well, the only way to know that would be to go to "the universe in which we didn't move." Manami: Oh, isn't that called a parallel world? 5 Kyousuke: [smiling] I think I'd like to go once to take a peek. Takashi: Saying that's fine, but you won't ever be able to come back again!! 6 [Exterior night shot of the Kasuga apartment building. A tiny portrait of a whining Kurumi appears on her speech bubble. Kyousuke yells back on his speech bubble.] Kurumi: I wanna go to the world where I can eat curry! everyone else: Kyousuke: Don't be silly. --------------------------------------------------- p 14 (60) 1 [Smiling, Kyousuke walks to school alone.] narration: The next day... Kyousuke: (Today, Ayukawa is going to bring a box lunch.) signs: Safety First store sign: Vegetable Store 2 [He looks up to visualize dream Madoka feeding him.] narration: Hikaru-chan makes 3 people--and that's not bad either, but if at all... dream Madoka: Say, "ahh". dream Kyousuke: Ahh. 3 narration: Just for today, maybe Hikaru-chan will catch a cold and be absent. 4 [Too wrapped up in his dreams, he does the "Godai" and walks face-first into a utility pole.] Kyousuke face FX: post sign: room 5 [Rubbing his forehead, he looks off-panel.] Kyousuke: Huh?! 6 [Pov shifts to show him staring at a strange misty vortex which blocks the street before him.] sign on utility pole: Air-conditioning --------------------------------------------------- p 15 (61) 1 [He walks towards the fog...] Kyousuke: What's this? 2 [...sticking his head in it...] Kyousuke: Huh?! Huh?! 3 [...and coming out the other side.] Kyousuke FX: 4 Kyousuke: [running] Oh no, I'm late. school bell FX: 5 [His pov as he comes upon a strolling Madoka in the hallway.] 6 Kyousuke: [smiling] Good morning!! --------------------------------------------------- p 16 (62) 1 [Madoka gives him a stern glare...] 2 [...and turns abruptly away.] Madoka FX: 3 Kyousuke: ? 4 [Exterior shot of a school building.] 5 Kyousuke: [looking at his watch] (Soon now, as always, Hikaru-chan should be coming... 3... 2... 1...) 6 [He looks up towards the door, but...] FX: Kyousuke: ? 7 [Standing at the window, he looks across towards Hikaru's classroom. He doesn't see her.] Kyousuke: She isn't coming...? 8 Komatsu: Hey, Kasuga. What are you looking so spaced-out at? Hatta: C'mon, they'll be sold out of bread! --------------------------------------------------- p 17 (63) 1 [Kyousuke laughs in embarrassment.] Kyousuke: But, Hikaru-chan's coming for me... Komatsu: [wide-eyed] What? Who's "Hikaru-chan?" 2 [Komatsu drags Kyousuke away by the scruff of his neck.] Kyousuke: So there's the box lunch... Komatsu FX: Komatsu: What are you babbling about in your sleep?! We're going!! 3 [A view of the school grounds.] Hatta and Komatsu FX: 4 [Hatta breaks out in laughter. Komatsu eats his sandwich and studies Kyousuke. The three stand outside.] Komatsu: Then, you're saying that this so-called Hikaru girl always brought you box lunches? Komatsu FX: 5 [Kyousuke does a top-notch dewy-eyed Hikaru impression. Kawaii!] Kyousuke: She has short, silky hair, and huge eyes, like this. Kyousuke as Hikaru: Sempai! Komatsu: Have you got a fever or something? 6 Hatta: [pointing a finger at Kyousuke's nose] Besides, there's no reason you'd be popular with a cute girl like that. Komatsu: [gaze downcast] How sad. 'Cause he's so unpopular with girls, he's gone crazy. 7 narration: Have these guys completely forgotten about Hikaru-chan...?! I wonder if I'm dreaming or something. Kyousuke: [smiling, pointing at his face] Hey, pinch me. 8 [A hand extends from off-panel to do just that.] Kyousuke: Ow-ow-ow-ouch! cheek FX: narration: I-it's not a dream!! --------------------------------------------------- p 18 (64) 1 [Turning, Kyousuke spies Madoka walking.] narration: That's it, the box lunch!! 2 Kyousuke: [running] Ayukawa! [Horror fills the faces of Komatsu and Hatta.] Komatsu: Idiot! Get back here! Who do you think you're yelling at?! 3 Komatsu: Have you forgotten who she is? Kyousuke: [smiling] That's Ayukawa. Uhh, what's the matter? 4 [Komatsu and Hatta nervously watch what goes on off-panel.] Kyousuke: [off] Hey-y-y, Ayukawa. Komatsu: There's something wrong with Kasuga today after all! Hatta: What amazing courage... 5 [He runs up to her, and she looks back. This is definitely a more Madoka...] Kyousuke: Say! Did you make a box lunch for me? 6 Madoka: Box lunch? --------------------------------------------------- p 19 (65) 1 Madoka: Why must I make something like that for you? 2 Kyousuke: [taken aback] Eh? 3 narration: Did I do something that might have made her mad? Kyousuke: [embarrassed] Oh, that's right. Have you heard from Hikaru-chan? She's nowhere to be found. Madoka: Hikaru? 4 Madoka: [sternly] Who the hell is that? "Hikaru." 5 Kyousuke: Ah?! narration: Even Ayukawa... What on earth is wrong with everyone? 6 [Madoka steps closer to stare him in the eye.] Madoka: What the heck are you trying to pull? All this time, calling out to me with undue familiarity, and complaining about some box lunch! Madoka approach FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 20 (66) 1 [She steps back, and pulls out something from her skirt pocket.] Madoka: What does it matter... 2 [She puts a cigarette in her mouth and lights up.] cigarette FX: 3 [Kyousuke portrait--she exhales on him. He winces.] Madoka exhale FX: [off] 4 Madoka: I don't know you well at all, nor have I ever met this "Hikaru" girl. 5 Madoka: I don't have any friends in this school. 6 [He does a slow burn.] 7 Madoka: [walking away] Sorry. I thought I knew you. Kyousuke: Y-you idiot!! --------------------------------------------------- p 21 (67) 1 [He grabs her shoulder from behind and spins her about.] narration: What in the world is the matter with Ayukawa? Kyousuke: W-wait!! 2 [With his free hand he takes and flings aside her cigarette. Oh, I think we know where this is leading to... ^_^] 3 Kyousuke: I'm sure I'm having a bad dream. 4 Madoka: [glaring at his hand on her shoulder] Well, then let me wake you up! 5 [She connects to his cheek.] Madoka: Don't touch me so freely! Madoka hand FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 22 (68) 1 [She walks away. Kyousuke holds his injured cheek.] Madoka: If you don't wanna get hurt... 2 narration: AYUKAWA!! 3 narration: I feel as though I've met an Ayukawa like this sometime, somewhere... Oh yeah! When I first met her at school... 4 [Komatsu and Hatta approach him.] narration: But there's only one thing that's different... Hikaru-chan isn't here...! Komatsu: Hey, I told you. Hatta: I'm glad you got off so lightly... 5 [Shot of a building in town.] narration: But... That means that this is--regrettably--not a dream... 6 Manami: [flashback] Oh, isn't that called a parallel world? narration: Does this happen to be a parallel world in which Hikaru-chan doesn't exist?! 7 [Walking home with Komatsu and Hatta, he suddenly stops and searches about.] Kyousuke: [flash] (Come to think of it, I passed through a strange fog this morning, and things ended up this way.) Kyousuke FX: Kyousuke: (If that's the case, then that fog...) Komatsu: What's he doing? Hatta: He's certainly acting strangely! --------------------------------------------------- p 23 (69) 1 [Pov from further down the street. The three guys walk towards us. In the foreground is an open manhole cover and a caution sign.] narration: But... That fog was nowhere... hazard sign: Under Construction 2 [Kyousuke walks with eyes downcast.] narration: ...to be found. Takashi: [flashback] Saying that's fine, but you won't ever be able to come back again!! 3 [He looks up at the sky.] narration: But... It's only Hikaru-chan who's gone, yet things are so much different... Kyousuke: (Now... There's no other choice but to live in this world.) 4 [Greatly discouraged, he again turns his gaze down to the ground.] narration: I'm ashamed of myself for having thought--even for an instant-- that it would be nice if Hikaru-chan wasn't around... Kyousuke: I'm sorry, Hikaru-chan. Komatsu: Still saying that. 5 [With a wide grin, Komatsu slaps Kyousuke on the back, sending him flying forward.] Komatsu: Enough. Cheer up!! Komatsu back slap FX: 6 Kyousuke: [staggering towards the open manhole] Whoops! Kyousuke hopping FX: 7 [Falling towards the hole, the fog makes a sudden reappearance.] Kyousuke: WAH! --------------------------------------------------- p 24 (70) 1 [Kyousuke crashes through a tree to the ground. Madoka, standing nearby, spins around at the sound. They are on school grounds.] Kyousuke FX: leaves FX: 2 Kyousuke: [clutching his head] Ow, that hurts! Madoka: [horrified] Kasuga-kun!! 3 [She leans over the stunned Kyousuke.] Madoka: Just when I thought you weren't around at all... What were you doing here? Kyousuke: [dazed] Nnnn. 4 [He comes to. His eyes bug out and he flinches away from her.] Kyousuke: 5 [He watches as she sticks her hand in her skirt pocket.] Kyousuke FX: reaction FX: 6 [His face is pure horror.] narration: Not again... C-cigarettes?! 7 [She gently wipes his face with her handkerchief. He stares up at her, wide-eyed.] Madoka: Here... Show me your face. handkerchief FX: narration: Eh? Th-then!! --------------------------------------------------- p 25 (71) 1 [His pov of a smiling, happy-to-see-her-Darling, Hikaru. She waves.] Hikaru: Sempa-a-ai! 2 narration: I-it's Hikaru-chan! 3 Hikaru: [running up] Where were you...?! narration: Great!! I've come back to the original universe. 4 [The three sit on the grass. Madoka begins to unwrap her box lunch.] Hikaru: [smiling] C'mon, Madoka-san! Hurry, hurry!! narration: Now, I can say with certainty--THIS PLACE is the best! 4(inset) [Both girls stare at Kyousuke. Hikaru points to her own cheek. Kyousuke trembles with nervousness.] Hikaru: Oh, there's a handprint on your cheek. What happened? Madoka: (It wasn't me today.) ---------------------------------------------------