Kimagure Orange Road "The Secret Snapshot" Volume 10, Story 7 WB Volume 6, Story 7 Written and illustrated by Matsumoto Izumi Translation by : Hitoshi Doi (29 January 1992) Compilation & Additional translation by : Craig Nishida Editing and Additional help by : Paul Hirose Craig Nishida Thomas Wyatt Jerry Lee Last revision : 08-18-95 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 127 (127) are only in the WBs! --------------------------------------------------- p 127 (127)--TITLE PAGE [Matsumoto Izumi's pov as he sketches Madoka singing onstage.] MAIN TITLE (at top) The Secret Snapshot SUB-TITLE (at bottom) The Making of Pretty Girl Madoka! --------------------------------------------------- p 128 (128) 1 [Kurumi gapes at a picture in the photo album. Manami sits nearby.] Kurumi: Manami-chan! Your face is so strange!! Manami: Isn't that you! 2 [Kyousuke moves in between them and stares at the pictures.] Kyousuke: Oh, an old album, hmm... Who wet the bed? 3 Takashi: [reading a newspaper] That's you, Kyousuke. [Kyousuke blushes.] crows-in-background FX: 4 Kurumi: Wowww! Oniichan was a bedwetter! narration: Old pictures are so embarrassing... 5 Kyousuke: But... It looks like there are hardly any pictures of me... 6 [Exterior view of the balcony of the Kasuga residence.] Manami: [off] Well, after all, we're cuter. Right, otousan? Kurumi: Oniichan was a snotty-nosed brat. So uncute!! Kyousuke: [off] Yah, so what?! Hmmph. --------------------------------------------------- p 129 (129) 1 [Exterior shot of the school. Students arrive.] 2 [Kyousuke walks into class to find a crowd around Hiromi's desk. She sits there holding an open book.] Kyousuke: What are you looking at? class FX: Hiromi: Ah, Kasuga-kun! 3 Hiromi: [smiling] Look! This is a picture of you when you were at our old school! 4 Kyousuke: [blushing, horrified] EHHHH!?! Komatsu: [grinning] Now. At last.. Your past is revealed!! 5 [She holds up 2 photos. Both are of a short-haired, Yuusaku-like kid. In one, Kyousuke stands outside in the hall, holding 2 buckets labeled "1-D". In the other, he picks his nose.] Hiromi: HERE!! 6 [Kyousuke blushes fiercely.] class: OHHHHHH! He's amazing! --------------------------------------------------- p 130 (130) 1 [Kyousuke grabs Hiromi by the wrist.] narration: Wh-what is she doing, bringing something like this in?! Kyousuke: St-stop!! Hiromi: It's okay. Nothing's being lost by showing it.* <*Translation note (CN): This is a cliche. It is also a popular line used by guys to get girls to show more of their bodies... "It won't go away if you show it." That a girl (Hiromi) is saying it, makes it amusing.> 2 Kyousuke: You want to humiliate me?!! Hiromi: Oh, doesn't everyone know? narration: My image will come crashing down!! 3 Kyousuke: You can't be showing stuff like this!! 4 [Madoka enters the classroom.] narration: Especially to Ayukawa... 5 [He releases Hiromi's wrist and the pictures go flying.] Kyousuke: AH! Hiromi hand FX: 6 [One lands on Madoka's desk.] photo FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 131 (131) 1 Kyousuke: [aghast] AAH! 2 [It lands face up. It is the photo of 7th-grade Kyousuke, picking his nose.] 3 [Madoka looks down at the picture before her. Kyousuke comes racing over.] Kyousuke: Th-that's!! 4 [Madoka portrait--surprise.] 5 [Madoka portrait--laughter.] Madoka: 6 Madoka FX: narration: Ahhhh... 7 [He retrieves the photo, still blushing fiercely, and looks at Hiromi. Meanwhile, Madoka has turned away to hide her laughter. Komatsu and Hatta watch her in disbelief.] narration: This jerk...! Bringing in something totally uncalled-for, and making a complete fool out of me...! Madoka FX: Komatsu: Hey, Ayukawa's laughing! Come to think of it, she hardly ever laughs at anything. --------------------------------------------------- p 132 (132) 1 [Exterior night shot of the Ayukawa residence.] 2 [Isolated shot of a lamp on a dresser, and a stereo system.] 3 [Madoka sits on her bed, looking at a photo album. Also on her bed are two records.] LP 1: Overture Brahms Overture LP 2: [partial view] ...& Capricci ...Production 4 [Two photos of a young Madoka. In one, she sits and plays in an inner tube. In the other she stands in formal kimono.] 5 page FX: 6 [Madoka portrait.] doorbell FX: [off] --------------------------------------------------- p 133 (133) 1 [Kyousuke appears at the door with two books tucked under his arm.] Kyousuke: Good evening...! 2 Madoka: Kasuga-kun... 3 Kyousuke: Uhh... It's my turn to do the math tomorrow, so... Would you show me your notes? 4 Madoka: Ohh. Sure! Madoka FX: 5 Madoka: [with a smile] It's like I'm your private tutor, hmm? Kyousuke: [smiling] Thank you for everything. narration: This was just an excuse... --------------------------------------------------- p 134 (134) 1 [Madoka sits on the edge of her bed. Kyousuke sits on the floor and watches her.] narration: I was really concerned over her having seen those pictures today... Madoka: Huh?! The picture? 2 Madoka: [beaming] Ohh... That? You were pretty handsome. 3 Kyousuke: R-really...?! narration: Great. It looks like I avoided any harm to my image! 4 [Looking off to the side, Kyousuke spies the open photo album.] 5 Kyousuke: Oh. Is this you, Ayukawa? Madoka: Please don't look too closely. It's embarrassing. 6 [He smiles at 3 pictures of a 5-year-old Madoka.] narration: Wowww! Ayukawa's so cute!! --------------------------------------------------- p 135 (135) 1 [A photo of a 15- or 16-year-old Madoka.] Kyousuke: This one's pretty recent. 2 Kyousuke: This is... [She grabs the album from out of his hands.] Madoka FX: Madoka: Oh, not this page!! 3 [She snatches up a picture and puts it behind her back.] Kyousuke: Eh? Madoka FX: 4 Madoka: This is... A little... Kyousuke: How come? 5 Madoka: [nervous smile] Shall I get you coffee or anything? Aren't you hungry? 6 [Kyousuke portrait.] 7 [Isolated shot of an open textbook, a cup of coffee and a slice of cake.] Madoka: [off] So... This is... In a graph of a quadratic equation... --------------------------------------------------- p 136 (136) 1 [While she explains, Kyousuke studies her.] narration: I wonder if Ayukawa also has embarrassing photos that she doesn't want others to see? 2 narration: Come to think of it... The album only has her childhood and present... In other words, there's a section of her life that's missing. 3 diagram: Childhood / X / the Present pre-school high-school narration: So... What in the world is "X"? 4 Kyousuke: [off] (There weren't any photos of her junior high days!!) narration: Perhaps that means... Ayukawa's hidden photos were taken just before I transferred in... In other words... 5 narration: To me... That's the only period for which I have a blank image of Ayukawa...?! 6 Madoka: [looking up] So... This answer is X equals... Kyousuke: That picture... narration: If I'm told not to look, then I'll want to see it all the more. --------------------------------------------------- p 137 (137) 1 [Madoka stops short.] 2 [He laughs in embarrassment...] Kyousuke: Maybe it's a picture of you with a guy... Kyousuke: What am I saying! 3 [She closes her eyes and smiles.] Madoka: Well, yes...! Kyousuke FX: Kyousuke: Oh, I thought so. 4 [He does a horrified double-take.] Kyousuke: AH! 5 [She gazes dreamily off to the side.] narration: *A* *GUY*?! Madoka: Yeah. I'm meeting him tomorrow. I was just thinking that I'd like to see him! 6 Kyousuke: Tomorrow...?! narration: Th-then, sure enough... It's one of her delinquent pals from her junior high days or something... 7 [A fractured panel of a profile of Kyousuke.] narration: What the hell sorta guy is he?! What... --------------------------------------------------- p 138 (138) 1 narration: What the hell... Sorta guy is he?! Kyousuke FX: 2 [Full-length portrait of Madoka in the shower.] shower FX: 3 Kyousuke: [opening his eyes] Hm? 4 [He looks around.] Kyousuke: Ayukawa... --------------------------------------------------- p 139 (139) 1 [She towels herself dry.] 2 [Walking past the washroom, Kyousuke hears the shower running.] narration: Oh, bathing, huh? shower FX: 3 [He spies something off-panel.] Kyousuke: ! 4 [It's the photo, lying face-down on a dresser..] 5 [He stands in front of it.] Kyousuke FX: narration: What the hell sorta guy is he...? 6 [Tight shot of his hand reaching out to touch the photo.] --------------------------------------------------- p 140 (140) 1 [Madoka exits the washroom, wrapped in a towel. She's just in time to see him reaching for the photo.] door FX: 2 [She blushes.] 3 [He blushes.] 4 Kyousuke: Oh... No... Uhh... Umm... crows-in-background FX: 5 [Wide-eyed and blushing, he raises a hand in greeting.] Kyousuke: How was the bath? narration: What am I saying? 6 Madoka: [seductively] It was just fine... Did you want to take one with me? --------------------------------------------------- p 141 (141) 1 [Hiding the photo behind him, he backs away from her.] Kyousuke: W-well... B-but I took one at home, so... 2 [He backpedals quickly, all the while smiling. Madoka glances off-panel.] Kyousuke: Well, we have to study. Kyousuke move-away FX: 3 Madoka: [blushing, wide-eyed] Oh! The picture... 4 [Kyousuke goes into Madoka's bedroom and shuts the door behind him.] door FX: Kyousuke: 5 [He's just about to look at it when...] Kyousuke: What the heck is this picture...? Kyousuke heartbeat FX: 6 [...Madoka bursts into the room.] Madoka: Don't look!! door FX: 7 [The photo flies out the window.] Madoka: Ah! picture FX: --------------------------------------------------- p 142 (142) 1 [She lunges for it and nearly pitches out the window.] Madoka: Kya!! Kyousuke: Watch out!! 2 [Kyousuke must grab her around the waist to save her.] 3 Kyousuke FX: 4 [She's pulled back in, ending up on the floor against a wall.] Madoka: 5 [But throwing her in has sent Kyousuke himself flying out the window. The photo floats in the air above him.] Kyousuke: Wah!! 6 [He stares at the photo above him...] --------------------------------------------------- p 143 (143) 1 [...and snares it in his left hand.] Kyousuke FX: 2 [He stares at it wide-eyed...] Kyousuke: TH-THIS IS...!! 3 [...all the way...] narration: No doubt about it... She's with a man. And... Ayukawa is... 4 [...down...] Kyousuke: (Stark naked! Completely nude!) 5 [...to the...] Kyousuke: (But...) 6 [...ground!] bush FX: Kyousuke FX: narration: It's... It's great!! --------------------------------------------------- p 144 (144) 1 [He lies back on her bed, grasping his back in pain. She sits on the edge of the bed.] Kyousuke: Ow-ow-ouch... Madoka: Are you all right? 2 Madoka: [looking at him unhappily] Really now! It serves you right!! 3 [She's startled to see a smile on his face.] Kyousuke: 4 [He sits up, photo in hand, and gives her a wink.] Madoka: What are you laughing for? Maybe you got hit in the wrong spot... Kyousuke: This... 5 Madoka: [blushing and anguished] Ah!! Kyousuke: How great. He's coming back tomorrow. 6 Madoka: [small smile] Yeah, it's been a while! narration: Ayukawa's secret... I feel like I've learned a little bit more about her... For some reason, I'm happy! --------------------------------------------------- p 145 (145) 1 Madoka: But still... 2 Madoka: PERVERT!! Give it back! narration: But... She's so embarrassed... Ayukawa's so cute. 3 [Closeup of the picture. A 3-year-old Madoka plays in a bubble bath with her father.] narration: To be sure... Ayukawa's completely nude, but, if it's with her father... I'll forgive her!! ---------------------------------------------------