MARIONETTER GENERATION 
Vol.1 Chapter 1-4  Sleeping Lady

(C) By Mikimoto Haruhiko  [Note: All names in Japanese order]
(C) Published by Kadokawa Shoten   1989 [The manga is serialized in NEWTYPE]

Translation: Patrick YIP (pckyip@athena.mit.edu)

Credit to MEGAMI JIMUSHO [Goddess Studio]
        Members: Hiroshi HAGA, David MOU, Iain SINCLAIR, Patrick YIP
Flames to Patrick YIP (for this guy posted the translation without prior
                       consultation with the Studio. He even didn't do any
                       proofreading!!)

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SLEEPING LADY 1

p.13

Telephone: Hello, the obscure illustrator Morino Izumi is out now.

p.14

Tel: Please introduce a job that would keep me in my room!

Tel: Bishojo (pretty cutey girls) illustrations would be BEST.

Tel: If you have other business, please leave your message after the signal.

Tel: Thank you.

Morino (M): It's so noisy!

Kinoko (K): HOW CAN ONE BELIEVE NOBODY"S AT HOME EARLY IN THE MORN"IN ??!!!
	    It's Kinoko (Mushroom?).
	    I've brought breakfast to you.
	    HELLO!!

M: How come here's a girl...

Background (Back): DELUSION.

Doll (D): .....

p.16

M: Can't remember anything at all.

<Pin-Pon>

<Baam>

K: Good morning.

p.17

Back: Room in a litter

K: What a mess.

K: Any you didn't switch off the VCR.

K: You watched video again? Surely you like video!

M: For reference.

K: Hmph.

[Nakabayashi Hitomi (18 up)   Evil Dream Cat   Kohchuu Video]

M: It's for design work.

p.18

K: Your telephone recording sounds so gloomy.

M: Well, well.

M: An able man should be out all the time.

K: But saying this while you're actually at home looks likea pitiful kitten
   to me.

M: After all, I'm wretched. Little work, poor drawings. Even when out, I just
   wander around here and there.

K: Unable to follow up.

K: Such a broken mood.

Back: Thickhead

p.19

K: Did something really terrible happen to you? Don't just stick in futon all
   the time!!

K: I have prepared the breakfast for you.

Back: (O-> + O-+) / BED = OX<@

p.20

K: VERY CUTEY Taste!

p.21

M: VERY CUTEY Taste??

Back: Child Pervert

M: A..Ahhhh

K: I know I'm just an uninvited disciple of you.. but..

K: I make breakfast everyday, and patiently wait for my adult age.

M: ... hey, I don't mean...

K: IT"S TOO MUCH! IT"S TOO MUCH!!!
   If you have such a taste, here is me, a junior high school student!!

M: You got it wrong..

p.22

K: Kya.. my chest...

M: Step back a little.

M: No.. no nostrils.

K: Do you have any then??

M: Oh well!

p.23

M: It's a doll! A DOLL!! Have a close look!

K: Why do you live with a doll?

M: I am NO child pervert!!

K: If doll attracts you so much, it's better to consider me...

M: What are you talking about!? What can I do to this doll?? Here! Have a close
   look!! (flipping up the skirt of the doll)

<Bachin - slapping noise>

p.24

D: H.

*** SLEEPING LADY - 2 ***

p.25

Don't throw rubbish here - Tokyo-to -

p.26

Comment: This is a straw packet.

M: It's vulgar.

K: Can't you listen to me attentively?

K: @#&)!! #)(%&)!! $#)$#@!? #_#!@#@!! #@)><:!! $(*@!! #)(#*!? 

p.27

K: SO!

K: What shall we do with it!?
   That W"IRD Doll!!

K: Hair's like thi......z!!
   Its face is sooo biiigggg!!

K: A flat nose, no nostrils, mitten hands, dwarf body, short legs. 
   And if it's not the worst, there's this totally outdated ribbon.

K: TO MAKE IT WORSE..

Comment: Is it the second time she shows a face like this?

p.28

M: So you've been saying these bad words..

M: And you..

K: To make it wor... all in all, isn't it kinda cutey!!

D: After all you feel bad at me.

p.29

D: But truly I have absolutely no clue of what happened...
   Where do I come from? Who am I?

D: I know nothing before I woke up...

D: When I woke up, I was in this body..

D: I don't understand...

D: And I found myself sleeping with you

Comment: BGO "O hima nara kite yo ne" With nice hope!! (?)

p.30

Signboards: Violet bookstore, A-B-C Home, 3/F HAL Hair Salon, Cafe Ru Parnas,
 	    Italia Boots

<stare>

Back: Others' attention

K: (shaking hand) There!

Passers-by: (left to right) Wow!
			    The latest toy? 
			    Is it stuffed?
			    That man must be H
			    Wonder if he's a bra thief?
			    Lowest.
			    What's that?
			    Oh no!
			    Does he find it embarassing?	
			    This guy must be hungry for something.
			    A sukebe no wonder.

M: EXPULSION.

p.31

K: Nya.. you're so mean!

M: Think about what you did.

D: Behhhh

M: You have to know this acute mood of trying to share the single feeling with
   the other person.

K: I wish I could know it.
   I don't understand! (scratching hair)

K: I can't feel what is Love!

D: Since the existence of stuff like me could only cause disturbance...
   Are you going to throw me away?

M: No.

K: No!?

M: It seems to me that I can do something about you. If thing goes right,
   I might be able to get some new story material.

p.32

K: Story material?
   Doesn't sensei never draw manga?

M: Well, at least I can start by picking the genre..
   .. then only if I get some job...

K: Oh yeah!! It's good idea!!
   (She has no idea of her own)

D: So that means I...

D: !! That... that is...

M: Hey! Where're you going??

*** SLEEPING LADY - 3 ***

p.33

D: That.. that is...

p.34

D: That size..

D: There's not only me..

D: I can't get it wrong.

D: My same kind.

D: My friend!

p.35

K: It's gone.

K: It'd be great if it doesn't come back!!
   then it'll be the Platonic time between sensei and I.

M: Really?

M: I have a little bit of feeling of missing something.o

K: NO NO IT COULDN"T BE!!

M: I thought I could get some story material from her...

K: Doesn't it look terrible?
   What would it be if it's possessed by some evil spirit?
   If you want do something to the doll, why don't you do it to me?

M: What are you talking about? If she doesn't come back, this MANGA will be
   finished!!

Author: Oh yes.

Author: I didn't think about it well... From now on, I will be more like a
	professional manga artist.
	I can still make it.

(Author gets hit by a copy of Newtype. Voice: We don't change the topics like
 this!)

p.36

Slogan: Musashino Shopping Street  Winter Bargain Sale  through 30th

D: There're so many people here. Where is she?

[D: Why did she run away from me?]

D2: Oh I see I see. So you aren't dull after all.

p.37

D2: Among all the awkward shapes, you picked this most awkward body.
    Anyway, it looks good for you when you run with four feet.
 
D: Great! Now I'm not alone.

D: So we are friends?

D2: Friends?

p.38

D2: You don't remember anything.. that's why you dare to come after me so
    shamelessly!

p.39

Children: It did it perfect!! 
	  It even has different facial expressions!
	  The body outline is cool!
	  Which company's Mecha is it?
	  What a beautiful outfit!
	  Let's grab it and have a look!
	  Pretty hair! 
	  It's strange.

Child: Ouch!

D2: I'll have no mercy next time I see you!

D: I have to get my memory back first...

p.40

People: Oh great!
	What happened?
	Um?
	I tripped a little bit.
	What a strange doll.

D: The street is so cold...

K: And so my conclusion is that it is not a common doll, it's...

K: Alien!!

M: Stupid answer!

*** SLEEPING LADY - 4 ***

p.42

M: Yes. Yes. Yes, I will. I'm so sorry. She will go back soon. Yes! I'm very
   sorry. 

M: So you see...

K: NO!!! I Won't Go Back!!
   If I Go Back, You Will Go Out And Try To Look For That Doll !!
   No Matter What, No!!

p.43

M: Didn't you once say that you want to develop a career in illustration?
   The very basic of all is curiosity!
   One should have the mind to feel interested in all kinds of things.
   You should never forget it.

K: I hate preaching!

M: And not to say that weird stuff. I won't let her go away.

K: So you mean...

K: These! 

[Idol books: (top, right to left) .. Kumiko, Harada Tomoyo, Nakamori Akina,
	Matsuda Seiko photo album, Matsuda... , Kadokawa Shoten.
	  (bottom, right to left) Haika .., Yakushimaru Hiroko, Harada Tomoyo,
	Sukeban Deka, Minamino Yohko, Morio..., Sukeban..., Jounetsu (passion),
	Pormenia, Saitoh Yuki..]

(wonder why there's no Sakai Noriko?? BTW I like Yuki, Akina and Hiroko :-)

K: And these!

[Idol Records and CD]

Comments: due to rearrangement of frames, the CD's are not shown

K: And this!

[Saitoh Yuki poster]

Comments: Doesn't look like the real thing

p.44

K: Are all these what you meant by CURIOSITY !??

Back: Groaning and gasping voices of girls when they are doing something.

On video: (right) SM Madonna, Female Body Cruising
	  (left)  Matsuba zushi opening chapter

K: I found plenty of personal bias from you.

K: Overall You Just Love Girlie Thing, Right?

Back: Bull's Eye

Small letters: Lust for women, Lust for men.....

Comments: It has absolutely nothing to do with the author (just for reference)

M: Then why not you quit being my disciple?

K: Don't be so unkind.

M: Hello, it's Morino.

M: ... hah?!

M: Police?

p.45

West Kobo police office

Police (P): This must be this lady's doll. You dropped it today.

M: Ahh...

M: But how did you know it's ours?

[Paper: Please return me to: 642x-6x37 Morino Izumi]

P: I found this in its coat's pocket.

M: I didn't do that (look at Kinoko)

K: I'm so grateful! I thought I'd lost it forever. It's so nice to see it
   again!

[K: Mind your own business!]

p.46

M: It's Being Late, Go Back Now.

K: But...

M: No But!

K: However...

M: No However!

K: Nevertheless...

K: Sensei mustn't do flirty things!

M: What can I do to a doll? I am not a HENTAI!

K: But you slept with it!

Back: Nyan Nyan H H H H..

M: You Must Go Back Tonight!

K: ....

p.47

K: YOU MUST NOT DO FLIRTY THINGS!!!

K: Otherwise I Won't Forgive You!

K: YOU MUSTN"T!!

D: You-Must-Not-Do-Flirty-Things.

[M: What on earth is this... Am I destined to have troubles with women?]

p.48

D2: What a perfect disguise!

Woman: Who did this? Dropping trash here!

D2: .....

[And so an interesting (but uncertain) triangle is started.] 

K: You mustn't do flirty things!!

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