Sesame Street by Matsumoto Izumi and the Wave Studio Vol.1 Ch.1 "Moving - Thank You For Your Support" Narration - My brother is getting married. [Scene at a traditional wedding] Priest: Eh--- The two before me, Fujiya's Chidoseame-san.... Priest: .....ah? Guests: Priest: ..... ..... oh! Groom: It's Chitose and Amemaru..... Guests: Congratulation--- Do well---- Dad: Yes yes! I'm very proud of you, Amemaru!! You've found a great wife!! That's my son. Dad: Mom (refering to his wife)....! Look at your worthy son!! [Narrator looks at his hyper father] Narration - Mother died some years ago. Today marks the Fujiya family's happiest day! Narration - and then...... Guest: Amemaru-san, you have a call from the company!! Amemaru: Eeeeeeeh!? Now!? ....why the!! Amemaru: ....yeah.....alright.... ........ understood Amemaru: It seems the company will be in deep trouble if I don't go....! No matter what I will be back! I promise! Chitose: ...... okay Narration - That night he began his oversea business trip. Narration - My brother took the flight by himself. Narration - and so ......... [Scene at a traditional funeral.] Priest: Guests: Narration - ........ my brother died. Dad: Ameeemaruuuu----!! Why do you die, you unworthy child---!! Narration - My brother's flight disappeared above the ocean near Ghana Republic of Africa. Narrator: ....but, why are we having this funeral, dad? Big brother is still missing, to think that he's dead is ....... Dad: Keiki....listen. Deep down, I still don't believe your brother is dead. Even now I still hope that somehow he's saved and still alive. Dad: But... we can't wait forever.... It's been a month already... Grandma: That poor soul, Chitose-san........ Grandma: Before the honeymoon starts, she's already a widower....... Narration - thus.... months later, laughter slowly return my home. [Tokyo shopping district] Voice: Ah, welcome! Welcome! Voice: Our cucumbers are on sale today!! Girl: Thanks and come again! Customer: Wow! Karin-chan is working hard today. Karin: Nope! Helping out the Fujiya's like this is just part of the daily routine for me! Dad: And she's just a high schooler, I'm so touched! Customer: Well, you'll make a wonderful mistress for the Fujiya's. You look like you're too good for the second son, Keiki. Karin: Awe stop that! Please don't tease me. Dad: Oh, madam. You just need one cucumber...is that alright? Customer: Ah well..... I really don't eat that thing. Ho ho ho..... Dad: .......that is most peculiar. Customer: Eh? Dad: You want a piece that you won't eat? Dad: Madam.....! Why don't you try this one instead! [He hands her a big raddish.] Dad: Customer: Huh? Dad: If you're still not satisfied with this one, you can take me home. Dad: Customer: ..............!! Customer: YOU SICK OLD MAN!! [Whack!] Dad: thanks.....come again........ Dad: Dad: .......oh, Karin-chan you too should wash your vegetables. Be careful of pesticides. Karin: ...... Karin don't do vegetables!! [Keiki stops, looks around to see if anyone is ready to catch him.] Keiki: Coast's clear....... hmm..... [3 steps later.] Dad: Well well, Keiki. Going somewhere? {note: Someone please explain lelelenole!! This line's been bugging me for a long time.} Keiki: <%@&$... not again....> Dad: Where the hell do you think your going, at this busy hour..... Keiki: Where am I going....? Oh yeah, I'm going to prep class!! {Prep class = after school study class designed to get people into colleges. Not unlike them SAT/GRE seminars.} Karin: Hey.... But today is Sunday. I'm sure they're all closed..... [Dad looks through Keiki's luggage.] Dad: Ohoho.... prep class nowadays requires electric guitars to accompany studies? Keiki: Well-- I always carry that thing... Dad: Help out the store! Keiki: .... right. Keiki: YES!! Come again! Dad: I'm so very touched! Keiki: Karin!! You remember this! [Dinner time in Fujiya's] Karin: Ahh, I failed again! Keiki: I'd be surprised if you succeed. Narration - What's left of my family is.... the dog Peko. Narration - A college-san who is boarding right now. College-san: Ah, may I have...... Keiki: Karin, serve! Karin: Sure! Keiki: This really tastes no good! Karin: Yeah, does that mean your going back to TV dinner? {Taihei Family Set nanda?! When dictionary fails, translator gets dangerously creative.} [Karin doesn't notice the college-san.] College-san: ...... ...... College-san: Excuse me, may I have...... Grandma: I shall cherish the moment when Keiki actually helped out the store today. Keiki: Heh! Just for today. I'm a busy guy! Keiki: Please sit down, grandma. Dad: Have you been attending prep classes regularly? Karin: Well, Keiki can barely touch the desk and still has every bit of confidence to get into a college! Karin: However, with his part time job, Shinjuku's rap house is the only place he's goi.....ouch! Keiki: ..... don't spew off!! You! Karin: And please don't kick people!! College-san: ..... ...... Dad: Is that so!! Keiki can get in just by studying a little!! Dad: That's my son, muahahahaa, is that right?!! [Dad whacks college-san in the back. College-san spills tea over the table.] College-san: Ah, I'm so sorry..!! Dad: But then.... why didn't you get into a college last year? Grandma: That's because Karin came.... is that right Keiki? Keiki: Why'd you say that? Karin: ....EH!? Grandma: See for yourself. I found these pictures hidden in in Keiki's desk. Grandma: With these sneaky pictures, no wonder he masturbated himself out of contention. Keiki: Ah!? [Very nice photos of Karin during her private moments.] [Various reactions ensued around the table.] Dad: Oooh!! Keiki: EH---!! Karin: Kyaa--!! College-san: ........!! Dad: Ke...Keiki!! You...you bastard.....!! Keiki: Wa..wait! I didn't take these pictures! Grandma: Liar! You horny kid!! Karin: NO---- Please don't look! [General chaos.] Grandma: Karin, your breasts are so well developed, are you pregnant.......? Keiki: Grandma what the hell are you saying!! Karin: Sto----p!! Dad: You... you fool! I'm confiscating these pictures. [Big spill.......] Everybody: Whoa!! Kyaa!! Ouchhothothothothot [..... and the Kodak moments ruined.] Dad: Ah---- the pictures--! Grandma: What are you going to do? Keiki: Grandma!! Karin: Ke... Keiki. I didn't know you're that kind of person!! Karin: Baka!! Hentai! I'm leaving this place as of today!! Keiki: W....wait [Chitose is outside.] Chitose: Hello--- Chitose: Good afternoon [Karin runs out, and bangs into Chitose.] Karin: Kyaa Chitose: Ah! Keiki: Karin! Wait! [Keiki bangs into falling Chitose.] Chitose: Ouch!! Keiki: Wah, I'm sorry!! Keiki: ....welcome.........how are you.... Keiki: Karin, are you hurt? [Karin turns her back to him.] Keiki: ....... ....... Dad: Oya! It's Chitose-san!! Chitose: Ah... sorry I didn't call ahead! Keiki: Chitose-san!? Dad: Anyway, you're here. Please come in. Dad: Hey, Karin-chan. Make tea! Karin: [The visitor made them forget what just happened.] Keiki - This woman is my brother's wife!? [Chitose gets a handkerchief out of her purse.....] Keiki: ....AH! [..... and proceed to wipe off her kiss mark on his cheek.] Chitose: Looks like I got your girlfriend angry....hum? Sorry! Keiki: Oh don't! And she ain't my girlfriend.... Dad: Well, well! Come in. Chitose: Actually... I'm here today.... Narration - Big brother hasn't been found yet..... and come to think of it, she's very young. Dad: Keiki, go watch the store! Karin: Really... she's pretty. Grandma: Ha, still not quite as good looking as when I was young. [Karin gives Grandma a strange look.] Dad: So you really come! I thought you two were going to rent an apartment. Dad: Dad: Living in a mansion all by yourself must be very lonesome. Chitose: ....... that's the reason why I'm visiting today. Chitose - Stay calm! I must bring the issue to the open today! Chitose: Please forgive me for my selfishness.... I've been thinking about this for a long time. Actually, I.... Chitose: about going back to my real home in the country...... [Bow wow wow bow wow wow] Dad: Shuddup!! Peko!! Dad: Did you feed him lunch? Karin: Yeah! Sure did!! [The dog munch on his food.] Karin: This is really strange. I just fed this pork for dog 3 bowls of food. Grandma: That dog is really gross. Dad: .... yeah, where were we? Chitose: As I was saying, going back to my home in the country...... Dad: What the heck are you peeking!! [He chase off Grandma and Karin.] Dad: Ah, those people are really embarrassing. Just don't mind them. Chitose - ..... he hasn't listened to a word I said. Chitose: As for the apartment.....! I'm planning to move out. Dad: ....so you are. It's probably too big for Chitose-san to live there all by herself. Dad: Chitose: Please listen to me, father! For Chitose to go back to her real home ........ [Dad interrupts Chitose.] Dad: I understand, Chitose-san!! You don't have to say more!! Dad: I know how you feel. Chitose: You do? Dad: Indeed, I thought, you're still much too young, and it'd be alright if you can forget about Amemaru...... Dad: but to hear that from you really made me feel lonesome. Somehow I just can't bring myself to ask you to stay with us as a family........ [Grandma sticks her head out from the door.] Grandma: Aren't you asking now? Chitose: Eh? Chitose: No, you got it all wrong!! Chitose: For me to go back to my real home would be unthinkable. I want to stay here........ to wait for Amemaru to come back. Chitose: We made a promise...... I'll wait here til he comes back. Dad: .....Chitose-san! Is this really alright with you....!? But, but we already had the funeral....... Chitose: Please don't feel burdened. May I.... stay? [Later.] Keiki: EEEEEH!! Keiki: Then, that woman will live with us as of tomorrow!? Dad: She's not "that woman," call her sister. Dad: Chitose-chan will some day find herself another good man! When that happens, we would marry her as if she's my daughter. Karin: But this house doesn't have the room for another person to live in. Grandma: Karin, didn't you just say you wanted to move out? Dad: Then, my room can fit one more!! It's alright with me!! Dad: Karin, Keiki: It's not alright with us!! Grandma: Konpei (Dad's name), get this in your head...... Chitose-chan is your daughter now!! Grandma: Dad: Dad: ......please, don't say foolish things like that. College-san: He..hello-- Sorry I'm late with this month's rent money. College-san: ? Dad: That's it! You....! You don't have to pay rent anymore, muahahaha. College-san: ...really? [Keiki thinking by himself on the balcony.] Keiki - ..soo..... tomorrow my brother's wife will be staying here. Karin: Why the heck are you grinning by yourself? Makes me sick. Narration - at any rate... tomorrow we'll have a new member in our family. Karin: Hentai! Keiki: Wha...!? [In her apartment, Chitose is wearing very suggestive nighties.] [On the phone.] Chitose: Yes, that's right.... mother Chitose: so....anyway, I'll be staying with the Fujiya's. Please let father know that as well...... Chitose: My last night in this room...... Chitose: Narration - Already.... it's the middle of autumn. [Mean while, dragging his luggage in the street, the college-san.....] College-san: People can be so cold. [Next day, at the apartment.] Keiki: Hmm. So this is Kinuta Mansion.... Narration - Because I'm the one with most free time in the house, I'm here to help Chitose-san move. [Chitose vacuums the room, spots her wedding album, and picks it up.] Keiki: Ah, found it. Keiki: Good afternoon ----- [Chitose pours out in Keiki's chest.] Chitose: Chitose: Ah..... Sor.... I'm sorry!! Chitose: I'm sorry!! I...... Chitose: I saw a cockroach....yeah, I saw a cockroach come out. And...... I'm afraid of cockroaches!! Keiki: Eh? Keiki: So that was... about a cockroach. [Keiki spots the wedding album on the floor, and he picks it up.] Chitose: Welp, help me move then! [In the car, Keiki is thinking.] Chitose: .... Keiki-kun, why are you so melancholic? Keiki: ...... eh!? Keiki: Well..... Kieki: Our old house really can't compare with that mansion. You can hear the wind in just about every crevice..... and only weirdos live there..... and other assorted anomalies. Keiki: But in winter, it's a really warm place!! Chitose: You're a really nice person!! [At Fujiya's] Grandma: Oh Karin, you're cleaning the room. Karin: Yeah, Chitose-san is coming here. Grandma: But, isn't this Keiki's room? Karin: What lead you to that conclusion!? This room belonged to that student. Afterall, Keiki never studies, so why would he need a desk....... Karin: Eh? Narration - Then those pictures...... Keiki: [Big smiling face from Karin.] Karin: You're most welcomed back!! Keiki: EEHH!! Narration - Geeze, what's up with her? Not so long ago she was calling me hentai..... Narration - and she (Chitose) says "You're a really nice person!" to me..... Narration - Hey hey hey! She's your brother's wife!! Dad, Grandma, Karin, Peko: Welcome!! Chitose: I'm Chitose. Thank you for your support!! version 0.85 by dnab 3/9/92 2:26 am [Not the easiest translation I've done, but it was the most fun. I got quite creative here and there, so it's not as "literal" as some might have hoped. But I believe the flavor is intact, hopefully. One bummer part about the Japanese grammar is that you don't know if a sentence is affirmative or negative until the speaker finishes it. Fortunately, none of the stuffs I've encountered play on that....until now. The part where Chitose was trying to tell Dad that she does NOT want to go home goes like "Watashi, Inaka no jikka ni kaeritakunaino desu." If the translation looks weird, now you know why. :-P Please do check for mistakes. As you can see from the hour I am very tire and eager to just get it over with. Of course, here's something that can't go wrong.... it's printed in English on the inset of the cover. Not bad.......] Sesame Street This is the Goma Street. It's a small shopping street in the heart of downtown Tokyo. And my name is Fujiya Keiki. I'm 18 years old and am an off-school student attending a preparatory school for my university entrance exams. As for hobbies, I play a musical instrument in a band, which is great fun. My family has been in the grocery trade since the Meiji Era, a long time ago, and is still carrying on the tradition. We still have a warehouse, a shrine and a temple, which is quite rare in Tokyo nowadays. The household master is the Konpei of my father. He is in great health and is very active. I'm pretty active myself, but not as much as my father. Our family are lively Edokko, which can be translated as "children of Tokyo." It simply means that we've lived in this city for quite a few generations. So, who do we have in our house? Well, there's my father. To be honest, he is a bit of a "queer pop." And we have a high-school student, called Karin, from Tokyo Prefecture living with us. I don't have a mother anymore so there we are not used to a feminine influence in our house. She's a cute girl - very pretty. I'd like to tell you something - it's a kind of secret. I treat her just like a little, calling her their "gaki", which means kid. But sharing a roof with a pretty 16-years old girl really sets my heart pounding. My older brother is a really straight guy. He's been trained to take on the responsibilities of the eldest son. He'll be getting married soon to a girl called Chitose. His fiance is meant to be very good looking. I don't know how he found her! I hope I can see her soon. That just leaves grand-ma, who looks like an apricot. She is just like a very old palm fruit that was pickled in the Edo Era - that was three hundred years ago! She still likes to play pranks and is incredibly fit. She gets along very well with Karin. Our Sesame Street is a real-life comedy set in downtown Tokyo. Players are always entering and leaving the stage. I'll introduce them when the chance comes along. Until then, 'bye. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- no sig. agate is still down. (@ @) ^