Shibuya Near Family chapter 143: Ikko's horror makeup>Sign: Guard station>You can't do this kind of thing.>Halloween is banned in Shibuya.>This is most certainly not a Halloween cosplay.>This is for the sake of Shibuya's... No, for the sake of *Japan's* four seasons.
>Shibuya is currently undergoing an enormous, once-in-a-century remodeling.>I'll wait for you at the Hachiko exit.>Aah! Wrong exit again!>Even though I'm a Shibuya native... This is so shameful!>It's because they keep constantly changing things around...>At this rate, I might have to spend my whole life here,>without ever making it to the Hachiko statue!
>Sign: Hachi-wan exitI guess this is some kind of pun, since "hachi" means eight, and "wan" is the onomatopoeia for "woof", but also the English loanword "one".>...Hold it! Why's your hair parted differently!?>Noticed something was off, huh?>Phew...>Finally made it out.>That took her less time than I expected.>Wouldn't want to draw out the joke, I suppose...>Still...>Sign: Current temperature>That's right... The thing we should be keeping an eye out for>isn't the unusual stuff...
>It's "autumn"!>There's no autumn in Shibuya anymore.>Don't they say that same thing about Japan as a whole, though?>And is it really a problem if there's no autumn, anyway?>It's a HUGE problem!>If there's no more autumn,>we're going to lose all sorts of things.>No more "autumn of sports"!>No more "autumn of arts"!>No more "autumn of food"!>No more "autumn of travels"!>And no more "autumn of books"!
>Humanity would lose>the entirety of its culture.>True... Many shops could go out of business if that happened.>Sports goods stores>Art supply stores>Restaurants>Travel agencies>Bookstores>Shogakukan>And furthermore, without autumn...>"Fleeting summer romances" would never end.>Just look!>Even though the calendar says it should be autumn right now,>SFX: Flirting>they still haven't ended their summer romances.>I somehow doubt all of those were summer romances.
>Hey! It's already autumn, you hear!?>Time to end those romantic flings!>I don't think you need to *force* them to stop...>So...>We won't be able to bring autumn back unless we can somehow put a stop to their love.>That's the way I see it.>What kind of backwards logic is that?>I wonder...>Why won't they end their summer romances?>I think I know why.>Since summer lasts longer, they aren't able to cool their heads and think clearly.>About things like their annual income, their grades, how fancy their parents' homes are...>Maybe it *would* be better to keep things hot.
>Anyway, how should we try to cool their heads?>The temperature isn't going to budge an inch, that's for sure.>You know, there was something that chilled me even in the middle of all this heat.>What's that?>When I couldn't find the exit that leads to the Hachiko statue,>I got so afraid that I might never get out, I started shivering in fear.>Something to give you chills?>Sure, I think we might be able to do that.>With this,>autumn will come to Shibuya.
>(CURSE ON YOUUUU)>Yeah...>I think this is going to take us back to summer, not autumn.>Ghost stories, huh...>They *are* more of a summer thing, I guess.>But, if you think about "horror" in general,>it doesn't have to be limited to summer...>You're right...>We should dress up as monsters, and go give those couples some scares.>Sign: Basketball Street>Ah.>Shibuya Duty Diary - If there's no autumn, we'll never run out of brown paint.>Sidebar: Lately, I've been losing track of the seasons since there are always foreigners in light clothes around Center-Gai, even in the winter...Thanks for reading! Shibuya Near Family will be on break next week. Has your autumn gotten off to a good start?
Chapter 142: Dad works hard as a crossing guard
>>282748439Hmm
And that's all for today. Thanks for reading!>>282748763And thanks to you too, of course!My autumn is going well so far, I guess.
>>282749029Thank you for typesetting as well!
>>282748577That's just the horror game. Eru-kun's the guy walking the other way, you have the Z-shaped corridor, the ads on the left, the door on the right… Seems Ikko spotted an anomaly too. Did she walk the other way as a result?>>282748763Summer's mounting one last desperate stand here, too. damn heat domes. Thank you for translating. Kumeta's going on break rather often these days. I wonder if he's still trying to find an apartment?
>>282749154Oh, right! I've seen those games before, but I didn't make the connection. Now it makes a lot more sense. So the new translation for the first panels in >>282748577 is>Sign: Hachi-wan exitThis is both a pun, since "hachi" means eight ("wan" means "woof"), and a reference to the game The Exit 8, which involves repeatedly traveling through an identical metro station while trying to spot "anomalies" that differ from how the station normally looks.>...Hold it! Why's your hair parted differently!?>Spotted the anomaly, huh?And the last panel should be >That's right... The thing we should be keeping an eye out for>isn't the anomalies...
>>282749029Thank you for typesetting, as well.
