Shibuya Near Family chapter 151: Ikko wants to preserve her youth>I need to leave behind as many as I possibly can.>(*Snap*)>These photos>of my youth.>(*Snap*)>The reason I began to think this way...>Was all because of one particular photograph.>(*Step*)
>[First day of work]>On this day, the school is always shrouded in a palpable tension.>Happy New Year, everyone.>And now...
>You may begin>the "first-taking" competition.>[Class 3-Fruit's homeroom teacher (temp.) - Torii Kan (Country)]>First-taking RoyaleThis is a corny pun: From "Battle" (batoru) Royale to "Hattoru" (first-taking) Royale.>The First-taking Royale...>With that out of the way,>I'll take the "first roll call".>Book: Attendance record>Oh, wait... I can't take "firsts".>That's a rule violation.>What's with this atmosphere, all of a sudden?>Yes... On the first school day of the new year,>elementary schoolers begin scrambling for the year's "firsts".
>[Toka Ikko (FN*: City Kid)]>*FN: First-taking Name>Here.>[Mio Rothschild (FN: Child looking down]>Here.The first-taking names are basically just written-out versions of the puns in the characters' names that have been explained in the past.>[Shanikame Eru (FN: Cynical Man)]>Sensei, I'm not feeling well.>Sign: Nurse's office>First nurse's office GET!>Guh...>He went for it!>(Wahahaha!)>I got the first laughter!>(*Snoooooze*)>I got the first "falling asleep during class".>First pencil...>I got first eraser!
>[Tachifuru Mai (FN: Girl who minds her place)]>(First stage marking)>Here.>[Katayose Ai (FN: Kid who stands together)]>Here.>(First side gig during class)>[Konkuri Ito (FN: Concrete shadow)]>Sensei, the classroom's kind of chilly.>[First tracksuit]>People keep taking firsts at blazing speeds...>The student who places last in the rankings>is going to receive quite the tremendous "first" from the organizer.
>[Sankou Mame (FN: Third panel maiden)]>It's now time to move on to the twist,>so please go ahead and take a suitably monumental "first".>Huh...?>R->right.>...But,>I don't think there's anything that would give me that many points.>First bonito - 100p (Taken); First dogeza - 50p>First setback - 30p (Taken); First flamewar - 40p>First fever - 15p (Taken); First block - 40p (Taken)>First kneaded eraser - 5p; Hatsune Miku - 15p>Aren't there any high-scoring "firsts" left? The "Hatsune" (初音) in Hatsune Miku is written as "first voice". All other firsts have been written with the same character, including the name of the game.>Well, there's...>(*Whisper*)>Huh?>FIRST LOVE? (1000 points)>Is "first love" something that you're meant to repeat every year, though?>Seems that way.>You would force an elementary schooler>to become such a woman of many loves!?>The only thing worth more points than "first love" is "seventh-day memorial service".>I'd have to wait seven days after dying for that, wouldn't it?This refers to a Buddhist memorial service held seven days after a person has died. In Japanese, it's called 初七日 ("shonanoka"), or "first seventh day" (since it's typically the first memorial to be held after the death).
>I fell in love with this little guy at first sight.>That won't do, I'm afraid.>I've never had my first love, so I don't know how I should go about it!>I mean, doesn't that go without saying?>Hmm...>In the end, I suppose I'll have to do the job with the tools I have at hand.>I just came to check on you because I was worried.>Huh?>At this point, it doesn't matter if it's only a feigned first love.>This isn't making my heart flutter at all...>Huh? Wh-what is this?>Why'd you come all this way?>The thing is... Eru-kun...>I l-li...>T-Toka...>I also...
>Are you stupid?>A first love is only valid if it's ONE-SIDED!>What are you doing, falling for ME!?>Sign: Nurse's office>Oh... But since I don't actually like Eru-kun, it *is* one-sided, isn't it?>Looks like Eru-kun gets the points, then.>In the end, you were in last place with zero points.>Oh yeah... The last place got some kind of "first", right...?>I wonder what it was.>What is this?>Seems like it's the principal's (equal's) first love...>By the way, this is a picture of the principal when he was young.>Oh my... What a hottie~>Shibuya Duty Diary - I got my first points on Ponta.Ponta is a Japanese point card system.Thanks for reading! First Shibuya Near Family thread of the year, get!Also, since I finally got volume 6 in the mail, I'll post the extras from it a little later. Stay tuned...
>>285159882Thanks for posting, anon!
Chapter 150: Ikko does detecting
>>285159644happy new year ikko fanatics!
>>285161509Happy new year to you too!
And that's all from me for today. Thanks for reading!
>>285159695>homeroom teacher (temp.)>Attendance recordWhat's with this foreboding sense of deju vu?>>285159854>>285159882Stop playing with my feelings like this!>>285159882Thanks for the translation, OP!You forgot the sidebar, though.
>>285161630Thanks for typesetting!Here come the extras for volume 6. This volume covers chapter 89-105.
>Shibuya used to have a cable car a long time ago.>Car: Hibari-Gou>A cable car?>We had that kind of geography back then...?>Left to right: Kamiyama, Shibuya, DaikanyamaKamiyama (lit. God Mountain) and Daikanyama (lit. Governor Mountain) are both Shibuya neighborhoods situated on higher ground, while Shibuya itself is, of course, a valley (indeed, the "ya" (谷) in Shibuya means "valley").>So that's why we have all these yamanbas!>(*Nbah nbah*)>They're scary!Yamanba is a gal subculture characterized by heavy makeup, fake tan and brightly dyed hair. The term apparently derives from Yama-Uba, a youkai whose name means "mountain hag".>They're not evil.>The evil ones are the humans, who destroyed their natural environment, robbing them of their homes...>Yamanbas don't do anything evil in the first place, you know.
>Sign: Dougenzaka>Regarding Dougenzaka's name...Dougenzaka is a district in Shibuya, home to the famous Shibuya 109 building, for instance. The name means "Dougen hill".>A long time ago, there was apparently a bandit called Dougen around these parts.>He'd strip travelers passing through here of all their money and valuables.>I see.>This looks totally great on you~>(*Put on*)>You think?>I'll take it.>These days, they rob travelers out of their money by dressing them up, instead.>Don't say such scandalous things, please.The word used for bandit above was 追い剥ぎ ("oihagi"), roughly "chase-and-stripper" (hence the illustration). Ikko turns this into 追い着せ, roughly "chase-and-dresser".
>Apparently, in the old days, Shibuya used to have ROMANCE TRAINS.>You mean streetcars?From "romen densha" (路面電車, literally "road-surface train"), meaning streetcar, to "roman densha", meaning "romance train".>I wonder what kind of romances you could have had while riding them?>Well...>Maybve a handsome grey-haired gentleman,>and a noble lady who believes in the god of romance..."Romance gray" is a wasei-eigo word for a handsome old man, roughly equivalent to English "silver fox". Romance no Kamisama (lit. "God of Romance") is a single by the musician Hirose Kohmi.>And their dreamy romance of reselling the high-rise apartment building they bought for twice as much.>How romantic...>I don't think they didn't have high-rises back then.I guess there's a bit of wordplay here, since high-rise apartment building is "tawaman" (short for "tower mansion") in Japanese (cf. "roman" above).
I don't think we've seen this Shibuya Duty Diary illustration before.
>The Hibari-Gou was only meant for children, you know.>Car: Hibari-Gou>Sounds nice...>These days, all we get are "women's only" cars in trains.>They also had a "Kids' Castle" back in the day.The Kids' Castle was a building in Shibuya, officially known as the National Children's Center. It housed various facilities for children's entertainment and activities, and remained in operation from 1985 to 2015.>And it seems that you could get kids' meals from any department store you visited.>Could it be that children were actually *more* coddled in the past?>Kids who figure out too much get the body punch.
>The area in front of Shibuya Station was apparently a black market after the war.>Sign: Groceries>After the war,>I imagine there were black markets in front of stations *everywhere*.>That may be true, but the Shibuya black market...>Was just a little bit different.>They sold "black-market berets",>Sign: Bought at a black market>"black-market nail clippers", "black-market face rollers", and that sort of thing.>We were fashionable all the way back then, huh?>I think the black-market rice would have taken priority.
>Kumeta Kouji>I was running out of ideas, so I drew "the Shibuya of the past". That's the line drawing on the front and back covers. The aerial cable car, Hibari-Gou. The Gotou Planetarium. The Kamaboko Station. It seems that a lot of interesting things gathered here in those days without even meaning to.>I suddenly started thinking, "when was Shibuya shining at its brightest?" I suppose that kind of thing depends entirely on who you ask. If I had to choose, I would obviously go for the Shibuya I knew when I was young and spirited.>But, I wasn't in Shibuya when I was young. I was on the edges of Shinjuku, thinking of nothing but death every day. I somehow managed to survive, and ended up drifting ashore here when I was already old and decrepit.>How would I have turned out if I had lived here during the heyday of the Amurers? Perhaps I would have tanned my face dark in the tanning salons. Nowadays, I'm more of an Omrer, measuring my blood pressure with an Omron blood pressure monitor every day. And my face is turning dark because I have a bad liver.Gotou Planetarium was a private planetarium located in the Tokyu Bunka Kaikan, the building with a dome on the front cover (now demolished). It operated from 1957 to 2001. Kamaboko Station is on the back cover, the low building with fan-shaped windows below the cable car. It was in operation from 1964 to 2013.Amurers (アムラー, "amuraa") were fans who imitated the style of the singer Amuro Namie and were most active in the nineties. Kumeta turns this into "omuraa", a fan of the electronics corporation Omron, known for its medical equipments.
>Tachifuru Mai goes to great lengths to demonstrate that stage markings bring order to the world. A cooldown to make you see reality through the May Blues. Aiming to become a "physically exhausted child".>Finding the festivals through the smells permeating the town. Spotting a VIP polygamist in Okinawa...!? Ikko's surrounded by fun every day. Ah, the cheerful kids of the third-year Fruit Juice class!And that's all for today. Have a great 2026!
>>285163132revealing comments
>>285162313I believe Ikko and Eru will get together by the end
>>285159882Thank you for translating. It's been a long couple of weeks without this thread, truly. >>285161630Thank you for typesetting, as well.
Thanks a lot
>>285164627There's probably some reason that they're not allowed to be together. Perhaps that'll be how this series gets its dark ending.
>>285168972shibuya cannot have a 'dark ending', not while Ikko is on duty!
>>285169585Think again, heh heh heh...
>>285169640hey aren't you stealing my bit
>>285169841The ending's going to be Ikko stealing ALL the characters' bitsIt'll be like SZS, except everyone else is still there complaining about it
>>285170004>ikko becomes the ultimate character, able to do everyone's bit, but in doing so loses herself in it and becomes a loner>this is a parallel to how wealthy and modern shibuya and tokyo as a whole became, but lost its identity in the process
Would you recommend this series to a lolicon?
>>285170207Well it's not explicit or anything, but the girls are all pretty cuteDepends on how much you Kumeta's artstyle and his not-really-upskirts, I guess
>>285163088The person wearing glasses in the fourth panel looks like Junko Mihara, the former head of Japan's Agency for Children and Families. The "body punch" refers to something she said in a TV drama when she was a teenager. It has become her signature phrase. Ikko's comment before that probably reflects the poor reputation of ACF.
>>285172571Interesting, thanks for pointing that out. I was wondering what that was about.
>>285161630>in america major and minor leagues are static bizarre, why even make leagues then? >>285170207personally I think kumeta's the only style that is simultaneously sexy yet doesn't sexualize the loli characters, if you can understand what I mean. I would be comfortable showing ikko to normies despite the fact she would also appeal to lolicons.
>>285175476>why even make leagues then?Wikipedia suggests it originally developed as a way to allow specific teams to monopolize their local revenues in order to cope with the high costs of traveling across America, but I confess I don't know anything about sports, so don't take my word on it.
>>285175476American leagues demote and promote individual players rather than entire teams. Players get 'called up' to the majors from minor leagues, and burned-out major league players sometimes find themselves dropping back down to the minors instead of retiring.
>>285176583oh, I see. it still kinda weird that the teams are fixed on a league, there isn't the excitement to see which will fall and which will go up like we have down here. I guess you americans like the players more.
>>285176583That's fucked up
>>285170207>most recent chapter talks about elementary schoolers' firsts
