Shibuya Near Family chapter 170: Isumi's scale is enormous>If you call now, we'll throw in this, as well!>And that's not all!>Wow!>You also get this>Book: Fantasy>and this>and this!>You get ALL of this!>TV: 15,800 yen (Amazing!)>That's nowhere near a "crushing defeat".>What are you talking about?>I want something on the scale of getting the Moon thrown in when buying the Earth.
>Summer chills - Freebie HouseA pun on "obakeyashiki" ("haunted house"), replacing "obake" ("ghost") with "omake" ("freebie, bonus included with a purchase").>What the heck>is that?>Oh... It's Compliance-sensei from some time ago.>Ah, nice of you to show up, Ikko-chan.Last seen in chapter 34.>Modern standards-compliant haunted houses>Clockwise from top right: No touching, no blood, no darkness, no loud noises (Waah!)>are so lukewarm that kids don't want to visit them anymore.>So, after some brainstorming,>here's the "freebie house"!>A... freebie house?>That's right!
>Kids love getting freebies, right?>(H*ppy Meal)>(B*kkura-pon)>(Comes with a Pokimon card)>Magazine: Gorogoro>H*ppy Meals, B*kkura-pon, and such.Bikkura-pon are capsule prizes available at the Kura Sushi restaurant chain. Corocoro is a manga magazine aimed at younger children which often does tie-ins with toy and game franchises.>The prices are higher cover the difference, of course.>(Heh heh)>You didn't need to say that last part.>Freebie house...>I love freebies!>A kid fell for it right away.>Sounds like you've given up>on traumatizing children by spooking them, then?>That's another matter entirely.>I'll have you know... There's still plenty of horror to be found inside.>(Gyaaaaaah!)
>(Oooone... Twoooo... Threeeee...)>They're all the same caaaaard!>Aaaaah! That's terrifying!>Oh... Eru-kun's here too.>Is *this* the horror he was talking about...?>Hey, it is horrible, you know?>Getting nothing but copies of the same card.>But, surely kids these days>can handle a bit of overlap, at least.>Forget about ghosts...>Shady business practices are where the real scares are.>Zombies!?>(*Shuffle shuffle*)>No... They're scalpers.>Gore!?>It's a discarded hamburger.
>There certainly is more "splatter" here than in a haunted house.>You're here too, Ai-chan?>I'm ashamed to admit it, but me too.>Looks like the promise of "freebies" pulled us all in.>This freebie house...>Is filled with nothing but horror for children.>I'm pretty sure adults would find this horrific, too.>Ooooone... Twooooo...>That's an actual plate, isn't it!?>Is this "Banchou Sarayashiki"!?"Banchou Sarayashiki" is a famous Japanese ghost story. There are several versions, but they generally involve a maid who is killed after one of ten precious plates goes missing, and who keeps counting the plates as a ghost after her death.>Fiiiiive...>Sign: Insert plates here>(*Clatter clatter*)
>Children grab plates they will not eat>because they want the capsules...The Kura Sushi capsules mentioned earlier are obtained by inserting a set amount of empty plates into the capsule machine. Kura sushi is a conveyor belt sushi chain, so customers take plates with sushi on them from the conveyor belt as they eat.>And pile the sushi up>on their parents' plates.>Th-that's just a generalization.>I eat the sushi, you know?>They. Will. Not.>Eat!>(Gyaaaaaaah!)>Scary, scaryyyyy!>For kids, the wrath of a parent is genuine horror.>Looks like there's also horror for parents themed around junk piling up in the house.>Sign: Free pincushion inside>Stepping on that has got to hurt.>Why is it all stuff that would make your parents mad?>Sign: Slime Pool Hell>The freebie house is scary in more ways than one.
>I underestimated this place... It's nothing *but* horror in here.>And we haven't even gotten any freebies.>How are you enjoying the freebie house, everyone?>You tricked us!>You lure kids in with the promise of freebies,>even though you're not giving them any!>If that's your concern, you can rest easy.>Up ahead, a chosen few will receive something.>Chosen few!?>My gambler's spirit is flaring up!>Let's go!>Hmmm...>Sensei... What are you doing in a place like this?>What am I doing...?>I'm grading tests.>Strictly speaking, this one isn't correct...>But, oh well...
>I'll give you that as a freebie.>Paper: Toka Ikko>You got a freebie, but...>That score...>(GYAAAAAAAAAHH!)>This is more terrifying>than any freebie!>Shoooow... Meeeeee...>Giving out freebies means taking a loss...>But could you give out something and still end up winning?>Well, since it's the giver who's losing, I guess it would go like this.>Arrow: Better - worse>Pyramid, top to bottom: Crushing defeat - Major loss - Freebie (loss) - Tie - WinCompletely untranslatable punning here. As mentioned, freebie in Japanese is "omake", which breaks down into "o-" (honorific) + "make" (in this case related to the meaning of "lowering in price", but more generally "defeat"). Isumi wonders if there's an opposite concept of "okachi", where "kachi" means "victory", and Mame comes up with a hierarchy of words formed in this manner, where the scale of defeat presumably corresponds to the value of the freebie provided with the purchase.>Shibuya Duty Diary - I want someone to give me a freebie on the height requirement at the water slide, too.>Sidebar: The volume releases include bonus yonkoma as freebies, if you're interested!Thanks for reading! Now, since I finally got around to buying the recently-released volume 7, I've also got some volume extras for you – as a freebie, of course.
Volume 7 extras, starting with the cover.
One new Ikko illustration this time around.
>Banner: 29th Shibuya Ohara Festival>Isn't Ohara Festival a Kagoshima thing?>I wonder why they do it in Shibuya?Ohara Festival has been held in 1949 in Kagoshima, and is known for its large folk dance parades. The Shibuya festival was started later as an effort to promote Kagoshima tourism and culture.>It's kind of similar to the Awa Dance Festival in Kouenji, isn't it?.>Still, it says this is the 29th one.Kouenji is a special ward in Tokyo which neighbours Shibuya. The Awa Dance Festival is the largest dance festival in Japan, deriving from Obon celebrations held since at least the 16th century.>Maybe something happened 29 years ago.>Actually, 29 years ago...>Year 199X>The apocalypse...>There was definitely a legend about a savior!Reference to Fist of the North Star, which is set in a post-apocalyptic 1990s.>You mean this guy?>[Newspaper from the time]>Paper, left to right: Kagoshima native Ohara-san - Good deed - Cat saved - Cat caught between buildings>What a plain-looking savior.
>Poster: No littering - 2000 yen fine>It's forbidden to smoke while walking around in Shibuya.>And walking while smoking a shisha (waterpipe)!?>That's obviously not allowed either!
>To think that a plain old scramble crossing would become a world-famous tourist attraction.>It seems like not a single person in the past saw that coming.>Perhaps there's still hope>Medal: Gold>for Nagoya's 100-meter road, too?This guy is Kawamura Takashi, former mayor of Nagoya, who made headlines in 2020 for biting the gold medal of a member of Japan's victorious women's softball team after the Summer Olympics.>A one hundred-meter road?>So short!>(Pfft!)>That's its width.After Nagoya was destroyed in WW2, they rebuilt the city on a grid layout with wide roads to serve as firebreaks. The 100-Meter Road is the best known of these, and is 100 meters wide as the name suggests.
>Everyone's flying to Shibuya to have fun.>I also want>to fly to Shibuya on a plane.>If you can't fly on an airplane,>why not try air*play*, instead?>She's going for the first-class seat, huh?>(*Clench clench*)>(*Tremble tremble*)>Must be hard to maintain that angle.
>I ended up taking a break because I cut my finger. It happened one summer day.>Being a mangaka certainly is an ephemeral profession, if you can lose your ability to draw just from hurting your finger.>It's mysterious that I've been able to continue drawing for 30 years even though my soul is constantly getting hurt.>These days, you often hear things like "Old Shibuya sure was great" or "Old Sunday sure was great", but in the end, all things in this world seem wonderful when you yourself are hale and hearty.>Although, now that I'm trying to think of times when I was in good shape, I can't really come up with of any.>My days have gone by with deadlines always pressing down on me and cancellation looming over me, with me just moving my arm like I'm some kind of mentally ill corpse.>I have no recollection of what I've drawn.>I do kind of get the feeling that I've drawn popular fantasy and battle series, or such.>Right, I've decided. When I start getting dementia, I'm rewriting all my memories.>"Old me sure was great". "Old me sure was great". You were great, old me.>Eventually, I'll start talking about my memories at home. "I was the creator of HxH". It was a wonderful life.
>Banner: Souvenirs
>Shibuya's toilets turn into tourist attractions due to a certain movie!? Ikko has become the object of idol worship!? Mini-Ikko, who notices all the small details, suddenly appears! Why aren't we on the ranking of cities people want to live in!?>Are we the generation whose coming-half-of-age ceremony will be skipped over? Stockloss Syndrome makes you afraid of losing even a little bit of anything. You can't return from the "sub-reality"!And that's all for today. Volume 7 contains chapters 106-122 for anyone keeping track.
Chapter 169: Isumi collects jagged 10s>>290512553Much appreciated!
And that's all for today from me as well. Thanks for reading!
>>290513231Thanks for typesetting!
>>290512553Thank you for translating. The freebies he included here aren't at all horrifying, though. I feel lied to.
>>290512517my cute Kaga wife is so cute.
>>290512553>>290513231thanks!
