Title: "W Juliet"
Volume: 2
Part: 4
Author: Emura
Translator: Duchess Ingmar
Email: duchess_i@bigfoot.com
Rating: PG
Summary: The Drama Club is getting back on its feet after having its clubroom trashed by Takashi's goons. But the club isn't out of the woods yet when suddenly no first year students want to come and join!
Disclaimer: "W Juliet" belongs to Emura-sensei and some other people at Hana to Yume ^_^; This was translated by a fan for her friend who forced her to ^_^; I claim no rights to it!
Thanks to: World.altavista.com (^_^;;;;), the people at Otakon who were selling the volume so I could buy it, my NJ Star program, and my lil Japanese-English/English-Japanese dictionary, whom I call Nana! I COULDN'T HAVE DONIT WITHOUT YOU, MAN! ;_;
Notes: This translation is rough and general. I tried to include most everything that was said as exactly as I could with it still making sense ^_^; However, as we all know, Japanese and English don't always have equal phrases for everything, plus I'm still learning and stuff, so don't shoot me if I didn't translate the manga-ka's messy handwriting on the side in page three or something ^_^; Anyway! Here we go!

Legend
·<> means square panel thing's number
·[] means what the character is saying.
·italicized dialogue means that the character is thinking, writing a letter or flashbacking
·dialogue in (parenthesis) means that it's a side note from the author or translator
·** represents an action
·If I have no idea what one line means, I'll write it in romaji so that if anyone wants to try to find out
 what it means, they can.
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Part 4
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pg. 1

<1>
(Writing at top says "April 24")

Ito
   [I brought Makoto!]

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pg. 2

<1>
(Writing at the top says "3 days before the Recruitment Meeting")

Drama Club Teacher
   [Mako-chan!]

Drama Club Members
   [Makoto-san!]
   [Wooow! You finally came back to club!]
 

<2>
Drama Club Teacher
   [We were so worried! We hadn't seen you since the trashing of the clubroom!]

Makoto
   [I'm sorry to have been a bother]
 

<3>
Yoshirou
   [Now we can forget all that happened and practice!]

Nobuko
   [We finally collected all the group members!]
 

<4>
Ito
   [With the club being trashed...]
   [...And not being able to find all the club members...]
   [...And us being set up by Iizuka Takashi...]
   [Even though so many things happened...]
 

<5>
Ito
   [Everyone's back to the way they were before]
   [That's right.]

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pg. 2

<1>
Makoto
   [*smile*]

Ito
   [?]
 

<2>
Makoto
   [*makes a hugging noise*]

Ito
   [*blushes and heart beats* !!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Except for us]

Drama Club Teacher
   [What's wrong, Mako-chan?]

Makoto
   [Oh, it's nothing. *giggles*]

Ito
   [T..That punk...]
 

<4>
Ito
   [And he saw me crying too...]
   [His strength then was extraordinary]
   [And I was really trying to escape with all of my strength too]
   [Even I was no match for him]
 

<5>
Ito
   [As I thought...]

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pg. 3

<1>
Ito
   [I realized Makoto is a "man" after all]

Basketball Club Girl
   [Did you two come to see the Basketball Club?]

First Year Student Girls
   [Yes!]
 

<2>
Drama Club Male Student
   [Ah, I missed them!]
   [Crap, they went to the Girl's Basketball Club...]

Nobuko
   [Hey! You first years over there!]
   [Why don't you come and visit the Drama Club?! On the stage!]
 

<3>
First Year Student Girls
   [*run away*]
 

<4>
Ito
   [?]

First Year Students
   [*open the gym door*]

Makoto
   [Ah!]
 

<5>
Makoto
   [Say, would you like to come and see the Drama Cl-...]

First Year Students
   [*run away*]

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pg. 4

<1>
Female Drama Club Member
   [Hey!]

Other First Year Students
   [*run away*]
 

<2>
Male Drama Club Members
   [Huh??]

Girl Drama Club Members
   [*murmur amongst themselves about this weirdness*]
 

<3>
Makoto & Ito
   [....!?]

Ito
   [After we had fixed everything...]
 

<4>
Ito
   [After we thought we'd gotten everything back to normal...]

(The paper shown is a list of how many students the clubs have gotten. A list of the best 20 clubs.)
(TN: I assume the school only has 20 clubs cause of the next dialogue.)

<5>
(The list says "Radio Club - 19th place, Drama Club - 20th place)
 

<6>
Ito
   [The Drama Club came in last place!?]

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pg. 5

<1>
Ito & Drama Club Male Students
   [*throw each of their lists on the floor at the same time* Why!?]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Wooow, at the same time!]
   [It'd be nice if you did it like that when the real thing comes!]
 

<2>
Ito
   [That's not it!!!]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Actually, what happened this time is that ever since the clubroom trashing, the Drama Club has gotten a bad reputation.
    That's why all the first years are afraid and won't come to visit.]
 

<3>
Makoto
   [............]
 

<4>
Nobuko & Misaki
   [And you said we'd be in top 10 every year...]

Drama Club Teacher
   [That's a thing of the past!]
 

<5>
Drama Club Teacher
   [For you see, once the club has been trashed once, it's easy for it to be targetted to get trashed again.]
   [They would think "Wouldn't something like this happen again after we've joined?"]
   [The problem is their not wanting to get involved with the club at all.]

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pg. 6

<1>
Drama Club Teacher
   [At any rate, the Drama Club's reputation is at its worst right now.]
 

<2>
Drama Club Teacher
   [The Recruitment Meeting is really the crucial point!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Even if we get all the members together...]
   [Even if we organize and fix everything up again...]
   [It's meaningless if we don't have the first year students we need]
   [And if less than 5 join, the club will be cut!!]
 

<4>
Ito
   [And I'll be separated from Makoto cause he'll have to transfer!!]
   [Aaagh, that's what bugs me the most!]
 

<5>
Ito
   [For the club...]
   [And for Makoto...]
   [We must definitely make the Recruitment Meeting a success!!]

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pg. 7

<1>
Takashi
   [It seems that...]
 

<2>
Takashi
   [...Trashing the clubroom wasn't a futile altogether, don't you think, Nemoto?]
   [Ha...]
   [It's good that the first years are so meek.]
 

<3>
Takashi
   [How is the plan coming along?]

Nemoto
   [It is coming along well.]
   [Mainly, our goal was to cause mental damage. We also bought off some students.]**
 

<4>
Takashi
   [It seems that from tomorrow on...]
   [We'll see some pretty interesting stuff.]
 

<5>
Drama Club Members
   [The costumes are here?!]

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pg. 8

<1>
Drama Club Teacher
   [That's right! Toki-chan lent it to us from his college!]
 

<2>
Drama Club Teacher
   [We've collected from the sidecharacter costumes to the smallest tools!]

Drama Club Members
   [Really!?]
   [Yaaay! We did it!]
 

<3>
Tsugumi
   [Why do I have to play the witch?]
   [How rude!]

Drama Club Guys
   [Wow...]
   [It fits her perfectly!]
 

<4>
Ito
   [Sensei, what about the swan costumes?]
   [They don't seem to be here]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Actually, there was a problem with those...]
 

<5>
Toki
   [Yo]
   [Sorry to keep you waiting, you punks!]
 

<6>
Drama Club Teacher
   [It's a conto costume...]
(TN: I couldn't tell what a conto was, but it looks sort of like a chicken or goose costume to me ^_^; Either way, it is definitely not a swan!)

Drama Club Members
   [WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!]

Toki
   [A swan]

Drama Club Members
   [WHICH PART OF A SWAN!?]

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pg. 9

<1>
Drama Club Teacher
   [It's ok!]
   [*holds up the scripts* I changed it from a short story to a short comedy!]
 
Ito
   [...But....]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Just take em!]
 

<2>
Ito
   [Won't we have to start from scratch!?]
   [We only have 3 days, left!! 3 days!!]
   [After all....]
 

<3>
Ito
   [We still have problems]
 

<4>
Toki
   [Hmm? What was Swan Lake about anyway?]
   [Hey, Ikko! Explain it to me!]

Ito
   [We're in the middle of rehearsal!]

Nobuko
   [I'll explain it to you, senpai!]
 

<5>
Toki
   [Ooooh, Nobuko, you're still as small as ever!]

Nobuko
   [Kyaaaa!]

Makoto, Ito, & Yoshirou
   [And you're as big as ever]
   [Prey...]

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pg. 10

<1>
Nobuko
   [To put it simply...]
   [First, this prince wanted to go hunting, so he snuck away from this party.]
 

<2>
Nobuko
   [And then he witnessed how the swans on the lake turned into maidens when the moonlight touched the water!]
   [He conspicuously fell in love with the princess, and it was love at first sight.]
 

<3>
Nobuko
   [The princess and her aides had been turned into swans by a witch's magic.]
   [They could only be human at night.]
 

<4>
Ito
   [*whispers* That's kinda like you, Mako!]
   [Ahahaha!]

(Writing in the middle says "Swan = Mako's female form")

Nobuko
   [*off screen* Eventually they were both in love.]
 

<5>
Nobuko
   [The only way to break the spell was for the prince to vow his love for the princess in front of everyone.]

(Sign pointing at Mako says "prince" and sign pointing at Ito says "princess")

Ito & Makoto
   [.....................]

(Writing next to Mako "It fits, doesn't it")

<6>
Nobuko
   [*off screen* The prince invited the princess to a party in order to announce their engagement but...]
   [...But instead, he ended up confessing his love to the witch, who had set them up and used magic to make herself look like
    the princess.]

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pg. 11

<1>
Toki
   [Wow, what a dumb prince.]

Nobuko
   [But the last line is really cool!]
 

<2>
Nobuko
   [When the witch attacked them to pull them apart...]
   [...The prince and the princess finally jumped from a cliff into the lake.]

Prince's lines
   ["If our love cannot come true in this world..."]
   ["...Let's go to a world in which it can."]
(TN: Literally it said "Let's go to a world in which no one will bother us", but I said the other one cause I thought it fit better with the previous line ^_^; Take your pick!)
 

<3>
Nobuko
   [Of course, in the end they get revived and have a happy ending!]

Toki
   [Hmm... Well, fundamentally it's not that different from the new script, right?]
 

<4>
Toki
   [But the princess's personality has become extremely intense, hasn't it.]
   [In the fight scene with the witch she says "I'll fight along with the prince"]

Students
  [*off screen* Gyahahahahaha!]

Lil Tsugumi on the side
   [What did you say!?]
(Writing under Tsugumi says "witch")

Teacher
   [We'll use a boy for that scene!]

Ito
   [-.- Sensei...]

Teacher
   [Oh, come on! It'll be fun!]
 

<5>
Ito
   [Oh well. Maybe it'll be easier to do that character like that.]
   [And so...]
 

<6>
Ito
   [...Practice continued until night.]

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pg. 12

<1>
Top of panel
   [The next day]

Ito
   [*yawn* Aaaah...]
 

<2>
Ito
   [I'm so sleepy...]
   [And it's a Sunday too...]

Makoto
   [But it's 2 days before the Recruitment Meeting.]
   [We have to forget about sleeping and practice.]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Now that you mention it, the other clubs came too and are doing stuff too.]

Makoto
   [Yep.]

Ito
   [I...]
 

<4>
Ito
   [...Had no idea of what would happen to us right after this]
 

<5>
(*Falling sound*)

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pg. 13

<1>
Ito
   [I never saw it coming]*
 

<2>
Ito
   [WHAT THE HELL!?]

Makoto
   [Ito-san!!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [*hits the lockers with her elbow*]

Soundbuttonthingy
   [Beep!]
 

<4>
Ito
   [Huh?]

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pg. 14

<1>
Ito & Makoto
   [!!]
 

<2>
Ito
   [What is this?!?!!??!]

Drama Club Students
   [KYAAAAAA!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [What is going on all of a sudden?!]
   [Who would do something so underhanded!?]

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pg. 15

<1>
Takashi
   [Isn't this amusing, Nemoto?]
   [The opening was possible.]*

Nemoto
   [Yes sir.]

Takashi
   [Well, this still isn't enough though.]
 

<2>
Takashi
   [...........]
   [Show me a little pain in your eyes.]**
   [How great.]
 

<3>
Top of the panel
   [April 26]
   [The day before the Recruitment Meeting.]
 

<4>
Ito
   [For some reason, there would be traps wherever I went, one after another.]
   [GYAAAA!]

(*Noises of things falling and such*)
 

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pg. 16
 

<1>
Ito
   [Wah!]
 

<2>
Ito
   [!?]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Did those guys do this?!]
   [Waitaminute, you!!!]

Makoto
   [!]
 

<4>
Makoto
   [Ito-san, look out!]
 

<5>
Ito
   [*slips on one of them trick balls and falls*]
 

<6>
Makoto
   [Ito-san?!]

Ito
   [Whyyyy...@_@]

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pg. 17

<1>
Makoto
   [..........]

Guys that Ito tried to chase (from now on referred to as Takashi's Evil Dudes)
   [*murmur amongst themselves and walk off*]
 

<2>
Makoto
   [*remembering Takashi's words earlier* "If you betray us, I won't forgive you."]
   [*remembering Takashi's words earlier* "That is..."]
 

<3>
Makoto
   [*remembering Takashi's words earlier* "...a warning."]
 

<4>
Ito
   [At a time like this...]
   [Why are they looking at me like that?]**

Drama Club Teacher
   [Ah!]
   [Is she awake?]

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pg. 18

<1>
Ito
   [?! I fell in the hallway...]

Male Students
   [*laughing* You're surprisingly clumsy, aren't you!]
   [You should stop that! Tomorrow's the real thing!]

Nobuko
   [Are you ok, Ito-san?]
 

<2>
Drama Club Teacher
   [Mako-chan brought you to the infirmary, you know.]
   [But since it's lunch break, she went off somewhere...]
 

<3>
Ito
   [!?]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Ah! Are you hurt anywhere?]
   [Tomorrow's the Recruitment Meeting, so you have to be more careful.]
 

<4>
Ito
   [*off screen* No...I'm fine..]
 

<5>
Takashi's Evil Dudes
   [Yes...It was a failure.]
   [It's because that woman is very athletic and has good instincts.]
   [We couldn't even scratch her these past two days...]*

Takashi
   [I see...]
   [Then we can't use ordinary means.]
 
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pg. 19

<1>
Makoto
   [I knew it was you.]
 

<2>
Takashi
   [I don't know what you mean.]
 

<3>
Makoto
   [Please don't play stupid.]
 

<4>
Takashi's Evil Dudes
   [This is bad!]
   [Let's get out of here!]
 

<5>
Makoto
   [What are you planning, putting all those traps for Ito-san?]
 

<6>
Ito
   [!]
 

<7>
Ito
   [Makoto!]
   [...Iizuka Takashi!?]
   [......?]

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pg. 20

<1>
Takashi
   [But I just did the natural thing.]
   [Your sin of making Takayo sad is heavy.]

Ito
   [!]

<2>
Takashi
   [And I don't understand what's so great about Miura Ito.]
   [There is no flower like Takayo.]
   [She is impudent even though she is an outsider and she's rude too.]
   [She's like a pesty bug that troubles Takayo.]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Pesty bug!?]
   [That bastard...I'll kill him...]

Makoto
   [............ *sarcastic chuckle*]
 

<4>
Makoto
   [...I'm sorry, but lately my eyes have been pretty bad.]
 

<5>
Makoto
   [I can't see any other flower but Ito-san.]
   [The rest all look like weeds to me.]

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pg. 21

<1>
Makoto
   [Neither Takayo-chan, nor anyone else...]
   [No one can beat her.]
   [I'm the one who knows best what a beautiful flower she is.]
 

<2>
Makoto
   [................]
   [If anything happens to her, I might kill you.]
 

<3>
Ito
   [o.o.......]
 

<4>
Takashi
   [Hah! Is that supposed to be a threat?]
 

<5>
Takashi
   [Are you saying that Takayo is inferior to that woman?! You really said it, huh!]
   [You should watch your mouth a bit more, pal!!]
 

<6>
Takashi
   [I'll tell you again, I can drag you back anytime!]

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pg. 22

<1>
Takashi
   [!!]

(*Noise of chair falling*)
 

<2>
Takashi's Evil Dude that Stayed
   [Takashi-sama!]

Takashi
   [What the hell!?]
 

<3>
Makoto
   [*smile* It's ok if a rotten person like you can't see her charm.]
 

<4>
Takashi
  [..........!]
(*sounds of Makoto going down the stairs*)
 

<5>
Ito
   [Ah...]

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pg. 23

<1>
Ito
   [....I was...kinda listening...]
 

<2>
Makoto
   [..........!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Makoto blushed!]
   [Hey! Hey! Say that agaain! The thing about me being a flower!]

Makoto
   [............]
 

<4>
Takashi's Evil Dude that Stayed
   [Are you ok, Takashi-sama?]

Takashi
   [..............]
 

<5>
Takashi
   [...Not even thinking about his own position...]*
   [How dare he kick my chair like that...]*
 

<6>
Takashi
   [*off screen* Now I'll definitely crush the Recruitment Meeting!]

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pg. 24

<1>
Top of Panel
   [April 27]
 

<2>
Drama Club Girl
   [How...]
 

<3>
Drama Club Girl
   [...COOOL, Makoto-san!!!!]
   [Kyaaaaa!]

Tsugumi
   [Ito-kun is cooler!]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Yeah!]
   [With her hair tied back she really looks manly after all!]
   [How wonderful!]
 

<4>
Ito
   [Mako!!]
 

<5>
Makoto
   [Ito-san...]
   [Where's your princess costume?]
   [I'm a little shocked]

Ito
   [It's under this costume!]
   [And the wig too! It'll be more fun this way, cause of the transformation scene and all!]
   [It's embarrassing, and I'll be wearing it enough during the real thing]

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pg. 25

<1>
Ito
   [At what time is it?]

Drama Club Teacher
   [One hour, from 10 to 11]
   [Let's gather next to the stage half an hour before, ok?]

Drama Club Students
   [Ok!]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Until then, let's go invite the first years individually]

Drama Club Students
   [Ok!]

Drama Club Teacher
   [Try to make a good impression, ok?]
 
Drama Club Students
   [Ok!]
 

<2>
Ito
   [I'll be going then!]
 

<3>
Ito
   [With each passing day, the day of the decisive battle...]
   [The day of the Recruitment Meeting arrived.]

Nobuko
   [We'll go to building A!]

Ito
   [Ok!]
   [We'll take building B!]
 

<4>
Tennis Club Girl
   [The Tennis Club has a good presentation!]
   [From 1 PM!]

Baseball Team Guy
   [Baseball Team Strikeout Challenge!!]

(*Noises of people talking*)
 

<5>
Ito
   [Hmmm...We already went by this floor...]
   [What should we do now? >< And people's trust in our club is so thin too...]

Makoto
   [It doesn't stand out very much does it...]
   [The stage...]

(Book Ito and Mako are holding says "Panflet" (sp?))

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pg. 26

<1>
Random Student A
   [*off screen* Huh?? The Drama Club?!]

Ito
   [!]
 

<2>
Random Student A
   [Stop it! Their clubroom just got trashed and I hear it's been nothing but bad stuff for them lately!]

Ito
   [Ugh...]

Random Student B
   [Yeah, but...]
 

<3>
Random Student B
   [But except for that, it looked really fun and interesting!]
   [Hey, why don't we go see?]
 

<4>
Ito & Makoto
   [*rejoooice!*]
 

<5>
Ito
   [I calmed down knowing there were students who were willing to look past all that and at what the club was really
    about.]

Random Dude
   [Are you Miura-san and Amano-san from the Drama Club?]
 

<6>
Ito
   [Ah?]

Random Dude
   [I have a message for you from your advisor, Itou-sensei]

(Note: ^_^; Ehehe...It took me this long to realize her name was Itou-sensei! Whoops! So now you know! The Drama Club Teacher's name is Itou-sensei!)
 

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pg. 27

<1>
Ito
   [?]
 

<2>
Message from "Itou-sensei"
   [I'll give the final instructions on the rooftop, so gather there.]
 

<3>
Ito
   [Why all of a sudden on the rooftop? And no one else is here yet either...]

Makoto
   [Is it really here?]
 

<4>
(*door shuts*)
 

<5>
Ito & Makoto
   [!?]
 

<6>
Takashi
   [Good job.]

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pg. 28

<1>
Ito
   [Dammit!! Who's there?!]
   [Open up!!]

(*trying-to-open-the-door and banging-on-the-door noises*)
 

<2>
(*breaking the door handle noise ^_^;*)
 

<3>
Ito
   [........]
   [We....]

(Arrow pointing at Ito's hand says "she's got the handle in her hand")
 

<4>
Ito
   [We're locked out?!]

THE END! (of this part!)