Minimal Girlfriend by Konoyama Kata Original Japanese Title: Minimaru na kanajo TL by boke ### TL notes indicated by hash tags like this: ### ### Page numbers indicated by —XX for example, page one is: —01 ### Panel numbers indicated by -X for example, panel one is: -1 ### sfx- means the following is a sound effect. ### hw- means the following is handwritten text. ### Unless otherwise noted, panel and text balloon flow is from upper right to lower left. ### This TL indexes on file number in case the page numbers don’t match. ### Sometimes my comments are snark or color, so feel free to ignore those. —01 -1 sfx- Dash Rito-chan! Thanks for waiting! -2 Tsubame! -3 You didn’t get confused by the trains? All good! And I brought cake! Yay! I’ll carry that for you. —02 I’m soo looking forward to this! I don’t have anything, so don’t get your hopes up. Minimal Girlfriend —03 -1 Look, you’re the first person I’ve had over. I’m a little nervous. -2 So I’m the first one! -3 But saying that you have nothing? sfx- Mmm… Are you telling me you’re the kind to keep the house clean? -4 Mmm Well, it is clean. ###bold and italicize “is” -5 So you’re confirming it? hw- I’m looking forward to it even more now! -6 Rito-chan’s room… —04 -1 I wonder what her place is going to be like? hw- Look, I said don’t get your hopes up. -2 She always wears simple monotones. Maybe her room will be all sleek and modern? -3 Mm, maybe she’s actually into having a girly room? -4 Or… Maybe she’s actually a real young lady!? —05 -1 Nyahaha sfx- OMG That’s something I totally shouldn’t get my hopes up about! -2 What at you grinning for? Ehehehe -3 Ok, we’re here! Ah… So you’re not a young lady… What are you talking about? —06 -1 Thanks for having me… -2 sfx- Spartan! Solitary confinement?! -3 You sure don’t hold back… I told you there was nothing, right? -4 You’ve gone way past having nothing into a new realm… ###handwritten text, counter clockwise from upper right She has a plant?! Sofa is just a folded futon with a blanket covering it. Low table (has a drawer) Closet Nothing hanging on the walls! -4 Did you just move in? Nope. —07 -1 I am… a minimalist! -2 Minimalist…? -3 I think I’ve heard of that, but what was it again? -4 Ah… —08 -1 Does it mean you like short people?! sfx- Kya Something like that? -2 No, no. How’d you jump to that conclusion? Wha? -3 So minimalism is… When some lives with only the bare essentials. That’s a pretty cool to describe it, huh? -4 Hmm…? So this room gets a cool name like that? Hey now… Are you dissing on me? —09 -1 Well, each person has to choose how much stuff to have. -2 
Oh! -3 But I bet your closet’s stuffed full, huh? -4 Wanna take a look? Can I?! -5 Wh… Whooaaa! There’s SO much space! sfx- Empty —10 -1 sfx- Crammed full It’s completely different from my closet! Hm-hm! -3 It’s not just that there’s only a few things. -4 It’s that you can feel Rito-chan’s taste in each and every thing. -5 But… I imagine that she delights in each one. —11 -1 Hm? -2 Hmmmmm? -3 Rito-chan, that’s, uh… Mmm, yeah. -4 sfx- Blush I only have one plate. hw- and fork… -5 Wha? Whaaaaaat?! hw- Just one? Gyah! I should have bought paper plates at the store! —12 -1 sfx- Nnngh… I wanted to show you who I really am, Tsubame, but… I bet this actually turns you off, huh? No! Not at all! -2 I totally do the same kind of thing! When washing dishes is too much of a pain… -3 Huh? -4 Rito-chan… Didn’t you say you liked movies? hw- You don’t even have a TV —13 -1 Yeah, I generally watch one every day! Want to watch something? -2 Shhf -3 Beep sfx- Vveeem Wha? —14 -1 The wall’s a huge screen! -2 How are you projecting that? -3 There’s a projector in the light fixture?! Yep! -4 And that is the highlight… sfx- Shaaak Of this empty room! —15 -1 Amazing… There’s absolutely nothing to get in the way. It’s only her and me. -2 Our very own movie theater! —16 -1 Soo cool! How luxurious! —17 -1 Oh gosh, I cried at that! -2 Mary’s face at the end, when she was leaving…! sfx- Sniff Sniff Sniff sfx- Squeek I know, right? The intensity of her expression! Amazing! It said everything without any words… I know, right? -3 And when John told her he loved her! Yes! That that ocean scene! I get you! -4 So, uh… Why did you decide to be a minimalist? —18 -1 The reason’s simple. I thought I would surround myself with only things I love. -2 Instead of having lots of stuff… I want to be able to look at important things I’ll never let go of. -3 And so I choose thing that will make me happy after careful consideration. —19 -1 And the only things I bring into my room ### over the word “room” write in small letters “world” sfx- Tonk Are the things that meet that criteria. -2 sfx- Huh? You’re the first person I’ve had over. —20 -1 You know… like that… sfx- Yoink -2 Oh, you! Geez! Don’t you go getting all embarrassed! But I am embarrassed! ###bold and italicize “am” —21 -1 I was surprised at first, but… But now I feel this room has endless possibilities! -2 Can I come over again? You bet! And I’ll find some dishes that’ll suit you, Tsubame. -3 sfx- Whoosh Right! Tsubame, you do it too! Get your clean on! —22 -1 Nn…? Mmmmmm…. -2 I… think I’ll pass. -3 Hey! —23 -1 The setup Their friends set them up, and they’ve been dating for about a month. They’ve been living alone for three years (Juniors in college). Tsubame Since she’s so short, she often gets mistaken for a middle schooler, but she couldn’t care less. She’s a daydreamer and has a really sharp tongue when she gets worked up. She can’t bring herself to throw away stuffed animal she won at the arcade or shopping bags. Rito She started being a minimalist after living alone. Since she only has a couple changes of clothes that she wears at college, and it makes her worry about what others think. Since she’s taken on a “minimalist persona”, other people don’t worry about it. Actually people think she’s great a mixing and matching. She likes watching minimalism videos on YouTube. Tsubame Rito