More Than a Friend, More Than a Lover by Ueshima Haruki ###Japaneses Title: Tomodachi ijyou, koibito ijyou 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. —04 -1 Extra A High School Girl Gets her Cheeks Pinched Chapter 1 A High School Girl is ecstatic and Falls in Love Getting a White Day Present. Chapter 2 A High School Girl who Can’t be Honest With Herself Chapter 3 A High School Girl pretending to be asleep after school Chapter 4 A High School Girl who cut her bangs too much. Extra A High School Girl studying for the test. Chapter 5 A High School Girl who can’t sleep by herself Chapter 6 A High School Girl who has her hair touched Chapter 7 A High School Girl who got pushed down Chapter 8 A High School Girl who realizes they got an indirect kiss Chapter 9 Hug day for a High School Girl —05 -1 Extra A High School Girl Gets her Cheeks Pinched Aoi! -2 What’s up…? sfx- Poke Gotcha! -3 You did it now! hw- You little… -4 Payback! hw- Shtop it sfx- Pinch Nyahaha -5 Mizuki’s cheeks are so soft! sfx- Musha Musha Let. Me. Go! —06 -1 March 14th. White Day. Chapter 1 A High School Girl is Ecstatic and Falls in Love Getting a White Day Present. -2 It’s the day when I get real love chocolate back from here (maybe)! hw- Here. For you. On V-day ###box hw- Thanks! And today I can gauge her feelings depending on the kind of chocolate she gives me! Aoi, good morning! -3 G-good morning. My big sister made some cookies, so you can have some. So… this what she’s giving me? I guess it means she doesn’t hate me at least… ###bold and italicize “this” Thanks… -4 Lunchtime. I’ve got marshmallows! Say ah! hw- Snacks! So she hates me? sfx- Doong -5 Wha? Gummies too? What does she mean by giving me gummies? -6 And now it’s Pocky? -7 After school. sfx- Depressed So did she give me any? I don’t understand… —07 -1 Slump -2 I’ll give you some candy, so cheer up! -3 Candy = Love! sfx- Fwoosh -4 Feeling better? sfx- Th-thump Th-thump Yus… —08 -1 Chapter 2 A High School Girl who Can’t be Honest With Herself sfx- Hoo hoo -2 Ah, the bath felt great. sfx- Nice n’ warm! sfx- Bee da lee da lee -3 Hello? It’s kinda late, what’s up? -4 U-um… Can you tell me whats on the Math B quiz tomorrow? -5 sfx- Smirk Ah, that? It’s pages 20 to 32. hw- We did that after school, right? You’re calling for that? Didn’t you just want to hear my voice? sfx- Heh Heh -6 No way! sfx- Sweat Sweat I have something else I needed to ask… —09 -1 Hnn…. Nnn…. -2 sfx- Whumph Haha I’m just messing with you. Ah, right! Today did you… -3 Blush -6 Ok, good night! sfx- Bip -7 sfx- Sigh… She should just tell me she wants to hear my voice. —10 -1 Chapter 3 A High School Girl pretending to be asleep after school sfx- Sliiide Sorry to make you wait… -2 She’s sleeping… sfx- Zzz -3 Zzz -4 Getting turned on… -5 Glance Glance —11 -1 Kiss -2 Clatter Bluuush -3 Spin -4 Ka-chud -5 hw- Was awake the whole time sfx- Grin She went for my cheek. Really? —12 -1 Chapter 4 A High School Girl who cut her bangs too much. Morning! Morning! sfx- Glooom -2 hw- Good morning Aoi, what’s the matter? sfx- Depressed -3 I… cut my bangs too short… sfx- Hah hah -4 It’s cute. It’s ok to change it up once in a while, right? sfx- Fidget Fidget But, it looks weird… sfx- Downcast -5 I don’t think that’s true. sfx- C’mon, first thing in the morning? sfx- Pissed sfx- Slump It is true. I wanna go home. —13 -1 Zip Nab -2 Ok, so now we’re the same! sfx- Snip Snip sfx- Flutter Flutter -3 Straight bangs are cute, right? sfx- Straight! Mizuki’s precious hair! sfx- Lean -4 sfx- Caress And… -5 It’s nice to have the same look for a while. Don’t you think? sfx- There There sfx- Pat Pat Y-yeah —14 -1 sfx- There There sfx- Whoa Aoi looks great with straight bangs…! —15 -1 Extra A High School Girl studying for the test. Studying for a test. sfx- Focused sfx- Scribble Scribble -2 How do you solve this? You’ll figure it out if you use the formula in the chart on page 47. Thanks. sfx- Scribble Scribble Nothing’s happening! -3 hw- Grades: Better than average (in charge of science) hw- Yay Both of them are rather smart hw- Grades: Worse than average (in charge of literature) hw- Because I do club too! —16 -1 Chapter 5 A High School Girl who can’t sleep by herself Today I’m staying over at Mizuki’s house. sfx- …Sniff hw- So sad sfx- Drip Drip sfx- Twich So there you are, Schnauzer Woof! -2 sfx- Quiver That was soo good! sfx- Sniff sfx- Wah Wah sfx- Tremble -3 It was great the dog found it’s way home, huh? Yeah… -4 We gotta get up early tomorrow, so let go to sleep. You can have the bed, Aoi. W-wait! I wanna sleep together! sfx- Clatter —17 -1 It’s not like we watched a horror flick or anything. You can sleep by yourself, right? I mean… After watching that movie, it makes me worry that you’ll go off somewhere, Mizuki. -2 sfx- Welling up Just for today, okay? sfx- Tug -3 sfx- Throb hw- Geez I guess I gotta… -4 sfx- Zzz sfx- Squeeze hw- Fell asleep within seconds Goodnight, Aoi. —18 -1 Chapter 6 A High School Girl who has her hair touched The morning after a sleepover. It’s been a while since I’ve done your hair, Aoi. R-really? sfx- Shfff sfx- Th-thump Th-thump Since you’ve grow it out it’s been nothing but twin tails. When we go out, you should do something with it. -2 Your hair has the same shampoo smell as mine. hw- Yeah, Macherie is the best… sfx- Sniff sfx- Th-thump ### x3 sfx- Bluuush sfx- Th-thump —19 -1 sfx- Bonk sfx- Thump Thump sfx- Shoomf sfx- Th-thump Whaagh! -2 Ah! Sorry! -3 Sfx- Wobble Waaah! -4 sfx- Th-thump ### x6 sfx- Owie… sfx- Whump —20 -1 Wh-what do I do?! I didn’t mean to do this! I ended up pushing her down! sfx- Thump ### x3 Our face’s are so close! She’s so darn cute! I wanna just hug her like this! sfx- Th-thump -2 Ka-chak Creak -3 sfx- Whoa! Onee-chan, Aoi-chan… sfx- Whoosh sfx- Shove sfx- Hlk -4 What are you doing? U-um… sfx -ha ha —21 -1 hw- whatever. Breakfast’s ready. Come on down when you’re ready. sfx- Whew sfx- Ka-chud -2 Don’t act all relieved! sfx- Wh-whoa S-sorry! That was an accident! sfx- Whoosh As if I care! Payback! -3 sfx- Th-thump ### x3 sfx- Huuug It’s payback, okay? -4 sfx- ka-cha Onee-chan, are you still not…? hw- Sorry… Y-yeah. hw- We’ll be right down? —22 -1 Chapter 8 A High School Girl who realizes they got an indirect kiss After school. sfx- Ding dong Dang Dong Hey, Wanna get tapioca on the way home? It’s been a while. Sure! -2 Mm! Yummy! sfx- Sluurp hw- Mine’s good too -3 You got the new flavor, right Mizuki? Let me have a sip? hw- Sure -4 hw- Have some Here sfx- Slurp Thanks! —23 -1 Really good! Chew Chew -2 sfx- Smirk Smirk sfx- Slurp That was an indirect kiss, you know. -3 I-I didn’t mean to…! sfx- Sweat Sweat Fufu Aoi, give me a sip of yours. —24 -1 August 9th. Hug day. ###August 9th is the 8th month, 9th day. 8/9 can be pronounced ha-gyu = hug. sfx- Glance Is it really hug day today? ### https://anydayguide.com/calendar/3735 Chapter 9 Hug day for a High School Girl -2 What’s up? -3 Do you know what day today is? Baseball day, right? hw- Didn’t know that… Well yes, but what else? Bag day? Close. hw- Close? What could it be? So then hamburger day? -4 Noooo! Fine. Just forget it. sfx- Hmph sfx- Snicker —25 -1 I know, silly! sfx- Squeeze It’s hug day! -2 Mizuki smells so good… sfx- Murmor Murmor sfx- Sniff Sniff sfx- Rub Rub sfx- Mmm This is the classroom, yo! hw- Best buds, huh? —26 -1 Publishing Circle meroro Author Ueshima Haruki Publication Date 2021… —30 -1 There’s Aoi, who can’t be honest with what she feels. And her childhood friend who’s always looking out for her, Mizuki. A high school love comedy about the two of them.