Koucha Ouji belongs to Yamada Nanpei, and is (c) 1997-2004 Hana to Yume comics, Hakusensha, anybody else I'm missing. These translations are (c) 2004 Kitsuneonna/Talia. They may not be stored or reused anywhere without the permission of the translator, and may be removed at any time at the translator's discretion. If you do not already own Koucha Ouji, please support Yamada Nanpei and Hakusensha by purchasing the manga! =================== Koucha Ouji by Yamada Nanpei Volume 1, Tsp. 1: First Flush =================== =Page 5= [The tea country of England has a silly myth] Taiko: [At midnight, in a porcelain cup of darjeeling, when the full moon's reflection is distorted by a silver spoon in the cup] [Then...] =Page 6 & 7= Koucha Ouji -- Tsp. 1 First Flushing =Page 8= Author's freetalk. (**Translator's note: I have to say, as much as I would love to sit down and attempt this translation, that would take me probably months ^^;; So, I'm going to omit free-talk pages unless I find them particularly moving or important. Or even just translatable. =Page 9= [Everyone, nice to meet you. I'm Yoshioka Taiko] [I'm a 3rd-year student at the Kazahayabashi Gakuin middle-school, 15 years old] Taiko: "Sorrry! I'm late!!" Haruka: "Yeah!" [As you can see] Someya: "You're late, Taiko-chan!" Taiko: "Crappy kid. Wouldn't go to sleep" [I am the leader of the three-person member "Tea Association"] Someko: "Kenta-kun" =Page 10= Someko: "He's so cute! How many months old is he?!" Someko: "I want a little brother like that, too!! Taiko: "He's annoying!" [This is the vice-president, Someya Yukiko] Haruka: "Hey. The moon came out" [And then there's Uchiyama Haruka] My tentative childhood friend [This is all the members. Because the club was just made, all the members are the same year in school] Taiko: "Waah! It's really full!" Someko: "It's so preeetty!" Taiko: "Ah. The water has boiled" Someko: "Waaai!" =Page 11= Taiko: "Someko, you'll have Assam tea, right? I guess I'll have Earl Grey tea. What about you, Haruka?" Someko: "I love Assam tea full of milk!" Haruka: I'm fine without any [Today's meeting is for next month's Cultural Festival] Taiko: "Hmm. But we have a formal tea party every week. It's nice to have one outside at this hour because the mood is different, right?" Someko: "Isn't it? Isn't it?! It was Someko's idea! And then the truth is that there's a reason I chose this night!" Nya-fu--n =Page 12= Taiko: " 'A reason'? Because you can see the moon, right?" Someko: "NOO! Look here!" Magazine: This month's love charm *heart* On a lovely night of the full moon *heart* In plain tea *heart* reflect the full moon *heart* stir slowly with a spoon, and take a sip *star* When you do this, you'll get a tea sprite who can grant your wish of love *heart heart* Taiko: ". . . " Haruka: ". . . " Haruka: "How much does your brain weigh!!? This was your good-for-nothing reason of calling me out and making me carry desks and chairs onto the roof-top!!? BY MYSELF!!?" THIS GIRL IS AN IDIOT Taiko: "It...it's fine if it's a charm. I've put milk into your tea, already" Someko: But this said to use plain tea! <--person who won't drink tea without milk and sugar, anyhow =Page 13= Someko: "Bu...but you and Mika-chan didn't put milk into your tea!!" Haruka: "Do NOT call me "Mika-chan!" Jerk (Translator's note: Another reading of Haruka's name is potentially "Mika". The "Mi" is feminine, though, and so Haruka is embarrassed about being called that name) Taiko: "Hey, look, but like this, it's lovely" Someko: "It really is. The reflection really is pretty. Taiko, will you have sugar?" Taiko: Ah "just one" Someko: "Okay" Taiko: "Thanks" *heart* Someko: "Here, for Mika-chan" Haruka: Don't call me that *sip* =Page 14= Haruka: "Thanks for the tea. Since we met just to "play house", I'm going home" Someko: "Eeeh! Then who'll clear up the desks?!" Haruka: ". . . Do that kind of thing yourself!" Someko: Eeeh! Taiko: =Page 15= Taiko: It doesn't seem to be Taiko: "... .... ... Someko. Did you...put something else in besides sugar?" Someko: "Eh?" =Page 16= Taiko: =Page 17= Taiko: =Page 18= Thing: "Ah. Good evening, nice to meet you. I..." Taiko: Gyaaa! Thing: !! Haruka: "Taiko?!" =Page 19= Haruka: "Aw, crap! My cup! Is it broken?!" Someko: "It's alright. Because the rooftop has a rubber floor" Haruka: "It's fine, Someya, I'll pick it up. I guess I wasn't careful enough..." Someko: "Oh right! Taiko-chan! What was wrong?" Haruka: =Page 20= Thing: "That hurt! Don't drop me!" Thing: "Mmm, it's been so long since I've had fresh air! Feels good!" Haruka: ". . . . " =Page 21= Haruka: "So...Some..." Someko: "Kyaaaa Taiko-chan?! What's this!!" Someko: "It can move?!" Taiko: "I don't know! I noticed something inside my cup!" Someko: "Inside your tea-cup...? I get it, Taiko-chan!!" =Page 22= Someko: "This is the tea spirit! Someko's charm worked!!" Taiko: "R--Riight! Haruka! Come here for a sec...!" <--rigorous =Page 23= Taiko: "There's also one...over there?!" Taiko: "I'm home" Taiko's mom: "Welcome back" Taiko's mom: "Come in come in" Haruka: "Excuse us" Taiko's mom: "Oh my! Haruka-kun! Yukiko-chan!" It's been a while "What's with this coming home so late?" =Page 24= Haruka: "Weell, our club meeting ran a little bit long..." Someko: "Ah! Kenta-kun!" You're awake Taiko's mom: "Yeah. He woke up" the crappy kid Someko: "Awen't you CUUUTE" Taiko: "Someko, COME" Someko: "Aaaaaan!" =Page 25= Taiko: "It's okay" Taiko: "Open it!" Thing: "You bastaaaards! Don't think you can throw us into such a small thing! You won't get away with it!" =Page 26= "Tea princes?" Thing: "That's right" Thing: "I am the tea prince of Assam. Over here is the tea prince of Earl Grey. Are you the one who called me?" =Page 27= Assam: "What, I'm wrong? Then maybe you?" Earl Grey: "That person is the one who called me" Assam: "Then...this one...a guy, huh" Another guy has called on my excellency why is it always a guy who drinks the tea" =Page 28= Assam: "Well, that's fine. Tell me your wishes. I'll grant three of them" Earl Grey: "Kyaa! Assam!!" Someko: "Mika-chan, what do you think you're doing? Haruka: "This guy's kind of conceited!" Taiko: "Is he dead?" Assam: "You bastard! You have some nerve, knocking me over!" Earl Grey: "Kyaaa! Assam, stop it stop it!" =Page 29= Earl Grey: "You ladies over there, please listen. We are called "Koucha Ouji" Earl Grey: "We grant three magical wishes to the person who called us. We cannot return home until we have finished granting your wishes" Early Grey: "Please tell us what you wish" Taiko: "You said 'what I wish'..." =Page 30= Haruka: "Make all the women in the world mine!" Assam: "That's your wish, fool!?" Haruka: "What, didn't you say you could grant anything?!" Earl Grey: "I didn't say anything. Something that extreme would effect too many people. Something more simple. Say..."let me jump over 6 vaulting horses", like that. =Page 31= Haruka: "I'm going home" Assam: "Hey! What about your wishes!?" Haruka: "I don't have any, that's stupid!" Haruka: "If it's something I can do with my own effort, I don't want wishes. So why don't you use them yourself?" =Page 32= Assam: "Wa...wait, you asshole!" Assam: "I can't go home until you do this!" Haruka: "Wh-What are you doing, you jerk?!" Assam: "I'm sticking with you until I grant you three wishes!" Taiko: ". . . A simple wish, huh" =Page 33= Taiko: "Hmmm" This is kind of hard Taiko: Asking to be skinny has sort of embarrassing (and bad). My grades are alright as of now... Taiko: "Ah! What about something like 'I want a boyfriend'"?! Hmm, but right now I don't really have anyone I like Taiko: =Page 34= Taiko: Taiko's father: Taiko: Taiko's father: Taiko's father: Taiko's mom: Taiko: Taiko: " I want to make candy with papa, again" =Page 35= Taiko: "Then...no way is that easy!" Taiko: Taiko: Someko: "Taiko-chaaan! Have you decided on your wishes!?" good morning! Taiko: "Not yet!" 'morning =Page 36= Someko: "Taiko-chan...you're really something..." Taiko: "Hmm...?" Someko: Let's go to the classroom Taiko: I'll make some herb tea Someko: "Eh? You didn't sleep!?" Taiko: "Ah...well..." Someko: "'Ah well', you say...are you okay?" Taiko: "I'm fine...huh?" Taiko: "It's unlocked" =Page 37= Assam: "YOU JEEERK!" Someko: "KYAAA! Taiko-chan!" I can see your underwear! Assam: "Huh!?" Assam: "That was bad of me. I thought you were that jerk, Haruka" Earl Grey: "I thought I would be smashed in Taiko-san's bag" Assam: I said I was sorry "But that guy is such an offensive pig" Assam: "And the fact of the matter is that he brought me along to this dirty school" =Page 38= Taiko: "I'm so sorry if it's dirty" But we are in the basement Taiko: "Everyone on that awful student council! That miserable student council! We'll show them next month! Assam: She's on fire Earl Grey: "What is going on next month?" Someko: "The cultural festival" Earl Grey: "Is the cultural festival important?" Taiko: "This is for our matters of dissatisfaction!" Someko: "There's a customer survey. It will be decided who is first place by the survey. From there, if we get more members, then we'll be able to become a club. If we become a club..." =Page 39= Taiko: "...we get a club budget!" Haruka: "Heey, I found you" Haruka: "What are you doing, Taiko?" Assam: "AH!!" Taiko: "Haruka" Haruka: "The student council has been calling you" They announced it twice Taiko: "Eh?!" Haruka: "Just now, they've called three times. They intercom doesn't reach the basement!" Taiko: "Geh! It's true! I'll bet it's about a location for the festival. They probably approved the application I sent in last week" [Tea Association leader Yoshioka Taiko, report to the student council room] =Page 40= Taiko: "Well, I'll be back" Haruka: "I should return to practice, too" Haruka: Hurry and go! Taiko: Wait a sec! Earl Grey: ". . . Haruka-san does basketball?" Someko: "Mika-chan is in other clubs. He's a club-fiend" Earl Grey: "Club fiend..." Someko: "That's right. He's in about ten" Taiko: "Eh! Why not? Why can't you approve it?!" =Page 41= (Translator's note: "Fukukaichou" is something like a vice-president) Fukukaichou: "Your tea association's event would be a cafe, correct?" Fukukaichou: "Because having the event in the school has means a risk of fire, you cannot use fire" Taiko: "We'll use an electric water heater! And we have cookies and pre-prepared cakes" Fukukaichou: ". . . There's a problem with the location as well. This year more than other years, there are more restaurants hoping to volunteer" Taiko: "So by that...do you mean you're giving priority to the other classes and clubs?!" Taiko: "You approve ours...because ours is a small association?!" =Page 42= Fukukaichou: "You could say that that is the blunt truth, but that is only natural, isn't it?" Taiko: "Fine...then...it's okay if I find a space..." Taiko: "If I can decide on a space...then we can have our cafe, right?" Fukukaichou: "We'll handle things as best we can" =Page 43= Fukukaichou: "Kaichou" (Translator's note: Which would leave "Kaichou" as president) Kaichou: "Come in" Kaichou: "I heard. Well handled, vice president" Fukukaichou: "Did I handle it well?" Kaichou: "Why yes" Girl: "Kaichou, here's your tea" =Page 44= Kaichou: "Thank you" Girl: "Kai..." Kaichou: "Take it away" =Page 45= Taiko: "How irritating! What's with those guys?!" Haruka: "The talk about the student council having to limit clubs because of the budget was true, huh" Taiko: "This isn't a joke!!" Taiko: "At any rate, we have to find a space! Haruka, you can help, too, after school!!" Haruka: "From now?! That's impossible! Isn't there less than a month?!" Taiko: "If we look we'll find something!" Haruka: There's now way I'll help Taiko: What! You're a club member, so help Assam: ". . ." =Page 46= Cooking club leader: "Whaaat! You want to borrow the cooking room?! No way! We're planning on using it for three days for the festival!" Taiko: "Just one day will be fine! Saturday, as a general presentation to the public, on the first day, is good! =Page 47= Cooking club leader: "No good!" Taiko: "But what if we--!" This is our last change! Cooking club leader: "How persistent!" Assam: "Geeze...isn't that girl irritating..." Haruka: "Wah!" Haruka: "You guys get out of there!" Assam: "Hmm...often enough" Earl Grey: "Ah--Assam!?" Cooking club leader: "At any rate..." *pachi---n* Earl Grey: "AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Someko: Eeh...w-what? Assam: Fuhun =Page 48= Cooking club leader: "No problem with just one day, use all three!" (Translator's note: And "buchou" is kind of like "leader") Girl: "BUCHOU!" Taiko: "That's so kind of you to say..." Haruka: "Taiko!" Taiko: "Eh?" Haruka: "It was this guy's action!" Girl: "Eh...what?" Girl2: "They're running away!!" Cooking club leader: Yoshioka-sa---an Girl: Steady, buchou! Earl Grey: "I'm so sorry!" Girl: "Kyaaa! BUCHOU!" =Page 49= Taiko: "What was with that, using magic on your own!!" Taiko: "You guys shouldn't have any effect on other people, so isn't it bad to use magic?!" Assam: "If it was you, wouldn't you do it?" Assam: "Are you stupid? If you asked us, it would be a sinch to get you in this little cultural festival" Assam: "Just use a wish" Taiko: ". . . . Your offer is unnecessary" =Page 50= Taiko: "Using magic would make it wrong! CHIBI!!" Haruka: "Taiko!" Assam: "Chibi, huh, jerk!" Someko: "Taiko-chan really loved her father!" Assam: "Eh..." what's with that, so suddenly Someko: "Taiko-chan's father used to be the master of a cafe. But one year ago..." =Page 51= Someko: "Her father was killed in a traffic accident. From there, Taiko-chan formed the tea association" Haruka: "TAIKO!" Haruka: "Don't be violent!" Taiko: I'm not! Kiii! "Let go!" Haruka: "Since I've thought of a little-known good place, calm down!" =Page 52= Someko: "Eeeh! On the roof-top! Really!" Haruka: "There are no stairs from the inside of the building that come up onto this roof. There's only a spiral-staircase" So are few people who know about it Someko: "Taiko-chan! There's a green-house!" =Page 53= Haruka: Ah "Hey, there is no railing here, so be careful" Taiko: "GEH?! It's true!!" Assam: "Heeey" Assam: "This is the roof-top, and I can see the roof" Whoa, it's a good view from the side Taiko: "What are you doing?! Isn't it dangerous to lean out that far?!" Assam: "What?!" Assam: "It isn't that dangerous!" You're the one who should be careful Taiko: Ha?! =Page 54= Taiko: You're flying "Ah! I see! I get it!" AHAHAHAHA Assam: ". . ." Assam: Tsk "Weird girl...isn't she, Earl? (Translator's note: Assam called Earl Grey and abbreviated/weird version of his original name, which comes fresh out of katakana as "aru". I'm choosing "Earl" because...well...I can, but "Al" would be another option) Earl Grey: "...." Earl Grey: <...> Taiko: "Haruka Haruka, hey, do you think this greenhouse is for the gardening club?" Haruka: "Uh huh" Taiko: "Well, then the gardening club probably has this place" =Page 55= Haruka: "Yes but...the gardening club isn't doing the festival" Taiko: "YES!!" Someko: "Why aren't they doing the festival?" It's so much fun Taiko: "There's only one member. A sophomore from the high school, Oosawa Midori- senpai" [clubs with three members or less are associations] Someko: Just one? Well, then it's not really a club, right? Isn't it an association? Haruka: No, there are ghost members. People who go as members. It's really a club <--one of those people Taiko: "Haruka!! What class is this "Oosawa-senpai" in?! Taiko: "I'm going to discuss him letting us use this!" =Page 56= Taiko: "Earl Grey! Over here!" Earl Grey: "Ah, okaay!" Someko: "Aaah! Taiko-chan! Someko's coming, too!" Haruka: "Eh...hey..." Haruka: "What a second, you guys. You don't have the background to meet this senpai!" Haruka: "Taiko!" --Tsp. 1 First Flush: Owari--