
Maison Ikkoku Episode #3
Daisuke Suzuki

note: I omitted all cues, except audio cue. This's for subtitling REFERENCE only.  Maybe if I feel like it, I might translate the subtitle (episode titles)someday , but don't expect it...  (they're too hard to translate + they sound like something from a tabloid paper headline.)


terminology 
-Juken:  
General term to describe the procedure of taking the college entrance exam.  The general process is as follows, but details change essensially every year.  Thumb of the rule of studying for juken is "Shitou Goraku," "Four hours (of sleep and maybe ) pass, five hour (of sleep and sure) fail."

-Primary Common Exam (kyotsu ichiji shiken):
Primary commons, in short.  This exam shakes down the juken students before the secondary.  In some popular colleges and universities has their own standard which those who got barely pass mark would be turned down.

-Secondary Exam (Dainiji shiken)
Entrance exams given by each individual colleges and universities.

-Ronin
This word originally meant lordless samurai, but it also means those who failed juken.  1-ro is ronin first year, 2-ro is into 2nd year..  Will Godai-kun end up  as 2-ro?.....

New notice:  In some cases (or most cases?), the episode title is in "[ ]".  This designates that the the title is direct translation of the manga version, not TV version.   If "+" is inserted between two titles, it indicates that the TV version episode amalgamed those two manga episodes.  (The worst record of such was 5 episodes crumped into just two episodes. )  The reasons has been posted on translation of episode #1, 3, 10.  Be warned.


Godai: Though it's still early in the year, many youth start to loose their calmness...  
"sin, cosine, tangent!!  foothill of Fuji! , tree of ohm!..." (must be a memorization cue for some math, or physics constant)
(boing! crash!)"Excuse me! What's wrong?!  Come on, what's wrong?"
Yotsuya: I wonder what it is....
Kyoko: Right, primary common exam starts tomorrow.
"Sorry to keep you waiting. "
Kyoko: ! Thank you

"Mister."
Yotsuya:  !!..........(magazines drop)

Subtitle  [The Bell Knells at Dawn]

Kyoko: Must hard for juken students.  Better be kind to Godai-san.  He must be nervous with last minute study.
"baaw"
"Yew so ugly!"

Friend: So, It's tomorrow.  The primary common.
Sakamoto: Got any confidence?
Friend: Idiot, if I do, do you think I'd be troubled like this?
Godai: Damn it...
Sakamoto: Should've studied more seriously..
Godai: Sigh..   I haven't done anything....
Sakamoto: ! You mean nothing?
Godai: I haven't even took her hand..
Sakamoto: ?  What are you talking about?
Godai: About kanrinin-san, of course.  
Sakamoto: What're you thinking about.
Friend: There goes another rival.
Godai: ?

Kyoko: Sure, better remind Akemi-san and Yotsuya-san not to disturb Godai-san.

Akemi:  Phew.. So cold.
Kyoko:.... .  First Akemi-san.  (knock) Akemi-san!  Akemi-san!   .. ! Godai-san!
Akemi:  What is it?
Kyoko: No, nothing!!   
Akemi:  What is it? Tell me! (knock!)
Kyoko: It's alright for now!   
Godai: ? Kanrinin-san, what is it?
Kyoko: Nothing.  It's alright! Please, hurry to your room.
Godai: ?
Akemi:  What is it, really?
Kyoko: Nothing!  Please, Godai-san!
Akemi:  Come on what is it?!  (door opens.)
Godai: !
Akemi:  Yew so cold..
Kyoko: Sure it should be cold, isn't it?
Akemi:  What're you looking at?
Godai: ? ! hahahaha
Akemi:  If you're like that, you gonna fail again!
Godai: ..........
Kyoko: Akemi-san!
Akemi:  Ha!  Fail again!
Kyoko: Akemi-san!!
Akemi:  By the way, what was that all about?
Kyoko: It's too late. 
Akemi:  ?
Kyoko: I wanted tell you not to agitate Godai-san with the exam tomorrow, not walk around in clothing like that...  but all is too late.
Akemi:  Hey!! Don't peep!!
Godai: ! 
Ky (sigh..)

"yawn"

Kyoko: (Knock)Yotsuya-san! (Knock)Yotsuya-san! (Knock)  I wonder if he's out.... (off) Yotsuya-san!  Are you in?  Yotsuya-san!
Godai: Oh, Yotsuya-san is out.  (giggle)  Luck among misfortunes.  Better do summary.  !!
Yotsuya: Guess who?
Godai: Yo..Yotsuya appeared!  Yotsuya appeared!!
Yotsuya:  My goodness, yes, it is me.  How did you guess?
Kyoko:  Yotsuya-san! Why're you here!
Godai:  Since when were you here?!!  How did you get in?!!!!
Yotsuya:  I've been here for a while.  And as to the question from where. 
Godai:  You made a hole again!
Yotsuya:  Here, as you can see through this secret hole.
Kyoko:  What kind of secret is it?!  At any rate get out of the room!
Yotsuya:  I understand.  Godai-kun, you're such a cold man.
Kyoko:  Yotsuya-san!
(Crawl crawl)

Kyoko:  Anyway, this's an important day for Godai-san, so don't bug him anymore!
Godai:  Kanrinin-san is worried about me.  Better do my best!

Ken:  I'm hoomee!!
"baw!"

Godai:  Finally I'm getting into pace..! (roll)   What the hell?
Ken:  Duck!
Godai: !
Ken: I won.
"Smack!"
Ken: What was that for?!
Godai: Kids are supposed to play outside!!
Ken: No thanks!!  Skate board slides the best here!
Godai: !!!!!!!!  You said the mustn't...
"SMACK!!"
"CRY!!"
Godai: I won... (So pointless victory.... DS)

Ken: Mom!!  Ronin hit me!
Ichinose:  I see.
Ken: ... That's it?  "I see"?!  Anything else to say?!
Ichinose:  Bear it.  
"Shiro-san.... Let's bear it.."
"Neko-san......"
Ichinose:  The enemy is coming to the edge with the exams.
Ken: Is ronin entitled to do anything?
Ichinose:  Shut up!!!  Once the juken is over, revenge him!!!!
"Please wait till I pass the exam... Neko-san"
"Shiro-san.."
Ken: I can't wait that long!

Ken: Damn it.  Why is everybody soft to ronin..... There's no point in skating if it doesn't slide..   Hey, say something!  I wanna skate! 
("to slide (in Japanese)"= "to skate"     DS)
Godai: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .......
Kyoko: Kentaro-kun!  
Ken: Why?!
Kyoko: Come on, please be quiet.  Let's go inside.
"Baw?"

Godai: Winter rain.....   I hope it's not gonna turn into crying rain......

CM eye catch..

Godai: Better catch up for things I couldn't study during the day...(Knock, knock!).... grrr  ... ?  
Yotsuya: Godai-kun....(from inside the room)
Godai:     !!!!    Don't turn my room into party room!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ichinose:  It already is, so there's nothing we can do.
Godai: Why! Why!!!!
Ken: Mom, you said not to get him because it's before exam.
Ichinose:  Oh, he can't stand it if he can't hear us partying once a day.
Godai: NO I'M NOT!!!   
Yotsuya: hahaha, you gonna get depressed tomorrow anyway.
Akemi:  So, why don't you party cheerfully, and perish cheerfully?
Godai: WILL YOU 
Kyoko: CUT IT OUT!!!!

Kyoko: Ahen, I'd like ask you to do me a favor, please leave Godai-san alone for a while....  Don't say things like "to slip" " to fall" or "ronin again" even as a joke in front of Godai-san, OK?
Yotsuya: Huh?   
Akemi:  What we can't say?
Yotsuya: Could you say it in louder voice?
Kyoko: Don't say things like "to slip," "to fall," or ronin again."
Yotsuya: Huh?
Kyoko:... "TO SLIP," "TO FALL" OR "RONIN AGAIN."!!!!!!!!!!!
Godai: ...........
Loon squad:  Oh, "TO SLIP" "TO FALL" OR "RONIN AGAIN."  I SEE.
Godai: .............
("to slip" and "to fall" are synonym for "to fail"  DS)

Kyoko:  Oh... Are  you going  somewhere?.....
Godai: I'll stay at a friend's place.. 

Yotsuya: Slip..
"slip!"
Yotsuya: Fall..
"STUMBLE TRUMBLE CRASH!!" down the stairs......

Yotsuya: Such an interesting man..
Kyoko: Yotsuya-san.......
Yotsuya: mhhhhh  FLY THE SKY!!!!
Godai: THE HELL AM I SUPPOSED TO DO THAT!!!!
Yotsuya: I though if it's you, you might be able to... gee too bad...

Godai: Damn it  environment as good as Hell... !  Shoe string broke...
Akemi:  Bad omen.
Ichinose:  It's not the matter of bad omen.
Yotsuya: Don't get depressed Godai-kun.  You still have next year.
Godai: Are you trying to comfort me with that?
Ichinose:  Come on, it's the truth, right?
Akemi:  yeah, and if not, the year after next, and next..
Kyoko: Will you people cut it out, or I'll get real mad!
Ichinose:  She's getting serious.
Yotsuya: She's been like this from the morning....
Akemi:  Oh, I know.  kanrinin-san, you're interested in ronin, right?
Kyoko: What're you talking about?!  You people would go on infinitely if I don't stop.
Yotsuya: Evasion. Diversion. Double tongue..
Akemi:  She's blushing..
Kyoko: I'm just doing it for Godai-san
Ichinose:  I knew it..
Kyoko: I'm just..

Yotsuya: Cancelling the leave?
Godai: Yes.  Kanrinin-san..
Kyoko: Yes?
Godai: To repay to your kindness, I'll do my best
Kyoko: G.. good luck..

Ken: What's that?..
Yotsuya: He's totally serious..
Akemi:  Such a happy headed..
Kyoko: I'm exhausted.......

Godai: Kanrinin-san is expecting me for the best.  Here I go..
BLACKOUT!
Godai: This is gotta be a joke, right?

Kyoko: Oh, god!  Oh god!!
Akemi:  Kanrinin-san,
Kyoko: ?
Akemi:  We're the only one in this neighborhood with blackout.
Kyoko: Fuse must've burnt out!
Godai: I'll help!
Kyoko: But Godai-san, what about your study..
Godai: How can I study in the dark?
Kyoko: That's true..

Kyoko: Funny.. Fuses are intact...  Could it the wires?...  Let's see the layout....  
Godai: Can you fix it?
Kyoko: We do have tools, and I know a bit about it...

Godai: Alone with kanrinin-san in dark.......  
Kyoko: Godai-san. The attic is the clock house right?
Godai: Oh, that of broken clock..
Kyoko:  smells like an old library....
gulp..
Kyoko: Wow!! Just like an antique shop.
Godai: This apartment has been around a long time, hasn't it?.....  
Kyoko: I wonder when it was built.
Godai: .."Farewell, Ikkoku-kan of my youth-hood...  Showa 15 (1940) March 13 "
Kyoko: "We shall meet someday again..  Showa 19 (1949) October 17.... "  It must be during the war...   Those days, it must been something that takes courage to love somebody.....
Godai: Oh....
Kyoko:  Wonder how many loves were lost with a war?.......  We're living in peaceful time, aren't we, Godai-san..
Godai: yes..
Kyoko: Residents that are no longer here and their youth that already became memory..
Godai: The history of Ikkoku-kan, isn't it?
Kyoko: I think I can get to like Ikkoku-kan...
bang!
!!!!!!!!
Kyoko: "To Sakura.. Showa 19  Ichirou...."  I wonder it if was hopeless love...
Kyoko: !! Can't spend too much time looking, can we?... Sorry!
Godai:  !!! SORRY!!  Sorry!!
Kyoko: ?    
Godai: Nothing!
Kyoko: Better fix the blackout..
Godai: S..sure..
Kyoko: Better do my best..  Godai-san's future rests on this..
Godai: !  Kanrinin-san.. I am really honored that you're being so serious of my future..
Kyoko: NO! It's just that I thought it's for your sake..
Godai: Thank you..(  Godai tries to put his hands on Kyoko's shoulder.) 
Kyoko: er.. excuse me.. Godai-san...(She backs away and trips on a broom.)
Godai: I'm happy..... 
Kyoko:...   !!
Godai: Kanrinin-san!  KANRININ-SAN!!......   gulp.....    
Akemi:  When I thought you guys are late, and guess what.
Yotsuya: Please don't mind us and carry on with you business.
Godai: A..about what?

Kyoko: .... !!   yeeeeeeeek! I'm sorry, Souichiro-san!
Yotsuya: She's apologizing to her dog.
Godai: She did hit her head when she fell...
Akemi:  Yew!  A fried mouse!
Yotsuya: This must've chewed the wire..
Kyoko: I'll repair the wire.....

Godai: Alright! the lights are back!!
Akemi:  Good going kanrinin-san!
"baw?"
Kyoko: What's this sound?
Yotsuya: Must be the clock bell.
Akemi:  Isn't it supposed to be out of order?

Godai: (n) For some reason, or another, the bell of the clock that was supposedly long gone dead rang   The sound of terror continued throughout the town for the whole night..

Akemi:  yaawn  Just for the hell of the whole nighter, we'll see you leave...
Ichinose:  We'll cheer you up with party, again..
Yotsuya: Do whatever you can..
(Being that normal is too strange for these weirdo, but then, he just came out of whole nighter, so probably his head isn't functioning properly (??).  Or else, everybody would be saying something to just make sure Godai's confidence is completely gone.   DS)
Kyoko: Good luck...
Godai: Yes, see you later..   slip! !  
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!( with Doppler effect..)
Yotsuya: He's sliding down beautifully..
Akemi:  Looks like no good....

Akemi:   Oops, it fell!

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