Dark Angel                                  Version 1.0: 06/05/92
April Newtype, 1992

Artwork and story     by Kia Asamiya and Studio Tron
Translated            by Curtis Hoffmann and Kiyoshi Takenaka
English word balloons by Bob Angell


Translated by Curtis Hoffmann
          and Kiyoshi Takenaka

Sidebar      This is... Dark's new sword!

1-1 Dark     That... But this sword doesn't... have an edge?

 -2 Dark     Kin?  Why... is this?

    Kin      Ah...

 -3 Kin      You can not cut through paper with this sword, much less
             through meat.  Dark-sama...

 -4          Volume 1 of the comic is selling well!

2-1 Kin      Shinrouen's power only works when the wielder wants to
             cut someone!!

3-1 Kin      This sword... This sword can not cut through anything.

 -2 Kin      Dark-sama...

 -3 Dark     Kin... does Shinrouen have a scabbard?

    Kin      Yes, here...

 -4          [zip]

 -5 Dark     [Rattle]  Kin... I understand what you've said.  I like
             Shinrouen!

 -6 Kin      Ha...  Dark-sama, thank you.  Shinrouen will help you
             until its life ends.

4-1          [Running]

 -2 Kou      [Running] Shit!  The night is over!!  Ryou!  Not yet?
             How much farther to the intruder's scent?

 -3 Ryou     Just a little further!  The smell is getting stronger!!
             The smell of blood, too!

 -4 Kou      Dammit -- !!  Now what!!
             Who's dared entered Nanban?  Who the hell is this intruder?

 -5 Ryou     [Thinking] Hmm...  If I remember right, Kiba Village is up
             ahead...  Where the old man that took Dark-sama lives...

 -6 Ryou     His name is Kin, if I recall...

5-1 Tou      Hah...  two people approaching...
             They seem to have found Gou's scent...  I can tell, by the
             way they are hurrying up...

 -2 Tou      They just discovered that he's in this land, from the immense
             smell of blood last night.  But if I go after those two, they
             will lead me to that fucking bear.

 -3 Tou      It's difficult to smell something that's the same race as me.
             It's worse in the day...   Hahaha.

 -4 Tou      Well, it's time for me to move!

6-1/2        [Wind through the trees]

 -3 Dark     Thank you for taking care of us, Kin.

    Kin      No, think nothing of it.

 -4 Kyou     .......

 -5 Kyou     The spirits of the wind and trees are being stirred up by
             something...  I wonder what will happen...

7-1 Dark     Is something wrong, Kyou?

    Kyou     A... yes.  A little.

 -2 Kin      Take care of yourself.

    Dark     Right!  Please excuse us.

 -3 Kyou     Thank you very much, Kin-sama.

 -4 Kin      Hah.  You two stay well.

 -6 Dark     [Step]  !

 -7 Dark     What is it...?  This smell is...  so sudden.

 -8 Dark     Kin!  Right now...

 -9 Dark     !

8-1 Dark     Kin!!  Behind you!!

Sidebar      Behind Kin is... that Beast!!  Next issue!