God Save the Sugekoma-kun! Volume 1: Special Supplemental Manga #1, -AND- Next-door Doromi-chan #1 Original story & art Copyright (C) 1993 Nagano Noriko/Kodansha This English translation Copyright (C) 1993 Goddess Studio Translation by Kaori Hasegawa Proofreading by Iain Sinclair (axolotl@socs.uts.edu.au) ============================================================================= Special Supplemental Manga Kagaku Shonen 01-kun Chapter 1: "Shoku Shoku" Sugekoma: It's raised in Madagascar, not even 0.1mm when fully grown, a very small snail, but... Sugekoma: If ingested with food, it reaches the brain through the blood stream... Sugekoma: Around the chemical parts of the brain, in other words, Sugekoma: It slowly eats `the parts of the brain in pain...' Sugekoma: If I had such a snail now... Sugekoma: Would you buy it? Boy: Uh-uh, I wouldn't. ============================================================================= The Imaginary Scientific Monster Manga Maso Nagano A New Series: Next-door Doromi-chan Chapter 1: ``Awakening the Monster'' 1: Next door to me lived the monster girl, `Doromi-chan'. 2: When Doromi-chan reached the age of reason, she was already a monster. 3: And in her human life she was out of place, but... 4: Doromi-chan's mother was a normal person, so 5: She was sometimes scared by the strange creature ``Doromi''. 6: Around that time The "Am I most likely a `monster'?" fear... 7: ...breeds in Doromi-chan's mind. 8: Furthermore, Doromi-chan liked manga very much. In science class, Doromi-chan draws a picture on Nagano-kun's negative paper for a sunlight picture. [Like, when you take a piece of negative paper and draw or place things over it, and then expose it to sunlight, leaving an imprint of the object on the negative. -KH] 9: With her classmates, she drew extremely vulgar manga and... Mangas: `Unko-chan' by R-ko-chan. `Kukedai-chan' by Doromi. [Unko= "shit", Kukedai= ?] p.129 10: ..passed it around. And she enjoyed it. 11: On the other hand, because she was a monster, she was drawing secret ``weird manga'' without showing it to her friends. D: 12: What the ``weird manga'' looked like. (Scenes of dogs eating women, naked women tied up on poles, the Gamera theme song) One day... 13: She had a drawer to hide the ``weird manga''. When she opened it to draw a continuation... A note like this was inside. Note: Don't draw only weird manga, draw manga like ``Sazae-san'' (Parent's handwriting.) 15: 16: My parents saw it...!? 17: Everybody in my family looks at me like they're looking at a monster. Then am I... Am I... 18: Am I the child who was left under the bridge by a monster!? 19: Since that day, Doromi(chan) started to feel guilty about drawing manga... ([An]image illustration) 20: She started to hide it perfectly so that others wouldn't find it... Another idea for hiding!! Why don't you try it!? 1. Pull out the drawer, and... 2. Hide it between the base of the drawer and the desk. I know I'm a monster after all. Afterthought: If you hide your drinking, people will say you're an alcoholic... Oh no!! Doromi-chan! If you hide your drawing, then your ``weirdness'' will know no bounds!! What will happen to her!? Doromi-chan!! Does anybody care... teheh