Disclaimer: Again, a number of lines (but not all) of this chapter are identical to the serialized official version (and thus the English publication). I still made them on my own (and with no heed to editing relevant things such as bubble adequate shortness), so there will be differences in phrasings.
Page 1:
Kakeru: Eh?! A mixer?
sfx: That has a brilliant ring to it!!
Fujino: Aye. Or rather than a mixer, a middle school friend of mine is now in a girls-only high school and and she wants to hang out with boys from another school.
So, I was wondering how about it Kakeru?
Scribble: Well, with the way it looks like, you could call it a mixer?
sfx: slurp
Kakeru: Eh, is it fine for me to go?!
Yay!! I'll go, I'll go!!
Scribble: That's my first mixer
Fujino: Btw, it would be helpful, if one more came. Do you know somebody who stands out?
Kakeru: Then how about Yamato? The one in our class.
Fujino: Eh...
sfx: zurp
Yamato, that was your childhood friend, right...?
I'm not good with him...
Kakeru: Eh? Why! Yamato's a good guy?!
Fujino: No, I mean, if you ask why...
Page 2:
Yamato: ...
A mixer?
sfx: Blank.
Fujino: Scary...
sfx: shift
Kakeru: Right!
It's this Saturday, how about it Yamato? Ah, or do you have your part-time job there?
Yamato: No, I haven't, but... Are you going Kakeru?
Kakeru: Yep, so you come, too, Yamato!
Yamato: ...
Fine I guess...
But what are we going there for?
sfx: What are we going there for?
Fujino: Th-That is well, to like, go out to eat with some girls and have some fun talking with them, or so...
Yamato: I don't talk much, though...
sfx: bam
Kakeru: That's ok, that's ok! It'll be picturesque just with you joining in!!
sfx: Alright, it's decided!
Page 3:
The appointed day
Girl 1: Yamato-kun, you're really cool!!
sfx: kyaa
Yamato: Ha...
sfx: No mask.
Girl 2: You're not bored, are you?!
sfx: kyaa
Yamato: No... I always have this face...
Girl 1: Hey, we're the same age, why so polite?
Don't tell me, you're nervous?
Yamato: A bit...
Girl 2: How honest~ btw, don't we look like in a host club right now?
sfx: oh not
Girl 1: I did think that~!!
sfx: Ahahaha
Fujino: Your childhood friend is quite the riot...
sfx: His communication skills with girls are something...
sfx girl: Yamato, order something more. What do you like?
Kakeru: Yamato's always been popular with the girls. Although, he's often been said to be hard to talk to.
Kakeru: Yamato seems like he's enjoying himself...
Girl scribble: Yamato, tell me you line id~
Yamato: I don't use it.
Girl scribble: Eh?!
Kakeru: Glad I invited him after all.
Scribble: And the girls are cute.
Page 4:
Kakeru: That thing the other day after classes was just my misunderstanding after all...
sfx: I held my breath for a moment?
Kakeru: I got all conscious on my own, how lame. Embarrassing!
Kakeru: Hoshikuzu Loneliness, huh...
Akane: Kakeru-kun, do you want some snacks?
Scribble: Loneliness?
Kakeru: Eeh, aah, yeah! I want some! I think...
Akane: Ahaha, Kakeru you look a bit like my little brother, so you're easy to talk to~
Kakeru: Eeh?!
Ah, no, isn't that a bit weird...?
sfx: Ahahahaha...
Girl 1: Hey, Yamato-kun, do you really not have a girlfriend?
Why?
Scribble: What are the girls at your place even doing?
Yamato: Why you ask...
Girl 2: Ah, do you perhaps have really high standards?
Girl 1: Aah~ That's frequent with cocky handsome.
Then what's you prefered type? Tell us!
Yamato: My preferred type...
Page 5:
Yamato: A childhood friend...
sfx: HU....H?
Girl 1: Eh? Sorry, srsly, what?
Scribble: That's not a type...?
Girl 2: We're completely out, are we...?
sfx: gulp gulp
Girl 2: Isn't he just wanting to say "not you"?
Scribble: Pisses me off
Akane: Kakeru
Here's an assortment of snacks.
Scribble: Have some
sfx: tremble tremble tremble
Kakeru: ???????????????????????
Sign: Heard that
Sign: Childhood friend
sfx: tremble tremble
Akane: ?
What's wrong?
Background: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, no way, out of the question, out of the question, out of the question, out of the question, this is about Yamato, so that’s absolutely---
scribble: The End
Note: Hoshikuzu Loneliness is a band, https://twitter.com/hoshikuzunet
Note: In the tweet answers, a reader, overwhelmed by the feels, questions if this doesn't effectively amount to a public confession. Mika-sensei's answer to that is they only noticed from the feedback, but yes, this is basically a public confession.
Note: The bam (ドン) sfx on page 2 is still present in the official version. The English release has left it untranslated.
Kimi ni wa Todokanai (I Cannot Reach you) Prototype Chapter 1 Manga Translation
Kimi ni wa Todokanai or I Cannot Reach You as published by YenPress in English territories started off as a manga short and then a mini-series next to a whole bunch of illustrations, 4-koma strips and scribbles on Twitter 2018, before they became the base of the officially serialized version starting later the same year.
There are 8 prototype chapters which very roughly align up to chapter 11 in volume 2 of the official version. The official version vastly expands the material and later on there are also more considerable changes than just the expansion.
The Twitter material can still be found on Mika-sensei's Twitter account https://twitter.com/mika_nist
as well as bulk collected on pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/21119667
Note: Several lines of this chapter are identical to the serialized official version (and thus the English publication). I have read the Japanese versions before reading the official English translation, but this translation has been made afterwards. I still made them on my own (and with no heed to editing relevant things such as bubble adequate shortness), so there will be differences in phrasings.
(Note 2: There are also several lines that are indeed not identical to the serialized official version, hence not all differences are due to my choice of words.)
Title Page:
Kimi ni wa Todokanai (I Cannot Reach You)
@mika_nist
Page 1:
Sign: Yamato
Yamato: Erm, in this case you first
use the cosinus rule to the the value of one angle...
Sign: Kakeru
Kakeru: Yamato
What's the cosinus rule again?
Yamato: ... You just used that one.
Kakeru (narrative): Yamato and I are childhood friends
Text line: Kimi ni wa Todokanai (I Cannot Reach You)
Page 2:
Kakeru (narrative): Yamato has good grades and his outer appearance is, as you can see, quite cool (I think)
Just, if there was anything scratching on his flawlessness it would be his always surly looking face and that he hasn't got much of any friends beyond me.
Talking grades I'm even below average and my physics are also very ordinary.
The same goes for my outer looks.
No matter how much the childhood friends card may be
Yamato is a good guy to still hang out with someone on such a different level.
Yamato: Now use the sinus rule for the radius of the circumscribed circle...
Kakeru: Sinus rule? The one from before?
Yamato: That was the cosinus rule
Kakeru (narrative): By the way, he's helping me out on my make up extra class right now.
Kakeru: Even though it would do him good to get some more friends...
That's to say, if he wanted he could have any number of friends or girlfriends...
Yamato: Are you listening?
Kakeru: Ah!
sfx: Hmmm
Page 3:
Kakeru: That reminds me, is it true that Fujiwara from Class 4 confessed to you?
Yamato: Kakeru, you're in the middle of an extra class?
Kakeru: Ah, yes...
Yamato: Is that of relevance right now?
Kakeru: Ah... I'm sorry...
Kakeru: Well, true, it isn't any of my business....
Yamato: I turned her down.
I haven't even talked to her before.
Kakeru: Ah, I see...
EH?! Why?!
Fujiwara is a beautiful girl, what a waste!
Yamato: Would you date somebody just because of a good face?
Also, you miscalculated here.
Kakeru: Eeh, ah, sorry...
Page 4:
Kakeru: I see... But when I thought that somebody other than me understood your good points
I was pretty happy as your childhood friend
Yamato: .....
There is already you there Kakeru.
Kakeru: Oh no, after all things said and done, I'm just a childhood friend
As far as I am concerned, I'd like you make more friends or get a girlfriend or something after all.
That's why I want to help you out, so...
I was wondering
do you have somebody you like?
Page 5:
Kakeru: ... Ah
S-sorry, I don't mean you to tell me if you don't want to.
No matter how much we are childhood friends that doesn't mean you have to talk about things like these!
It's just that you never talked about these things before, so I got a bit curious...
Well, more importantly, back to the extra class...
Yamato: ... Kakeru
Page 6:
Kakeru: .......
sfx: ?
....
... yes?
What is it?
Page 7:
Yamato: ....
Kakeru
sfx: slump
Kakeru: Aye?
sfx: ?
Yamato: ... Kakeru
Kakeru: Y-Yeah?
Yamato: ...Ka... Kakeru
Kakeru: Like I said, what is it?
sfx: ? ? ? ?
Yamato: ... Kakeru...
Kakeru: And. I'm. Asking. What is it?
What's wrong all of sudden with you, Yamato?
Yamato: .......
.....
Page 8:
Sorry, I need to go to my part time job now. So I'm leaving before you.
sfx: clatter
Kakeru: Ohh, it's already this late?
Thank for today! See you tommorow~
sfx: thud thud thud
Yamato: .....
That's how it works out, does it...
sfx: sigh
Trivia: When Yamato talks about the cosinus and sinus rules he uses their proper kanji. When Kakeru is mentioning them they are written in hiragana. The effect is roughly how a child would repeat some phonetics of a difficult word an adult uses without having any clue what it means.
Summary: Hosaka and Yamato change bodies for 3 pages, then Yamato and Kakeru cut their hair short for 2 pages, “if Kakeru and Yamato lived together” for 5 pages, and then a 2 page story about “if the cast’s actors had opposite personalities from their characters”.
kimi ni wa todokanai 君には届かない i cannot reach you i will not reach you
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