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48-09

{Title} Unconventional name

=1==========

>Welcome.

=2==========

>Please write your name over here and wait, we'll call you when your turn comes.

=3==========

TN: Names are to the left (Morikawa and Tanaka), to the right are the number of people for each name.

=4==========

>Do you think it's ok if I write "First" in kanji?

>I don't know. Probably.

=5==========

>Hajime-sama, table for four.

=6==========

>Hajime-sama, table for four.

TN: I added a TN in the end, but the typesetter is free to add it to the page if he thinks it can fit in here.

48-10

{Title} Alias

=1==========

>...And that's what happened then.

>I see.

=2==========

>That's why I wanted to have a name to use in moments like that.

>For example?

=4==========

>Muranishi.

>Who is that?

48-11

{Title} Naming

=1==========

>In that case, I want to have an alternate name too.

=2==========

>Then you are Second Muranishi.

>What about me?

=3==========

>Third Muranishi.

>And me?

=4==========

>Fourth Muranishi.

>I get the feeling that's going to be very confusing down the line.

{Title} Full name

=1==========

>Let's go outside, Twelfth Muranishi

>Yeah.

=2==========

>What do you think, Ninth Muranishi?

>Where's Eighth Muranishi?

=3==========

>Fifth, can I talk to you for a moment?

>Fifth?

=4==========

>...Muranishi

>What?

48-12

{Title} Originator

=1==========

>Hey, Thirteenth Muranishi, I need to ask you for something, but...

>What?

=2==========

>What's wrong? You look troubled about something.

=3==========

>We exist as clones.

>Meaning there must have existed an original, who came before us.

=4==========

>Where is the original Muranishi?

>There exists no such person.

Translation Notes

'''Pg08.: Hajime: "First" has been written so far using the furigana フィースト over the numeral "1", a method that doesn't allow for multiple pronunciations. First decides to write her name using the kanji for "one" (一), which can be read in multiple ways, including as the name "Hajime", confusing the girls.

'''Pg10.: Muranishi: This is a strange one. First comes up with the name Muranishi (村西) for apparently no good reason, and there's no mention to wether it's a reference to someone famous. Well, this being a gag manga, there's no way it's just a random name. Looking up the name Muranishi, the most prominent result refers to Muranishi Toru, a legendary director of adult videos, once known as "the dirtiest of the industry’s dirty old men" and "Emperor of Porn", who produced, directed and starred in several of his movies. Among Muranishi's pioneering developments (in his early days at the Cristal-Eizou company) were his "Face Shower" (顔面シャワー, Ganmen Shawā) series which culminated in a facial, the "Fuck Lunch" (駅弁ファック, Ekiben Fakku) series which satirized contemporary food-oriented TV programs, and the "Conch Shell" (ホラ貝, Hora Kai) videos where the actress would blow into a conch shell (as in some Buddhist rituals) to signify that she had reached an orgasm. He is also credited with creating the "first person POV" genre, so popular worldwide nowadays. Muranishi has had numerous problems with the law in his career, having been convicted seven times of criminal violations. While at Crystal-Eizou, in June 1986, Muranishi was arrested for violating the Japanese Child Welfare Act by using an underage actress in videos. He came to create his own company, Diamond Visual, in 1988, said to have been wildly successful with anual sales of 10 billion yen (about $80 million). Despite that, the company went bankrupt in 1992 with debts of 5 billion yen (about $40 million) and Muranishi had to greatly alter his style of living, going from a luxury home and Rolls-Royce to barely being able to afford an apartment. Muranishi was the subject of a British Channel 4 TV documentary "The Sex Shogun of Shinjuku", part of the 1995 Without Walls Special series. And in 2019 Netflix produced and released a series that retold the exploits of Muranishi, "The Naked Director". I don't know about you but I'm checking it ASAP.

Number Girl chapter 39. I think I neglected to mention it here, but I uploaded chapter 38 to Mangadex two weeks ago, so I'll upload this chapter now and I'll see if I can maintain the fortnightly schedule.

>>949267

Looks good.

I didn't remember this eposode having ust 4 pages, I had to go back to the raws to check, but that's really it.

Bumping. Another chapter later today.

49-01

=1==========

>Tomorrow you will all be going to do some Working Experience.

>Working Experience?

=2==========

>It's a learning program, you will get in touch directly with workers, to learn the meaning of having a job.

>Al... alright I guess?

=3==========

>Be straight, are we gonna have to work?

>To be quite frank, it's very possible you're going to have to do some work...

=4==========

>How many years will it last?

>This isn't a real job, it's just for a day.

=5==========

>How much are we getting paid?

>Youre just getting some experience, you're not getting paid anything.

>Are you prejudiced agains clones?

>Is my reputation really that bad?

49-02

{Title} Strong head

=1==========

>A convenience store and a flower shop are collaborating with us this time.

>You get to choose which one you're going with.

=2==========

>Wait a minute, I want to be properly interviewed for a job first.

>Again, this is just meant to give you girls some experience, we don't need to go that far.

=3==========

>Even if just for a day, we should be consulted about our motivations beforehand, so we can make a proper decision.

=4==========

>You can't impose a working spirit onto us like that!

>It counts as a class activity, so not only I can make you go, I'll be there to keep watch on you.

{Title} Reasons to apply

=1==========

>Please raise your hand to choose either the konbini or the flower shop.

TN: It was stated in an earlier chapter, but konbini is short for "Convenience store"

>Who wants the konbini?

=3==========

>I was hoping about half of them would choose that, but...

>Look, you can talk to the employees there to see if they can give you any expired food they have after.

49-03

{Title} Incentives to manual labor

=1==========

[Conbini]

>We're here today as we planned, thank you for having us.

>My pleasure, thank you for coming.

=2==========

>So, can we begin by stocking shelves?

=3==========

>Basically you put the newer products in the back and the others in the front as they get closer to their expiration dates.

>Can we take the expired ones with us?

=4==========

>No, we have to dispose of everything past it's expiration date, it's prohibited to give any of it away.

=5==========

>What's wrong?

>I'm starting to question what's the point of having a job...

>Already, but it's just been five minutes!?

49-04

=1==========

>Well, how about we try working at the register next?

>Understood.

=2==========

>That's 248 yen.

=3==========

>Three 100 yen coins.

=4==========

>Your change is 100.099.852 yen.

{Title} Taking shifts

=4==========

>That little kid has been working in that conbini since morning all the way until night.

>Must be a black company.

TN: "Black company" is how they refer to companies that overwork their employees or have otherwise poor working conditions in Japan.

Chapter 40.

>>950810

>>950552

Scanlator here, I will scan it again to remove the jew.

>>950552

50-01

=1==========

>Next week you'll do your final exams, at last.

=2==========

>This is a very important test, to pass you girls from first to second year.

>So please take it seriously.

=3==========

>What is that? I never heard of that before.

>I believe it was one of the first things I mentioned in this classroom.

=4==========

>Besides giving you lessons,

>these classes are also aimed at studying the effects your individual personalities can have in your graduation, and beyond.

=5==========

>Sounds like something you told us when we were in our default settings, so I can't really remember it...

>Why did you call it "settings"?

50-02

{Title} For life

=1==========

>What happens when we pass the year?

>You go on to studying more important and difficult matters.

=2==========

>But we already have to study about a lot of stuff...

>In order to graduate and become a member of society

>one has to know a great variety of subjects.

=3==========

>We had a taste of what it means to go out and work recently, we don't want to be part of society.

>That's not really a choice you get to make.

=4==========

>And for how long do you think you can stay in school, with that "I don't want to go out to society" mentality?

=5==========

>Naturally.

>Until we're dead.

>Nope, there's no way you can look cool while straight up declaring that you'll remain a neet for your entire life.

50-03

{Title} Human garbage

TN: This expression literally translates to "trash in the public eye", I thought about using something less damning like "poor public opinion" but went with an impactful title because I think it's funny.

=1==========

>If you don't want to pass the year or graduate, then you're going to repeat the year.

>Repeat the year... We can do that!?

=2==========

>We can live forever as first year graders!

>Do you really want that?

{Title} Impending crisis

=1==========

>I guess we prefer to apply a little harder to not repeat the year.

>That's better.

=2==========

>Besides, you're more likely to do well on your first year's final exam, even if you haven't developed an individuality, unless you are exceedingly stupid or something...

>That's a relief.

=4==========

>Ah... Except there ARE some exceedingly stupid people in this class...

50-04

{Title} Close call

=1==========

>Today we're doing a mock test of your final exam.

>Usually I'd tell you to not worry too much about it since it's just a rehearsal and not a real exam,

=2==========

>But this time I specifically want Second, Twelfth and Fifteenth to take it seriously, as if this was the real deal.

>Oh!?

=3==========

[After the test.]

>It's been a while since we went all out like this. So how did we do?

=4==========

>Just be glad it was a mock test.

{Title} Giving up

=1==========

[As they are right now, those three are going to repeat the year.]

[So I'd like everyone to help those three blockheads to study for the next two weeks.]

>How much is 7+9?

=2==========

>It's a number greater than the amount of fingers I have, it's physically impossible for me...

>Wait Second.

=3==========

>If you use your toes you can count up to 20.

>Are you some kind of genius?

>Second, Twelfth, Fifteenth...

=4=========

>Starting next year I wont be a first grader anymore, so you'll have to call me Thirteenth-san.

>Don't get ahead of yourself!

50-05

{Title} Eh?

=1==========

>Lately everyone has been so busy studying and teaching, we haven't had time to play.

=2==========

>If those three end up repeating the year, does that mean we won't be able to play with all 16 of us anymore?

=3==========

>I said that those three were in trouble, but you two just barely got a passing grade, you know that right?

And we're kicking off with post-production fixes

First page's text layout was all wrong and made it more confusing to read. Re-uploading everything. Still can't delete posts.

>>952071

>>952072

>>952073

Don't worry about the hiatus- we've got a buffer, and unexpected stuff is going to take priority. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

50-01 panel 1

>Next week you'll do your final exams, at last.

At last, your final exams will be next week.

50-01 panel 2

>This is a very important test, to pass you girls from first to second year.

This is a very important test to pass you girls from first to second year.

50-01 panel 3

>What is that? I never heard of that before.

Huh? Never heard of it.

>I believe it was one of the first things I mentioned in this classroom.

I believe it was the first thing I told you in this classroom.

50-01 panel 4

>Besides giving you lessons,

The previous panel and the と at the end of the teacher's second word balloon indicates she's quoting herself. Looking back to pic 1, she has a panel drawn much like this one, so I took quotes from the first page that matched what she's saying here.

"You will be learning many things...."

>these classes are also aimed at studying the effects your individual personalities can have in your graduation, and beyond.

"Appearance and personality... will affect your progression and eventually, your graduation."

50-01 panel 5

>Sounds like something you told us when we were in our default settings, so I can't really remember it...

Mentioning default settings like that only causes trouble for us.

>Why did you call it "settings"?

"Settings"?

50-02 panel 2

>But we already have to study about a lot of stuff...

But we already study so much...

50-02 panel 3

>We had a taste of what it means to go out and work recently, we don't want to be part of society.

We realized from working before that we don't want to be part of society.

50-02 panel 4

>And for how long do you think you can stay in school, with that "I don't want to go out to society" mentality?

Even if you don't want to leave, how long do you think you can stay in school?

50-02 panel 5

>Nope, there's no way you can look cool while straight up declaring that you'll remain a neet for your entire life.

You can't look cool while straight up declaring you'll remain a NEET for the rest of your life.

50-03

>{Title} Human garbage

The expression has also taken on a meaning of "looking at someone like they're garbage". There are multiple pictures of this meaning in use, pic 2 is one of them (can't find the more popular one in my reaction folder).

Like Looking at Garbage

50-03 panel 2

>We can live forever as first year graders!

We can live forever in the first year!

>Do you really want that?

Seriously?

50-03 Impending Crisis panel 1

>I guess we prefer to apply a little harder to not repeat the year.

We've decided to try a little harder not to repeat the year.

50-03 Impending Crisis panel 2

>Besides, you're more likely to do well on your first year's final exam, even if you haven't developed an individuality, unless you are exceedingly stupid or something...

Well, even without much individuality, you'll do fine on your first year's exam unless you're exceedingly stupid or something...

50-04 Close Call panel 1

>Usually I'd tell you to not worry too much about it since it's just a rehearsal and not a real exam,

Usually I'd tell you to relax because it's just a rehearsal,

50-04 Close Call panel 3

>It's been a while since we went all out like this. So how did we do?

We haven't tried so hard in a while. How did we do?

50-04 Giving Up panel 1

>[So I'd like everyone to help those three blockheads to study for the next two weeks.]

It's weird that in 50-01 she says the exam is next week, but she gives them two weeks to study. Maybe the finals are next Friday.

[So I'd like everyone to help those three blockheads study for the next two weeks.]

50-04 panel 2

>It's a number greater than the amount of fingers I have, it's physically impossible for me...

That's more than the number of fingers I have, so it's physically impossible to solve...

>Wait Second.

Wait, Second.

50-04 panel 4

>Starting next year I wont be a first grader anymore, so you'll have to call me Thirteenth-san.

Starting next year I won't be a first grader anymore, so you'll have to call me Thirteenth-san.

50-05 panel 1

>Lately everyone has been so busy studying and teaching, we haven't had time to play.

Lately everyone has been so busy studying and teaching that we haven't had time to play.

50-05 panel 3

>I said that those three were in trouble, but you two just barely got a passing grade, you know that right?

While those three are really in trouble, you both know that you barely got passing grades, right?

Chapter 41.

>TN: there seems to be a joke on top of a joke here (both bad), but I had to guess most of it, so who knows. She literally says "Seven, six, forty two. Eight, six, fifty six". I'm guessing the first joke is that she's counting up seconds, and that this is the japanese way to rhythmically count them (A, B, AxB, etc. like "one mississippi" etc). The second joke is that she messes up the second part, which, following this logic, should have been "eight, seven, fifty six".

Chotto fukuzatsu, anon. I think she's just trying to show off how smart she is by reciting multiplications but she messes up the numbers.

>>952149

50-06

{Title} Working hard

=1==========

[Beauty parlor]

>What do you want today?

=2==========

>Give us distinctive hairstyles!

=3==========

{Plaque} Special supplementary lessons.

=5==========

>Oh!

=6==========

>Hey it's been a while, let's play today!

>Sorry, I gotta go back home to study.

50-07

=2==========

>Don't sleep, you can do it.

=3==========

>What's that? {Handwritten} looks tasty

>Supper.

=5==========

[Final exam day]

>So for today's schedule, you'll do the written test in the morning and the oral examination in the afternoon.

50-08

=1==========

>Please do your best, so you can all pass to the second year together.

>Now,

=2==========

>Begin.

50-09

{Title} Keep up the routine

=1==========

[After that]

>Good morning everyone.

=2==========

>Looks like all 16 of you made it to the second year without much trouble.

>Let's work together for another year.

=3==========

>It looks like we're gonna have the same old everyday routine we had in the first year to me.

>It only seems that way, but everyone has been gradually growing up, so some changes definitely happened.

=4==========

>Maybe those changes are invisible to the eye.

>Actually, I didn't want to say anything during the test but... What happened?

50-10

{Title} Second year.

=1==========

>What's for dinner today?

>Gratin, I think.

=4==========

>What is it Sixteenth?

=5==========

>Our little sist... Kouhais.

>Kouhais?

>>952238

>Somehow forgot the last pic

There's always something

50-11

{Title} About 45 minutes

=1==========

>I mean, how do you manage to make up that hairstyle everyday?

50-12

{Title} Hairdo

>Whenever I feel like it, I wake up early in the morning and have my hair done for me.

>Could you please not overburden our maid, she's already very busy as it is.

50-13

{Title} Promotion

=1==========

>Ooooi.

=2==========

>Why are you wearing a different uniform?

>I'm in second year now, so it's a new one.

=3==========

>Humph, so you're the same as Five then?

>Right.

50-14

=1==========

>Can I have a moment?

>Hmm?

=2==========

>I graduated from the first year, so please call me Five-san.

>Al... alright.

=3==========

>Well, it's gonna be a bit more difficult from now on, but let's play together some time.

>Sure.

=5==========

>Eh? Did you repeat the year?

Omake01

=1==========

<Afterword

=2==========

[Thank you for buying Number Girl Volume 3.]

[Three volumes might not seem like much, but we're still very grateful you stuck with us to the very end.]

=3==========

[Just 3 volumes, and yet, from the start of it's serialization in early 2010, 6 years have passed until it's completion.]

[So much has happened in these six years.]

=4==========

<I was run over by a car.

=5==========

<I fell from my bike and broke a bone...

=6==========

[A lot has happened, but when I look back to it, it's my involvement with Number Girl that comes to mind the most.]

Omake02

=1==========

<Radio

=2==========

[When the first volume was released, I went to a radio show to advertise it (It was a debuting work still).]

{Man's face} Editor

[It was going to be broadcasted on the internet and around the Osaka region.]

=3==========

[They usually advertise beforehand on twitter who they're having on the show,]

=4==========

[But since that time they were having someone people might not be interested in hearing, they didn't advertise it at all.]

[They didn't even tell the Artist where it was going to be.]

=5==========

[I don't think I'll ever need to go to a radio show ever again,]

=6==========

[But in case I do, I've learned something useful, that I shouldn't let my hands shake while holding my notes.]

>Please be careful! The microphone is picking up the sound of those papers!

Omake03

=1==========

<Autograph session

=2==========

[It was thanks to this manga that we had our first ever autograph session.]

{Plaque}

Dai Ouji-sama

Tanigawa Niko

TN: This seems to be a play on the name of the magazine, Dengeki Daioh "G".

=3==========

[However, I knew exactly what I would have to deal with if I wanted to have that autograph session]

>To be honest, I'm not too confident in myself, so I don't really want to show up.

[...he said something along that line.]

=4==========

[I asked our editor for some advice.]

=5==========

>You know, the author of "Nichijou" once held an autograph session while wearing one of those zen monk masks.

=6==========

[And then...]

Omake04

=1==========

>It's gonna be really funny if we both wear these masks in our autograph session.

>Eh?

=2==========

<Me too?

=3==========

[Autograph session]

=4==========

[At first I thought we wouldn't be taken seriously.]

=5==========

[But I'm very glad people took their precious time to come and meet this duo of uninteresting guys wearing masks anyway.]

[We threw the masks away when we went home.]

Omake05

=1==========

<Etc.

TN: or "and so forth"; "other considerations"; "some more"

<I never mentioned it, but every now and then we wouldn't be able to deliver a manuscript due to heavy snow or an earthquake.

=2==========

[It's because of these moments of failure that we can remember the good things.]

=3==========

[Back when I decided to become a mangaka, I dreamed of making my debut as a 4-koma author.]

>4-koma seems so easy and fun to do.

{Book cover} manga (both covers)

=4==========

[We eventually made our debut as mangakas in a different magazine, but it wasn't with a 4-koma title.]

>I knew it, comics other than 4-komas are too hard...

=5==========

[That's why when Dengeki Daioh picked Number Girl as a 4-koma manga, it felt like a dream come true to us.]

{Book cover} Dengeki Daioh

=6==========

>Alright! Now that we have a 4-koma manga serialized, we'll work hard to keep this going for as long as we can.

>This is gonna be an easy and fun time.

[That's what I thought back then.]

Omake06

=1==========

[But we ran out of jokes.]

[Even Artist was getting uncharacteristically worried about it.]

{Paper, above 5} days to deadline

[For that reason, since we were serialized, the manga became a mix between 4-koma and short stories.]

=2==========

[We kept drawing under those circumstances for 6 years, and in that time we had both painful and enjoyable moments.]

<Our publisher also went through many changes in those six years

[Dengeki Daiou]

[Dengeki Daiou Genesis]

[Dengeki Daiou "G"]

TN: someone must have been going through hoops to avoid bankruptcy

=3==========

[One thing or another might have been lost along the way, unsurprisingly.]

<I want to draw a joke like this

{Paper} draft

<I don't think that'll work.

=4==========

[This has turned into a long rambling, this is the end of Number Girl for now, thank you for your support through all this time.]

[I hope we can meet again with another work in the future.]

<Well then

{おわり} THE END

It was a fun ride, but it had to come to an end eventually. It's thanks to everyone who helped with the scanlation, and to everyone who kept reading it, that we went this far.

>We ran out of jokes

Yeah, we noticed.

>>952579

>>952632

Thank you, anons. I am really glad for your work.

Chapter 42.

>>953975

>>953976

I see the translations are completely done. Good effort. From now on, I'll just be uploading these to mangadex without repeatedly bumping the thread. Thank you to the translator and proofreader anons, and the anon who provided the raw scans.

Bump because I realized new chapter was up, so I wanted to say anon is a pretty cool guy.