SZS 201

Chapter 201: "Song of the Ball in the Gap"

Page 1.

>Knock it off, already!

>Huh?!

Page 2.

>Everyone is doing it!

>Oooh!
>Everyone's waiting for a kiss!

>Wah,

>Sensei, it looks like you get to take your pick

>Wh- What are you saying?!

>I wonder who sensei is going to kiss!

>None of them! I'm not kissing anyone!

Page 3.

>I'm... in a pinch!

>It looks like the only way out of this situation...
>Is to kiss someone!

>What do I do?

>Wind...

>There's a breeze!

>There!
>I've found a gap!

>Escape!

Page 4.

title: Gap!
(Japanese "Sukima," obviously a play on Negima)

TV: Please wait for a moment

>My, my

>That was probably for the best.

>Since when is this...
>A manga that would leave off just before an actual kiss?

Page 5.

>That would be far too cliche. We're a niche manga...
>That fills a very specific gap in the market, after all.

>In other words...
>Sukima!

>Certainly...
>It would feel a little strange to have something like...
>A color spread in the 200th chapter, in our case.

>Well, at any rate,
>Having been made aware once more of our niche, we should try to return to our original premise... or

something.

Page 6.

top right: Zetsubou Sensei Sukima!

>What does in mean to fill in a gap in the market, exactly?

>Putting out DVDs for movies for which there is almost no demand,

>Or a pet store specializing in strange pets,

>Or a shoe store that specializes in cute shoes larger than 24cm!

>Although there's a very small market, you can expect a constant demand if there's no competition!
>That is a gap industry! That's what we are!

Sensei's two bubbles in the bottom panel are some sort of joke about the band Sukima Switch, but it's

beyond me, sorry

>Wait just a moment, sensei!

Page 7.

>If you keep filling in so many gaps,
>The Gap Demon is going to show up!

>Gap Demon?

>I've heard of the Kiss Demon, but...

>The Gap Demon!

>Didn't your mother tell you about it as a child?
>If you don't close the sliding screen properly, a Gap Demon is born from the gap!

>What are you talking about?
>There couldn't possibly be such thing as a Gap Demon.
>Ah, I seem to be unusually sweaty today...

>Right? There couldn't possibly be-
>Hm? I'm starting to sweat too...

Page 8.

>I love
>Gaps!

>A Gap Demon appeared in the gap!

>Aaah! It really exists!

>I'm here, Kafuka-chan.
>This is a very nice gap, I must say...

>Now that the Gap Demon is here,
>All sorts of gaps are going to start getting filled in!

Page 9.

>It's all the work of the Gap Demon!

>Trying to fill in the gap between a girl's thighs and her bloomers,
>And getting arrested!

>Proposing that the magazine be published on Tuesdays to fill in the gap between Jump and Sunday,
>And getting ignored at the board meeting!

>Filling in the gap between the bed and the floor,
>And being reported to the police!

>But that doesn't accomplish anything at all!

>What was that?!

>Well, Kitsu-san is a pro at filling in gaps herself, after all.

>You've hurt my pride as a Gap Demon!
>I'll find a gap somewhere and fill it up! That'll show you!

>Gap sighted!
>Think I won't fill it?!

Page 10.

>How's that?! I filled your gap!

>Ah
>Ah
>Ah
>Ah

>This isn't a gap! It's a part!

>Anyway, do you think I'm just going to let someone who put seaweed on my forehead continue to live?!
>Come out here this instant!

>Poor Gap Demon...

>I wonder if someone will ever...
>Fill the gap in his heart?

Page 11.

>All he can do is fill in gaps, but he can never fill in his own! I could cry...

>It's alright.
>I can fill this gap for you.

>With the GaPillow®

>That's just a dakimakura like you could buy at any old anime store!
>You Fraud!!

>It seems to be filling the gap in his heart, though.

>Aaah~
>So comforting...

>I'm somehow... irritated.

>Quit lollygagging in that gap!
>Get out of there already!

>Chiri-chan, no!
>If you pull him out, it will create a gap!

>Eh?

Page 12.

>No matter how many I pull out, more gap demons keep appearing!

>Of course it does.
>When you pull one out, another demon is born in the gap.

>And that is the bizarre story of our encounter with a gap.

>Please look around your own room very closely.
>Yes, especially around your bookshelves.

>Are there perhaps any missing volumes?

>There may be a demon living in the gap.
forehead: Buy it!

>Don't cause trouble for the neighbors too!

Page 13.

>What are you doing in there?

>It's fine.

>Everyone else says I just get in the way,
>So I'll stay in here.

>Thats,
>The Gap Demon's spot, silly.

>Come on.