SZS 197

Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei Chapter 197
Chapter Title: The Premature Soul
(The chapter title (早すぎた My Soul - Pronounced as Hayasugita Mai Souru) is word play on the Japanese title of an Edgar Allen Poe poem The Premature Burial (早すぎた埋葬 - Hayasugita Maisou))

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Page One
Written on side of Bus
健康診断車 - Physical Examination Vehicle
レントゲン - X-Ray
CT スキャン - CT Scan



Mikoto: Since early detection is so important..

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Page Two
Panel One:
Nami: Are you going to have a physical examination, sensei?

Panel Two:
Nami: It's for the early detection of illness.
Sensei: If everything can be detected early it's not a good thing.

Panel 3:
In fact there are times when things are detected too early!

Panel 4:
Sign above door: 小石川 総合 病院 (Koishikawa General Hospital)
Sign in front: 人間ドック 受付 (Physical Examination - Reception)

Panel 5:
Sensei: So, there's something wrong with me?
Doctor: No. You are healthy.


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Page 3
Panel One:
Sensei: That can't be right, surely there's something wrong with me?

Panel Two:
Doctor: Completely healthy

Panel Three:
Sensei: If you look, surely you can find something

Panel Four:
Doctor: Hmmm
Well...
If you insist

Panel 5:
Box: Tamiflu

Panel 6:
Doctor: The blood vessels in your brain are very slightly too small. It could be an indication of a future brain aneurysm.

Panel Eight:
Sensei: Well, right now I can't say I feel bad, but in 20 - 30 years there's a chance it might progress and now I can't deny it! The possibility weighs upon my heart.

Panel Nine:
Sensei: I'm already worrying about the future!
Nami: Stress will only make it worse!

Panel Ten:
It was detected too early!

Panel Eleven:
Chiri: I guess Sensei already had a medical examination.
Abiru: Since it was so thorough, it's no surprise something was found.

Panel Twelve:
Kafuka: As ever, Sensei's attachment staying alive is to be commended!
Sensei: It's not an attachment!

Panel 13:
Sensei: If something is discovered too early, you can no longer say that everything is fine

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Page 4:

Panel One:
Nami: But still, early detection is important
Kafuka: That's right Nami-chan!

Panel 2:
Kafuka: Early detection!
Nami: What?!

Panel Four:
Abiru: Ahh, You have a tiny bald spot at the back of your head
Nami: Ehh! No way!

Panel 5:
Kafuka: Because it's so small, if you leave it alone it will sort itself out.

Panel 6
Chiri: What? Hasn't it gotten bigger?
Nami: Since I noticed it I've can't stop fiddling with it!

Panel 7:
Sensei: See! It was detected too early!
If it hadn't been seen so early and had been left alone it probably would have fixed itself!

Panel 8:
Sound effect (Po--n)

Nami: What was that noise (po-n)?!
Nami: I don't want to be like you!

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Page 5:

Panel One:
Kaga: Ahh, What is it..
Chalkboard:「海での叫び」(Cry of the ocean - Joshiraku reference)

Panel 2:
Kaga: Lately in class I've had a uneasiness in my chest..

Panel 3:
Kafuka: Early Detection!
Kaga: Eeh! What is it!

Panel 4:
Kafuka: Kaga-chan that is... The awakening of love!
Kaga: Eh?

Panel 5:
Kafuka: That uneasiness is early love!
Kaga: N-no it's nothing like that!

Panel 6:
Sensei: Kaga-san?

Panel 7:
Hieehh...
(I think she's trying to say "Hai" so maybe a trailing off (Yees~) or something would work here
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Page 6:
Kaga (broken up in the bubbles) W-what i-is it?

Panel 2:
Sensei: Are you not feeling well?
Kaga: No it's not that, no!

Panel 3:
Kaga: If it's someone like me, I'll have to leave early! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
(It's me! I have to leave early, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!) sounds less awkward

Panel 4:
Dear me..

Panel 5:
Sensei: Did I do something to make her hate me?
Matoi: Fu
Matoi: Self-destruction

Panel 6:
Matoi:
With premature detection
You find that it can even affect the awakening of love

Panel 7:
Matoi: Exposing your feelings to someone you don't know very well too early and
Making it too conscious seems like suspicious behavior, as a result, the love will fail!


Panel 8:
Sensei: I see, early detection may be a problem for those kinds of situations too
Matoi: After growing up a while, an unnoticed love will...
(Possible reference to old Kumeta manga, Grow Up, Darling.)
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Page 7:

Panel 1:
Ikkyuu: Good..

Panel 2:
Nami: Stop it, Ikkyuu-san, your staring will make me blush!
Is it because you've detected my cuteness?
Ikkyuu: You will..

Panel 3:
Ikkyuu:
..Become a beautiful older woman one day!
About 30 years from now!

Panel 5:
Ikkyuu: It's early detection!
Right now I have no interest in you at all.
Nami: What!?

Panel 6:
Kafuka: It's a good thing! You becoming a beautiful older woman has been detected early!
Nami: It's not good!

Panel 7:
Majiru: Hmmm. Free time.
Oh
Ooh

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Page 8:

Panel 1:
Kiri: It's too early!
Sound effect - KOPAN!

Panel 3:
Kiri: Because you're still young, using such sexy websites is bad
It means that in the future you won't want to put any effort in

Panel 4:
Kajiru: E-effort?
Kiri: For various things!

Panel 6:
Man: Excuse me..
Maria: Hmm?

Panel 7:
Sensei: Early detection is not limited to good things

Panel 8:
The person who first discovers the scene of a crime is treated as a suspect!

Panel 9:
Discovering too early that a cute figure skater actually looks like an old woman stops you from being able to adore her!
(Specifically the figure skater Miki Ando and the actress Pinko Izumi. Apparently.)

Panel 10:
Discovering a dessert in the fridge too early and having to eat it while it's still runny!
(Specifically a well-known brand of make-it-yourself dessert in Japan (フルーチェ - Furuuche) that takes ages to set.
Might wanna change it to ice-cream or something if it doesn't make sense.


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Page 9:

Sensei: Early detection is causing me to despair!
The list:
-Finding a powerful attack too early and making a game boring
-Informing your cat robot of the future and making it despair (Doraemon reference, I think)
-Looking at unacceptable places on your honeymoon and getting a divorce there and then
-Noticing a fart too early and being treated as the one who did it
-Finding someone's house on Google Street View and taking all the fun out of stalking
-Looking at Wikipedia too early and losing the power to think about things yourself
-Mendel's Law of genetic inheritance
-Galois Theory
-Becoming so familiar with doujinshi activity that you stop thinking of becoming a professional
-Knowing that you won't hit the deadline so you don't do anything at all
-Realizing that you make too many self-referential jokes but you can't back down

There's a few list entries that I don't get
信仰のある家に生まれ幼くして神の存在を知り全くそれを疑問に思わなくなる
(something about children in Religious households not forming their own ideas, I think)
中学生にしてこの国では努力が報われない事を知り本気出さなくなる
(knowing that you won't be rewarded in middle-school stops you from trying)
小学生の時、南国でそういう行為があるという事を知りましたとか言うな
(Reference to events that happened during Kumeta's first manga)

More notes in Japanese here - http://wiki.kumetan.net/index.php?197%E8%A9%B1%E3%80%8E%E6%97%A9%E3%81%99%E3%81%8E%E3%81%9FMy%20soul%E3%80%8F


Sensei: Yes, early detection could even have the power to make certain parts of culture disappear!


Panel 4:
Sensei: For example, if Lasik Eye Surgery had been discovered any earlier
Then many glasses-wearing characters might never have been created at all!
Chiri: Sensei too.

Panel 5:
Kiri: Sensei! Come quick!

Panel 6:
Sensei: What's the matter, Komori-san?
Kiri: Kajiru-kun has run away!

Panel 7:
Sensei: What?! Why?!
Kiri: It's because I scolded him too much for looking at thighs on the internet!

Panel 8:
Chiri: Everyone, lets search for him!

Panel 9:
Sensei: Komori-san, you search all over the school-grounds!

Panel 10:
Sign: Japan Soba Noodles Adoration Meeting
Sensei: Hold on a moment..

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Page 10:

Panel 1:
Sensei: Maybe there's such a thing as discovering a runaway too quickly

Panel 2:
Chiri: What are you talking about?
Sensei: For children, couldn't a situation like this be possible:-

Panel 3:
Sensei: If a child is discovered too early, then they might not receive a sense of achievement over their parents
They might not feel as if they'd had any effect on their parents at all!

Panel 4:
Fujiyoshi: I understand.
When I was a kid I was discovered too early after running away by my parents

Panel 5:
Fuji: As a result of not having a sense of achievement, the next day I ran away again!
Sensei: You see?

Panel 4 (bottom)
Fuji: Not enough time has passed

Panel 10:
Kajiru: Hmm?

Panel 11:
Kajiru: What is this?

Panel 12:
Kajiru: W-what?
But I didn't run away!
Fuji: Ah!

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Page 11:

Panel 1:
Poster:
Fuji: He's been discovered too early!

Panel 2:
What is this?

Panel 4:
Kajiru: Eh?
Nami: Ah

Panel 7:
Majiru: This is like bullying in the adult world after hearing a rumour about someone!
Majiru: They're ignoring me!

Panel 8:
Majiru: Adults ignoring a child is a childish thing to do!

Panel 9:
Man: Majiru...
(Probably Majiru's father)

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Page 12:

Panel 1:
Kafuka: Majiru-kun..
I've detected you

Panel 2:
Majiru: You're not ignoring me?

Panel 3:
Kafuka: Of course not, Majiru-kun

Panel 7:
Maria: It's premature detection!
Man: Ah, it's time to leave

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Page 13:

Panel 1:
Sensei: Well, even if Lasik had been discovered earlier, glasses-wearing characters would still exist
They'd just wear sunglasses instead

Panel 2:
Otaku: .......... sunglasses?

Panel 4:
Otaku: It's too different!


Tl note: Kajiru has best fetish.
Page 1 note: Since child protection laws changed, showing Abiru rolling up her uniform like this would be illegal if she were underage, so since everyone has repeated the class so much, everyone must be over 18 - http://wiki.kumetan.net/index.php?197%E8%A9%B1%E3%80%8E%E6%97%A9%E3%81%99%E3%81%8E%E3%81%9FMy%20soul%E3%80%8F