TomoTsuku omake

img 72 - Eye-Opening Words
>So, Shoutarou, you said you had "a bunch",
[small] Those guys
>but do you have any friends besides those guys?

>Isn't two enough to be called "a bunch"...?
>Eh... I think "a bunch" implies at least 5 or 6 people...

>Well, a vague term like "a bunch" is going to mean different things to different people.
>He dodged the issue...

[side] FULL NAMES - FIRST REVEAL
Makihara Nobuyuki
Kishikawa Ryuuji

img 74 - Justice Breaker
>Say... Don't you want to do something 'nice' with onee-san?

>Do you want to...
>do something 'naughty' with onee-san...♡

>You say that but you're both talking about the same damn thing...!
>What's good!? What's bad!? What am I supposed to believe in...!?
SFX: *Rumble*

>Well, I'm feeling like an outlaw today
>so I'll go with this one!
SFX: *Smack*

[side]
>My parents told me if I have time to be worried about when seiyuu marry
>I should be worrying about my own relationships with girls.

img 78 - Breakthrough
>Are you even trying to make friends!? We're halfway through May and you still only have me!
SFX: *Shouting*
>Th-...Then tell me what I should do!

>Nobody will talk to me! And if I muster up the courage to talk to them all they do is smile awkwardly! I can't make friends with my class anymore!
>It's too early to lose hope... I have an idea.

>I'll dress up like granny like I did the other day and pretend I'm in trouble, then you come to help me...
>When your classmates see that, their opinion of you will go through the roof... That's my plan.
>Listen, you...
SFX: *Siiiigh...*

>That's it.
SFX: *Thumbs up*

[side]
>Looking at paper sumo wrestlers
>reminds you of opened mackerel, doesn't it?

img 82 - Violent Words
>By the way, Misuzu, how's school?
SFX: *Shudder*

>D-...Dad, why all of a sudden...?
>I mean, it's been a while since you've started high school. I'm a little curious.

>Do you have lots of friends?
SFX: *Kya* *Kya*
>Oh honey, don't ask her about that.

>I know! Invite some of them over this weekend!
SFX: *Sprout*
SFX: *CRUNCH!*

[side]
>Guys who go out of their way to write 'pantsu' in hirangana are mostly lolicon.

img 86 - Meat Lover
[Shoutarou] Hohohohohoho
>I can't keep this up...! I need to get Shoutarou out of here before they find out...

>I know! Why don't you stay the night?
>M-MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!?

>H-... Hold on! Shoumi-chan can't do that on such short notice! [not sure how to romanize his girl name. It's just the first character of Shoutarou followed by "mi" which is a common ending for girls' names. As an actual name it might be Mayumi or something and Shoumi isn't a real name but it's more obviously derived from Shoutarou.]
>We're having yakiniku for dinner tonight~

>I will graciously take you up on your offer.
SFX: *Drool*
>YOU ASSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLE

[side]
>I'll come up with a character who looks like he'd scrounge up to #78 on a popularity poll.
[box]
Melancholic Ishikawa
Class: Paladin
- Refers to himself as 'oira' [Informal, boyish, rural and somewhat archaic first person pronoun]
- Had a one night stand with the protagonist's mom
- Most proficient weapons are sandpaper and graters
- Arrogant with shop attendants
- Convinced 落 is written with the 氵 radical
- Blames the controller when he loses at games
- His controllers are greasy with oil from snacks
- Interrupts people with "But" or "Listen," when they're talking
- Impulsive
- Warms up to people
- Easily hurt

img 90 - Flawless
>What the hell was he thinking...

>Don't tell me...

SFX: *Lift*

>...Pay me for new panties!!
SFX: *Smash!*

[side]
I couldn't have made any excuse if they happened to see my underwear and it was men's, could I?

img 92 - Old Man's Voice in your Ear
>It's making its way into the hole-
>That is sick...
[magazine] Pervy Canon Monthly

>Oh, it's big! Will it go in!? ...IT'S IIIIIIIIIIN!!
>An incredible shot!!

>...Here comes a second shoooooot!! It keeps on coming!! It won't stoooooop!!
>...Hey, come on!

>Can you stop watching baseball in my room!?

[side]
>I rubbed it and a spirit came out...! [TN: 'sei' means both spirit/genie and semen.]
>I RUBBED IT AND A SPIRIT CAME OUT!!
>...Stop saying that!

img 96 - The Sugisaki Household's Daily Life
>With more and more clients' personal information being leaked...
>companies are being monitored to make sure they take preventive measures.

>This can't go on!
SFX: *Slam!*
>What's gotten into you?

>Nothing... I'm just a little worried...

>Since I always ball my tissues up and throw them away.
>They have my *personal information* [furigana: DNA] on them.
>Do I really share the same blood as him...?

[side]
>They look like removed panties and their name could even be mistaken for "fap fap"... [scrunchie is 'shushu', which when written in kana can resemble 'shikoshiko', the onomatopoeia for jerking off.]
>These scrunchie things are clearly adult goods.

img 100 - Honestarou ['shoujiki' (honest) is written with the first character of Shoutarou's name, and the rest of his name is added afterwards]
>Ooish-sensei - Teaches physical education, and is Shoutarou and the others' homeroom teacher.
>Because of his strict personality, the students don't think very highly of him.

>Education isn't all about rewards... Someone has to volunteer to be play the bad cop too...
>But still, I have to admit it does feel a bit lonely.

>I could have some silly banter with the students now and then...
>You boys sound like you're having fun. What were you talking about?

>We were just having fun complaining about you, Ooishi-sensei.

[side]
>No need to worry, now that I'm here! But I can't save everyone at once...!
>Kids who buy my branded products get preferential treatment!
[box] Final Fine Fire Fighter Five
■ Special move - Unlimited Eternal Infinity Never-Ending Forever Everyday Endless Punch
Opponents hit by his punch lose their powers and are sent to a 4.5 tatami mat room where they're forced to live forever with a nasty middle-aged married couple. What's more, this married couple is immune to any attack or ability.

img 104 - Irresponsible Idea Man
>The makeover plan was a bust, huh...
[small]Changed into their PE clothes
>And here I thought it was sure to work...

>Just goes to show how hard it is to shake your image once it's already established...
>Yeah...

>...Wait.

>Wasn't it already hopeless by the time we weren't wearing uniforms?
>Don't you suddenly start being reasonable!!
>You were the one who came up with the idea so you have a duty to fulfill! Take responsibility!!

[side] For summer

img 106 - Of all things
>"Put a book under your pillow and you'll see it in your dreams"... huh?
>Let's try this out with this month's issue of 'Pervy Canon Monthly'.

SFX: *Snooze...*

>Welcome, young man. Join us and you can ask the authors anything you want about their work.
>D-... Don't tell me this is...!
>That's right. This is...

>The reader correspondence column.

[side]
>Now I finally understand. What I really wanted wasn't to trade for rare monsters...
>But to a friend to trade with...
>Why first gen in this day and age...?

img 110 - Makes you want to eat her up
>Aah... I'm so nervous...

>I can't believe she asked me to hang out with her...
>I haven't seen her since our middle school graduation. I can't wait~

>Misuzu...
SFX: *Swf...*

SFX: *Nom...* *Slorp...*

[side]
>Breast enlargement training... Dubious supplements... She had great hopes of increasing her bust size before trying all of them
>Only for absolutely nothing to change.

img 114 - Dumb and Doting
>An idol, huh... She's cute.

>Misuzu, don't tell me you want to become an idol! Papa will never allow it!
SFX: *Slam*
>I wasn't planning on it even if you did!

>Oh... Thank goodness.
SFX: *Phew*

>If your cuteness got out to the whole world
>this country's birth rate would decline even faster.
>Dad, calm down, seriously.

[side]
>When the official site runs a story about a fan getting cyberbullied
>she puts on a really forced smile! [really unsure about what he's saying here]

img 118 - Fine print
[box] 5 years ago
>Granny!
>Oya, Shoutarou and Hiyori-chan.

>Shoutarou, I'm glad you always come by...
>but wouldn't it be more fun to play with your friends?

>Playing with you is way more fun, granny! Want me to massage your shoulders!?
>Stop that now! Don't treat me like like an old woman!
SFX: *Struggle*

>Then let's play card games!
>I can't read those small letters!
>Spare a thought for the elderly!
>Which is it...?

[side]
>Great, great...
>Graaaannnyyyy~! [not 100%, but I think this is a joke around playing peek-a-boo. the first bubble says 'idai' twice, which means great as in admirable but also sounds like 'inai', which means 'isn't there/gone'. The second bubble says 'baaaa!', which could just be like a 'bam' sort of noise but is written as 'old woman'.]

img 122 - Not delivering what was promised
>Naughty little braaaaaaat!!
SFX: *Spaaaaaank!*
>GYAAAAAH!!

>...Granny, you're merciless with your spanking...

>You'll thank me for that pain one day...

>Being spanked by an old woman is the kind of hardcore play you only get for free when you're a child.

[side] They say 'unusual fetishes' but what would a usual fetish be?

img 124 - They have whiskers too
SFX: *Miiiin, min min...* [cicada noises]
[sign] Park

>Ah- A cat!

[small]So fluffy and cuuuute

>Since they're both furry creatures, how come hairy old men always tend to be disliked?
>Do you even have to ask?

[side]
>The moment you realize you could only interpret "the baby's room" to mean something lewd!
>That's when your story will truly begin!!

img 128 - Evening Drama
>Starting from the thumb, 'daddy finger', 'mommy finger', 'brother finger', 'sister finger' and 'baby finger'
[fingers, right to left] Father, mother, brother, sister, baby
>is a way of referring to the fingers in baby talk.

[3rd panel, right side, clockwise] >I will raise him myself!
>GOO-GOO!
>What are you saying!?
>Are you going to disobey the master of this house!?
[left side]>I've had it! We'll run away!
>Ah-... You can't-! Onii-chan...!

>Why did I have to to be born as your brother!?
>I never should have married you!
>GOO-GOOOOOOOOOOO!!

[side]
>Everyone...!
>Put some of your food on my plate...!
>Do it yourself.

img 132 - Offering
>Hello? What's it like in the sticks? Enjoying yourself?
[small] At his father's parents
>I'm bored to tears. I can't want to go home.

>...Anyway, to change the subject... Let me see your homework when you get back.
>You're the only one I can count on. Otonashi won't show me hers and Sugisaki is out of the question...

>All right, but only if you lend me one of your galgee.
>You know, that one you kept bugging me about.

>...Letting someone borrow my galgee kind of feels like I'm being cuckolded... so...
SFX: *Hang-up*

[side]Don't worry... I'll take gooooood care of her.

img 134 - Can take a hint
>A book report, huh... I'll just half-ass it with some light novel.
>As long as the title sounds innocuous it should be fine.
[makihara's shirt] Refugee

>I'm impressed you guys managed to get into high school with your attitudes.
>That's rude! I actually studied up until middle school, you know.

>...It's just, ever since I got into high school, hanging out with you guys have been so much fun...

>This went somewhere nice...
>I probably shouldn't mention that I only crammed for the entrance exams since I was promised a console...
[okan] If ya' get in, I'll buy it for ya'!

[side]
>Soccer club members? Aah...
>Those guys who only say like "My ball! My ball!" or "Hey, pass!"?
>Don't get smug just because you don't have to see them over the summer...
[small] Usually you don't even look those guys in the eye [unsure about these last two]

img 138 - Summer holiday surveillance
SFX: *Clatter* *Clatter*

>I thought guys like us weren't cut out for this sort of 'Enjoy the summer!' sort of thing, but...
>It's pretty fun when you actually do it, isn't it?
SFX: *Clatter* *Clatter*

>Where should we go next? The beach? A river? A lake? A pond? Maybe a swamp?
>You don't *need* to be somewhere with water to have fun, you know...?
SFX: *Clatter* *Clatter*

SFX: *Clatter* *Clatter*

[side]
Reveal of the swimsuit that didn't show up in the last chapter even though it was the pool chapter.

img 150 - His preference
>Oh come on! It's a summer festival and you two came dressed like that!?
>Eh? Something wrong with it?

>I don't want to look like the only one who got excited and came in a yukata! It's embarrassing!
SFX: *Run*
>I'm going to go buy something to change into!

>Oi!
>You don't have to go that far...

[sign]New color

>I'll go like this...

[side] Laugh and I'll punch you.

img 152 [already translated]
[side]
>T... Testicle whip...!? [written in kanji as 'testicle whip'. read as 'kouganmuchi', which is probably meant to be a 4 kanji compound meaning 'brazen/imprudent']
>That's one hell of a misprint.
[small]That's gotta hurt

img 156 [already translated]
[side]
[box]
Swamp - water depth below 5m
Lake - water depth above 5m
>Eh!? Then...
>Wouldn't a 'bottomless swamp' actually be a lake!?

img 160 - This is war
>I want
>friendship chocolates.

>Um... That's kind of out of season, but...
>If you want them that badly, I'll buy some for you...
[small]If it's just chocolate you want
>Seriously? Awesome!

>Here.
[box, small text] Chocolate snack
[box, main text] Mushroom Forest

>Sorry, but these... I can't...
>For religious reasons.

[side]
>After friendship chocolate I want friendship cola and friendship hamburgers.
>What do you think 'friendship' is?

img 167 - Bonus - Bitch Friend [bitch as in female dog. Might be better to actually use female dog to avoid confusion. Also likely a kemono friends reference]
>I wish I had a dog.
>Oh, that sounds nice.

>But Hiyori is against it...
>...Oh. In that case...

>I'll be your dog.

>Why...

>It's the least I can do to repay you for always looking out for me.
>Stop it already! What if someone sees you!?

>Are you trying to humiliate a lady by making her wear something like this!?
>You put it on yourself!!

img 168
>Guess I have no choice but to put up with her until she gets bored...
>...All right, then let's play fetch...

>Go, feeeetch!
SFX: *Fwoosh*

>...Go after it.
>Aah... Uhh...

>That seems like kind of an intense workout, so...

>Then... Shake-
SFX: *Slap*

>I'm not going to let you take advantage of the situation to hold hands with a girl!!
>Where does she even draw the line...?

>Dogs are all about walks, right!? Now, hold my leash and...
>You say no to the hand but not to this!?

img 169
SFX: *Pant* *Pant*

>Oi... What if someone sees us...?
SFX: *Turn*
>What kind of owner is embarrassed about his own dog!?

>Are you even listening to...

>Aaaaaaand there he comes!! And it had to be our homeroom teacher no less!!
>If he sees this we're both getting suspended!!
SFX: *Baaaaaaang*

>With my excellent dog sense of smell and hearing I could tell sensei was coming a long time ago.
>Eeh!? Then why are you so calm!?

>That ball you threw earlier!
>Landed in his way and is going to make him trip!!

SFX: *Squish*

img 170
>Owaaah!?
SFX: *Crash*
>All right, if we're gonna run, now's the time.
SFX: *Run*
>I'm sorry, Ooishi-sensei...!

>Haah
>Haah [panting]

>...Well? What's it like to be a dog owner?
>What do I say to that...?

>...Not satisfied yet...?
>...I appreciated the thought more than enough.

>...Listen, you need to pay more attention to how you come across to other people!
>What was even the point in doing this!?
>What's with that attitude!? I was just doing what I could to make you feel a bit more like a dog owner!

>Nobody asked you to! You were just doing it for yourself, weren't you!?
SFX: *Arguing*
>Well I can't exactly deny that!

>Meanwhile, at the Sugisaki house,

[book]The ten dog precepts

>Dog precept four:
>Please don't scold me for a long time or lock me up as a punishment.
>You might have other things to do, ways to have fun and friends to talk to.

>But to me
>you are all I have.
SFX: *Thmp*

[Outside border] The end

pg. 171 - Afterword
>Nice to meet you. I'm Shouma Keito.
>Thank you so much for picking up the first volume of 'Tomodachi wo tsukurou.'.

>I have yearned for a moe 4koma and that was what drove me to start drawing one, but I never imagined that my debut work would be like this.
>Why...?
>THIS IS AMAZING...!
>THIS GENRE WILL BRING WORLD PEACE!

>However, I left someone as powerful as him in charge of being the main character and he gave the manga a sort of 'anything goes' atmosphere, and for that I am very grateful to Shoutarou.
>I'm also grateful to my editor and his giant asshole for letting me get away with anything...

pg. 172
>This 'let's make friends.' title was coined by my editor,
[small]Discussing over the phone

>but the title when I first submitted the prototype was
[small] Early Misuzu and Shoutarou
>'Strange man and normal girl'.

>However, when the actual serialization started, this 'normal girl' became a strange girl within a few weeks of running the manga
>so I feel glad it didn't end up with that name after all.

>By the way, Misuzu's three-leaf clover hair ties were a symbol of her being 'normal' (emphasis on the 'were').

>I was allowed to labor through and enjoy drawing 'Tomodachi wo tsukurou.' with its abnormal couple of protagonists
>and if it made you, the readers, happy, then that's all I could ever ask for.

>With that said, see you in volume 2.
>Please come see me.