DANCE TILL TOMORROW
Act 1
A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR
Story and Art by Naoki Yamamoto
English Adaptation by Matt Thorn
Lettering and Touch-Up art by Dan Nakrosis
© 1997 Naoki Yamamoto /Shogakukan inc.
Suekichi wakes up hung over in bed with a strange woman not remembering what happened. The last thing he remembers is his great grandfather’s funeral and drinking afterwards. She calls him an animal, and the apartment is a mess. Suekichi leaves and goes to acting troupe practice where he is being teased because a girl answered his phone that morning. He tells everyone what he remembers and while on the way home he says he is going to drop out of college to work in theater.
When Suekichi gets home he finds the girl still in his apartment as well as a man in a suit. He has come to discuss his inheritance from his great grandfather. He plays a tape for him with the great grandfather explaining how he was the only person to visit him, so he is leaving him with a gift. The gift is a stamp collection worth 450 million yen. There is a catch though, he can only get it after he finishes college, gets married and has a career.
During this whole conversation the girl is very animated and shocked. She keeps butting in until the man asks Suekichi to have his sister settle down. Suekichi tells him that he thought she came with him and that he doesn’t know her. Both men look at her and say “who is this girl” while she is laughing awkwardly.
The teaser below for next act uses the name Aya but until now it has not been used at all.
