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.
Act 2
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN TOKYO
Story and Art by Naoki Yamamoto
English Adaptation by Matt Thorn
Lettering and Touch-Up art by Dan Nakrosis
© 1997 Naoki Yamamoto /Shogakukan inc.
The girl finally introduces herself. Aya Hibuno is her name. Besides that all info is suspect. After bribing her with food and drink they finally figure out that she was at the funeral and overheard the lawyer talking to Suekichi. Since he was so drunk she helped him home. What happened that night, nobody knows. Aya is so vague when she does answer. The men keep insinuating that she is after Suekichi’s money. She takes offence to being accused of being just after his money.
Aya leaves and the lawyer warns Suekichi to be quiet about the inheritance because people like Aya will be all over trying to get some of it. Saying Aya probably left because he can’t get the money right away. Suekichi returns to classes where people are surprised to see him. He is late for theater practice and teased about why he suddenly goes back to school. He gets talked into taking Ikezu, who thinks he is changing his ways because of the woman who answered the phone, out for drinks.
Suekichi is denying that a new woman exists and agrees to have Ikezu come over for food because he is broke. While going up to the apartment Ikezu says he wants to meet the kind of girl who would go after Suekichi. Suekichi says he doesn’t keep women waiting at… He opens the door and there is Aya sleeping. She says she climbed a tree to get in. After some arguing Ikezu leaves.
Aya and Suekichi argue about what she is doing there. Suekichi opens the window and finds Ikezu sitting in the tree out his window and tells him he will catch a cold sitting out there.
Act 3
THE MIND SAYS NO, BUT THE LOINS SAY GO
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 keeps insisting that Aya get out of his apartment. Aya keeps trying to stay. She threatens to talk about his inheritance and how long she waited to cook for him. She cooks while they argue. Suekichi says he will eat the food and asks Aa to stay and eat with him because there’s no point in wasting it and he still has questions.
They talk over dinner and while Suekichi tries to get Aya to leave, she seduces him. After some foreplay Aya gives him a condom and Suekichi realizes there is a hole in it. They have a big fight over her trying to get pregnant by him to get the inheritance. She tells him that the money is making him crazy.
They become ‘friends’ again and Aya offers to have sex with a condom with no hole.
