Listen up, this story is going to take some explaining!
I am a third year Japanese student who has forgotten an amazing amount of material :) This story is a fun way for me to go over all of the lessons from the first textbook. All of the dialogue, unless I say otherwise, is taken directly from the short skits in the textbook. I will provide translations at the end of each chapter.
Please bear in mind that I'm still a student, and not a very good one either. I apologize if my faulty translations offend anyone. I am writing this story to help me remember things I probably should never have forgotten, for fun, and to practice typing in Japanese.
My classmates have kept a running joke that the main two characters from the skits, Tom Akau and Jiro Tanaka, were having a secret homosexual relationship, and this is something I've always wanted to do- flesh out the story given in the skits. Tom and Jiro will always have a super special place in my heart :D
I hope you enjoy this strange little story if you choose to read it :) The textbook the skits are coming from is called Japanese Now Volume 1, copyright 1982 by the Dept. of Education, State of Hawaii. If you have any questions, feel free to message/e-mail me for answers.
- Oceans