sidelined

Look at how many volumes!!!! LOOK AT THAAAAAT

Anyway, here's Watanabe-senseu's message translated!

"Everyone, thank you so much!!

Thanks to you all, Yowamushi Pedal reached 100 volumes!!

Since the start of the serialization in February 2008 it's been 18 years and 3 months, and Sakamichi-kun has become a third year, too; we're at the third Inter High too.

Thanks to everyone's hard work, connections, and aspirations, and with your support, we've reached this point!

This is the first time a cycling manga has reached 100 volumes under the same name, and it's the fifth title in a shounen magazing, following “Kochikame”, “Hajime no Hippo”, “One piece”, and “Detective Conan”.

And it's also the fastest manga to reach 100 volumes in a shounen magazine!!

When I started, I didn't think I'd come this far, I had many experiences I wouldn't have had otherwise.

I'll take a moment to reflect on volume 100, and then I'll start running again

I wish to continue delivering fun and exciting stories with all my might

At high cadence!!

Please keep supporting us!

Pag 1

1: Two people who were never supposed to meet

They get to meet at the Inter High!!

Pag 2

1: Goo!

Kanagawaa!!

Hakogaku!!

Pag 3

1: Ta... talk!? To me!?

That's right. Since we've come all the way here.... uhm, Sugi...

Moto!! It's Sugimoto!!

Pag 4

1: I heard you entered the race all of a sudden yesterday, like fifteen minutes before the start?

Ah, yeah, yeah, that's right

Waaa, he started talking so easily! It's the first time I'm talking to him!!

2: He- he knows my story, that makes me happy

It makes me happy

3: So you prepared hard in advance

Ah, no, I was a reserve, this was unexpected

4:It's fate

It comes to people who have properly prepared themselves

5: Fate

6: What's this!? It makes me so happy!? I'm so happy

I'm suddenly being complimented!!

You- you really think so!?

Yeah

Pag 5

1: By the guy who won ….. the first day's mountain staged colored bib

The fastest guy on the mountain!!

2: Hakogaku's captain, Manami Sangaku!!

3: And you placed eighth yesterday

5: No no no, that's just... I just held on and ran!!

He even knows my results!?

6: Just being able to be in the lead is amazing

Like a single goal

Pag 6

2: S-stop, I can't help but smile, even though... we're in a race!!

No, no

3: That's right, I can't!!

I left my joy behind yesterday!!

4: We shared our joy together with the team, yesterday, and then it was over

5: The race is hard

Being too relaxed won't allow me to face difficult situations

6: So I walked into this new day with a different mindset

Pag 7

1: That today is only about today's race!!

2: Let's run to the best of our abilities today, too, to the best of our abilities!!

Yes!

Yes! Sugimoto-san!!

3: Let's survive!!

Yeah!!

Pag 8

2: You placed even higher than me

Kuaaaaaa

3: But actually, actually, that's right

But that has nothing to do with our difference in skills, I know that

4: It happens a lot in road racing that the cyclists who aren't the ace cross the finis late later than other... it happens a lot, yeah

Pag 9

1: And yet, I don't know why, I'm getting so excited and so happy!!

2: My forehead is getting hot

3: Before the Inter High, when I came to Minegayama for an inspection...

4: Huh

“Inspection”...

5: I went with him too!!

Pag 10

1: Once we reached the peak, we talked

2: We talked about... how hard it was to choose the team members

4: Back then, Sakamichi-kun said

6: There are a lot of people I would like to run in the team

He said that if he could he'd switch with them, and that it's tough that there's are only six spots available

And he talked about someone who never took rest from practice and worked so hard for three years....

Pag 11

1: A kind-hearted and hard-worker guy he really wanted to run in the Inter High

4: Onoda.....

5: That's you, right?

I-I guess.. uhm, yeah

But, I'm so grateful, so grateful really

6: That's why I thought maybe I shouldn't talk directly, but

Pag 12

1: For Sakamichi-kun

2: The fact that you're in the selected team and running for the Inter High

3: And the fact that yesterday... you placed eighth

Pag 13

1: I think that makes him happier than anyone

2: Do your beeest!

Hakogakuu!

They're so fast!

Pag 14

1: Really? Onoda really said that?

2: No no, he said “I think” so that's not sure, of course

4: But if it's true it really does make me happy

5: I'll ask him when these three days of race are over

6: Definitely

7: By the way, how is Teshima-san doing?

Huh? Teshima-san!?

That's right, yeah

8: Last year we had a gret fight on the first day on Irohazaka

Pag 15

1: I was taking a tea break!!

2: He was strong... an indomitable spirit who kept coming back, no matter how many times you threw him down

3: Ah, he cam to see us at our training camp this year!

On a rainy evening!

Oh... he came to see you

4: I was asleep, but Onoda and the first years met him

Oh...

Teshima-san... he must be an amazing guy

5: They told me who had an umbrella and had come by car, and I think he drove there himself, since he's in university

Ohh

Pag 16

1: And he brought us donuts

Ohh, donuts!

Yeah, those were nice calories!

2: Is he here to cheer for you on this Inter High? Did he come?

4: Yeah!! He sent us a message the day before yesterday...

Manami!!

5: The flat is almost over, what do we do!?

6: Yuzukoshi-kun and Tobirama-kun, switch, and Bashi-kun get behind everyone else, thanks

Pag 17

1: Yeah!! Buah!!

Alright!!

Yes!!

Pag 18

1: They changed their positions

Soon

2: The climb will start!!

3: And after a short while we'll reunite

Reunite with the leading pack!!

4: We talked for so long!! Until here!!

Manami!!

5: Thanks for the “talk”!!

I had a good time!! Really!!

Thanks

Pag 19

1: Today is only about today's race!!

2: …. ah

3: The following Hakogaku group is entering the climb!!

Do your best!

They're so fast!

There's one more person with them

Pag 20

1: There's something I forgot to tell you

Could we talk while climbing?

2: Talk while climbing!?

No... no problem

3: Well, for you it would be no problem, since you're a climber

But me...

4: I mean, I'll gladly listen

Let's talk, okay!!

5: Actually, I've always been curious about it.... but I thought it would be a bit too much to ask...

Pag 21

1: Sakamichi-kun

2: Last year

3: When he won the Inter High

Pag 22

Pag 1

1: Kaidou-san, there are two people chasing us

Huh!?

A yellow jersey

2: It's those two who had stopped....

3: from Sohoku!!

4: Dammit, how!? Ah!! I know

It's the humming climb guy

5: You're a first year so of course you don't know

Sohoku's Onoda climbs faster while humming a song!!

Humming!?

6: Climbing... while singing, isn't it hard to breathe!?

No no, that's what you'd expect, right?

7: But I guess that it's just humming, right?

Pag 2

1: Even if you grow up and cast a spell ♪

-cast a spell!!

Pag 3

1: They're singing at full throttle!!

You're still the princess ♪

-the princess!!

I can clearly make out the lyrics...!!

Pag 4

1: You're the princess ♪

-princess!!

Senpai, they passed us so easily!!

They weren't humming at all!!

2: Actually, while riding my bicycle... sometimes a song does go through my head, but... singing so well while pedaling...

That was Sohoku's Onoda...?

3: That's not the point!! Let's chase them, Satokawa!! We're in the middle of a race!!

Yes, Kaido-san!!

Pag 5

3: We passed them... again

Two people this time

4: It was so easy

5: We have to quench our thirst, let's drink from our bottles

Pag 7

6: But this time, let's go with the second verse!!

Pag 8

1: Alright!!

4: Please be careful that when it says “hidden feelings...” it goes up a semitone

Careful...

After the second “you're the princess” there's a “ta ta tan”, it's a song actually but let's say it to keep the rhythm

“Ta ta tan”

Pag 9

1: You look like you're having fun, Onoda

2: You're bouncing around

3: Even though this should be a painful race

4: I'm also having fun, a little

7: Onoda...

Pag 10

1: Hm?

2: That's right... so this is it?

3: (Why are you going this far!!

I...)

4: I just remembered... so long ago, when we met and had a race on the back gate slope...

Pag 11

1: Are you having fun?

2: A lot!!

3: I figured

Maybe it's because I'm running in the Inter High with you, Imaizumi-kun!! And we're even singing together....

5: Ah....!! I got it wrong, didn't I!? You meant like “I'm suffering so much yet you look like you're having so much fun in the middle of a race”, right!?

Pag 12

1: Thanks to you, I'm feeling a little better

Be-

2: … tter?

Then I'm glad? I guess?

3: Your humming climb isn't just about getting faster by yourself

4: Huh?

5: When we passed that guy before, and even when we passed those two guys just now

Huh...

I kept up with you, that's why I could pass them

6: It's probably you “having fun” that is pulling me

Pag 13

1: Your inner feelings are overflowing

2: and coming out

3: Maybe they're so pure and transparent

4: that it made me want to touch them, get closer

5: Back then... so long ago, on the back gate slope

6: To my words, “why are you going this far”, your answer....

Pag 14

1: Because I don't have any friends

3: Hyaa...!!

Pag 15

1: Say, Onoda, have you made any friends since then?

2:Once you said that “bicycles connects people”

8: Say, Onoda

Pag 16

1: Am I your friend?

Pag 17

3: Yeah!! Of course!!

5: For me, too

Pag 18

1: Wh... ah... what brought this on!? Now I suddenly feel embarrassed

Just because

Is it some kind of fortune telling...?

2: Ah!! I see four people ahead of us, let's pass them

Ket's go with the second verse!!

Yeah!!

3: Your “bikes are fun”, “I want to run with my friends”, “I want to sing anime songs together”

4: Those feelings

Pag 19

1: are pulling me

2: It's Sohoku

Sohoku!?

Two of them are coming up from behind!!

What!?

3: Onoda... I'll tell you in a little bit...

Maybe it's because my nerves are focused on the fact that I have to sing...

I don't know, but

4: Since earlier

Pag 20

1: My hands have stopped shaking!!

3: Onoda, in about 500m there's the peak of this first pass, and after that there's a dynamic downhill

Can we pass those four people before that?

Yeah!!

Pag 21

1: Let's do it. When I give you the signal, please switch to a higher gear

Yeah!!

Lovely chance Pettanko-chan ♪

They're coming!!

Pag 22

5: Friends...?