Kinnikuman 298

With Suguru and Team Kinnikuman still recovering from the first round, Meat has forced himself into the inescapable clamp of The Manriki! But even with their team near it's breaking point, help is finally on the way from some familiar faces...

Chapter 298: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (25): Returning Alive from Hell

127.
Caption: CHOUJIN GRAVEYARD—
Bombe: OH GOD, LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE ON THIS CORPSE ONCE MORE AND REVIVE THIS BODY.
Bombe: SO HE CAN PREVENT USELESS WAR FROM STARTING ONCE AGAIN BEFORE IT CAN HAPPEN!! BIO-STONE HEART TRANSPLANT!!

128.-129.
(Cover page spread: Bizarre that Brocken of all Choujin is Soldier’s representative…and I still don’t quite get the big deal between Zebra & Bikeman)

130.
Caption: HIMEJI CASTLE—
Announcer: Due to The Manriki’s vise section becoming slided a bit, Meat-kun’s body is getting clamped within bit by bit—
Manriki: Do you see—this is my deadly Scramble Vise---!!

131.
Suguru: Meat, use this!
Announcer: Meat has inserted a steel chair that was tossed in by Kinnikuman, timing his escape---!!

132.
Bombe: When I finish suturing the wound, the operation will be complete.
Oni: Who are you? What are you doing here?
Bombe: Huh?
Bombe: Oh…damn.

133.
Audience: Meat--!! Meat--!!
Manriki: Guhehehe, you’re a bit early if you think that you’ve defeated my Scramble Vise in that way…
Meat: Ah!!

134.
Announcer: The Manriki’s Scramble Vise has easily destroyed the steel chair---!!
Suguru: AAH
Zebra: Hahahahaha
Zebra: Manriki’s Scramble Vise possesses a power that can pulverize steel and diamond. That steel chair is no sweat for him!!
(TN: I think Zebra said “it’s not even a fart” or “he de mo nai” at that point, but can’t quite say if that’s proper so I used a more proper English version)

135.
Suguru: I should have gone in as Advance Guard regardless of what Meat said after all.
Meat: Pr…Prince…
Meat: You must fight in the long Throne Succession battles that are ahead. Your health is important...Si…since I’ll show you I can withstand Manriki’s attack for a long time, even if for a while, you can rest your injured body during that time…
Suguru: Me…Meat.
Announcer: That’s the sound of Meat’s entire body breaking!!

136.
Caption: CHOUJIN GRAVEYARD—
Oni: HAHAHA
Oni 1: It’s terrible: Warsman is escaping.
Oni 2: What!?
Oni 1: Uwa
Oni 2: Owa
Oni 1: He—y, what are you doing? Can’t you capture him quickly---!!
Oni 2: Bu…but that’s!!
Oni: Even if I want to capture him, the body of Warsman, who should be a corpse, has regained life for some reason…

137.
Oni 1: We only manage Choujin who have died. We can’t touch Choujin who have returned to life.
Oni 2: What—
Oni: Uwa!!
Oni: …………
Oni: Th…that Warsman…what exactly is he doing reviving his body?
Bombe: As originally made, this is a door that won’t open if it doesn’t have inserted the four Life Balls; but for you now, whose body has been resurrected, you should be able to open it even without the balls.

138.
Bombe: Hurry—Warsman, if you can pass through that long tunnel, you’ll immediately be in the world of the living---!!
Bombe: With your revival, Warsman, you’ll return energy to the weakened Team Kinnikuman; you should be able to even the fights with the other champion teams.
Bombe: Wh…what am I saying? What I’ve done has ended up committing a serious mistake that I’m worried about in reviving Warsman’s body…!!
Bombe: Th…that mistake is…

139.
Bombe: It would be great if there wasn’t that big bottleneck when Warsman is fighting in the ring ahead but……
Caption: HIMEJI CASTLE—
Announcer: Has Meat, who surprisingly hasn’t moved in Manriki’s Scramble Vise, died instantly with his bone broken within his body---!?
Suguru: Hey—Manriki guy, you’ve tormented a child like Meat and are surely are satisfied. Since you’re happy, quickly release Meat from there!!
Manriki: Ehehehe…sorry but Meat’s execution isn’t completed yet…
Suguru: Huh?

140.
Manriki: Did you know that at Himeji Castle, one of Japan’s famous castles, has a thing that’s in all castles called a “loophole”?
(TN: “Loophole” or “nukeana”, directly translates as “escape hole”, as you’ll see)
Terry: A loophole is a secret entrance or exit that was created aside from the regular entrances and exits so you can escape outside without people knowing whenever a castle is encircled by an enemy in the midst of a battle of samurai long ago. That’s the thing that is called a loophole.
Manriki: As expected, you had a perfect answer, Terryman.
Manriki: And, Terryman, this is what no one else knows yet about this Himeji Castle.
Manriki: Let me teach you about this loophole.
Suguru: Geee!!

141.
Manriki: This is the secret loophole of Himeji Castle!!
Suguru: A…square loophole has appeared!!
Manriki: However, these things called loopholes are mostly discovered by enemies during a battle and the people within the hole become prey to fire and arrows that are fired from the enemy before they emerge outside; it was a case of death for many…therefore, they say that the inside of a loophole is filled with the grudge of the people who have died.
Manriki: Guhehe…hear them, hear them, it’s the voices of the vengeful spirits that are calling for their wish of a new friend for themselves soon…
Manriki: Don’t worry: now I’m throwing the fresh corpse of a child.
Manriki: Meat will be entombed in this loophole of grudge. That will complete his execution.
Suguru: Stop—Manriki, don’t you have any blood or tears!!

142.
Manriki: Go, Meat, this loophole will send you directly to hell.
Suguru: Meat~~~~!!
Manriki: Th…that’s…!?
Everyone: OOH
Terry: Th…those hands are surely…
Suguru: It’s…him…
Robin: The comrade we’ve been waiting for…

143.
Suguru, Terry & Robin: THE WARSMAN!!
Announcer: The Warsman has returned alive from the Choujin Graveyard; now he’s revived into the world of the living once again.
Zebra: It…can’t be…Warsman was massacred in the ring by the Hell Missionaries in the Choujin Tag Tournament. He should be entombed in the impossible to return from Choujin Graveyard.
Suguru: Our painful thoughts of needing Warsman have reached him even through the oni of the graveyard!!
Terry: Warsman’s persistent emotional strength has communicated even to Meat; keeping his life in check!!
Suguru: That’s right.

144.
Suguru: A change to the Advance Guard of Team Kinnikuman: Warsman in place of Meat!!
Announcer: We had said it was an absolute victory for Team Zebra, but with Warsman joining in the battle lines for Team Kinnikuman, this makes the match become even—
Caption: NAGOYA CASTLE—
Brocken: Warsman has revived into Team Kinnikuman!
Buffalo: Fufufu, this has made things interesting.
Zebra: Hey, Manriki, send back that piece of junk that has escaped death to the graveyard.

145.
Manriki: Right!! Gyahaha: I think this will reach Warsman with this simple technique.
Announcer: Is there something the matter: Warsman is down with Manriki’s easy Drop Kick!!
Suguru: Dahahaha, that’s love and respectful: his body has been dulled due to being in the Choujin Graveyard for a long time.
Announcer: Now it’s a Cobra Twist.
Suguru: He can’t return it back with a hip throw.
Announcer: And from the Cobra, Manriki is in a Rolling Cradle.
Suguru: Huh, wha, what’s happened to him?

146.
Robin: Kinnikuman, no matter how long a time he’s been away from the battle lines, he should become familiar with his match in 2-3 minutes when a first-class Choujin like Warsman gains familiarity for it.
Suguru: Somewhere, he’s different from the typical Warsman…
Bombe: Warsman’s body was truly revived with the bio-stone heart…however, I forgot to revive his brain to control this body!! Perhaps the Warsman who is in the ring has forgotten all of his fighting techniques that he had accumulated over many long years, degrading him into merely a novice Choujin.
Caption: HIMEJI CASTLE—

147.
Announcer: Manriki makes an Enzuigiri from behind to Warsman--!!
Suguru: Wa…Warsman!!
Suguru: What’s going on, Warsman? What happened to your Palo Special!! And your Bear Claws!?

148.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XX
ALEXANDRIA MEAT VS. THE MANRIKI

TN:
(Your regularly scheduled post-translation comments by StrangerAtaru will not be completed by him today: he complained about doing another griping session about Dr. Bombe after his massive tirade in the previous script and is instead staring at a new fan pic he commisioned from elsewhere adoringly. So with Ataru incapacitated, the following post-chapter comment will be completed by a guest host appropriately selected for the review of this chapter)

Hey there all you happy warm-blooded creatures! It's me, your favorite reptilian shapeshifter Sneagator! I know I had to come in on such short notice but...well, I guess I need a bit of an explanation. Yeah, I'm in the Choujin Graveyard with all my compadres from the Devil Knights and those other losers from the Seven Devils and the arcs before them. I was really supposed to be in that mass shot a few chapters ago with all those other floaters, but you see it was my day of getting a free phone call to the living world and I wanted to check up on my son Sneagator Jr...he's real cute and all and very precocious too. Heck I just found out that he turned into his very first shoe the other day! Isn't that cute? Maybe someday he'll have a son who can turn into sneakers automatically...cause being a dino foot is rather embarrassing! Well to tell the truth, I really am happy I didn't show up in chapter with all those other guys: after seeing what a whiny baby Sunshine was a while back going on and on about "Devils have friendship too!", I needed some time away from him so Junkman can smash him around a few times so he can shape back up in case he ever returns to the surface. A few smashes to the noggin will cure anything, particularly with spikes! I wish I could just take a few bites out of him myself but the last time I did I got all that sand in my jaws and I spent weeks trying to get it out!

Oh...the chapter...you want me to talk about that...well...let me just start off like this: I have no friggin idea who this idiot with the baboon face who calls himself a doctor, but I already like him. You know why? Cause every time he does something, he screws up the Justice Choujin! It's so hilarious when you think about it: good screws up, making it easier for evil to have a chance...wish I could say "win" but you know how these series go! I mean, look at the big screw-up that he pulled off in this chapter: if it's funny enough that he takes some sort of rock that has life (a rock that creates life in hell...if I found one of those, I'd just take a big bite out of it and prevent it from ever existing...that is if the oni just let me down from here) and puts it in to that robot that I really never fought myself (I think I remember his name was Warsman but I never fought him, I only know of Kinnikuman myself). And look at what it does: Warsman, who now magically has three hearts (Sunshine mentioned that actually considering that Junkman never really lasted that long, Ashuraman has turned pansy and...well, I'll get to my own feelings about Ninja in a bit) flies right back up and zaps through the door between being alive and being dead and runs off without fixing it up or anything! Now I have no idea what the third heart would be for once he's alive again (other than merely taking up space in his body) but I find it funny both in that the oni don't even try to pursue him thinking "oh, he's alive, we can't touch him" (but them oni aren't smart at all so of course they won't do anything that actually would constitute work) and the door he opened up is so gaping now that anyone can pass through back to the living world if they want to! (I was actually thinking of going through myself but somehow there was this big battle royal where Mountain squashed me, then I was sucked into Black Hole and only got out because he coughed us all up thanks to some super-pungent sauerkraut that Brockenman had a while back...by the time I got out, someone resealed the door...but it didn't look oni made or by that baboon doctor but of course you would never see that sort of thing yourselves)

But wait, it gets funnier. First of all, when that stupid Warsman finally does make his way to the real world, he does so not just merely entering in but through some trap door in a castle supposedly haunted by spirits! Now I know little about ghosts and goblins aside from having indigestion from a few of my meals, but I do find it hilarious that a door that has bound spirits suddenly becomes a gateway to the underworld for a hero to suddenly break their way through into. If you provide a door for the tormented spirits, wouldn't that give them a means to escape as opposed to merely be stuck to pass off their grudge? I mean we dead Choujin are going into doors and devices all the time like Ashuraman's big cloth a while back, but to literally open a door through an area of vengeful spirits when there was none aside from historical presidence is just inviting more trouble on both parts. But that's not the funniest bit: somehow or another when Warsman returned to the surface, suddenly he's lost all his abilities to fight whatsoever! Therefore what it shows is that baboon-guy screwed up royally when he inserted that stupid stone into the robot Choujin, whether it was just the light power overwhelming his extremely weak body or merely just him hitting a reset button in the midst of his over-the top speeches! What makes it funnier though is that there is no situation where this has happened before: when other Choujin have revived before, whether it be that loser weakling Buffaloman giving up his power or that traitorous Goldman refusing with his brother in that over-haxxed manner, all Choujin involved (well the goody-goodies) were brought back with no problems whatsoever. But considering I've heard that he couldn't even kill Buffaloman by removing his horns from his body, I find it hilarious that he would revive the robot and make him forget everything about fighting whatsoever! Man, if I knew this guy existed, I would have had him show up sooner so the Justice Choujin would have been screwed royally much sooner and maybe we would have been able to take over the world by now!

Well, I've probably been long-winded like one of my laces, so I think I'll just let it be like that. Meanwhile, I think I'm just going to tell Jr. about the nutty baboon next time I get a free phone call to the living world...his stories are hilarious, even if somehow the loser good guy Justice Choujin keep going with him around...or not around!

BTW: I really don't want to talk about what happened to The Ninja. All I know is he somehow snuck away, but I don't really trust that Soldier fellow in the tournament either. I mean I'm scared that with him around losers like Buffaloman and Ashuraman, The Ninja will forget he's a Devil Knight and actually become a good guy...but then he'll go on my feeding time list once he dies again.

(Once again, we thank Sneagator for filling in for Ataru this time and hope that the next chapter isn't screwed up enough to allow for him to comment once again next time...if we can pull him away from...that pin-up)