Kinnikuman 299

The good news: Warsman has returned from the Choujin Graveyard to take on The Manriki of Team Zebra! The bad news: his body may be alive...but his mind is a complete blank! How can Warsman win without his trademark abilities!?

Chapter 299: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (26): The Lost Technique

149.
Announcer: How…can this be: has Warsman forgotten how to use his Bear Claws with the short time he’s lived in the Choujin Graveyard!?

150.
Manriki: Guhehe…what’s happened to you? Is this Warsman, who has a nickname of the “Fighting Computer”?
Manriki: This shadow I see isn’t him!!
Suguru: Aah…
Manriki: There.
Wars: ………

151.
Suguru: Stretch out your hand, Warsman, and take that Bear Claw. As long as you have that, you’ll be invincible in this world!!
Manriki: !
Manriki: Ah…Uuh…

152.
Terry: He’s got it---!!
Announcer: Warsman finally has his treasured trump card; will this reverse his situation against Manriki, who he’s taken those attacks from---!?
Manriki: Heey, you’ll be together with that when you die---!!
Suguru: It’ll be convenient to dive over from there, Warsman!! You can open an airhole into Manriki’s body with your Screw Driver.
Robin: Here it comes: the Screw Driver!!

153.
Manriki: !?
Suguru, Terry & Robin: Wh…what are you doing, Warsman…you threw your Bear Claw…
Wars: Ko—ho—

154.
Announcer: Warsman, whose state really is different than he usually is, has started throwing his Bear Claws at Manriki---!!
Suguru: Can you tell us what’s wrong, Warsman~~~
Manriki: Guhehe…somehow, it seems true that he’s forgotten how to use his Bear Claws.
Manriki: Guhehe…it’s over. You’ve thrown away all of your Bear Claws.
Wars: …………
Zebra: Manriki, if it’s not confusing my eyes, Warsman’s forgetfulness seems to be due to merely the way he uses his Bear Claws.

155.
Zebra: From when the match began until now, Warsman has been somehow mediocre: he directly took a simple Drop Kick, and didn’t return your Cobra Twist with a Hip Throw. He doesn’t seem like Warsman the technician: rudimentary mistakes are sprouting up.
Manriki: It seems it’s as you say……but why?
Zebra: Perhaps there was a mistake midway in reviving Warsman from the Choujin Graveyard to the world of the living, reviving just his body and forgetting to revive the brain to control his body. Due to this, all the techniques that had been accumulated in his computer over many years were lost.
Suguru: What—I…if Zebra’s inference is correct, then wouldn’t Warsman be a novice Choujin who can’t even do the basics of combat?
Robin: …………
Zebra: Is my inference correct? So then, I’ll prove it now with Manriki. Manriki, do a Body Slam to Warsman!!

156.
Manriki: Right!!
Announcer: Well, will Warsman somehow be proven to be a novice Choujin by way of this One-Hand Spin Slam---!?
Manriki: Die!!
Robin: You’re passive; don’t take it passively, Warsman!!
Suguru: With that stance, that Warsman will fall to the canvas on his head---!!
Wars: ………

157.
Zebra: Gyahahaha, he was thrown by a Body Slam was taken passively and fell on the canvas from his back. So then who knew: even with that, Warsman now is an unknowing novice Choujin---!!
Caption: CHOUJIN GRAVEYARD—
Voice: Uoo~~~
Bombe: If I had revived Warsman’s brain together alongside his heart back then, he would have ended up not being in a close fight with that guy.
Bombe: But that isn’t the reason why I don’t have a method to revive Warsman’s computer. Robin Mask within the Justice Choujin Corp holds the key: somehow it would be best for him to recognize this method while it isn’t too late for Warsman…
Caption: HIMEJI CASTLE—

158.
Announcer: Has he broken his neck? Warsman really isn’t indicating that he’s moving.
Suguru: So…then, Warsman’s perfect revival was a fairy tale…
Terry: Even if it seems so, shouldn’t we be grateful to god that we’ve seen Warsman’s energetic form even for just a short time?
Suguru: Right.
Manriki: Guhehe…are you doing that again…
Manriki: I’ll have to murder yet another promising young Choujin with a future.
Manriki: What…is this!?

159.
Suguru: Warsman!!
Manriki: Let go—let go—
Announcer: Warsman is uselessly struggling: his hanging to one of Manriki’s legs doesn’t show a reason he can defeat that many-times larger build.
Audience 1: Gyahaha, no matter how many techniques he’s lost, he’s done too much with that plan!!
Audience: It’s as if he’s he a child merely mixing it up with him---!!
Zebra: Fufufu…finally even the audience has seemed to desert you, Warsman.

160.
Announcer: Warsman is going into a Pile Driver with Manriki……
Announcer: However, Manriki, who is too much of a difference in strength, is countering with a Reverse Suplex---!!
Suguru: Oh no—
Audience 1: He’s like a toad.
Audience 2: That’s so cool, Warsman!!
Audience 3: You’re the shame of the Justice Choujin~~~!!

161.
Caption: SIBERIA—
Boy 1: Gyahaha, you’re a robot Chou—jin!!
Boy 2: Hahaha, what an ugly face---!!
Wars: Don’t laugh at me---!!
Wars: Don’t laugh at me.
Wars: Don’t laugh at me.
Suguru: He’s…lifting him up!!
Wars: Don’t laugh at me---!!

162.
Manriki: ………
Zebra: Why are you bewildered by his fluke throw? Shouldn’t you end this quickly--!!
Manriki: Right!!
Announcer: Warsman isn’t putting his Bear Claws, which are stuck into the canvas, on his hands: he’s plunging them onto his feet—

163.
Announcer: And it’s a rough Drop Kick, aiming for Manriki with his feet wearing the Bear Claws!!
Manriki: Guwa!!
Terry: He’s suddenly changed from his novice fighting until earlier; how exactly did Warsman now become a brutal fighter!?
Robin: I had seen those eyes of Warsman once…
Robin: Right: those eyes were the eyes that he had when I first met Warsman in Soviet Siberia!!
(TN: It was a tad hard to figure how to say where Warsman was from: considering the chapter was written and released in 1985 (and that the date Robin met Warsman would have easily been around 1980-1981), Warsman was still from the Soviet Union/USSR as opposed to Russia (where Siberia is located), so I basically decided to say “Soviet Siberia” as opposed to something like “Russian Siberia” or the longer “Siberia in the Soviet Union”)

164.
Robin: Kinnikuman, perhaps Warsman’s revival may not be a fairy tale.
Robin: Sorry, can I borrow this for a bit?
Janitor: Ah, that’s my mop!!
Suguru: Robin, what are you doing!?
Robin: This is how we’ll do it.

165.
Terry: Ooh! Its Robin Mask’s other identity: The Barracuda!!
Suguru: As The Barracuda, Robin is also Warsman’s teacher!!
Robin: Warsman’s computer didn’t die. The proof is that he can fight differentiating between enemy and friend instinctively; even getting angered facing the sneers of the spectators.

166.
Robin: The Warsman now is the same as a baby born without knowing anything; he has yet to possess his various techniques!! He’s just returned to the Warsman of the era of a greenhorn when I first encountered him!!
(TN: Robin refers to Warsman actually as a “green boy”, which is translated as a “newcomer” or an inexperienced person who is new to the trade. It really didn’t work in English so I went with the equivalent expression of “greenhorn” here)
Robin: If we can input the program of his techniques once again into Warsman’s computer which has become blank, I’m certain Warsman will revive.
Robin: Thus now, what we can do is be his teachers. That can only be me!!
Robin: Warsman, Bear Claws are not for feet. Put them on your hands.

167.
Wars: !
Wars: Barracuda….
Wars: Yes sir, teacher!!

168.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XXI
WARSMAN VS. THE MANRIKI

TN: Well, one major factor we have learned about this chapter: yes the Bear Claws can be used as a projectile...well OK, maybe not as a good projectile...more like a really crummy one that does utterly nothing, but it is a projectile! We also learned that Bear Claws are not just good for the hands but for the feet as well! (well bears have them on both sets of limbs so it's not like they wouldn't work there...even if not the way Warsman used them)

I think the whole drift of the chapter is this: in a weird way, thanks to Doctor Bombe screwing up (I told you so), we sort of get to see a different aspect in regards to Warsman...particularly, how he psychologically evolved from the weird robot-like child he was born as to the Choujin hero he grew to became. While I can't really say it is a good way to make the fight go without making it seem too easy, it's a very fascinating method that allows for us to get more info (or remind us a bit) regarding the Computer Choujin's history after so long without seeing him go at it (I'll get into that in a couple more scripts regarding some personal theories regarding this fight) I think the most interesting aspect regarding Warsman's evolution as seen in this chapter was that he originally approached a Brutal Choujin style (even before potentially meeting Robin/Mr. Barracuda) because of his lonely nature of being picked on as a child. Due to his angry outbursts protecting himself and his sad solitude, I assume Warsman was forced to use excessive force to stop his tormenting...but while outbursts work for kids, that would end up leading to the trouble he faced later when he learned to control his anger and power, as we'll see in a bit.

Oh and BTW: how in the world can merely putting on a mop-head like a wig turn Robin into The Barracuda? Then again...why did Robin become him in the first place? (yeah I know he was already Barracuda when leading Warsman in the 2nd Choujin Olympics...but the chapter showed him as Barracuda even back when meeting Warsman...which most likely would have been some time after his "death" in the Grand Canyon...I guess he did it so he could draw people off his trail...like his wife Alisha...but then again...that would make people think they were...eww...)