Kinnikuman 371

Falling under Omegaman's manipulation, the final match of the Throne tournament is now in a massive outdoor stadium on top of Osaka Castle that works to his advantage! Can Suguru's side find a way around this latest move!?

Chapter 371: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (98): Samurai Dies…!?

169.
KINNIKUMAN FAMOUS MATCHES SERIES (1)
KINNIKUMAN VS. RAMENMAN

O KINNIKUMAN (2M 30S – EISBAHN ATTACK) RAMENMAN X
(TN: I don’t know what the attack was when I TL this match way back, but “Eisbahn” is German for “Ice Palace” and thus I kept it as such this time)

MATCH DATA
’79 CHOUJIN OLYMPICS SEMI-FINALS
LOCATION: JAPAN BUDOKAN
SPECTATORS: 16,500 (SUPER-FULL HOUSE)

It is here that both Reversal-Fighter Kinnikuman and Brave-Leader Ramenman crashed as companions into superstars! Now, with Ramenman having joined the Justice Choujin, it’s a card that’s impossible to realize again!!

170.
Caption: OSAKA CASTLE PANORAMA STADIUM—
Announcer: Continuing from a crow, Omegaman now has transformed his body into a shovel truck!!
Neptune: Ge!!
Omega: Fuo—fuofuo---!!

171.
Suguru: So…somehow Omegaman has just hit the shovel truck on the roof of an opposing building with the light he fired from his mask, transforming Omegaman into the shovel truck…the crow earlier…now the shovel truck…what a perfect transformation art.
Phoenix: Therefore it’s as he said.
Phoenix: There’s a special device inserted within Omegaman’s mask that can completely transform his body into every object in front of his eyes.
Suguru: Nanu---!?
Mayumi: Suguru—Samurai’s in danger!!

172.
Omega: Fuo—fuofuo: the situation between earlier and now are different.
Announcer: Samurai is conversely caught in Omegaman’s shovel and being twisted hard---!!
Omega: Fuofuofuo: how is it: the feeling of the power of a 3-ton shovel!?
Suguru: Samurai---!!

173.
Omega: Well, Samurai, admit now that your true identity is Neptuneman—admit and go to Choujin Enma.
Neptune: Well, what did you call me…
Omega: You—are you still feigning ignorance!!
Neptune: Uwa~~~!!
Suguru: Stop—let Samurai go---!!
Announcer: With the crisis of his ally unbearable, Kinnikuman is going in to make a rescue in the ring---!!
Omega: Hold on, Kinnikuman: if Samurai’s true identity is Neptuneman, then you’ll come to save the perpetrator who abandoned Geronimo.

174.
Omega: If this Samurai had confessed that he was Neptuneman when Geronimo and I were in the middle of the competition then…Geronimo would not have fallen prey to my Catastrophe Drop.
Suguru: R…right: if this Samurai’s true identity really is Neptuneman, then that act then was coming to abandon Geronimo for being too terrified of himself being handed over to Choujin Enma.
Suguru: That’s a deed that opposes the True Friendship Power of Justice Choujin!!
Omega: Fuofuofuo: Samurai, it seems your team partner Kinnikuman isn’t going to undertake a rescue.
Meat: That’s the sound of the bones in Samurai’s entire body breaking!!

175.
Bibimba: Suguru-sama, doesn’t this act of you abandoning Samurai now oppose True Friendship Power---!?
Suguru: Ri…right: even if Samurai somehow has a true identity, he is a member of Team Kinnikuman and has frequently rescued me and Robin Mask from crisis.
Suguru: Abandoning this man is opposing True Friendship Power---!!

176.
Announcer: Kinnikuman has driven into Omegaman with a Friendship Tackle, which should rescue Samurai---!!
Omega: Ugu!!
Phoenix: Omegaman, whatever happens, absolutely don’t let go of Samurai---!!
Omega: Yes sir---!!
Suguru: A guy who stubborn in opposing Samurai like you will be scattered away by my blow!!

177.
Omega: Al—right, next is that!!
Omega: Omega Metamorphoses No. 3!!
Suguru: Doryaa---!!

178.-179.
Neptuno: N…no, stop Kinnikuman---¡!
Suguru: ……!?
Announcer: Suddenly Omegaman’s body has burst and a thing that ‘s like some sort of tower is projecting out from there, stabbing Kinnikuman’s body---!!
Sign: HITACHI VIDEO
(TN: The tower coming out of Omegaman is Tsuutenkaku: a notable landmark of Osaka located in the Shinsekai district, modeled after the original tower that was built in 1912 and was brought down for supplies during the war. The Japanese industrial company Hitachi actually uses Tsuutenkaku to advertise their goods)
Suguru: Th…this is…!?
Audience: The…symbol tower of Osaka…Tsuutenkaku----!!

180.
Suguru: Wh…what a guy to use that giant tower as materials for his…own transformations…if…if I wasn’t wearing this Defend Suit, I…would have been killed instant…ly…
Announcer: Kinnikuman, who hasn’t had his Burning Inner Strength since his fight with Mixer Taitei, has taken extreme damage for being stabbed in the stomach----!!
Meat: Prince----!!
Omega: Fuo—fuofuo: there has come to be no intruder. Thus, Samurai, I can slowly expose your true identity!

181.
Announcer: Omegaman has suddenly thrown Samurai, who was caught in his shovels, into the canvas!!
Omega: My next transformation is that!!
Announcer: Somehow now Omegaman has selected a propeller plane as his transformation target---!!
Neptune: Kinnikuman…………………Kinnikuman…
Neptune: Per…perhaps fa…facing Omegaman’s next attack, I…won’t be…able to hold out…to the end…
Neptune: Th…therefore, before then…here……
Suguru: Is…isn’t this the Anoalo Staff, a souvenir of Robin Mask…

182.
Neptune: Before I take the finisher by Omegaman…burn my Prophecy…wi…with the flame thrower of the Anoalo Staff and annihilate me…
Suguru: What’s that---!?
Neptune: Late at night one day—when an ally had come to his rescue…
Neptune: …A samurai who was ashamed for being come to be captured denied it, handed to his ally a short sword and asked for himself to be killed.
Neptune: And thus, this friend sympathized with his feelings and tearfully pierced this samurai with the blade.

183.
Suguru: Samurai, are you saying to me to do the same duty of the friend samurai!?
Omega: Omega Metamorphoses No. 4---!!
Announcer: The propeller plane has vanished by Omegaman---!!
Omega: Fuo—fuofuo: with that, the propeller plane has been entirely harvested into my body!!
Omega: What’s left is to just transform and deliver a finisher to Samurai!!
Neptune: Now hurry, Kinnikuman: before Omegaman descends, burn my Prophecy with the Anoalo Staff---!!
Suguru: Will it be alright if I do it---!?

184.
Omega: Transform: Airplane---!!
Announcer: Omegaman has completely transformed into the propeller plane and is nose-diving towards Samurai---!!
Neptune: Hurry, Kinnikuman!!
Suguru: Owa!!
Mayumi: Suguru—what are you doing---!?
Omega: Die---!!
Announcer: Omegaman is gouging Samurai’s chest with his propeller---!!

185.
Neptune: I…best you, Kinnikumna, qu…quickly burn my…Prophecy…
Suguru: Samurai, I’ll put you at ease now!!
Meat: Aah: though Samurai’s getting hurt, Prince in no relation is jumping into the sky!!
Suguru: Sorya!!
Announcer: Is there something wrong with Kinnikuman? He’s burning the Prophecy of his ally Samurai---!!

186.
Neptune: Uwaaa---!!
Announcer: Small cracks are occurring across Samurai’s entire body---!! Continuing from Kinniku Ataru, Geronimo and Robin Mask, will Samurai now have his body be annihilated from this world!?
Suguru: I’m sorry, Samurai!!
Phoenix: Ha—hahaha: we’ve had our time economized with Kinnikuman erasing Samurai’s body before the finisher was delivered---!!
Phoenix: ……!!
Neptune: Fufufu: actually, the existence of the Choujin called Samurai has been erased from this world along with his Prophecy by the hand of Kinnikuman.
Suguru: ……!?
Suguru: Ooh, a new Prophecy is appearing from beneath the burned-out Prophecy---!!

187.
Neptune: But Neptuneman, the real body of The Samurai, is newly born in his place!!
Suguru: Ooh: a new Prophecy written of Neptuneman is from beneath the burned-out Prophecy of Samurai---!!
Page: NEPTUNEMAN
Announcer: And from within the body of the cracked Samurai is somehow the form of Neptuneman---!!
(End of Vol. 34)

TN: So then...when Neptuneman threw that page with him as "Samurai" earlier...did he cover his "Neptuneman" page with the Samurai page...or was the "Samurai" and "Neptuneman" pages stuck together...or was it something else altogether? Well...whatever it is, at least Neptuneman is finally back and we can stop having Omegaman making bizarre claims...even if it just ends up screwing us even more next time both due to him and Suguru.

Now as I was saying last chapter about Omega Metamorphoses: this chapter sort of proves why the move can get on the ridiculous side. Last chapter it didn't seem to harm too much of anything...well yeah it did kill a crow so Omegaman can grow wings, but the part with the shovel truck at least wasn't too bad with it empty. But then we get to this chapter...and it gets ridiculous. The first may not seem too bad if you think about the situation but it still could have been dangerous: Tsuutenkaku is not just a landmark but one where people actually go into and can climb if they so desire. Now maybe the tower was off limits for security measures during the Final so you could maybe get away with saying that it was empty and thus no harm was done. But then...Omegaman took over the plane. Now think about it: it's an airplane flying in the sky that was suddenly sucked in by Omegaman and made part of him. Now there is a possibility that it could have been unmanned since unmanned aircraft do exist, but for it to fly right there and then in the midst of a major tournament with no prior warning just doesn't make me think off the top of my head that it would be unmanned. So then...if it wasn't unmanned...Omegaman just absorbed an airplane into itself...and probably at the same time killed everyone on board. If this was dubbed, somehow I could imagine the old "I can see the parachutes" bit being used about now...unless he just blew up a cargo robot.

BTW: I know they wanted to start it with something more notable but I think the very, very first entry for what will essentially be a series-recap of Kinnikuman's biggest fights should be as such:

KINNIKUMAN FAMOUS MATCHES SERIES (0)
KINNIKUMAN VS. CURRY COOK

O KINNIKUMAN (WE'RE NOT QUITE SURE - UTTER INSANITY) CURRY COOK X

MATCH DATA
’79 CHOUJIN OLYMPICS QUARTERFINALS
LOCATION: KOURAKUEN HALL
SPECTATORS: ABOUT 10 (EXTREMELY EMPTY HOUSE)

After barely making it into the quarterfinals of his first Choujin Olympics, Kinnikuman made his Choujin wrestling debut facing the brutal Indian Choujin with a food-item on his head. After destroying the curry on Curry Cook's head and attempting to replace it with everything from bento to his beloved gyuudon, he faced down his fear of milk only to go utter insane and drive his opponent out of the ring. Very few saw this match due to various factors, including a boxing match before the quarterfinals and the gruesome details of the previous fight between Brutal Choujin Ramenman and Brockenman. However, Kinnikuman was assisted (or coaxed along) by his companion Meat and his father, former Choujin Olympics champion Mayumi...who both screamed at him during the fight...a lot.