Kinnikuman 74

The first match of the Tag Championship is over and it looks like the Machineguns may be cruising to an even easier victory in match 2...unless the Rugged Brothers actually show up!

Chapter 74: Partner Change

95.
Narrator: The first match of the World Choujin Tag Championship, the playoff at the Astrodome, is over. Each team is moving towards Los Angeles’ Olympic Auditorium, the next match ground.
Mayumi: The Rugged Brothers, the team you’re facing tonight, will abstain due to the sudden death of Black Shadow……

96.
Mayumi: Thus our Machineguns will win by default!!
Suguru: UO—
Suguru: UOO~~~
Mayumi: Wahahahaha~~~!!
Meat: Please moderate yourselves~~~~!!

97.
Meat: You’ve conveniently decided that it’s a win by default, but that Kinkotsuman doesn’t have a reason to hand over a victory so easily…
Suguru: Of course.
Mayumi: Yep.
Sayuri: Suguru, it’s gyudon. Say a~h!
Natsuko: You’ll eat it with me…
Suguru: A—h
Meat: Wha~~what are you doing---!!
Meat: A large quantity of food before a match is a source of fatigue!! Please don’t have too much!!
Mari: Uh…
Meat: Ah…

98.
Suguru: FUHAHAHA, This is the first time Meat has been worried since we started serialization.
Natsuko: Well, he can cry on my chest!
Natsuko: Don’t be annoying----!!
Meat: Ev…even so, I have this bad premonition…
Suguru: Bad premonition…?
Meat: My glasses have cracked. I think it’s hinting at something terrible.
Suguru: Don’t worry. It’s not hinting anything!
Suguru: So, this morning, I had a hard time in the bathroom…

99.
Natsuko: Calm down Meat---!!
Meat: Wa—what is that, what is that?
Suguru: Ge…amazing.

100.
Steamboat: Ha hahaha—it’s hilarious you’re going by worn-out bus!!
Steamboat: So then, we’ll go ahead---!!
Natsuko: ……………………
Phreas: Hey, get that bus back up without acting stupid!!
Meat: Prince! What are you doing touching the Daioh’s butt!!

101.
Bozu: Traveling on the ground is old news—Ha hahahaha--!!
Suguru: What---!!
Suguru: Get down—
Terry: Please hold on, left leg…

102.
Caption: Los Angeles Boneventure Hotel (Choujin Council Lodging)
Harrison: The Most Brutal Combo in the Universe is the most prominent team in the championship. If they defeat us, they’ll gain rightful control…
Harrison: Rhodes and Steamboat…I can’t forgive you for blundering during the Machineguns match.
Rhodes: Yes, master!
Narrator: Century Plaza (Choujin Federation Lodging)
Sheik: He—y, Skull. How about going to bed now…?
Bozu: The Emperors are a team I want to defeat ahead of time! If you want to sleep, then the chairman should sleep on his own.
Bozu: Hey! Another ten thousand Hindu Squats.

103.
Meat: Please moderate yourselves---!!
Suguru: DAHAHA~~
Phreas: KUKKUKU
Meat: Really, this will end up destroying the hotel.
Terry: They haven’t appeared at all. The movement of the Kaijuu group is eerie……

104.
Caption: Olympic Auditorium
Announcer: Everyone, the Tag Championship has finally reached it’s middle stage. We’re thankful that we successfully have a full house here at the auditorium.
Announcer: I’m the on-spot commentator, Sylvester Suzuki and
Tazahama: I’m the world traveler Tazahama!
Announcer: In the ring, we are having our first match of the day between the Machineguns and the Rugged Brothers……We only see Iwao alone for the Rugged Brothers. The revival of Black Shadow seems impossible after all!!

105.
Suguru: Hey, Iwao, you don’t have a partner. You can’t do tag-team.
Iwao: I know that, idiot!
Terry: You’ve said that quickly if you knew that. The rule of this tournament is you must have a tag-team of two people on one team. You’re obeying the rules but don’t seem to recognize you’re alone!
Suguru: Ya—y, win by default~~WA HA HA
Iwao: My tag partner held off properly!
Terry: WHAT!

106.
Meat: PRINCE, TERRY, RUN~~~!!
Kinkotsu: Uhyohyo…we got to LA ahead of you, hiding, preparing and waiting---!!
Iwao: Introducing my new partner: Mister Kinkotsuman---!!
Announcer: We—ll, the Rugged Brothers have changed, appearing to form into the Kaijuu Teacher-Student Combo!!
Tazahama: Hahaha, this is flashy and fun!

TN: Well it's not like Kinkotsuman was going to let the match end just because Black Shadow is now on a scrap heap. Sure I didn't expect him to bring the roof down on Suguru and Terry...but remember who we're dealing with. The introduction of a new tag partner (and an old annoyance) is obviously a wrestling trademark so somehow seeing it depicted here shouldn't have surprised too many...but seeing him and Iwao go at it now after being missing for most of the chapter was classic stuff as those two probably begin one another round of their nuisances. My only other strange comment for the chapter: I really hope that Edith Harrison bathing with Rhodes and Steamboat doesn't mean that...ewww...