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Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 247

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:01:30 +0000

#247: A Soul Dutiful to Humans

170.
Minki: Next is gonna be Vol. 29---!
(TN: You know with as many complaints one can make about Minki...proportions isn't one of them. She is hot, as annoying as she can get.)

171.
(Title page...not much to say except we have Nube essentially walking to doom just to save Tamamo!)

172.
Nube: Here is the mansion of the nine-tail fox...
Tamamo: Ah...ah...ah...
Nube: I'll absolutely save you, Tamamo.
SFX: Giiii...

173.
Nube: ---I thought he wasn't going to meet us easily, but he seems to be readily meetable.
Tsuwabukimaru: You...you don't understand. The terror of Kyuubi-sama.
SFX: Gata gata gata
Tsuwabukimaru: The nine-tail fox is a youkai who is smart and has power. You'll understand when you talk to it.
Nube: !

174.
SFX: Ooooooh......

175.
Nube: Th...that's the nine-tailed fox? Isn't that a weak, old fool?
(TN: I know it really sounds slightly an insult from how Nube refers to the Kyuubi, but the two terms that he uses mostly ends up translating as such. The first he uses is "Yoboyobo", which is an onomotopeia for "weak from old age", while "oibara" is "dotage" or "a senile old man". I decided to try and make it work but I don't think it was that successful)
SFX: Sasa
Nube: It's not impossible...in any case, it has lived for over 3,000 years...even its youki has come to be almost gone. With that, the power to save Tamamo is...
"Voice": ...Human...
Nube: Ye...yes.
Kyuubi: The reason you have come here is...cough cough...understood...you...want to save that youko who has become an invalid...
SFX: Yoro...yoro...
Nube: Ye...yes, I do...
Tsuwabukimaru: Hold your head high.
Kyuubi: My...nine tails...they are nine souls...if you had one of them, he would return to the original youko...
Nube: ! Re...really?
Kyuubi: Fuu...it is true. However

176.
Kyuubi: This youko, Tamamo, was researching human love and will regain his human heart...Humans are roughly ugly creatures...with that, he'll be a youko who is getting closer to those beings...I won't come to save that...
Nube: ...In truth, there is also an ugly side to humans. But there is a good side. That is what Tamamo was...
Kyuubi: Silence, humans are ugly!
Nube: That's one-sided.
SFX: Mu
Kyuubi: Do you defy me?
Nube: Tamamo isn't' becoming an invalid due to these trivial beings that you've spoken of.

177.
Tsuwabukimaru: N...no, angering Kyuubi-sama is
Nube: Fu, it's feeble and just mouth. I can't fear it.
Kyuubi: Cough cough, If so, let's test you.
Kyuubi: If you can prove that humans are not ugly, I will grant your wish.
Nube: OK.
SFX: Don!

178.
Nube: Uh...
Nube: N?
Kyouko: Nube!
Nube: Where am I...?
Yukime: Teacher! You're safe, that's good!
Kyouko: Because you were late, Nube, we were relaxing in a nearby forest.
Hiroshi: Look, here, we found chestnuts!
Nube: Chi, that nine-tailed fox, it saw it couldn't bear with me and threw me out.
Hiroshi: Let's go get more.
SFX: Gasa gasa
Miki: Let's go, let's go

179.
Hiroshi: !
SFX: Zazazaza
Miki: Kyaaaa----
Nube: Huh...a youkai!?
Miki: Kya---
Hiroshi: Uwa---
Nube: Ha!

180.
Nube: Is that a subordinate of the nine-tailed fox too...? Are you alright, everyone?
SFX: Shuuuu
Hiroshi: Owowow...didn't I get a scratch!
Kyouko: Really, you were late in saving him. It's because you're a dunce...!
Nube: Th...that isn't the way to say it...I did save him...
Hiroshi: Who said you saved me?
Kyouko: Right---is there a reason you want us to give gratitude?
"Hiroshi": Really---that's condescending...what's your intention? Ge.
"Katsuya": It's natural for a teacher to save his students, stu--pid.
"Makoto": Hihihi...
SFX: Muka muka muka
"Miki": No one was thinking of giving thanks---cal--lus!
"Kyouko": Kyahahaha

181.
"Kyouko": Kukuku...you take offense if you don't triumph over us?
SFX: Goki goki goki
"Kyouko": Egotistical
Nube: Haa...haa...haa...
"Youkai": Giee~~~
SFX: Doga
Nube: Guwa
Nube: Damn...there was another one?
Hiroshi & Kyouko: Waaa~~

182.
"Voice": Ha!
SFX: Dokaa
"Oni no Te Man": Are you alright, children?
Hiroshi: Wow--it's our new teacher, Hanagatami-sensei.
(TN: Weirdly "Hanagatami" translates into "appears to be a star actor")
Kyouko: He's cool---!
Miki: He has Oni no Te on both hands---!
Hiroshi: We don't need that Nube anymore.
Kyouko: Right right, Hanagatami-sensei is a strong one.
Yukime: ...He's dreamy (heart)

183.
"Hanagatami": Fu...you envy those who are greater than yourself. Jealousy.
SFX: Za
Yukime: Gyaa---
Kyouko: Kyaaaa~~~~

184.
Nube: Hi...Hiroshi! Kyouko! Yukime---everyone---
SFX: Zaku zaku zaku
SFX: Dan Dota
Nube: Ah...ah...ah...ah
Nube: Uwaaa~~~

185.
Nube: Haa...haa...haa...
Kyuubi: Ugly...you're ugly. Hatred.

186.
Nube: Shut up! It took my students...
Kyuubi: Therefore you say you were correct? But look closer: what you killed first was a youkai mother...next, a father...
Kyuubi: And finally, you killed a child youkai whose parents were killed and was in a fit of anger. You killed all of the youkai, parents and child, who were living in peace...Furthermore, if you go to the beginning, the cause of this was your students entering and breaking into those youkai's forest.
Kyuubi: And even so, you say you were correct?
Nube: Uh...uh...
Nube: Sh...shut up! My...my students...they killed my students!

187.
Nube: Does someone like you understand~~~~my feelings~~~~
Kyuubi: Ugly. A mass of ego.
Nube: Shut up.

188.
SFX: Bashuuu...
Nube: Haa haa haa
Tsuwabukimaru: Nu...Nueno-sensei...
Tsuwabukimaru: Kyuubi-sama completely knows the weakness of humans...it saw through your heart.
Nube: An...an illusion...?
Kyuubi: Foolish...but humans ultimately are that.
Kyuubi: I won't grant your wish...die...
SFX: Paaaa...

189.
(Yeah...this is one nasty, evil, powerful Kyuubi...)

190.
Nube: Th...this is the nine-tailed fox...Th...this is earth-shattering youki. My body is cowering and I can't move...
Kyuubi: You saw my initial form and made fun of it. Vulgar human who judges beings by just outward appearance...
Tsuwabukimaru: There is nothing more we can do.
Kyuubi: Die!
SFX: Katsu

191.
Nube: Waaa...
SFX: Batsu
Nube: !!
Kyuubi: !! This being...even though he should be a cast-off soul...!?
(End of Vol. 28)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 246

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:07:50 +0000

#246: Heavenly Fox: Konmou Gyokumen Kyuubi

151.
Tamamo: Farewell, my rival.

152.
Tsuwabukimaru: Ku...Ta...Tamamo-sama!! What were you thinking! That human-transformation jutsu has already reached it's expiration date and as is will become an invalid and yet...
Nube: Is that for certain?
Tsuwabukimaru: I've inquired about it with Konmou Gyokumen Kyuubi-sama, the youko god who is the eldest of the youko valley.
(TN: "Konmou Gyokumen Kyuubi" literally translates into "The Golden-Fur Jewel-Faced Nine-Tails"; in particular note is the factor that a "kyuubi" is considered the most powerful of foxes and generally seen in legend of youko such as the original "Tamamo-no-Mae" or "Daji" of "Houshin Engi"/"Fengshen Yanyi")
Nube: Hoo...a nine-tail fox even now...exists?
Tsuwabukimaru: Wh...what will you do?

153.
Nube: Dowsing. We'll know Tamamo's whereabouts with this.
SFX: Kuru kuru kuru kuru| Ji~~~
Miki: Tsuwabukimaru-kun is always serious. That's dreamy.
Kyouko: He's overdiligent but
SFX: Do
Kyouko: There.

154.
Nube: I've confirmed that he's reached 20 km into town but...the youki is weak and the circumstances are petering out there...perhaps a condition of near-death...
Tsuwabukimaru: That's!
Tsuwabukimaru: Pl...please hold on, Tamamo-sama. I'll save you now...
SFX: Yota yota gon!
Nube: Alright, let's search with everyone. Help him out.
Students: Yeah---
Tsuwabukimaru: Why are all of you doing it!? Tamamo-sama is your enemy!
Nube: He's done various things.
Hiroshi: That's how it is.
Tsuwabukimaru: This human...what exactly is his connection to Tamamo-sama...?

155.
Nube: Youki is ceasing in this area. Search for him even you have to separate grass roots.
Tsuwabukimaru: Th...there's no grass...
Nube: So--search for him---
Girls: Wow, an idol?

156.
Nube: Is here over here?
Katsuya: No, he isn't.
Kyouko: Somehow an evening shower is coming. Let's serch for him quickly.
Tsuwabukimaru: Why? Why are these humans have utmost effort like this...
Tsuwabukimaru: Why is it?
Punk 1: He's---filthy, this old man!!
SFX: Gacha--n
Punk 2: Don't touch him---
Punk 3: Doesn't---he have money?
Punk: Chi, even old-man hunting is poor business.
SFX: Doka Baki
Tsuwabukimaru: ...

157.
SFX: Potsu potsu potsu
SFX: Za---za---
Tsuwabukimaru: ...Ta...
Tsuwabukimaru: Tamamo-sama
SFX: Za---za---

158.
Tsuwabukimaru: Tamamo-sama!
Nube: Hold on, his appearance is strange.
Nube: Tamamo...do you know me...? Hey...steadily look here!
SFX: Za--za--
Nube: Hey! It's me! It's Nueno!! I'm your rival, Tamamo!!
Tamamo: ...Nu...Nue...no...
SFX: Za--za--
Tamamo: Ooh. Oooooh.

159.
Tamamo: Nueno...Nueno Meisuke.
Tamamo: Hahahaha, now I'll defeat you. I am a youko, the strongest on Earth.
SFX: Gara gara
Tamamo: Take this, the ultimate secret of youko!
SFX: Pako--n!
SFX: Pako poko

160.
Nube: ...Tamamo...
Tamamo: Aha...haha
SFX: Za--za--
Nube: Is broken...
SFX: Karan | Za--
Nube: ...You were doing your comprehension of humans and were extremely worried
Nube: But you didn't take Hiroshi's skull...and are in this form...more than anyone else, you were...

161.
Nube: Like a human...

162.
SFX: Paaa...
Nube: Ku...
SFX: Shuuu...
Yukime: Haa haa...
Nube: No good...no matter how much energy we send him, he can't get out of this worn-out form.
Tsuwabukimaru: That's...
Yukime: It is pitiful, but this isn't the original Tamamo anymore. It's merely a cast-off skin...
Tsuwabukimaru: Wrong!

163.
Tsuwabukimaru: S**t...this regret...it's...it's...
Nube: ...
Nube: ...The god of youko...with the fox Konmou Gyokumen Kyuubi...can't we save him...
Tsuwabukimaru: Wh...what are you saying, human! Meeting with the Kyuubi...is reckless even for we youko...
Yukime: Quit it, teacher! If you're saying the nine-tailed fox...
Nube: I know.

164.
Nube: The fox Konmou Gyokumen Kyuubi...the strongest youko in history who, in ancient times, snuck into three national dynasties of India, the dynasty of China and, finally, into Japan 800 years ago as Tamamo-no-mae, the wife of former emperor Toba and brought catastrophe to the world. Its youryoku, perhaps, surpasses the Oni of hell...
(TN: As explained prior, "Tamamo-no-mae" was the wife/concubine of emperor Konoe who suspiciously lived in the court until being found out by astrologer Abe no Yoshichika to be a youko in disguise)
Tsuwabukimaru: That being is the god of we youko. Further, it is not soft like human gods.
Nube: Even so, we're going.

165.
Yukime: Teacher, stop!
Kyouko: Nube!!
Nube: ---I've been killed many times by him. And I've been saved many times. This may look foolish but
Nube: Its only sprouted among our mutual battles: we've made a bond.
Nube: It's a thing that is important for men.
Tsuwabukimaru: This human...for Tamamo-sama, he's truly...

166.
Caption: Nasuno, Tochigi Prefecture
(TN: Tochigi Prefecture is technically in Tohoku but within the interior of Japan and close to the Tokyo/Kanto area)
Caption: Sesshouseki
(TN: The "Sesshouseki" stone, also known as "The killing stone" is the stone that is stated to be Tamamo-no-mae's final corpse form after being chased away from the Japanese court.)
Sign: Historical Landmark: Sesshouseki
Kyouko: What: isn't that a mere tourist stop?
Nube: 800 years ago, the nine-tailed fox, who had transformed into a beautiful woman called Tamamo-no-Mae and entered into the Court, had it's true identity exposed.
Nube: It escaped to Nasuno here, fought with 15,000 men of the Tracking Corp and finally was exterminated. And the Kyuubi became a stone. That is the Sesshouseki.

167.
Tsuwabukimaru: Foolish humans. Kyuubi-sama was not exterminated.
Tsuwabukimaru: It just came to temporarily hide it's body.
SFX: Paaa...
Tsuwabukimaru: Well, enough. Whatever happens, there's no turning back.
Nube: Wait here, everyone.

168.-169.
Tsuwabukimaru: Kyuubi-sama is within.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 245

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:29:52 +0000

#245: Tamamo's Time-Limit

131.
SFX: Buru buru gata gata
Tamamo: Haa haa haa
Doctor: What's the matter, Tamamo-sensei?
Tamamo: I'll leave you the rest...
SFX: Yoro yoro...
SFX: Batan!
Tamamo: Has the time finally come...

132.
Tamamo: Guaa...

133.
Tamamo: Gu...
SFX: Gasha~~~n
Tamamo: Gahaa
Tamamo: Fufu...I knew that my time remaining was already a mere bit but...to suddenly come to this extent...is it time for me to pay the price...
(TN: The term Tamamo uses here is "Nengu no Osamedoki"; literally it stands for "time to pay the land tax". Usually it should stand for "time to get serious", but "time to pay the price" seemed to work here)
"Fox": Forget that prank, Tamamo-sama...a form that's in pain like that...you're incessant in being viewed sincere...

134.
"Fox Boy": It's been a while, Tamamo-sama!
Tamamo: You're...Tsuwabukimaru...a young fox of the Valley of Youko...why have you come here?
(TN: While the "tsuwa" of "tsuwabukimaru" stands for "stone", "buki" is in reference to the "fuki", which is also known as Petasites japonicus or the bog rhubarb or giant butterbur, which is usually eaten but has some toxicity with it's alkali. The "Maru" is an ending usually used for various names of antiquity)
Tsuwabukimaru: About that...Tamamo-sama! You don't have time now!
Tsuwabukimaru: The purpose for you coming to the human world was...to steal a human skull that was the most suitable for yourself and perfect your human-transformation jutsu! Your youko power should become many tens of times greater by this.

135.
Tsuwabukimaru: However...due to having the unexpected resistance of a human...you haven't obtained a skull...
Tamamo: Fu
Tsuwabukimaru: The skull that is beng worn by Tamamo-sama now does not suit Tamamo-sama. Your imperfect human-transformation jutsu will ruin your body and break it down before long...you've finally reach it's expiration date.
Tamamo: Of course. However, even if I throw away my current skull and returning to my youko form, this body which has already broken down to the point of non-recovery can't be healed. I can't do anything about it anymore.
Tsuwabukimaru: No...you can still be saved. If you complete the perfect human-transformation jutsu

136.
Tsuwabukimaru: I respect you, Tamamo-sama...I want you to have power without fail!
Nube: Um---for the question...
Book: Japanese
Hiroshi: Kukuku...Pu...Hihihi, Ku--shi
Book: Japanese

137.
Nube: Well, you're reading an extremely amusing text-book. Ca--n you do it, Hiroshi-kun?
Book: Dr. Slump
(TN: "Dr. Slump" is the popular and notable early Akira Toriyama comedy series that ran in Weekly Shonen Jump between 1980 and 1984)
Hiroshi: ......
Blackboard: Please write the antonym: positive ()
Hiroshi's "Answer": (positive written backwards)
(TN: The joke here is that while "hantaigo" is supposed to be "antonym", the word 'hantai' is also in Japanese "reverse", thus Hiroshi literally wrote "positive" in it's mirror image in "reverse language" instead as an antonym)
Hiroshi: U--m, I do--this, I do--that, I write--like this...
Blackboard: Proverb: One who drowns is (a straw millionaire)
(TN: Hiroshi ended up screwing a Japanese proverb here: the original proverb is in Japanese "Oboreru mono wa ware wo mo tsukamu" or "A drowning man will clutch to even straws", which literally talks about how a man who is desperate will do anything. Hiroshi screws up the proverb by writing instead of "ware wo mo tsukamu" the term "warashibe chouja", which refers to the tale of the "Straw Millionaire", which involved a poor man who starts off with a piece of straw after a prediction at a temple and ultimately becomes rich through trades with others)
Hiroshi: Fu--

138.
Nube: ...That's enough.
Everyone: Ahahahaha...
Hiroshi: Eh? Eh?
Kyouko: You~~~you should completely change your face.
Hiroshi: Eh? I made a mistake?
SFX: Wa--wa--
Nube: Really, he's superior in just phys ed.
SFX: Kiki---

139.
SFX: Zatsu
Kyouko: Tamamo.
Minki: N? A fox...?
Miki: Whose the cute boy by his side (heart)
Nube: What's--wrong? Tama-chan, who is that child? A secret child? (Upupu...)
Tsuwabukimaru: This boy.
Hiroshi: ?
Tsuwabukimaru: Be prepared.
SFX: Jaki
Hiroshi: Eh?

140.
Hiroshi: Gyaaaa!!
SFX: Zuba
Kyouko: Kyaaa!!
SFX: Koro koro koro (roll roll roll)
Hiroshi: Th...that was a surprise, that was a surprise.
SFX: Jyo~~~
Nube: Hiroshi!
Nube: Hey, Tamamo, what exactly are you planning!!

141.
Tamamo: Perfecting the human-transformation justsu...I've come to take Hiroshi-kun's skull for that reason.
Nube: Wh...what? You hadn't given up on that!?
Tamamo: Fu, that's soft, Nueno-sensei. My true nature is as an enemy of humans...
SFX: Kacha kacha
Tamamo: Having credence in a fox is foolish...! My quiet until now was a study period for storing up the power to defeat you.
Tamamo: But...even that was until today...
Nube: You...

142.
Tamamo: I'm already different from the me of before. Can you win, Nueno Meisuke!
SFX: Jatsu
Nube: Seriously!?
SFX: Ba
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu gatsu
Kyouko: Nube!!!

143.
Kyouko: Minki, do something!
Minki: Ah--that's impossible, I'm not wearing my panties.
SFX: Peron
Minki: Even so, isn't that fox quite capable? Well, it doesn't particularly equal the power of an Oni but...
Nube: Tell me your reason, Tamamo! For your betrayal...this is some mistake!
Tamamo: Fu, you're thinking as such due to only seeing it with the scale of humans.
Tamamo: If you don't release properly, you'll immediately die!!
SFX: Zaku
Nube: S**t: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan
SFX: Kiiiin

144.
Nube: Oni no Te 30% Release!!
SFX: Gaka
Tamamo: Fufufu, that's the spirit, Nueno-sensei. You too have extremely grown since before.
SFX: Ba
Tamamo: But how about this?
SFX: Ga ga ga

145.
Tamamo: Narrow-Region Megiddo!
(TN: The term Tamamo uses for "Narrow-Region" is "Kyouiki", which doesn't exist in Japanese but is supposed to be the opposite of "Kouiki" or "Wide-Region"/"Wide Area")
SFX: Go
Nube: Waa!
Kyouko: Kyaa
Nube: Guaa~~~wh...why, Tamamo! Weren't you starting to comprehend human love?
Nube: You've already saved the people and the students of this town many times...
Tamamo: Are you saying they were a pretend play...
Tamamo: ...
Tamamo: Silence! I am...human love is...

146.
Tsuwabukimaru: Tamamo-sama! Leave this to me!
Kyouko: Kyaa!
Hiroshi: Nube!!
Tamamo: !
Tsuwabukimaru: I've got the proof!!!
(TN: The term Tsuwabukimaru states here is "the proof", which here is "mishirushi" or "visual proof". However, the kanji used for the "proof" is actually "Goshukyuu" or "a decapitated head")
Hiroshi: Gyuaaaa

147.
Tsuwabukimaru: !!
Tsuwabukimaru: Ta...Tamamo-sama.
Tamamo: Forgive me...Tsuwabukimaru...
Tamamo: I've...long overassociated myself with humans...
SFX: Shuuu...

148.
Tsuwabukimaru: That's...! With that, Tamamo-sama will...the side-effect of an imperfect human-transformation jutsu is...becoming an invalid...
(TN: "Invalid" is the Japanese term of "Hajin", which also translate as "disabled person" or "cripple")
Nube: What's that!?
Nube: Is that true, Tamamo!?
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei.
Tamamo: Again, this was your victory.
Tamamo: At least...please don't forget. There existed a stupid fox that studied the foolish thing called human love which he too much seeked the strength of...
SFX: Piki piki...

149.
Nube: Tamamo!!
Tamamo: Adios.
SFX: Batsu
Tamamo: Farewell, my rival.

150.
TAMAMO
(YOUKO VERSION)

Gold (yellow) in the original manga; silver (white) in the anime.
Since there isn't particular meaning in the color difference, please color it in the color that you like, whichever it is.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 244

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 02:39:26 +0000

#244: Walking Jampyuu

112.
Voice: Dinner--! Please come qui--ckly.
Boy: O--K.
(TN: Of particular note: the mech toy the kid is playing with here is a slight "homage" to the title mech of the Takara-funded anime "The King of Brave GaoGaiGar", which aired between 1997 and 1998; by which the series would have been ended about this time in 1998 with the final episode airing in January)
Boy: I'm tired of this too.
SFX: Gacha!
Boy: Hey, buy me a new toy---...
SFX: Shuuuu

113.
(Title page...and that thing is...)

114.
Voice: Wo--w, Jampyuu is playing it's bugle---!
(TN: First of all, the "Jampyuu" in the title should probably be "Jumpyuu", but since the title is on this page in English, I sort of kept it as is. Secondly, the "Walking Jumpyuu" in this chapter is more or less a parody/homage to the "Pocket Pikachu", known in the US as "Pokemon Pikachu", which while tied to the Pokemon franchise was a special pedometer that was sold separately where you earned "watts" for the amount of movement you do, which you can use to buy things for your Pikachu; it originally came out in March, 1998 in Japan)
Noriko: I got it when I was presented 600 EP (Energy Points) with about 20,000 steps
Kyouko: It's been blowing it every day in the evening since I've surpassed 100,000 steps.
Hiroshi: Why does only mine have a shakuhachi?
(TN: A "shakuhachi" is a wooden flute originally made of bamboo but now made of hardwood. It is most notable for being used by the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism as a form of meditation)
Minki: What are those?
Miki: Walking Jampyuu. They're popular.

115.
Miki: By attaching it to your body and walking, Walking Jampyuu increase their level of friendship by your numer of steps and will come to do various actions.
"Actions" (Clockwise from top right):
-Play with building blocks
-Yawning
-Play piano
-Eat soft-serve
(TN: "Soft serve" is my way of identifying "soft cream", the Japanese term for "soft-serve ice cream")
Minki: Oh, that's the same as the Hell Blood-Sucking Leech that clings to your hip and does cute actions that lives in hell.
SFX: Juru juru (suck suck)
Miki: No, no.
Akira: I haven't really increased my steps.
Shizuka: It's great to attach it to a fan and flap it.
Kaneda: It's great to attach it to your uwabaki and walk it.
(TN: "Uwabaki" are "indoor slippers" usually worn in the homes of the Japanese, with shoes usually kept for walking outside)
Katsuya: No no, it's good if you do a hula dance.
SFX: Gara

116.
Nube: ...
SFX: Wa--wa--wa-- | Kasha kasha kasha kasha kasha kasha kasha kasha
Nube: Oh, the Walking Jampyuu...you have things that aren't related to school again...
Minki: If big brother wants it too, then I'll give you one. (a blood-sucking leech)
Nube: Gyaaa---
SFX: Juru juru~~~
Nube: At any rate, you can't play during class! I'll take them away!
Students: Ri--ght.
Makoto: Everyone is happy. I can't buy it until next month's allowance.

117.
Caption: --Clean-up Time--
SFX: Ki--n ko--n ka--n ko--n...
Makoto: I want it. The Jampyuu...
SFX: Kiran
Makoto: !
Makoto: I'm certain someone threw it away. Thank you, God.
SFX: Pi

118.
Makoto: Wa!
SFX: Pika~~~
Jampyuu: Jampyuu~~~~

119.
Makoto: Ya--y ya--y, it's a real Jampyuu---
Jampyuu: Pyuu~~~
Hiroshi: Ma...Makoto, What's--going on there!
Makoto: It's a real Jampyuu.
Kyouko: It isn't a stuffed doll!? (He said real...)
Makoto: Ah, I've collected EP. I immediately get a present.
SFX: Pi | Pon!
SFX: Paa...
Hiroshi: Oh! Jampyuu is riding a unicycle.
Kyouko: Cu---te--- (heart)
SFX: Kikokikokiko

120.
Kyouko: Well---ultimately as you walk and raise your EP, it does a performance.
Jampyuu: Pyuu---
Katsuya: That's cool...
Katsuya: He--re, one more time.
SFX: Pon
Makoto: Ah, no good. If you give it a present though you don't have EP...
Makoto: There, it's table flipping.
(TN: Table-flipping is a notable pop-culture aspect of Japanese culture where someone randomly flips a table whenever they show anger)
SFX: Doka
Hiroshi: Al--right, I'll accumulate EP, get a present and it will show much more performances.
SFX: Shaka shaka shaka shaka (shake shake shake shake)
Makoto: Ah, Jampyuu is doing sit-ups.
Hiroshi: That's a turn...

121.
Hiroshi: Wow, Jampyuu is reading a book.
Book Jampyuu is reading: The Chestnut and the Cellar
(TN: The title of the book is much cleverer in Japanese, being "Kuri to kura", with literally one character difference between the word that stands for "chestnut" and the one for "cellar)
Kyouko & Noriko: Great, grea--t!
Hiroshi: Ah, it's riding a car.
Katsuya: Ooh~~~
Hiroshi: Oh, it's taking a bath.
Kyouko & Noriko: Kya---

122.
Students: Uwa~~~Jampyuu is playing heavy metal.
Nube: What is that~~~!
Nube: A game character became reality? That's ridiculous. U~~h.
Minki: That's why you're getting one too. (a blood-sucking leech)
SFX: Juru juru
Nube: It doesn't have a wicked heart but...what exactly is it's motive...?

123.
Makoto: Jampyuu is amusing. With this, I'll play with it my entire life.
Voices: Wai Wai
Makoto: Wow, amazing. A glittery kendama.
(TN: A "kendama" is a "ball-and-cup" game usually popular in Japanese culture among children)
Makoto: You'll wait there, Jampyuu.

124.
Caption: The first day: ordinary feeling
Caption: Third day: odd feeling
Caption: A week: ran away from home
SFX: SHOCK
Jampyuu: Pyuu...

125.
Makoto: Hu...huh!?
Makoto: Wh...what are you doing! That's dangerous, you'll fall!

126.
Miki: It's because you haven't come to play with it recently~~wasn't it lonely?
Makoto: Eh?
Miki: There, it's giving that performance with all it's might, so it can bring you back...
Makoto: Jampyuu!
Hiroshi: Ah!
Kyouko: Watch out, Makoto!
Nube: What's wrong!?
Hiroshi: Nube! Makoto is!
Makoto: I'm sorry, I was bad.
Jampyuu: Pi.

127.
Jampyuu: Pyuu~~!!
Makoto: Jampyuu!!
Makoto: Ah
SFX: Tsuru (slip)
SFX: Pari pari

128.
SFX: Bari bari bari bari bari
Jampyuu: Pyuu
Nube: Makoto!
SFX: Dosa
Makoto: Jampyuu!
SFX: Shuuu...
Makoto: Nube-sensei, save Jampyuu!
Nube: ...

129.
(TN: Note a few of the "toys" in the collection, including a Famicom, a Rubik Cube, a Tamagotchi, a Game and Watch, even a Gundam!)
Nube: This is...old toys whose boom went away and were forgotten. They've taken the form of Tsukumogami*.
*Tsukumogami: Souls that get lodged in objects and take the form of youkai.
Makoto: ......

130.
Kyouko: ---They've vanished with bitterness...when new items come out, we immediately throw old things away...
Nube: No. They said...they were happy be played with by a child one more time, even for a little while. Toys aren't bitter, with their happiness of being used.
Caption: Good feeling

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 243

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:11:34 +0000

#243: Tears Even in an Oni's Eyes!?

91.
Hiroshi: Mi...
Miki: Minki has...
Nube: Got her panties on!!

92.
Minki: Minki--! Full power!!

93.
SFX: Guoooooh
Nube: Ku...what energy! I...I'm at my wits end, what can I do about those panties?
Kyouko: This is terrible: Nube will become panties!
Hiroshi: Nube, will you end up becoming panties?
Miki: Will we change the title to Hell Panties Nube!?
Nube: Uuuh, in spite of the amazing crisis, there isn't a feeling of tension...

94.
Minki: Fufufu: here I go, Nueno Meisuke!
SFX: Da
SFX: Kiiii
Nube: Uh...
Minki: Minki Pants...
Nube: Gu...
Katsuya: This is *nkey Punch...
(TN: Sadly the only way to make this joke work in English was to once again try to adjust the whole feeling of the word "pantsu" or "panties". The original name of Minki's attack is "Minki Paantsu", which obviously is just going to be "Minki Paanties". However, it's followed up with Katsuya's line which actually refers to Monkey Punch, the mangaka who created popular character Lupin III (of whom he turns into in that brief moment). The only way to make the Monkey Punch bit work was to do that whole adjustment of words...personally it makes the joke work but it takes away the Japanese intention in some ways)

95.
Nube: Guhaa...
SFX: Bou
Minki: Minki...
Minki: Flaa---sh!!
SFX: Domu | Koba | Gua | Baki | Domu | Doka doka doka

96.
SFX: Gogogogo...
Minki: Lost your conscious? That's fine since I wasn't being serious. You can't become panties if you're killed.
Hiroshi: She's strong...it's like that time with Zekki... (She wasn't being serious with that...)
Kyouko: We must save him!
Katsuya: Girls, don't move from here.
Hiroshi: Our opponent is a girl about the same age as us. Her weakness are understood. I've thought them up.
Kyouko: Hiroshi.
Minki: So, become panties~~~
Voice: He--y, Minki!
Hiroshi: Take these---!
Hiroshi's Caption: Caterpillar
Katsuya's Caption: Poop
Kaneda's Caption: Shown Weiner

97.
Minki: Hey, you're annoying!
SFX: Paa
Hiroshi: Eh
SFX: Shuru shuru shuru
Katsuya: Ah
SFX: Shuru
Kaneda: Hi
Boys: Wa---!
SFX: Hira hira hira
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
Miki: Aw~~our boys have...

98.
Kyouko: (Random shapes as curses)!?
SFX: Hira hira hira
Hiroshii: Save us--
Kaneda: Hi--
Minki: Really! Using that power unnecessarily...that takes a good amount of time. I'll have to start again from the beginning.
Kyouko: Hey you, what have you done? Turn them back to normal!
Minki: No--way.
Minki: However for your complaining, these children will lose their human hearts and end up as real panties. Currently they barely have conscious remaining, but soon already...
Katsuya: Ah--...
Hiroshi: Somehow my face is becoming dulled...
Kyouko: Eeh!?
Minki: If you want to save them, then we-ar them. If you do, then you can preserve their current conscious for the time being.
Kyouko: Eh?
Miki: We...wear them...

99.
Kyouko: Just a bit, Hiroshi, don't move!
Boys: Ha--ha--ha--ha--
Miki: Th...them; their sensations remain as these.
Katsuya: Uhi
Hirorshi: Awawa...th...this brazen feeling...(Ha ha ha)
SFX: Piku piku doki doki
Katsuya: It's heaven~~
Miki: Kya---he's nosebleeding!!

100.
Noriko: No~~~he's spilling with drool--
Girls: Kya--no~~Hi--
Kyouko: Wa--they're moving around with arousal.
Hiroshi: Gutsy---!!
Miki: Stop it--perverts---!!
Girls: Kya--Wa--Hi---
Minki: This is a stupid, infamous grade school.
Minki: ! No, he's not there!?

101.
Minki: Huh!
Nube: Fufufufu
Nube: In truth, Minki, I used a bit of a trick while I was in charge of your panties.
SFX: Bi
SFX: Hashiri
Minki: De...

102.
Minki: How...how dare you do that to my panties~~!!
SFX: Muya~~~
Nube: Hey hey, if you don't control them, then your panties will fall down. If you don't have your panties, then you'll lose your youryoku and become a normal girl!
Minki: Shut it! With human opponents, one hand is enough!
Nube: We're mutually one-hand-comrades, we're even with that.
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu
Minki: We're mutual? See: the power of the Oni!

103.
SFX: Ooooooh
Nube: !
Minki: How's that! This Youryoku Sphere can't be made by a human! If you take this, then you won't be able to stand ever again.
SFX: Bari bari bari
Minki: I've won!
SFX: Pa
Minki: Take this---...
SFX: Pasa

104.
Nube: I...idiot: if you use both hands, your panties will...
Minki: Huh!! Da...damn, I don't have my panties. This heavy thing will...
SFX: Doshaa
Minki: Gyaaaaaa...It's...it's hot, I'm meeeelting~~~~

105.
Minki: How regretful...my Oni self has...this...miserable way of dying...
SFX: Gooooo
SFX: Ba ba

106.
Minki: !!
SFX: Goooo
Minki: Why...did you save me?
Nube: Let me say this: you're different from Zekki and Baki...I certainly believe you suitably understand.
Nube: With that...the you now is my student. I'll protect you even betting my life.

107.
SFX: Shuuu
Kyouko: Nube!
Miki: Nube!
Kyouko: Are you alright?
Nube: Hahaha, I'm fine.
Minki: ......
Kyouko: Nube
Hiroshi: Well--I was thinking of how it came to be when I became panties.
Kyouko: In spite of being quite glad.
Katsuya: Aah---for me to be panties my entire life...
Miki: Get over there you lecher.

108.
Kyouko: ---Well, I'm glad it's returned to normal.
Miki: That's--right.
Minki: ...I don't get it...
Minki: What's with humans...? Humans were trash to the surrounding Oni when I was small. We were taught they were maggots. But...
Kyouko: Hey, we give you these.
Minki: For me?
Minki: I get it. It--seems they're pestering me with tit-for-tat. What is it? A centipede? Poop?
SFX: Gasa gasa

109.
Kyouko: We bought them wtih money everyone chipped in. Your Oni panties were burned and you can't turn Nube into panties...you'll endure with these.

110.
Nube: We can't have no panties.
Minki: Hey, I don't have my panties and can't go home to hell. Is it fine if I stay here a little while?
Nube: Yeah, it's fine. In the meanwhile, we'll somehow think of a way to get you back home...
Minki: Then, nice to meet you, BIG BROTHER.
Nube: Bi...big brother!? But this left hand is your real big brother.
Minki: I'll remain here...what are these humans? Until I ascertain what I've become...

111.
MINKI
Color it in by referring to the drawing on the front cover! (Those self-confident in style can go ahead and cosplay as well!)
Caption: Backside

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 242

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:47 +0000

#242: Are Oni Panties Good Panties!?

71.
Yukime: So ultimately...you felt it too.
Tamamo: Yes...I truly felt a powerful youki appearing at Doumori Elementary. It was...an Oni...
Tamamo: An Oni invasion that once shook Doumori...will that nightmare return again...
SFX: Kiki--
SFX: Batan!
Tamamo: Mu
Tamamo: What is that light!?
SFX: Paaa...

72.
Tamamo: N
Yukime: Eh

73.
Yukime: Kyaaa~~~~what are you doing, you pervert fox~~~!!
SFX: Bakii (Hiit)
Tamamo: Someone like you in that appearance!! You lewd yukionna!!
Kyouko: Kya---
Noriko: Noo~~
Miki: A~~h
Nube: ---How could there be a little sister to Zekki and Baki...is this disturbance your action...

74.
Nube: Minki!
Minki: Fufufu: that's right. It's my youryoku.
Hiroshi: No~~~o
Katsuya: The shame.
Minki: But don't misunderstand me. I haven't come with a petty purpose called revenge.
Minki: My purpose is merely one...they are...for panties!!
Nube: Panties?

75.
Minki: "Oni panties are good panties; They will not break in 100 years..." Like that song of long ago, in ancient times it was believed that there was strong spiritual power in Oni underwear.
Minki: Why is because Oni underwear is an item that are produced by spinning the body of a powerful spiritualist.
Nube: !!
Minki: Powerful underwear are created to the extent of the strength of the spiritual power of the human whom becomes the materials...An Oni who wears them come to posses strong youryoku...
Minki: If it was you, then I'm certain you'd become the ultimate panties. Fufufu...alright.
Minki: Nueno Meisuke! I will make you into panties!
SFX: Ga--n!
Kyouko: Wh...what's that--dummy.

76.
Minki: You will die for that reason. Take this: Youryoku wave...
SFX: Pou
Nube: Uuh
Minki: Bubera---
SFX: Bobomu!
Hiroshi: Wa--spontaneous discharge again.
Minki: Uuh...damn it. The me now can't control power without panties. It's because I carelessly dropped my panties when I ascended from hell...I made everyone naked so I could search for those panties.
Caption: In the midst of summary explanation for last time
Minki: My panties are...being worn by that perverted old man...
SFX: Kitsu
Minki: Give those back!!
Ishikawa: Hi
Nube: Run away, Ishikawa-sensei! Hurry!
Minki: Take this! Panty Teleportation
SFX: Bibi

77.
Minki: Pa
Minki: S**t...I can't skillfully use my powers after all...(and yet I was aiming for the panties over there...)
Minki: Pa!
Miki: Wha~~
Minki: Pa
Noriko: Noooo
Minki: Pa
Kyouko: Stop it~~

78.
Everyone: Kya---No~~~Wa---Hi----

79.
Minki: I've cornered you. You alone are whose left!
MinkI: I'll take those---
SFX: Supo
Ishikawa: W~~ha~~
SFX: Pu~~~n
Minki: Hegu
Minki: St...stinky...I'm dead...
SFX: Pata...
Ishikawa: Well...it's because I haven't taken a bath in a month...it's the evil eye of ringworm.
(TN: Weirdly Ishikawa-sensei ends up saying the expression of "inkin jashi", which ended up translating here as "the evil eye of ringworm")
SFX: Musu

80.
Kyouko: ---So...What will we do? With her...
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei...it's best that we kill her quickly. The little sister of Zekki and Baki...if she lives, I'm certain she'll bring catastrophe.
Yukime: Right! Even though she's quiet now, she'll show her real nature someday...
SFX: Iku iku
Nube: ......No......
Nube: I won't kill...this child. I'll take charge of her in my class.
Everyone: Eeh!?
Nube: Whaat? She's powerless as long as she's not wearing the panties. Be cool.
Caption: Washed for the time being.
Yukime: You can't, teacher! Even if her appearance is a cute girl, she's an Oni! You can't be deceived by her outside.

81.
Nube: Well~~? Are you perhaps jealous, Yukime-kun? Because I'm being nice to another girl~~?
Caption: Zero delicacy
Yukime: I don't know you!
SFX: Pisha
Tamamo: Repent, Nueno-sensei.
Nube: No...speaking of Oni and youkai, if they were to live among humans, they obtain human hearts before long...I believe that. Wouldn't that be proven by you two more than anything...?
Narrator: And so from the next day, Minki began to live as a human...
Nube: So~~then, I'll take attendance!
Nube: Abe--
Student: Here.
Nube: Inaba--
Kyouko: Here.
Nube: Endou--
Student: Here
Nube: Minki---!

82.
SFX: Musu---
Minki: Hmph!
Nube: If I call you, you reply!
SFX: Bari bari bari
Minki: Gyaa~~~He...hereherehere---
Caption: Her Youryoku is sealed.
Nube: Well well, you want your panties returned. Work properly.
Caption: He put the panties in his breast pocket.
Hiroshi: Yes--yes--
Kyouko: Great, great.
Hiroshi: Today is the 3rd day. We thought you would have resisted much more but...
Kyouko: Unexpectedly you may be an honest, good girl...
Minki: I'm an Oni! I don't have reason to be an honest, good girl!

83.
Kyouko: Che! What's with that attitude.
Miki: Let's go, let's go!
Hiroshi: ?
SFX: Picha picha
SFX: Apu apu
Worm: Ho
Hiroshi: ...!
Hiroshi: hey, come here a moment.
Minki: ?
SFX: Wa--wa--

84.
Minki: Don't firm up, scatter, scatter--!
SFX: Wa--wa--
Kyouko: What's this...she's completely melted...
Hiroshi: Yeah. She's just as Nube said...
SFX: Bashi!
Noriko: Ah...
SFX: Pa
Minki: Safe!

85.
Minki: Al--right, let's go with intensity--!
Students: Yeah---
Makoto: Hold on--
Driver: Watch out!
SFX: Goooo
Hiroshi: !!

86.
SFX: Kikikiki
Driver: Are...are you alright----
Voice 1: Makoto---
Voice 2: Did you see that? Now!
Voice 3: Minki saved Makoto!

87.
Voice 1: Those incredible reflexes...as expected of an Oni...
SFX: Zawa zawa zawa
Voice 2: She faster than the eye.
Makoto: ! (to himself) She got injured...for me...
Makoto: Th...thank you very much...
Minki: Hm...hmph! There wasn't a reason in particular I saved you. I just can't have the game being interrupted. I'm an Oni who doesn't have blood or tears.
Nube: No.
Nube: You...clearly...are different from the other Oni.

88.
Nube: Let's talk. Minki...you shoud suitably understand being you.
SFX: Sa!
Minki: An opening--!
Nube: Wa...wait!
Minki: Doo~~my, I don't suitably understand humans--
(TN: The "doomy" part is just a weird extention of Minki when she says an extention of the Japanese word for "dummy, "baka", like "baaka")

89.
Minki: Nsho nsho
SFX: Sasa
SFX: Bishi!
Minki: Prepare yourself, Nueno Meisuke! I'll make you into panties!
Nube: No! Her Oni power has returned...

90.
Minki's
Feature Panty Songs (2)

Chanchara Oka P-Ondo
Author - Composer - Singer: Bakufuu Slump

If I was to become some panties
It's best that I do not become too cute
All those panties that are too cute
Certainly get stolen by lecherous old men
They end up getting worn~~~
They end up getting smelled~~~

Minki: The third one will be enjoyable!
Nube: We're not doing this again!!

(TN: "Chanchara Oka-P Ondo" is a song written by the comedy troop "Kobouzu-tai" as an Ondo about things they don't want to be due to the negative consequences of being positive. The part about the panties may also be likewise about being a recorder...then again we've seen the consequences of that in Nube as well. On the other hand, "Bakufuu Slump" is a popular Japanese rock band that emerged and had a major string of successes in the mid-late 80s and early 90s in Japan...and I doubt they really have any sort of connection to this song)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 241

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:09:32 +0000

#241: Oni-Maiden: Minki Appears!
(TN: About this title: the Japanese title was "Oni Musume"; while "musume" generally is the Japanese term for "daughter", it also is commonly used as well as a term for a girl in general, thus the usage here in my title as "maiden"...mostly because the one we're going to meet really never has a father revealed...)

51.
Narrator: "Oni"---Nube has twice ever fought with Oni. The first time was with "Baki", the Oni that was sealed into his left hand at the end of his deadly struggle; the second time was "Zekki", his little brother.
*Consult vol. 23, 24, etc.
Narrator: And...a third terror (?) is now...coming to here, Doumori Elementary...!
SFX: Gogogogogogogo
SFX: Bari bari bari
SFX: Pe | Pasa...

52.
(Title page...oh boy...and here we go...)

53.
SFX: Ki--n ko--n ka--n ko--n...
SFX: Gatsu gatsu Musha musha Nma nma
Nube: Tasty, tasty, ah~~it's great to be alive.
Hiroshi: Nube, stop it. This is already your 10th bowl.
Kyouko: Well, well, he was dead last time. Even the taste of the school lunch is slightly salted.
(TN: Kyouko's term here regarding "hitoshio" has a double meaning, both in the literal "slightly salted" as well as "in particular" or "especially", sort of showing...well, Nube's love of school lunch)
Nube: Yeah, yeah: I'm never going to die ever again.
Nube: Uh!
SFX: Nga ngo

54.
SFX: Suu---...
Voice 1: Qu...quickly, water! Water!
SFX: Wa---kya~~
Voice 2: Hold on, Nube!
Voice 3: Don't die from what you nearly said---
(TN: The term of "Itteru soba" was sort of tough to translate but with what we saw Nube say prior, it sort of made some sense)
Nube: Well, sorry sorry. It quite seems my soul has become easily easily escapable...(Ha ha ha...)
Kyouko: I'm not surprised.
Miki: If you come to die too much, it will get to no one crying for you.
Nube: Everything's as it was.
Hiroshi: Katsuya, let's play catch.
Katsuya: That's fine.
Nube: It would be great if these peaceful days continues throughout but...
Narrator: But the incident had already occurred. That nonsensical, perverted incendent since the start of "Hell Teacher Nube"...!
(TN: The "nonsensical" line here actually had a caption of "shigo" or "obsolete" for the Japanese word "hachamecha", which has the meaning of "nonsense")

55.
SFX: Wa--wa--
SFX: Bishi
Hiroshi: ?
SFX: Bishi...Pari | Bari bari
Hiroshi: What's that!? A crack...in space!
SFX: Bari bari bari bari
Katsuya: It...it can't be...
SFX: Dogaaaa
Hiroshi & Katsuya: Uwa--
SFX: Shuuu...
Katsuya: Ow ow
Hiroshi: Uhh...
Voice: Hey, you two.
Hiroshi: Eh?

56.-57.
"Oni Girl": Do you know about my panties?
Hiroshi & Katsuya: !?
Caption: We...we told them "you can't draw that" yet... (by the editors)

58.
Minki: I'm MINKI! A proud female warrior that has come from hell! When I traveled across dimensions and appeared in this world, my panties fell off with the tremendous energy flow...
(TN: "Minki" has a literal translation of "Sleepy Oni")
SFX: Mon mon mon mon
Caption: Thus, they can't draw it...
SFX: Bushu~~~~
Minki: You~~~humans~~~!! How dare you have that squalid nosebleed on my face...
Minki: I'll mend it there by blowing you away with a youryoku bullet!!
SFX: Pou
Katsuya: Ge!
Hiroshi: An...Oni no Te!?

59.
SFX: Bon! | Pigya
Katsuya: A spontaneous discharge?
SFX: Pata...
Hiroshi: Perhaps she's...quite an idiot...?
Nube: Damn...the indication was cut off but...I truely felt the appearance of a strong youki earlier!
Nube: That youki is not ordinary youki...that is...an Oni! And further...it's hiding a strong latent youryoku that far surpasses the two Oni that I've fought up to now...
Nube: This is bad...I must quickly discover it...! Before it makes contact with the students...!

60.
Hiroshi: Here, wipe your face with this.
Minki: Ah, thank you. Hmph! Gratitudes won't be said.
Hiroshi: Didn't you say it--?
Minki: Ultimately...the underwear of an Oni is the source of youryoku...without that, we can't release our power skillfully...Me now has only the power of an ordinary person...I have to act where they won't know my true power...
(TN: The term that we're going to hear a lot in this arc is the Japanese word "pantsu", which usually is a term for "underwear" and would explain the general idea of an Oni's power being tied to it. However it's more well known as the term for "panties", which I will use for the term of Minki's...lost garments)
Hiroshi: Hey, are you an Oni? Why have you come to the human world?
SFX: Giku!!

61.
Minki: Oh no...this must be by any means...
SFX: Wata wata wata
Hiroshi: Well you were exiled from hell because you're too much a dummy.
Katsuya: Since you're the leftover of the Oni family. (Ha ha ha)
Minki: Insolent fools! If I was only wearing my panties... (Uga~~~)
Hiroshi: Ah---panties. Yeah, yeah.
Hiroshi: Be relieved. We'll search for them together.
Katsuya: Yes, yes, We're kind to beautiful girls.
Hiroshi: You're a bad Oni. We pity you...I'm Hiroshi, nice to meet you.
Katsuya: I'm Katsuya. For the time being, let's search for clues.
Minki: Well, is this relieving? This is promising.
Minki: Hmph, just perfect. These two will be servants #1 and #2...
SFX: Nyari (smirk)
Sign: Girl's Locker Room

62.
SFX: Wai wai | Gaya gaya
Hiroshi: It's the pool locker room. The 6th grade girls are changing.
Katsuya: As expected, the 6th graders all have gained gweat boobs!
(TN: Katsuya goes "ee" instead of "ii", thus why I said "gweat")
Minki: ...Hey you.
Minki: Why must I mimick thing that's like peeping!
Katsuya: Shh---your voice is loud!
Hiroshi: If it's possible, someone may find us and they'll tell.
Katsuya: If that's the case, wouldn't it be the quickest to search as they do...
Minki: Uh...
Hiroshi: But...with that, my pride would...
SFX: Koso koso...
Girl: N
Girl: Kya--you all are peeping in the locker room--
Hiroshi: Ge
Katsuya: Damn it.

63.
Minki: Wa...wait, we're not suspicious, we're just searching for panties for a bit!
Girl: That's supicious enough! Perverts!
Girl 1: Hit them, hit them!
Girl 2: Peeping in a girl's locker room in spite of being female.
Hiroshi, Katsuya & Minki: Gyaa~~~
Girl 3: She's a slut, a slut!!
SFX: Hyu~~~~
Minki: Y...you...to have me, called a slut...
Minki: Isn't~~this great--I can't experience this searching for my panties~~~
Hiroshi: You don't have feminine speech--
Minki: However...there is reason to say that someone may be wearing them. I'll use my trump card.
Hiroshi: What is she doing?

64.
Minki: Even if I don't have attack power, I'll use a bit of Oni magical energy.
SFX: Pou...
Minki: Queen Yomi...by the name of Izanami, with the shining of this ball of light...
(TN: Just as a note: Izanami, or "Izanami-no-Mikoto" is known as the goddess of both creation and death and is the leader of Yomi, the Japanese underworld)
Minki: Have everyone...go down to their underwear---!!
SFX: Katsu
SFX: Paaaa...
Voice: Nueno-sensei.
Nube: Ritsuko-sensei.
Ritsuko: Are you searching for something?
SFX: Paaaa...

65.
Ritsuko: Kyaaa~~~pervert.
SFX: Bakii | Suu...
Minki: Don't be slow; quickly search for it!!
Hiroshi & Katsuya: He--y.
Minki: Mu!!

66.
SFX: Gogogogogo
SFX: Gogo
Minki: You're...Nueno Meisuke?
Nube: ...I am but..you're...?
Minki: I am Minki! The little sister of Zekki and Baki...my two older brothers that you defeated!!
Hiroshi & Katsuya: Eeh!?

67.
Nube: It seems so after all...what is your purpose? Revenge?
Ishikawa: Hey, Nueno-kun, what exactly is the matter here?
Minki: Ah!
Minki: There they are--my panties!!
Nube: I...Ishikawa-sensei...
Ishikawa: N? I found these in front of the school gate this morning but...
Kyouko: Nube!! It's terrible. The 6th graders said Hiroshi and Katsuya were peeping...
SFX: Bata bata bata...
Nube: No! Don't come this way!
Kyouko: Eh?
SFX: Paaa...

68.-69.
Kyouko: Kyaaa~~~what is this---
Miki: Nooo---

70.
Minki's
Feature Panty Songs (1)

Oni Panties
Author & Composer: Luigi Denza (from Funiculi Funicula)
Arranger & Japanese: Tanaka Seiji
Singer: Tanaka Seiji

(chorus) Panties panties panties panties...

Oni panties are good panties
They are strong--they are strong---
They will not break in 5 years
They are strong--they are strong--
They will not break in 10 years
They are strong--they are strong--
They will not break in 100 years
They are strong--they are strong--

Limping limping Oni panties, yes!
Limping limping Oni panties
Yours and mine and big brother's and grandma's---
Everyone's got limp Oni panties.

Minki: With this, you too can be a panty expert!
Nube: This is a weird feature---

(TN A couple things:
1. "Funicuri Funicula" is a notable Neopolitan song that was made famous by the Italian singer Mario Lanza, actually written in commemoration of the first Funicular cable car that was meant to climb Mount Vesuvius (of which was destroyed when Vesuvius erupted in 1944). If you find it on Youtube, you probably will know the tune right away.
2. Seiji Tanaka is a notable singer and TV personality of Japan in the 1970s, mostly notable for his covers of English-language hits, in particular the song "Beautiful Sunday" by Daniel Boone)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 240

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:08:33 +0000

#240: Agyousan

27.
Caption: Nube has died.

28.
(Title page...yeah, he's really dead...though I think Shinigami has more to do with it than anything considering she was the one who slashed him at the time of his heart spasm that killed him)

29.
Narrator: And so...a week passed...

30.
Hiroshi: Did the pipe over there pipe out?
(TN: The "earthen pipe pipe out" joke Hiroshi makes here is actually a rather simple pun: he ends up going "soko no dokan dokan kai", which is saying that the "dokan" (an earthen pipe used in plumbing) go "dokan" (as in the noise), leading to...well the obvious Hiroshi scorn)
SFX: Boso
SFX: Baki Doka Gusha
Kyouko: That's cruel, Hiroshi, what's with that gag at this time... (and further we're not laughing)
Miki: Don't you have reason to be sad with Nube dead!?

31.
Hiroshi: I...I...
Hiroshi: Am sad about his death. But...but I don't have reason to be sad fore--ver!
Nube: Because Nube...isn't...coming back anymore...
SFX: Gu...
SFX: Tatata...
Girl: Nube-sensei! Agyousan has appeared!
SFX: Gara

32.
Kyouko: We're sorry. Nube-sensei isn't here anymore.
Hiroshi: What is Agyousan?
Miki: It's a youkai that is currently coming to be a rumor among the lower grades.
Miki: Agyousan is a famous school youkai. When there is one person in a school, it asks "Agyousan, Sagyougo, What is it?"; if you don't answer the riddle, it will kill you...
Makoto: And...the answer to the riddle...?
Miki: In brief...three of the A-line of the Gojuuon...five of the Sa-line...is the answer.
(TN: As I explained back in the weird file for #129, the answer for the "agyousan" riddle is "uso", or "lie")
Katsuya: What, it's that--sort of thing?
Kyouko: It's worthless. (Haa...)
Hiroshi: Eh? Eh? What--sort is it?
Girl: But, but it has appeared, really!
Kyouko: We've--got no choice--

33.
Kyouko: It's this room: the social studies reference room of long ago...
Kyouko: Its not here. Nothing is.
Girl: Really?
Kyouko: Alright? What is "Agyousan Sagyougo" is "Lie"...in short, the tale is a "lie"; there is no Agyousan.
Kyouko: There isn't an Agyousan, there isn't.

34.
"Creature": There isn't an Agyousan, there isn't.
"Creature": Lie
SFX: Gurin! (Turn!)
Agyousan: Agyousan, Sagyougo, what is it?
SFX: Zuzuzuzu | Gurin gurin | Zuzu

35.
Kyouko: Gyaaaa...
SFX: Dogacha---
Miki: It can't be...it really appeared?
Hiroshi: It was Agyousan?
Katsuya: Did you exactly say "lie"?
Kyouko: Yes...
Kyouko: Wa, I'm going to be killed!?
Miki: Certainly seems so.
Hiroshi: Stupid, Nube is always saying that. It's not wrong because you think it's scary.
Hiroshi: Generally even if it is a lying youkai, at any rate if we decide that it--'s a very small, weak being
Kyouko: Th...that's right.
Makoto: I'm not scared, I'm not scared.
Agyousan: A very small, weak being isn't scary.
Agyousan: Lie.
SFX: Gurin

36.
Hiroshi: !!
SFX: Ooooh
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!!
SFX: Gohaa

37.
Miki: What is it---wasn't it very small and weak---?
Hiroshi: It...it should have been...
Katsuya: Th...that guy---! A youkai is coming to run amuck from the early morning!
Agyousan: Lie
SFX: Gurin
Hiroshi: Eh!?
Katsuya: Wh...what!?
Katsuya: It...it became night!?
Hiroshi: That's ridiculous!?

38.
Hiroshi: ! Damn it, this is a dead end...
Everyone: Eh---
Makoto: Wa---we can't run away anymore---
Agyousan: Lie
SFX: Gurin
SFX: Shu
SFX: Patsu
Hiroshi: This is...the principal's office...?
Kyouko: Why exactly are we here?
Makoto: When I said we couldn't run away, we got away...?
Hiroshi: I don't get the reason--but I'll call for help. This is lucky.

39.
Sign: Doumori Hospital
Tamamo: ---From here...what do we plan to do? Nueno Meisuke isn't in this world anymore.
Yukime: I don't know...whatever...I do...it's no...use anymore even if I live...
Tamamo: Right...well, that too is fine. I too don't have time anymore and...
SFX: Toururururu
Tamamo: ...Hiroshi-kun?

40.
SFX: Zuru...zuru...
Katsuya: It's searching...
Kyouko: It's a matter of time even for it to come here.
Miki: Look at this! The great school mysteries are fully found in here. "Agyousan" is...
Miki: "Agyousan" is taught as a mere riddle now but...actually, it is a youkai that was originally a god called "Yagyousan".
Miki: It's power was tremendous due to being a god; it is a youkai of lies who takes what a person says

41.
Miki: And entirely changes it into a lie...?
Kyouko: Eh
Hiroshi: ?
SFX: Gachan
Miki: Hi
Miki: Gyaaa--stop, stop-- (Hi, wa wa)
SFX: Bata bata
Kyouko & Hiroshi: Miki!
Miki: I...I am a feeble, cute girl---
Agyousan: Lie
SFX: Gurun
SFX: Bakii
Miki: Funga!!

42.
Miki: Ah, what? I'm a male?
Agyousan: Lie.
SFX: Gurin
Miki: Ara
Hiroshi: What are you doing? Run quickly.
Miki: ? I...I was truly a male now.
Kyouko: What are you saying, quickly!
Voice: Hiroshi-kun! Kyouko-chan!
Tamamo: Yukionna! You can fight even if Nueno-sensei isn't here?
Yukime: Of course! They're teacher's beloved students!
Hiroshi: Yes! If those two have come, we're invincible! Agyousan can't win against those two...

43.
Agyousan: Lie.
SFX: Zushaa!
Hiroshi: !!
Kyouko: I...understand. The words said in front of that youkai all become lies!
Hiroshi: Wh...what's that!!

44.
Katsuya: If you say it won't, it is...if you say it's morning, it's night...
Makoto: If you say you can't run away, you run away.
Miki: If you say you're woman, you're a man.
Hiroshi: Then...those words I said earlier...
Kyouko: It's an invincible youkai that even Yukime-san and Tamamo can't win against...
SFX: Oooh...Ooooh...
Hiroshi: ......
Hiroshi: It's too late...we can only give up. We're just getting killed...
Kyouko: Hiroshi...
Hiroshi: We're still really no good with Nube not around...but, but

45.
Hiroshi: Nube is already dead and not in this world. He isn't going to save us ever again!!
SFX: Gurun
Agyousan: Lie
Voice: In this world
Voice: There are dwellers of the dark that can’t be seen by the eyes.
SFX: Katsu--n katsu--n

46.
Voice: These beings bare their fangs on occasion, attacking you. I am
SFX: Katsu--n katsu--n
Voice: If to protect
Voice: All of you students from them
SFX: Katsu--n katsu--n
Voice: I will revive even from the depths of hell

47.
Nube: And come, without fail.

48.
Hiroshi & Kyouko: Nube
SFX: Zushaaaa
Kyouko: Nube...! Is it true!? Have you truly returned to life?
Nube: ...Seems so, really...I don't remember anything after my death but
SFX: Shuuuu
Nube: No, I was a much better person while I was alive...

49.
Nube: But...I won't go away from all of your sides.
Tamamo: It was all a lie...with this...is God saying he allows this?
Tamamo: Nueno Meisuke...you still have quite a need in this world.

50.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#50: Funerals

A funeral is the final event of a person's life. First there occurs an "informal wake" with just the family and close relatives; the next day is the "actual wake" where you ornate the altar, and the next day further has occur the "farewell service" for the funeral service. Long ago, it was a thing which occurred all-night within one night as in the name of "wake", but recently a "half-wake", where it ends at about 10 at night is typical. This is taking into account the fatigue of the bereaving family.

The "farewell service" is carried out with the sutra chanting of a priest and the incense of participants. The funeral service and the farewell service were originally separate ceremonies, but recently many have them occur continuously. Up to the incense of the bereaving family is a funeral service; from when the general attendees have incense is where it becomes the farewell service. Afterwards, everyone puts live flowers and personal favorite things into the coffin, nail on the lid and send it to the crematory.

On a spirit tablet, a "Kaimyou" is written. A Kaimyou is the name in the world beyond death. Having a good Kaimyou costs a good deal in itself. Further, a "Kaimyou" is a term of the Soutou sect; it's called "Hougou" in the Nichiren sect and "Houmyou" in the Joudou Shinshuu.

When cremation occurs, the remains are just bones. These come to be two people in one group that are gathered with chopsticks and placed into a funerary urn. Just like how it comes to be the legs beneath and head above, it's placed ahead from the bones of the legs.

When the attendants return home, they place "purifying salt" on their bodies before they enter their house. This is a unique item of Japan as a custom of Shinto. It's because the Japanese from long ago have a tendency of loathing "death" as "unclean (withering energy; dirtying energy)". Since the dead are Buddhas in Buddhism, it on the other hand is a welcome thing.

After a funeral service, a Buddhist memorial service occurs in about seven days. And then the bones are accepted in the tomb in the Buddhist Memorial Service on the 49th day including the day of death. And then the bereaving family returns to their ordinary life.
(TN: For the most part this speaks for itself, but I do want to add a few notes so I won't have to do as much research:
-A "spirit tablet", also known as an "ancestral tablet" or "Ihai", is an object usually kept as an alter for either an ancestor/family member or for a god associated with it.
-"Kaimyou" literally translate into "Dharma name", which is typically a name given to a Buddhist monk or nun when they enter an order, but also used in Japanese culture as the name given to the dead as they enter their new world. When one uses this name in the world of the living, it prevents them from coming back. The other Japanese terms, "Hougou" and "Houmyou", are the same thing as Kaimyou but based on the other sects as stated prior.
-Soutou is a popular sect of Zen Buddhism in Japan which is generally seen as the sect of the common people most notable for it's usage of "silent illumination" or "zanzen". Nichiren, on the other hand, is a Buddhist sect based on the teachings of the monk of the same name (who believed in the Lotus Sutra and the concept of reaching enlightenment in the current life), while Joudo Shinshuu is the largest Buddhist sect in japan which believes that the only way to enlightenment is the usage of the Amida in order to keep one close to the way.)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 239

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:55:10 +0000

Volume 28: Shinigami
#239: Shinigami

7.
Nube: Oh, success. Lucky--It's coming to me today...
"Girl": Um...You're Nueno Meisuke-san...are you?
Nube: Oh--oh--oh--it's been a while--! Well, you've become a beauty, huh---!
Nube: ---So, who are you then? (Ha ha ha...)
"Girl": No, this is our first meeting. I am...

8.
Shinigami: A Shinigami.
(TN: Obviously this being is well known through a lot of Japanese-based stories, but for those who don't know: "Shinigami", or "Death God" as it is translated, is a being that is seen in Japanese culture as the personification of death. While some say this could be tied to a Chinese idea tied to "psychopomps", it is speculated by some that the concept actually didn't come into Japanese culture until the first arrival of the Europeans in the 17th century, who brought with them the concept of the "Grim Reaper", which eventually evolved into the modern Shinigami concept)

9.
Shinigami: This is your sentence: you have 24 hours of life remaining.
Stick: Success
Shinigami: I'm sorry, I don't speak with a voice because I'm not seen by ordinary humans, but since I ended up being seen by you, I took this sort of form.
SFX: Paku paku mogu mogu
Nube: Well...no.
Nube: Am...am I really going to die?
Shinigami: Yes, I'm sorry. At 4:32 in the evening in 24 hours, you will die of a sudden heart spasm.
(TN: Weirdly when the Shinigami said "in 24 hours", she said '24 jikango", which would more translate as "24 hours later at 4:32", but obviously since there is 24 hours in a day, I just simplified it into "in 24 hours")

10.
Nube: A heart spaasm? Hahahahaha, but I've lived like an immortal even though I've fought youkai many times. Eh? It's a heart spasm? You're kidding---
Shinigami: Well, everyone says that but...this is because it's a lifespan that was decided by God...sorry. I am merely the messenger...well...
Shinigami: Ah...incidentally, that's a death sentence mark. It is.
(TN: Weirdly when the Shinigami says "it is", she ended up saying "desu" in Japanese, which ironically sounds a lot like "death")
SFX: Pa
Shinigami: It is best that you finally do whatever is not done now.
Nube: ...Wh...what I have not done...

11.
SFX: Dodododododo | Wa--wa--
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan Koudai Reikan
SFX: Wa--wa--
Nube: I've done it--!
Nube: Wa ha ha--even if I've won, I've won a hundred-million yen. It's a hundred-million, he he---You can do this if you have spiritual abilities.
Sign: Doumori Horse Track

12.
Shinigami: That's amazing. Why hadn't you done that up to now? What exactly will you use it for?
Nube: Ku ku ku, I'm doing the ultimate luxuries---
Nube: Eating 100 of the 120 yen plates of Kaitenzushi!!
(TN: "Kaiten-zushi" is a cheap style of fast-food sushi where the purchaser buys and eats sushi based on the price of the plate, allowing for multiple sushi purchases and only purchasing whatever you pick off the rotation table and eat.)
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu
Nube: Eating Choco-Balls until the gold angel appears!
(TN: "Choco-Balls" are a variety of chocolate sweet made by Morinaga confectionary company which posesses small prizes in them such as the American sweet Cracker Jack. The most prized of these prizes is the "Gold Angel", which usually is a gold piece of plastic with an angel imprint on it but an extremely valuable prize)
SFX: Gara gara gara
Nube: Putting hot water into a thousand cup ramen at one time---! And only eating exactly one---

13.
Nube: Ahhahahahaha---
Nube: Hahaha, aha...ahahaha...
SFX: Dosa!
Nube: Hahaha
Nube: Wrong...I was wrong...
Box: Fund-Raising
Nube: This isn't the thing that I want...
Sign: Casa Ooyuki

14.
SFX: Gacha...
Yukime: Ah, Nueno-sensei. Please hold on a moment. I just got out from the bath now...
Nube: Yukime
Yukime: Nu...Nueno-sensei!?

15.
Yukime: I'm happy...the time has finally come. The time when...two becomes one in both body and heart...
Yukime: Don't ever leave, we're together all the way...I love you, Nueno-sensei...
SFX: Gyu...
Nube: What's that---(heart) Ahahaha. Surprised---? Since this is a boy's magazine---...
SFX: Dogacha~~~n
Shinigami: Are you alright? You were with that woman and were living well up to now...

16.
Nube: Yukime, be well.
Sign: Doumori Hospital
SFX: Goto
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei...?
Tamamo: ...?
Ball: You're the greatest.
Nube: Tamamo...if you can comprehend human love already, then after I come to not be here...I request of you the students...

17.
Nube: Get trained---!
Izuna: Hi~~~
Nube: Izuna, there are qualities in you. You can do this...
Nube: Oshou, this is a hand-print of the Oni no Te. if I die, it will sell high.
Sign: Doumori Temple

18.
Ritsuko: A good-luck charm encyclopedia...is it?
Nube: Yes, it can exorcise if it's a weak spirit.
Ishikawa: Ca...castella!? Nueno-kun is!?
Box: Castella Fuuboshidou (Wind-Star Hall)
(TN: "Castella" is a popular sponge cake originally coming from the Portugese and notable for it's manner of preservation when originally brought to Japan, where it became a delicacy)
Principal: Didn't he find it with it past it's best eaten by date?
Hiroshi: Nube, what are we doing for today's home-room?
Kyouko: It's going to be cooking practice.
Miki: Can't we do "The Hundred Tales" after a long time?
(TN: The "Hundred Tales" refer to the "Hyakumonogatari" game they played in #100)

19.
Nube: ...All of you have gr...
Nube: Grown up well! Even if I'm not around, and live well. I am...happy.
Nube: This for all of you today is a present from me.
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan...
SFX: Hyuuuu...

20.
(Um...angel cherubs...?)

21.
Kyouko: Pretty, what are those?
Nube: Guardian angels of the lowest grade. They're close to spirits. They're in the atmosphere and their power is miniscule, but they present happiness.
Noriko: Extre--mely cute---.
Miki: Well, Nube causes anger at always summoning spirits as pranks but today is a major service.
Kyouko: Huh...? Nube...?

22.
Nube: Will the Oni of the Oni no Te...be taken to the realm of the dead?
Shinigami: Yes...God has said so.
Shinigami: It's steadily time. Don't you have any regrets anymore?
Nube: ...My regrets...are like a mountain.
Nube: I...love this town. The people who live here ......I really...can't say goodbye to them.

23.
Nube: I...
Nube: Don't want to die.
Voice: Nube
Hiroshi: What's the matter? Your state is strange.
Kyouko & Miki: Are you hiding something again?
Shinigami: It's time.
Nube: Everyone

24.
Nube: Farewell.
SFX: Zatsu
SFX: Zaku...
Hiroshi: Eh!?
Kyouko: Nu

25.
Caption:
----Nueno Meisuke: Age of Death: 25. Cause of Death: Heart Spasm---
Kyouko: Nube!!

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 238

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:54:18 +0000

#238: A Scary Hospital Story

180.
Tamamo: Don't miss volume 28 either!
(TN: While I can't say whether or not Nagumo's "comment" about vol. 28 is right or not (though with personal dreads of that volume...heh, at least I've made it), it is weird that someone who just stuck around for one arc like Tamamo's Youshin form gets a side-cover/final say. I guess it was due to his notability in the Youkai Doctor arc but at the same time it does make one wish some other characters got similar love)

181.
Narrator: It started with a sudden stomachache during class.
Kyouko: Uh.
Kyouko: Owowow...
Nube: N? What's--the matter, Kyouko?
Hiroshi: Haha, that--state is for having poop packing in her for ten days.
Miki: Wrong: she ate umeboshi, eel, milk and ramen together.
(TN: "Umeboshi" is a pickled ume (prunus mume) that is popular as a snack or a garnish and usually sour and salty in taste)
Kyouko: It hurts, it hurts. It hurts, it hurts.
SFX: Gaji gaji gaji gaji
SFX: Pi--po--pa--po--

182.
Narrator: A scary hospital story

183.
Caption/Sign: Doumori-ura Hospital
(TN: It was sort of tough to really translate the name of the hospital without being too confusing. The "ura" in "Doumori-ura" is technically "back" or "reverse", but I had a hard time differentiating whether it was the place name, a "backside" of Doumori or just a "reverse/back" hospital compared to the "Doumori Hospital" Tamamo worked at. Thus i translated it as "Doumori-ura Hospital" with the best of my abilities)
Voice: It was her appendix. She'll leave the hospital within a week.
Sign: 302: Shimada Hana | Inaba Kyouko
Doctor: So then.
Nube: Thank--you, that was a relief.
Hiroshi: So it wasn't constipation?
Miki: Ah--that was surprising.
Hiroshi: Kyouko...I'm only going to ask you at this time but...
Kyouko: Eh, what? Be formal with me...
Hiroshi: Did they ultimately shave off your hair there when you had the appendix surgery?

184.
Hiroshi: Uga~~~
SFX: Doka Baki
Nube: Hey, hey, you'll open the wound if you act violent.
Nube: I'm going on ahead back because I have to grade the merit test but...Hiroshi and Miki shouldn't overstay too long and tire out the patient.
Hiroshi & Miki: Ri--ght.
Miki: This is an eerie hospital---it's been around since the Taishou era.
(TN: For those who don't remember, the "Taishou era" is the short era of Japanese history with the emperor Taishou's reign, between 1912 and 1926)
Hiroshi: Something seems to be coming out of it.
Kyouko: Nothing I could do. This was the only one that was open for emergencies...
Hiroshi: There are few patients too. Though this is a 6-person room, it's just Kyouko and that old lady.
Miki: Hey hey, where's the bathroom?
Kyouko: Go out to the corridor and right. Hey, you can see it the window here.

185.
Kyouko: !?
SFX: Oooooh...
Kyouko: Wh...what's that...a person!? What's it in that place...? Is Miki not noticing it at all...?
Kyouko: !?
SFX: Sutsu

186.
Kyouko: Miki!
Kyouko: Hiroshi! It's terrible, Miki is, Miki is!
SFX: Yusa yusa
Hiroshi: ?
SFX: Gacha
Miki: Ah--that was sudden...Ara, what are you doing~~you two?
Kyouko: Miki! Isn't there something on your back...
Miki: Huh? What are you saying? Hiroshi, we've got to go home soon.
Kyouko: It was my imagination...? That...
Miki: Clear this up! Isn't there something painted on my back?
Kyouko: !!
SFX: Oooooh...

187.
Kyouko: It wasn't my imagination...it truly was something.
Kyouko: No. It can't be: didn't she lead it to this room?
Voice: 9 o'clock. Lights-out time.
SFX: Kochi kochi kochi kochi
Kyouko: ...Ulti...mately...
Voice: I'm sooory...
SFX: Nutsu...

188.
Kyouko: Noooo~~~~
SFX: Suuu....
Voice: Eh!? A nurse ghost appeared!?
(TN: A notable comment I have to make: the term used for "nurse" here is actually "kangofu", which has a translation of specifically a "female nurse")
Kyouko: Seems so! She dozingly put an injection in my arm in the dead of night! No, it's the hospital; I have to be transferred elsewhere!
Nube: But...it's a short hospitalization term...
Nurse: You played a prank and rang the nurse call many times over in the middle of the night. Really, this child is
Kyouko: But it really came out!
Voice: Hi hi hi

189.
Hina: Hi hi hi, you're possessed, you're possessed. You're the 3rd person with this.
(TN: Considering the sign from a few pages back, it's rather obvious who this old nut is)
Nube: Old woman, do you know something?
Nurse: Please give this up. This old woman likes ridiculing people.
Hina: Three years ago, there was a clumsy nurse; she made a mistake with medicine and injected poison into one of the patients, killing them.
Hina: And the nurse got worried and jumped off from over there.
Hina: Since then, she has appeared...whenever there's a new patient. She puts poison in you with an injection while apologizing "I'm sorry, I'm sorry"...

190.
Nurse: Good-for-nothing...that is a mere rumor!
Hina: Hi hi hi
Kyouko: Nube...
Nube: Mhm---m...
Nube: Had she jumped from here...
Nurse: Yes, well
Nube: But there isn't a spirit here...it's wandering around the hospital.
Nube: If I could go to the room where the patient died, then I may get a clue.
Nurse: Well, but it has been blockaded since the incident.
Nube: Let's go there.

191.
Kyouko: Nube...it's late...have you done the exorcism...
SFX: Piku
SFX: Shatsu
SFX: Kara kara kara kara...
Kyouko: Nube?
SFX: Kara kara kara...
SFX: Kara kara kara kara kara

192.
"Ghost Nurse": I'm soooory...
SFX: Shiku shiku shiku shiku... | Kara kara
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!!
Kyouko: Hiii
SFX: Kara kara kara kara

193.
SFX: Gacha gacha
SFX: Giiii
Kyouko: Hiii, she's coming in...
SFX: Don don
SFX: Don don
Kyouko: (to herself) She's...investigating by herself...
SFX: Don don don don
Kyouko: She's...getting closer...
Kyouko: Hi...she's...she's close...
SFX: Shi----n...
Kyouko: ...Is...is she here...?
SFX: So----...

194.
"Ghost Nurse": I'm soooo~~~ry.
SFX: Shiku shiku shiku shiku
Kyouko: Gyaaaa
Nube: ---Is it here? The room where the incident occurred?
Nube: ---On top of that bed...there is something.
Nurse: Eh?

195.
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan! Spirit that is here, show yourself!
SFX: Oooh Ooooh...
Nurse: Kyaa!
Nube: It's the spirit of the patient the nurse killed. Can't you rest in peace with of your regret of being killed?
Patient Ghost: No...you're wrong.
Patient Ghost: With the pain of my illness and wanting to commit suicide on that day, I substituted the medicine that the nurse injected into me with poison.

196.
Patient Ghost: But when I died by injection, that kind nurse committed suicide. Even those that woman was not bad...I'm sorry...I'm sorry...
Nube: Right...the cause of death wasn't a mistake of the nurse. And without knowing as such, this spirit was under the impression she killed him herself...
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!
Nube: Mu! Kyouko!?
Nurse Ghost: I'm sorry. I'm sooor
Kyouko: Noooo!
Door: Keep Out Outside Authorized People
SFX: Gacha

197.
Kyouko: Ah.
SFX: Basha---n
Kyouko: Hi
Nurse Ghost: I'm soorry...
Kyouko: Nooo, don't come here! Nube
SFX: Shiku shiku shiku Basha basha basha
Nube: Hold on!
Nube: Don't be hasty...you didn't kill the patient! It was not your fault.
Nurse Ghost: ?
SFX: Shiku shiku
Nube: That fact will be explained by the patient ghost himself! Ha!

198.
Patient Ghost: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Nurse Ghost: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm...
(TN: The "I'm sorry" duet here is actually two different versions of the same word: the patient went "sumanai", while the nurse went "gomen nasai". It could work in the script if you do vary it up, maybe make the patient "pardon me" instead to make it seem like two separate versions)
Nurse Ghost: !
Nurse Ghost: Ooh...
Patient Ghost: I'm sorry.
Nube: It seems the fellow spirits understood. They couldn't rest in peace as consequence of their kindness...what an ironic thing.
SFX: Shuuu...

199.
Nube: Are you alright, Kyouko?
Kyouko: Thank you, Nube. But it can't be that I didn't think there would be a bath room in the basement of the hospital.
(TN: I had to use "bath room" instead of "bathroom" because the term used here was "furoba" or "room with a bath")
Nube: No...Kyouko...that isn't a bath.
Kyouko: Eh?
Nube: That is for preserving corpses for use in dissection...
Nube: The Formalin Pool.
(TN: "Formalin" is a solution combining formaldahide and water, usually used for preservation of biological specimins, including human bodies)
Kyouko: Ge!
Kyouko: Gyaaaaa...
(End of Vol. 27)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 237

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:53:27 +0000

#237: Mari-san (end)

162.
Mari: Ouu...
Noriko: Th...this child...is a spiritualist ghost!?
Nube: A psycho-ghost...when a person with strong spiritual power while alive becomes a dead spirit, they possess an earth-staggering power. It rejected even my spiritual power...

163.
Nube: To make a spiritualist ghost rest in peace...the ghost itself must cooperate 100% with the exorcist and let itself rest in peace...however...
Nube: Well, come...
SFX: Kuwa
SFX: Doga
Nube: Guaa!

164.
Noriko: Teacher...
SFX: Gara gara
SFX: Ba
Noriko: Hi!
Mari: My! Doll! Search for it's limbs!
SFX: Zui
Mari: Within the remaining 6 days. If you throw it away this time, you won't be forgiven.
SFX: Jori jori
SFX: Suu...

165.
Sign: Infirmiry
Kyouko: Cruel...Nube's lost consciousness with one blow.
Noriko: It's different from the school spirits up to now.
Makoto: It's a spiritualist ghost......
Nube: Uuh...
SFX: Wa--wa--
Voice 1: Get over there, monster!
Voice 2: Nueno is a monster child!
Nube: Qu...quit it...stop...
Voice 3: Someone like you can't come to our school!

166.
Nube: Why...why did they give me those eyes...there isn't a reason to become a loved spiritualist and yet... (Uuuh...)
Voice: Nube!!
Nube: Uh!
Kyouko: What's wrong? You were having a terrible nightmare.
Nube: Ah...yes.
Hiroshi: And yet it's an amazing spirit like that?
Nube: That spirit who committed suicide was because of her sadness with reason of being a spiritualist...its the same...The same...as me of long ago...

167.
Noriko: Teacher...
Nube: No...don't worry. Noriko, I was just unprepared earlier. The main point is it's best to search for the doll's limbs...Whaat, it's a small school. We'll search it immediately.
Noriko: Teacher...
Nube: Right, this isn't a situation to lose my way. This is a matter of affecting a student's life...if I can't exorcise it...then this time by this hand...
Narrator: From the next day, the great search that raised the whole school began.
Announcer: Eh---today is a full school simultaneous great-cleaning day.

168.
Kyouko: You can't even find it with your spiritual power, Nube?
Nube: Hmm...it seems this spirit is sending out jamming spirit waves.
Noriko: Jamming spirit waves...
Kaneda: Chie, this---is tiresome---I'm not doing---this.
Kaneda: Wa
SFX: Dota---!
Kaneda: N?
Kaneda: Ah! There it is!

169.
Noriko: Thank you!
Narrator: First the right arm was found.
Narrator: And then the right leg.
Narrator: The left arm was found too.
Narrator: However...with just the left leg not found no matter what, finally the week passed...

170.
Noriko: Teacher...will my left leg be taken already...?
Nube: It's fine, don't worry.
Nube: No good...I don't see her left leg with reishi...it's been taken...
(TN: "Reishi", which literally translates into "spiritual inspection", is as it sounds and probably can be explained better in other manga: a spiritual aura around an object)
Nube: Somehow I've been thinking on whether there isn't a way to have this spirit rest in peace for a week but...whatever it is, there isn't a method.
Nube: What to do...
SFX: Suu...
SFX: Doka
Noriko: !!
Nube: Guwa!

171.
Noriko: Teacher! Teacher! No...wake up, teacher!
Noriko: I can't take him to the infirmiry. The short way is to take him outside from here and go through the courtyard.
Sign: Emergency Exit
SFX: Gi
Noriko: ?
SFX: Gata
SFX: Gata gata gata gata gata gata

172.
Mari: You hadn't searched for its left leg~~~~...
SFX: Nuu

173.
Noriko: Kyaaaa~~~
Noriko: Nooo~~~
Mari: You~~can~~not~~es~~cape~~~
SFX: Zuru zuru zuru
Noriko: Sa...save me.
SFX: Gacha gacha
Noriko: Aaah~~~
SFX: Zuri zuri zuri

174.
Mari: Hand over~~your left leg~~
SFX: Zuru zuru zuru
Noriko: Nooooo
Nube: Hold it. Don't lay a hand on Noriko!
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan!
SFX: Ja
Nube: !!
SFX: Gunya--| Baki baki

175.
Mari: Ooooh
Nube: S...s**t...is she going to squash me...is it impossible to exorcise with a sutra after all...it...it can't be helped!
SFX: Gashi gashi gashi
SFX: Baki
Nube: Namu!!
SFX: Ja

176.
Nube: N...no. This spirit I can't......kill...
Voice 1: He--y, monster!
Voice 2: He has a weird power.
Voice 3: Get out from this school.
Nube: I too...am the same as this spirit. I gave bad feelings with my spiritual powers and was treated as a monster.
Desk: Monster | You feel bad | Die
Nube: I can't kill you. I understand the feelings of this spirit...

177.
SFX: Su...
Nube: ---Kill me...if that makes you satisfied. But...Noriko...I won't let you lay a hand on my student.
Nube: N?
Mari: Uh...uuh.
Nube: Right. The Oni no Te communicated that...and transmitted my heart? With me, who had the same circumstances. Is this the first...that you've opened your heart to a person...

178.
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan! God! Somehow let this child rest in peace!
SFX: Bashuu!
SFX: Shuu...
Noriko: Teacher...is that child resting in peace?
Nube: ...I don't know.

179.
Nube: That spirit was me myself. If I hadn't fortuitously met an understander named Minako-sensei as a child...I may have become like that child too...
Noriko: Teacher...
Narrator: If you find Mari-san in some town...please notify Nube-sensei. And like this time...

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 236

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:52:28 +0000

#236: Mari-san (beginning)

139.
Narrator: July, one year ago, OO Prefecture, XX Elementary School...
Voice: Shifua Kyafuan Issei Jorai Taishou Kenshou Sanmaya Issei Manda Rachi...
Priest: Kinkoushou Satta Yosan Kaichuu Choufuku Buyo...
Boy: Ah...awawawa...
Boy: Nnn...n...no...save mee...
Boy: Uwaa~~~Hiii~~
SFX: Bata bata bata
SFX: Zuba

140.
Voice: Here...with this, it is as it was...ufufufufu...
SFX: Bota...bota...
Narrator: That was...known by everyone if you were one who attended school...
"Voice": Ufufu...ahaha...
Narrator: And...the scariest of the great mysteries of campus. It's name is...

141.
Narrator: Mari-san

142.
Caption: Date: ? Daily Duty: ()
Nube: What is th---is?
Makoto: Gross!
Kyouko: Where did you find that!
Hiroshi: What are you thinking?
SFX: Doka Baki Boko
Nube: Wa...wait, wait, look closer. This is a cucumber, a cucumber!!
Kyouko: Ara, it's true.
Shizuka: Ew, it's curled in a coil.
Miki: They won't sell this in stores.

143.
Nube: Yep: in truth, this is a thing that I've picked in the grade's vegetable garden on campus. Aside from this, there's come to be heaps of eggplant and tomatoes. Those who want to should pick some after school.
Kyouko: Hey, did you know? If you put honey on cucumbers, they take the flavor of melon.
Bottle: Makura Honey
SFX: Pori...
Hiroshi: It's true. Tasty--
Nube: Yummy, yummy, if you put sauce and soy sauce and mayonaisse on eggplant, it takes the flavor of steak.
SFX: Gatsu gatsu...
Hiroshi: Does--not.
SFX: Uge...
Kyouko: Then again--you have no idea of the flavor of steak.

144.
Noriko: --So then, I must be going soon.
Shizuka: Huh, Noro-chan, you're going home already?
Noriko: Yes, because I have piano lessons today... (I'm going ahead...)
Miki: In spite of you being Noro-chan...
Noriko: My bag...I put it in the shoebox...
SFX: Goto
SFX: Kiiii...n

145.
Narrator: Mari-san is a girl whose entire body is pure white. And she possesses a doll without limbs.
SFX: Bachi | Gata gata gata
Noriko: Kyaa!
SFX: Fuwa
Noriko: !

146.
SFX: Byu!!
Mari: ...My doll...has no...limbs...
Mari: Return them...
Noriko: Eh...eeh!?

147.
Mari: Return it's limbs!!
SFX: Buchi buchi buchi
Noriko: Nooooo
SFX: Bata bata bata
Voice 1: What's wrong!?
Voice 2: The voice of Noro-chan!?
Nube: Noriko!

148.
Nube: Steady yourself. What happened?
Noriko: Was that an illusion...? Now...
Noriko: Nooo~~~a youkai! A youkai is~~~
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan...
Nube: Hmhmm...it's one fast at running away. There isn't a piece of youki anymore.
Kyouko: Hey oldie, it's a tomato, tomato.
(TN: Kyouko's "oldie" here is "ossan", which is a rude, derogatory term for "old man" or "uncle")
Voice: ...Mari-san?
Miki: Yes: a super-famous great mystery of campus.
Kyouko: I know of it too.
Makoto: Me too.
Hiroshi: I've heard of it too.

149.
Miki: If you're handed a doll by Mari-san, then you must search for it's limbs that have been hidden somewhere in school and repair it within one week.
Miki: If it doesn't have even one of it's limbs, that section will be torn off and be attached to the doll just like that~~~ (Kekeke...)
Noriko: Nooo~~~
Kyouko: Teacher...will Noro-chan truly have her limbs plucked off?
Nube: Is that something I'll have done? Aren't you...the nicest child in Nube's class?
Miki: Well, that's discrimination, discrimination.

150.
Hiroshi: Calm down! We'll turn this school inside out and search for them.
Katsuya: Yeah! This is for Noro-chan!
Miki: Ke, the boys are enthusiastic about it.
Noriko: Thank you everyone.
Hiroshi: Bunga Donga Bunga Don, out of the way, out of the way--I am the grea--t cleaning king---!
Noriko: I'm sorry, everyone. This is my fault.
Kyouko: What are you saying? The combined power of the Nube class is strong!
Hiroshi: So then, first we'll investigate in here.
Sign: Girl's Bathroom
Katsuya: Well well.
Kyouko: Hey, stupid boys!

151.
Nube: ...Mari-san...huh?
Sign: Principal's Office
SFX: Dosa
Book: Absolute Secret: Education X-Files (Minister of Education, Science and Culture)
(TN: A couple things:
1. The literal name of the book was "Kyouiku X-Hakusho", with "Hakusho" being a "white page" and usually used for a term for "files". Somehow seeing "X-Hakusho" as "X-Files" was a natural conclusion.
2. The "Minister of Education, Science and Culture", known in Japanese as "Monbushou", is a literal position in the Japanese government of the officer in charge of these various facets of Japanese culture, including the schools, the scientific and cultural communities.)
Nube: The Education X-Files...facing the bizarre phenomenon of schools that have repeatedly occurred in recent years and the Minister of Education collects these precedents and the methods of management and distributes them to each school in absolute secrecy.
Nube: The story that was propered about Mari-san is the following precedent.
Nube: 1959: ** Prefecture, XX Elementary: Matsubara Megumi of class 4-2 possessed a mysterious power.

152.
Nube: It was an ability that was out of the ordinary for bending spoons and accurately making predictions.
Nube: However this power had the bad-feeling classmates treat her as a monster and she was bullied.
Desk: Monster | Die!
Nube: Finally, that girl's valued doll was ripped apart and hidden in the school. Three days later, Megumi commited suicide...
Nube: Since then every year, when it comes to be July, when she committed suicide, she sets out to various schools and kills students without discrimination.
Nube: The point is this spirit is different from others. XX Prefecture, XV Prefecture and OX Prefecture have asked famed spiritualists to exorcise her, but those three were killed. Exorcising Mari-san is impossible.

153.
Nube: Exorcism impossible...why...
Nube: Even so...the circumstances of Mari-san is...like...
Kyouko: ...We haven't discovered even one...
Miki: I'm tired.
Hiroshi: We...well, we still have six days left.
Miki: Bye-bye.
Kyouko: Farewell, see you tomorrow.
Voice: ...et...th...em...

154.
Doll: My limbs...return them...
SFX: Shiku shiku shiku...Gune gune
Noriko: Noo~~~
SFX: Poi
Voice: ...Thrown away.
Voice: Thrown away...thrown away!!
SFX: Kiiiiin
Noriko: Eh!?

155.
SFX: Gobaa
Noriko: A...fire!? No, why is there suddenly...
Noriko: Geho geho, a...amazing smoke...
Sign: For Emergency
SFX: Basa basa
Noriko: It's great I used this in the disaster drill...
SFX: Zaza

156.
Mari: Thr~~own~~aw~~ay~~ (Haa~~~haa~~~)

157.
Noriko: Kyaaaa
SFX: Gasa gasa gasa
Mari: I'll cut off your limbs and attach them to my doll~~~
Nube: Ah, what's with all of you? Still here?
Hiroshi: Ah, Nube, look over there.
Hiroshi: The rescue sack is coming out even though there isn't a fire. Is this someone's prank?
(TN: The "rescue sack", known in Japanese as "Kyuujobukuro", is a rescue device used in many Japanese buildings to create a slide that descends down from the building to the surface.)
Nube: !?
Noriko: Hiii~~~

158.
SFX: Gui! | Zuda--n
Noriko: Nube-sensei!!
SFX: Oooooh
Nube: Don't lay a hand on my student!!

159.
SFX: Bachi
Nube: Ku...it's like that after all. It's a psycho-ghost, a spiritualist ghost where she became a ghost while possessing spiritual power. Spiritual power is foolish and sutras won't work on it...
Nube: This spirit...can't be exorcised!

160.
NAKAJIMA NORIKO
The role of "Iijima Kumiko" of the first movie was, at it's initial stage, the role of Noro-chan. Due to this, the character wears her a bit.
She's the unique quiet girl in Nube's class and she has a recklessly large male fans due to this...

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 235

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:51:29 +0000

#235: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 12th: The Final Word

115.
Announcer: This is a state of emergency!! A giant monster has appeared around the mountains on the outskirts of the town of Doumori! The city is under attack!
Police: Don't panic! Please calm and find shelter!
Child: Mama---
Voice: Save us---

116.
SFX: Zzu...n... | Gogo...
Sign: Doumori Hospital
Voice 1: Is no one...there?
Voice 2: Yes...everyone is taking shelter.
SFX: Zatsu
Nube: We can return to our bodies at last.
Tamamo: Let's hurry, Nueno-sensei.

117.
SFX: Katsu
Nube: The problem is from here on.
SFX: Shuuu
Tamamo: What do we do about that...

118.
(Title page...yeah, giant 8-headed monster attacking the town...just another day for the citizens of Doumori...multiplied)

119.
SFX: Ka
SFX: Dogoooo
Voice: Kya---
Tamamo: What destructive power...it's like watching a monster movie...it'll look foolish if that thing destroys the world...
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei, that thing isn't a youkai now. It's a natural disaster that will herald the end of the world. This can't be won by us.
Nube: Understood...however...even so, those children will fight even if it's life or death.

120.
Nube: As one who protects students by betting his life...I will protect them with by my hands!
SFX: Da
Tamamo: Teacher!
SFX: Doooo
Tamamo: !!

121.
Nube: It's too much...
(TN: Nube ends up saying here "keta ga chigasugiru", which is based on the expression of "keta ga chigau" or "there's a difference in units". I sort of figured that "it's too much" is close enough in translation for it's purpose here)
Tamamo: It's over.
SFX: Gogogogogogo | Kasha kasha
Kyuusaku: Haa haa
Kyuusaku: Ridiculous; this is strange...weird...(Haa haa) Orochi can't be controlled... (Haa...) In the ancient documents, Orochi can be manipulated by the will of it's manufacturer...I should be able to revive my wife...
Keiko: It's futile.
Kyuusaku: Keiko...
Keiko: That is a monster that reflected your mad heart, dear...you shouldn't be able to control it...

122.
Kyuusaku: Do...don't talk foolishly! That is...the only way we can be res...
SFX: Gara
Kyuusaku: !!
SFX: Dogagagaga
Kyuusaku: Gyaaa!!
Keiko: Dear!!
Kyuusaku: Ugu...gu, is this the end...however, my revenge is achieved...The world...will be destroyed...

123.
Keiko: You are pitiful, dear...enough already. Stop adding to your crimes...it'll be fine, it will be stopped by those children...
Kyuusaku: Those brats...what are they doing? Didn't they run?
Keiko: They're reciting a final spell...to save you, dear.
Kyuusaku: It...it can't be...
Hiroshi: Alright? Join our hearts into one. And then shout out that spell.

124.
Keiko: Orochi is the ultimate youkai of evil. However, they can bring forth the ultimate youkai of good that will destroy Orochi by standing in the center and calling it's name just the same with the same device...!
Kyuusaku: !!
Kyuusaku: It can't be: they have the name of the ultimate youkai of good...
Keiko: Yes...those children know it.
Keiko: And they possess the courageous and just hearts to use it.
Hiroshi: This is our final chance.
Kyouko: Already we're the only ones who can save Doumori town.

125.
Katsuya: It's an important responsibility...
Makoto: We'll protect them.
Miki: It's only us.
Hiroshi: Come, ultimate youkai of good.
SFX: Kyuiiiin...

126.
Everyone: Kesaran Pasaran

127.
SFX: Paaaa
SFX: Gaka
Voice 1: Wh...what is that?
SFX: Zawa zawa zawa...
Voice 2: What's happening?
Nube: What exacty is...

128.-129.
Kesaran Pasaran: Mo
SFX: Gogogogogogo
Kyuusaku: Th...that's the ultimate youkai of good. Kesaran Pasaran.
Kyouko: Amazing...it truly is.
Miki: That's a huge---Kesaran Pasaran.
(TN: She should know...)

130.
Orochi: Gyaaa!!
SFX: Gogogogogogo
SFX: Zushaaa | Buchi buchi
Nube: Orochi's been!
Tamamo: Swallowed in...

131.
SFX: Dobaa~~~
Nube: That's right...Kesaran Pasaran are...a synthetic youkai that the super-ancient civilization produced...they've remained even in the present and are taught as hairballs that bring people good fortune.
(TN: The term "kedama" here best translated as "hairball" but is a specific term in Japanese for a small ball of wool that has clumped together in a round form)

132.
Kyuusaku: They're warm......this warmth...had already been forgotten by me long ago somehow...
Voice: Dear...
Kyuusaku: ! Keiko...ho...how!?
Keiko: Fufufu, and you dear...
Kyuusaku: Eh? Ah!
Kyuusaku: Right...this is the power of the Kesaran Pasaran. Did they...heal my wounds...

133.
Keiko: No...what the Kesaran Pasaran healed was the wound in your heart.
Kyuusaku: ...Right...I remember...this warmth...
Kyuusaku: My father...and mother...whom I loved when I was a child...and...Keiko...I always felt it with you by my side...this warmth...
Kyuusaku: I was...mistaken...I can't be forgiven anymore...
Keiko: No...it's fine...well.
Keiko: Let's go...

134.
Akira: They're resting in peace...
Nube: The power of Kesaran Pasaran cleansed his soul...
Kyouko: Nube!
Hiroshi: Akira!

135.
Hiroshi: Great...you've returned to normal.
Hiroshi: Teacher! We all earnestly fought together!
Nube: Yes, I know.
Miki: I beat over 100 youkai.
Makoto: I made youkai into my servants.
Katsuya: I rode on a bike unlicensed.
Nube: Yes, yes, even if you know this, all of you are the greatest students.
SFX: Gyu

136.
Miki: Listen to this: these ancient charms transform--...huh?
SFX: Paki
Nube: Those are tools of conflict that are too powerful. The Kesaran Pasaran destroyed them.
Miki: Wha?
Nube: That's alright: even without those things, all of you are strong enough.
SFX: Niko
Nube: Even the town lights have been returned to normal.
Miki: The Kesaran Pasaran fixed them. It's returned to being the peaceful everyday again.

137.
Miki: Somehow they're extremely beautiful.
Nube: This is the town all of you fought for and protect.
Nube: Well, let's go home.

138.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#49: Yamata no Orochi

Yamata no Orochi is of the greatest class of youkai even among the youkai introduced in Japanese myths. Everyone has heard it's name.

Possessing eight heads and eight tails, it's large to the extent that its body is hidden in eight valleys and eight peaks. It's eyes are red and it's can breathe flames from it's mouth. It's form truly is what's called a giant monster.

According to "Nihon Shoki" and "Kojiki", this youkai is called an existence of evil that lives in the vicinity of Idzumo and devoured young maidens as sacrifice. However it was cut up by Susanoo no Mikoto (published as "Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto" in Kojiki), a god who came from Takamagahara and died. At the time, this emerged from within the tail, but afterwards it was called "Ama-no-murakumo-no-Tsurugi", one among the Three Sacred Treasures that came to be symbols of the succession of the Imperial Throne of the Imperial family. (This legend has been explained previously as one that draws the history of the conquest of the Santetsu People according to the Yamato Imperial Court)

By the way: there are also people who think "Isn't it correct that if it had 8 heads then it had 7 "groins" and that it is "Nanamata no Orochi?" as a simple question. "Nube" dealt with it by not letting out a question like that. Namely, if you separate the heads by their radiation condition like as introduced in this story, since there are 8 heads and also 8 "groins", then there is~~n't any problem! (In truth, even when they weren't in radiation condition, there completely wasn't a problem Japanese-wise with their 8 groins but...)

(TN: A few things:
1. The comment about the two different "pronounciations" of "Susanoo-no-Mikoto" has to do with the way the god's name was written in various Japanese literature. In 'Nihon Shoki', he is merely known as "Susanoo-no-Mikoto", with at least two different set of kanji used for his name. A different set of kanji was used for his name in 'Kojiki', but there he is also known by an even longer name of 'Takehaya Susanoo-no-Mikoto', which I used to try and differentiate between the two here.
2. As stated here, the "Ama-no-Murakumo-no-Tsurugi" (Sword of the Gathering Clouds of Heaven) was a sword that was found within the tail of Yamato no Orochi after its tail was cut, locked within it's fourth tail. It was given from Susanoo to the goddess Amaterasu to settle an old grievance afterwards and later became one of the three great Imperial Treasures of Japan. The sword also has a name of "Kusanagi", given to it by Yamato Takeru, a legendary warrior who originally used the sword to cut grass before discovering it's divine power.
3. The whole "7 Groins" bit was mostly tied to the word "mata", which has a Japanese translation of "groin" or "crotch". I sort of had a hard time with it but at least it sort of makes sense if you think about it...)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 234

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:50:11 +0000

#234: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 11th: The Reviving Orochi!?

95.
Narrator: The Cursed Mansion: Hyakkokukan! Eight hours have already passed since Hiroshi, Kyouko and the others entered this mansion!
Narrator: And now...within the dome of the Orochi Origin Device made tens of meters underground...their final battle with the Youkai Doctor is unfolding out...
Kyuusaku: Ha~~~

96.
Kyuusaku: Uwaaaa, s...s**t---
Kyouko: Hinokami-kun! Quickly deliver the finisher! He's returning to life again!
SFX: Cha

97.
Hiroshi: It's none of your business, Hinokami----what power can we borrow from you!
Kyouko: What are you saying, stupid Hiroshi, if we don't defeat him, Orochi will be born!!
Hiroshi: Sh...shut up--!
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!
Makoto: Kyouko!
Hiroshi: He...he's moving!
Nube: Hiroshi-kun!!
Hiroshi: Da...damn it---...

98.
Hiroshi: Hinokami! Nagumo! I beg you! Finish him----
Nube & Tamamo: It's the end!! Youkai Doctor!!
SFX: Ba
Kyuusaku: Oh...oh...oooooh

99.
SFX: Dogaaa

100.
Kyuusaku: Guhaa
SFX: Bara bara bara
Kyuusaku: Stupid...this stupid~~~! My...my super-ancient weapon have been defeated~~~
Tamamo: It seems that it reflects the heart of the one who uses the weapon.
SFX: Zatsu!
Nube: Your will is weaker than ours!

101.
SFX: Shuuu~~~...
Kyuusaku: I...I've died!? No, I've just lost ki....however the power to fight doesn't remain anymore...because a large volume of youki of that extent is showering down like radioactivity...
Miki: We've...won, we did it... (Aha...aha...)
Makoto: Ye...yes.
Katsuya: We can go home with this...
SFX: Su...
Hiroshi: Hmph...I'm glad that you delivered that last blow...
Kyouko: Hiroshi.
Hiroshi: You still have a face of "Just all of you can't do anything".

102.
Nube: No, it's the reverse...Hiroshi-kun.
Nube: All of you are incredible...sorry for being so stupid up to now. You all are super children that possess courage and strong hearts.
Nube: If Nube-sensei saw this...I think he'd certainly give you a perfect 100.
Nube: Well, Nagumo.
Tamamo: Ye...yes...

103.
Hiroshi: You two are too amazing.
SFX: Bashi!

104.
Kyouko: That's good, that's good.
Makoto: They've gotten to get along.
Miki: Seems---so huh---if you speak of how it was originally, their relations were bad because you had an interest in both of them.
Katsuya: Hey, hey.
Computer: 8 minutes remain until the birth of Orochi.
SFX: Bi--bi--
Nube: Hey, we can't have that. We must stop that device quickly...
Computer: 7 minutes remain.
Nube: Eh?
Computer: 6 minutes. 5 minutes. 4 minutes. Entering the final stage.
SFX: Bi--bi--bi--bi-- | Piki paki
Nube: Huh...it's too quick!?
Nube: Youkai Doctor!
Kyuusaku: Ku ku ku...

105.
Kyuusaku: Kukuku...you were negligent. I've switched it to Abbreviated Mode and hastened it's birth...Orochi's energy has already gathered to greater than 90%...it can be born even without waiting to be 100%...
SFX: Bi--bi---
Nube: What?
Kyuusaku: Now Orochi's birth cant' be stopped by anyone. Hahahahaha.
Hiroshi: Damn it---
SFX: Ba ba
Computer: 2 minutes remain until the birth of Orochi.
Computer: 1 minute.

106.
SFX: Pishaaaa
Hiroshi: Uwaaa
Kyouko: Kyaa
Orochi: Gyaaaaa
SFX: Piki

107.
Computer: Orochi is born.
SFX: Bi---bi---|Baki baki baki
Tamamo: No...the ceiling is collapsing.
Kyuusaku: Hahahahahaha, how cute. Well, Orochi, let your first cry roar out on Doumori!
(TN: Weirdly Kyuusaku's line about Orochi's first cry is actually involving the term "ubugoe", which is Japanese for "baby's first cry")
Nube: It...it was born. It's the worst scenario.

108.
Nube: As is, we'll be buried alive being crushed beneath the rubble. We can get outside from this passageway.
Hiroshi: What do we do about Orochi!?
Nube: The priority is to escape!
Nube: OK, everyone ride on Katsuya's airbike. Run away while being protected from the stones with Kyouko's barrier!
Kyouko: And you two!?
Nube: We're running by a separate route!
Hiroshi: Wait! Where are you going?
Kyouko: Hinokami-kun!
Hiroshi: Uwa
SFX: Dodododododo
Nube: Alright! Now we'll return to our original bodies!
Tamamo: However...our forecast for winning against that monster when we've returned to normal is...

109.
Caption: Within the underground shelter
SFX: Kacha kacha kacha
SFX: Giri giri giri | Gogogogo
Kyuusaku: Well, Keiko, I've done it. The time has finally come where you can be revived.
Kyuusaku: I've waited long. Now...give me comfort.
Keiko: Dear...well...you couldn't be stopped, even with the power of those children.
Kyuusaku: !

110.
Kyuusaku: Ri...ridiculous. You presented the ancient weapons to the children!?
Keiko: I did, dear.
Keiko: You are mistaken. Quit your revenge already...you've commited a great crime of eternity due to short-term hatred.
Kyuusaku: Ku ku ku...ha ha ha...
Keiko: Dear...
Kyuusaku: Keiko, you're too gentle and can't see anything.
Keiko: ...
Kyuusaku: Remember that setting sun of that southern island with the two of us. Remember the Christmas of just the two of us where I first handed you the ring...

111.
Kyuusaku: I love you, Keiko...Well now I'll regain those times with the power of Orochi.
Kyuusaku: And have revenge on the people who took them!!
Miki: Kyaaa
SFX: Gogogo | Gara gara
Hiroshi: The mansion is collapsing!
SFX: Dodododododogua | Baki baki baki

112.-113.
Nube: Th...that's Orochi...
Hiroshi: It's...huge!

114.
SFX: Guaaa
SFX: Dododododododo
Nube: ! The town!
Tamamo: Th....that's the ultimate Youkai, Orochi! There isn't a situation it can be defeated!

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 233

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:49:07 +0000

#233: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 10th: Strong Hearts

74.
Computer: 20 minutes remain until the birth of Orochi. 20 minutes remain until the birth of Orochi.
SFX: Guon...guon...guon...
Kyuusaku: Gi...gi...
Nube: Hi...Hiroshi...everyone...
Tamamo: What are those weapons...?

75.
SFX: Katsu
Kyuusaku: Those are...
SFX: Shuuuu.
Caption: Released his Berserker Mode
Kyuusaku: Those are ancient weapons that I've excavated...The super-ancient warriors had fought by wearing this armor and possessing these weapons. Where exactly did those brats get those...?
Makoto: Who is that? That mystery person...perhaps it's...
Nube: It's the Youkai Doctor. He's armed in super-ancient armor.
SFX: Yoro...
Kyouko: Hinokami-kun.

76.
Kyouko: Those terrible wounds...You've fought until you've reached this point...
Nube: Don't worry. All of you...you were safe and well in this Youkai mansion.
SFX: Yoro...
Hiroshi: Hmph, in that state, it's best you don't fight anymore. Leave the rest to us.
Nube: Fu, what are you saying? You all don't have a reason to fight. Thanks for saving us, but it will be dangerous beyond this. Hide yourselves.
Nube: He will...be defeated by us...
Hiroshi: You...

77.
Hiroshi: Don't you believe in our power yet---?
Nube: Obviously. Draw back.
Kyouko: Quit that, Hinokami-kun!
SFX: Ba!!
Hiroshi: Kyouko...
Kyouko: Hinokami-kun...I understand that you're always protecting us but...you've made a mistake!!

78.
Kyouko: If Orochi is created, then our important people will completely die! Our fathers, mothers, teachers, everyone at school...we want to stop this with our own power!
Kyouko: We aren't weak like that.
Miki: We're--not, we're--not.
Hiroshi: Right, we want to protect them, even if we risk our lives!
Nube: ......
Tamamo: Hinokami-kun, it's sink or swim. If we don't gamble on these children...these children will...

79.
SFX: Guon...guo--n
Hiroshi: We've kept you waiting.
SFX: Za
Kyuusaku: !
Kyuusaku: Fufun, what? You're my opponents this time? Fools, the super-ancient arms are weapons that are operated with the strength of mental power. They're not things that can be handled by children. You can't win against me.
Hiroshi: Fu, really?
SFX: Gasa goso
Kyuusaku: ?

80.
Hiroshi: Ja---n, wh---at about this?
Book: Me and my Wife's Love-Love Diary
Kyuusaku: Ah---th...that's...
Hiroshi: "O-Month, Day-X, today, I saw the panda at the zoo together with my wife Keikocchi. Of course we looked at her as a pair. (Kukuku...) Me and Keikocchi are always in love-love. (heart heart heart)"
(TN: The "Keikocchi" is the usage of "cchi" at the end of the name to make a cutesy pet name for someone.)
Kyuusaku: Uwaaa, st....stop that. Hii~~~
Hiroshi: Keikocchi's devotion is like a marshmellow.

81.
Hiroshi: Afterwards, the two of us kissy-kissed on a bench in the evening sun. (heart)
SFX: Dododododo
Kyuusaku: Guwaa, hiii, sto...stop it, hey, stop...
Hiroshi: Keikocchi's lips were tasty like pudding~~
Miki: Vanity Thunder
SFX: Bari bari bari bari bari bari bari
Kyuusaku: Huh!?

82.
Kyuusaku: Gua. Guaaa
SFX: Baki baki baki baki
SFX: Dogoooo
Nube: Huh!?
Hiroshi: Huh, she...did that!?
Kyuusaku: S...s**t, I was careless...
SFX: Batsu

83.
SFX: Kiiiiin...
Katsuya: You shouldn't have jumped into the air.
Katsuya: Responsibility Vulcan
SFX: Dogagagaga
Kyuusaku: Guwaaaa

84.
Nube: That...was wise, Katsuya...
Kyuusaku: Guaa!!
Makoto: Youkai Friend Attack!
SFX: Byu byu byu

85.
SFX: Pi~~piki | Geshi geshi geshi geshi
Kyuusaku: Ow ow stop stop---
Kyuusaku: S**t---
SFX: Jaki---n
Nube: Ah, that was bungling, Makoto. He'll be attacked!
SFX: Gobaa
Makoto: Uwaa----

86.
Kyouko: Friendship Barrier!
Nube: Amazing, Kyouko has a barrier?
Hiroshi: Take this---

87.
Hiroshi: Courage Slice!!
(TN: This was the only one that was all in kanji and didn't quite know if I should keep in Japanese or not but didn't since the others were in English. Besides, the kanji used for the "Zan" in "Yuukizan" was the one that is usually used for "behead" or "murder")
Nube: They...did it!
Tamamo: What powerful weapons.

88.
Nube: No...the power of the weapons...that's not just it.
Kyuusaku: You, you~~~th...those brats.
Nube: Isn't this...their pre-eminent teamwork...

89.
Nube: And their strong ambition to protect their important things even in exchange for their lives over anything, but
Nube: They have hard feelings from their bodies, one by one.
Nube: They...

90.-91.
Nube: Became such strong children in the time I didn't know...

92.
Kyuusaku: S**t---you, you, you~~~kuha---
SFX: Babababababa
Tamamo: This is untimely! He's becoming Berserker mode again.
Hiroshi: Hold steady! A bit more!
Kyouko: Hold him down---

93.
Katsuya: Da...damn this, we can't move like this.
Miki: Qu...quickly someone finish this. Make a move with amazing power...
SFX: Gigi...
Hiroshi: Waa...
SFX: Gigi...gigigi...
Computer: 10 Minutes Remain until Oroch's birth.
SFX: Kitsu
Nube: ...
Computer: 10 minutes remain until Orochi's birth.

94.
YAMAGUCHI AKIRA
If Hiroshi and Kyouko were from "Dokonjo Gaeru", then Miki and Akira were those taken from "Devilman".
However, Akira came to completely not stand out since he had a plain personality...
He does have many female fans but...

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 232

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:11:27 +0000

Though appearing they were near in finally taking him down, Nube and Tamamo have instead pushed Kyuusaku into the limits of awakening the maximum power of the Youkai Soldier...while within the heart of the device to create Orochi!

#232: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 9th: Start Up!! Orochi Origin Device!!

51.
Hiroshi: What exactly is happening here!!
SFX: Byun byun byun
Makoto: The youkai are getting drawn in.
Kyouko: It can't be: is that the Orochi Origin Device!?
Hiroshi: At any rate, let's follow behind them!
Students: Right!!

52.
SFX: Gogogogogo
Keiko: Dear...enough already...your revenge...it's barren...
SFX: Oooooh | Zubo zubo
Nube: The youkai are being absorbed!!

53.
Nube: Stop that, Doctor!
Tamamo: If you absorb youki any further, you won't have the body of a human inside the armor.
Kyuusaku: Guuu...Nuooooh...
Kyuusaku: Gahaa!
SFX: Gashaa!

54.
SFX: Shuuu~~~... | Piku piku piku...
Tamamo: Fu! Foolish! He self-destructed as he was absorbing too much youki and becoming stronger.
Nube: He's dead as is...let's get him out of the armor.
Kyuusaku: Ku...ku...ku, I was not...self-...destroyed....
Kyuusaku: A bit too much power entered in and I was just dizzy...
SFX: Gara...gara...
Nube: Stop, don't move. You'll die! Take off that armor.

55.
Kyuusaku: I do not mind: even if I die...
SFX: Yoro...
Kyuusaku: It will be best...to confine you two
Kyuusaku: Until Orochi is complete.
SFX: Kasha kasha
Nube: !?
SFX: Bashu
Kyuusaku: Fufu...the soul that will be it's nucleus is still small but...it's enough to create Orochi...
SFX: Hyu----

56.
Tamamo: Stop!
SFX: Da!
Kyuusaku: Don't get in the way!
SFX: Baki
Tamamo: Gu...
Kyuusaku: ...The method to start up the Orochi Origin Device is...first, stand in the center of the device...release all of the hatred in one's heart...and call it's name...

57.
SFX: Sha
Kyuusaku: I pray for one that I love to return. I pray for death to the world...
Kyuusaku: God! I cannot forgive you!
SFX: Batsu

58.
Kyuusaku: Orochi!!
SFX: Dooooo
Computer: Start Orochi Production: 30 minutes remain until birth. 30 minutes remain.
Computer: 30 minutes remain.
SFX: Bi--bi--
Nube: Y...you---

59.
Kyuusaku: Don't get in the way!
SFX: Kasha
Kyuusaku: Nuu! Oooooh
SFX: Goki goki goki
Kyuusaku: Ugoaaaah
Nube: He's fully releasing that earlier power!
Tamamo: He's like a dragon!

60.
Kyuusaku: Hyoooooh
SFX: Batsu
SFX: Ga
Nube: Gu...
SFX: Zazazazaza
Tamamo: U...uwa...

61.
SFX: Dogaa
Nube: Gyaa...
Tamamo: S...S**t...
Nube: Ow--what an attack.
SFX: Zuru zuru
Nube: He's come to almost not have an ability to think.
Kyuusaku: Jirurururu...
Tamamo: He's completely a beast.
Tamamo: Take this!
Nube: Monster.

62.
Kyuusaku: Hoiyo---!
SFX: Gyuaaaah | Zaku zaku zaku
Tamamo: Uaaaa!
Nube: Hes come to not have thinking ability and is fighting with just instinct. He's now in a berserker condition!!
SFX: Gashi gashi

63.
Kyuusaku: Hai----
SFX: Gushaa
Kyuusaku: Hai, hai, hai---
SFX: Bita---Bita---bita---

64.
Tamamo: N...no good, this speed and power...we can't counterattack!
Nube: The scattering of ki is furious! We can't maintain my Youshin body...we'll die...!
SFX: Gi | Puran...
Tamamo: Gya~~~~
Nube: Uwaa~~~
SFX: Bari bari--|Bori bori

65.
SFX: Pun
SFX: Nya
SFX: Byurururu | Nyororo...
Nube: !!
Tamamo: Huh...
Nube: Uaa...
SFX: Juru juru juru juru
Tamamo: He...he's...sucking the ki...

66.
Tamamo: How stupid...it's as if a human is
SFX: Zu...zuzuzuzu
Nube: No, we've been defeated...I'm sorry...Hiroshi...Kyouko...everyone...
Computer: 20 minutes remain until the birth of Orochi. 20 minutes remain.
SFX: Bi--bi--bi--
Nube: With this, the town of Domori will...
SFX: Bi---bi---bi---bi---
Tamamo: Will it end with this...

67.
SFX: Kiiiiiin
SFX: Dogaaa
Kyuusaku: Guooooh...
Nube: !?

68.
Hiroshi: Soldier Hiroshi!
Kyouko: Goddess of Protection Kyouko!

69.
Miki: Strongest Destructive Excellent Huge-Busted Beautful Witch Miki!
Makoto: Youkai-User Makoto!
Katsuya: Flying Soldier Katsuya!
SFX: Bi

70.-71.
Students: The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association has arrived!
(TN: Now that we finally have our title of this arc mentioned, I can finally go over why I translated it as such. The original Japanese name of the team that Hiroshi and the others take is "Doumori Shounen Yougekidan". "Doumori" obviously is the name of the town, while "shounen", while usually used as "young males", can also have a more general meaning of "youth" or "juvenilles". And since we have two girls, it didn't feel right using the typical meaning of "shounen", thus I went with the "youth" one. "Yougekidan" on the other hand had the hardest of meanings to figure out but I made do the best I could. Typically, there is a Japanese word of "yougeki", which is "assault" or, in another set of kanji, "ambush attack". The "assault" made the most sense, but there was a catch: the "you" is the one we typically see as in "youkai" or "youki" and is typically translated as "bewitching", "attractive" or "calamity". However since it usually has some sort of spiritual connection as mentioned, I made it "spiritual-assault" to make both meanings fuse. Finally, "dan" could either be "group" or "association", the latter seeming to make more sense for a group of fighting warriors for some reason. Thus...why we have the name of our team...and arc.)
SFX: Gi
Nube: You're kidding?

72.
KURITA MAKOTO
His inspiration was the masterpiece of Umezu Kazuo-san, "Makoto-chan".
Also, the role of his sweetheart has the name of Ai, but the reason for that is to parody "Ai and Makoto", the original work of Kajiwara Itsuki

TN: I think in some ways that this chapter really seems to outline Kyuusaku as very much a tragic villain, even though we sort of had that impression and feel with a lot of what came before this moment and with Keiko's obsession with saving her husband. While everything said before seems to show he's only doing this because of the woman that was taken away from him and the world that has shunned him because of his bizarre research, the speech that he gives where he seems to even shun "God" just so he could give birth to Orochi with the stolen children souls just furthers that aspect. Yeah, many consider Kyuusaku a monster and rightly so, even down to his deformed appearance and the monstrous armor he uses for combat. But at the same time, he was pushed into this because his research was shunned and his wife was killed and ripped apart by the idiots. Now yes, punishing the human race and maybe even the gods for doing this is probably a tad extreme but Kyuusaku's just been pushed beyond all matters of sanity, thus why he thinks doing something as extreme as bringing about Orochi is going to end up giving him long-sought justice. With that said, the utter change in strategy from trying to utilize the best of the Youkai Soldier armor to the Berserker Mode he has that mutated him into a dragon is just sick, particularly with Nube and Tamamo nearly out of youki to the point that they nearly were hurt by all that was going on. But of course, with the students finally there to protect and help them, maybe things will change for the better...but yeah, there is still the whole "stopping Orochi" matter.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 231

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:45:30 +0000

Having survived many difficulties, Hiroshi and the others are finally closing in on their goals to stop the Youkai Doctor. However, can Nube and Tamamo hold him off long enough to allow for this power to be found and used!?

#231: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 8th: Fever Attack!!

30.
Hiroshi: You've returned well, Katsuya.
SFX: Hyuu
Katsuya: Hehe...so eventually all of you were no good if I hadn't returned.

31.
Katsuya: Is this the Youkai Doctor's study...
Kyouko: She said that the spell was hidden within the safe.
Miki: Where is the safe?
Hiroshi: Ah!
Kyouko: You have it!?
Hiroshi: Look, these books were in the Youkai Doctor's bookshelves.
Magazine: Sukebe (Lecher)
Katsuya: Amazing, he has a big porn collection.
Miki: Look, secret savings, secret savings!
Makoto: Ahaha: "The Love-Love Diary of Me and My Wife"!
Kyouko: Love-Love...
Kyouko: Really, whatever that is private of the Youkai Doctor is fine---. N?

32.
Kyouko: There it is!
Kyouko: Everyone, step back. I'll destroy it with the power of my stone.
SFX: Katsu
Miki: Why is she posing...
Kyouko: There. In that file is the name of the ultimate youkai of good that will defeat Orochi...
SFX: Shu---
Kyouko: "Revealed from the slate..."...u--m, I'll abridge this. Here it is: "The Ultimate Youkai of Evil: Orochi. And then opposing is the Ultimate Youkai of Good..."

33.
Kyouko: It's name is...
Katsuya: Th...th...that's...!?
Miki: It's...it's that...
Book: The Ultimate Youkai of Good. It's name is
(TN: I don't know whether or not you want to write the "shielded off symbol" that is by Miki's head here, but in case you do, just write a blocked off "K" or "Ke"...I rather we keep the mystery myself)
Miki: Is...isn't that a word that we all kno---w well...
Caption: Resolved to be in the way

34.
SFX: Dogaa
Kyuusaku: Fuhahahaha: what's wrong, what's wrong? The two of you don't have your heads anymore!!
SFX: Gogogogogogo

35.
(TN: I think that Kyuusaku was making a silly pun here when he said the "don't have your heads anymore". Before looking at this page, he says "mou kubi ga tunagatte nai!!", which literally is "don't have your head connected on anymore", which is an expression he probably is using to say they're not "acting smart" any further in the battle...which is why the next page both Nube and Tamamo are headless.)
Nube: S**t...it's regretful but a large amount of ki is scattered about and the physical body of Hinokami is getting hurt. I've come to not being able to regenerate.
SFX: Zubo
Tamamo: He's absorbing the youki in the atmosphere...his power is inexhaustable.
Kyuusaku: Kukuku, you finally understand.
Kyuusaku: In that case, die!
SFX: Doo
SFX: Gua

36.-37.
Nube & Tamamo: !!
Kyuusaku: Ku...damn it...did I thoughtlessly lead them here...

38.
Nube: This is...a giant youkai origin device...!?
SFX: Suta suta
Tamamo: No...this isn't an ordinary youkai origin device!
SFX: Zaza--
Kyuusaku: Kukuku...well, since you've seen it, let me explain...
Kyuusaku: This is...the origin device of OROCHI, the utimate youkai of evil.
Nube: Orochi!?
Kyuusaku: The super-ancient...ultimate weapon left to civilization that manipulates ki. It is a weapon of destruction that far surpasses even modern nuclear weapons.

39.
Kyuusaku: I will make Orochi with this device...and the entire world will be destroyed by my hand.
Nube: Ku...he's a mad guy...
Tamamo: Hinokami-kun...that's
Nube: !
Nube: It's...a giant soul that was made by gathering the souls of children! The mechanism beneath it...perhaps is the device that collects these souls...

40.
Kyuusaku: Of course: this soul has become the nucleus of Orochi. And this device absorbed the souls of the children, being linked to the cursed game.
Kyuusaku: That's all for the explanation. Disappear!
SFX: Dogagagagaga
Nube & Tamamo: Guwaa!
Nube & Tamamo: Haa haa haa...

41.
Nube: Right...however, we heard your explanation now and our hopes have gushed forth a bit...
SFX: Shuuu...
Tamamo: For the time being, if we destroy the device, then the curse will reasonably dissapear...we'll use our trump card.
Kyuusaku: ?
SFX: Sasasasasa...
Kyuusaku: Oh!?
SFX: Baba!
Kyuusaku: Eh.
Nube & Tamamo: F...
Kyuusaku: He...hey, just a moment, that's...it can't be...
Caption: I'm frequently sorry for this, Toriyama-sensei...
(TN: Obviously, the "Toriyama-sensei" apology here is tied to the belief that this is tied to the "Fusion" move of "Dragon Ball", where two people do a particular fusion "dance" before putting fingers together and fusing together. The move even begins with a "Fu", which I had to change into an "F" because in actuality...)

42.
Nube & Tamamo: Fever Attack!!
SFX: Dobabababa

43.
Kyuusaku: Wh...what~~~~!?
Nube: How's that! Even though we're small, if we keep close to you, then you can't attack!
Kyuusaku: !
Kyuusaku: You impertent! However with this, you two can't attack either!
Tamamo: That's right: we have bodies like clay. Since there are mere cracks in your armor...
SFX: Nyuru

44.
Tamamo: We can go inside and attack. Because the contents of your armor is a mere human.
SFX: Giri giri
the
SFX: Girigiri Gigigi
Nube: Oraora
(TN: I think Nube's "Ora ora" here is a parody of the "Ora Ora" of Jotaro Kujoh of "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure", so I'll leave it as is here)
SFX: Chiku chiku gabu
Kyuusaku: Owowow.
SFX: Gorogorogoro...
Kyuusaku: Guaaaa~~~
Kyuusaku: Hii...

45.
Kyuusaku: Uoooo Gaaaa (Geho...)
SFX: Gigigi | Giri
Nube: The--re, destroy the curse device!
SFX: Doga | Wa--wa--| Bachi bachi | Wa--
Tamamo: With this, we'll save Akira's life!
Sign: Doumori Hospital
Nurse: Doctor---the patient's condition is...!

46.
SFX: Shu----
Kyuusaku: Sh...s**t...I can't forgive you two. You've gone too far with your pranking! (Haa haa)
Tamamo: Give up.
Kyuusaku: Guaaaa!
SFX: Gabaa
Nube & Tamamo: !!

47.
Kyuusaku: Haaaa~~~~
SFX: Doshuuuuu
Nube: Ku...
SFX: Zazaza---
Nube: Chi, though we had a bit more...
Tamamo: He instantly released the youki and shook it off...
Kyuusaku: Veroza Zazareno Namure...
Nube: He...is he gathering youki again...
SFX: Gogogogogogogo
Tamamo: No...it's a bit different from up to now...

48.
Youkai 1: Gigi---
SFX: Zaza---
Youkai 2: ??
Youkai 3: Hi----
SFX: Zazaza
Youkai: Gi---!
SFX: Hyu
Nube: He's...absorbing the youkai in the mansion!?
SFX: Guoooo | Zubozubo
Tamamo: Ridiculous...if he's absorbing that much youki, then the human inside won't be able to withstand it!

49.
Kyuusaku: No one will stop my Orochi Production Plan! Even if my body gets destroyed!!
Nube: That's dangerous power.
Tamamo: Is this his final measure?

50.
HOSOKAWA MIKI
Previously, within the feature "These Manga are Amazing!" of "Betsusatsu Takara()", "Nube" was in the "Huge Breast manga Best Five"
Perhaps the reason is her. (Arrow)
(TN: "Betsusatsu Takara()" refers to "Betsusatsu Takarajima", a special-edition magazine published by publisher Takarajima that usually collects a lot of information usually about opinions, popularity and such. The "Kono~~ ga sugoi" or "This ~~ is Amazing" series is one of these collections, as stated here being a manga edition where Nube was mentioned...and made infamous thanks to our busty beauty)

TN: This is what I love about Nube as a series: the cast is in a life-or-death, possibly apocalyptic situation where the fate of the entire town is at stake...and we have the love diary of the evil mad doctor and an attack that seems to begin like the Fusion Dance from Dragon Ball. Even with the whole nightmare and hopelessness, the series always seems to find a way to remember who these characters are and give them quirks and silly moments like this instead of just getting all angsty and troublesome like...well, most of the other manga I know of that get serious like this. (honestly, whenever a series gets so battle and combat heavy, it forgets its sense of humor when it happens in shonen) Admittedly, I really liked the "Fever Attack" that Nube and Tamamo used that allowed for them to face off against Kyuusaku from the inside instead of the outside, bringing up a vast flaw in the whole "Youkai Soldier" armor that he had been touting for a good chunk of the arc now. Sure a lot of the youki in the area had to be used to get at it, but of course no one really figured that he would be desperate enough to use that final option that may kill him for the next chapter. And as for the students: well while they have their work cut out for them (seriously, Kyuusaku's going to be impossible to stop with him absorbing all the artificial youkai and in the room where Orochi is going to be created), at least they have the means to stop him with what they got, even if...well, they need to get through a lot to even use it with the plan of Orochi's revival so closed to fruition!

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 230

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:28:34 +0000

In order to save the town, Nube's students are headed to find out the true identity of the youkai that could save everyone. But with troubles along the way, they may finally have gained the means to fight back against the Youkai Doctor!

Volume 27: Mari-san
#230: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 7th: Stone, Shine!!

7.
Captions: (top to bottom; right to left)
-North Building Top Floor: the spell for the creation of the ultimate youkai of righteousness is hidden here!
-North Building
-Hiroshi's Group is wandering around this area...
-Passage
-Hyakkokukan (Main Building)
-Hidden Room of the Mansion Floor: Wife of the Youkai Doctor...
(TN: There is an expression used here for where Keiko is hidden as "ikkai", which generally is "first floor". But since that isnt the first floor, I made it "a floor" of the mansion to make more sense to the readers)
-Hinokami Akira (Nube)/Nagumo Keita (Tamamo)
-Youkai Doctor (Nakiri Kyuusaku)
-Maze tens of feet below: Hinokami - Nagumo vs. Youkai Doctor: in the midst of waging battle!

8.
Caption: Courage
Caption: Friendship

9.
Kyouko: This is a super-ancient armsI. It feels the strong feelings of it's owner and transforms. They are amazing weapons.
(TN: Weirdly Kyouko refers to the power of the charm they possess as both "heiki" and "buki", which both stand for "weapon". Thus, I ended up making "heiki" as "arms" here and kept "buki" as "weapon")
Miki: Are---they?
Miki: Inconceivable. Then why hasn't mine transformed? Kyouko and Hiroshi's have transformed. Naturally Miki-chan, the first F-cup grade school idol in history would have transformed first, but are you fine--this plot---!?
Hiroshi: Well--well--
Kyouko: Fu, God is just.
Kyouko: I'm certain that it just transforms for people with clean hearts.
Miki: What is that, you----
Katsuya: ...It absolutely won't transform for someone like me. I became scared and ran away...I'm a coward...

10.
Kyouko: Look, stairs. We can get up to the 2nd floor with these.
Hiroshi: OK, if we can get across the passage, we'll be in the north building.
Hiroshi: Ah!
SFX: Boro...
Kyouko: We pass through here?
Miki: If we fall, there are sharp rocks below us. We'll die.
Hiroshi: Heh, what's with you? Wouldn't it be reasonable if we go with the idea of hopscotch--... (Ju--mp, ju--mp...)
(TN: In Japan, "hopscotch" is known as "Kenkenpaa"/"Kenkenpar". He ended up saying "ke--n ke--n par" here, but I tried to make it work by having him state 'hop hop hop' instead)

11.
Hiroshi: Jum...
SFX: Baki
Kyouko: Dummy.
Kyouko: How about it? Go with discretion.
SFX: Gishi gishi
Makoto: Ah! It's mouse-san. It has many children.
SFX: Chu--chu--
Miki: Please ignore those things.
Voice 1: Hey, the floor over there is rotting.
Voice 2: Hi
SFX: Kyuuu...

12.
Electric Youkai: Gieee!!
Hiroshi: !!
SFX: Bari bari bari bari
Kyouko: Uwaa!
Kyouko: S**t...on this floor...
Hiroshi: We can't fight on that floor!
Miki: Shine, shine.
Kyouko: Quickly pass to over there.
SFX: Hi---

13.
Miki: Makoto! What are you doing?
Makoto: Mouse-san...
Makoto: I can't ignore mouse-san. Any small life is important.
SFX: Da!
Miki: Makoto!
SFX: Guwa---
Miki: Makoto---
Caption: Kindness

14.
SFX: Gi...
Makoto: Stop.
Makoto: Don't torment small children.
Makoto: Everyone, be friends.
SFX: Uru uru uru
Electric Youkai: Kuuu~~~n.
SFX: Pero pero

15.
Hiroshi: Hee...Makoto has the power to emotionally attach to youkai...
Kyouko: It's a peace weapon, that's like Makoto.
Makoto: Wow---I can also understand the words of animals.
Mouse: Thank chu--thank chu--
(TN: In Japanese, the mouse ended up saying "arigachu"...I think "thank chu" is the perfect translation)
Miki: And mine?
Makoto: Live as friends.
Hiroshi: With that, he can spoil any strong youkai.
Miki: And mine~~~
Makoto: Miki-chan doesn't have strong emotions that would invoke her stone.
Kyouko: Seems so: she doesn't possess some pre-eminent thing such as courage, friendship or kindness.
Miki: What's that, you shrimp~~~!
Miki: Alright, if we climb this spiral staircase
Kyouko: It's the top floor of the north building.

16.
Hiroshi: Let's go!
SFX: Goron!
SFX: Goron goron goro goro
Hiroshi: Huh!?

17.
Makoto: Wa---!
SFX: Goro goro goro goro
Kyouko: Th...there are gadgets here too!
Kyouko: Miki! What are you doing!?
Miki: What? Fufu, next is naturally my turn for a stone to shine.
Miki: Please come: here is my turn.
Kyouko: Miki!
Hiroshi: Wh...what is she saying!?
Miki: Well, please shine my stone. Enter the star performer! The birth of a heroine: the descent of the messiah!
SFX: Bika---!

18.
Miki: ......
SFX: Shi---n...
Miki: What's--the matter: this is the scene where you shine. Since it's me, it should be the strongest, the coolest and the flashiest. Well, shine. Shine, shine, well shine----
Hiroshi: Miki----
Kyouko: No---she'll be smashed.---
Miki: Shine---shine! Can't you shi---ne! Sh---shine. Shishishi...
SFX: Goro goro goro goro

19.
SFX: Pika pika pika pika
Caption: Vanity
Miki: Hohohohohohohoho....

20.
Miki: Ho---hohoho.
SFX: Pishaa! | Dogaa | Bari bari bari bari
Kyouko: It...it seems that stone seems to shine even without a particularly just heart...
SFX: Bika bika bika---
Hiroshi: That's extremely flashy...Is she Kobayashi Sachiko...
(TN: Sachiko Kobayashi is a notable, popular enka singer who is famous not just for her singing but for her loud, gaudy and outlandish performance appearances)
Katsuya: Miki's stone has shined too...

21.
SFX: Doka
Katsuya: She destroyed the wall---what an excessive attack.
SFX: Shuuu
Katsuya: ...! I can follow this tree outside and run away...
SFX: Hyuuu
Katsuya: Just me...can escape from this place.
SFX: Goku... (Gulp...)
Kyouko: Stupid---! Didn''t these stairs become crumbling!
Miki: Well~~~sorry, sorry, put that aside!
SFX: Sukkiri (Clear)
Hiroshi: You can't control your power that's just flashy.
Hiroshi: Nothing we can do: shall we only climb this?
SFX: Gi gi...
Kyouko: Be careful.
Kyouko: ?
SFX: Kyuuun Kyuuun...

22.
Kyouko: Wh...what? Th...there are sounds from above...a large number...
SFX: Zaza---
EVeryone: Uwaaa~~~~

23.
Hiroshi: Ca...can we fight this number of them!
Kyouko: I can't mark off a guard.
Makoto: They won't be our friends.
Miki: Mine won't shine again---
SFX: Suta
Katsuya: Well, do your best everyone.
Voices: Gya---! Wa---!
Katsuya: Wh...what? Are they being hurt?

24.
Katsuya: Did...did you know? That has nothing to do with me---...
Katsuya: Everyone...
Katsuya: They...have been buddies all, all along even to me, a coward...and...Nube...Akira...
Katsuya: S...s**t...I can't move my legs. Something is restraining...me...
SFX: Paaa...

25.
Kyouko: It's no good...this barrier can't hold.
Hiroshi: As is, we're mice who've fallen in a lake of pihranas.
HIroshi: S**t...is this the end...
Miki: No--I don't want to---die.
SFX: Zugaaa!!

26.
Katsuya: Sorry I was late.
SFX: Hyuooo
Caption: Responsibility
(TN: Katsuya's element is actually "Sekininkan" or "Sense of Responsibility", but the "kan" sort of just emphasizes that it is responsibility so it didn't need to be repeated)

27.
Hiroshi: Katsuya----!!
Kyouko: That is too cool---!
Miki: Yo...yours stands out more than mine... (We'll exchange later)
Katsuya: Let's go: hold on tight!
Hiroshi: To the top floor at once.
SFX: Hyuuu----n
Kyouko: Let's find the spell for the ultimate youkai in the Youkai Doctor's study!
SFX: Hyuuu---n

28.
Coloring and Secret Stories of Character Births

KIMURA KATSUYA
He wasn't planned to be changed into a regular character originally, he was a person among the "other crowd".
However, one of the assistants was pleased with him and he became a regular from when he ended up getting up to a character settei.
Even though the proposal power of an assistant like that is strong, that is a characteristic of this manga. Oh brother...
(TN: A "settei" is a type of drawing used in manga and anime that sort of allows for an artist to have a background and set-up to drawing a character for usage, including aspects of their expressions, how they look, costumes, etc)

TN: Well at least Miki finally has the power she well deserves...I think. Mind you, hardly anyone would ever imagine that someone's vanity would end up leading to a power awakened and probably was more due to Miki's own stubbornness, but...it's Miki, of course she's stubborn...and vain...and obsessed with her own power, importance and bustiness.

Mind you, this chapter for the most part was for the awakening of the remainder of the there protective charms that the students got from Keiko, so of course we would get her as well as Makoto and Katsuya. Katsuya is probably the one that needed the most development, but that was more or less a continuation of the previous chapter. He's always had these issues of taking responsibility, either it be for himself or for others, and that is just something that became natural for his own power...which lead to that awesome bike he just received. And Makoto...well, he just has a way with making friends and seemed to always get the weirder, friendlier youkai throughout the series. But hey, that helmet...is still rather strange considering the power he did receive. At least with this whole process done (and Miki really happy...for the moment), we can go forward with the story...and maybe seeing where Nube and Tamamo are with their fight with Kyuusaku!

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 229

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:50:42 +0000

With a new mission given by the tragic wife of the Youkai Doctor, the 5-3 students head forth within the mansion to get the key to stopping him. But how will they make it there...the answer may lie in their strange new charms...

#229: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 6th: The Great Counteroffensive!!

184.
Kyuusaku: You~~~in spite of being kids, you've pushed a good thing too far~~~
Nube: We're not kids. In truth we're
Tamamo: I'm 400 years old.
Caption: Unpleasant Brat

185.
Kyuusaku: You...you~~~Haaa~~~
Nube: Ge...He's absorbing youki again. He'll regenerate...this will get endless...
SFX: Goki goki
Nube: Huh?
Tamamo: What?
SFX: Shuuu
Kyuusaku: It should be...this stone is the super-ancient weapon: it absorbs youki and acquires attack power...it can put together the circumstances of the battle and can also transform!

186.
Kyuusaku: Shiryouhou! (Ghost Cannon!)
SFX: Dododododo
Tamamo: Ku...he's increased his hit percentage...
Nube: Chi...
Nube: Damn...even amidst doing this, Hiroshi and the others are...those children don't have spiritual abilities; if I can't save them quickly...

187.
Nube: Those children are...helpess...!
Hiroshi: Haa haa haa
Hiroshi: Alright, we'll do it. We'll solve this case. We'll show you, Hinokami. (Haa haa)
Kyouko: Hey, Hiroshi, have you thought of and run down the exact path? Hiroshi!?
Hiroshi: Let's go---!
Kyouko: Are you a wild boar? Though in addition we're in a mansion that's like a maze!

188.
Kyouko: First we'll search for stairs that go up to the 2nd floor! And then we'll move to the next building with that passage. The spell for the ultimate youkai of righteousness is hidden on the top floor of that north building!
Hiroshi: Hoo hoo.
Hiroshi: Understood, the stairs. Those stairs,well then, let's gyo---
(TN Yeah, Hiroshi does speak rather silly when he says "ikimahyo", as in he doesn't literaly say "let's go" but something like "lets gyo" as I translated it)
SFX: Hera hera
Katsuya: He's optimistic~~~
Hiroshi: Well then---naturally we've already won with that hint we were given by the Youkai Doctor's wife, right?
Kyouko: Enough! Why are you settled in being calm!
SFX: Kyuuu~~~
SFX: Zuzuzu...
Hiroshi: !!

189.
Hiroshi: Waaaa
Kyouko: We've forgotten: youkai are emerging in this mansion!
Katsuya: Isn't it ultimately that nothing in our situation---has changed---? It's impossible for us...let...let's run.
Hiroshi: Hold on!
HIroshi: We're always, always just running here and there. We can't do anything; that is as Hinokami said.
Hiroshi: Can we come to this point and go in reverse? We have to fight and break through with force!
Katsuya: Do...don't talk stupid--ly!

190.
Katsuya: You're always like that! Being so haphazard---! I've thought that since a long time ago; I can't foll--ow you!
Hiroshi: What? You're fine even if we don't save Akira and Nube?
Katsuya: It...it's fine...if I were to lose my life...I...I'm different from you.
Kyouko: Katsuya...
Hiroshi: You dummy---
SFX: Kuwa

191.
Katsuya: I won't follow---you.
SFX: Tata
Hiroshi: Katsuya!
SFX: Zuzu... | Kuru
Hiroshi: It's movements are dull...alright, since I'm going to hold it back, slip through the opening and advance to the front.
Kyouko: Hiroshi.
Hiroshi: Let's go---
SFX: Da!

192.
SFX: Pin! | Dogaa
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
SFX: Zugagagaga
Hiroshi: Go quickly! I'll be playing for a bit and immediately run after you from behind.
SFX: Muku
Miki: Kyouko, let's go.
Hiroshi: Uaa~~~
SFX: Doga | Gusha | Baki

193.
Nube: Hahaha, give up, give up, you'll lose your life. This isn't an opponent that can be managed by your hands.
Tamamo: Fu, join our power togethers? Worthless, that is funny.
Hiroshi: Damn you---We are not...
Hiroshi: Helpless---!!

194.
Caption: Courage

195.
SFX: Gushaaa!
Kyouko: !
Miki: Amaz...
SFX: Zan!
Hiroshi: ......
Miki: Wh...what's the matter, Hiroshi, that's
Hiroshi: I don't know. Suddenly the charm shined...

196.
Kyouko: It seems that's like a super-ancient weapon. You carry it on you and it transforms with some impetus.
Hiroshi: Ah.
Miki: Impetus?
Kyouko: Hey, before was that OOPARTS that was discovered at the Doumori Ruins. Didn't that move from reading the ki of the hearts of humans? I'm certain that it operates by strongly thinking with the heart.
Miki: Al--right, I too will have Miki-chans' Gorgeous Armor!!
Makoto: Let me trans--form--
Miki: It won't change--won't it--that's sly, it's just Hiroshi.
Makoto: Let me borrow it---
Hiroshi: Heh, it's no good for dirty guys.
Miki: What---please hand that over---
Kyouko: Don't be quarreling---
SFX: Gya---gya---

197.
Kyouko: Well, let's move ahead.
SFX: Shuuu...
Miki: Ah, it returned to normal.
Hiroshi: It changes just when it's necessary.
Miki: Where did Katsuya get to?
Kyouko: I'm worried.
Hiroshi: Leave him alone. He's hiding somehow.
Miki: Ah, look: those aren't the stairs but it is an elevator.
Miki: Let's go up in civilized convenience.
Kyouko: Ah, Miki, you can't be alone carelessly...
Miki: Ara? There isn't a switch or anything...
SFX: Gakon! | Giri giri giri
Miki: ?

198.
Kyouko: Kyaaa! The ceiling!
SFX: Goton goton goton
Miki: We'll be squashed---
Kyouko: A fence!
SFX: Gasha--n
Miki: It's a trap!
Kyouko: Hiroshi, slice it in half with your weapon!
SFX: Gasha gasha
Hiroshi: No good! Though it cuts youkai well...
Miki: No~~~I don't want to die---
Kyouko: Miki! There is a cavity for one person in the floor. If you go over there, you'l be saved!
Miki: Ah.
Miki: O--K, I'm---in...so, what will you--do, Kyouko.

199.
Kyouko: It's no good. It saves just one person.
Miki: Do...don't talk stupid. Kyouko!
Kyouko: Miki...you're stupid. I'm begging you for those young men.
Miki: He...hey, what are you saying, Kyouko? Why are you doing it this far, Kyouko!!
Kyouko: What...you're my close friend...it's because you're the most important thing to me...
Miki: Kyouko...

200.
Caption: Friendship
SFX: Gua | Bari bari bari bari

201.
Kyouko: Mine is like a barrier.
Miki: A~~ww, I want one too~~I want that--
Kyouko: Fu, you want this? He--re, he--re.
SFX: Pata pata
Caption: Friendship...
Miki: Ki----!
Hiroshi: Alright! Let's go to the North Building!
(End of Vol. 26)

202.-203.
Caption:
VOLUME 27 PREVIEW!!
HIROSHI, KYOUKO, MIKI, KATSUYA, MAKOTO...THE FEELINGS OF THESE BOYS AND GIRLS ARE NOW...
REVIVE THE ULTIMATE YOUKAI OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!!
The Newest Vol. 27 is Scheduled for Release in November!!
204.
Ai: Do your best, everyone; the saving of Doumori town can only be done by all of you.

SHINOZAKI AI
She utterly hasn't appeared at all recently but she is Makoto's girlfriend (?) Incidentally, her voice actor in the anime was Oikawa Hitomi-san.
(TN: Hitomi Oikawa is a VA mostly known for her role in the anime "Katri, Girl of the Meadows")
(TN: Poor Ai...it's sad she really only has had two chapters and a couple cameos here or there, the next of which won't be until...eww, I don't even want to think of the next cameo Ai has that I know of. I know the series isn't about 6th graders, but Ai is different: she's connected to Makoto, so she could have been a good connection to the upper grades! But hey, we get her here so it isn't too bad...I think)

205.
OVA-edition Nube is now for rental!

#1: Decisive Battle! Youshin Jutsu vs. Kabeotoko
#2: The Mysterious Great Mystery Bukimi-chan
(The voice of Bukimi-chan is the famous Miwa Katsue of "Perman" etc.)
(TN: Miwa Katsue is another VA who had been active since 1960, most famous for her acting as the lead in the anime rendition of the Fujiko F. Fujio manga "Perman" (Paaman), a series that parodied/homaged the American comic book hero Superman)
Nube: The videos of the TV-edition is sucessively being released! (Same goes for the movies!)

TN: Well this is the one for the end of the chapter in case you were keeping track...

This chapter...and the next I sort of consider a bit of a breather that allow for the students to get what they need in order to make their way through to the end of this arc. Well yeah, they're still trying to escape an army of youkai that all want them dead (even if they're all artificially manufactured by Kyuusaku's ancient devices), but here we sort of see the characters get the weapons that allow for their further survival in this hellhole. As for the weapons...Hiroshi getting a giant metal gauntlet befits him, though Kyouko getting wings that create a barrier tries to play off her angelic nature...I think considering shes still somewhat a monster if pushed too hard. (she's been like that since day one though: cute but with an edge) Though one interesting factor, whether or not it's for drama or merely in general, was seeing Katsuya chicken out and leave the group for the time being. I know some would probably consider him weak for doing it, but it sort of goes along with his character: there are many moments he seems to show cowardice in facing up to things but ultimately shines through. Its tough to really say how that is going to be here in the mansion but that's for the future to define. And as for Nube and Tamamo...well, considering Kyuusaku probably has a few more tricks up his sleeve, they probably have to really work this one out somehow or another. (though one hopes it will be resolved somehow...well first we need to find out Miki's power but we know how she is by now regarding these sorts of things)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 228

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:33:08 +0000

Hopeless, powerless, and trapped within the mad mansion of the Youkai Doctor, the 5-3 quintet have been lead into a hidden room by a mysterious voice. Who is behind this sudden lead...and what do they want with the students!?

#228: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 5th: The Youkai Doctor's Wife

164.
Kyouko: Those terrible wounds...is she dead?
Katsuya: Is her bust an 85?
Hiroshi: What is this ball!?
SFX: Tsun tsun
Makoto: It looks like it's covering.
"Ball": Don't touch me!

165.
Keiko: I am...Nakiri Keiko. The Youkai Doctor's...Nakiri Kyuusaku's wife.
SFX: Shi~~~~~!?
Kyouko: If the husband is the husband, then the wife is the wife, huh. (Whisper whisper whisper)
Miki: Their marriage ceremony would have been incredible, huh!
Keiko: ......
Kyouko: Ara

166.
Keiko: ---We were a scholar couple who were researching the Doumori Ruins. And we had announced at the academinc meeting the super-ancient device that we've discovered there.
Keiko: You've seen it too: its that device that creates youkai...however...
Scholars: Bogus! A trick!
Keiko: Please stop, it's dangerous...
Kyuusaku & Keiko: Gyaaaa!
SFX: Goooo

167.
Keiko: ---My husband carried my dead body home, used ancient techniques and present science
Keiko: And somehow I returned to life. I have no idea how. However my soul couldn't return to my physical body anymore.
Kyuusaku: Uuh...Keiko...
Keiko: And then...my husband changed...
Kyuusaku: Uuuh...Ku...ku...hi...hi...

168.
Kyuusaku: Fuhahahaha...it's fine you saw that, people of society! I make an oath: that I will have revenge on all of you...and will bring my wife back to life, even if I sell my heart to the devil.
Keiko: From then on, my husband continued to decipher the ancient records like he had gone mad...
Keiko: And finally...
Kyuusaku: Ku ku ku, I've found it, I've found it. This...if I used this...
Kyuusaku: The Ultimate Ancient Youkai: Orochi!!
(TN: A bit on Orochi will be spoken of...but it won't be until the end of the arc)

169.
Keiko: Orochi, the strongest artificial youkai that the super-ancient civilization brought forth. If he were to use it's overwhelming youryoku, he could return to life me, his wife and...use it as the ultimate weapon of destruction...
Keiko: My husband finally started to make Orochi.
Keiko: First, he made the giant Orochi Origin Device under the mansion...
Keiko: He created the cursed game for gathering young, fresh souls that will become Orochi's core and started to steal the souls of children.
Keiko: That is the true form of the cursed game.

170.
Hiroshi: Ku...with that, Akira and many children were...
Kyouko: Made into sacrifices for making the soul of Orochi.
Keiko: It isn't just children...if Orochi is born, with it's overwhelming youryoku
Keiko: Japan will be ruins in 3 days.
Hiroshi: Huh!?

171.
Hiroshi: Even so---auntie, why are you, the wife of the Youkai Doctor, tell us of those things?
Keiko: Aun...
Miki: Stupid---they have various things as a husband and wife. (They're bad fellows, he may have committed adultery...and is going to get an insurance payout...)
SFX: Whisper whisper
Keiko: .....
Keiko: Wrong...I want to save people. Those pitiful people...
Kyuusaku: Haaa~~~you won't interfere with my plans~~~~!!
SFX: Dodododododo

172.
Nube & Tamamo: Gua
Kyuusaku: Even if you small fries run here and there, you shouldn't have a hand to strike anymore. Prepare yourselves.
SFX: Gogogogogogo
Tamamo: What do we do, Hinokami-kun?
Nube: Ah.
Nube: Nothing we can do. Shall I release my second shot of the suspicious items of Doumori Temple?
SFX: Goso goso

173.
Nube: Exorcism Flames: These are goods that can exterminate evil spirits with flames even if you're not a spiritualist with gunpowder that is put inside the seal of Fudou Myouou, the god of flames.
(TN: While we may have spoke of Fudou Myouou before, he is actually a Buddhist deity that does have a strong connection to flames: he possesses the flames that burn away all worldly desires and purify the mind)
Kyuusaku: ?
SFX: Poi
Kyuusaku: !?
SFX: Booo | Pigyaa!
Kyuusaku: What is this poor flame. Ha ha ha
SFX: Pa pa
Tamamo: It seemed useable.

174.
SFX: Kuru | Ta ta ta...
Kyuusaku: Wait, you can't run!
SFX: Da
SFX: Pita
Nube: If I attached the Exorcism Flames to the Reisatsuseki...You'll see, Youkai Doctor.
SFX: Gui gui
Kyuusaku: Wait!!
SFX: Pyon | Dadadada
SFX: Be---da

175.
Kyuusaku: Though I say to wait! It's useless even to run!
SFX: Kikiki----
Tamamo: That's enough. Look behind you.
Kyuusaku: What?
Kyuusaku: !?
Nube: The--re
Kyuusaku: Wha...!?

176.
Nube: Fire!
SFX: Shii
SFX: Boko
SFX: Byu
SFX: Byu byu
SFX: Byu byu byu
Kyuusaku: Wha?
SFX: Byu
SFX: Hi
SFX: Byuuuu...
Nube: It's over.

177.
SFX: Gyururururu
SFX: Dogagagaga
Kyuusaku: Guwaaa

178.
Nube: You're one where being unprepared is the greatest enemy.
(TN: Nube uses the expression "Yudan Taiteki", which is literally "being unprepared is your greatest enemy", but he connects it by saying he's a "guy" who did it, thus the translation I used here)
SFX: Za
Kyuusaku: Y...you---
SFX: Shuuu...
Keiko: ----I...want to save him. Before he becomes the greatest villain in history...
Keiko: Please, can't you stop his plan...
Hiroshi: Eh?
Kyouko: Wh...what can we do?

179.
Keiko: There is just one way. If the ultimate youkai of evil youki is Orochi, then there is an ultimate youkai of righteous youki that can oppose it.
Keiko: It was created...to defeat the super-ancient Orochi...the other ultimate youkai...that will be made by all of you!
Keiko: It isn't difficult: that will be made with the Orochi Origin Device that my husband has made underground. All of you should stand on top of the device, make your hearts into one, and chant the formation spell of the ultimate youkai.

180.
Hiroshi: Al...alright, if it's enough, then we can do this.
Kyouko: Yes, we'll do it.
Makoto: Will it be fine with whatever we chant?
Keiko: It is...my husband hid the spell in the study safe.
Keiko: The study is on the top floor of the north building.
Hiroshi: Uh...it's far...
Hiroshi: Even so, we'll do it! If we can save Akira and Nube with this
Miki: Yes! Let's do it, let's do it!
Keiko: Thank you, good children...
Keiko: There are ancient charms in the desk drawer. Please take those...I'm certain they should be useful.
Hiroshi: Huh?
Hiroshi: I'm certain we'll
Kyouko: Resolve this.

181.
Hiroshi: Thank you, auntie.
SFX: Gabi---n...
Keiko: A...aun...

182.
INABA KYOUKO
There was a TV Drama that was made about 20 years ago called "Magical Class 5-3" (Creator: Ishinomori Shoutarou's original work). For that reason (what reason?), Nube's class is 5-3. Within "Nube" is included various other parodies as well.

Everyone should look for those!
(TN: A couple things:
1. Shoutarou Ishinomori is notable as one of the most famous and important manga author, creating many of the most important concepts in Japanese media, including "Cyborg 009", and the "Kamen Rider" and "Super Sentai" (well "Himitsu Sentai Goranger") series.
2. "5-nen 3-gumi Mahougumi" (which I translated as "Magical Class 5-3") is a tokusatsu series from 1976-1977 that aired on TV Asahi and created by Toei, ironically being a Tokusatsu created during the period between Ishinomori's two notable sentai works, "Goranger" and follow-up "J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai")

TN: This chapter I say is a major and important turning point in the current arc, mostly due to explaining a lot of things and setting up a lot of what is going to happen later. First of all, this is the chapter that introduced the "other half" of the whole situation with the Youkai Doctor Kyuusaku: his wife Keiko. Keiko's situation ends up adding an interesting layer regarding Kyuusaku, both in good and bad ways. In the bad ways, it is because of her that he went insane, with the shunning of their research by the mainstream and the accident that ripped her body and nearly killed her leading to him wanting to take his revenge the way he is. But at the same time, the fact that Kyuusaku wants to destroy everything in order to save Keiko brings a bit more tragedy and nobility to his character. Sure what he wants to do is insane and may end up harming more than helping, but he's doing it driven by this passion he has for his wife and that he thinks that she needs to be brought back even if millions have to die in the process. Obviously Keiko not only knows this isn't true, but has set up a back-up plan using Hiroshi and the others in order to enact it. Obviously it would be telling to say what it is and how they are to be used, but the "ultimate good youkai" is one major key behind it...and likewise, those charms that were left in the desk. What they do...well, that's for next time. As for Kyuusaku and the Youshin's fight...well, it was neat to see Nube get that maneuver across using something else he knew worked (that Oshou, as stupid as he is, thinks is junk), but it was more to show the progress of the battle while the class gets the real meat of the story this time. The back-and-forth between the characters is necessary and we will get a bit of that until they reunite...so just bare with it.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 227

Thu, 22 Sep 2011 01:20:43 +0000

With Hiroshi and the others running for their lives from an army of artificial youkai, Hinokami (Nube) and Nagumo (Tamamo) are alone to take on the Youkai Doctor...who possesses a mighty power to challenge the spirit warriors!

#227: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 4th: Menace of the Youkai Soldier!!

144.
SFX: Go go go go go go
Kyuusaku: This is the Youkai Soldier---...the form of the super-ancient warrior!
Nube: A human clad in youryoku armor?
Tamamo: We can't seem to overlook this on a moment's notice.

145.
Kyuusaku: Kukuku, are you prepared...? Let's go!
SFX: Gotsu
Kyuusaku: This armor takes in a large amount of the youryoku in the atmosphere and makes it energy. If a human was clad in this, they can obtain the same power as a strong youkai. Yes...the equivalent power to an Oni or Tengu!!
(TN: Just because the chapter brought it up: tengu are generally considered powerful youkai originally seen as demons or war harbringers but today are considered kami of Shinto and are even worshiped in Shugendo. They are commonly youkai with human and avian characteristics, but can also take on a characteristic of merely being a "human with a long nose" in depiction)

146.
SFX: Gushaaa | Puki puki
Kyuusaku: Fu...it's over already...I'm relatively dumbfounded...
Kyuusaku: !?
SFX: Nyoro | Nura
Nube: Ah~~that was surprising.
Tamamo: Somehow if you think that these bodies can't die, then we can take an opportunity to defend.

147.
SFX: Ba
Kyuusaku: Ku...
Kyuusaku: Understood: these two have physical bodies that are made with kneading ki. I saw of this in literature...is this seemingly "Youshin Jutsu", that is used by only advanced spiritualists...
SFX: Kashan kashan
Tamamo: Hinokami-kun
SFX: Kacha
Nube: Right!
Nube: Reisatsuseki! This stone presents damage to the extent of the acceleration reached facing a youki body.

148.
Nube: Otto! I was off.
SFX: Byu
SFX: Ba
SFX: Zuba
Kyuusaku: Gu...a combination?...
SFX: Baki
Kyuusaku: You small fry!
SFX: Dogaa!

149.
Kyuusaku: Fu, ultimately you were no match for...
SFX: Hyu---kun!
SFX: Dogaa
Nube: Earlier I was off on purpose, because I was reaching force through hooking it to the pillar.
SFX: Zugagagaga

150.
Tamamo: Youkai Doctor...you too would have realized it if you are a scholar: our bodies can do anything simply similar to clay.
Nube: Bley ca~~n.
(TN: Nube ended up using "dayo~~n" here, finishing off Tamamo's sentence but at the same time making that weird face. I tried to make it work by having him go "bleh" but fusing it with "they can", thus ending up with that weird expression)
SFX: Nyoro nyoro
Tamamo: On the other hand, your prided armor did take just a bit with our attacks but it has taken damage. If you continue as is...
SFX: Gara
Tamamo: You don't have a chance!
Kyuusaku: Fu
Kyuusaku: Stop with the child's play bluff. (Hahahahaha)
Kyuusaku: I'm sorry but this armor has regenerative power.
SFX: Shuuu

151.
Kyuusaku: However, if you two took an attack of this armor that has youki, there would be a collision of ki and ki...
Kyuusaku: Your ki would scattered around a bit and decrease...wouldn't that increase the damage...?
SFX: Zuki zuki
Kyuusaku: Well then...with that, let me show you the true power of this armor in this vicinity. Vyurarura Uriruramu Hekitomu!!
SFX: Zuryuu!
Nube & Tamamo: !!

152.
Nube: Wh...what, a youkai in his shoulder!?
Tamamo: Wrong! That's the super-ancient civilization's destruction weapon...
Kyuusaku: Shiryoudama!!
(TN: "Shiryoudama" = "Dead-Spirit Ball")
SFX: Dooooo

153.
SFX: Dogooon
Tamamo: Th...that's...what he released was a ball of aura of the dead...?
SFX: Oooh | Uuh... | Hiiii...
Nube: Further, it's a great number...
Kyuusaku: Right: in the air, thousands to tens of thousands of spirits that aren't resting in peace drift about...I gather up those spirits and fire them. The ghosts now were the aura of a hundred people.
Kyuusaku: Further, the Shiryoudama has many varieties by their grudge. Now was the ball of spirits that died by a physical power like an accident.

154.
Kyuusaku: And this are!!
SFX: Bo
SFX: A Shiryoudama of spirits who died in fire such as in a fire accident.
(TN: Weirdly Kyuusaku ends up saying in Japanese "Kaji na do Hi", which actually stands for "fire such as in a fire", but the "hi" is regular natural "fire" while "kaji" is a "fire incident" such as an accident or arson. Thus I had to make it sound like the two "fire" here are different)
SFX: Dogaa
Nube: Uwa
SFX: Gooooo
Spirits: Its hot---... | Save me---...
Nube: A...amazingly hight temperature.
(TN: The term actually used here isn't "high temperature" but "kounetsu", which usually is used as a prefix for "pyro" or a "high fever". I made it "high temperature" to go along with the concept of the heat they're fealing with the power of this Shiryoudama)
Kyuusaku: And these are the spirits of those who starved to death!
SFX: Gagagagagaga
Spirits: Feed me | I'm hungry---

155.
Nube: S**t, he's mocking us.
SFX: Da
Tamamo: We don't have the time to get on with your street performance!
Kyuusaku: I won't be defeated by you two! Take this! The Shiryoudama of the strong grudge of dying by murder!
SFX: Doshu Shuba Bomu Goba

156.
Kyuusaku: Direct hit!
SFX: Doguaa
Tamamo: S...s**t...being defeated to this point by one like a human is...
SFX: Gara...
Nube: Damn it...Even in this interval of doing this, Hiroshi and the others are...
Kyuusaku: I will...not lose...for the one that I love.
SFX: Haa haa haa

157.
Voices: Wa---kya---
SFX: Dododododo | Oooooh
Kyouko: It's...it's a dead end!!
Miki: What--do we do, Hiroshi---

158.
Hiroshi: Whatever we do, however we do it... (Haa haa)
Hiroshi: They can only be fought by us. Everyone, make use of each of your personalities!
SFX: Pera pera pera
SFX: Hore hore
Makoto: Let's be friends.
SFX: Niko niko
Kyouko: You all--!
SFX: Pun pun
Hiroshi: Let's panic, let's panic.

159.
Katsuya: Wa---
Kyouko: Sa...save us---
Hiroshi: Damn it, we're powerless...! Are...we children who aren't useful at all, just as Hinokami said...
SFX: Giri giri
Hiroshi: Nube...Akira...we're sorry...
SFX: Giri

160.
Voice: I'll lend...you power...well...
SFX: Zazazazaza
Miki: The youkai...are running...
Kyouko: Was it the light coming from the painting...?
Makoto: This painting opens up. There's a room inside.
Hiroshi: Eeh?
Hiroshi: What exactly is this...
SFX: Gii----

161.
Hiroshi & Kyouko: !!

162.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#48: Yo-yo

The yo-yo was said to be an object that the aborigines of the Phillipines used as a weapon for hunting purposes. Just like the boomerang that is used by the aborigines of Australia, it was a useful weapon that would return to the palm of your hand if it didn't hit the prey. The name that made it "yo-yo" has a meaning of "Come, come" in Tagalog.

However, compared to the boomerang, the yo-yo's usage as a weapon seems to be a pretense of being used as a weapon in manga and anime due to it's image as a toy being strong.

The usage of a yo-yo as a weapon in manga perhaps was introduced in "Sukeban Deka". Asamiya Saki, the main character, had a special model that inserted lead into a hard-plastic model and was attached not by string but by a chain (to make matters worse, there was a crest of sakura on it) and batted around to defeat enemies who stood in lines. (After this manga, there came to be a three-part TV drama, and each of them starred Saitou Yuki, Minamino Youko and Asaka Yui.)

Also in the TV Anime "Choudenji Robo Combattler V", a 57m in height, 550 ton in weight giant robot joined together the parts of both shoulders and both hips making two yo-yos (perhaps their diameters were greater than 5m) and utilized an amazing attack called "Choudenji Yo-Yo" that struck enemies hard.

With just these two works as the famous ones, there haven't really been found other main characters that battle with yo-yos.
(TN: A few things:
1. The truth on whether or not the yo-yo is actually an ancient Phillipino weapon is somewhat in doubt. Some say it was, others believe the story is a fabrication that just gained traction over the years.
2. "Sukeban Deka", as stated prior and with the literal translation of "Delinquent Girl Detective", is a popular and notable franchise originally published in shoujo magazine "Hana to Yume" between 1976 and 1982. In the original manga, she was a delinquent who ended up going to prison with the government giving her a chance at redemption by making her a cop with her trademark yo-yo weapon. Three dramas emerged between 1985-1987 usually utilizing the major J-pop stars of the times as the main heroine, as stated prior as Yuki Saitou in the first, Youko Minamino in the second and Yui Asaka in the third. There have also been three movies about these characters.
3. "Choudenji Robo Combattler V" (also translated as "Super-Electric Robo Combattler V") was a giant robot anime from 1976 created by Toei animation and is notable as the first of the three "Robot Romance Series" anime that changed the storytelling aspects of giant-robot series adding further maturity to them. The "Choudenji Yo-Yo" was the giant robot's most notable of it's many weapons. It is only known in the US as "Combattra", a robot released as part of the "Shogun Warriors" toy line of Mattel)

TN: First of all, I guess I have to start this entry with another apology...I've been doing that a lot lately, huh. This time, though, my apology comes with a bit more sense: considering that the Youkai Doctor arc that is being put up is probably the longest story arc in the entire run of Nube, I figured that for consistency's sake (and even then I doubt it is that consistent) that I figured to finish the entire arc and make sure I don't keep running back and forth to various websites to keep track of what I translated terms as before putting the meat of the arc up. Yes...the arc is fully translated, and hopefully will all be up within the next few days...but knowing my lazy streak (and my own recent feelings and situations), I sort of hope it does get up at all.

With that said: this was an interesting chapter that sort of moves the story along by the end but at the same time more introduced the threat that Kyuusaku held in his power even if it doesn't quite reveal yet why he's doing it. The Youkai Soldier weaponry he possesses really are scary if you think about it, with him pulling in the youki and the dead within the air and using it as fuel and ammo to fight back against the two youshin fighters. Yeah, it probably is lucky Nube and Tamamo aren't using their real bodies to fight against him, but at the same time the mere factor that Kyuusaku is able to think outside the box to figure out a way to fight against the Youshin while Nube is continuing to think of ways to fight back against this strange armor really shows that the two aren't taking the other for granted and this is going to be a long drawn-out ordeal. As for Hiroshi's group...yeah you could say it was lucky that they found 'that room', but they were guided by someone to it...which we'll get more info about next time! (don't you love/hate cliffhangers?)

My Current Status

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:35:47 +0000

Hey there everyone. I know I haven't said much as of late but I've been going through things, both personally and just trying to figure out things in my life as it stands. Personally there have been some hard times I'm trying to get through with new things in my life, which I think I am trying to handle but it just keeps getting harder with everything going on seeming to mess up all the time.

How does this affect my position in the community? Well as it stands I've really pulled back for a while now, at least since I ended up just stopping all translations other than Hell Teacher Nube as it currently stands. (and yes, I apologize to a lot of people on this project, mostly because I just wanted to see the series get translated and somehow admit to being impatient with a couple things because of trying to match up my priorities with others. If you're reading this, I'm sorry and no hard feelings...and if not, i'm probably just talking to air as usual) Personally, I admit somehow that the manga and anime scene has just not been what it's cracked up to be in my head. I still love Japanese culture, but it just feels like everything is utterly and completely driven by hype and that people just can't just sit back and discover what is good, even if it's way older or even if it's something that catches your eye somewhere down the line. Let alone everywhere I go and everything I see just seems to be tied to either some kid who just doesn't seem to know what they want and just latches on to the most popular series...or some super-snobby elitist who seems to take a "better than you" view of the scene and just seems to make it like "if you don't read what I read, you're trash". I'm not either and really don't want to be. Yet with the way manga and anime have become, I just don't feel myself fitting in...maybe I never had, but I just tried to make it work for so long until I realize finally that it just never will. It's not merely on this board but a few others as well: I always feel like the outsider and everything I say just makes me come off stupid or like I know nothing compared to the brats and the snobs and the elites and the ultra-perfectionists.

So where does this leave me now? Well, I guess I have a few more things to say:

I know I want to finish Nube, but I don't know if or whether I'll be doing another manga series after that. I sort of get my scripts aren't that good and I just cause more grief than help to the community. I may want to do a few series I personally want to see done but, unless I have something that just jumps out at me and says "THIS MUST BE DONE", I may be fading out of the scene perhaps...

On the other hand, I do want to maybe be a bit more adventurous on translating Japanese. I've been really getting into Super Sentai lately and want to get one of those series translated to see if I'm any good at all at TV shows.

I'm still going to be around, probably hanging around in the WSJ thread but that's all I really do on this board outside translating.

I'll still be here if needed but who knows if I'll be giving any other news beyond this outside my script updates...

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 226

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:19:19 +0000

At the top of a hill near the Doumori Ruins sits Hyakkokukan, a cursed mansion owned by a mad Youkai Doctor who has issued cursed games for a strange purpose. But who is this man...and what does "big hat" know of him!?

#226: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 3rd: The Secret of the Youkai Doctor!!

120.
"Huge Hat": Here is the mansion of the Youkai Doctor. You should escape quickly.
Hiroshi: Huh!? The Youkai Doctor!?
Kyouko: Wh...what are you?
"Huge Hat": I am...Nagumo Keita, Hinokami-kun's, well, friend.
(TN: Considering it was spoiled with the last coloring section, I kept the "quoted" version of the name since the real identity is rather obvious by now)
Everyone: !

121.
Hiroshi: Is he?
Nube: Ah...yes. Oh well.
Nube: Fu, however I hadn't had the thought that you would also use the Youshin Jutsu, Tamamo. (whisper whisper)
Tamamo: You engulfed your soul in ki and changed it into a fixed form...I saw you do it earlier and copied it, Nueno-sensei.
(TN: The "fixed form" part is a weird translation for "Koteika", with "kotei" being a "fixed" or "standard" form, while the "ka" is the "change" or "transformation" part to emphasize that he changed his soul into a fixed form akin to what Nube did becoming Hinokami)
Tamamo: However, since the moment we were attacked by the cursed game was too sudden, I only had the time to knead my ki into a child form. It seems you did so too, teacher.
Nube: Yes.
Nube: However...fufufu, you...kukuku, in knickerbockers...upupu...that really suits you, Ta--ma-chan. (Hi---)
Tamamo: Impolite!
SFX: Gon gan gon
Miki: They're bad fellows... (whisper whisper...)

122.
Tamamo: At any rate, all of you will leave this mansion as before. What remains will be me and Hinokami-kun solving the mystery of the Youkai Doctor in the mansion.
Hiroshi: He...hey, wait!
Hiroshi: What you said, what Hinokami said: why are you treating us as hinderances? It seems as if we can't do anything...
Makoto: We're the same grade schoolers as you two.
Kyouko: Right: let's have everyone join their power together and resolve this.
Tamamo: Fu, join our power togethers? Worthless, that is funny.
Hiroshi: What's that!?

123.
Hiroshi: Are you saying that the true power of us and you two is different?
Tamamo: Right.
Nube: Hey, stop!
Hiroshi: You, don't mock class 5-3...
Nube: Wait!
Hiroshi: ?
Tamamo: That's!

124.
Youkai Doctor: You...why are you all...making noise in my mansion...
Hiroshi & Kyouko: Th...that's...
Nube & Tamamo: The Youkai Doctor...

125.
Youkai Doctor: Kukuku...as long as you're in my mansion, you won't live...
Nube: You! You made that game! The cursed game that's taking the lives of children!
Youkai Doctor: Kukuku...of course. Over 100 children have died throughout the country already...it is said the cause is unknown...but for my plan, the lives of many, many more children are needed...
Youkai Doctor: Ha ha ha ha ha ha
Hiroshi: Ku
Hiroshi: S**t, your'e unforgivable. Youkai Doctor! Face us in battle.
Nube: Cut it out, Hiroshi.
Youkai Doctor: Ku ku ku...a battle...?

126.
Hiroshi: Here we go!
SFX: Da!
Nube: Stop
Hiroshi: Hyousube!!
(TN: A youkai we never encountered in this manga, Hyousube is a variety of kappa from Kyuushu generally seen as a creepy, laughing bald man who goes after eggplant)
SFX: Kuwa
Katsuya: Daidara Bocchi!
Makoto: Nenekogappa!
Miki: Nurarihyon!
Kyouko: Betobeto-san
(TN: Another youkai I believe we never encountered, "Betobeto-san" is a strange being that makes footsteps while you're walking, yet doesn't seem to appear to you any time you turn around)
Hiroshi: Kuchisake-Onna!
Hiroshi: How's--that? Give up? We're the Youkai Doctors!
Makoto: So then, you're not to the Nube class.
Miki: Watch and falter considerably.
Kyouko: Yep!
Katsuya: Ha ha ha ha ha
Tamamo: Hiroshi-kun...I didn't say he was the Youkai Doctor for that meaning. He's...
Hiroshi: Eh?

127.
Youkai Doctor: Kukuku...right? A request for the Kuchisake-Onna?
SFX: Su
Youkai Doctor: Verokirasusuma Ayanufuramamani Chichichikakafu...Fuyurayuramani Ramenuruyorura...
SFX: Kiiii...n
Tamamo: Look! That equipment on the floor: he's revealing a means to manipulate youki from research of a super-ancient civilization.
Hiroshi: What's that?
Tamamo: The youki in the air is condensing very quickly...

128.
Youkai Doctor: Kukuku...my hatred, take form! (Hahahahahah)
Kuchisake-Onna: Shaaa!!
SFX: Bari bari bari bari bari

129.
Kuchisake-Onna: Am I pretty~~~?
Makoto: Hiee
Katsuya: Uwaaa, he made the Kuchisake-Onna!?
Hiroshi: And further she's huge! And strong!
SFX: Gusha
Kyouko: Wa--
Hiroshi: Pomade, Pomade
Tamamo: Hinokami-kun
Nube: Right!
Nube: There were several weapons I could use within the Doumori Temple junk. It would be nice if they were real but
SFX: Gasa gasa

130.
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu
Kuchisake-Onna: Gugee
Tamamo: My Youshin Jutsu form is a consistant 1/20th of my youryoku. But this sasumata, which has been handed down for generations in the youko family, has the power to defeat small youkai.
(TN; I may have explained it before but a "Sasumata" or "War-Fork" is a traditional Japanese weapon usually used for catching things and is generally used today for law enforcement to catch crooks)
Youkai Doctor: ......What are you?
Nube: Out of the way!
SFX: Kiiiiin

131.
Nube: A Reisatsuseki Sphere. It presents a physical attack to spiritual bodies.
(TN: I don't know if we ever encountered it yet, but "reisatsuseki" literally translates into "spirit-killing stone")
Nube: Further if I increase the hitting speed, the destructive power will increase to the extent of it's quickness...!!
SFX: Gyurururu...
Caption: Stretching his finger (Youshin can stretch their body freely)
SFX: Dogaa

132.
SFX: Pashi! | Bashuu
Hiroshi: Amazing...
Miki: Those two may not be human after all.
SFX: Ga
Tamamo: Clearly understand our true power.
Hiroshi: Sh...shut up!
Youkai Doctor: ......
SFX: Tata
Tamamo: Mu!
Nube: Are you running? Hold on.

133.
SFX: Kachi
SFX: Paka
Nube & Tamamo: Waaaaaaaaa
Hiroshi: Heh?
Katsuya: Hey hey, manga these days don't do that.
Kyouko: Hi...Hinokami-kun!
Katsuya: Wasn't that our true power?
Hiroshi: It's fine. They won't be dead guys with that.
Katsuya: But with that, it's come to be just us.
Miki: What~~do we do, what~~do we do~~~!?

134.
Hiroshi: Weren't all of you know--ingly acting stupid to them? This mystery will be solved by just us!
Katsuya: Se...seems so...
Makoto: It--will, it--will. We're the Nube class.
Kyouko: Hold on, everyone, is this serious?
Miki: It...it seems so---. I'm stretching my neck out and---
(TN: I find it funny Miki is saying she's "stretching her neck out" while using her Rokurokubi powers...)
Hiroshi: We'll come to that simply.
SFX: Kiiii...
Hiroshi: Cool--ness, cool--ness.
SFX: Paaa...
Hiroshi: Cool fart of a kappa--.
(TN: The part here about the "cool fart of a kappa" is a joke continuing from the previous panel: Hiroshi kept going on and on about "heiki" which is "coolness", but then suddenly says "kappa no he da" which is "the fart of a kappa" using the same "he". Strangely I decided to keep the pun by using "fart" while likewise keeping the "cool" from the "heiki")
SFX: Hyuuu...
SFX: Zowa zowa zowa zowa...
Kyouko: Right~~~~...

135.
SFX: Zowa zowa zowa
Everyone: !!
Everyone: Uwa-----
Students: Th...they've come out~~

136.
Tamamo: ...We were unprepared.
Nube: If we didn't have these Youshin bodies, we would have died instantly.
SFX: Muku
Nube: This is untimely. We've been separated from Hiroshi and the others.
Tamamo: It's because those children are ordinary humans...how many minutes can they live in this youkai mansion...
Nube: S**t, we have to return quickly.
Tamamo: Youryoku can't be used sufficiently. This is a completely inconvenient body.
Nube: We'll escape from the that tunnel.

137.
Nube: By the way, you said you've investigated the Youkai Doctor.
Tamamo: Yes, the owner of this Hyakkokukan was found in records of the science world.
Tamamo: His real name is Nakiri Kyuusaku. Ten years ago, he moved into this mansion with his wife to investigate the Doumori Ruins. The Doumori Ruins are, as you know, the ruins of a super-ancient civilization.
Tamamo: According to his research, the super-ancient civilization captured "Ki" as a scientific energy; they were said to utilize this and built a civilization that was completely different from the present.
Caption: Refer to Manga Vol. 20
Tamamo: He had wanted to publish this to the scientific world...but "Ki" can't be seen by the eye. What he had thought of there was a device that gathered from the air "youki", which comparatively is easy to see with the eye and make youkai...

138.
Tamamo: However...
SFX: Bari bari bari
Scientist 1: Th...that thing shouldn't be possible!
Scientist 2: Unscientific.
Scientist 3: A trick! We've decided you're a fraud!
Scientist: Look! These things are mere stones!
"Mrs. Nakiri": Watch out! This device is still in operation...
"Mrs. Nakiri": Kyaaa!!
SFX: Pishaa
Kyuusaku: Keiko!!
Kyuusaku: Gyaaaaa...
SFX: Goooo...
Tamamo: ---His wife died...he himself bore great injury...and...

139.
Kyuusaku: And he came to be called the Youkai Doctor...and his form dissapeared to the people.---That's as far as the records left to the world go.
(TN: Since he has a proper name now, I'll just go with "Kyuusaku" for here on)
Kyuusaku: The deepness of my resentment...do you understand it?
Nube: I don't undestand it...with that, you've been taking the lives of children with the cursed game...how is that related to it?
Kyuusaku: Kukuku...There isn't a need to ask that. Those brats that came together with both of you are already dead...And both of you, who are stubborn just a bit, will die here.

140.
Kyuusaku: This stone is a military weapon of the super-ancient civilization. It's best that it's called a thing like a kind of armor.
Kyuusaku: But this stone is always continuing to absorb the youki of the atmosphere and possesses a dreadful attack power and defensive power with this power. The one who wears this will become the strongest youkai soldier.
Kyuusaku: ...Hekito!
SFX: Bushu---
Nube: !! Amazing youki!
Tamamo: He's coming, Hinokami-kun!

141.
Kyuusaku: Ku ku ku: realize the power of the Youkai Doctor!!
Hiroshi: It's...it's too late~~~
Everyone: Ha ha ha ha
Kyouko: ...We're dead.

142.
TATENO HIROSHI
The names of Hiroshi and Kyouko are those taken from Hiroshi and Kyouko of "Dokonjou Gaeru", which was serialized in Jump long ago and became a TV anime twice.

For that reason, Nube's special yomikiri edition had the line "You have guts" when a newt, not a frog, was attached to his back, not his shirt. (were there people who realized this...?)
(TN: Without looking at the original chapter, I tried to pull up the section and approximated it but...considering that a newt is an amphibian, I sort of now understand the "parody" aspect they were trying to for with Hiroshi in the second pilot, considering I probably mentioned more than once already the "connection" Hiroshi and Kyouko had to "Dokonjou Gaeru")

TN: I just have to chuckle seeing what Tamamo is reduced to in this arc. That tiny frame and huge hat...oh how the mighty youko has fallen.

After all of the build-up of the first couple chapters, this one really gets into the meat of the battling while at the same time begins to answer some questions regarding Kyuusaku and why the heck he hates everyone and is using all this spiritual power. It was strange seeing the Kuchisake-Onna again considering she isn't that bad from what we saw of her before, but...remember, this isn't the Kuchisake-Onna, merely just a collection of youki mutated into her form. (if this was really her she'd really be pissed...just as I imagine Tamamo was if he ever found out about his "clone" in that haunted house all those years ago) The way we saw the two Youshin boys handling things so far (before things get really messy as they will next time) was a lot of fun, even though the students...well, what can you say: if you buy it from Oshou, 9 out of 10 it will be junk. Meanwhile, I do find it interesting finding out about the tragic tale of Kyuusaku and Keiko that it does seem to finally link back (well the whole arc) to that really weird one-shot with the pager that was some time ago. I know I mentioned to remember all of the matter regarding the ancient tech, but somehow I just wonder how the heck Kyuusaku would be able to find out and control devices that can create actual youkai and turn him into an ancient-tech warrior...and not a silly pager advertised by Ryoko Hirosue's ancient clone. But of course it's all for the plot so lets just leave it at that...though at least it's convenient that Nube and Tamamo are Youshin now considering how many "killing blows" they've taken thus far and may just keep taking with the way this arc is going...

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 225

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 03:03:33 +0000

With their friend falling under a bizarre curse and their two greatest allies sealed in stone, Hiroshi and the others must take on the strange maker of the cursed games on their own...well not quite on their own...

#225: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 2nd: Infiltration! The Cursed Hyakkokukan

98.
Nube: The resolution of this case by all of you is impossible!
Hiroshi: What's that!?

99.
Kyouko: Hinokami-kun...he always comes whenever we're in a crisis...that mysterious man...
SFX: Doki doki doki
Hiroshi: Chi...that Kyouko, she's becoming spacy again...
Miki: He's appeared again. Hinokami Akira, you're truly an elusive one. Are you really human? What is your true identity?
(TN: Miki's "elusive one" comment is actually in Japanese "shinshutsukibotsu", which is a term for a person who always appears unexpectedly at an unexpected moment)
Katsuya: Ah--it's as he said. Let's quit sticking our necks into this dangerous situation.
Makoto: We can't help out? If it's from Hinokami-kun, that would be reliable.
Nube: Well, leave this case to the police; all of you go do your homework and wait at home.

100.
Hiroshi: Shut it----!!
SFX: Bakii
Kyouko: Hiroshi!
Hiroshi: How can this be understood by you? The police and the adults don't believe in the cursed game. Only we can save Nube and Akira.
Hiroshi: Can this be understood by you? Our friend and our teacher are just that important to us...you...

101.
Hiroshi: Chi, let's go. The time to just be concerned with this guy is useless!
Nube: Hiroshi...
SFX: Su
Kyouko: Sorry...I do understand. I'm certain that you intented on settling this alone again. I don't know what being you are, but this is reckless.
Kyouko: If you can, I want your cooperation...
Miki: In spite of being struck with all his might that much... (He's not swollen at all...)
SFX: Ji~~~
Nube: Uo, it hurts, hiii (Geho)
Caption: Acting
Miki: Suspicious, too suspicious...

102.
Sign: Doumori Hospital
Voice 1: For the time being, let's hide the stone-changed Nube and Tamamo somewhere.
Voice 2: Right: these may be discovered by unknown people and be sent out to the bulky garbage.
(TN: "Bulky garbage" is strangely a type of garbage disposal in Japanese culture, known as "Sodaigomi", with the "sodai" standing for "coarse" or "rough")
Nube: That time...I escaped my physical body at once with the Youshin Jutsu but...Tamamo wasn't saved...
Kyouko: Nube, hnhnhn
(TN: The "hnhnhn" here is my attempt to translate the "shikushiku" used for Kyouko's sobbing)
SFX: Gan gon baki
Nube: He...hey hey, do it much more carefully...you'll break it.
Hiroshi: Akira, we will save you for certain. Wait for us...

103.
Phone: Boop---hey, this is Yu--kime. I've gone up to Hokkaido for a skating tour--nament. Please leave a message after the beep...
Sign: Tobacco
Kyouko: Yukime-san's away from home.
Katsuya: Chi, at this moment...
Kyouko: What do we do? Can this really be done by just us?
Hiroshi: Can we pull back now? At any rate, let's supply ourselves with weapons. I've got a good idea.
Sign: Doumori Temple
Oshou: Well~~they're cheap, they're cheap. If you're fighting youkai, then have the
spiritually powered items of Doumori Temple!
SFX: Doro doro doro doro~~~

104.
Nube: Hey, stop this. Where are these bogus goods a good idea, hey.
Students: Uwaa...
Oshou: Shut up---
Oshou: These are pickles that were said to create a hero of good luck by just eating them long ago. With the costume, it's 10,000 yen.
Outfit: Inukichi (Dog's Luck)
(TN: The thing that Oshou is referring to here is the first of a few manga references he uses as "special powers" here. In this case, he is referring to fellow WSJ series "Tottemo! Luckyman" by Hiroshi Gamo. Weirdly the outfit, which originally had "Daikichi" due to Luckyman's super-luckiness, has "inukichi" here instead...)
Makoto: I'll buy it.
Oshou: This is called the "Nara Cutter", long ago a legendary man used this as his strongest weapon. A rare item: 20,000 yen.
(TN: The "Nara Cutter" strangely is a move utilized by a character from the gag/sports WSJ series "Makuhari", by Kita Yasuaki)
Miki: I'll buy it.
Oshou: These long ago were called "Charm Point", when you put them on your arms, a mysterious power will gush forth; 30,000 yen.
Hiroshi: Uwa, my hair is growing. (Ooh)
(TN: These strange hoops that Hiroshi is wearing is in reference to another WSJ series: this time "Sexy Commando Gaiden: Sugoi-yo, Masaru-san" by Kyousuke Usuta. Weirdly enough the hoops work the same way in that manga in that it immediately promotes hair growth, but it's other power is weirdly the interference with electronic devices)
Nube: He thinks we're kids and ripping us off.

105.
Nube: N? That is?
Oshou: Ah---over there is junk that is--n't useful at all.
Nube: Hey hey...I can still use these.
Hiroshi: Alright, the preparations are arranged. Let's go!
SFX: Paku paku
(TN: Regarding the last two "weapons" acquired by Nube's class:
-Katsuya's possession of a puppet is yet another WSJ reference: this time to "Karikurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon", a short series written by Masaru Miyazaki and drawn by Takeshi Obata about a puppeteer detective.
-And Kyouko...well, she's once again using the Sailor Moon SS wand...yeah, she's never going to get rid of that connection, huh?)
Hiroshi: What, you're still coming along?
Nube: Not really...the direction I'm going in is just the same.
Hiroshi: Chi, do whatever you want.

106.
Hiroshi: According to this map left by Akira
Hiroshi: It's near the Doumori Ruins where we discovered the OOPARTS previously.
Caption: Hyakkokukan
(TN: The setting for this arc, the "Hyakkokukan" literally translates into "Hundred-Carving Mansion")
Nube: !...It's the same! The mansion that appeared in the game...

107.
Hiroshi: That western-style house? In here may be the person who created the cursed game...
(TN: "Western-style home" is a term in Japanese known as "youkan", which refers to a larger building home like a mansion that is not like those used in Japan)
Nube: ...This is bad. It's as if I can feel a stabbing youki...
Miki: Nara Cutter, Nara Cutter
SFX: Saku saku saku
Nube What--are you doing?
Miki: Ye---p, no blood appeared. You may not be human after all.
Nube: Stupid...
SFX: Oooooh...

108.
"Masked Man": ...Verokira Fuyurayura Totonikura...
SFX: Su
"Masked Man": Rorotonura Ayunufura...
SFX: Kiiiii...n
SFX: Dooooo | Pigyaa!
Nube: Huh!?

109.
Katsuya: Kya---
SFX: Doo---doo---
Nube: Yo...youkai from the sky!?
Nube: Those are..."Tsurube Otoshi"! It's a youkai that attacks people from the tops of trees, sucks their life energy and turns them into mummies...why are they in this place!?
Caption: Refer to Manga Vol. 11
Makoto: Wa--
Nube: Makoto!!
SFX: Doo
Makoto: Hi...
Nube: Ku
SFX: Shuuu...
Makoto: Hi...Hinokami-kun
Nube: Outside is dangerous! Get into the mansion; I ask that of you, Hiroshi-kun!
Hiroshi: Ye...yes!

110.
Hiroshi: Da---
SFX: Ba---n
SFX: Dodo!
SFX: Bata--n!
Miki: It won't open...
SFX: Gacha gacha
Kyouko: Even the windows have iron bars.

111.
Nube: ---it seems the master of this mansion is giving an invitation of a warm welcome to us.
Miki: Your hand?
SFX: Ji---...
Nube: Guwaa, it hurts!
Makoto: I'm sorry about that...
Nube: No, what? This isn't a great thing. I just temporarily had my energy sucked. It will return to normal immediately.
Makoto: It would be better if you didn't come for me...I've just become a burden...
Nube: Makoto...
Nube: That isn't so. You came thinking that you wanted to save Nube-sensei, Akira and others. If you had courage, you will be useful.
Makoto: Hinokami-kun...

112.
Makoto: Thank you...Hinokami-kun is like Nube-sensei.
SFX: Giku!
Nube: A...am I? Ahahaha....
Nube: At any rate, the key to undoing the game's curse seems to be seizing the owner of the mansion. Shouldn't we search for him and ask him to talk?
SFX: Gii...
SFX: Gishi...gishi...
SFX: Giro
"Masked Man": Fuyura Totoniruroma Mamarurura...

113.
SFX: Kiiii...n
Katsuya: Uwa
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!
SFX: Ooooooh...

114.
Nube: Shoukera...Why is that youkai...suddenly...everyone, ru...
Hiroshi: Come on, youkai!
SFX: Haaaaa...
SFX: Dogaa
Students: Uwaaa
Hiroshi: Hiii~~these items weren't effective at all---
Miki: We were deceived---
Nube: Watch out!
SFX: Zun!

115.
Nube: Run! (to himself) This is bad...I can't used my spiritual powers in this form...we'll be defeated!
SFX: Baki baki
SFX: Ba
Nube: !!
SFX: Batsu
Nube: !? What!?

116.
"Huge Hat": Though you can't sufficiently use your spiritual power, stop acting reckless. Hinokami-kun.
SFX: Shuuu

117.
Students: !!
Nube: Th...this ki...it can't be...!?
"Huge Hat": From that, its better that those outside myself and Hinokami-kun escape from this mansion. I've come to know from investigation: here the youkai are being manipulated at will.
"Huge Hat": It's the mansion of the Youkai Doctor.
(TN: The title that the "antagonist" of this arc possesses is in Japanese "Youkai Hakase", with "Hakase" usually being used for a "doctor" referring to a learned person (as in one with a doctorate in something as opposed to a medical person). Thus I make him as the "Youkai Doctor"...probably because "Dr. Youkai" would make him sound like he was "Youkai-Sensei" like how Tamamo is)

118.
NAGUMO KEITA
A clone Youko Tamamo created with the "Youshin Jutsu". Since he isn't familiar with the technique to the extent of Nube, the quantity of his ki is few and, due to that, he's shorter than even Hinokami Akira.

TN: Don't try to be deceived by the sudden appearance of this "new character" or by Nube as Hinokami running amuck...I do have to somewhat get into what they're doing here. In a weird way, both of them appear to be allies as well as hindrances of the main five of the arc in dealing with the strange Youkai Doctor. But if you think about it, this is to be expected: Nube, even in his youshin form, sees this as something he and he alone can handle and doesn't want to see his students get hurt by the threat that is tempting them to go in and get themselves killed. Nube is just acting like his typical teacher self and doesn't wish to see his students get hurt. But of course with Nube powerless (and acting weird considering...it is his youshin self) and with the personal mission, this really is something his students are the only ones that can deal with. Nube may help, but as it stands the situation remains that these five are the ones who can take the Youkai Doctor down and save their friend and teachers. Though...it is weird that past "youkai" like the Tsurube Otoshi and Shoukera have suddenly returned...but there is a reason behind that which we'll get into soon enough.

BTW: no matter what other obscure weird weapon the others get, Kyouko will forever be tied to Sailor Moon. I guess Hiroshi's comment about it being passe a few volumes back is wrong in her case.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 224

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:54:13 +0000

What if there was a day where everyone had to be saved...and yet your greatest ally and hero can't handle them? For several 5-3 students, the greatest threat they've ever faced is about to emerge...and yet they may not have their greatest ally to help them out!

#224: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
The 1st: The Day Nube Dissapeared

75.
SFX: Ji--...
Narrator: Right now, there surely is the hand of a dreadful demon extending out to we, the children of Doumori town.
SFX: Nyari
Sign: New Software
Narrator: However...with our greatest crisis this time...how could it be Nube would come to not be there...
SFX: Kotsu kotsu
Narrator: And it would come to must be fought by merely us...
SFX: Shu | Zazaza~~~

76.-77.
(Title page...I'm not going to spoil anything but we're going to begin a really, really great arc from here on out...and probably the longest story in Nube! But...if Nube's not around, why is Hinokami Akira!?)

78.
Sign: Night-Watch Room
Magazines:
Right: V-Media
Left: Jump
SFX: Guga
SFX: Ban! | Doya doya doya
Game SFX: Acho-- | Bishi bashi

79.
Nube: You all---Can't you go home if you want games---
Hiroshi: Yeah...we seemed to think that but
Kyouko: We were scared of the cursed software.
Nube: Cursed software?
Miki: You don't know? It's extremely famous. Currently, a black-suited man has been loitering into software shopes in towns in the vicinity and distributing strange software.
Miki: The software is a popular new game just on the cover; inside is inserted the dreadful cursed software.
Miki: When you begin the game, a strange character and an eye appears on the screen; If you see this, then already you will die in three days.

80.
Kyouko: In the rumors, there are tales that five people have already died.
Miki: It is scary. Therefore, the software that we bought today will be played here. (Ah--scary, scary)
Nube: Is that really so? You wanted a place and you came?
Hiroshi: You're going to play it too, Nube. It'll be fun.
Nube: No, I'll die in one second.
Katsuya: You won't with this guy. Here, here.
Game Voice: Ready, Fight
Caption: Nube
SFX: Byu | Gyaaa
Game Voice: Ring Out. You Lose.
Katsuya: Well--well--that's because each game is difficult...
Kyouko: How about this?

81.
SFX: Dogan | Gasha | Gya gya gya
Nube: Fuga~~~
Hiroshi: He seems no good at operating the controller. (Hiso hiso...)
Katsuya: That's not it, he's poor at driving too...
Makoto: Nube is tone-deaf to games. (Ahaha)
(TN: Makoto's expression here is rather strange: he calls Nube "game onchi", with "onchi" being Japanese for "tone-deaf" or "having no ear for something")
Nube: Shut up, shut up.
Miki: At any rate, these software we've bought aren't the cursed software.
Nube: That's why I said no and yet...
Kyouko: By the way, what's the matter with Akira?
Hiroshi: Oh--he had his coaching school.
Kyouko: Hm--m
SFX: Ta ta ta

82.
Akira: I ended up being late with the coaching school, really...I wanted to play these from during the day like everyone...did they sell out of that new Enokears game...
(TN: The game that Akira is trying to buy is a parody of the popular 1998 Square role-playing game Xenogears, which was notable for both its science fiction concepts and it's concepts of memory and psychology. However instead of being "Xenogears", the title instead refers to "Enoki", or "Enokitake", a long, thing white mushroom popular in Asian cuisine; thus why "Xenogears" ended up becoming "Enokears")
Akira: That's good, just one was left.
Cashier: Thank you much---
Sign: Yamaguchi Dentistry
SFX: Waku waku (Excited excited)
Akira: Hyo---cool---
Akira: Huh
SFX: Ga----

83.
Akira: Waaaa
Akira: Th...this can't be...U...uwa, how do I clear this?
SFX: Katsu
Akira: Uwaaa, Nube

84.
Sign: Doumori Hospital
Nube: Akira!!
SFX: Dadada!!
SFX: Ba---n
Nube: Akira!!
Voice: !! Kyaaaaa!!

85.
Kyouko: Ha...half of his body has become stone...
Hiroshi: What sickness is this?
Tamamo: This is a curse. If the stone changes reach his heart, he'll die. It will be in three more days...
Kyouko: Akira!!
Hiroshi: Damn, who would do this...
Hiroshi: Nube, can't you do anything?
Nube: It's a powerful curse...if I don't know it's true form, then meddling with it will...
Kyouko: Akira...
Kyouko: !?
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei, just a moment...

86.
Tamamo: In truth...I've discovered this software in his home.
Nube: It can't be...Are it's contents...the cursed software!?
Tamamo: If we use this, we may know of a way to save him.
SFX: Kacha
Tamamo: Are games...your specialty!?
Nube: ......
SFX: Za----

87.
SFX: Oooooh
Nube: The screen has changed.
Tamamo: It's an eerie action game.
SFX: Oooh...oooh
Announcer: Please avoid the dead and walk.
SFX: Oooh oooh
Nube: It's linking to reality.

88.
SFX: Ooooh | Kaji kaji kaji
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei! It said to please avoid them! Why are we particularly going towards the dead!!
SFX: Ooh | Ooooh
Nube: No, well, um, I'm
Tamamo: I'll do this!
Tamamo: This town...Haven't we seen this somewhere?
Nube: Eh?
Tamamo: The hospital...the school...the station...and the park: all of these locations are
Nube: It can't be
Tamamo: It is.

89.
Nube & Tamamo: Doumori Town
Tamamo: We've driven away the dead and seem to be going to a building on top of a hill.
Nube: What are the meaning of the characters on the walls of the town?
Tamamo: I don't know, they appear to be characters of an extremely ancient period but...
Tamamo: ---We've arrived.
Nube: ...Let's enter...
SFX: Gii---

90.
"Screen": Don't get in the way---

91.
Nube: You! You're the true identity of the curse...
SFX: Ba!
Nube: Huh
SFX: Bishi
Tamamo: Nueno-sensei! I got it: the characters on the wall are...a spell for casting the stone-changing curse. We were sent the entire spell into the bottom of our subconscious by waking through the town...
Tamamo: We've...lost...
Hiroshi: Nube!
SFX: Shuuu
Kyouko: What's wrong, did something happen?
SFX: Ba---n
Hiroshi & Kyouko: !!

92.
SFX: Guooooo
Hiroshi: Nu...Nube, it can't be: have you truly been defeated!?
Kyouko: You can't die, Nube!! Answer me---
Hiroshi: Nu...
SFX: Gura
SFX: Goto
Hiroshi: ......
Kyouko: ......

93.
Hiroshi & Kyouko: Nube!!
Hiroshi: If this is a curse, then there should be some method to undo it.
Kyouko: What do we do!? Both Nube and Tamamo have come to be like this!?
Kyouko: Our key is this paper that Akira was grasping. He was drawing a map while playing the cursed software. There's something here on the hill of Doumori Town.
Katsuya: It...it can't be: something has to be done by just us? You can't be saying what you are.
Miki: Don't talk stupidly. This is an opponent of the extent that it's defeated Nube and Tamamo!
Makoto: What can we, without even spiritual abilities, do?

94.
Hiroshi: Then what do we do? Watch Akira die in three days!?
Hiroshi: ----We can't cry anymore.
Hiroshi: This will only be settled by just us.

95.
Voice: Hahaha, give up, give up, you'll lose your life.
SFX: Za
Hiroshi: Hinokami Akira
Nube: This isn't an opponent that can be managed by your hands.

96.
The Always Familar Coloring Corner

Color it in the colors by consulting the cover of the manga. (Since we haven't been using markers with CG coloring recently, we can't color name designations. Sorry)

HINOKAMI AKIRA
A clone Nube creates with his "Youshin Jutsu". Nube comes to be based on his form from his grade school period.
He was created when we appeared to hear somehow "A child on the outside, the brains of an adult!" Yep.

TN: First of all, a massive apology on my part. I've been rather bummed with real life stuff the last few weeks, to the point that I've translated a good chunk of this really great, fun and important arc...and yet haven't had the time, patience or whatnot to put it up! Personal admission: I've been really bummed and saddened by my current condition and the current state of the manga and anime community and have been drifting a bit away from it as I've just started going back into being a wanderer getting interested in things I like than trying to buy the hype that manga and anime have become as of late...make that "nothing but hype". I'm still into Japanese culture and still want to be into manga and anime, but I just wonder if I'm starting to hit a crossroads for my future. Of course, that won't affect Nube: I'm with that to the end no matter how long it takes!

So with that side stuff out of the way, let's get into this arc! It probably is one of my favorite arcs in all of "Hell Teacher Nube", probably due to it feeling like the most complete story and because of the interesting twists and turns that are brought about. It isn't the typical Nube one-shots that the series is best at, but it's a nice and fun diversion that is well worth the effort. The key to this arc is definitely the "main five" (as I like to call them) of Doumori Elementary: while we've seen Hiroshi, Kyouko, Miki, Katsuya and Makoto handle threats and a lot of supernatural weirdness throughout the run, this is probably the arc they're put to the ultimate test. We have a threat that has already taken Akira (or in the midst of doing so), has frozen Nube and Tamamo and that only they have any real clue regarding how to handle and face for the time being. (not counting Nube as Hinokami) Their mentors are gone, and all they can do is face whatever did it or else watch others suffer the same. Of course, what I find most interesting even if it's minor is that even though it is those five who end up having to head forth into battle potentially, it is Akira who gave them the only clue they have so far in getting to whatever is doing this. Even though Akira has sadly been underutilized and sometimes questionable as a character for a while now, this shows that even though he is out of it, he's sort of still with the group as they go forth to face the madman behind these cursed video games. In a weird way, Akira has become the 6th member of the team considering...he was supposed to be one of the five at first, but it sort of further emphasizes what we're getting with this arc: no matter what happens, it's the students who must solve it, not the elders.

BTW: Nube just sucks at video games but...we knew that already. It just makes us have levity with the insanity that has begun.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 223

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:02:36 +0000

For some beings, determining who they are is easy, but it isn't as such for all of them. Such is the case of a young demon who has a peculiar decision it must make...and it may need Nube's class to help it along!

#223: Succubus and Incubus

53.
Voice: I am a demon who lives with a human.
"Demoness": I lovingly married this person and we even had a child. (Darling)
(TN: "Lovingly" actually in Japanese was "Labulabu" or "Love-Love", but that sounded rather silly translated so I just made it "lovingly")
"Human": Well...
Nube: Um, yeah, so what's your business?
SFX: Muka muka muka
"Demoness": Actually, I want you to take charge of our child.

54.
Mumu: Ni...nice to meet you...I'm Mumu...
(TN: Just a nice note: "Mumu" is the kanji for "dream" twice)

55.
Nube: --So that's the reason. I'm sorry for this but get along with this one.
(TN: There is something I couldn't do here but that will become apparant as the next couple pages go on)
Hiroshi: What, we've had youkai children come here up to now.
Kyouko: That wo--n't be a problem.
Nube: Ye...yes. This could be a big problem.
Hiroshi: How is it? Let's be friends--Mumu-kun.
Kyouko: Let's become friends, Mumu-chan.
(TN: A slight reminder since it will be important: "kun" is an ending that usually is tied to male characters, while "chan" is an ending that usually cutens things and is generally used for females)
Hiroshi: Mumu-kun!
Kyouko: Mumu-chan!!

56.
Mumu: Ah, I'm not either of those. Well...in brief...
(TN: Weirdly Mumu uses "boku" in katakana, which usually is for males but...)
Mumu: In brief...
SFX: Paaaa...
Mumu: I can become a boy and
Mumu: I can become a girl.

57.
Everyone: A big problem.
Nube: This child is a "Muma" child. Muma is a demon that comes to do temptation when sleeping at night. For a man, it comes as a succubus, the form of a beautiful woman, but for a woman, it is an incubus, the form of a handsome man.
(TN: As I explained way back in the Supplemental in Vol. 2 (#22), I keep the term "Muma" (Dream Demon) for the description of this being because it does not specifically mention it's gender, merely what it is. The being has a meaning of both "succubus" and "incubus", and therefore calling it one would be a disservice to the other, thus why I merely make of it as "Muma" when referring to the creature)
Nube: However, when succubus and incubus are children, they're hermaphroditic demons like Mumu. When they become about 10, they seem to completely transform into whichever one way, man or woman.
(TN: The term "hermaphroditic" here is actually in Japanese "Ryousei Guyuu", which is "possessive of both sexes". It also has a translation of "androdynous", which could infer the attributes of both sexes, but I thought "hermaphroditic" worked better in the case of someone like Mumu)
Nube: However since Mumu was born and raised in the human world, it doesn't have an indication of which to transform into yet.

58.
Mumu: I must decide whether to become a man or a woman to live in the human world. With that, I want to be taught whether it's good to be a man or whether it's good to be a woman by everyone...
Nube: --That's the reason.
Voice: Is it fine to be male female?
Hiroshi: So then, decide it's better to be male.
Kyouko: Ara, it's better to be female.
Hiroshi: Then, shall we bet on it? Which Mumu-kun will become?
Kyouko: As you wish. The losing side will treat everyone to juice.

59.
Hiroshi: Alright, Mumu-kun, first you''ll be taught the virtue of men.
Mumu: Eh, ah, ju...just a moment...
Hiroshi: Changing Clothes.
SFXL Pikko Pikko Pikko
Katsuya: Changing Clothes
SFX: Wa--wa--
Hiroshi: Men are ultimately about sports.

60.
Hiroshi: Mumu-kun, pass!
Mumu: Oh
Hiroshi: Shoo---t!
SFX: Zubaaa
Hiroshi: One Shot---
Mumu: Ene--rgy!
Hiroshi: Well, men are invigorating! Come, let's go drink juice.
SFX: Doza
Magazine Cover: Monthly Eroero

61.
Katsuya: Look, it's so plump.
Katsuya's Magazine: Sexy Commando.
Hiroshi: It's the special Guam Swimsuit Gravia edition, aha---
Hiroshi's Magazine: Ufun White-Pages
(TN: The "White Pages" refers to the literal translation of the term "hakusho", which usually is a term used for certain books or magazines)
Kaneda: Beast | Guhehe...
Boys: Huh...
Hiroshi: We...well---even men may not be invigorating, just a bit...(Hahaha)
Katsuya: Don't worry about it.
Katsuya: Ah, I'll pee a bit.
SFX: Nyoro
Kaneda: Me too.
Assistant: Me too.
Makoto: Me too.
Hiroshi: Let's let it fly--
SFX: Jo----

62.
Mumu: Fil--thy!
Hiroshi: Hahaha...cut that out with that being filthy; I haven't taken a bath in three days.
Katsuya: Me neither.
Kaneda: A week for me.
Mumu: Gya---!!
Hiroshi: Ah
Voice 1: Look, I discovered a huge ground beetle!
Voice 2: There's a huge slug here!
Hiroshi: Here, here!!
SFX: Dododododododo
Kaneda: Look at this---
Mumu: Hi----

63.
Voice: Please, show me it.
Kyouko: It would have been better to be a girl after all.
Hiroshi: Ho...hold on, from here was the best of men...
Kyouko: Changing Clothes.
SFX: Pikko pikko pikko pikko pikko pikko
Hiroshi: Changing Clothes.
Hiroshi: Ooh~~~!
SFX: Doki
Kyouko: Waa--it suits you, it suits you.
Miki: You're a girl after all.

64.
Kyouko: Cooking is fun---
Miki: Kyouko is poor at it but
Kyouko: Hey--being a girl is fun.
Mumu: Yes, extremely (heart)
Noriko: Ara, this is tasty.
Kyouko: Which, which.
Miki: Wow, that's a good flavor.
Noriko: Ah--it's tasty.
Kyouko: Yum, yum.
SFX: Baku baku zuru zuru musha musha
Miki: Ye--s, it's happiness.
SFX: Gatsu gatsu mogu mogu Gefu---

65.
Kyouko: Nga, ngu
Kyouko: We...well then, girls don't particularly stand out as gluttons at all.
Noriko: Ye...yes, yes, girls are extremely graceful.
Girls: Ufufu...ohoho...
Matsui: Hey hey, I saw Kazama-kun walking yesterday with Hiroko-san of class 4.
Miki & Shizuka: Eeh~~~
Girl: She's monopolizing that Kazama-kun I've yearned for---enough---
Matsui: Hiroko-san is like that. That flounder-face should be run over by a truck.
Shizuka: She can't do that if she's shameless.
Miki: Let's place a curse where her nose becomes a pig's.
SFX: Doro doro doro

66.
Miki: He~~re, instant efficency.
SFX: Ko--n ko--n
Kyouko: Huh...uh, um there isn't a reason we're always this sodden...
Nube: What's wrong? Have you decided to be a man or a woman? (Devote to it)
Mumu: Ah, teacher.
Mumu: I...don't think I want to be either of them. Its interesting to be both man and woman, and that's what I'll do.

67.
Mumu: I...want to be like this all along.
Nube: Both boys and girls have good things. If you watch over them with a bit more time...
Nube: Ah
SFX: Ba!
Mumu: I'm fine this way!
Mumu: ...I can't choose to be man or woman...in spite of not worrying this much on deciding which from the start...
Voice: Yo
SFX: Pon

68.
Drunk: Are you cosplaying, dear girl...oh well. Big sister...? Big brother? Well, enough. Either is fine. Hand over your game money, you beast.--
Katsuya: Well, wouldn't it be fine even if it was a woman? She would be a beauty and---
Hiroshi: It's regretful that it didn't get to understand the merits of men before then.
Voice: Let go!
Drunk: Isn't--this great---? This--is your curriculum---if you disobey it, I'll peel you down~~hey hey, you're cute somehow.
Mumu: No way---

69.
Hiroshi: Stop that---
SFX: Pako---n
Mumu: Hi...Hiroshi-kun...
Drunk: Th...that brat--! Does he think he can match the power of a high schooler---
Drunk: High School Pu--nch
SFX: Sa

70.
SFX: Goki
SFX: Doki
Mumu: Hi...Hiroshi-kun.
Drunk: I...I'll remember this---
SFX: Hi---n
Hiroshi: Heh.
Hiroshi: Are you alright?
SFX: Doki doki doki
Mumu: Ye...yes, thank you, Hiroshi-kun...
Mumu: Somehow...my heart is throbbing out. That was great. You're too cool.
(TN: Weirdly Mumu says two words that essentially are the same but I had to adjust it slightly. "Kakkoii" is a typical reading for "cool", as well as "attractive" or "stylish", while "Kakkoyo" is also the same "cool". Ultimately, I had to make two different readings for it just to not spoil what happens next)
SFX: Doki doki

71.
Mumu: It's decided! I'll be a man.
Hiroshi: ! Ri...right!
SFX: Doki doki doki
SFX: Doki doki | Muku muku
SFX: Doki doki doki doki doki
Hiroshi: Eh?
(TN: Well they are sexual demons...)

72.
Hiroshi: ...So, you became a woman!?
Mumu: Eh!? Ah!?
Mumu: Return, return...huh, I can't return.
Voice: --So eventually
Kyouko: You became a woman. Great, great.
Shizuka: It's better to be a woman after all---
Miki: But how did you come to decide that?
Kyouko: ?
SFX: Moji moji...
Nube: Even doing so, the throbbing-heart of puberty deciding men and women is...

73.
Nube: Mother, you knew from the start and were silent about it.
Succubus: With this class, I thought there would be child that would take Mumu's heart.
Kyouko: Eh, what, what's going on!?
Nube: To choose yourself whether to be man or woman...
Nube: It may be good
Nube: If that chance was held by all children.

74.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#47: Succubus

Succubus (likewise "sukyubus") is a Muma who takes the form of a female. With a Latin word with the meaning of "To suck in" as it's etymology, it is said to tempt when it appears in the dreams of men and suck in their life energy. In particular, they easily target young priests who participate in a lifestyle of abstinence. This is said to be for plundering spiritual power for antagonizing Satan by sucking this life energy.

There exists the Incubus (likewise "inkyubus") as a similar ally, but those are male Muma with an etymology of the Latin word of "to ride up".

They both are said to be subordinates of Lilith (likewise Lilit), the Night Queen.
(TN: The alternate readings are all from the original and were made out in a way to keep them somewhat. The "Sukyubus" and "Inkyubus" were the original Japanese readings for both "Succubus" and "Incubus" and were made the alternate to not confuse with the direct reading. Meanwhile, 'Lilit' is an alternate Hebrew reading for "Lillith" and made sense to be the alternate here)

TN: Admission time going in here: gender identity and issues is really something I understand but it is one that I know is going to get me in trouble with what I may say here. There are many men out there who are born women and vice versa, let alone there are no real traditional "roles" that should exist that should be bound by one's gender or gender identity. I know who I am and what I want and sort of understand those who have a different view of what they want from life and who they are. Sure it may not be what I want but I understand those who make this decision and therefore they should live their lives as happily as they can with the identity they forge for themselves. But before I get too far, I need to remind myself: this is a manga script, not a forum for speaking about gender identity so...let's get to the chapter.

The chapter is an interesting one that seems to more or less be bound by some of the traditional roles of gender in Japanese society, but that's sort of what's expected for a magazine that for the most part is for kids. At their age, they have only a bit of comprehension regarding people being born men or women and can't get into the complexities of gender roles or hermaphrodites or transgendered people or whatnot. As it stands, Mumu is born both male and female and, through it's movement through Nube's class, ultimately decides it's gender by the one that stimulates it, becoming the opposite. While one into TG transformations could get a turn-on by the ending of Mumu's final decision (and a clear as day transformation), one could also wonder why this idea of "excitement" would be the means by which the final sexual transformation would occur. It's really hard to determine what was going on in Mumu's head when the final transformation took place, considering that her (well I'm referring to Mumu now as "her" or "she" due to the finale, but it's mostly an "it" for most of the chapter) heart was going in one direction while her mind was speaking out in another. She showed excitement seeing Hiroshi thinking it was cool that he had the abilities to fight back, yet her heart showed this was less about coolness and more a sexual turn-on, perhaps explaining why I had to be careful with some of the words near the end or else give away the ending. (and we wouldn't want that) Obviously arousal wins out over anything the mind comes up with, but of course that just makes Kyouko angry...again...Hiroshi really is a playboy with youkai girls, huh?

Of course, prior to that decision, it was interesting to see that Mumu really did want to forge her own way in defining what she wanted after seeing both the positives and negatives of both sexes. She seemed to like the action of males, but didn't like the grossness; while she liked the feminine traits of being female but didn't like their hiding away their faults in things such as gluttony or obsessive gossip. One could say that maybe Mumu wanted to forge an identity with a bit of both, but it really had probably nothing to do with sexual transformation at all. Mumu liked things about being male, likewise she liked things about being female. She wanted to be a good person, but was drawn away by the faults thus leading to her feelings of wanting to stay as is. You could say many of these things really have nothing to do with gender and it shouldn't play into it, but the series with it's age limit really doesn't want to get into those sorts of things and for the most part just wanted to give her a comprehensive view of both before the final decision. It's tough to say whether this really is part of the superficial concepts of gender but with a society so used to these concepts for so long, it sort of was believed as such...

There I am making mountains out of molehills again. Let's just leave it as such: you could make more out of it but we're limited by the direction the series takes for who it's for and that probably explains why we had what we had. It was a good chapter but you could make way more out of it that could keep you here all day...but with something important and massive coming up, I think we'll just leave it at that.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 222

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:29:22 +0000

For a cold, emotionless youko like Tamamo, the concept of "emotion" is as foreign as an idea can be. But through a strange acquisition, he may finally learn the value of feelings...but is it really the right way!?

#222: The Day Tamamo Became Human

31.
Tamamo: This is my 13th starring role in total? Is it? It's come to be like that already...

32.
Sign: Plaza In Front of Doumori Station Konto "Just Hold on a Minute" Show "Hilarious"
(TN: There are a couple things on this sign I have to point out:
1. A "konto" is a lighthearted story usually with a comedic feel to it.
2. The "Suttoko Dokkoi" here I translated as "Just Hold on a Minute" due to the two separate words that are used: "suttoko" being "all of the sudden" and "Dokkoi" being "Hold on!" or "Hold on a Minute!" With both of them together, it just worked best as "Just Hold on a Minute".)
Comedian 1: Really, our popularity now has the force of a flying bird crashing...
Comedian 2: Dummy! If you're to say it, it's the force of a flying bird falling!
(TN: The joke here regarding this pun regards two different verbs tied to the same kanji. The first comedian ends up saying "ochiru", which can typically go as "to fall" but also has a meaning of "to crash", while "otosu", the proper word that the second comedian states to make the joke work, is the proper reading of the kanji, meaning "to fall". The joke here obviously is the mispronounciation of "otosu" as "ochiru".)
Kyouko: Ahahahaha
Hiroshi: A--musing--ahahaha
SFX: Kiki
Tamamo: What is so amusing, teacher?
Nube: What, you say? That, that.

33.
Comedian 1: A chef is skilled at kung fu.
Comedian 2: Why's that?
Comedian 1: Artichoke
(TN: I tried to make this joke work in English the best I could but somehow I know I screwed it up. The actual punchline of the joke in Japanese is "hocho", which is a type of kitchen knife and obviously referring to the "acho" callout that is the yell of martial arts star Bruce Lee. But since it really didn't sound like it would work, I ended up making it "artichoke", which is emphasized right can make itself into "acho")
Comedian 1: Do you know of check-ups?
Comedian 2: Yeah, it's that red stuff you put on french fries.
Comedian 1: Dummy, that's ketchup.
(TN: Another joke that was even harder to translate into English: the Japanese term that was introduced by the first comedian is "ningen dokku", which is the Japanese word for "Check-Up". However, the second comedian mistakens "ningen dokku" for "ningen doggu", or "human dog", and originally says the line as "It's the guy from Jump's Wild Half", referring to the notable 1996-1998 manga by Yuuko Asami which involved dogs who took human form. Of course since I couldn't really make the joke work to my advantage using "Wild Half", I just kept the "check-up" part and made the obvious joke)
Tamamo: Hmph, worthless.
Nube: What~~~
Kyouko: Well, well, it's because Tamamo isn't human.
Kyouko: He can't comprehend human laughter and sadness and all emotions.
Hiroshi: He is a cool youkai.
Nube: Heh! He's a pathetic being!
Nube: Someone like me enjoys himself li--ke this (Ahyahyahya Gehya Uhya Uhehe Gehe)
Hiroshi: You have to become a bit more cool...

34.
Sign: Doumori Hospital
SFX: Katsu katsu katsu
Narrator: Tamamo Kyousuke - Youko Tamamo
Narrator: His aim...it is to comprehend the "love" of humans, but even now it is without achievement...He is...a tad impatient...
Mother: Tamamo-sensei
Mother: I've heard...that you can perform spiritual treatments...
Girl: Ahahaha Eeheeheehee Uhehe

35.
Girl: Wa--h wa--h (shiku shiku)
Mother: She goes over and over in suddenly crying, laughing and getting angry like this.
Girl: What are you---you guy (Garuru...)
Tamamo: This seems like a possession.
Tamamo: Kotowaribukuro. Within this is packed the intense emotions of humans. Those possessed by this seem to become influenced by intense emotions...
(TN: This being doesn't exist, but the full translated name is "The Sack of Reason")
SFX: Dokun dokun dokun

36.
Tamamo: Hinrou Kyomon Reidai Bunkyoku Rentei Bukyoku
Tamamo: Hagun!
SFX: Ka
Kotowaribukuro: Hyu----!
SFX: Becha | Kyu--
Tamamo: It won't bother you anymore. Go home and rest at ease.
Mother: Thank you very much.

37.
SFX: Piku piku...
Tamamo: ...A youkai that can present emotions...
Hiroshi: Hey~~it's Saturday, so let's~~go and play~~~
Nube: Huh--
Nube: That's trouble to b--e. Don't have mon--ey.
(TN: Nube ended up rhyming here with his approach of "Mendokusa--i, Okane na---i", so I decided to make it rhyme in English as well)
Voice: Nueno-sensei! Let's go play!
Nube: ?

38.
Tamamo: Hahahahaha...
Nube: Wh...what are you planning, Tamamo!!
Tamamo: Eh, what's that, teacher? Nothing has changed at all from always.
Tamamo: With that, a minor joke. (Ehem...)
Tamamo: A nurse can't work with a certain doctor. Because of which, she got per pay docked.
(TN: This was another really strange joke that just couldn't work at all in English but works wonders in Japanese. The basis of the joke is the setup, which basically translates into "A nurse seems to have many mothers." The punchline though, in Japanese, is "Naasu wa mama", which literally is "it's a situation of nurses" with "mama" being either a word for "mother" or "situation"/"case", but works because of the other usage of "mama", with the first time using the proper version of "okaasan"'. It just coudn't translate at all in English, so I went with the pun you saw here about "pay docking")

39.
Tamamo: A ha ha, ahahaha---
Nube: It's like he's an American laughing at an American joke...
Nube: Did you eat something bad?
Tamamo: No no
SFX: Chi chi
Nube: Well, before doing that, let's go out on the town.
Tamamo: Aah, what good weather. This is truly a feeling that is cheerful. Is this the feeling called "fun"?
Tamamo: Mu
Cat: Nya--
Box: Please adopt

40.
Tamamo: Thats pitifully cold...I'll adopt you.
Cat: Nya--
Kyouko: Hey, how could it tru--ly come to this?
Tamamo: Oh, there there, you were lonely. Haha
SFX: Suri suri
Nube: He's completely broken.
Tamamo: Teacher! Let's see a movie!
Movie: Farewell of Love and Sadness
Sign: Doumori Piccadilly
Nube: I'll go for the children.
Nube: Wha--t a boring movie--I wanted to see a shiver-making horror film...
Nube: Uwaa!

41.
Nube: Hey, you truly are strange.
Tamamo: Am I?
Tamamo: Huhuh!
Tamamo: Oh...Oooh~~~
Tamamo: What a beautiful person. You have now surely echoed the bell of my heart.
Woman: Eeh

42.
Nube: Se...seriously?
Tamamo: Of course.
Tamamo: Ooh, the throb of this heart...Is this the thing called love? God, you that have made this magnificent emotion are a genius.
Kyouko: It's embarrasing here listening to him.
Tamamo: Can't you come together with me for dinner?
Woman: Ye...yes, I'll be glad to.
Nube: Hey hey--!
SFX: Don!
Punk: Be careful you guy.
Tamamo: What's that: you're the one who came to hit me.
Punk: Shut it, you delicate man.
(TN: The punk refers to Tamamo as "yasaotoko", which is a man of delicate features or gentle emotions)
SFX: Muya muya...
Tamamo: Are you mocking me?

43.
Tamamo: Unforgivable!
SFX: Dogaa
Nube: Huh...! Is he seriously angry!? If he hits a human with the power of a youko...
Tamamo: Die! Die!
SFX: Doga doga
SFX: Bishu bishu

44.
Woman: Kyaaaaa!!
Nube: Stop it, Tamamo! He's dead!
Tamamo: Haa haa
SFX: Dosa
Cat: Nya---
Nube: What's the matter with you today...Explain it from the start.
Tamamo: I've...obtained human emotions with a certain method. The me of now comprehends human laughter, sadness and anger.

45.
Tamamo: And...even the emotion called the "Love" of humans, which was my heart's desire.
Tamamo: If it was now, I wouldn't lose even if I fought you.
Nube: Do you truly have human emotions?
Tamamo: Fu
SFX: Suru (Slip)
SFX: Dokun...dokun

46.
Nube: That's...Kotowaribukuro...that thing is fake emotions. What you are feeling doesn't surpass fake emotions that it manufactures.
Tamamo: Shut up!
Nube: It possesses the heart, unreasonably presents it emotions and makes it go wild, destroying the heart!
Tamamo: Silence! With me, I can master it!!
Nube: Stop it! Your heart is breaking down.
Tamamo: Shut up!
Nube: Ah
Cat: Nya--
Mouse: Chu--
SFX: Kikikikiki
Nube: !!

47.
Woman: You ran over a cat.
Man: That feels bad--I dirtied the tire---
Tamamo: Ah...ah.
Tamamo: Uwaaa
Tamamo: Ugaaaa

48.
SFX: Dogaa
SFX: Gua | Wa---| Kya---| Zugagaga
Nube: Tamamo
Tamamo: Diiie~~~!
SFX: Bari bari bari
Nube: Stop--- (to himself) No! His heart is being completely manipulated by Kotowaribukuro...!
SFX: Gu

49.
SFX: Za---n
Kotowaribukuro: Guee
SFX: Za za

50.
Nube: You were stupid, you who are Youko Tamamo. You made a major mistake this time.
SFX: Shuuu...
Tamamo: Haa haa
Tamamo: ...Even if you didn't say it, I understand.---I saw the serious error...I'm grateful that you saved me.
Tamamo: Adios.
Kyouko: That's somewhat pitiful.
Nube: That wasn't even like him...why was he impatient over that thing...
Hiroshi: That was...a tad strange...

51.
Voice: There isn't much time...anymore
Nurse: It's an emergency, doctor!
Nurse: What were you doing?
Tamamo: It was nothing.

52.
Dr Tamamo's
Examining Room of Love

Welcome to the Examining Room of Love. This here is a corner where the results of the research of I, Tamamo Kyousuke, the researcher of love, will be published. Let's talk about love together with me.

The first theme will be "about the difference of love and desire".

Even if you say they're love in a word, its actually two different things...one is "Eros, taking love", the other is "Agape, presented love".

For example, if you come to like someone, you want this person to become your lover and stubbornly dangle by them without thinking of the partner's feelings, then it's "taking love". Saying that, this is already a crime that's called stalking. Conversely, if you devote yourself to it even if you're thrown away for the one you love, then that is called "presented love".

Amist these two kinds of love, if you're to say which is real love, then its the latter without going on forever.

The former borrows the name of love, it is only mere desire. Similar to seeking water for healing a dry throat, it doesn't surpass seeking love. (This is called "Thirsty Love") The form of love like this gives birth to jealousy and hatred and comes to be the root of all crime.

The love tht I've discovered within Nueno-sensei and that I think I want to obtain is unrelated to this sort of selfish desire. Fu, well, this thing I think can't even be explained now to this intelligent everyone but...

Well then, since it's tedious even if I continued too drawn out, let's leave it there this time. My second appearance is not yet fixed now. I think I'l make it as near as possible, but anyway there isn't too much time left for me...

With that, until the day we meet again, adios.

(TN: A couple things
1. I need to go into a bit further on the two "terms" Tamamo mentions regarding the difference between the types of love: Eros and Agape. In actuality, there are four loves that are revealed in Greek text, the other two being "Storge", or "Affection" and "Philia", "Friendship".
-Eros is the term that speaks of "intimate love" or "romantic love", tied to the "passion" or "desire" aspect brought up here.
-Agape is seen as "unconditional" or "sacrificing" love, the one that allows for one to make sacrifices to allow for the betterment of the well-being of all. This term is more notable due to the concepts being tied to Christianity and their ideas of Jesus as the "sacrificial love for man".
2. The term Tamamo uses for "Thirsty Love" is literally "Katsuai", with the "Katsu" standing for the kanji for "thirst" or "parched".)

TN: I think this chapter should be nicknamed "the chapter where I realize reinterpreting comedy for translation really shouldn't be my day job". Seriously, this was an interesting chapter where Tamamo dealt with things youkai like him really shouldn't thinking it was going to give him the true answers regarding "love", and in some ways you could say the whole affair did give him more insight even with the means by which he would do it nearly driving him insane. (though you do wonder about the ending with Tamamo burying the kitten and whether that was mere obligation due to what happened prior or something he wanted to do deep within himself) And while some could say that it threw Tamamo to the extreme just to show the problems with emotion and that maybe he should have found another way to reach and learn these things without being thrown into a situation where it would obviously be a negative. (it's not like youkai are completely emotionless...see Yukime...but obviously youko don''t have it due to their nature of being accurate thinkers and using these sorts of things just to manipulate and control others) But what killed me with this chapter wasn't the actual content but the jokes at the beginning and Tamamo's little joke when he first becomes 'that'. Japanese jokes just don't work in English and I try my best to make it so...but ultimately it just turns out to be a mess if you think too much about it. Do you realize how much I contemplated that "nurse" joke...well I guess after all that, I need to move on.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 221

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:15:12 +0000

While Nube is rather knowledgeable about youkai, even his information comes from a notable source, whose legends are about to be reinterpreted in the most peculiar way...

Volume 26: Formation! The Doumori Youth Spiritual-Assault Association
#221: Youkai Painter: Toriyama Sekien

8.
Hiroshi: Nube! It's a youkai!
Nube: What!! Which is it!?
Nube: Hm--m, understood.
Sign: Classical Characters (Japan)
(TN: The sign in the area of the library was in Japanese "Koten Moji", with the "Koten" referring either to "classical" as in "the classics" in books or literature or as in an older version of language as in a "classical" form of writing. I assumed this was tied to the former, but the "moji" here refers to specifically "characters" as in the characters of the Japanese language. Therefore, I believe that this section was essentially classical literature written in the original classical style of Japanese instead of more modern or recent script, thus why I kept the sign as is as "Classical Characters")
Narrator: Whenever Nube investigates about youkai, the books drawn by one painter of the Edo Period have always become essential material.
Narrator: This painter had knowledge about youkai more than anyone and left behind youkai drawings in the hundreds: in other words, a youkai expert. And...somehow all of you know him. The youkai designs in current manga and movies mostly have his drawings come to be the basis.

9.
Narrator: This person's name is Toriyama Sekien.
Narrator: What...kind of man exactly was he...
Caption: The Edo Period: Terakoya - Toriyama-juku...
(TN: A couple notes we have to go over here:
-"Terakoya" is an educational institution of Japan that went back to the 17th century Buddhist temples which were locations where children, usually for those not of the ruling class or samurai, went to learn how to read and write.
-The "juku" ending to the Toriyama institution is a kanji used for lessons and typically used for schools in the Edo perido and beyond. Usually the "juku" ending is typically used for private or cram schools in more recent times)
Kyouko: Toriyama-sensei...
(TN: Another note I have to speak of: we're going to see a lot of "familiar faces" playing roles in the past in this chapter. We're going to refer to them by their actual character and not by their "past life character" just so we don't get confused by who they're supposed to be)
Miki: Sekibe--
(TN: Yeah...obviously Miki is referring to Sekien by "that name", thus it should be obvious who he is playing)
"Teacher": Quiet, we're in the middle of class.
Kyouko: Ritsuyakko-san the geisha is passing by.
(TN: Just a reminder for those who don't know: "geisha" are generally female entertainers knowledgable in art and dance, though many seem to more prefer them tied to more "risque" arts...)
SFX: Shanari shanari
"Voice": What?

10.
Nube: Ritsuyakko-sa--n (heart)

11.
Hiroshi: U--m...it is this area...
Hiroshi: The genius painter...Toriyama Sekien...
SFX: Dododododo
Nube: Ritsuyakko-sa--n (heart)
SFX: Becha | Ha ha

12.
Nube: Well well, you're beautiful today as well.
Ritsuko: Se...Sekien-sensei...
Ritsuko: Wh...what is it today? Are you going to show another scary thing?
Nube: No way, since I've obtained good washi, I was going to do a portrait...
(TN: "washi" is a type of paper made in Japan, usually made from natural materials from either the gampi tree bark, mitsumata shrub or paper mulberry to more easily obtained ones like bamboo, hemp or rice)
Nube: Here, chee-se
Kyouko: Really, that Sekibe
Miki: It's because he's delerious for Ritsuyakko the geisha.
Ritsuko: Well, it's dreamy.
Characters: Ritsuyakko
Ritsuko: Ara? And that's...?

13.
Nube: Of course, a Haigorei. (I had to draw you altogether exact, ha ha ha...)
(TN: Considering this is a variation of the "Haigorei" joke Nube did back when Ritsuko was introduced in #3, I just want to remind that a "haigorei" or "back spirit" is a protective spirit akin to a "Shugorei")
SFX: Ooooh...
Ritsuko: Gyaaaa~~~
Ritsuko: I hate you! I hate you! Stupid Toriyama-sensei!!
SFX: Boka Doka Baka Gusha
Nube: Gyaaaaa!
Hiroshi: Th...that's Toriyama-sensei?
Kyouko: Yep, that's Sekibe.
Nube: Hmm hmm
Nube: You're Ichitarou.
Hiroshi: Yes. Please make me a pupil. I am a big fan of your drawings, teacher.

14.
Nube: You--are, you--are? Then I'll give you an autograph.
Hiroshi: Ye...yes.
Signature: Toriyama
Hiroshi: That's the wrong person!!
Caption: We...we're sorry, Toriyama-sensei.
(TN: Obviously the wrong Toriyama was used for this joke, with that little Goku inferring "Akira Toriyama", the Dr. Slump/Dragon Ball mangaka, not Sekien Toriyama)
Nube: Well, I can't refuse those who come. If this run-down place is fine, then live here without reservation.
SFX: Mishi mishi
Hiroshi: Is this person really the genius painter? Somehow he's different from his image~~
Nube: Guwa--
SFX: Baki!
Hiroshi: I have my promise.
Nube: I teach the children of the neighborhood. Study together with them here.

15.
Narrator: Toriyama Sekien was an official painter of the bakufu who drew in the current of the Kanou-School, and was a famous cultured person of the era. Aside from ukiyo-e and illustrations for picture books, he had a taste for haikai and, as he saw free time, he taught studies to the children of the neighborhood with his techniques and knowledge.
(TN: Quite a few things to remind ourselves about or go over here:
-"Bakufu" is the Japanese pronounciation for "shogunate"
-The "Kanou School" refers to a style of ink-on-paper art that was popular and notable in Japan mostly during the Tokugawa period, up until the Meiji period
-"Ukiyo-e" or "pictures of the dreaming world", is a style of art that usually show scenes of landscapes and many leisurable pursuits such as the theater. It was notable not just as a style of art on paper but woodblock prints as well
-"Haikai" (which usually translates into "comedic") is a type of comedic poem notable for it's wit and it's interest in the commoners of Japan. These would eventually evolve into the modern haiku.
-The posters behind Nube/Toriyama is a little poem that usually is used to help teach the characters of Japanese, typically known as "Iroha". It is a poem used that has every character of Japanese used once and exactly once, including various archaic characters no longer used in Japanese and the "N" which is not used as "n" but as the character "mu", thus representing both)
Hiroshi: Ke, a genius painter? Isn't he a mere id--iot? I'm somewhat dissapointed.
Kyouko: What? Sekibe is a splended teacher.
Miki: He--is. He--is.
Hiroshi: Right. Show me a good thing of his. Please let me hear this.
Miki: Stu--pid, stu--pid, we're running off. Heave-ho.
SFX: Koso koso
Hiroshi: So he's acting stupid after all?
Kyouko: Here.

16.
Hiroshi: It's...an amazing number of youkai pictures...Is this teacher...a youkai geek?
Caption: Bibliography/ Toriyama Sekien, "Gazu Hyakki Yagyou", Kokushou Publication Society
Kyouko: There isn't particularly a reason why teacher draws youkai pictures as he likes. The pictures in here are all evidence that teacher has saved people from evil spirits.

17.
Miki: Teacher is actually an extremely strong spiritualist. He's defeated youkai and evil spirits and saved people throughout Edo. These pictures in here are all youkai that he's defeated up to now.
Hiroshi: Him? I can't believe--this. Show me proof.
Students: Goodbye, teacher--
Nube: Take care and get home.
Hiroshi: He's headed out somewhere.
Miki: Go after him. You'll see teacher's real form.
Hiroshi: He fell into a ditch.
Nube: Wa--

18.
Hiroshi: Wh...what is he doing?
Kyouko: Searching for youkai with a crystal ball.
Kyouko: Recently in this vicinity, there have been rumors of the emergence of a youkai called "Uwan". Already three people have gone missing.
(TN: Since it won't be appearing in the Supplemental this time, a brief bit of information: appearing originally in Aomori Prefecture, "Uwan" is thought to not really be a physical manifestation but merely a sound that emerges in an old building when one enters it. Most times the youkai is harmless due to not having form, but some do try to give it form in their works, such as what we're going to see with Toriyama)
Hiroshi: Uwan?
Miki: It's voice speaks "Uwan" suddenly as you're walking, if you don't answer back with "Uwan" immediately, it will pull you in and kill you.
"Youkai": Uwan
"Man": U...uwan
Hiroshi: Oh---...

19.
Nube: Youki!
Kyouko: Did it appear!?
SFX: Zaza---
Yukime: Sekien-sensei---(heart)
SFX: Zapa---n
Sign: Warning: Kappa will appear
Nube: Nowa---
Hiroshi: W...what's that!?
Nube: He...hey, Kawame-kun, let go.
(TN: Yeah, Yukime's "kappa name" is "Kawame", which is Japanese for "River Woman"...it doesn't work as well but that's what you get)
SFX: Basha basha
Kyouko: That's Kawame-san the kappa.
Yukime: I love you, teacher---!!
Kyouko: Since she was saved by teacher having been caught by a fisherman and going to be killed five years ago, she's been having dreams all along of marrying teacher.
Nube: Gabo gabo

20.
Yukime: Here, say ah---I made it putting my heart into it. Is it tasty?
(TN: Um...Nube can't breathe)
Yukime: Hey, shall we take a bath next? And--then--with--that...uh (heart) Kawame's heart is pounding (heart)
SFX: Gabo gabo gabo
Yukime: Ah, teacher.
Nube: Buha---! I...I was getting killed.
Tamamo: Fu, Sekien-sensei, you're as uncouth as ever.

21.
Tamamo: My interest in you is gushing out. Ca--n't we have a talk about the "love" of humans together?
(TN: Um...this is just getting wrong...even for Tamamo)
Miki: Oh boy--even Tamasaburo the tanuki has appeared.
Kyouko: Tamasaburo has been researching about love since he was defeated by teacher.
Hiroshi: A...a tanuki?
Yukime: Hey---don't do harm to my Sekien-sensei---!
SFX: Pyu--pyu--
Tamamo: Mu
Tamamo: You kappa (Tantan tanuki no shiwanobashi) Pummeled Stones of Senjoujiki
(TN: A couple things:
-The expression that Tamamo states in tanuki form ends up being one tied to a folklore: usually there is a song that many tanuki sing that goes "tan-tan tanuki no kintama" or "the testicles of a "tan-tan" (plain) Tanuki. However instead of speaking of testicles, Tamamo instead sings of "shiwanobashi", which is "smoothing out wrinkles" and usually is used for the recreation of the elderly in Japanese. Somehow considering the nature of tanuki, I would probably assume that the "shiwanobashi" is actually referring to not the tanuki's testicles but their scrotum, which is also quite wrinkly and part of the tanuki's obsessive usage of that part of their anatomy.
-"Senjoujiki" is a term usually tied to tanuki that stands for "1000 tatami mats", which in legend is the typical size of a tanuki's scrotum, which is very flexible and stretchable, as Tamamo...um, is displaying)
SFX: Zudodododo
Tamamo: Sekien-sensei is going to talk to me.
SFX: Dodododo | Basha basha
Nube: Uwaa
Yukime: Teacher is mine.
Hiroshi: It's...the Great Youkai War.
(TN: Hiroshi is referring to "Youkai Daisensou", which as mentioned prior is tied to the original 1968 film [known in the US as "Youkai Monsters"], not the remake that came out after this chapter in 2005)

22.
Hiroshi: Aw--w, he's an idiot after all. Can he exterminate youkai? Isn't he possessed by youkai--?
Kyouko: N...no, those two are special...
Hiroshi: I'll quit entering into being a pupil after all. I'm returning to the country. See ya.
Hiroshi: Chie...he's actually that thing?
"Voice": Uwan
SFX: Ba
Hiroshi: U...Uwan!
SFX: Zazazazaza
Hiroshi: It....can't be...

23.
"Voice": Uwan
Hiroshi: Uwan
"Voice": Uwan
Hiroshi: Uwan
"Voice": Uwan Uwan Uwan Uwan Uwan
Hiroshi: Uwan Uwan Uwa...Hi...n...no good, I didn't answer...
Uwan: Uwan
Hiroshi: Waaaa!!

24.
Hiroshi: Damn it, am I going to be deceived by some youkai?
Uwan: Uwan
SFX: Gara gara gara
Hiroshi: Hi...those rocks with his voice...
Hiroshi: Waa~~~

25.
Nube: Don't lay a hand on my student!
SFX: Ba----n
Hiroshi: Sekibe-sensei!!
Nube: Step back: this thing has already killed three people.
Uwan: Uwa~~~n
Nube: Guwa
Uwan: Uwa
Hiroshi: Teacher!

26.
SFX: Shuuu...
Nube: Ku
Hiroshi: Teacher!
Nube: Be calm: I won't lose to this guy. I'll fully show him the way I draw.
Hiroshi: Eh...
SFX: Za Za | Su
Kyouko: It's alright. Sekibe utilizes 100% of his power when he protects children. His special technique was made from the head hair of Ennetsu Zekki, an Oni who massacred people and rampaged through several countries in the Sengoku period...
(TN: "Ennetsu Zekki" is "Zekki of Scorching Heat"; admittedly I would have probably though Baki would have been the Oni but I can't say it's a mistake or not because this is what is down and I rather stay authentic so it stays as is)
Kyouko: The Oni no Fude
(TN: "Fude" is a writing brush, thus it would be "The Oni Brush", but I kept it as "Fude" to keep consistancy with the "Oni no Te")
SFX: Bari bari bari bari
Nube: Haaaaaa~~~!!

27.
Nube: Akuryou Byouin
(TN: "Byouin", the term used instead of "Taisan" for Nube's sealing of Uwan, literally stands for "art seal", with the "seal" not be the "sealing away" like some would suspect but the kanji for the seal that's a synonym for "stamp". Also note the brush having the "Sutra of Byakue-Kannon" on it and the stylized "Oni" used to seal it away)
Uwan: Hii

28.
SFX: Sa sa sa
SFX: Shuuu
Nube: Exorcism complete!
Miki: Wa---
Kyouko: Sekibe
Hiroshi: A...amazing...this is Toriyama Sekien...my...master...
(TN: The "shishou" here isn't merely "teacher" like "sensei" but a master as in the period this tale took place)
Hiroshi: I had failed to recognize this, teacher!
SFX: Ba!
Nube: Eh?
Narrator: And so, Ichitarou became Sekien's pupil. Afterwards, he became an ukiyo-e artist and changed his name to Kitagawa Utamaro.
(TN: Not sure if we ever went into him, but Kitagawa Utamaro is one of the more notable ukiyo-e artists, stated to be one of the main artists who ended up influencing many French artists in the 1800s into the creation of the Impressionist movements which changed art in the West. According to many historical accounts, he was a pupil of Sekien and began his own work in the Kanou School, but eventually switched to Ukiyo-e in middle age. And like Hiroshi's character, his full name was "Kitagawa Ichitarou")

29.
Narrator: In the future, the name of Sekien grew hazy with the fame of Utamaro, but
Nube: Alright, shall we go to eat soba?
Kyouko: Ya--y
Narrator: Sekien's works changed into the forms of manga and movies and even today continues to present dreams to children.
Nube: Understood, it's "Uwan"...
Hiroshi: Nube, do you understand it?
Kyouko: The acts of whatever youkai? Quickly exorcise it.
Nube: Alright, let's go.

30.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#46: Toriyama Sekien (2)

This is being said just to be sure, but the tale this time is fiction. Since it probably isn't the truth that Toriyama Sekien was a spiritualist or was friends with kappa and tanuki, don't believe in those.

Well then, even though Toriyama Sekien was Supplemental Explanation #2 of Volume 18 of the manga, he was a man who was the foundation of the youkai drawings of Japan as a famous youkai painter who was active in the Edo Period, as was explained. A person who drew youkai drawings similarly was known as Kawanabe Gyousai, but ultimately #1 was Sekien.

The painting books that were produced by Sekien included "Gazu Hyakki Yagyou", "Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki", "Konjaku Gazu Hyakki Shuui", and "Hyakki Tsuredzurebukuro". All of them were published as art-print books and were best sellers at that time. The youkai that were drawn in those painting books have become the base form of the youkai design in present manga and movies.

There isn't a reason that states that those youkai drawings were all Sekien's original designs. According to Sekien himself, many of them had reference in "Sengaikyou" (A painting book that was taught to be a work of Hakueki, who saved it from the Great Flood of Yu as an ancient geographic work of China) and "Hyakki Yagyou" of Kanou Masanobu.

Furthermore in 1788, Sekien died at the age of 77, but his art collections have continued to be published even after death.
(TN: A few notes:
1. I've probably mentioned a lot of Toriyama Sekien's works in the past, but with all of them listed, let's just list their Japanese and English names one more time:
-Gazu Hyakki Yagyou = The Illustrated Night Parade of One-Hundred Demons
-Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki = The Illustrated One-Hundred Demons of the Present and Past
-Konjaku Gazu Hyakki Shuui = Suppliment to the Hundred Demons of the Present and Past
-Hyakki Tsuredzurebukuro = The Illustrated Bag of One-Hundred Random Demons
2. Kawanabe Gyousai (Kyousai) is a notable artist and art critic of late Edo and early Meiji period (who lived 1831 to 1889) who mostly was notable as a sketcher and characaturist but made several works about folklore and youkai like Sekien.
3. "Sengaikyou", also known by it's proper Chinese name of "Shan Hai Jing", is a classical Chinese text that spoke of the geography of the land prior to the Q'ing Dynasty, usually speaking as such through strange mythological creatures that appeared in each part of the nation. It does so through speaking of the mountains and rivers of China, thus the Japanese name (which literally translates into "A Sutra of Mountains and Seas")
4. "The Great Flood of Yu" was the historical fiction tale of a massive flood that nearly covered China several tims except for being stopped by the future "Yu the Great", the founder of China's Xia Dynasty, known to be the first Dynasty of historical China during the neolithic period around 2205 BCE.
5. As mentioned prior, "Kanou Masanobu" was the founder of the "Kanou School" of art which Toriyama Sekien as well was part of.)

TN: Again, this is probably going to be a response with rust on it because I translated this on Sunday...and it's already Saturday.

It's sort of obvious that this chapter was more or less a fantasy tale allowing for the characters of Nube to be reinterpreted as characters from the past tied to the tale of Toriyama Sekien. But with that said, it was a fun chapter which...well, obviously it wasn't going to be the real truth, but at least it was more about reinterpreting the Toriyama legend with the Nube characters and sort of showing the cast off in the Edo period. Somehow I really though the idea of Toriyama being this "painter" who captures youkai through his paintings (literally) was a neat concept, though I sort of wonder a bit about whether Zekki was the actual Oni that he got the hair for his brush from or just a mis-interpretation. (Baki's the Oni Nube has as his hand, Zekki...well we're still sort of getting him off our backs) The tale itself, though, felt more like a reinterpretation of an earlier chapter, only throwing in a few characters and ideas we've had since...like Tamamo and Yukime. (yeah, those two are special...though in Yukime's case, I doubt the relationship with her as a kappa would have lasted long if he can't breathe any time he goes to her place...or do we really need Tamamo attacking with "that"?) It really isn't one of those chapters where you have to think too hard about it, and that's probably why it ended up working.

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 220

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:21:42 +0000

She thought she had a carefree, casual lifestyle...but once Izuna gets through with a strange encounter, she'll end up with something way more than she bargained for...one that could just be bursting out of her!

#220: Izuna, Become a Mama!?

169.
Izuna: Question! What number in total is this the number of starring roles for I, Hadzuki Izuna!?
Answer (beneath the title): 9th

170.
Woman: Uh!
Man: Wh...what's the matter, are you giving birth?
Woman: No, this chill suddenly... (Haa haa)
Voice: This isn't connected to the child in your belly.
Man: Eh?
Voice: A wandering animal spirit possessed her.
SFX: Ooooh...
Woman: Haa haa
Man: Wh...who are you?

171.
Izuna: Raise your money to me about Shugorei, Jibakurei and raising up against spirits!
(TN: Izuna's introduction here was just a neat little play on words, playing off the Japanese word "rei". The beginning part used the obvious spirit words of "Shugorei" and "Jibakurei"; she then goes "Kiritsu - Rei", with the "Kiritsu" being "standing up" as in "standing up to spirits". And then at the last part, she ends it by saying "Kane Kurei", which is obviously "give me money", but finishes Izuna's little "rei" joke nicely. I tried to make it work in English, but not sure if I did too well)
Sign: Beautiful Spiritually Powered Girl Izuna
Izuna: There are various kinds of spirits, but pay me and leave it to me with peace of mind. I'm super-cool. It's The Beautiful Spiritually Powered Soldier "Hadzuki Izuna", seems so!?
Man: Well, let's go to the hospital.
Izuna: Listen, hey!
Izuna: Proof is greater than discourse; I'll show you with an exorcism. Paying me later is fine.
SFX: Ja
Izuna: Akuryou Taisan!!
SFX: Fugya---

172.
Izuna: Taisan, taisan, taisan---!
SFX: Beshi beshi beshi
Spirit: Fukya---
Caption: Actually an extremely weak spirit.
Izuna: Fu---that was a stubborn opponent.
Woman: Ara, I'm healed.
Man: Eh, really!?
Man: Thank you.
Izuna: Any time--
Izuna: Lucky--by just wiping out that low-grade animal spirit. I was in a spending allowance crisis for the month.
SFX: Suka~~...
"Baby": Mama...

173.
SFX: Su
Izuna: ? Somehow...my stomach feels warm...
SFX: Dokun
Izuna: Eh..eh? Nooo~~~, what is this~~
SFX: Dokun...dokun...dokun...
Sign: Doumori Elementary
Nube: What? Izuna's come for a discussion?
Kyouko: Y...yes. Come for a moment.
Nube: Really, at any--rate it's another worthless discussion. Was she arrested for a bogus exorcism...
SFX: Bori bori

174.
Izuna: ...Seems so---... (Eku eku wah...)
Kyouko: Nube...

175.
Nube: This will be fine: teacher is your ally.
Izuna: You've become kind---
Nube: Then~~what's wrong with you, you delinquent girl! Who was your partner!? What's your excuse for your parents!? (Uga~~~)
Izuna: I didn't do any--thing!
Nube: What!? A psychic phenomenon!?
Izuna: Right. Isn't that why I came for a discussion?
Nube: Understood, right. Since I do possess the just right, exact charm, I'll give it to you.
SFX: Gaza goso
Izuna: Really!?

176.
Charm: Prayer for an Easy Delivery
(TN: Nube gives Izuna a Shinto shrine known as "Anzan Kigan", which literally translates into "Prayer for an Easy Delivery"; it is a special prayer given by Shinto priests to assist in the birth of children)
Izuna: That's why~~~!! If this was the act of a spirit, you'd believe me~~~!!
Nube: I think it was given to me by a teacher on maternity leave.
Kyouko: It seems he hasn't regained his footing because he's still in shock.
Nube: Here, I'll give you a rattle too~~
(TN: Weirdly Nube doesn't refer to it as a rattle but as a "garagara", which is an onomotopeia for "rattling", but obviously he has a rattler in his hand)
Nube: Hmm
Nube: This is...you have a Boze.
SFX: Oooooh...
Kyouko: Aah!! The baby!

177.
Izuna: Boze?
Nube: A Boze is the soul of a baby before it is born. In tradition, it was said that when a married woman was walking on a street at night, it flew and entered into her womb. It was unknown if this was a thing that was created by god or where it came from, but, at any rate, it was an original soul that was born to a human.
Nube: Perhaps when you drove away the animal spirit, at that moment the Boze that was within her belly came out and entered into Izuna.
Izuna: Do...
Izuna: Don't joke with me. This is like the Virgin Mary; it's some Virgin Pregnancy...am I 14 years old, first of all!? Get it out! Quickly send it outside!
Nube: I can't. Boze is an extraordinarly weak spirit. There is also a youkai called Bozegui that eats Boze in the atmosphere. Therefore, it can't immediately return to the original woman...
(TN: "Bozegui" is literally "Boze-Eater")
Izuna: That's...

178.
Izuna: Then I'll be like this the whole time~~~!? (No way~~~)
SFX: Jita Bata
Miki: Misfortunate
Nube: Wait with patience a little while. I'll search for that woman.
Sign: Doumori Station
Izuna: Really! I can't get into this also even after all that. We have to search too!
Miki: But then---since you've become a mother with great pains, what if you were asked to give much more of a motherly feeling?
Kyouko: Right right, isn't this an experience you can quite do?
Izuna: You dummies---! I really hate babies! Sorry if I don't want to be a mama by any means.

179.
Izuna: Really...
Top Sign: Yamada Fruit Shop
Bottom Sign: Special Sale
"Baby": Mama...I want to eat sour things. I wa--nt to eat them.
Izuna: Upu
SFX: Gatsu gatsu gatsu
Miki: Oh---
Kyouko: Mama, mama
Izuna: Ah~~tasty, tasty
Izuna: Ha...
Izuna: You can't do anything, you idiot. F**king brat.

180.
Top Sign: Doumori City Heated Swimming Pool
Bottom Sign: Maternity Swimming: Underwater Exercises for Mothers: Now Occurring
"Baby": Mama...
Izuna: Upu
"Baby": I want to do that, I wa--nt to do that.
Izuna: Here, one-two! One-two!
SFX: Basha basha (Splash splash)
Izuna: You can't do anything. S**t.
SFX: Kaa~~~Zaba
Kyouko: Somehow Izuna-san's come to have the face of a mother.
Miki: You've changed after all having a child.
Izuna: Shut it.

181.
Izuna: Oh, has Shazna's new album come out?
(TN: Shazna is a notable visual kei group that originally emerged as a rocking band earlier in the 90s, but by this point was more known for their pop sounds, as well as for their lead singer Izam modeling his extreme feministic tendancies after British superstar Boy George of the Culture Club)
Sign: Music Band
"Baby": Here, here
Izuna: Wa--
Sign: Prenatal Music Corner for the baby in the womb
Miki: Wa---...
Kyouko: What a happy mama...
"Baby": This feels good...thank you mama...
SFX: Ha
Izuna: You...

182.
Izuna: Really! Let's search for her quickly.
SFX: Byu!
Izuna: Youki!?
Izuna: It can't be...
SFX: Ba
Kyouko: Kyaaaa!
Izuna: Th...that's Bozegui...

183.
Izuna: Ah, no! It can't be: it got scared and jumped out...
SFX: Bashu!
Kyouko: Eh
SFX: Shu
SFX: Puku~~~!
Miki: Kya--the father is Hiroshi--
Kyouko: This child is Maruko.
(TN: I don't quite get why Kyouko (or was it Miki) suddenly calls the baby "Maruko" but that's the line so I might as well translate it as I see it)
SFX: Shu | Guooo
Miki: Aah, I'm a mother.
Woman: Hey hey, that mother is a 5th grader--is she? (Nma~~~)
SFX: Po...
SFX: Hyu hyu hyu

184.
Woman 1: Kya---!
Man 1: Uwa--that's no--t my child.
Girl: ?
Mother: Kya---Mami-cha--n!?
Old woman: Hiee, dear, am I still in active service?
(TN: Obvious implications, won't get into it here...)
Man 2: Ufufu
SFX: Gooo~~~
Izuna: Stop that---
SFX: Botsu

185.
SFX: Giro
Bozegui: Gaaa!!
Izuna: Quickly, get inside me!
SFX: Shu!
Izuna: You absolutely won't be given this child. You won't eat it. You won't eat my soul!
Izuna: This child is my child!!

186.
Izuna: Teacher...
Nube: Sorry for keeping you waiting. Somehow I discovered the mother.
SFX: Shuuuuu...
Nube: This is terrible...let's hurry!!
SFX: Da!
Izuna: Eh!?

187.
Sign: Shimada Maternity Department
Izuna: Is it being born!?
Nube: Seems so. She's in the delivery room. If we don't hurry
Man: Well, the child is
Sign: Delivery Room
Nube: We were on time.
Nube: Well, let's begin. If we don't return it immediately, it will be stillborn.
Izuna: U...understood...
Izuna: Farewell.

188.
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan: Boze, return to the womb of your real mother!
Izuna: Ah.
Baby: Agyaa agyaa agyaa agyaa

189.
Kyouko: That's good, it was born to it's real mama.
Nube: Well, Izuna, it's absolutely impo--sible for you to raise kids.
Nube: He--y, let's go home.
Izuna: ...Grow up well...
(End of Vol. 25)

190.
Makura: If you don't buy vol. 26, you'll change for the worse~`
Ghost: Yes, it will be hateful~~~
(TN: Well it's weird that this volume's character...is a character of one of the authors, in particular the writer Makura. There are others that could have been used but I guess they wanted to show off that they were characters in this series now after the last couple of volumes. I actally don't mind when author self-insert themselves in manga when they do it right, like Toriyama or Tezuka...though Makura really is more of a joke character than them so it's tough to really identify him as doing similar to those)

TN: Well I have to admit: that was a really tender, sweet chapter...well for Izuna at least. As weird as the subject was (with Izuna essentially being a teenage pregnancy) and with some really strange stuff near the end (the Boze's movement to other people), it was a nice, sweet chapter that shows that maybe even a trendy grump like Izuna has a heart somewhere inside of her...I don't quite know where it is, but it is inside of her somewhere regardless. Perhaps one could state she was watching out for the baby and was not doing things by her own will, but we see that she does change through the chapter from being upset by the pregnancy to taking it through until the baby's soul remerges with it's body. Nube did his part but somehow the early parts where he was cracking up at the thought of a pregnant Izuna was just hilarious, mostly because he would be shocked that someone like her would end up being filled like that. (then again I've seen girls that young get like that, maybe younger...but that's the job I do) Somehow I know a lot of fetish fans were probably eagerly waiting this chapter and probably aren't dissapointed...but I thought it was more sweet and not really part of some bizarre fetish love. (then again there were other chapters that were better for my type of interests...I get people who understand and care about pregnancies but sometimes it just gets weird in some of the fetishes people get into)

Translation: Hell Teacher Nube 219

Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:14:21 +0000

Sometimes, you may not realize who really cares about you until after you've passed on. Such is the case with a strange old woman, whose death may end up revealing who is really on her side, including possibly a certain redhead...

#219: Kasha: The Moving Corpse

149.
Kyouko: This is Inaba Kyouko's 24th starring role in total.

150.
Hiroshhi: Hey Nube, treat us to the game center.
Nube: Guu (SFX for snoring)
Miki: He's sleeping.
Old Lady: Fuu fuu...
Hiroshi: Ah, that old woman has a problem.
Miki: That's heavy-looking baggage.
Nube: OK, let's help her out.
Kyouko: ...

151.
Kyouko: Please give it up: it would be best to ignore her.
Nube: What's wrong? This isn't like the typical Kyouko.
Hiroshi: Heartless person.
Kyouko: ...Then if you help her?
Kyouko: ...
Nube: Let us help you.
Katsuya: Old lady, this is where you leave this to us.
Old Woman: My goodness, I'm sorry for this.
Katsuya: This is heavy.
SFX: Zushiri
Hiroshi: What is in here?
Katsuya: Old lady, aren't we there yet?
SFX: Ka--ka--
Hiroshi: It's far.
Old Woman: Just a bit more.

152.
Old Woman: Here will be fine. See you.
Hiroshi: Ze--ze--haa--haa--
Hiroshi: Old lady, you forgot this, you forgot this.
Old Woman: Well I can't do that.
Old Woman: I forgot this, my furoshiki; my furoshiki.
(TN: A "furoshiki" is a cloth used for wrapping objects up and transporting them)
SFX: Ba! | Ga---n
Nube: What are those---!!
Old Woman: Eh, I don't know. They were just for drying out my furoshiki in the shade. I brought those things with arbitrarily.
Miki: Puu! Nube, what's with your face?
Nube: Eh
Nube: Ah--!
Old Woman: My goodness, somehow there was just charcoal on my hands.

153.
Old Woman: Mu
Old Woman: It's terrible. Everyone stand in a line!
Nube: Eh
Miki: ?
SFX: Basha----
Old Woman: Fu---you saved me.
Old Woman: Gyahahahahaha, stu--pid, stu--pid.
SFX: Poo poo (Fart fart)
Kyouko: That's why I said that: this old woman is the famous prankster of our neighborhood: Old Lady Luck.
(TN: The name that Kyouko gives to the old woman is "Ofuku Baachan", which translates into "The Lucky Old Lady". I decided to make it a little easier to read by making her literally "Old Lady Luck" in the way her name is made out)
Old Lady Luck: Hey, Kyouko.
Hiroshi: That outrageous granny!
Miki: What is she thinking?

154.
Miki: F**king Granny
Katsuya: Don't have a decent way of dying---!
Old Lady Luck: Kekeke, I'm living fifty more years.
Narrator: However, within not even a week elapsing since then...
Voice: Eeh!? That old woman has died!?
Nube: What again! That stubborn-seeming...no, energetic old woman has...
Kyouko: It seems to be a heart attack.
Kyouko: There was a spontaneous discharge when she was ringing out quite a few pinwheel firecrackers and she died of the shock...
(TN: "Pinwheel firecrackers" refer to the Japanese term "Nezumihanabi", which literally has a translation of "mouse firecracker" but refers to the firecrackers that spin when they're on the ground)
Nube: ...That's like that old woman...
Kyouko: She didn't have relatives that could take her in. She's being given a funeral by we, the people of the neighborhood.
Nube: Right: this too is some sort of connection. When work is finished, we'll raise incense for her.

155.
Voice 1: However...she died doing what she terribly loved, that old woman...
Voice 2: Because she was the bad one in the neighborhood.
SFX: Piku
Man 1: He...hey, was that movement now?
Man 2: That's your imagination.
Man 1: Well, let's prepare for the wake.

156.
Woman: Kyouko-chan will take her turn here.
Kyouko: Eh~~
Woman: From here on, you earnestly can't let the flame on this candle go out. Because "Kasha" will come.
Kyouko: Kasha?
Woman: Kasha is a youkai who is said to steal corpses. Kasha comes during a wake, moves the corpse and frightens the person. And then, if by any chance the candle goes out, it goes into the corpse and takes it as is. If it comes to that, then even the soul won't ever come to rest in peace.
Woman: Understand?
Mrs. Inaba: It will be fine, Kyouko; we'll be preparing in the room over there.
Kyouko: ...Together with a corpse...I have some bad feeling about this---well...she isn't a person I don't know altogether...

157.
Kyouko: But...even though she's dead, I'm crying. She didn't even have family or friends...that's a tad...pitiful...
SFX: Utsura utsura...
SFX: Su---...
SFX: Gatsu (Grab)

158.
Kyouko: Gyaaaaa
Mrs. Inaba: What's wrong, Kyouko!
Kyouko: It moved! The corpse moved---
Mrs. Inaba: That wasn't anything.
Kyouko: It...it truly was now...
Mrs. Inaba: You saw a dream while half-asleep. Steady yourself, because we're busy.
Kyouko: You're wrong.
Woman: If you're that scared, then you should shut the fusuma for the next room.
(TN: "Fusuma" is a sliding screen that is used to divide rooms like doors in many Japanese homes)
Woman: Has the candle been put out? Find that out sometimes.
SFX: Patan | Pata pata
SFX: Kucha...kucha...
Book: Ribon
(TN: "Ribon" is a monthly shoujo magazine of Shueisha that has been constantly published since 1955)

159.
SFX: Susu...
SFX: Baku baku kucha kucha
Kyouko: Hiii----
Mrs. Inaba: What's wrong?
Kyouko: It...it's moving, it's moving. It's being manipulated by Kasha.

160.
Mrs. Inaba: Wasn't this nothing?
Kyouko: It...it should have been...
SFX: Gorogoro...
SFX: Dosha---
Woman 2: No, I was airing the wash.
Mrs. Inaba: You must shut the storm door. Kyouko, I ask that you watch the house alone for a while.
SFX: Byuuu | Za---
Kyouko: Ho...how could this have come to this?
SFX: Shi----n...
Kyouko: At...at any rate, just the flame on this candle must not go out. Her corpse will be captured by Kasha.
Kyouko: Why is there suddenly a storm...
SFX: Byu---Guwa guwa

161.
SFX: Zuru
"Corpse": Au--ah---
SFX: Zuru peta zuru peta
Kyouko: Kyaaaaa!

162.
Nube: Hold it, youkai!! Don't lay a hand on my student!!
Nube: Sorry, I had overtime.
Kyouko: You're late~~
Nube: You monster!
"Corpse": Shaaaa
Nube: Fu
SFX: Pako---n

163.
Kyouko: Wh...what's wrong, Nube!?
Nube: Whatever--is wrong, it's nothing; this old woman...is alive!
Kyouko: Wha!?
Old Lady Luck: Heh heh heh, of course. My breathing was restored long ago. There's too--much fun in surprising Kyouko-chan.
SFX: Mukuri!
Kyouko: Wh...what a mischeivous granny...just like Miki...
Old Lady Luck: I said "oh, oh", hyahahahaha
Old Lady Luck: ...Even so, I understand it well...I had my wake and truly didn't get love from anyone... (Hi...hi...)
Old Lady Luck: I...had people who were glad that I was dead...
Kyouko: Old Lady Luck

164.
SFX: Bari---
Nube: What...!?
SFX: Boku
Kyouko: Kasha!
Old Lady Luck: Wh...what is that...
Kyouko: Nube...!

165.
Kasha: Guoo
Kyouko: Run, Old Lady Luck! If this candle flame goes out, then your soul will be taken away.
Old Lady Luck: Hie!?
Kasha: Guooo
SFX: Baki | Baki | Baki
Old Lady Luck: Hi
Old Lady Luck: Ky...Kyouko-chan, let go of the candle...I'm already fine whatever comes of me but...as is it will kill even you. Quickly let it go!
Kyouko: No! I won't let go! This flame won't go out even if I die!

166.
Kyouko: Old lady...were you truly lonely? Due to that, you wanted to be cared by everyone and made mischief on them. Isn't it that this pitiful old woman doesn't have a reason to die here?
Old Lady Luck: Kyouko-chan.
Nube: Right, Kasha, there isn't a reason for you to be given this old woman.
Nube: Return to hell!!
Kasha: Gyaaa--

167.
SFX: Shuuu...
Old Lady Luck: Kyouko-chan...thank you...of course, doing my mischief was...I don't have any relatives or friends...It was lonely and lonely every day not being cared about by anyone...I wanted my existence to be acknowledged by someone...
Kyouko: It's fine now, old lady.
SFX: Peta peta
Old Lady Luck: Uh uh, Kyouko-chan.
Kyouko: N
Kyouko: !?
Face: Stupid
Old Lady Luck: Hehehe, stu--pid, stu--pid.
Nube: Kyouko...I think this old woman is truly a mere mischievous old woman...

168.
Nube -sensei's
(Useless) SUPPLEMENTAL EXPLANATION
#45: Virgin Pregnancy

The Virgin Mary was already pregnant with Jesus Christ, the child of God, since before she married her husband Joseph. However, is it possible that a woman actually conceive just alone without having an experience with a man?

Like how a plant can bare fruit by pollen that is carried by the wind, there is a manner of thinking that states that humans too can be pregnant with children by a thing that is like the "origin of humans" which exists within the air. This is called "Panspermism", and it was seriously believed in medieval Europe. In particular, it was said it was easy to become pregnant when the West Wind (Zephyros) blows. In those days, there were records left behind that a large numer of unmarried mothers gave birth due to this.

According to another theory, this "origin of humans" enters from the nose and mouth, accumulates within the body of men, and then after is passed over to the women. In any event, these theories were superstition and there's no basis scienfitically.

(TN: A few notes:
1. Without really getting into the theology of the Virgin Mary, I do need to state one minor truth: it is believed that Mary was already betrothed to Joseph and they were stated to be married when the conception occurred, and many state that Mary may have only been 12 years of age when this occured. Of course one could argue that Joseph is the real father of Jesus...but as I stated, this isn't a theology lesson.
2. Weirdly the name that is given here for Joseph is in Japanese "Yohane", which is more or less the Japanese version of the name "Johan", instead of the typical reading of "Yosefu". Since it's rather obvious that Joseph is the name it was supposed to be, I made said adjustment, but I do find it rather interesting and peculiar.
3. "Paraspermism" is actually taken from the concept of "Paraspermia", a hypothesis that actually believes that all life exists throughout the universe in asteroids and meteroites, usually microscopic bacteria, that generally is more used to try and prove the existence of life outside Earth throughout the Univese. Weirdly the Japanese term is a direct translation of Paraspermia: Hanseishi-setsu. ("Han" being "Pan", and "seishi" being "sperm", with "setsu" being "theory", thus the "theory of Paraspermia")
4. "Zephyrus" is one of the four Greek "Anemoi" or wind gods who protect and bring the winds from one of the four cardinal directions. He is stated to be the bringer of spring from the west, thus also being known as the "fruiticfying wind" or the wind that brings life)

TN: This felt like a really tender chapter, even if somehow it sort of felt difficult (particularly with the ending) to determine if anything was really learned from this. The main key and crux behind why it worked is mostly due to Old Lady Luck, this crazy old woman that caused most of the problems due to both her disorderly behavior...and her "supposed" death. The first few pages did a fun job establishing her, the whole situation of her life as it was, and the fact that Kyouko already knew that she was somewhat nuts before...well, her supposed death. After that, the chapter took a nice and appropriate horror turn with the way Kyouko ended up stuck with Old Lady Luck and seeing her "restored to life" with the possibility of the youkai Kasha possessing her. Some could say it was somewhat strange how Kyouko ended up with her alone, but I thought it worked well: everyone else had to do other things and someone had to protect her candle during the wake, leading to Kyouko being behind it and thus her interactions with the strange actions of Old Lady Luck. With all of the chapters we've seen as of late which seem to more emphasize Kyouko with the rest of the class and with Hiroshi or Nube, seeing her on her own again really identifies with her character and who she is for the first time in a while: she seems so much lately like being identified with someone else (Hiroshi, Miki, Nube) that we tend to forget that Kyouko is a great character and a good choice for being the main female of the class...and possibly the series. The end of the tale sort of doesn't seem like anything was really learned...but it's really hard to say: we know Kyouko does respect Old Lady Luck, but she isn't going to stop being crazy, if only because it gives her attention. Aside from the ambiguity of that part, it was a good chapter and a nice change of pace for what we've had as of late.