Billy Bat 65

Sorry for the delay with these. I've had a whole lot to do, constantly preparing for the next thing, catching up on something I was behind on, or trying to finish something before a deadline, and so I got behind on these over the last 2 months. So I'm gonna catch up now. I've still got a few more.

[Billy Bat 65 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Kids: The olympics face to face [music note]
All totonto-totonto [music note]
face to face~~~~[music note]
TL Note: These are the lyrics of the theme of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, Tokyo Gorin Ondo
Mom: Quit singing that olympics son, it's very annoying!!
That's got nooooothing to do with us here in Oosaka!!
Boy: Eeeh? Could we take the shinansen to see the olympics?!!
Mom: And where would we get the money for something like that? Are you boys idiots?!!
Bot: No!!
I'm definitely gonna go to the olympics!!
Side: Minami Haruo, Mihashi Michiya, Sakamoto Kyuu, Kitajima Saburou...... At the start of the Heiwa era, everyone sang that song......

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Mom: You really are idiots!!
Who gave you that stupid idea?
Boy: Billy Bat said it!!
He said that dreams always come true!!
Mom: That TV manga agaain?!!
Stop spending so much time watching that and get to your studies!!
Boy: Billy Bat said so!!
Boy 2: Ah, Shin-chan!
Shin: UWA~~~~!!
Ah......
SFX: DON
Shin: Mister......
Are you a foreigner?

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Guy: Yes, sure. [This is written in that forign-y font]
Do you like "Billy Bat"?
Shin: WAWAH, you speak Japanese?
Guy: Well then, I think I'll give this to you.
Shin: Eh......?
Guy: It's just as you said.
Kid: Ah...... Okay......
Guy: It's just as Billy Bat says......
Dreams definitely come true.

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Kid: What'd he give you? Shin-chan? What is it?
Ooh!!
Title: Chapter 65 Devivie
Kid: It's a Billy Bat patch!!

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Narration: Oosaka 1964-----
Guy: Thanks for coming despite all this heat.
Are you looking for land?
Well, well!!

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Guy: You're right to come to us. Ah......Put some tea on, would you?
Guy: Yes, president.
President: I heard about it from him. What you're looking for, sir, is......
Ah......
Sir, can you speak Japanese?
Devivie: Of course.
I am Henry Charles Devivie.

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President: A...... Ah~~~ Well, Well, Devi......vi... Devidevi!?
Devivie: Henry is fine.
President: He......Hen.........?
I don't exactly understand......
TL Note: The Japanese word for "weird" is "hen", he's mishearing him.
President: Anyhow, sir, about the land near Wakayama you're looking for......
SFX: BASA
President: Are you really looking around here?
Devivie: Yes. From around here to here. As large a plot of land as possible......
President: There's nothing open there.
President: Ah......
Sir, please have a close look here.

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President: What you are pointing out, sir, is the Kisei Main Line.
Map: Akashi Channel [Top left corner]
Osaka Bay [Sea in the alcove]
Wakayama [Land]
Kii Channel [Lower Left]
Kumano Sea [Lower Right]
Kii Bay [Upper Right sea]
Kameyama [Top Right]
Devivie: Kisei Main Line............
President: Yes. The railway that goes to the three big cities, Kameyama through Kumano all the way to Wakayama.
The entire area you've pointed out is land of the national railway.
Devivie: National railway......
Perhaps we could negotiate with the national railway............?
President: There's no way we could do something like that!!
When you say large, just what size are you looking for approximately?
Devivie: 160 acres..................
That's about 650,000 square meters.

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President :Si...... Six hundred fifty thousand......!?
You're intending to buy enough for an entire town?
Devivie: I'd like to make an amusement park.
President: Amyuuzmen...?
Devivie: I'd like to establish a "Billy Land" in Japan, like the one in America.

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President: I......I've heard of that, "Billy Land".
It's a big amusement park in America!!
And there's that "Billy Bay Hour" that's on TV!!
It airs on alternating weeks with pro wrestling.
Devivie: Please keep this a secret for now.
President: This is really something.
You can make that?
Devivie: That's why I'm looking for a site to build on.
President: I see...... Hm!!
In that case, how about somethin' like this?
President: Southern Oosaka Harbor, it's being reclaimed right now. If you buy now, you can get it at a bargain---!!
Devivie: Well, this......?
President: Um...... This reclaimed land is......

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Devivie: What about here?
The railway meanders oddly......
It's probably one of those situations.
They couldn't negotiate a good deal for it.
Devivie: What sort of land is it?
President: Well......
Around this area......
Ah, here.
Right here......
Koumori Village.........
TL Note: Koumori means bat. It's written here with different kanji, though, to sound like a town.

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Devivie: Koumori Village..............
SFX: BASA SA...
Kanbe: The bat transports people somewhere......

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Kanbe: It's there before people were born....
And will still be there.............
after they die......
Sneering at humanity's foolishness.
Momochi: I've heard enough of your nonsense!!
!!
Th......
This is......
Hi......

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Momochi: Hi.....
HIII!!
SFX: KOTO...

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SFX: ZA...
Za...
Kanbe: You still haven't reached Nirvana?
This area is teeming with it......

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Kanbe: the bat's spirit......
SFX: *FLAP*
*FLAP* *FLAP* *FLAP*
*FLAP* *FLAP*
*FLAP* *FLAP*
*FLAP* *FLAP*
*FLAP*
*FLAP*
*FLAP*
ZA...

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SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN
SFX: MIIIIN MIN MIN
Kids: WAAAAI! Mayor!! Mayor!!

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Mayor: What is it, you noisy brats!!
Kids: It's a foreigner!!
A foreigner gave us patches!!
Mayor: Foreigner...........?

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Mayor: Establishing a Billy Land, huh......?
Devivie: Yes.
Mayor: There are some real fanatics, aren't there? Of that TV show "The Billy Bat Hour".
The one that airs at the time alternates with pro wrestling.
Devivie: Yes.
Mayor: I hate that.
Because I really like pro wrestling.
Because even after Rikidouzan died, Yoshimura Michiaki and Toyonobori are still going "bang", "pow"!
Devivie: Then I'll have the airtime changed.
Mayor: Are you serious?!! You can do something about that damn annoying "Billy Bat Hour"!?

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Mayor: But you're saying.........
I need to sell the entire village....... then?
I dunno if I can do that.
Devivie: Even after having seen that condition?
Paper: Check
Gray Box: Payment a sum of of 250,000,000 Yen.
Mayor: Japan......

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Mayor: After losing the war, it's regained so much after having had nothing left.
But that doesn't mean it's okay to do anything in the name of regaining.
I can't sell what I can't sell.
Please leave.
Devivie: Excuse me......
The reason you won't sell is......

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Devivie: more than that, isn't it?
Mayor: I said to get out of here!
Devivie: Excuse me.

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SFX: KAAN
KAAN
KAAN
KAAN
KAAN
KAAN
People: HAA HAA
Officer: Make way!!
Clear a path!!
People: Why did this......
happen again......
Officer: A ladder!! Could someone bring a laddeeeeer?!!
People: Aa......
There's no doubt about it......

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Guy: This is unmistakably the mayor......
SFX: *FLAP"...
Side: The cheerful foreigner Devivie appeared in order to establish a Billy Land...... Where on that land long ago, fellow ninjas waged a fierce battle against each other?!
Bottom: "Billy Bat" Chapter 65 / End
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