Shintetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 3

It's double the mayhem: as Bo-bobo and Don Patch take on a zombie master on the surface, Gaou and Beauty have gone underground where they face...a mole!? It's a chapter with so much going on...we need to tell both at once!

Shinsetsu 3: Top and Bottom
(TN: The title, "Ten to Chi to" can either be read as "heaven and earth" or "top and bottom"...the latter probably is more appropriate but the former is more poetic)

51.
Sign: Faithful Dog Patchkou

52.
Narrator: With the restored Don Patch active, Bo-bobo has cornered Yokohama Joe of the Kegarimen Assassination Corp.
Sign: VICTORY DANCE
Yokohama Joe: GU, WHAT ARE THEY...
Caption: A-COURSE
Narrator: Meanwhile, Beauty and Gaou fell into an underground limestone cave, where they were confronted by a new enemy.
Mole: Welcome, to the lowest of worlds.
Caption: B-COURSE
(TN: This chapter, for the most part, is written like two mini chapters above and below. I will translate A-course first on each page, then move on to B-course)

53.
Bo-bobo: Now, let's finish this. I'll defeat you!!
Yokohama Joe: If that's how it is, then I can only go into zombie mode!!
Bo-bobo: !
Yokohama Joe: UNDEAD SHINKEN OUGI: REVIVAL REVENGER!! SURPRISED!! THIS IS MY TRUE FORM---!!!
Don Patch: SO THEN, ME TOO!!!
Yokohama Joe: A PINEAPPLE!?
Beauty: What is this down here? Kegarimen...?
Gaou: Oh no...Beauty-san shouldn't see my Koala Trick.
Mole: We are double-active above and below. And I am the master of the earth...
Mole: KEGARIMEN ASSASINATION CORP'S SILVER MOLE-SAMA!!
Beauty: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!? HE BECAME NUDE!!
Gaou: THAT'S FINE--THAT'S FINE, MOLE-CHAN---YOU'RE PRETTY---
Beauty: THAT KID IS STARTING TO TAKE PICTURES!!

54.
Don Patch: HA! SPONTANEOUSLY, I AM 100% JUICY!!!
Bo-bobo: ANYHOW, I'LL SMASH YOU!!!
Don Patch: GYAAAAA!!
Bo-bobo: LET'S GO: SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN: MID-WINTER COURAGE-TEST TOURNAMENT!!!
Yokohama Joe: WHAT!? THE SKY BECAME NIGHT!!
Bo-bobo: I'VE INVOKED AN APPROPRIATE OUGI WITH THIS CEMETARY. FROM THIS, WE'LL ATTACK YOU WITH TRUE TERROR!!! LET'S GO!!!
Sign: MOGUKO'S PERVERTED PHOTO SHOW
Bench sign: Information
Caption: Attendance Number: 0
Mole: UWAAA~~H, I'VE
Hair Hunters: YOU--HOW DARE YOU EMBARRASS MOLE-SAMA. WE'LL SHOW YOU TERROR...
Crocodiles: WE ARE MOLE-SAMA'S SERVANTS: THE CROCODILE CORP!!
Beauty: CROCODILES ARE DANGEROUS!! THEY WERE ABLE TO HAVE AN INCREDIBLE TRANSFORMATION UNDERGROUND!!!
Gaou: It's OK, Beauty-san! Crocodiles only eat fish.
Beauty: THEY'RE PREYING ON YOUR HEAD----!!

55.
Bo-bobo: FIRST, THE FIREBALL SERVE!! THROW OFF HIS ATTACK
Yokohama Joe: HOOOOT----!!
Bo-bobo: Fireballs float in the darkness of a moonlit night, producing fe----ar!!
Yokohama Joe: GUOOO, IS THIS A COURAGE-TEST----!!!
Sign: H (Hakaba) -League
Bo-bobo: Victory~~Japan~~
Yokohama Joe: !!
Mole: IDIOTS!! CROCODILES ARE MEAT-EATERS----!!!
Beauty: THE LEADER TOO IS NOT OMITTED IN BECOMING BAIT---!!
Gaou: This truly is "Eat or Be Eaten"...
Mole: Yes...
Beauty: WELL YOU'RE BEING EATEN!!
Gaou: ......

56.
Don Patch: NURIKABE~~~~
(TN: A "Nurikabe" is a famous Japanese yokai which manifests as a wall that misdirects travelers at night invisibly, only dissapearing when knocking at a lower part)
Caption: DOPA-CHAN
Yokohama Joe: GYAAA~~~!!!
Bo-bobo: TO CONTINUE, YOU'LL WATCH THIS "CURSED VIDEO"!!
Yokohama Joe: It can't be!? This video is...
Bo-bobo: A VIDEO OF "NOROI", WHICH I MADE IN A SCHOOL ARTS FESTIVAL IN 3RD GRADE!
(TN: While "noroi" stands for "curse", in this case it has another meaning, for "slow" or "stupid". It is this version which also is connected to the "Name" of the robot Bo-bobo plays in this video)
Woman: Save me Noroi
Bo-bobo: Ah--Ah--
Yokohama Joe: WHAT IS THIS? ISN'T--THAT SADAKO!!
(TN: "Sadako" is in reference to "Sadako Yamamura", the antagonist both of the novel and the film versions (in Japan as well as remakes in the US and Korea) of the Koji Suzuki's work "Ring".)
SFX: ZUZUZU
Yokohama Joe: UWA! WHAT'S COMING OUT!? WOOPER LOOPERS!!?
(TN: "Wooper Loopers" are noted as juvinille axolotl salamanders kept as pets in Japan and noted as a fad in the 1980s)
Crocodile: WE'LL KILL YOU. WE'LL OVERLOOK THE WINNER OF THIS FIGHT.
Beauty: THE UNDERGROUND CROCODILES ARE SETTLING THIS!!
Crocodiles: All animals are fighting to live.
Beauty: IS...THIS THE LAW OF THE NATURAL WORLD!? IT'S TOO CRUEL.
Beauty: YOU CAN DO THIS GAOU!!
Gaou: THE CHEERS OF MY BIG SIS IS THE POWER OF A HUNDRED!!!
Beauty: BIG SIS!?
(TN: Gaou makes mention of "Ane-sama", which can either be read for "big sister" or "maid". Though my previous usage (in the bizarre relationship of Hell Dolphin calling Yuuko "maid" with the same comment in the Hair Kingdom arc) had it as "maid", the familiarity of Beauty & Gaou here makes me translate it as "Big sis")

57.
Yokohama Joe: DON'T JOKE WITH ME----!!!
Bo-bobo: UWAAA--WOOPERS!!
Bo-bobo: UNFORGIVABLE. FROM HERE ON, YOU'LL TASTE ULTIMATE-GRADE TERROR!!
Yokohama Joe: Terror from a courage-test for a zombie like me? Unbelievable.
Yokohama Joe: !!
Don Patch: YOKAI "SNIPER" APPEARS.
Yokohama Joe: YOKAI "SNIPER"!!?
Don Patch: Die.
Bo-bobo: A defeated warrior appears too!!
(TN: What Bo-bobo has actually become is an "ochimusha" a warrior from a defeated side who flees a battle, usually killed by the onslaught of the victorious enemy)
Yokohama Joe: GYAAAA, NOW THIS ISN'T A COURAGE TEST---IT'S A MASSACRE----!!!
Yokohama Joe: HAA...HAA...THEIR DANGEROUS...I CAN'T READ THEIR MOVEMENTS AT ALL...WHAT'S NEXT? WHAT WILL THEY DO?
Gaou: DORYAAA----!!
Crocodiles: GYAAAAA!!
Beauty: AMAZING!! HE SMASHED THEM WITH A PANEL!!

58.
Bo-bobo: One plate~~~...two plates~~~...
Yokohama Joe: BANCHOU SARAYASHIKI!?
(TN: "Banchou Sarayashiki" is a notable Japanese folklore involving a beautiful servant girl who is thrown to her death by an amorous samurai who tries to trick her to love via losing one of her 10 delft plates. Her grudge caused her to become a yokai which torments people by yelling about her 9 plates and crying out over the missing 10th one)
Bo-bobo: NOT ENOUGH PLATES
Yokohama Joe: A PRO WRESTLER----!!?
Mole: Thank you, koala-san!! I'm really scared of crocodiles...
Gaou: It's fine, it's fine.
Gaou: WE SMALL ANIMALS...LIVE BY UNITING OUR POWERS.
Mole: AH--
Mole: FRIENDSHIP BREAKDOWN!! FIRST I'LL DO A PAGEMEN TO THE WOMAN!
Beauty: GYAAA
Bo-bobo: PILE-DRIVER OF SADNESS
Mole: GUBABU!!!
Beauty: KYAA

59.
Yokohama Joe: STUPID...I CAN'T USE MY ARMS AND LEGS IN MY HOME TOMB...WHY!? WHY...?
Don Patch: You've fallen--
Bo-bobo: Look closely around you.
Yokohama Joe: WHAT!?
Yokohama Joe: MY TOMB HAS BECOME HACKERS---!!!
(TN: This is a weird language joke: "tomb" in Japanese is "haka", which, obviously, has been switched with "hakkaa", or "hacker")
Bo-bobo: Your home page was destroyed just now.
Home page: EXCITING ZOMBIE ROOM
ENTER
All words: POOP
Visitors: VISITORS
Yokohama Joe: AAH, WHAT IS THIS...!!
Beauty: HUH? THAT WAS BO-BOBO NOW...
Mole: YOU, I CAN'T FORGIVE YOU ANYMORE!! KILL THEM, CROCODILES!!
Gaou: It's useless! Look around you.
Mole: What!?
Mole: MY CROCODILES HAVE BECOME SLUGGISH STAGEHANDS----!!!
(TN: This joke is probably harder to understand than the "haka/hacker" bit, but basically it's like so: "crocodile" in Katakana is "kurokodairu". But "sluggish stagehands" in Japanese is "kuroko darui", which is merely a slight letter switch of the "i" and "ru" at the end to make it "sluggish" and the usage of "kuroko", which is Japanese for "stagehand")
Gaou: Thus, your play has become lagged!
Mole: I DONT' WEAR THIS, I DON'T WEAR THIS~~~

60.
Bo-bobo: WELL, HERE'S WHERE I GET SERIOUS.
Bo-bobo: UOOOOO
Bo-bobo: OUGI: DUMMY BALL
Yokohama Joe: GUBA!!
(TN: To follow Don Patch, I'm moving down to the bottom now)
Gaou: WELL, HERE'S WHERE I GET SERIOUS
Mole: LAW OF THE JUNGLE!!!
Gaou: GYAA
Gaou: GUBOBA!! BU
Mole: DRILL CRASH!!!
Don Patch: I'M BACK
Yokohama Joe: BUHE!!

61.
Bo-bobo: RAGING RUSH---!!
Yokohama Joe: GUWAAAA, I CAN'T BEAR HIM----!!
Yokohama Joe: S**T, WELL THEN, I'LL GO FROM THE SHRIMP...
Don Patch: Here we go.
(TN: Only the first bottom panel this time)
Mole: HA HA HA, THE KOALA'S DOWN. NOW, EAT HIM!!
Gaou: Go at it. Do it some more.
Beauty: HIS COMPARED POWER IS REALLY WEAK!!
Don Patch: GATOR PANIC!!!
(TN: "Gator Panic", also known as "Wani Wani Panic", is a popular "crocodile smashing arcade game where the purpose is, similar to "Whack A Mole", to smash crocodiles with a mallet as they appear from their holes)
Yokohama Joe: GUGYAAA, A CROCODILE SUDDENLY APPEARED---!!
Bo-bobo: Are Beauty and Gaou alright...? I'm worried.
Don Patch: We now go to a live relay, Patchmi-sa--n?
Mole: FINISHING OUGI: DRILL CLAW!! THE KOALA IS DEFEATED!!
Gaou: GUHE
Beauty: GAOU-KUN!!
Beauty: ARE YOU OK!? HOLD ON
Gaou: Please...place my bones in the Australian wind...
Beauty: SEKACHUU!? YOU HAVE PRETENSIONS OF MASAMI NAGASAWA!?
(TN: "Sekachuu" is short for "Sekai no Chuushin de, Ai wo Sakebu", which translates into "Crying Out Loud, In the Center of the World", a light novel series published by Kyoichi Katayama since 2001 about two teen lovers who face tragedy when the female gets leukemia and dies before achieving her life dream to visit Ayer's Rock. The series is known as "Socrates in Love" in the United States. Further, Masami Nagasawa plays the tragic Aki Hirose in a 2004 film version of the tale, which makes sense due to her desire to go to Ayer's Rock...and Gaou)

62.
Don Patch: Well, I'm here in an underground limestone cave! The fight appears to be still going on.
Beauty: HUH!? DON PATCH-KUN!?
Gaou: If only I could use Koala Trick......but, to have big sis Beauty see it is...
Gaou: SO THEN...
Mole: HE'S GOING INTO THE UNDERGROUND LAKE!! YOU WON'T ESCAPE!!
Bottles: KETCHUP / MAYONAISSE
Gaou: MR FI~~SH, EAT M~~E
Mole: THE NERVE!!
Gaou: EAT ME~~N
Fish: I'LL EAT YOU!!
Mambou: HERE COMES MAMBOU, MASTER OF THE UNDERGROUND LAKE!!!
(TN: "Mambou" is Japanese for an "ocean sunfish"...and obviously, he's in the spirit of the Cuban music/dance style)
Gaou: !!
Beauty: GYAAAAA, A WEIRD THING APPEARED-----!!!

63.
Mole: WHAT!? WE'VE BEEN EATEN? IS THIS INSIDE A FISH'S MOUTH?
Mole: YOU F**KING KOALA!!.........
Gaou: This won't reveal it to big sis...
Gaou: KOALA TRICK
Mole: GYAPA
Caption: SILVER MOLE: CRUSHED
Yokohama Joe: You...I...don't have a reason to lose...
Yokohama Joe: DIE---UNDEAD SHINKEN MICHIZURE OUGI: PATTARIAN!!!
(TN: I sort of had a hard time finding "Pattarian" and what it meant, but it may have something to do with the undead according to a couple hints and this being Yokohama Joe's trump card. BTW: "Michizure" is "fellow traveler", as in an attack that will take down both user and target)
Bo-bobo: Fine then. I'll entomb you in two screen.

64.
Bo-bobo: WASH IN DEATH----!!!!
Don Patch: ME!!!?
Bo-bobo: EXTRA
Yokohama Joe: GYAA
Caption: YOKOHAMA JOE: CRUSHED
Bo-bobo: WASH IN DEATH----!!!!
Don Patch: ME AGAIN!!!?
Bo-bobo: EXTRA
Yokohama Joe: GYAA
Caption: YOKOHAMA JOE: CRUSHED

65.
Beauty: BO-BOBO
Bo-bobo: Are you alright, Beauty?
Bo-bobo: OK, shall we go to the next town?
Beauty: Yep.
Caption: At that moment...Shibuya
Hair Hunters: HAHAHA--START THE PAGEMEN----!!
People: Gyaaaaa
Man: HIIII, SAVE ME~~~~~SAVE ME~~~~~
Man: Bu
"Boy": YOU'RE ANNOYIN', ANNOYIN'. ANNOYING, ANNOYING, ANNOYING.

TN: If you saw the first chapter cover page...you know "he'll" be important soon enough (like next chapter)...but I'll hold off complaints for the moment. For the time being, let me just say that this chapter is a really unique one in any manga that I've seen in that it allowed for two simultaneous stories...at the very same time! I actually did see this done once in a classic issue of TMNT (the B&W Eastman and Laird comics from the 80s, just to keep track), where Leonardo was fighting the Foot and a revived Shredder on the top while the bottom is a comic of the other turtles preparing for what they think was about to be a peaceful Christmas with friends and family. Sure it probably has been done many other times, but the way Sawai did it in this chapter was just rather imaginative, manipulating both stories and having them occasionally "use" the other in order to influence the actions in the first, sometimes literally! (Gaou lowering the bar of a panel at one point, Don Patch stealing a crocodile at another) Somehow I sort of wished they had a bit more "mirroring" than they did (maybe as an homage to a similar story structure done in a chapter of "Watchmen") but I say this was a rather successful and fun experiment even this early on in the Shinsetsu storyline! But with the introductions done, the story starts finally kicking into high gear next chapter with...him.

BTW: It has come to my attention that the spelling of "Gaou"'s name is actually "Gaoh"...you probably can translate it as you like, but I sort of stick with the Japanese reading until further notice.