Kinnikuman 281

Suguru has finally defeated the first of Mariposa's five-man team, in hopes of taking them all out alone! But can he really continue his winning streak? What danger will he face next? And...what's with those weird video cameras!?

Chapter 281: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (8): There’s No Second-Guard!!

145.
Announcer: Kinnikuman’s do-or-die reversal technique, the Kinniku Driver, has perfectly taken down Hawkman---!!
Hawk: Geho
Announcer: Together with the Hell Bird on his head, it’s certain that the crushed-on-the-canvas Hawkman isn’t getting up.

146.
Profiles (clockwise, from the bottom)

KINNIKUMAN BIG BODY
Birthplace: Canada
Height: 245cm
Weight: 215 kg
Choujin Strength: 100 Million Power

PINCHMAN
Birthplace: Trinidad & Tobago
Height: 228cm
Weight: 200 kg
Choujin Strength: 3.4 Million Power

LEOPARDON
Birthplace: Germany
Height: 230cm
Weight: 776 kg
Choujin Strength: 4.6 Million Power

GOLEMMAN
Birthplace: Israel
Height: 300cm
Weight: 1 Ton
Choujin Strength: Unknown

MYSTERIOUS PARTNER
Birthplace: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Choujin Strength: Unknown

147.
Announcer: Well, the referee corp. has entered the ring to award the match.
Meat: Prince!
Suguru: Hehe…I finally took one out.
Meat: Prince…

148.
Mixer: What are you doing, Hawkman, with that disgraceful behavior in front of Mariposa-sama!! Stand, stand—
Mariposa: Stand aside: it’s said that it’s impossible to get up when you take a Kinniku Driver…
Referee: Kinnikuman wins with KO, giving him one victory!!
Announcer: The long and painful Survival Match continues from here, but Kinnikuman has taken out the Advance Guard first---!!
Caption: OSAKA CASTLE—

149.
Mayumi: Do you all see Suguru’s true power! There really isn’t anyone who is our son other than Suguru!!
(TN: One of the Princes would like to speak to you…)
Caption: ENGLAND: CHOUJIN WARRIOR SCHOOL—
Voice: YA—Y
Robert: Robin-sensei, Kinnikuman-san won!
Robin: Robert, you’re being punished for bringing a radio to the classroom. Please stand in the hall!
Robert: Ri—ght.
Robin: Nice fight, Kinnikuman……

150.
Caption: TEXAS: CHOUJIN SCHOOL GRAPPLING DEPARTMENT—
Student: He did it, a victory for Kinnikuman-san--!!
Dickie: Bravo—
Terry: How great…
Dickie: Terry-sensei…
Caption: KUMAMOTO—
Audience: Kinnikuma—n, you’re great—
Mariposa: Fufufu…Kinnikuman, you’re taking the taste of your final victory…

151.
Meat: These cameras they’re using are taping the Prince again…this feels bad.
Announcer: We—ll, in the ring, we’re starting the second match for the advancing Kinnikuman!!
Referee: Will the Second-Guard of Mariposa Team step forward!
Suguru: The…there’s no Second-Guard……
Announcer: This is bizarre: Mister VTR, the Second-Guard of the Mariposa Team who must fight Kinnikuman now, has suddenly disappeared--!!

152.
Mariposa: Have they lost their minds? Mister VTR has been watching the match since earlier.
(TN: Mariposa makes it sound here like it’s a question of whether or not Mister VTR has been there, but basically I made it more a comment tied to this current revelation)
Suguru: What!?
Video Camera: Fufufu…Kinnikuman, I fully researched your match.
Suguru: Ge—the camera talked!!

153.
VTR: Ke—kekeke, I’m Mister VTR, Second-Guard of the Mariposa Team!!
Audience: OOH!!

154.
Meat: Of course!! Those TV cameras were the split-up form of Mister VTR.
Caption: FUKUSHIMA: AIDZUWAKAMATSU CASTLE—
Announcer: Well then, switching stages, we’re here at Aidzuwakamatsu Castle where we’re holding the showdown of the Phoenix Team and the Big Body Team, but…
Announcer: Mammothman, the Advance Guard of the Phoenix Team, has already taken out two with his wonderful strength.
Announcer: And now is having a showdown with the Main Body of the Big Body Team!!
Caption: SUPER PHOENIX TEAM ADVANCE GUARD MAMMOTHMAN VS. BIG BODY TEAM MAIN BODY GOLEMMAN
Announcer: Well, the contest of strength is continuing in the ring!!

155.
Big Body: Go—Golem, show him the latent potential of Choujin Strength.
Phoenix: Throw him away, Mammoth!!
Mammoth: Right!!
Announcer: Mammothman is confronting Golemman by throwing him overhead---!!
Announcer: Mammothman is pinned under Golemman--!!

156.
Golem: Guoo
Announcer: And in no time, Golemman’s incredible superhuman strength
Announcer: Is in a Giant Swing while grasping Mammothman’s nose----!!
Big Body: He did it—
Mammoth: Hehe…as expected, you feel differently from those guys until now being the Main Body…
(TN: Mammothman’s expression about “feeling differently” uses the Japanese term “hagotae”, which is “the feel of food while it’s being chewed”. Therefore I translated “hagotae ga chigau” as “Feel Differently”)

157.
Announcer: Well, we’re here once again at Kumamoto Castle. In the ring, we’re holding the bout in the ring of Kinnikuman and Mister VTR!!
Caption: KINNIKUMAN TEAM ADVANCE GUARD KINNIKUMAN VS. MARIPOSA TEAM SECOND-GUARD MISTER VTR
Suguru: I really hate these types, since I don’t know how to jump out towards them.
Meat: Prince, please be careful. That’s because he’s researched you, studying your match with Hawkman with his camera.
Suguru: Al—right. If that’s the case, then my opening move will be to seek out my opponent’s movements!!
Announcer: There’s the gong!!
VTR: This is the Muscle Run, used when warriors of the Kinniku Clan search out an enemy’s behavior. I’ve already finished researching that!

158.
Announcer: Suddenly, Mister VTR is rotating his own body, appearing to move with the running Kinnikuman.
Meat: Prince—he’s studying your movements with the camera—
Suguru: What—
VTR: Ha—hahaha, at any rate, I’ve caught your movements.
Suguru: Owa, he’s filming me.
VTR: Shut up, fly. Be quiet now.
VTR: Do you know what is called a ‘paused image’ in a video?

159.
VTR: Action Stop!!
Suguru: Uh.
Announcer: What’s going on? Mister VTR has actually stopped Kinnikuman’s movement simultaneous to his image on the monitor by pushing the pause button for the video----!!
Meat: Prince—
VTR: Ka—kakaka, the Kinnikuman projected on the monitor isn’t an image, its real!!

160.
VTR: Therefore, whatever happens to the monitor Kinnikuman
VTR: Will happen to the real Kinnikuman too!
Announcer: With his movements stopped by Mister VTR, the non-resistant Kinnikuman takes a raging attack----!!
VTR: Kukuku…it’s no fun to torment one with who doesn’t resist.

161.
VTR: Action Stop Release!
Suguru: OUCHIE OUCHIE
Suguru: Huh? Wh…what’s going on?
VTR: Kinnikuman, let’s have much more fun.
VTR: I’m filming on my monitor a slide of this raging mad ocean. What do you think will happen if we combine it as your scenery?

162.-163.
Suguru: ………!?
Suguru: ………
Suguru: What is this---!! It’s become an ocean around the ring----!!

164.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR VI
KINNIKUMAN VS. MISTER VTR

TN: Ladies and gentlemen...may I present to you...the most broken Choujin technique...ever. Yeah, I know there are certain limitations but think about it: Mister VTR has a literal Pause Button that can freeze all reality over whatever he is looking at! I do get that the main catch is that he literally has to be seeing the person in order to "pause" them, but that's the only limitation! There's no time limit, there's no horrible consequence...and if positioned correctly in a particular place, he could freeze all reality within an area, literally stopping all motion allowing for him to beat up on people or go all Dio on them in setting up things for them to get hurt or killed by when he unpauses! In a weird way, this (not to mention something that happens in the next chapter) is one of the reason why Yudetamago had to make limitations in this fight and make Mister VTR "get bored and unfreeze Suguru so he could have fun": with his Pause function, VTR would easily crush Suguru and help Mariposa to the crown...and then betray him, take over the Choujin universe and make all cameras obey him turning it into 1984! (yeah, way too paranoid) Considering who the lead of this series is, Mister VTR just had to be brought under some controls...

Oh BTW: I was originally going to complain that Golemman is from Israel and not "Prague, Czechoslovakia" (as it was then), but the strange thing is that the Golem is part of all Jewish culture and only the most famous one is from Prague. Funny though he actually did something Pinchman should have in attacking Mammothman's nose...and also lucky he never met Brockenman...