Kinnikuman Lady 3

Meat is trapped in a parallel dimension where he has to relive his trials and tribulations with Kinnikuman...only all the Choujin are now female! However, you know what they say: the more things change...

Chp. 3: Kinkotsuman?

19.
Lady K.: That gyuudon was~~delish~~
Terry: We don’t have enough ketchup and mustard.
Voice: It’s terrible--! A kaijin skeleton has descended from a UFO---!!
(TN: It’s sort of weird: they don’t call “him” a “kaijuu” which is a monster or a “Choujin” which some have stated he was later. In actuality, “he” is referred to here as a “kaijin”, which is a “mysterious person”, so I’ll adjust it appropriately)
Lady K.: Nanu--!!
Terry: That’s a Choujin.
Meat: A kaijin skeleton…!?
Meat: Princess…that’s Sharekoube from Planet Dokuro, also known as Kinkotsuman!...I think. (to himself) He’s an evil mystery who is aiming for the Earth!! (Well he should be)
Lady K.: Got it---!! You really know a lot, Meat--!
Terry: N…is that him!?

20.
Meat: WHO ARE THEY---!?

21.
Terry: Hey, are you the guy called Kinkotsuman!?
Kinkotsu: …Indeed…I am Kinkotsuman…He’s Iwao.
Iwao: Kururu…
Meat: Per…perhaps…all the kaijin and kaijuu on this world…all give off this feeling…of being extremely ferocious. Can we win this…
Kinkotsu: Ah. (Muhyo)

22.
Lady K.: Wo—w, somehow he seems like a kaijin just as Meat said. What do we do, Terry?
Terry: Hmm…so then, this guy has come aiming for the Earth.
Lady K.: MU----!! HE’LL NEVER WILL DO THAT----!! (UOO---)
Terry: Alright, we’ll kill them. (It’ll take a second)
Iwao: N…?
Iwao: GE!?
Lady K.: YAA----!!

23.
Lady K. YOU WON’T DO THAT ANYMORE---!
Kinkotsu: HUH? HO…HOW COULD SHE DO THAT SUDDENLY!?
Kinkotsu: HI
Terry: Hey, don’t move. Even a bit of strange behavior will get you a head shot of all my bullets instantly…
Terry: Well in particular, how could a villainous alien who is going to die now go for the Earth?
Kinkotsu: Ho…hold on a moment…how could you…call me villainous?
Terry: YOU NOISY---!! HOW COULD SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO BE BLASTED BY MY F**KING HUGE GUN NOT BE VILLAINOUS—HUH---!!
Kinkotsu: No, you really should hold on! I am UGYAAA----!!

24.
Kinkotsu: UPU!?
Lady K.: NOO---WHAT ARE YOU DOING---!!

25.
Lady K: WE’VE DONE IT, VICTORY FOR THE CHOUJIN TEAM!
Meat: Princess…congratulations! You’ve quickly become a master of your wrestling techniques…!
Lady K.: Ehehe—it’s all thanks to you--!
Meat: I’M…HONORED!
Harabote: Aah--! What have you done!

26.
Harabote: DIRECTOR KINKOTSUMAN!! ARE YOU ALRIGHT!?
Note: Female
Meat: !?
Harabote: Ohh how terrible…Who exactly did this…(and with your partner Iwao…)
Kinkotsu: Those two Choujin there.
Meat: !!?
Harabote: YOU TWO--!! YOU KNOWINGLY ATTACKED THE WORLD’S FIRST SPECIAL FRIENDSHIP DIRECTORS FROM THE KAIJIN WORLD--!!
Lady K.: Fue?
Terry: Fa—i?
Iwao: The participation proof for the Choujin Olympics was being held into a suitable gun-shaped pouch and yet…we’ve already made our judgment.
Iwao: KINNIKUMAN LADY, TERRYMAN GIRL, YOU’RE BANNED FROM PARTICIPATING!!!
Meat: AAAAAH (internally) HO…HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?

TN: First of all, I'd like to welcome those of you waiting for this chapter back to my translations of Kinnikuman Lady. To tell the truth, I never really expected to be back on it...but here I am and I hope to bring you more of the alt-universe insanity! Now to business: OK, raise your hand if you thought that Kinkotsuman and Iwao were going to stay in that uber-bad-ass form they arrived in...anyone? Yeah, considering all the other changes in bizarro world (did we really need a female Harabote), it's great that those two get a new freakish design, but at the same time you can't change those two losers, they're too charming! But aside from that, one thing I have to give to this series so far even at this early stage is that for every change that seems a bit weird, there are some adjustments that make more sense knowing what Yude did later. For one thing, making Kinkotsuman and Iwao "Kaijin" as opposed to "Kaijuu" or "Choujin" (which they've been accused of being through the early part of the series of one or another) is a good middle ground. They're not quite Choujin, they're not quite Kaijuu...they're a bit of both. And at the same time, I did like that the two of them actually seem to have a bit of responsibility (even with that weird gag at the end of the chapter) in being representatives of their Kaijin race as tied to the Choujin Olympics as opposed to having a lot of the weird "Monster Hunter" era stuff that was more the initial direction that Yude tried to take the series back when it started in '79. It gets the flow going towards the actual story a bit quicker and at the same time allows for a few new twists and turns that won't make this an exact clone of the original. But of course...we do have a similar situation to the original: Lady K is now ineligible for the Choujin Olympics...though at least she took Terry with her for a change.