Kinnikuman 292

Suguru thought it was bad enough that he had to win his way to the Throne, but with Mariposa's knowledge of one of the Kinniku Clan's legendary techniques, will this change the tournament...and what about Robin taking it first-hand!?

Vol. 26: Returning Alive from Hell
Chp. 292: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (19): The Anoalo Staff

7.
Mariposa: Do you see—this was presented only to the true Throne Successor of Planet Kinniku; one of the Three Special Techniques: the Muscle Revenger----!!

8.
Suguru: Papa—is this technique really drawn on the Finishing Hold Fresco?
Mayumi: There’s…no mistaking it: the technique that Mariposa is performing now is truly one of the techniques that was drawn on the Finishing Hold Fresco at the Great Kinniku Temple!!
Mayumi: In the past, even all of the Throne Successors who were called “experts” couldn’t flat-out master these. To be able to master one of the Three Special Techniques so easily means…

9.
Mayumi: …Our Suguru really is a fake and Mariposa is the legitimate Throne Successor?
Suguru: Papa! Mama! Why are you so timid!! Could you ever choose a Throne Successor with one or two of those techniques!!
Mariposa: You say it’s “those techniques” but, Kinnikuman, can you do this Muscle Revenger?
Suguru: Gu…Gumu…
Mariposa: The technique is a technique that is initially possible by piling on tempering with discipline, wringing out unneeded flab and turning your entire body into a spring!! This technique is completely impossible for you and your completely fat and ugly body!!

10.
Suguru: I…can’t do that regrettably…With the skills I have now, that technique is impossible…
Mariposa: So, you should really burn into your eyes here the birth of the new Great King of Planet Kinniku at his moment of triumph!!
Announcer: Robin Mask’s body, who is taking the Muscle Revenger, is quickly sinking into the canvas—
Robin: I…was unaware that I had lost consciousness.
Robin: However, I’ve regained consciousness thanks to Mariposa’s force of attack being halved, becoming too engrossed with his conversation with Kinnikuman.

11.
Robin: Much more: he has to be even more engrossed in his Kinnikuman conversation.
Meat: Ah…Robin Mask has returned to his senses…
Meat: Robin is resorting to holding off Mariposa…!!
Meat: ALRIGHT……!!
Meat: How strange! On this day that is today, this person that you are has to give courtesy!! For speaking with these words that has slightly hurt you towards that hostile party, you yourself will personally lose being called a Throne Successor immediately!!
Meat: For that, Terryman and Robin Mask, who are fighting believing that you were the true Throne Successor and who have thrown away even the medals that they were rewarded by the Choujin Committee, won’t be repaid by this!!
Suguru: Me…Meat.
Meat: My many years serving for you won’t be repaid.

12.
Mariposa: Meat, you should ignore that guy already; when I become the New Great King, you will be used as my servant.
Robin: Now!!
Announcer: Robin Mask, who we thought had lost his consciousness, has escaped from within the canvas with both of his arms---!!
Mariposa: Ge

13.
Meat: Yes—he’ll end it with a Tower Bridge--!!
Audience: Yes---!!

14.
Robin: You were a bit too occupied with Kinnikuman outside the ring.
Mariposa: I hadn’t measured that, Robin Mask!
Suguru: Right: Meat bathed me in jeers on purpose so Mariposa’s attention would be drawn here—
Meat: Half of it was serious.
Mariposa: You’ve planned to cut my Muscle Revenger with your Tower Bridge but…your Tower Bridge is a technique that can appear at 100 percent its effect with both legs on the canvas; you can’t endure it even a bit with that stance!!
Mariposa: I can get out of this incomplete technique immediately!!
Robin: What’s going on: you can’t escape from my Tower Bridge like that!!
Mariposa: Let me out---!!

15.
Announcer: With Mariposa rotating his body, somehow he’s attempting to escape from Robin Mask’s Tower Bridge—
Suguru: Oh no: with that much intense spinning, Mariposa’s escape is a matter of time, no matter how much Robin holds on!!

16.
Announcer: Mariposa has splendidly escaped from Robin Mask’s Tower Bridge, which was famous for being impossible to escape---!!
Mariposa: Ha—hahaha, I thank you Robin Mask; it’s thanks to your poor Tower Bridge that my stock is increasing more and more!!
Robin: No, my thanks should be for you.
Robin: Thanks to you, my body which was plunged halfway into the canvas has completely escaped: all because of you.
Mariposa: Huh…!?
Announcer: So…somehow, utilizing Mariposa’s power to escape from the Tower Bridge, Robin Mask has escaped his own body from being buried in the canvas!!
Suguru: As expected, Robin Mask’s nickname of “The Choujin Professor” is well deserved!!

17.
Mariposa: You~~~……I’m going to get even.
Robin: Fire?
Mariposa: Moctezuma Defense!!
Robin: Uwa---!!
Suguru: Wh…what is he doing!?
Robin: You’re the first Choujin who can ignite his entire body. What is his structure made of?

18.
Mariposa: Fu.
Robin: Uwa
Robin: Aah!!
Mariposa: With this, you have no way to escape.
Suguru: Ro…Robin!!
Robin: Fufufu…seeing all these flames like this make me remember my father’s Anoalo Staff…
(TN: It was really hard trying to figure out what exactly “Anoaro/Anoalo” is in reference to, but the closest that I could come up with is regarding “Anoalo Atisanoe”, a wrestler who attempted to emerge on the scene in 1984 as the big brother of famous sumo wrestler Konishiki. His most famous match was around this time where he fought, many say unspectacularly, with Antonio Inoki. Due to him, I will be calling Robin’s heirloom the “Anoalo Staff”)
Robin: The Anoalo Staff is an heirloom staff passed down through the Robin family generation after generation... it seemed to be used by our ancestors as a weapon as well with violent flames that could be fired from the tip of the staff…

19.
Robin: We siblings had once wanted to hold the Anoalo Staff and couldn’t get it.
Robin: One day, as my father was outside the house, I finally was successful in taking the Anoalo Staff.
Robin: For a child who was still six, it was too dangerous a toy.

20.
Robin: Hya—that was surprising.
Robin: At that moment…… (Flashback) Ah…what are you doing!!
Robin: Someone had stolen the heirloom staff from me; that night, I was severely scolded by my father.
Suguru: Ro…Robin, what are you doing? Mariposa’s coming at you from the front!!
Robin: N…no, my ability to think started to weaken with the heat of the flames that have been emitted from Mariposa……
Robin: However, though I can say that this many flames have gushed out from Mariposa, why isn’t the ring burning…?

21.
Robin: Somehow…the flames aren’t coming out from either of Mariposa’s legs.
Robin: I’m grateful for this!!
Robin: There!!
Announcer: Robin Mask has taken Mariposa’s legs, the only place flames aren’t coming out of, for a Giant Swing!!

22.
Announcer: The flames that have surrounded Mariposa are gradually getting smaller---!!
Robin: Hmph!!

23.
Robin: Ge—the Anoalo Staff……!!
Robin: ………!!
Mariposa: Hehehe, I was negligent…
Mariposa: You’re a powerful enemy, Robin Mask!!
Mariposa: Fire--!!

24.
Robin: Uwa---!!
Mariposa: SORA--!!

25.
Suguru: Uwa—that’s the sound of Robin’s face getting burned---!!
Robin: Did…Mariposa work as a thief when he was young…
Robin: And further, did Mariposa steal the Anoalo Staff from me on that day!?

26.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR XV
ROBIN MASK VS. KINNIKUMAN MARIPOSA

TN: Well folks, after waiting essentially forever (or not really waiting for it anyway but just appreciating it for all it's insane glory), this chapter gives us everything we ever really wanted to know about the Robin family...and boy am I hitting my head over a lot of the insane goodness we're getting in this chapter! Where to begin...

-OK, let's start with this: why would the Robin family great heirloom be...a flamethrower staff? For a family who is so obsessed with the rules and playing by them in their Choujin wrestling, why would they suddenly have need for a flamethrower locked away in a staff? And...how exactly does it work: is it a bit like a magical Bic lighter, is there some sort of instant chemical reaction that allows for it to throw out fire, and how could it work after so many generations of British masked heroes/wrestlers? (great, now I'm suddenly getting silly images in my head that this was some artifact left to Robin's ancestor by Merlin filled with dragon fire...but do we have to drag that into it?)
-Next, we have Robin's father...and yes, he has a mask with a mustache. So then...is this a special mask for the leader of the Robins or is it just that when they're "of age", they get their mask fixed so they grow a mustache? Then again, why do they even need to wear the mask all the time, even in the house...and even in interactions of father and son? And did Robin somehow get his mask at birth like Suguru did?
-And then there's the biggest WTF of the chapter, the thing that literally blew my mind: ROBIN MASK HAS A SISTER!? And he even admits to it, stating that they were "siblings" (in case you were thinking it was, I dunno, little Alisha...he didn't know her that long I don't think) Who exactly is she and why didn't Robin mention her before? And...could she be a Choujin too? I mean as extremely hard to think there are any real female Choujin in this world (Bibimba may be but it's sort of sketchy with her too...though I say she is but that would make her really the only one...maybe also Meat's sisters but they don't fight), the fact that we have a female in the Robin household and that Robin is her brother...well it's just shocking! Then again, it did give me this really bizarre idea but...it's just so ludicrous that I can't think it exists...


(The following is complete and utter crap, please go down to the next indented area if you wish to keep all sanity)

What if, by some bizarre chance that Robin's sister is, in actuality, Lady Robin from "Kinnikuman Lady"? I mean think about it: if Meat can magically be teleported to a parallel dimension where all Choujin are already female and the know manipulation of bizarre aspects like time and the 4th dimension akin to American superheroes, it isn't possible that there could be other means by which one can travel to a parallel dimension? And if, by chance, Robin's sister gets sucked into one of these parallel dimension-traveling means, she could grow up similar to how her brother did, become the Robin Mask of said world and...get really, really busty!? (then you'd have to think about Robin's mom) Besides, not one other Choujin that we know of in this world is known to have any siblings...well there is Geronimo but he was born human so his sister doesn't count! Look it's ludicrous and 100% wrong but if Robin's sister = Lady Robin...well at least she'll be one of the few using her Choujin powers to her full, bosomy potential!

(It's safe now, please continue reading and ignore that nonsense above.)

Aside from thinking about the Robin family and how insane they are, the rest of the fighting in the chapter was rather decent. I really did like how Meat manipulated Mariposa's focus to get Robin a chance to attack, as well as the tit-for-tat between the helicopter and the Tower Bridge. I know a lot of what I girpe about is minor, but it's just stuff that had to be asked!