Kinnikuman 336

Though he gave everything he had, Ataru Kinniku has finally fallen to Super Phoenix and has been eliminated the from tournament...and from the history of Choujin! And all to assist and protect his little brother Suguru.........

Volume 31: The Ring Where Devils Dwell!
Chapter 336: Scramble for the Kinniku Throne (63): Annihilated From History!!

8.
Announcer: Soldier has sunk facing Phoenix’s Muscle Revenger!! At this moment, it is decided that Team Phoenix will fight Team Kinnikuman in the ring of Osaka Castle, betting the hegemony of the Throne of Planet Kinniku!!

9.
Ataru: Th…thank you, Robin Mask.
Suguru: Big bro Ataru, tell me: were you really participating in this tournament just so you could instruct to me the way to perform the other 50% of the Muscle Spark!?
Ataru: I…I am not a Choujin with those brotherly feelings…even if I participated in this tournament, I could say that it was to protect Suguru on the outside, but……if I won against Phoenix…and moved to the Finals ring, my eyes would be dizzy over the position of king and seriously I maybe would have defeated you…your brother is that sort of greed man…
Suguru: You’re wrong—big brother isn’t that man, he’s a kind man who has feelings for his family.
Ataru: Would…a man who has such family feelings defy his father and mother and leave home?

10.
Ataru: While my little brother was fighting and getting himself wounded against Brutal Choujin such as the Devil Choujin and Perfect Choujin, I had been there unconcerned then without lending a hand to help him…where would you say were those family feelings of your big brother, Suguru!?
Voice: You’re wrong, Ataru!!
Ataru: Father…mother…
Mayumi: The cause of your leaving the castle 25 years ago was the Spartan sovereign training by me and your mother. If we had understood your feelings just a bit more, it wouldn’t have come to this.

11.
Mayumi: Even so, when Suguru was fighting against the Devil Choujin and Perfect Choujin, it’s because of his decisions that he could overcome those sorts of crisis with the friendship of his allies, even if you didn’t help him…
Mayumi: Your own emergence is because you had to instruct him yourself when Suguru couldn’t come to overcome a crisis, even though he had friendship.
Mayumi: Isn’t that it, Ataru?
Ataru: I don’t have words to respond…to the sharp insight…of father and mother…
Ataru: U…ua!!
Suguru: What’s wrong, big bro!?

12.
Ramen: Ge---! Soldier’s legs have completely disappeared and now it’s reaching to his torso---!!
Ataru: Per…perhaps the Prophecy page that governs my existence has completely burned out in the flames of the torch…
Suguru: Huh…
Suguru: Right—that Prophecy page that is written about big brother Ataru; when the page burns out, Ataru’s existence will dissappear from this world as well---!!
Suguru: If I don’t take that Prophecy out from within that torch!!

13.
Ataru: No: it won’t be enough anymore…
Suguru: Bu…but…
Ataru: Until my body has completely disappeared…I…want to grasp it: your hand…in mine…
Suguru: Big bro!!
Caption: OSAKA CASTLE—
Sayuri: De…dear: the picture Ataru is over half gone as well…
Mayumi: Ooh—it’s starting to be annihilated from this world now we were his parents. We don’t have a son beside us.

14.
Wars: Hurry, Terryman, Meat-kun: the Sekigahara Fighting Castle will soon be in front of our eyes---!!
Terry: Please hold on, Kinniku Ataru-sama: we, the weak end of the Justice Choujin, want to truly see the face of this grand senpai Choujin before his body is annihilated!!
Ataru: Su…Suguru: Fa…father and mother are important to me…
Suguru: N…no—big brother, don’t di—e!!
Ataru: I…I’m not dying: the Choujin called Kinniku Ataru, elder brother of Planet Kinniku, is just being erased from history……
Ataru: Suguru, now both you and Phoenix are remaining as Throne Succession Candidates...I surely think that you are the true prince who is descended from the Kinniku Royal Family. From the start of the tournament to now, I was certain of that watching you all this time…
Suguru: Big bro…

15.
Ataru: I…I am a Choujin who has come to not be in this world…I’m not your big brother anymore…the elder brother of the Kinniku Royal Family is you, Suguru, from today.
Terry: Kinnikuma—n!!
Suguru: Ooh! Terryman, Warsman and Meat.
Robin: What’s wrong: the three of you should have been wounded in your battles with Team Zebra and been hospitalized at the Himeji Choujin Hospital.
Terry: While we were watching the form of Kinniku Ataru-sama, who was fighting coming to be destined and inevitable in having his existence annihilated from history on the hospital TV, we wouldn’t just speak and stand there.
Wars: Kinniku Ataru-sama, as a grand senpai Choujin, please teach something to all of us kouhai!!
Ataru: Su…Suguru: I’m happy you have this many good friends.
Ataru: I…have nothing I can teach you all…the only thing…now…is the importance of friendship by not forgetting your pure fe…feelings of now…

16.
Everyone: Ataru-sama!!
Mayumi: Ooh, now the Prophecy page has truly burned out!!
Suguru: Big bro!!
Suguru: …………

17.
Announcer: Kinniku Ataru has now been completely annihilated from the history of the Choujin world---!!
Suguru: Big bro Ataru! We won’t forget the Three Knowledges of the Kinniku Royal Family that were taught from you!!
Robin: Three Knowledges of the Kinniku Royal Family: No. 1: there isn’t a shortcut on the road of peacekeeping in the Justice Choujin world! If there’s a two-way street of a quiet road and a thorny road, go down the thorny road!!
Ramen: No. 2: regardless of the war that you’re in, don’t fight for yourself! Fight for the people!!

18.
Suguru: No. 3: removing friendship from Justice Choujin is the same as removing the sun from this world! That world of darkness must never happen to the Choujin world!! Those are all of the Three Knowledges of the Kinniku Royal Family---!!
Sayuri: Uwaa---!!
Phoenix: Kinnikuman, you must give thanks to me!!

19.
Phoenix: Though we of just the Fated Princes have been fighting in this Scramble for the Throne for a long time, we shouldn’t come to suddenly give a chance at the honor of the Throne of Planet Kinniku to some older brother that had run away from home 25 years ago unconcernedly that emerged to come here!!
Mammoth: I think that we of Team Phoenix should be thanked for exterminating that intruder.
Suguru: I can’t forgive any of you for what you’ve uttered now!!
Phoenix: What—let’s do it---!!
Harabote: Hold on there, hold on there: this here isn’t the ring—the place of the final battle for both of your teams isn’t in Sekigahara: it will be decided in the ring at Osaka Castle!!

20.
Harabote: The date and time will be three days from now at noon! Until then, it will be best for both camps to heal the wounds you bear from the semifinals and also fine to polish up each of your prided techniques by special training!!
Harabote: At any rate, I expect to have an appropriately fair-and-square fight for deciding the Throne Successor of Planet Kinniku from both teams at Osaka Castle in three days!!
Younger Maintenance: However, the showdown of Team Phoenix and Team Soldier was amazing.
Older Maintenance: Hey hey: stop with the gossip and quickly tidy up the torch.
Younger Maintenance: Got it.

21.
Younger Maintenance: Well, this is the torch where the Prophecy page written about Kinniku Ataru burned—
Younger Maintenance: A—aw, it’s become just ashes.
Younger Maintenance: Hie---!!
Younger Maintenance: The…Prophecy ashes are flying towards that mountain!

22.
“Silhouette”: …Kinniku Ataru…you really were too good a man to have your existence erased from the history of the Choujin world like that.
“Silhouette”: At least I can take in memory just these ashes of the Prophecy page written about Kinniku Ataru as proof of this great warrior’s existence…
(TN: Yeah…it’s obvious…but I won’t say it out of respect just yet)

23.
Narrator: With the Final Battle at Osaka Castle drawing near in three days, Team Kinnikuman commenced their extra-hard training from their staying grounds in Nara that should accomplish the defeat of Team Phoenix—
(TN: Nara is a city in the Kansai area notable as a former Japanese capital in the 8th century (prior to moving to Kyoto in the next prefecture north) and famous for it's temples and heritage sites)
Caption: NARA: SARUSAWA POND—
(TN: Sarusawa Pond is a pond near the five-tiered pagoda temple Kofuku-ji)
Ramen: Robin, Meat-kun, is it frozen—
Robin: Somehow with this liquid nitrogen, Sarusawa Pond is suddenly seeming to freeze, but is it alright to do this?
Robin: It’s a life-sized training doll of Prisman of Team Phoenix, made by freezing Sarusawa Pond!!

24.
Ramen: Hated Prisman who slaughtered Brocken Jr: you will be defeated by Ramenman at Osaka Castle!!
Caption: TODAI-JI DAIBUTSUDEN
(TN: “Todai-ji” is in reference to a Buddhist temple in Nara set up by the emperor Shoumu in 728, during the period Nara was capital of Japan. The "Daibutsuden" of Todai-ji is the largest wood-constructed building in the world, containing the "Daibutsu" [also known as Vairocana], a massive Buddha statue which embodies the aspect of "truth" of the historical Gautama Buddha)
Terry: How’s that, Kinnikuman: this gives off the feeling of Satan Cross of Team Phoenix.
Suguru: In the past, I had an experience of mastering the super-special technique called the Kinniku Driver by defeating Ashuraman, who possessed multiple arms……therefore, if I am to defeat Satan Cross, a similar type of Choujin to Ashuraman, then perhaps it may be by completing a perfected Muscle Spark that mixes the two Muscle Sparks, Suguru-Edition and Ataru-Edition.

25.
Terry: Let’s go—Kinnikuma—n!!

26.
(SCRAMBLE FOR THE KINNIKU THRONE ARC)
SPECIAL VTR LIII (XXXXXIII)
SOLDIER ANNIHILATED!!

TN: I mostly said all I had to about Ataru the last couple chapters, but it really hits home this time around: as sudden and strange as he was in this series after no indication before now, he is a welcome member to the cast after all we've seen and been through. Maybe what Ataru did became forgiven a bit too easily, but considering everything happening, you really can't stop that. I think I'll just let it be at that for the moment probably out of respect for...well, not dead, just removed from all existence. (and yeah...we'll be getting to "him" again soon enough...I really think it should have had him stay "asploded" as a friend referred to the end of the Tag arc...but he has reasons)

Of course with the emotion being released with the last few chapters, there are still a few stupid moments to talk about. First of all is the return of the idiotic "randomly running from one place to another all over the place so we can be by Suguru's side bit". Now admittingly this time it is only from Himeji to Sekigahara so it's not like Robin and Terry running around the world to get to Kudamoto, but they really do need to start flying like the old days. (heh, I almost put this in the wrong chapter last time but I fixed it) My only other real complaint is probably already said but bares repeating: if a character no longer "exists" in history, then wouldn't all memories or aspects of him being around just be eliminated from all these characters minds as well? I mean, Ataru really didn't have much importance prior to this arc anyway...and while it would have forced Phoenix to fight Soldierman's team instead, it probably would have ended the same. Then again, with no Ataru in history, how would the tournament have ended up anyway...especially considering there were still moments where Phoenix did seem like he would lose...and though Big Body's team was a bunch of losers, who knows if the same could be said about Soldier's...even if they looked weird.

Oh and BTW: had to take time to put this up thanks to having to look up the sights in and around Nara...no way am I leaving those generic.