Shintetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 9

Heppokomaru has reunited with Bo-bobo's team...but as the new leader of the Kegarimen Neo-A Block!? But why is the farting hero suddenly on the Kegarimen side..and why does he want to kill Bo-bobo?

Shinsetsu 9: Etiquette of the Heart

150.
Heppokomaru: Bo-bobo.
Heppokomaru: I WILL KILL YOU.
Bo-bobo: I'M ANGERED----!!! HOW COULD THAT IRRESPONSIBLE, UNTRAINED GUY STRIKE ME WITH HIS CONTEMPTING MOUTH---!!
(TN: Bo-bobo's comment of "untrained guy" is "Heppoko Yarou"...and due to the "Heppoko" part, it can also be referring directly to Heppokomaru)
Gaou: ABUCHI!!
Bo-bobo: THERE ISN'T IN THIS WORLD A PERSON THAT CAN KILL THE STRONGEST, INVINCIBLE ME----!!!
Gaou: ABUCHI!!
Ant: TOU
Bo-bobo: I'VE BEEN HURT--
Heppokomaru: HE'S WEAK TO AN ANT!!
Heppokomaru: Fu...I'm different from one year ago. Let's go.
Voice: HEPPOKOMARU!!

151.
Don Patch: Stop this futile opposition. If you don't, I will go through this girl on here with this limited-express train.
(TN: "Limited-express" is a train that is faster than an express train)
"Train": Pe-pe-po Pepopo--
Beauty: N--n--
Heppokomaru: BE...BEAUTY!!!
Don Patch: Hahha---YOU HAVEN'T CHANGED AT ALL FROM A YEAR AGO, HEPPOKOMARU!! YOU REALLY ARE COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH BEAUTY!!!
Bo-bobo: OPENING FOR A SUPER-EXPRESS: "LONGHORN TRAIN"
Caption: 20 MILLION POWER
(TN: Bo-bobo's "attack" here is in reference to the infamous double-team attack of Buffaloman and Mongolman (Ramenman) of Kinnikuman: The Longhorn Train. Bo-bobo completely looks like Buffaloman (with a bit of Ramenman in Gaou) and the "20 Million Powers" comment is in reference to the team name the double-team had)
Heppokomaru: GUWAA!!

152.
Bo-bobo: THE FINISHING SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI: MIDNIGHT TORTURE SL!!!!
Heppokomaru: GOBOBO
Beauty: THEY'RE OVERDOING IT!! HE'LL DIE, HE'LL DIE!!
SFX: JARI...
SFX: GA
Heppokomaru: !?
Gaou: YOU WON'T USE YOUR AMOROUS GLANCES ON BIG SIS BEAUTY, YOU PIG---!!!
Gaou: BUBO---!!

153.
Beauty: IDIOT! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? HE-KUN, ARE YOU ALRIGHT!!
SFX: SHUN...
Bo-bobo: Has your sanity returned, Heppokomaru?
Page: POSTHUMOUS
(TN: "Posthumous" is in reference to "isho", which is a "postumous writing")
Heppokomaru: Ku, a battle on the track is a disadvantage for me...
Heppokomaru: WE'RE CHANGING BATTLEFIELDS!!
Bo-bobo: AH! HOLD ON, HEPPOKOMARU.
Heppokomaru: Well, let's heal the divide, Bo-bobo.
Heppokomaru: UH UWAAAAAA, WHERE ARE WE---!!?
Bo-bobo: HEY, ISN'T THIS AN EROTIC BOOKSTOR--E?
Magazine Titles:
Top Row: AV MAGAZINE / HUGE BOOB FETISH (special issue)
Middle Row: IDOL
Bottom Row: UNIFORM COLLECTION
Reverse Magazines (right to left): EROERO SPECIAL / LOVE LOVE / ERO MANIA / HUGE BOOB MANIA

154.
Bo-bobo: IS THERE A REASON THIS IS YOUR DESIRED BATTLEFIELD? EROKOMARU
(TN: Yeah, "Erokomaru"...that speaks for itself)
Heppokomaru: Y...YOU'RE WRONG!! THAT WAS ACCIDENTAL.
Man 1: Hey, you're noisy.
Man 2: I can't concentrate on choosing.
Heppokomaru: AH...SORRY...
Don Patch: MAY I PLEASE HAVE THESE TWO ISSUES OF "HUGE BOOB OFFICE LADIES GROWING PROFUSELY" AND "DARK MATURE MARRIED WIVES PHOTOGRAPHY LESSONS".
Cashier: Welcome.
Don Patch: HE-KU--N! I BOUGHT THOSE TWO BOOKS YOU ASKED FOR----I'll hand them over properly later.
Heppokomaru: YOU'RE LYING!! I DIDN'T ASK FOR THOSE BOOKS!!!
SFX: JI---
Heppokomaru: WHAAA, IT'S A MISTAKE...IT'S REALLY A MISTAKE...
Gaou: Have you received the March issue of "Female High School News"?
Cashier: Ah, yes.
Beauty: YOU'RE A REGULAR CUSTOMER!? I'VE DIGESTED THAT!!

155.
Beauty: HE'S STARTED TO READ IT...
Bo-bobo: Heppokomaru...how have you changed to this point in this year? Tell me.
Heppokomaru: ............Bo-bobo, you've been my objective all along.
Heppokomaru: A year ago, after the end of the hair battle, I climbed to Onara Temple to correctly temper myself.
(TN: The Japanese name is "Onara Souhonzan", "Souhonzan" is a term for the head temple of a certain sect...and of course "Onara" is obvious as mentioned last time: the Japanese word for "fart". I was debating on whether to call it "Onara Temple" or "Fart Temple", but Onara won out due to having used other "Japanese terms" before like "Hajike")
Heppokomaru: The training they had there was harsh, to the extent of being unimaginable.
Sign: FART 50 TIMES A DAY
Voice: BEGIN YOUR THOUSAND FART FIST STRIKES OF JUSTICE!!
(TN: Yeah that's what the technique translates to: "Onara Seikendzuki" = "Fart Fist Strikes of Justice")
Students: OSU!!!

156.
Heppokomaru: SEI!! SEI!! SEI!! SEI!! SEI!! SEI!!
Heppokomaru: WAIT FOR ME BEAUTY, BO-BOBO-SAN, BECAUSE HERE I'LL OBTAIN STRENGTH TO JUST PROTECT EVERYONE!!
"Fart-Cloud Face": ...It's important to modulate your farts.
(TN: The shoulder pads on the teacher's shoulders have the character "Pu~" on it, an onomatopeia for farting in Japanese)

157.
Heppokomaru: COMMANDER ONARAMAN (58): The man who is the greatest user of farts in the world...reigning at the summit of all farts.
Onaraman: AYA? THAT'S THE SCENT OF SUKIYAKI...
Student: THAT WAS ME!!
Onaraman: THAT STINKS!!! YOU'RE EXPELLED
(TN: Onaraman's "expelled" is "hamon", which more translates into "excommunicated", but both work)
Onaraman: FARTS ARE THE ETIQUETTE OF THE HEART!! IT COMES OUT WHEN IT COMES OUT!! IT FASTENS DOWN WHEN IT FASTENS DOWN!!!
Onaraman: IF IT HITS INTO THE GROUND
Onaraman: THEN THEY'LL RIPEN!!!
(TN: The verb "minoru" is used here for "ripening"...which works well when it comes to farts)

158.
Heppokomaru: There it is!! The fart that I want...
Onaraman: Heppokomaru, from here you will have your final exam. There hasn't been a single person who could do this until now.
Onaraman: SPLIT THE MOON IN THE SKY AT THE SAME TIME AS SPLITTING THE MOON IN THE LAKE. FURTHER, ONLY DO IT WITH THE WIND PRESSURE OF FARTS TO THE END WITHOUT USING YOUR HANDS!!
Heppokomaru: RIGHT!!
Heppokomaru: And so, I started my training to split the moon. And then, many months later...
Heppokomaru: I LEARNED "LEAP YEAR", THE VACUUM FART!!!
(TN: "Uruudoshi" = "Leap Year")

159.
Moon Slip: MAGNIFICENT
Onaraman: MAGNIFICENT, HEPPOKOMARU: YOU'VE BEEN INITIATED INTO THE SECRETS OF THE ART...YOU'VE ALREADY SURPASSED ME.
Onaraman: YOU DON'T NEED THAT COLLAR ANYMORE!!
Onaraman: HEPPOKOMARU IS "FART AWAKENED"!!
Heppokomaru: This is my fart...
Heppokomaru: WITH THIS POWER, I'LL PROTECT EVERYONE!!!

160.
Heppokomaru: ...That's as much as I'll say.
Heppokomaru: !
Heppokomaru: THIS OUGI, WHICH SHOULD BE TO PROTECT EVERYONE...WILL KILL EVERYONE!
Heppokomaru: KAKUSEI ONARA SHINKEN OUGI: LEAP YEAR!!!

161.
Bo-bobo: GUOO!! THIS IS ONARA SHINKEN!!? WHAT AMAZING POWER!!!
Bo-bobo: HEPPOKOMARU...YOU KILLING US REALLY MAKES YOU...
Bo-bobo: A BIG IDIOT!!!! SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN
Heppokomaru: GUHA!!
Heppokomaru: KU...HIS HANAGE SHINKEN HAS ALSO LEVELED UP, SURPASSING MY FARTS!!
Beauty: I BEG YOU: STOP ALREADY!!
Beauty: HE-KUN, YOU HAVE SOME REASON. PLEASE TELL US...SINCE IT WILL BECOME STRENGTH TO US.

162.
Heppokomaru: DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME ANYMORE: I'M YOUR ENEMY!!!
Don Patch: HE-KUN, YOU HAVE SOME REASON.
Heppokomaru: !
Don Patch: PLEASE TELL US! SINCE IT WILL BECOME STRENGTH TO PATCHIMI!!

163.
Bo-bobo: NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I DO IT, I CAN'T BECOME MINI-FIRE MARIO!!!
(TN: Bo-bobo is referring to a strange glitch in the original Super Mario Brothers, where if you defeat Bowser while "getting hit and losing power", Mario can transform into his "Fire Mario" form while still appearing small)
Don Patch: It really is hard but...
Heppokomaru: KU...TODAY WAS IN SUBSTITUTE FOR A GREETING. SEE YA.
Beauty: HE-KUN, WAIT!!
Gaou: Next issue's News is the special swimsuit edition...look forward to it.

TN: It may not be intentional, but the entire erotic book shop bit in this chapter has to be a crazy but genius move for this series after the nightmare of the previous chapter and the failed Train Man bit. Somehow having Don Patch and Gaou talking about porn and Heppokomaru's constant embarrassment is more the weird but funny humor this series should have. As for the content: it is sort of strange that Heppokomaru is being so contrary regarding why he wants to kill Bo-bobo but still "having a reason for working on the villain's side". We will get into it further when he finally reveals the truth but somehow it makes me wonder if this is sad...or just pathetic. For Beauty it probably is the most troubling: she is probably the closest to Heppokomaru (well aside from Don Patch as Beauty) and seeing him a bad guy even with his reason just seems weird...and it was similarly sad to have her slapped by him after all they've been through. Though similarly...it is funny to have trained with a guy with a fart cloud for a head (it's Bo-bobo so that's par for the course"...not to mention have Heppokomaru tossed aside by Longhorn Train made my day.