Shintetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 10

Heppokomaru may now be on the side of the Hair Hunters, but there is still one question: why!? To answer this, Bo-bobo may need to bring in an expert...of course, knowing this, it may not be what they seem!

Shinsetsu 10: The Legendary SCOOP!!

166.
Narrator: February 14th, St. Valentine's Day...The Olympic Games had come.
(TN: This is more or less a commentary about what was going on around that time in the real world as opposed to the Bo-bobo universe: at this point in February, 2006, the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy were taking place. They had started on February 10th of that year...which means they were also going around the same time as Valentines Day)
Caption: Shibuya: Dougenzaka
(TN: "Dougenzaka" is a hip street within the already hip Shibuya Ward of Tokyo, notable for it's pubs, strip clubs and "love hotels")
Woman: N?
Bo-bobo: JAPAN MEDAL RUSH-----!!!!
Woman: UWAAAAAAAA, WHAT IS THIS!!!?

167.
Don Patch: THIS LOVE WILL BE DELIVERED OUT IN CHOCOLATE!!!
Chocolate: FROM PATCHIMI
Don Patch: DAM...
Sign: MISS DONUTS
(TN: This chain is obviously a parody to Mister Donut, a donut chain which started in the US, but has a much bigger presence in Asia, particularly in Japan, in recent times. [with the American version all owned now by the Allied-Lyons company, which merged them with their competitive company: Dunkin Donuts and the Asian ones owned by another company].)
Don Patch: REGRET!!
Customers: KYAAAA, A GIANT BOX OF CHOCOLATES!?
Caption: CHOCOLATE LUGE, JAPAN: DISQUALIFIED
Gaou: YOU'RE SOFT!!
Gaou: BU!! BE!! GEHE!!
Driver: UWAAAAA!!!
Caption: CHOCOLATE MOGUL, JAPAN: DISQUALIFIED

168.
Bo-bobo: S**T---THE MEDAL FOR JAPAN OOH---
Bo-bobo: UOOOOO---
Gangster 1: WHAT IS THAT!? A NEW METHOD OF BULLET!?
Sign: SHUUEIGUMI
(TN: I assume this is supposed to be a parody of some mafia gang from the apprearances of the guys in the suits, but the "Shuuei" is obviously in reference to Shuueisha, the parent company behind Shonen Jump...and Bo-bobo)
Gangster 2: ATTACK---!! ATTACK AND KILL IT---!!
Bo-bobo: HAPPY VALENTINES
Gangsters: GUWAAAA, IS THIS A DISPUTE----!? FROM WHAT GANG IS THIS FROM!!?
Gangster: BOSS, BOSS
Boss: Yum. Delish.

169.
Bo-bobo: THERE IT IS--A GOLD MEDAL WITH A NEW RECORD---!!
Boss: I'll give you a gold patch.
Caption: CHOCOLATE HALF PIPE, JAPAN: GOLD MEDAL
Bo-bobo: WAHHAHHA: LOOK, BEAUTY! GOLD WITH CHOCOLATE
Beauty: ......RIGHT.........I'M GLAD.........
Bo-bobo: THIS CLEARLY ISN'T SPIRITED-----!!! THE TSUKKOMI REALLY ISN'T ADDING I--N!!!
(TN: A bit of a reminder: Beauty is the "tsukkomi", which is the straight man of manzai comedy who makes reacts to the crazy comments or actions of the comedian)
Bo-bobo: Is she still being pulled by that after all...
Heppokomaru: I haven't seen tapioca recent--ly!!
Don Patch: ...Well nothing we can do.

170.
Don Patch: Here, Beauty: drink this and you'll be energetic.
Beauty: Don Patch-kun...
Don Patch: If you have a problem, talk about it...you'll feel better.
Beauty: ......Right, thank you. In truth, I've been thinking about He-kun all along...
Don Patch: YOU'VE BEEN REJECTED, UGLY!!!!!
(TN: Don Patch actually calls Beauty "Dobusu", which is a rude way of calling a female an ugly woman)

171.
Gaou: THE DEMON IS YOU----!! YOU INSULTED BIG SIS----!!!
Don Patch: BUBA
Beauty: I WANT TO MEET WITH HE-KUN ONE MORE TIME. I WANT TO MEET HIM AND FIND OUT THE TRUTH!!
Bo-bobo: There is one legendary informer who can seize upon all the information in this world: it is in Shibuya. I only met it 20 years ago but...if it's this person, they should know the whereabouts of Heppokomaru.
Beauty: SO...
Bo-bobo: Come with me.
Narrator: Ten minutes later.
Bo-bobo: HE'S HERE.
Vending Machine:
Cans (left to right, top to bottom)
WEAK TEA | GRATED DAIKON SOUP | SPARROW'S TEAR | LEFTOVER HOT BATH WATER | OCEAN WATER COFFEE | LUMPY SAMON ROE WATER | MINT RED-BEAN SOUP
SLIME | KIMCHI SOUP | UNREFINED SAKE SODA | CRAB JUICE (WAKAME-FLAVOR) | KOUNAN SEWER | BANTA | THE RAIN WATER
Comments: (left to right, top to bottom)
Not Recomme~~nded | Warm up to body-temperature | They taste baaa~~~d
Tepid to li~ck | Simply ra~~~w | Half-raw | Those of you who buy these are
(TN: Assumably these warnings perfectly align to the "products", so do so accordingly...and don't try them without doctor reccomendation)

Beauty: ...What is this unpleasant vending machine...
Bo-bobo: Excuse me.
Sign: ENTRANCE
Beauty: IT OPENED!! WE'RE GOING IN THERE!!
Beauty: Where is this......
Bo-bobo: Yo, Oyaji, we've come in.
(TN: Bo-bobo refers to this "informant" as "Oyaji", which is slang for "old man"...I'd call the person that instead of merely the name "Oyaji" but...well...you'll see next page)
Sign: SECRET

172.
Oyaji: Yo, Bo-bobo, I've waited for you. Let's have a drink after this long time.
Caption: The Legendary Informer: OYAJI (Female)
Beauty: EEH!? THIS CHILD IS THE LEGENDARY INFORMER!? SHE'S STILL A REALLY YOUNG GIRL!!
Bo-bobo: Oyaji is a woman has gathered information on beauty salons and peelings throughout the world, which have preserved her youth. Her actual age is 102.
Beauty: THOSE BEAUTY SALONS AREN'T IN THIS DIMENSION YET!!
Oyaji: AAH LOOK, THIS HAS BECOME NEWS. (GEBOBO...)
Beauty: WAAA, SHE'S VOMITING SPEW!!
(TN: Beauty refers to Oyaji's vomit as "spew", but in Japanese it is referred to as "gebo", which is "gero" or "spew/vomit" in the Hokkaido dialect of Japanese)

173.
Beauty: HEY, DON'T HAVE A CONVUSION YET
Oyaji: Missie, turn on the TV...It's time for the start of Satsuki Shou...
(TN: Satsuki Shou is a Japanese domestic Grade 1 flat horse race which is run for three-year thoroughbred colts and fillies at Nakayama Racecourse in April...though around now it's February in Bo-bobo time so...)
Beauty: A HORSE RACE IN THIS CONDITION!? YOU'RE JUST THAT MUCH AN OLD MAN!!
Beauty: ...Even so, there's an amazing amount of videos.
Oyaji: Well then, these videos all have on them personal information and varied information that I've gathered. These videos here...two-hundred million yen per piece of information.
Gaou: 2 HUNDRED MILLION!!?
Beauty: It's said this is an information society but you're selling them at this high price...
Oyaji: I CAN'T SELL THEM!! I CAN'T SELL EVEN ONE!! BEING THEY'RE EXPENSIVE
Beauty: SHE CAN'T SELL THEM...SO THEN, LOWER THE PRICE.

174.
Don Patch: Hey is this brat really the legendary informant? She's shady.
Bo-bobo: DUMMY! ARE YOU ASKING OUT WHO SHE IS...EXPOSE HIS SECRETS!!
Oyaji: Don Patch...fine, I'll show you proof. Prepare it, Ashi.
(TN: "Ashi" is short for "Assistant", but since it's an octopus, it could also be his name being that "ashi" is Japanese for "legs")
Octopus: YES SIR!!
Beauty: THAT OCTOPUS IS YOUR ASSISTANT!!?
Octopus: I'VE GOTTEN IT.
Oyaji: As a special, I'll run your video now.
Don Patch: EXCELLENT!! IF THIS INFORMATION IS THE TRUTH, I'LL BELIEVE YOU
SFX: GAKON
Oyaji: There's no cheap imitation for my information.
(TN: Another peculiar Japanese word this time: Oyaji uses a term here of "pachimon", which is "a cheap imitation of a famous brand". Thus why the "cheap imitation" in the comment)
Video: --DON PATCH-- CLASSIFIED IMAGES
Bo-bobo: Beauty...we already have 3,000 yen left of our living expenses for this month.
Beauty: Yeah...Somehow it's gone down before we knew it...

175.
Bo-bobo: Strange...the decrease in our money recently has been extremely intense but, Beauty, are you buying something?
Beauty: I DON'T SQUANDER MONEY!
Don Patch: Put that aside, Bo-bobo. We have to have faith in Beauty and leave her the money.
Beauty: Don Patch-kun.
Don Patch: But, Beauty, that's money that was amassed for all of us. It will be a problem if you can't properly manage it...meditate on that.
Beauty: ...RIght. I'm sorry......
Narrator: Night
Don Patch: !
Don Patch: BINGO
Don Patch: WELL, I'LL BE TAKING THIS MONTH'S SHARE OF MONEY. KUKUKU, GOOD NIGHT.

176.
Narrator: Host Club
(TN: A "Host Club" is a typical nighttime entertainment in Japan in particular, being one with male hosts catering to females...as opposed to "hostess clubs" or "kyabakura" with female hosts catering to men)
Don Patch: OH---HOHHO, MONEY, MONEY, DON PERI SHOWER--PLEASE GIVE ME JUBILEE! PLEASE GIVE ME PINDONE!! PLEASE SATISFY ME MUCH MO----RE
(TN: The "Don Peri Shower" obviously shows that Don Patch wants to be showered in the expensive Dom Perignon champagne brand that is a brand by company Moet et Chandon, the largest champagne producer in the world. Meanwhile, "Pindone", which Don Patch mentions here, isn't a type of alcohol but an anticoagulant drug usually used as a rodentcide for rat and rabbit control)
"Don Patch": I AM THE QUEEN. PERIPERI---
(TN: Assumably more Dom Perignon references from Don Patch)
Beauty: DON'T LAUGH
Don Patch: !!

177.
SFX: BARARA
Don Patch: AH! THE BUSINESS CARDS OF THE HOSTS...
Don Patch: IT'S...A MISTAKE, THAT WAS BY CHANCE!! HEY...PLEASE, HOLD ON AND FORGIVE ME
Don Patch: THIS REALLY IS A MISTAKE, A MISTAKE, MISTAKE...MISTAMISTAMISTAMISTAMISTA...
Beauty: He became a kabuki...
(TN: While it's obvious from Don Patch's face paint he is now a kabuki artist, the whole build-up regarding his "stance" lead to him taking a "mie", a overdramatized stance usually seen as part of kabuki theater)
Bo-bobo: He's been cornered down; the final conclusion...

178.
Gaou: UGLY!! THAT STARFISH WAS UGLY!! RUNNING WILD WITH PEOPLE'S MONEY IS THE WORST!! HE'S BEEN DIRTIED BY MONEY!!
Oyaji: It's just that, Gaou, you shouldn't speak about a person's matters either...
Gaou: !!
Video: --GAOU-- CLASSIFIED IMAGES
Businessman 1: GAOU-SAN, THE NEW "KOALA KEYHOLDER VER. 2" ARE COMPLETED!!
Box: KOALA Keyholders
Gaou: Alright, sell them using the name "lesser panda". Put them in as different-colored rare versions and sell them at 500 million until April!
(TN: Gaou refers to the "lesser panda" or "red panda", which is a vulnerable arboreal mammal who lives in a range around China, Nepal and parts of Southeast Asia. It is not a panda but it's own species, which is a family that is somewhere between bears and raccoons)
Businessman 2: GAOU-SAN, IT SEEMS THE TAX OFFICE HAS MADE THEIR MOVE RECENTLY BUT...
Gaou: Move the money to Switzerland and do some money laundering! The rest of the money will be changed into stock.
(TN: A bit of a complex term but "money laundering" is " the changing of money from an illegal to legitimate source in order to protect it", such as used by criminally obtained money)

179.
Gaou: THE MONEY I'VE OBTAINED BY TRICKING BRATS WITH THEIR LOVE OF ANIMALS IS THE BEST. IT'S A PROFITABLE SOCIETY TURNING THESE INTO MONEY..
"Gaou": SHAHAHA--
Beauty: .........Uwaa, the worst...
Gaou: Are you saying I've made a mistake?
Beauty: HE'S DEFIANT!!!
Oyaji: By the way, that image now aired by simultaneous relay on a big-screen monitor in front of Alta.
(TN: Alta is in reference to "Shinjuku Alta", an 8-story building in Shinjuku notable for both it's fashion boutiques and for a giant big-screen TV that is placed on it, notable as a landmark for the area)
Gaou: JESUS!!!
Bo-bobo: OYAJI-SAN, I APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR ERRORS! I HAVE A REQUEST FOR YOU NOW!!
Oyaji: I get it. You want to know the whereabouts of Heppokomaru. All information passes through here.
Bo-bobo: But we don't have 200 million in money. Therefore in place of the 200 million this time...

180.
Bo-bobo: I WANT YOUR APPROVAL WITH THIS!!
Beauty: THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!
Oyaji: I've waited for that.
Beauty: YOU'VE WAITED!!? FOR THAT?
Oyaji: The contents of Don Patch's spikes are a Super-A Class Secret...there's a 200 Million Yen value for that information. I'll tell you...Heppokomaru's whereabouts.
Oyaji: SCOOP SHINKEN OUGI: PROWLING SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!
(TN: "Spirit Photography" is "Nensha" in Japanese, which is "the ability to burn images from your mind onto a surface", including someone else's mind; it is also known in English as "Thoughtography")

181.
Bo-bobo: Kya--
Beauty: Is it really alright doing this...
Oyaji: Here, they're taken. Heppokomaru's whereabouts have appeared on here.
Beauty: YOU'RE ALREADY ARE COMPLETELY AN OLD GUY!!
Beauty: THIS IS...!?
Oyaji: The first is "St. Spaghetti Private Academy", an academy for the super-elite...And what's photographed on the other picture is, perhaps, one of the Neo-Maruhage Three Daiou: "BABUU"...
Bo-bobo: Heppokomaru is here...
Oyaji: You're poking your heads into a dangerous matter.
Beauty: Huh? I don't see Gaou-kun but......?
Newsman: We're here now with the arrest of suspect Gaou-kun, who is suspected of tax evasion......sending this by hook-up.
(End of Vol. 1)

182.
SHINSETSU BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO EXTRA CHAPTER
BO-BOBO NOSEHAIR THEATER #1:
THE MEN WHO MISSED THE RIDE
(TN: The expression regarding "missed the ride" is in relation to the Japanese verb "noriokureru", which is "to miss a train/bus/car/ride")

Narrator: December 19th, 2005, Monday: Pt. 2 of Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo started.
Tennosuke: I don't understand this...
Tennosuke: Why am I not in the first chapter? Tokoro Tennosuke, one of the main characters is......

183.
Tennosuke: Hey hey, is this an unwilling measurement? With this, the readers have forgotten about me.
SFX: PURURU~~~N
Tennosuke: S**t, we've run out of kerosene in the heater again.
Tennosuke: Uuh~~it's culd. Hey, put in the kerosene.
(TN: Yeah, I misspelled "cold", but Tennosuke makes it "sabii", which is a mispronunciation of "samui")
Tennosuke: Dengaku Man.
Dengaku Man: .......Cover.
Dengaku Man: I'm not on the opening.........cover.

184.
Tennosuke: It's pitiful, but he's out...he wasn't on the opening drawing; it's hopeless he'll appear. Uuh~~it's cold.
Tennosuke: Well, what's left is the timing for when I appear...I want to ask them to be as soon as possible.
Voice: You seem energetic.
Tennosuke: !
Hanpen: Shouldn't we have a bit of a drink? I bought sake at the convenience store.
Tennosuke: HANPEN!!!! (It's been a year)
(TN: A bit of a reminder: Hanpen's last appearance was at the end of the Under-Maruhage crisis, where he leaves with Lambada and Rem after the fall of Hydrate. He has no connection to the Hair Kingdom fight, thus this is his first appearance since Hydrate's defeat)
Hanpen: I read Jump! It's terrible for you two.
Tennosuke: Oh--well.
Hanpen: I too certainly thought that Pt. 2 would push for Hanpen but...
Tennosuke: Hahaha, no, no.

185.
Hanpen: Yo, it's been a while. You don't seem energetic, Dengaku Man.
Dengaku Man: ......Cheese...
Hanpen: So, wh--at are you two doing from here?
Tennosuke: What?
Hanpen: Aren't you going to protest?
Tennosuke: This isn't a thing where we'll go and something will happen. I'll get some snacks for this.
"Oni": I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS!!!
Hanpen: ONIGAWARAMAN!!
Dengaku Man: WE BROUGHT PT. 1 TO A CLIMAX TOGETHER!! YES WE DID!!
Onigawaraman: LET'S GO!! TO THE SHONEN JUMP EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT!!
Everyone: RIGHT----!!
Beauty: ?
(End of Omake)

TN: Well at least Tennosuke made the first cover of the series, which probably show why he's resolved as to "not "if" but "when" he returns. For Dengaku Man...yeah, he may be a while, if ever. Besides, with Gaou now in the series...yeah better not incite the little thing, huh.

As for the chapter itself...I think somehow this chapter felt more like it was for the weird shock value than it is for barely moving the story. It was creative but really strange seeing a little girl as the "Oyaji" that literally peeps into everyone's lives. Yeah, there have been way weirder things in this series...but somehow having a little girl as a perverted guy (well sort of seems like it) or an intruder...is more for the shock value. (at least this isn't seinen...that gives me bad flashbacks to a chapter of "Desire" I once did...) Though I do admit that it does move the story a tiny bit...and more importantly, the part about Gaou's laundering scandal using koala keychains was funny if a tad sad due to how real it feels somehow with the corruption of money. But hey, they know where Heppokomaru is...so now next time they move in to find him...and we move one more chapter hopefully to Tennosuke's return!