Shintetsu Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo 26

Though Pokomi's genius strategy prevented Bo-bobo from fusing with Don Patch, he...somehow was able to make a fusion with Tennosuke! But can this tokoroten-clad warrior find a way to defeat an unstoppable magical power!?

Shinsetsu 26: Perfect Defense!! Shinsetsu Tenbobo

98.
Pokomi: ...What?
"Tokoroten Man": I was in time.
Beauty: IS THAT BO-BOBO?...
S. Tenbobo: SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI: PERFECT DEFENSE: SIX TOKOROTEN NOVA!!! (out loud) I AM SHINSETSU TENBOBO. POKOMI, I WILL DEFEAT YOU.

99.
Gaou: HE'S APPEARED----A FUSION WARRIOR THAT'S BY MASTER BO'S STRONGEST CHOUOUGI!! HE TRACKED IT DOWN AND TRACKED IT DOWN AND IT FINALLY APPEARED---!!
Gaou: TO ILLUSTRATE IT...
Gaou: AH...I'LL DIE...I'LL DIE...
Gaou: THIS FEELING!! (out loud) A LINE APPEARED AT LAST----
Beauty: WHAT IS THIS ILLUSTRATION!?
(TN: I know it probably should be obvious to most of you but to those who don't quite understand: when playing the video game "Tetris", the only way to make a perfect "4-line Tetris combo" that scores the higest points is to use a "line" block that is used to fit in the last empty segment, simultaneously eliminating four lines at once!)
Pokomi: HE'S LYING; THAT'S A FUSION!? JUST THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN DONE ALL THIS TIME.
S. Tenbobo: DON'T BE DISSAPOINTED. I CAN FUSE NOT JUST WITH DON PATCH.

100.
S. Tenbobo: AT THAT MOMENT...
Bo-bobo: GUWAAA: WE'LL GET HURT WITH THIS. TENNOSUKE, BO-BOBO FUSION.
Tennosuke: EH? FUSION!?
Tennosuke: ALRIGHT, UNDERSTOOD! GIVE ME JUST A BIT OF TIME SO I CAN PREPARE.
Tennosuke: HM~~M HM~~M HMM~~M
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: GYAAAAAA
Caption: 27 MINUTES LATER
Tennosuke: THANKS FOR WAITING! NOW, HELP YOURSELF!
Beauty: HE DID THAT IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EXPLOSION!!?

101.
Tennosuke: AS A WAY TO EAT ME AS A CONNOSEIUR, FIRST GO FROM THE SEAFOOD IN THE STOMACH AND WORK YOUR WAY UP GRADUALLY...
Tennosuke: GYAAAA!!!
Bo-bobo: FUSION
S. Tenbobo: ...That's how.
Pokomi: ......
Don Patch: Tennosuke...
Don Patch: That's...it isn't me; he fused with Tennosuke~~~
Don Patch: I'VE BEEN REMOVED!! I'VE BEEN REMOVED IN THE POSITION OF REPRESENTATIVE PLAYER IN FUSION BY TENNOSUKE!! IT'S A STRENGTHENED VOLANTE BY THREE TENNOSUKES IN THE CENTER WITH A NUCLEUS OF A TWO-TOP OF TENNOSUKE AND TENNOSUKE! ADD IN A TENNOSUKE DOUBLE-SIDE LIBERO AND ISN'T IT FLAWLESS!!
(TN: Don Patch unfortunately starts using a bunch of soccer/football terminology here, but basically here's what I've found:
-"Two-top" is a position of two defenders protecting the goalie, but may actually also refer to the front strikers or forwards.
-"Libero" is another name for a "sweeper", sweeping up the ball as a defender in order to pass it back to the offensive players
-"Volante" is a midfielder)
All the listed players: TENNOSUKE
Beauty: WHAT IS THAT ILLUSTRATION!? PRETENSIONS FOR PLAYERS OF THE WORLD CUP!!?
(TN: It was around this time in 2006 that the World Cup in Germany was going on, thus I think the connotation of the joke)

102.
Don Patch: LET'S GO! I HAVE TO GO TO GERMANY! GERMANY---
Beauty: THAT HURTS, THAT HURTS...HEY...WHAT?
Pokomi: EHE! HONESTLY I WAS A BIT SURPRISED. BUT POKOMI IS STILL STRONGER.
Pokomi: ZENMETSUGAN X 4: POKOMI DRIVE!!!! (out loud) POWER TIMES FIVE!! WITH THIS, IT'S VICTORY FOR POKOMI!
S. Tenbobo: SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN CHOUGOUGI: PERFECT DEFENSE: SCARLET SERAPH BUTTERFLY (out loud) DO IT.
(TN: "Scarlet Seraph Butterfly" is in conjunction to "Seraph Butterfly", a move from the video game "Ninety-Nine Nights", which I mentioned in a previous script)
Don Patch: MY DAKIMAKURA~~~
(TN: A "dakimakura" is a giant pillow usually with a picture of a female character from an anime on it to be "embraced" by the owner.)

103.
Beauty: FAST; I COULDN'T SEE IT AT ALL!
Gaou: But Master Bo guarded it.
Pokomi: POKOPOKOPOKOPOKO
S. Tenbobo: IT'S USELESS...MY TOKOROTEN NOVA INTERCEPTS ALL ATTACKS.

104.
Pokomi: POKOMI'S POKOMI DRIVE CAN KNOCK AWAY ALL OBSTACLES.
Pokomi: KNOCK AWAY--
Pokomi: LOOK AT THIS
Pokomi: !!

105.
Pokomi: KU
Gaou: HE'S FOR REAL...THE POWER OF SHINSETSU TENGBOBO IS FOR REAL! THIS MIGHTY POWER THAT'S LIGHTLY 30 TIMES GREATER THAN HIS PREVIOUS FUSION...
Gaou: TO ILLUSTRATE IT...
Man: Al--right, all of you go to lunch.
Construction Workers: YE---S
Squid: !!
Gaou: "A squid among the carpenters"...that's the sensation.
Beauty: SO THEN, WHAT'S THAT ILLUSTRATION!? I DON'T GET IT AT ALL
Gaou: If I said that squid was doing spot inspections alone even after everyone has gone home, then you'd understand the amazingness...
Beauty: I DON'T UNDERSTAND! AND WHAT'S WITH ILLUSTRATING WITH A SQUID EVERY TIME? WHY A SQUID?

106.
Pokomi: Why...why won't they break?
Voice: YOU DUMMY
Don Patch: YOU HAVE TO STRIKE ADDING IN MUCH MORE FEELING WHEN YOU HIT THE SANDBAG! STRIKE!! STRIKE---!!
(TN: Don't quote me on this but somehow I just have a feeling of Don Patch here impersonating Ippo Makunouchi, the main character of Shonen Magazine's long-running boxing manga "Hajime no Ippo" [known in the US as "Fighting Spirit"] by George Morikawa)
Beauty: NO, BECAUSE IT ISN'T A SANDBAG!!
Pokomi: IF THAT'S THE CASE THEN MAGIC: PRETTY MAGICAL SHINKEN OUGI: TWINKLE-TWINKLE METEOR SWARM!!!
(TN: Pokomi does change up her Shinken but I can't say if Sawai made a mistake or if this was intentional. Again though she uses another alliteration, this time "kirakira", the "Twinkle-Twinkle" in this attack name)
Beauty: BO-BOBO
S. Tenbobo: PERFECT DEFENSE: RING FANG
S. Tenbobo: IT'S USELESS...The Tokoroten Nova absorbs any power, changes it into an unknown power and bounces it back.

107.
S. Tenbobo: SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN CHOUOUGI: TOKOROTEN REFLECT!!
Pokomi: KYAAAAAA
Beauty: EEH---THAT'S AN UNKNOWN POWER!!? IT'S RESOLVINGLY FULLY SENDING IT OUT FILLED WITH A HERO SQUADRON---!!!
(TN: I sort of wanted to go with the "sentai" part, which is the "squadron" part of the translation here, but it really didn't fit...but luckily it does with the next bit)
Don Patch: THIS IS SHINSETSU HANAGE SENTAI TENBOBORANGER---!!!!
(TN: As I mentioned above, this whole "sentai" usage didn't work there, but here it does: with a whole squadron of warriors, Tenbobo and Don Patch are parodying the "Super Sentai" genre that is notable in the United States through the "Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" franchise. Of particular note: the year 2006 was a major celebration year for the sentai series due to the airing of the 30th series in the franchise [GoGo Sentai Boukenger], thus probably the inspiration for this joke. BTW: the title translation: "True-Theory Nosehair Squadron/Sentai Tenboboranger")
Beauty: THEY'RE MANY IN NUMBER!!!

108.
S. Tenbobo: POKOMI...YOUR POWER HAS SURPASSED THE LIMIT AND IS FALLING. I ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR GENIUS BATTLE SENSE BUT THIS BATTLE IS WON BY ME.
Pokomi: ...Should I...
Pokomi: NOT YET! POKOMI HASN'T LOST YET!!
Pokomi: I'M BORROWING THIS DOLL.
Don Patch: EH!? ME!?
Pokomi: POKOMI FULL POWER INJECTED!!!
Don Patch: BUGOGEGOGAGOGO

109.
Pokomi: LOVELY MAGICAL SHINKEN CHOUOUGI: POKOMI'S CUTE MANSERVANT-CHAN!!!
Don Patch: BO-BOBO...I'LL MAGICALLY KILL YOU!!
Beauty: SHE'S MANIPULATING DON PATCH-KUN!?
Pokomi: DO IT WITH POKKOPOKO---!!!
SFX: SU--
S. Tenbobo: COME OUT

110.-111.
S. Tenbobo: SHINSETSU HANAGE SHINKEN CHOUOUGI: TRULY BREWED BIBABANGO!!!!
(TN: While that is a random "monster", "Bibabango" is the name of a monster from the "Dragon Quest" series that looks like a large baboon that walks on four legs)
Beauty & Gaou: AN AMAZING THING APPEARED-----!!!!
Bibabango: Yoisho
SFX: BUCHI (SQUASH)

112.
Don Patch: AAAAH~~~
Beauty: ......Her aura has been completely erased.

113.
S. Tenbobo: IT'S OVER ALREADY.
Pokomi: ...Why could I understand that?
Beauty: ZENMETSUGAN!! THAT GIRL WAS TAKING ZENMETSUGAN...
S. Tenbobo: You're similar siblings after all. It's somewhere excessive, but you're exactly like your brother.
Don Patch: Well--all of you should be much more worried about me~~~that's the most proper thing but...

TN: Did this chapter feel rushed? I dunno if it was just me or not...but there was this weird innate feeling in me that everything in this chapter was happening way faster than typical. Maybe it was just having less pages than usual...or having more "two-page and full page spreads" (like Tenbobo's final attack), but it didn't really feel like it had the flow of a typical Bo-bobo fight, in particular one involving a fusion warrior like this one. I mean think about it: whenever a fusion fights, a lot of times the flow of the chapter just feels right somehow or another, from the jokes being told to how the battle takes on a completely different direction. But I guess with all that was going on in this chapter (from explaining the fusion early on to the large spread pictures for the attacks to even a couple more of the "how Gaou illustrates the fusion" bits...which continued to be sharp and hilarious even if random") and how short this felt compared even to how Shinsetsu Bobopatch was done, Shinsetsu Tenbobo felt a tad disappointing considering the hype that was built in the last chapter for him at the end. (which...again: double-page spread) Heck, I think that was the problem in general: if Sawai wasn't so obsessed in the spreads and sort of meshed everything together (or if the series wasn't collapsing and he probably was using this to build up hype again), then maybe the chapter could have been done differently and not felt as rushed and "big" as it was. (fusion chapters are big but I think Sawai was just trying too hard this time). Oh BTW: while I still don't get why it happened...somehow I didn't mind the "Sentai" joke but sort of wished Sawai actually drew every single Red Ranger akin to a pure homage joke (if that happened instead of "a bunch of generic sentai fighters, the chapter would have been way more epic)

BTW: A big thanks to 10104 for helping with those soccer terms in this chapter. Now if only Don Patch didn't say it in Italian...