Hell Teacher Nube 43

Among the spiritually powered, animals always seem to cause the most trouble. Unfortunately, the deceptive nature of one creature may not just get Nube into trouble...but may ruin an already-tenuous relationship with a certain female...

#43: Transform! Pom Poko Pon
(TN: The “Pom Poko” in the title of this chapter is a slang term for the tanuki or the “Japanese raccoon dog” (which is commonly misinterpreted as a raccoon, as you’ll soon see why), which we will be the focus of this chapter as you shall see. However, the usage of “Pom Poko” in the chapter may also have something to do with the July 1994 release (near the time of this Nube chapter) of “Heisei Tanuki Gassen Pom Poko” (fully translated as “Heisei Tanuki Battle Pom Poko”…or just “Pom Poko” for short), a film about the tanuki created by notable anime studio Studio Ghibli and directed by famed anime director Isao Takahata)

27.
Voice: KYAAAA, A MONSTER—
Man: Th…that’s why I was against keeping this animal.
Woman: Dear, throw it away.
Boy: I’m scared—
Father: Monster!
SFX: DOSA
Father: Please go!
Tanuki: Kuu~~n

28.
(Title page…I’d say for Hiroshi to “cover up” but sadly showing privates off is part of tanuki lore, due to how large they are…yeah, don’t stare for too long, it’s just wrong)

29.
Voice: It was real. I saw it with my eyes.
Akira: It was a tanuki! It was eating the feed in the chicken pen…
Kyouko: A tanuki!? In our downtown? Can’t be.
Katsuya: Hey, can we eat the tanuki?
Hiroshi: If we catch it, then how many portions of tanuki udon can we make!? (ZUZU…)
Kyouko: Hiroshi-cha~~n, are you seriously saying that? You don’t put tanuki into tanuki udon.
(TN: “Tanuki udon” is a style of udon soup that usually is cooked with a plethora of deep-fried “naruto” fishcake [a particular fishcake that is made with white sumire and usually has a swirl in the middle]…and doesn’t have any tanuki in it)
Nube: That’s because it’s gotten popular being raised as an unusual pet. It may be that an irresponsible owner hated raising it and threw it out.

30.
Ritsuko: Good morning, Nueno-sensei.
Nube: RITSUKO-SENSEI~~~ (it’s been somewhat an incredibly long time~~)
Ritsuko: Well, was there a tanuki in our downtown? That’s unusual.
Nube: Ri…right, woof woof. (HA HA HA)
Kyouko: Hey hey.
Nube: Aah, how beautiful you are, Ritusko-sensei. From once you spoke, I wanted to hug that nice body.
SFX: PO~
Nube: A…and then I’ll beep your beep and with beep beep that beep… (Haa haa haa…gufufu)
SFX: MON MON MON
(TN: Make your own call about this…Nube actually did say he would “pi” her “pi”…thus the “beep” parts here in matching the onomatopoeia)
Kyouko: Aah, well he’s thinking nice things.
Hiroshi: That guy is thinking that but he immediately shows that face…
SFX: SHUUU

31.
SFX: SHUUUU SHUUUU
SFX: SHUUUUU SHUUUU
Ritsuko: Ara, Nueno-sensei? What’s the matter? Class has…
Ritsuko: !!

32.
Ritsuko: KYAAAAA
Nube: Um—so then the next problem.
SFX: GARA
Ritsuko: Haa haa haa…
Nube: Huh, Ritsuko-sensei, what’s the matter?
Ritsuko: You…PERVERTED sexual harassing guy—
SFX: BOKI!
Ritsuko: I had misjudged you from the beginning, but I won’t misjudge you anymore!!
SFX: BAKI DOKA
Nube: !? !? GYAO~~
Student 1: What, what, what’s wrong!?
Student 2: Nube attacked Ritsuko-sensei!
Student 3: Eeh!! (He’s a brute)

33.
Hiroshi: After all that…I thought he would do it someday.
Kyouko: His history without a woman is 25 years. (Haa--)
Nube: It’s a misunderstanding—wasn’t I in the classroom all the time—
Ritsuko: I don’t want to see your face anymore. Goodbye.
Nube: AAH~~RITSUKO-SENSEI~~
Caption: Lunch—
Kyouko: I’m certain Ritsuko-sensei made some misunderstanding.
Nube: Uuuh, why do I have this bad luck with women?
Kyouko: You have compassion. Cheer up.
Nube: If I had compassion, I’d have a woman.
Hiroshi: He—y, Kyouko, its lunchtime--!
Nube: A~ah, I feel like I want to eat comfort food.
SFX: SHOBO SHOBO (PEE PEE)

34.
SFX: GA GA GAGA
SFX: GOKU GOKU GOKU
SFX: GEPU (BURP)
SFX: SUTA SUTA SUTA…
SFX: Pisha
Nube: Well—food, food..N?
SFX: GARA…
Caption: Real
Hiroshi: That—how dare you eat all of the school lunch—
SFX: HIT KICK HIT KICK
Kyouko: What—were you—intending, Nube!! Even so, you’re a teacher~~
Nube: Ho…howld on, awl of you. Th…this is some misunderstanding…

35.
Nube: My only good dress-shirt has become worn out.
(TN: “Dress shirt” actually has a peculiar name of a “Y-shirt” in Japanese)
Nube: Hey this s**t is irritating. I feel like running around stark naked!
Voice: KYA----
Students: GEE!! Kyaa! Teacher!?
“Nube”: HA HA HA HA
Students: There isn’t even wind and yet it’s swaying~~to and fro~~
“Censor Jump Logo”: SHUEISHA CARTOON ETHICS

36.
Nube: Wh…what are you; hey wait.
“Nube”: HA HA HA, HELL TEACHER NUDO
(TN: I probably should have used “Nude” instead of “Nudo” since that is essentially what’s happening here and both carry the joke, but the Japanese reading of “Nudo” works a tad better due to having a sound for the second character instead of merely a silent-e)
Student: There’s two Nube!?
Ritsuko: Ara, what’s this?
Ritsuko: !!
SFX: BITA—N!! (LE—AP)
“Nube”: Leap (Ah.)
SFX: SHU—SHU—
Nube: It’s undone!? It’s that!!

37.
Hiroshi: The tanuki?
Kyouko: The tanuki.
Miki: The tanuki was disguised.
Nube: Why was I naked or something…
Ritsuko: A yam, a yam.
(TN: Yeah, Ritsuko-sensei has lost it…she ends up repeating over and over “yamaimo”, which is literally “yam”)
Nube: !?
Nube: This is
Voice: ECTOPLASM!? (Spirit Medium Substance)
Nube: Yes, I’m certain.
Nube: Spirit mediums had been seen in pictures where they were emitting a white-smoke like thing from their mouth or nose. Ectoplasm is a mucus-appearing substance formed by spirit power. It changes its form freely and its composition seems to mostly be a constitution that greatly resembles fingernails of protein.

38.
Nube: That tanuki is a spiritually powered tanuki that possesses the ability to wrap its body with ectoplasm and transform. There thoroughly are stories where a tanuki takes a disguise in folklore, but unexpectedly those too may be ectoplasm. Because tanuki are cowardly, weak animals, they may be protecting themselves from foreign enemies with transformation.
Caption: The tightrope-walking Bunbuku Chagama
(TN: “Bunbuku Chagama”, which literally translates into “the happiness-bubbling-over teakettle”, is a Japanese folklore tale involving a poor old man who befriends a tanuki after he saves its life. The duo ultimately end up finding happiness with each other, with the tanuki living with the man happily while the man makes money by throwing a show where people watched him walk a tightrope in his teakettle form)
Nube: If—it’s come to this, then we can only go tanuki-hunting. S**t~~enemy of school lunches, I’ll catch you and eat you up!
Nube: Those who have duties, its best that you go back.
Katsuya: It’s already the end of the school day.
Nube: Fine then: everyone, if you find the tanuki, don’t think of anything.
Students: Ri—ght.
Nube: Because he’ll react and transform to the thoughts of the human that it is near.
Miki: Comparatively, Nube thinks just of good-for-nothing things.
Nube: That shouldn’t be questioned by you!

39.
SFX: GOTO
Nube: …………
SFX: GII
SFX: SHUUU…SHUUUUU

40.
Hiroshi: Wa, it’s here—
Nube: No, it’s vomiting ectoplasm! Don’t think of anything, it’ll transform!
Nube: Al—right, be a good boy. Come along…
SFX: SHUUU
Ritsuko: NOO~~WHAT IS THAT MONSTER—
Nube: Uh.
Nube: Ah, no, here’s what it is here. (This person is quite foolish)
Ritsuko: What is that—no~~
Caption: RITSUKO-SENSEI IS SUPER-SCARED
SFX: SHUBA

41.
Nube: No: it read Ritsuko-sensei’s thoughts…it’s transforming!
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Ritsuko: No, a monster~~
Miki: That’s a youkai thought of by Ritsuko-sensei…it’s unsophisticated~~

42.
“Tanuki”: GUOO!
Hiroshi: Wh…what, that power is by liquid?
Kyouko: He became a clay form because of the dense concentration.
Nube: No…! As long as Ritsuko-sensei is thinking “monsters are scary things”, that thing will continue to riot!
“Tanuki”: GUGU~~~
Ritsuko: Noo!
Ritsuko: KYAAA!
Nube: Namu Daiji Daihi Kyuugu Kyuunan Koudai Reikan Byakue Kanzeon Bosatsu!!

43.
Ritsuko: THE ONI NO TE!!
SFX: BA
Nube: Ah, huh?
Ritsuko: U~~~h
SFX: KOTE | SHUUU—
Hiroshi: It disappeared because Ritsuko-sensei’s thought stopped…
Hiroshi: Yossha~~we caught it!! You—I’ll make you tanuki udon and eat you.
Tanuki: Kyu—kyu—
Kyouko: Um~~Hiroshi (The tanuki in tanuki udon is…)

44.
Voice: Oh—eat well, eat well.
Nube: Doesn’t he like people well enough? It was raised by people after all. It can’t be raised by anyone who has bad feelings if it possesses that ability. I’m certain he’s been abandoned by quite many people.
Katsuya: So, what will we do with it?
Nube: U~~m…
Nube: Nothing we can do: it will be living at the school for a while. I’ll train it bit by bit so it won’t transform……It came to have a condition of transforming recklessly, thus it will be a normal tanuki if we can train it to not vomit up ectoplasm.

45.
Miki: By the way, Nube, you’re completely hated by Ritsuko-sensei for this (Kekeke…)
Nube: Ah.
Nube: Uh...uh…right—I haven’t explained it as some misunderstanding……
SFX: ORO ORO ORO
Kyouko: That’s paltry—it’s already near a year and you haven’t made any progress in approaching her and yet
Hiroshi: I’d give up already.
Kyouko: Don’t mind, don’t mind.
SFX: SHUN…
Hiroshi: There isn’t just Ritsuko-sensei with women. There was Yukime-san—
SFX: SHU~~SHU~~
Kyouko: Right—right—teacher is still young—
Ritsuko: Ha
Hiroshi: You need to convert your concepts.
Kyouko: Right—teacher, it’s plain if you’re a man—
Nube: That’s right: I…I’d stick my tongue to that woman~~hahaha…
(TN: The “stick my tongue to that woman” part is in Japanese “beroberoba”, which is an onomatopoeia for foolishly sticking a tongue out at someone)
Caption: THE CLINCHER

46.
<KIMOGUI>

Creation: The grudge of a frog that was killed for a frog dissection becomes a monster and invites Nube’s group to hell!
Commentary: Even if it’s immediate, it’s a seemingly useful idea. It’s color is amazing and drawn really beautifully, but it’s regrettable that it won’t be seen in color. The face of the youkai seems a bit pervish but is the person who drew this a pervert too…? (Pardon!)
(TN: This is tied to some sort of contest of people creating their own youkai…I really can’t translate names well without the kana but I will give you the youkai names and the descriptions and such)

TN: And here's our moral this time folks: never announce out loud that you want to run around naked through the halls, in particular...if you're male. (did you even see that thing on Ritsuko's face!?) Sure the whole thing was funny but certain scenes were disturbing, in particular "Nube's" little stunt. (but I guess this is in retaliation for the female fans after the males got Ritsuko nearly getting her clothes ripped off by the tanuki) For the most part this was a silly chapter with a silly youkai doing silly things...and pretty much embarrassing and ruining Nube's relationship with Ritsuko-sensei even further than it already has been. It is weird she hasn't been in the series too often as of late but with everything that has been going on, the reason is sort of understandable. (there are so many characters sometimes that a few get forgotten or don't appear here or there) Though considering Nube's female problems aren't going to get any better, I really don't see why bringing Yukime back up would help anything...I mean, considering what she tried to pull, wouldn't she just make things worse? (especially if Ritsuko found out about her)