Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 38

Beauty has been taken by Gunkan. A team of five, including warriors and weirdoes (mostly the latter) have been assembled. Now the battle of Puppu City begins...

Ougi 38: Go to the Pomade Ring: The Story of the Five of Us

106.
Narrator: Bo-bobo’s team have followed along to Puppu City. However, they’re searching without seeing the location of Gunkan’s fortress: the Pomade Ring.
Don Patch: What’s this? I don’t know this place?
Heppokomaru: Without saying, we should combine our five powers and look for the Pomade Ring.
Bo-bobo: TENNOSUKE COMMITTED SUICIDE.
Heppokomaru: EEH---!!!! We’re already four!!?

107.
Softon: Our stagnating present sacrifice is only one again.
Heppokomaru: YOU’RE STILL WEARING THAT!!!!
Don Patch: Uuh…Tennosuke…
Heppokomaru: !
Sign: Dokkiri Camera
(Translator Note: “Dokkiri Camera” or “Surprise Camera” is sort of like “Candid Camera” in the US: a show where a prank is done on TV until the victim falls for it)
Heppokomaru: UWA-----I SEE IT--!!!!
Don Patch: Tennosuke~~
Heppokomaru: Uwa~~~~They’re watching for a reaction~~~~
Heppokomaru: …Nothing I can do…should I keep quiet? Of course…Tennosuke is dead…
Don Patch: Idiot, be quiet…
SFX: Rise

108.
Tennosuke: DOKKIRI CAMERA
Don Patch: ITS REALLY A SHOW!!!!!
Heppokomaru: WAAAA!!!!
Don Patch: IT REALLY IS!!! ITS ALL REAL!!!
Tennosuke: …Re……really?.........
Tennosuke: THIS REAL TOO?

109.
Don Patch: You look like Buffaloman now.
(Translator Note: “Buffaloman” is a classic rival-to-hero character from the classic WSJ manga “Kinnikuman”)
Tennosuke: EH! YOU LIE, REALLY!!?
Heppokomaru: Hey, where’s Bo-bobo?
Heppokomaru: UWA, WHAT THE!!?
Heppokomaru: !!!

110.
Heppokomaru: WHAT’S HE DOING--!!!
Yamada’s Body: DON’T GO, MY HEAD---!!!! DON’T GO------!!!!
Yamada’s Head: Is that really right?
Yamada’s Body: Come on back-!!!
Yamada’s Head: That body can’t support me. I’m going to look for a person that can support me.
Yamada’s Body: I’ve been fired!!! I’ve been fired by my company!!!
Don Patch: Want some oden?
(Translator’s Note: Oden is a classic Japanese hodgepodge dish which usually includes eggs, konnyaku, daikon, fishcake, certain tofu and other things.)
Yamada’s Body: I can’t eat--!!!
Softon: Is this fine?

111.
Softon: I thought of this when we arrived, but I haven’t heard one sound since coming into the town…is there no one in here…?
Heppokomaru: ……I don’t know…where exactly is everyone?
Voice: That~~day in the forest~~
Voice: I met~~the bear~~
Voice: On a flowering forest road~~
Heppokomaru: Is there someone in there?
“Tennosuke”: I met~~ the bear~~
Sign: Record
Heppokomaru: WAAAAAAAA!!!!!

112.
Tennosuke: “The Forest Bear”...I am “The Forest Bear”…
Heppokomaru: DON’T JOKE, BE SERIOUS!!!
Heppokomaru: Let’s go.
Tennosuke: Un.
Don Patch: Press Start~~
Heppokomaru: !!

113.
Gunkan’s Forces: Ku ku ku…you’ve fallen into our trap, Heppokomaru. This town has completely been conquered by Gunkan’s Special Forces.
Heppokomaru: Ku…no wonder no one’s here.
Gunkan’s Forces: Those who oppose Gunkan-sama face capital punishment!! Kill them---!!!!
Softon: BABYLON SHINKEN OUGI: SWEDEN’S SORROW
(Translator’s Note: This fist is obvious...but of particular note is nearly all of Softon’s abilities at this point are named after countries)
Gunkan’s Forces: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Softon: Heppokomaru, look for the Pomade Ring while leave these guys to us.
Heppokomaru: Y…yes.
Heppokomaru: As expected, these are the people Bo-bobo successfully fought against. I’m counting on you.
Gunkan’s Forces: Heppokomaru’s getting away!!!

114.
Softon: All right, all of you come after me all together.
Tennosuke: Hey, hey, you’re trying to kill yourself alone?
Tennosuke: I’ll help too.
Softon: Tennosuke.
Tennosuke: Ku ku ku…its been a while since my blood’s boiled like this……let’s go: PURUPURU SHINKEN OUGI…
Tennosuke: FIRST CLASS MEAL!!!!
Gunkan’s Forces: UOOOOOOO!!!!
Tennosuke: Eat me nicely.
Tennosuke: BUT, WHY ARE YOU EATING ME--!!!!!
Gunkan’s Forces: GYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

115.
Don Patch: You’re the only one they can.
Gunkan’s Forces: THEY’RE SCREWING WITH US! KILL THEM ALL-----!!!!
Heppokomaru: …Ha ha…everyone’s doing fine…
Heppokomaru: I too have to go find the Pomade Ring…N!

116.
Sign: Pomade Ring
Heppokomaru: SO TINY----!!!!
Don Patch: Shut up. That’s a fake.
Heppokomaru: DON PATCH!! EH? THEN THE REAL ONE…!!?
SFX: Point

117.
Don Patch: There
Can: Pomade Ring
Don Patch: I drank it earlier. It tastes like Mello Yellow.
Heppokomaru: Ku…Where then is the real Pomade Ring…
Don Patch: Na----I’ve noticed it all this time, but what is that above the town?
Heppokomaru: Eh?
Heppokomaru: !!!

118.
Heppokomaru: Wh…what’s that…the Pomade Ring is a flying fortress…………………we can’t get ourselves up there…………
Heppokomaru: KU…ANY WAY IS FINE
Don Patch: Ah.
Don Patch: THAT’S THE HEAD BO-BOBO WAS RIDING IN!!!
Softon: Heppokomaru, what’s that in the sky!!?
Heppokomaru: Ku…
Don Patch: It’s the Pomade Ring.
Softon: Hoo…that is…

119.
Heppokomaru: ANY WAY UP THERE IS FINE-!!!!
Don Patch: What—do we do.
Tennosuke: Of course! It’s within hand--!!!
Bo-bobo: Owowow…where am I?
Bo-bobo: N?
Suzu: WELCOME TO THE POMADE RING. WE’VE BEEN WAITING.

Translator's Note: Somehow one of the things I really got from this chapter was that even without Bo-bobo hanging around and him "hanging around" a floating head, the other members of the Bo-bobo team were very capable of working together to take on Gunkan's forces and spread out to find the Pomade Ring...even if its over the city. Its amazing that Sawai was able to assemble such a diverse group with each taking a moment in the spotlight with this chapter. At the same time, we get weird references from hidden-camera shows to Buffaloman to a Coke product I doubt too many have heard of outside nostalgia lovers of the 1970s. Of course, things get more interesting next time...can't wait to see you then.