Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 63

A massive dragon is rampaging through Z-Block! But...isn't that supposed to be Bo-bobo? And...how will Heppokomaru and Beauty understand what the heck is going on this time!?

Ougi 63: Heart

149.
(Translator’s Note: Like the last two covers, which had the “favorite” and “least favorite” characters, this cover has an extremely peculiar top five: Top Five Characters who would listen to an Every Little Thing song before going to bed that night. And the rankings are:
1. Softon
2. Hatenko
3. Gum
4. King Nosehair
5. Hisashi-kun
Every Little Thing, BTW, is a soft-J-Pop duo known for their softer ballads and love songs and their huge musical presence in the late 90s and early 2000s. (though I only really know of them for the fourth “Inu Yasha” opening…which actually came out a year after this chapter) As for the selection…yeah, like a stick of gum would listen to music.)

150.
Narrator: Summary of Last Time: Bo-bobo, who had become a dragon, had completed his hell plan.
Heppokomaru: …That’s Bo-bobo…?
Beauty: HEY, ARE YOU BO-BOBO? IF YOU’RE BO-BOBO, SAY SOMETHING!!?
Dragon: DECLARATION OF VICTORY
Heppokomaru: HE LAID AN EGG!!!
Beauty: WHAT DOES THAT MEAN!!? WHAT DID THAT MEAN NOW!!?
SFX: Crack
Kibahage: HAIR HUNTER Z-BLOCK VICE-LEADER KIBAHAGE HAS APPEARED
Caption: Z-Block Vice Leader: Kibahage

151.
Heppokomaru: AN ENEMY HAS APPEARED-------!!!!!
Beauty: ………Congratulations…he was born without problem…
Heppokomaru: !!?
Beauty: WONDERFUL…IT’S SO WONDERFUL…
Heppokomaru: WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU!!? WHAT HAVE YOU JUMPED INTO HERE!!!!
Beauty: Shut up—this is my concern, idiot.
Heppokomaru: BEAUTY’S GOT CLASS!!!!
Narrator: At that moment in Beauty’s head, her condition repeatedly changed. It became strange.
Caption: Inside Beauty’s Head
Beauties: THAT’S YOUR OPINION—PARTY—
Caption around fallen Beauty’s: Reasoning
Heppokomaru: WAKE UP--!!!!! (I’m sorry)
SFX: BAM

152.
Beauty: THAT HU—RT!! HE-KUN HIT ME--!!!
Heppokomaru: No…I’m…I’m sorry.
Heppokomaru: Ha!!
Don Patch: YOU’RE HESITATING. YOU’RE NOW A DEAD MAN.
SFX: Slash
Beauty: YOU’VE HAD IT, YOU BRAT----!!!!!
Heppokomaru: Beauty-san!!?
Beauty: DON’T UNDERESTIMATE ME!!!!!
Don Patch: I’M SORRY!!! I’M SO—RRY!!!
SFX: Ache, ache
Don Patch: MY BEHIND MY BEHIND IS ACHING!

153.
Don Patch: MY BEHIND MY BEHIND IS ACHING!
Don Patch: NEW ON SALE: NEW HIRIRI. Drink it cold.
(Translator’s Note: I’m assuming this is a drink ad parody but not sure of what)
Dragon: DRINK THIS------!!!!!
Don Patch: GYAAAAAAAA!!!!
SFX: Crisp, crisp
SFX: Fall
Heppokomaru: WHAT!!!!
“Head”: Shall I go back to Kyushuu…
Heppokomaru: GO BACK
Beauty: Hey? He-kun, what’s going on?
Heppokomaru: Beauty’s back to normal.

154.
Dragon: HA! THERE’S THE VOICE CALLING ME!!
Dragon: I MUST GO!!
Heppokomaru: AH!! BO-BOBO-SAN, WHERE ARE YOU GOING!!?
Announcer: Saa, It’s the Bottom of the 9th, two outs, the Penguin’s final at-bat!!
Announcer: We’ve met up with a switch up for batter#4, Kawamura. The Penguin’s trump card, Dragon!!!
Card: Dragon
Dragon: This suits me…
Dragon: This is my place…
Below: KNOCK IT OUT, DRAGON, WA----

155.
Bo-bobo: MY PLACE--!!!!
Bo-bobo: Everyone has given this place to me. As a result, it caused me to turn back to a human…And so I must give back…
Bo-bobo: THIS IS MY GIFT!!!!!!
Umpire: STRIKE, BATTER OUT!!!! GAME OVER!!!! PENGUINS WITHDRAW!!!! IMMEDIATE WITHDRAWL----!!!!
Bo-bobo: I’m back…
Don Patch: Chi, you’ve turned back to a human.
Beauty: AH! BO-BOBO, WHERE WERE YOU?
Kibahage: Bo-bobo…you ate me five years too early. I will truly kill you. My chance has come.
Kibahage: I’LL KILL YOU--!!!!!
Bo-bobo: I’ve had a strong guy inside my body for five years!!! In that case, eat this technique!!!

156.
Bo-bobo: 5 GLASSES!!!!!
Kibahage: WHAT!! WOOD CHOPSTICKS!!!!
Bo-bobo: Na…a feint!!? Then I can’t use my mentaiko!!!
(Translator’s Note: “Mentaiko” is marinated walleye roe usually eaten with rice)
Kibahage: AND THEN I’LL COMPLETE MY COMBO WITH OOLONG TEA.
Bo-bobo: NO, THE DARK COMBO!!!!
Bo-bobo: I HAVE NO CHOICE!! I’LL UNLEASH MY DUSTCLOTH HERE--!!!!
Kibahage: IDIOT!!! HE HAS TWO!!? IS HE INSANE!!?
Kibahage: Chiii!!
Bo-bobo: AYRTON SENNA!!!
(Translator’s Note: Ayrton Senna is notable champion Brazillian Formula 1 racer, winning three championships and also notable for his death during a race in 1994)

157.
Kibahage: Ku…I’ve got five half-losses…
Bo-bobo: Its not incurable. When I used the glasses, I was in danger…
Kibahage: According to ancillary rules, I’m drenching myself with Oolong tea. Next, you choose the stage! I’ll quickly cut you a receipt.
Booklet: RECEIPTS
Bo-bobo: Don’t cut a receipt. I wouldn’t know what to do with it.
Kibahage: IDIOT, THAT’S SUICIDE!!!
Bo-bobo: It’s fine if I use glasses.
Kibahage: Understood. Shall we restore our hit points!!
Bo-bobo: When we do, we’ll go to our second court. Ku ku ku…
Kibahage: Ku!! HERETIC!!
Beauty & Heppokomaru: ………
Beauty & Heppokomaru: I DON’T GET THIS AT ALL…
Don Patch: If Bo-bobo didn’t use that dustcloth, we’d all be dead too…
Heppokomaru: REALL—Y!!!?

158.
Don Patch: All of us should wear these sunglasses! We’d die with the next one!!
SFX: Fling
Heppokomaru: Ku…I don’t get these rules at all, but that one battle did put our lives on the line…I should know the rules to this. Think…think…
Bo-bobo: SO, LET’S START ROUND TWO.
Kibahage: I’ll come no matter when.
Heppokomaru: I DON’T GET THIS AT ALL--!!!!
Trophy: CHAMPION
SFX: Plop

159.
Bo-bobo & Kibahage: PON!!!!
Bo-bobo’s Shirt: Nishichuu
Bo-bobo: The second round was a draw.
Kibahage: Thus, in our battle now, I’ve gotten three Yakult.
(Translator’s Note: Kibahage is referring to “Yakult”, a probiotic, yogurt-like product featuring a mixture of skimmed milk and “Lactobacillus casei” bacteria to assist the gastrointestinal system.)
Beauty: I DON’T GET THIS--!!!!
Heppokomaru: WAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Beauty: I DON’T GET THIS AT ALL--!!!!
Heppokomaru: Buhe!!!!
Heppokomaru: I DON’T GET IT…

160.
Heppokomaru: I’VE STOPPED WATCHING IT FOR A BIT AND I’VE LOST ALL UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY’RE DOING.
Bo-bobo: Roppongi, Roppongi
(Translator’s Note: The Roppongi district is a notable tourist area for foreigners in Tokyo, though the Japanese have gained slight respect recently with the opening of “Roppongi Hills” shopping complex)
Kibahage: Moscow Mule, Moscow Mule
(Translator’s Note: A “Moscow Mule” is a notable highball cocktail made by mixing vodka, ginger beer, lime & Angolstura bitters, throwing together the sophistication of the vodka and the kick of ginger beer)
Bo-bobo: MEGANE~~~~~~
Bo-bobo: GANEME!!!!
SFX: Flip
(Translator’s Note: “Megane” is “glasses”, thus “Ganeme” is what we could have translated as merely taking a bit of the front of the word off, such as calling it “assesgl” or “ssesgla”. I kept it in Japanese mostly for the context…and because this is something we’ll refer to way later another Bo-bobo volume)
Don Patch: THERE IT IS-----------!!! THE FINAL, MAGICAL COMMUNICATION: “GANEME”!!!! WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE ALSO MUST EAT UP OUR LOSSES!!!!
Don Patch: I TOO MUST HURRY TO GET A PAIR OF GANEME!!!
Sign: Ganeme Shop
Don Patch: AH!!!

161.
Store: GANEME~~~~~
SFX: Kira—n
Don Patch: ITS OVER…
SFX: Sniff
Kibahage: A TECHNICAL COMBO, THE IMPERIAL’S “GANEME”!!! HOW DO I COUNTER THAT SORT OF COMMUNICATION!!!?
SFX: Fling
Kibahage: !!
Kibahage: YOU WON’T USE THOSE GLASSES!!? HEY, YOU WON’T USE THEM!!?
Bo-bobo: GANEME----------!!!!
Kibahage: GUWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Bo-bobo: “Ganeme” is simple an ordinary word.
Kibahage: Ku…you raised your reality above my own…

162.
Bo-bobo: HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI: HELL SHRIKE FALL!!!!
Kibahage: GYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Beauty: THEY STOPPED EACH OTHER--!!!!
Voice: THAT’S AS FAR AS YOU GO--!!!!
Heppokomaru: A tank!!?

163.
Voice: THIS FINAL ONE YOU DEAL WITH IS Z-BLOCK’S NEWEST MODEL OF TANK: THE P-365--!!!!
Tank: Z-Block
Heppokomaru: BUT SOME WEIRD THING IS RIDING IT!!!!
Beauty: IYAAAAA
Narrator: Inside the tank
Boy: Ku ku ku…these guys are nothing compared to the tank, boss.
Dengaku Man: We’re all going to eat dengaku--! But before we do
Dengaku Man: FIRE!!!!!

Translator's Note: I know there have been many strange chapters, mostly due to Bo-bobo World or Babylon World or the like, but let me just say this: the battle between Bo-bobo and Kibahage was probably the weirdest battle we get in the real world in continuity! My guess is Sawai was making some sort of comment about game-based series...or he just wanted to act bizarre for bizarre sake. Sawai always seemed to hype up Kibahage from his "spontaneous" origin but it does seem like it was another excuse to let loose. But actually...if you think about it, not one fight in the Z-Block arc (outside Shou Mei...I guess) is a normal, conventional fisticuffs battle so the Kibahage one was probably standard for what we had with Pontaro and what we'll be getting next when Dengaku Man finally fights. (unless he just blows up everyone next chapter with that tank...but I'll leave that for the moment to be solved when it does) Another weird point of the chapter: somehow seeing Beauty finally lose all means of common sense was a funny but scary matter and should really not be done too often.)