Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 123

As if Giga's power and art weren't bad enough before, he's further transfored into a freakier state! But what does it mean? Has Giga just become too powerful for Bo-bobo's team!?

Ougi 123: Run Forth, Art!!

39.
Giga: …I’VE BECOME MY STRONGEST FORM. DO YOU ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT I’VE BECOME?
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Beauty: AH…AH…
SFX: Tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle tickle
Tennosuke: GYAHAHAHAHA
Tennosuke: AAH…
SFX: Swi~~ng
Don Patch: YA—Y
Don Patch: AAAH…
Voice: Darling—
SFX: BABUMP
Bo-bobo: NOOOOOOOO!!!
Beauty: NO, WHAT YOU’RE THINKING IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

40.
Giga: I’LL GIVE YOU AN ARTISTIC “DEATH”-----!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Beauty: KYAA
Narrator: The cover picture will be in 4 panels.
Tennosuke: N!
Narrator: 3 panels remaining
Tennosuke: HEY! WE’RE THREE PANELS FROM THE COVER PICTURE!!
Bo-bobo: WE CAN’T DO THAT NOW!!
Narrator: 2
SFX: SWEAT SWEAT SWEAT SWEAT
Tennosuke: THIS IS BAD! THERE ISN’T ANYTHING COVER PICTURE-ISH…COVER PICTURE-ISH……COVER PICTURE-ISH……
Narrator: 1
Tennosuke: I’LL BUY UP ALL THE STOCK IN OX COMMERCIAL
Computer: PAIO
(Translator’s Note: Obviously the computer is a parody of the Sony VAIO line)

41.
Bo-bobo: They’ve been bought.
Don Patch: A billion shares under Tennosuke’s name.
Tennosuke: NO!! I REALLY BOUGHT THEM!?
Giga: Before I kill you all, you shall have a reunion with your friend.
SFX: Snap
Tennosuke: WHAT WILL I DO? WHAT WILL I DO?
SFX: BREAK BREAK BREAK
Beauty: WHAT? THE WALLS ARE CRYSTALIZING!!
SFX: HYUUUUUU
Beauty: AAH! HEPPOKOMARU IS WITHIN THE CRYSTAL!!!
Giga: AHAHA----THIS HERE IS MY ULTIMATE ART!!!
Heppokomaru: Bo-bobo-san! Everyone!
Bo-bobo: EXCELLENT!! LET’S TAKE HIM BACK!!! OUGI: TAKE BACK LOVE!!
Beauty: WHAT’S WITH THE TECHNIQUE FROM THE WILD ERA!!?
(Translator’s Note: The dress-up and the Ougi are connected: it is a reference to the mid-80s WSJ action classic “Hokuto no Ken” (known in the US as “Fist of the North Star”) by Buronson and Tetsuo Hara. The outfits they’re wearing is reminiscent of the world, which is a post-apocalyptic future where gangs run amuck influenced by “The Road Warrior”, while even the Ougi title is a reference to the very first opening of the HnK anime: “Ai wo Torimodose!!”, which translates into “Take Back Love!!”)

42.
Giga: IT’s ART!!!!
Borders: Art
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: !!
Don Patch: WHAT WAS THAT SCENE NOW? OBJET SHINKEN!!?
Bo-bobo: NO, IT ISN’T!! IT’S THE POWER OF ANOTHER DIMENSION!!
SFX: Smirk
Bo-bobo & Tennosuke: BRO~~~
(Translator’s Note: Sort of a bizarre language gag: the “smirk” Giga made has the onomatopoeia of “nii”, and of course “nii” is “Big Brother” in Japanese)
Beauty: TAKE BACK THOSE HAPPY FACES WHEN YOU PEEP INTO A ROOM!!!
Don Patch: BUT MY PRIVATES WERE BEING SEEN AT THAT TI—ME
Bo-bobo: That guy…I don’t know what you’re doing but I WON’T LOSE TO THIS EITHER…HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI----

43.
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: OLD NOSEHAIR STORY: THE CRAB AND THE MONKEY 2003!!!
Border: Crab Monkey
(Translator’s Note: The Crab and the Monkey (full name: “Saru Kani Gassen”) is a Japanese folktale. In brief: Monkey trades a rice ball for a seed to the crab, crab grows tree, monkey climbs tree and uses fruit to kill crab, crab’s son uses help of inanimate objects, including a mortar, to get revenge on the monkey. Thus why Bo-bobo’s team are all transformed into mortars!)
Beauty: ALL OF YOU ARE WEAK!!! (Crab and monkey?)
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: LET’S GO----!!!
Beauty: YOU’RE WEAK BUT YOU’RE ATTACKING ON PEGASUS!? SUBLIME!!!
Giga: ART WILL DYE YOUR REFRAIN AND HARMONIZE YOUR SPIRITS----IN FRONT OF THE “POWER OF ART”, EVERYTHING IS NONSENSEEEE-----
Giga: RULE OF SUPREMATISM’S NEW-STLYE-----!!!!
(Translator’s Note: Giga is referring to the artistic movement of “Suprematism”, which emerged in Russia in the late 1910s and offered a new, abstract view of the world by way of the usage of geometric forms. Though initially used to show the new Russia emerging from the face of the past, it would ultimately be squashed by the Communists by the early 1930s)
Border: ILLUSION ART
Everyone: GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

44.
Don Patch: WHAT WAS THAT POWER NOW? IT ERASED OUR ATTACK!!?
Tennosuke: HE’S BECOME SCARY……IT’S HOPLESS!! WE CAN’T WIN!!
Bo-bobo: KU! IF A PHYSICAL DIRECT ATTACK DOESN’T WORK, THEN WE’LL DO A DIRECT ATTACK ON HIS SOUL!!
Caption: ANYTHING TODAY IS FINE, BUT A TOMORROW WHERE WE’LL DO IT WILL COME –Bobopatch
Beauty: WHAT’S THAT!!?
Torpedo Girl: IT WAS SENT TO MY HEART-----!!!
Note: BOBOPATCH’S MESSAGE
SFX: POKE
Beauty: KYAAAAAAA, IT’S ON TORPEDO’S BODY-----!!!
Bo-bobo: NOW, HE’S OPEN!!!
SFX: WHAP
Torpedo Girl: YOU HEALED TOO MUCH!!
Beauty: !!
Giga: YOU IDIOTS-----!! THAT ATTACK WASN’T ARTISTIC. YOU CAN’T SURPASS THE “POWER OF ART”!!
Beauty: I got it!! Giga’s transformed into “art”. He’s mastered the power of a different vector!! Thus, if they don’t defeat him artistically, they won’t give him any damage!!!

45.
Giga: HYAHAHA----IT’S USELESS!!! I AM THE ULTIMATE ART----!!! NOW SHOW ME ALL OF YOUR STALE ART!!! I’LL GRADE IT!!
Tennosuke: EXCELLENT!! SO THEN I’LL SHOW YOU MY ART----!!!
Tennosuke: ORAA!!!!
Sfx: BA—N
Caption: Nu Supper
(Translator’s Note: Yes, it’s a parody of Leonardo DaVinchi’s “Last Supper” with everyone as Tennosuke…and a whole bunch of Nu apparel. Of note: the Japanese name of the actual painting is “Saigo no Bansan”, thus I adjusted it accordingly)
Beauty: WHAT IS THAT UNPLEASANT DRAWING!!!?
Giga: 12 POINTS!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Tennosuke: GYAA!!
Bo-bobo: THEN TAKE MY ART!!!!
SFX: BA—N
Beauty: AMAZING!! IT’S PRESENT MODERN ART THAT USES CONTRASTS OF BLACK AND WHITE!!!

46.
Bo-bobo: LIGHT UP!!!
Beauty: IT WAS FOR NOTHING----!!!
Giga: 35 POINTS!!
SFX: BO—OM
Beauty: THAT’S DIFFICULT--!!!
Don Patch: NEXT IS MY TURN—
SFX: DADADADA
SFX: PING
Caption: 100 POINTS
Don Patch: EEH!? I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING YET--!!
Don Patch: EH? WHAT IS THIS? 100 POINTS!? I’M PERFECT…!?
Don Patch: …It is…………
Don Patch: MY EXISTANCE ITSELF IS “ART”!!!!
Artists: Oh…

47.
Artists: ART-SAN!! WE MUST CERTAINLY PLEASE INVESTIGATE YOU FOR MODERN ART
Don Patch: I PERMIT YOU.
Artists: OOH---THANK YOU
Beauty: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, DON PATCH!
Don Patch: IT’S CALLED “DON ART PATCHISM”, LITTLE GIRL.
Giga: HYAHA---ART IS THE GREATEST------!!
Don Patch: AGREED
Bo-bobo: KU…I DISPISE THIS ART POWER…
SFX: ZAP
Bo-bobo: SO THEN I’LL SHOW YOU ART THAT SURPASSES THIS ART!! LET’S GO: HANAGE SHINKEN KYUUKYOKU OUGI----
Bo-bobo: ART OF THE TANAKA HOUSE!!
Beauty: WHAT’S THIS!!!? THIS ISN’T CONNECTED TO ART AT ALL

48.
Giga: IT’S USELEEESS----THAT THING ISN’T MORE THAN A ROMANESQUE ILLUSION RAISED BY A BYZANTINE ART--!!
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE
Bo-bobo: GIGA, LET ME TEACH YOU ABOUT TRUE ART.
SFX: GOOOOO
Bo-bobo: PASSIONATE LANDSCAPE SCENE: A THOUSAND KNOCKS!!!!
Beauty: AMAZING! THIS IS AN “OUGI AND ART FUSION”!!!
Giga: I TOOK HIS ATTACK--!?

49.
Giga: YOU-----THEN TAKE MY ULTIMATE SCULPTURE: GOLD FISH!!!
SFX: DOSHU
Don Patch: Then tonight we have fish soup.
SFX: SPLASH
Giga: WHAAT---!!!
Don Patch: Hmmhmm…
Giga: YOU, HOW CAN YOU DO THAT TO THE GREATEST WORK OF ANCIENT EUROPE!!!
Don Patch: YUCK----!!!
SFX: PTTT
Giga: GUO
SFX: SLIDE
Don Patch: UOOOOO----STRESS REMOVER FUTON BEATING-------!!!
Giga: GUWAAA
Beauty: DARK CONCEPT!!!

50.
Giga: WHY----!!? WHY ARE THOSE GUYS’ ATTACKS HITTING ME SUDDENLY? ARE THOSE THINGS CALLED ART!?
Giga: !!
Torpedo Girl: Senpai…For a long time I’ve… I’ve…
SFX: Figit figit
Torpedo Girl: LOVED YOU~~~
SFX: SQUIRM
Beauty: SHE’S IN SUIBOKU STYLE----!!!!
(Translator’s Note: “Suiboku-style” is a style of art defined in Japan also known as “ink and wash” using tree ash or bone for ink and natural animal-hairs for the brushes)
Torpedo Girl: I’M WITH YOU~~~~I’M WITH YOU~~~~
SFX: STAB
Giga: GUWAAAAAAAAAA
Torpedo Girl: THAT’S TOO SCARY----!!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Beauty: YOU ARE!!

51.
SFX: Wobble wobble
Beauty: Huh? What happened, Tennosuke?
Tennosuke: …I’m modest…the stock in OX Commercial I bought on the cover page has…
Beauty: UWA, REALLY!!!
Tennosuke: A—HYAHYAHYA!! A—HYAHYAHYA!!
Giga: GUWAAAAAA
Beauty: WHAT IS THAT ATTACK? NO, I DON’T EVEN KNOW IF IT’S AN ATTACK!!!
Dengaku Man: AND FINALLY IS MY STROLL----
Beauty: Wow, cute.
SFX: BAM BAM BAM BAM
Giga: GUBAA
Beauty: DENGAKU PATTERNS ARE COMING DOWN---!!!

52.
Giga: YOUUUUUUU---!!!
Giga: I DON’T RECOGNIZE THOSE ART AT ALL----!!!
Don Patch: Then, we’ll have a homecoming.
Don Patch: COME TO ITALY!!!!
SFX: GAN
Beauty: YOU’RE IN EGYPT!!
Beauty: !
Beauty: A HUGE SLUMP…
Giga: WHY----!! WHY HAVE YOU DEFEATED MY ART!? HOW COULD YOUR ART SURPASS ART---!!!

53.
Bo-bobo: I’LL TELL YOU!! YOUR ART IS A PRESENTATION MEANS OF ILLUSIONS AND IDEALS!! TRUE ART IS THE “CONCEPT OF AESTHETIC” THAT EXISTS WITHIN EVERYDAY REALITY-----!!!!
Beauty: Of course! Bo-bobo depicted the everyday with “Art of the Tanaka House”, discovering the true artiness hidden within reality!
Giga: IN SHORT, YOU EXCAVATED A NEW ART BORN FROM ORIENTALISM----!!
Bo-bobo: YOU COULD SAY THAT----!!!
SFX: WHOOSH
Giga: SO THEN I’LL ASK THIS!!! WHAT IS A BALANCE THAT HARMONIZES THE ROMANTIC RULES THAT ARE POSSESSED BY THE RAPID CHANGES IN CIVILIZATION AND THE RULES OF NEOCLASSICAL ART……………………
SFX: CLUTCH
Bo-bobo: ART IS ART IS

54.
Bo-bobo: A BACKDROP------!!!!
BG: B D (Back Drop)
SFX: BO—OM
Beauty: THAT’S ART’S EXTREME---!!
Bo-bobo: Art is naïve.
Crowd: WA—WA—WA—
Beauty: Great! Now we’ll get He-kun’s Objet safely…
SFX: PYUOOOOO

55.
SFX: CRACK CRACK
Heppokomaru: GUWAAAAAAA
Beauty: !!!
Beauty: …………That’s…why is it breaking…?
Giga: KUKUKU…THE INSIDE OF THAT CRYSTAL IS UNDER MY WILL.
Giga: DESTRUCTION IS THE ULTIMATE ART.
SFX: CRICK CRICK
Beauty: NOOOOOOOOOOO, STOP-------
Bo-bobo: …………UNFORGIVABLE. I’M GOING TO HAVE TO RELEASE THE HANAGE SHINKEN SEAL…

56.
Narrator: At that time
Wan Ronga: ROUGOKU SHINKEN OUGI: SLAVE RING!!
SFX: KACHING KACHING KACHING
Hatenko: Wa! That technique again!!
Hatenko: Ku!! It's such a bother taking these off.
Wan Ronga: Hmph. Those mysterious keys. They can remove my locks...
Wan Ronga: But even if you raise your base, my force goes up as well.
Wan Ronga: From this battle, I've seen all of your ability.
SFX: Poke poke
Hatenko: I was half awake, you f**king brat.
Wan Ronga: !!
Hatenko: SEAL RELEASE
SFX: Click

57.
SFX: Crash crash crash
Wan Ronga: !!
Wan Ronga: MON...MONSTER...
Hatenko: Actually I didn't see this necessary for you, but I'm sick of what I'm listening to from your mouth.
Hatenko: KAGI SHINKEN OUGI: ETERNAL LOCK!!!
SFX: CLING CLING CLING CLING
Wan Ronga: SHUUUUU
Hatenko: I've stopped your life.

Translator's Note: Yep, that's exactly how you end your battles. Don't agree with their ideas of style or their means of what they consider "art"? Just give them a backdrop! (or just buy stock and hope it doesn't plummet) Probably one of the best facets of the attacks in this chapter is that everyone actually had a chance to fight in a huge coordinated assault, particularly with the "Tanaka Family" attack. While the Halekulani fight had an impressive battle when he transformed, this was just overwhelming in both heroes and villains. But...how the heck is this going to be topped? With the next chapter being the grand finale of Cyber City (well it has to be considering Heppokomaru is about to be destroyed), can that attack be topped in "over the topness"...three words: yes it will. (but then again, the Giga fight has been more over the top than some of the others...well not counting stuff like Majide Time...Denbo could be too but her's was pretty much perfect in its mix of hilarity and impact)

Edit: You know the massiveness of the final page with Bo-bobo and Giga was so complete that I forgot Hatenko and Wan Ronga had an epilogue. Oh well...I still love Kagi Shinken but...yeah, Hatenko.