Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 127

Even with Don Patch's sudden egotism acting up again, the threat of the Former Maruhage remains looming and long for Bo-bobo's team...which means its time for a training sequence!

Ougi 127: Let’s Power Up!!

107.
Don Patch: Those two are left…
Nihil: KU, THEY’RE ALL ST…ST….
Nihil: STRONG!!!
Tennosuke: Nuu
Nihil: NO, NOT YOU………
Don Patch: ………WELL THEN, SHOULDN’T I SHOW YOU THE POWER OF THE MAIN CHARA----CTER!
SFX: CRICK CRICK
Forehead: Main character
Bo-bobo: SHOW THEM------!!!
SFX: BAM
Don Patch, Nihil & Shaina: GYAAAAAAAAA!!!!

108.
Heppokomaru: GOOD! NOW WE’LL BE ABLE TO DEFEAT THEM INSTATLY, SOFTON-SAN!
Tennosuke: YEP
Heppokomaru: No, not you.
Nihil: FOOLS!!
SFX: SQUASH
Don Patch: YOU’RE STEPPING ON THE MAIN CHARACTER--!!!
Softon: Let’s go, Heppokomaru.
SFX: DADADADADA
Heppokomaru: OK
Softon & Heppokomaru (& Tennosuke): BABYLON SHINKEN!! AND ONARA SHINKEN!!
SFX: ZUGAGAGAGA
Bo-bobo: You’re in the way.
SFX: FLUUUUUUUSH
Tennosuke: AH, NO! SORRY!! DON’T FLUSH ME--!!
Tennosuke: GYAAAAA----!!!
SFX: FLUUUSH
Nihil: Fu…We avoided the direct hit.
Shaina: You can’t use the same technique twice on us.

109.
Tennosuke: REVIVAL OF BABYLON!!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Nihil & Shaina: GYAAAAAAAA!!
Bo-bobo: Now, Main Character Don Patch! Please lend me your power!!
SFX: Poke
Don Patch: Main character!
Don Patch: Chi, got no choice…
Bo-bobo: EXPECTED FROM THE LEAD.
Beauty: !!
Beauty: HEY…THAT’S TOO MUCH, BO-BOBO!!
SFX: Wheel wheel
Cannon: DUMMY CANNON
Don Patch: Little girl.
Don Patch: IT’S SINKING IN. THE AIR OF A MINOR CHARACTER.
Sticks: Dynamite
Bo-bobo: Go in, main character.
Don Patch: Ah----she’s jealous. Scary, scary.
Bo-bobo: FIRE!!!
SFX: BOOM / BAM
Don Patch: BU!!
SFX: BANG
Don Patch: GYAA!!!

110.
Don Patch: YOU--!! YOU’RE THAT GUY!!! AREN’T YOU MISTAKING MY COMMENTS!! YOU WANT ME DEAD!! OOH!!? YOU’VE GOT NO CONTROL!!! NO CONTROL!!! NO CONTROL!!!
Bo-bobo: FORGIVENESS WITH BACON.
(Translator’s Note: Another language pun: Don Patch yells at Bo-bobo by calling him “Nookon”, which is short for “No control”, and Bo-bobo tries to win him over with “Beekon” or “Bacon”. The pun works in English if you try hard enough)
Don Patch: IT’S BACON!!!
SFX: SLA—P
Nihil: GUBA!!!
Don Patch: IT’S THE WA—Y OF BACON. THE WA—Y OF BACON.
Nihil: GUGU…
Nihil: YOU’RE IN THE WAY!!
SFX: BASH
Don Patch: GYAAAAA
Don Patch: AAAAAA
SFX: Spin spin / Bam bam bam
Don Patch: MY DREAM HAS COME TRUE--------!!!!
SFX: WHAM
Nihil: GUWAHAA!!!!

111.
Don Patch: OSSHA--!! NOW I’VE DECIDED ON THE FINISH!! SUPPORT ME, WAKIYAKUTAROU!!
(Translator’s Note: Don Patch merely added “Tarou”, usually used in various boy’s names in Japanese, to the word “Wakiyaku”, which he earlier used for “Minor Character”, as a derogatory way to either insult (or praise) Bo-bobo.)
Bo-bobo: YES! WE’LL DO THAT TECHNIQUE
Don Patch: TANTATAN! TANTATAN!
Bo-bobo: TANTA TA TA TAN!
Don Match: O – LE
SFX: BAM
Heppokomaru: BU!!
SFX: FART
Nihil & Shaina: GYAAA!!
Don Patch: TANTATAN! TANTATAN!
Tennosuke: WHAT? WHAT? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Bo-bobo: AWAWAWAWAWA
Bo-bobo: O – LE
SFX: BO—OM
Tennosuke: !!
Nihil: GOBA!!
Don Patch: CAFÉ O – LE
SFX: BO—OM
Shaina: KYAAA!!
Don Patch: AND THEN AND THEN THE FINISHING POSE---!
Bo-bobo: I KNOW IT I KNOW IT----!
Don Patch: TANTA TA TA TAN!

112.
Bo-bobo: O—LE
SFX: WHA—M
Don Patch & Nihil: GYAAA!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Bo-bobo: I’m tired of my stupid partner.
Nihil: ST…STRONG…
SFX: BAM
Softon: It’s over.
Softon: Heppokomaru, you weren’t bad with your fighting now.
Heppokomaru: Th…THANK YOU!!

113.
Tennosuke: BUT THE WAY YOU DID IT WAS BAD!! BECAUSE YOU’RE REALLY STILL JUST A CHILD!!
Heppokomaru: Yeah yeah.
Dengaku Man: EVERYONE—THIS GUY IS STILL LEFT HERE!
Otter: GYAAAAAA YOU’RE WRONG!! PLEASE LISTEN TO ME!!!
Otter: I’M REALLY JUST A REGULAR OTTER!!! I’M SEPARATE FROM THEM!! I WAS COMING ALONG FOR THE RIDE!! IT WAS HITCH-HIKING
Sign: Tokyo
Bo-bobo: Really…
Otter…An otter doesn’t lie…
Bo-bobo: Alright! I’ll sell you to the aquarium
Otter: GYAAA, DEMON!!
Dengaku Man: EH? ME TOO!?
SFX: Creak creak
Beauty: …While we’re at it, why would Hair Hunters from one-hundred years ago be going after Bo-bobo…?
Nihil: Ku…idiots…we’ve been annihilated…? I can only draw back from here…Gugu
Don Patch: AH! HE’S GOING TO RUN AWAY!!
Tennosuke: WAIT!!
Nihil: Ku…
Tennosuke: Actually, when you go back, give this to your boss.
Box: Tokoroten Gift Set

114.
Nihil: IDIOT!! YOU’LL REGRET THIS!!!
Tennosuke: Properly tell him “The tokoroten is a nice guy”—
SFX: GLE—AM
Tennosuke: …And so our matters are concluded…
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: WHY DID YOU LET HIM ESCAPE----!!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Tennosuke: GYAA!!!
Softon: This is bad…possibly those guys were mere soldiers. Perhaps we should worry if other Hair Hunters from 100 years ago are waking up.
Don Patch: YOU GIVE US TROUBLE, YOU GIVE US TROUBLE
Softon: From here, our battle may be intensifying.
Bo-bobo: So then, the only place we can go is to our next destination.
Beauty: HOW WILL WE GET THERE? OUR CAR WAS DESTROYED…
Softon & Tennosuke: WE HAVE CARS!!!
SFX: BA—N
Beauty: THOSE AREN’T DECENT CARS------!!!!

115.
Beauty: Let’s go, Softon-san.
Tennosuke: I LOST TO POOP AGAIN!!! (Shock)
Narrator: And so Bo-bobo’s team set off riding in poop…………
SFX: ERR ERR ERR
Voice: ORA--!! KAMIWAZA DRIFT
(Translator’s Note: In drifting, particularly notable in Japanese motorsports, a “Kamiwaza” or “God’s Work”, is an expression for a perfect drift, allowing for a complete and perfect combination of tactics involving the road and particularly the pedal to maintain a high speed particularly at curves)
Beauty: KYAAAAA
Don Patch: GET AWAY GET AWAY GET AWAY--!!! YOU YANKEES, KORA----!!!
SFX: BAM BAM BAM
Car: UNKOU (Transport Attack)
Bo-bobo: Where we’re heading towards now is the holy land “ETERNAL”…
Beauty: The holy placewhere Shinken users can raise their power!
Beauty: The holy land “Eternal”, where Shinken users can power up…what kind of place is it…?
SFX: Gulp
Narrator: Three hours later
Bo-bobo: We’re here.
Caption: HOLY LAND ETERNAL
Top Sign: Welcome!!!!! SHOPPING CITY
Beauty: EEH!!? IT’S ONLY A SHOPPING MALL!!!!

116.
Bo-bobo: The stores within “Eternal” have all become training zones. You can power up by training at whatever store fits your abilities.
Beauty: YOU’RE LYING!! IT’S REALLY A LIE!
Heppokomaru: ALRIGHT! I’LL POWER UP IN THIS STORE!!
Sign: Handmade Bread Makers
Beauty: HE-KUN, PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES!! (He’s in a bread shop?)
Heppokomaru: ORA ORA ORA----!!
Caption: HEPPOKOMARU LEVELS UP EXCESSIVELY
Beauty: IT REALLY POWERS UP-----!!!
Bo-bobo: It’s a mysterious place.
Don Patch & Tennosuke: YE—S!! LET’S GO POWER UP
Tennosuke: I can power up at a “Nu Shop”! There should be a “Nu Shop” in this area…
SFX: Turn turn
Book: Map

117.
Right: NU SHOP
Left: NE SHOP
SFX: BA----N
Tennosuke: AAH!!! THE “NU SHOP” HAS GONE UNDER AND THE “NE SHOP” IS THRIVING--!!!
Tennosuke: THOSE NE GUYS~~~~NE GUYS~~~~
Caption: TENNOSUKE IS FACING “NE”. HIS ANGER IS SURPASSING HIS LIMITS.
Narrator: At that time in a men’s bathroom…
Softon: OK, I’ll do it here…
Softon: AWAKEN, BABYLON!!!!
SFX: WHOO—SH
Men: WHAT’S THAT!!?
Babylon God: I will grant you power.
Caption: SOFTON OBTAINS HOLY POWER FROM THE DIVINE PROTECTION OF THE BABYLON GOD.

118.
Narrator: And Don Patch…………
Don Patch: UOOOOOO!!! I’LL POWER UP TOO----!!!!
SFX: DODODODODODODODO
Heppokomaru: FUGO FUGO FUGO (PUT ME DOWN!! PUT ME DOWN!!)
Man: The meal we ordered is late.
Woman: It is.
Don Patch: HEY! HERE’S YOUR ONE HEPPOKO!!!
SFX: SLAM
People: KYAAAA
Don Patch: GOING ACROSS THE CORPSE--!
Don Patch: AND NOW AND NOW I’LL POWER UP AT THE JEWELRY STORE---!!!
Signs: JEWELRY—JEWELRY STORE / CLOTHES STORE
Person: WA! HE’S COMING BY A STRAIGHT LINE!!
Don Patch: YES! FAINT!!!
SFX: CRASH
People: HE’S IN THE CLOTHES SHOP--!!!

119.
Salesman: WH…WHAT ARE YOU!!!?
SFX: FLAP FLAP
Don Patch: FISH!! FISH!! I’M A FISH--!!!
Don Patch: WELL—THEN, THIS LOOKS TOP-RATE TO WEAR!! TRYING THEM!!
Don Patch: AH, THIS SKIRT IS CUTE! NO, THE BRA’S GREAT TOO!
Sign: DRESSING ROOM
Don Patch: I’LL TAKE IT ALL.
Don Patch: WELL, SHALL WE GO? HOW MUCH----?
SFX: STAB
People: GYAAAA, WHAT IS THIS GUY!!?
Caption: DON PATCH GOES UP 60 MAJJIMO
(Translator’s Note: “Majjimo” was a word I had a hard time discovering the meaning, but basically it’s the opposite of the expression “Majime”, which is “to be serious”. Thus, “Majjimo” is “to be goofy”)

120.
Heppokomaru: FART------
Tennosuke: NU NU NU NU NU NU
Softon: POOP------
Don Patch: MAJJIMO------
Beauty: …Those lights…Everyone’s successfully powered up.
Beeauty: That just leaves Bo-bobo…
Sign: SUPER (Supermarket)
Beauty: HA!!
Beauty: BO-BOBO!!
SFX: WRRRR
Beauty: !!!
Sign: Removed VEGETABLES

121.
Bo-bobo: Yo, Beauty. My training was just unimaginable…
Beauty: AN…AMAZING POWER UP!! WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO HIM…?
Salesman: That comes to 582 Yen.
Bo-bobo: Beauty, buy it.
Beauty: ……
SFX: Step
“Flower Shirt”: WHA? WHERE ARE THOSE CHEEKY SACRIFICES?
Nihil: They actually should be in this town but…
“Flower Shirt”: N!
Sign: Lost
Don Patch: WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT!! YOU LOOKING AT ME, YOU!!!

122.
BO-SEAL 4-KOMA THEATER #4
NU SANTA

Narrator: 2003, CHRISTMAS EVE. “NU SANTA” APPEARS
Tennosuke: HE—LLO—IT—‘S “NU SANTA”!
SFX: Knock knock
Voice: Ah, O—K, you can come in no—w!
SFX: ERR
Tennosuke: YOU, WHY DO YOU LIVE HERE!
SFX: GLARE
Beauty: Now now, it’s Chirstmas Eve……
Ne: WILL YOU LOWER YOUR FACE COMING HERE!?
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE

Translator's Note: You have to wonder: all Tennosuke did was one silly gag last time with "Softon's face"...and suddenly he's running around thinking he's Softon in this chapter! Of course the obvious problem is this: just because you look like Softon doesn't mean you're not a blue, wobbily piece of tokoroten...of course, that's what made it funny. Of course while this chapter was mostly wrapping up the first Former Maruhage fight, the meat of the chapter...was Bo-bobo and the others training at a shopping mall. I'm still slightly confused as to why Heppokomaru needed to go to a bread shop...what does bread have to do with farts? Maybe if they were all whole wheat working up his backsides you could have a legitimate excuse but I highly doubt any of those were like that. The whole sequence in general was bizarrely brilliant...but somehow I just have this weird feeling that it was a slight homage to "River City Ransom" (Japanese name: Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari), the game where you pretty much buy various power-ups at local shops while fighting street gangs...of course, I doubt its too much of that since they actually trained in those shops...sort of. Of course, probably the most interesting aspect both of this chapter and the beginning of this arc is this: you can sort of starting to see Sawai experimenting and expanding his abilities as a storyteller. There were certain parts of the story where you could definately see foreshadowing and such used, but mostly it seemed with the parts that Sawai knew he was going to write (see the Gunkan arc) while other parts seemed to be mini-chapters in themselves with little linkage outside the overall plot. But now we don't just see battles with cliffhangers but whole storylines developing, with questions not only "who are these fighters from 100 years ago"...but why are they so interested in the survivors of the Hair Kingdom? Of course that's revealed by the end of the arc but just enjoy the ride.

BTW: I really need to go back to Cyber City to do a page I didn't translate...somehow though I think I didn't do it since it had Hatenko but it will be in the chapter it needs to be in for those scanslating.