Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 129

With everyone else captured, only Bo-bobo (and maybe Don Patch) remain to take on Barayuri Kikunojou! But with nothing but his Hanage Shinken and a new black jacket, will the fruits of Bo-bobo's power-up finally be realized?

Ougi 129: A Super Man

143.
Narrator: Summary: Former Hair Hunt G-Block Leader, Barayuri Kikunojou assaults!!
Kikunojou: KA KA KA! PUNISHMENT TIME!!
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: He’s going to damage ordinary people here!! We have to go to where there isn’t anyone!!
SFX: DADADADADA
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: THROUGH THIS FEINT, WE DARE TO FIGHT WITHIN THE MIDST OF HUMAN TRASH!!!
People: WHAT-----!!!
Don Patch: THAT’S OUR WAY
Kikunojou: HEY HEY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Beauty: THAT’S TROUBLING!!
Tennosuke: WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE WITH A LOT OF LIQUID!?
SFX: SHUUU

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Kikunojou: UNDERSTAND THIS! HYAKKA RYOURAN SHINKEN OUGI: BARRACUDA!!!
Don Patch: Leave this to me.
Don Patch: He’s dedicated 30 years of my life to these pure panties…living in purity………………mastering the panties…that person’s name is Panty Hunter……
SFX: YURA~~~~
Don Patch: L!!! L!!! L!!!
SFX: SLASH
Bo-bobo: AREN’T YOU MERELY A PERVE----RT!!!!
SFX: BAM / BOOM
Don Patch: GYAAA!!
Kikunojou: Hee, you did it! Then, how about this?
SFX: BUON
Kikunojou: SEED!!
SFX: BASHU
SFX: PLOP PLOP PLOP

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Kikunojou: HYAKKA RYOURAN SHINKEN OUGI: LILY DEVILS!!
SFX: GROW GROW
Lily Devils: GYA GYA GYA / GYA GYA GYA
Beauty: WEIRD THINGS ARE COMING FROM THE GROUND!!!
Bo-bobo: SO THEN!!!
SFX: PLOP
Bo-bobo: HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI: SPIKE CULTIVATION!!!!
SFX: GROW GROW
Spikes: Spike spike / Spike spike
Beauty: EEH!!? THOSE SPIKES HAD THAT SECRET!!?
Bo-bobo: NOW FIGHT!!!!
SFX: BAM BOOM BANG
Beauty: THE SPIKES ARE WEAK----!!!
Spike: I WOULD WIN IF IT WAS MAHJONG… (vision) Kokuji Musou.
(Translator’s Note: Kokuji Musou is a particular 13-tile combination hand in a game of Mahjong, notable for the collection of 1s and 9s in all three suites (circle, bamboo and characters), as well as the seven “honor tiles” (the four “wind” tiles of the four cardinal directions as well as the three “dragon” tiles))
Beauty: THAT’S NOT STRONG-----!!!
Bo-bobo: YOU’RE USELESS----!!!
SFX: BAM
Don Patch: I AM?

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Bo-bobo: Fine then…I’ll fight you from here.
Kikunojou: Oh.
SFX: GOGOGOGO
Beauty: …This is the Bo-bobo that has powered up…
SFX: TWITCH TWITCH
Softon: Such a destructive aura…there isn’t anyone from before to compare this to…
Softon: THIS POWER IS REAL!!!
Bo-bobo: LET’S GO: HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI…
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE
Everyone: THERE IT IS!!!
Bo-bobo: THOUSAND NOSEHAIR WAVE------!!!!
(Translator’s Note: The end of the attack has the same “ha” used in attacks such as “Kamehameha” but it sort of didn’t make sense to call it “Thousand Hanageha” or “Thousand Nosehair-Ha”…so I kept it in English)

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SFX: WHEEEE
Beam: I’ll do it~~~~
SFX: WHEEEE
Beam: Aah……
SFX: Wheee…
Beam: No use…that’s my limit.
SFX: Plop
Heppokomaru, Beauty & Softon: IT BECAME WEAK------!!! (And went into a futon)
Bo-bobo: NO!! OUGI BO-BOBO WAVE!!! OUGI BO-BOBO BEAM!!!
SFX: BORORO BORORO

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Bo-bobo: IT’S NO USE…ONLY CLAMS CAME OUT…
SFX: Plop
Kikunojou: That’s your limit? There’s no need to talk.
Kikunojou: OUGI: IBARA!!!
(Translator’s Note: “Ibara” in Japanese is “Thorns”, but the kanji meaning is “Thorn Stalk Fang”)
SFX: BAM
Bo-bobo: BU!!!
Heppokomaru: JUST A TON OF NOSEBLEEDING CAME OUT---!!!
Kikunojou: WELL, MY LILIES. HUNT DOWN THE HAIR OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN.
People: GYAAAAAA!!!
Heppokomaru: WHA…THAT GUY. HE STARTED A “HAIR HUNT” IN THE MIDST OF BATTLE!!
Beauty: THAT’S
Tennosuke: AND MY FLOWER IS SWAYING LIKE CRAZY----!!
Tennosuke: WHY ME--!!?
SFX: SLAM
Tennosuke: WHAT ISN’T HE SATISFIED WITH---!!?
SFX: SLAM
Nihil: “HUNTING WHILE FIGHTING”!! That made sense 100 Years ago…

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Bo-bobo: WHY? WHY CAN’T I USE THE POWER OF MY POWER UP!?
Don Patch: WE HAVE TO HIDE OURSELVES AT ONCE!!
SFX: BAM
Kikunojou: CHI! A SMOKESCREEN! WHERE ARE THEY HIDING!?
SFX: Smoke smoke
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: WE WERE IN THE INTERIOR OF THIS TOWN: “THE PASSING THROUGH WRESTLER” AND “THE MAN WHO FIGHTS BEARS”
Kikunojou: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, TRASH--!!
SFX: BO—OM
Sign: Jewelry Store
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: WE’RE EXPOSED----!!!
Don Patch: WE’VE DONE WELL.
Shopkeepers: Thieves—thieves—
Beauty: THEY’VE RETURNED AS CELEBRITIES IN THIS RECESSION----!!!
(Translator’s Note: Beauty is referring to a recession that hit the Japanese and Asian economy hard around since 2002 and was still going on by this point)

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Kikunojou: DIE----!!
Bo-bobo: HIDE IN THIS STORE!!
Don Patch: OH!
SFX: BAM
Don Patch: BU!!!
SFX: PLOP
Don Patch: YOU BETRAYED ME!! HEY, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING!!
SFX: Pick pick
Kikunojou: EVEN HIDING IS USELESS. HYAKKA RYOURAN SHINKEN OUGI: SPRING FULL-BLOOM!!!
Kikunojou: THESE TULIPS HAVE APPEARED TO DETECT ALL MOVING THINGS.
Beauty: BO-BOBO, YOU CAN’T MOVE!!
Don Patch: FLOWER BED---! FLOWER BED---!
Beauty: ONE OF THE IDIOTS APPEARED BY HIMSELF----!!!
Bo-bobo: DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT----! DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT----!
Beauty: WHY HAS HE SHOWN HIMSELF DOING THAT!?
SFX: CRUSH CRUSH

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Don Patch: GYARAPA!!
SFX: BAM
Kikunojou: THAT REDUCED MY SEARCH TIME!
SFX: SLASH
Bo-bobo: GUBA!!
Kikunojou: Well then shall I break both your arms and legs?
Beauty: BO-BOBO
Bo-bobo: Gugu……
Bo-bobo: Ku, why? Where is my power up? I can’t use my normal Ougi on him…
Bo-bobo: Ku…then what the heck was my painful training for…
Caption: --Several Hours Earlier—
Sign: Super (Supermarket)
People: EEH~~~~~? WHAT IS THAT GUY DOING?
Tuna: THIRTY MORE LAPS.
Caption: Master: SLICED TUNA
Bo-bobo: YES, TEACHER…
Bo-bobo: IT WAS A PAINFUL AND SEVERE TRAINING…
SFX: Creak creak
Tuna: YOU IDIOT, YOUR PACE IS FALLING!!
Bo-bobo: YES
Man: EEH?

152.
Narrator: Five Hours Later.
Tuna: YOU’VE DONE WELL IN YOUR SECRET ARTS INITIATION.
Salesman: Get the shop manager here.
Bo-bobo: THANK YOU!!
Tuna: SECRET SPELL: OPEN FISH!!!
Manager: WHAT’S THAT!? THE FISH CORNER IS REMODELING BY ITSELF!! (With the tuna)
Tuna: THIS JUMPER IS PROOF OF YOUR SECRET ARTS INITIATION!! THOSE WHO WEAR THIS JUMPER WILL GAIN MYSTERIOUS POWERS!!
Tuna: THERE ISN’T ANOTHER JUMPER LIKE THIS IN THE WORLD…IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU WEAR IT.
Bo-bobo: MASTER----
SFX: Plop
Sign: Snack Corner
Bo-bobo: Thank you.
Tuna: EH? AH? WHAT? I’LL GO BAD!! RETURN ME TO THE FISH CORNEEER!!
Tuna: AAH, I’M DYING!! I’M DYING--!! MY VISION’S GOING BLACK----!! IT’S JUST THAT TUNA CAN BECOME BLACK-----!!!
(Translator’s Note: There is a pun that really can’t be done in English due to it involving words: the tuna states here “maguro dake ni makkuro ni natte”, with “maguro” being “tuna” and “makkuro” being “pitched black”, similar in word to “maguro” outside removing one of the symbols that changes it from one to the other)
Bo-bobo: YOU S**T!!
SFX: WHAM!!
Woman: KYAAAAAA
Bo-bobo: IS THAT A SLICED MEAT GAG!!!
People: WHAT IS THAT GUY SAYING!!?

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SFX: HYUOOO
Kikunojou: FIRST IS YOUR RIGHT ARM
Bo-bobo: KU
Bo-bobo: I HAVE NO REASON TO LOSE!! I HAVE TO SAVE ALL OF MY ALLIES!!!
Voice: That heart has “love”!!!
Kanji: AI (Love)
Bo-bobo: !!!
Voice: One with love will gain power----!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Kikunojou: WHAT!?
Voice: “Super” knowledge is the “love” of pleasing the customer with their products. You are the successor who knows of “love”!! The infinite power of all 5634 supermarkets in all of Japan…
(Translator’s Note: I didn’t explain this earlier because it had a double meaning that we are getting to now. The Japanese word “Suupaa” has two meanings. The first is the generic term “super”, as in “Super Mario Brothers” or “Superman”. But the other usage of “Suupaa” is “supermarket”, being the abridged version of the word. I am trying to sort of keep both meanings since this “super” power comes from “supermarkets”. They sort of are interchangeable at times but the context can be confusing to figure out)
Voice: YOU WILL POSSESS IT!!!!
SFX: BOOM
Voice: HERE IS THE BIRTH OF SUPER BO-BOBO!!!
Bo-bobo: I’VE OBTAINED THE POWER OF LOVE.
Beauty: ARE THOSE SUPERMARKETS!!?

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Bo-bobo: Well, that’s it. That’s the completion of my power up.
Kikunojou: AS IF THE SACRIFICE TRIES TO BE SMART---!!!
SFX: GOOOOO
Beauty: BO-BOBO, WATCH OUT!! ABOVE YOU!!
SFX: CHACHINK
Kikunojou: WHAT!!!
Bo-bobo: CONCENTRATED FIRE!!!
SFX: BOBOBOBOOM
Kikunojou: GUOO!!
Beauty: HIS AFRO SPLIT INTO TWO LEVELS!!! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME!!!

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Bo-bobo: HANAGE SHINKEN!!!!
SFX: SLASH SLASH SLASH
Lily Devils: GYA GYA GYA GYA GYA
Beauty: WHAT WAS THAT NOW!!? I DIDN’T SEE IT AT ALL!! THAT WAS AMAZING, JUST AMAZING NOW!
Bo-bobo: NOSEHAIRS…
Beauty: THOSE AREN’T DELICATE NOSE----HAIRS!!!
Old Men: He he…we mistook where they came out.
Beauty: THE OLD MEN HAVE ALSO MULTIPLIED TO THREE!!!
SFX: POP
Bo-bobo: NOSEHAIR SWORD!!!
SFX: CHING
Beauty: AMAZING! A NEW WEAPON!!

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Bo-bobo: TRYING IT OUT!!!
SFX: ZAN (SLASH)
Don Patch: EEH---!!?
Beauty: DON PATCH-KUN----!! No, what’s that facial expression!!?
Kikunojou: IDIOT, HE’S FOR REAL…
Bo-bobo: I can power up again
Kikunojou: !!
Bo-bobo: HAAAAAAAAAA
SFX: Whoosh
Beauty: WINGS HAVE…

157.
Beauty: SPROUTED!!!
Beauty: WHA, THEY SPROUTED THERE---!!?
Bo-bobo: HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI: FLAP-FLAP KAMAITACHI!!
(Translator’s Note: A kamaitachi is a notable wind weasel yokai, usually known as blowing or slashing wind according to their name as “sickle weasels)
SFX: FLAP FLAP / SLASH SLASH
Kikunojou: GUOOOAAA!!!
Kikunojou: …HE’S POWERED UP……………
Don Patch: …To…To Be To Be…
Bo-bobo: TO BE CONTINU---ED!
SFX: Peace
Beauty: THAT’S NOT SERIOUS----!!!

Translator's Note: Its sort of one of those amazing matters that only Bo-bobo can bring up: with the similarity in names between "Super" and "Supermarket" in Japanese, why hasn't anyone combined them before now? Of course, in this series, only the power from supermarkets can "super-charge" Bo-bobo...and somehow, I like that we get a bit of love for one of those places that all of us have to go to anyhow in order to eat. So I say the next time you go to a supermarket, thank everyone in there from the manager to the cashier to the display people and such for doing such an amazing job...and maybe some day, you'll get a power-up just like Bo-bobo...well you need the jacket too but that's sort of a technicality. The only other thing I have to say about this chapter...is that I never realized how difficult mahjong is. I know there is a full game outside those computer stack matches but looking up that reference of a specific hand was tough work.