Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 139

What do you get when you fuse Bo-bobo and Don Patch together...and then flip their names around so Don Patch is primary? You get an unstoppable warrior who can fuse anything and everything into weapons of victory! But will it be enough to stop the cruel Jeda and save Tennosuke?

Ougi 139: The Melancholy of Patchbobo

125.
Patchbobo: I can only stay in this form for one minute. Let's end this immediately.
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE
Patchbobo: MEN AND GARLIC.
(Translator's Note: Considering the various types of "men" noodles including ramen and soumen, I kept it as is here)
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION!!
SFX: BACHI

126.
Patchbobo: DEATH LIGHTNING YO-YO!!!
SFX: WHIRRRRRRRL
Jeda: GUO!!
Jeda: GUBAA!! WHAT IS THIS TIGHTENING!!?
SFX: WRAAAAAAP
Patchbobo: THE FLIGHT OF HAJIKE
SFX: CLOMP
Jeda: !!
Patchbobob: GARLIC BOMBER!!!
SFX: BAM
Jeda: GUWA!!
Raparapa: YOU--HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TO JEDA-SAMA!!
Hagaiou: KILL HIM!!

127.
Patchbobo: LEGENDARY DON PATCH SWORD / DEMON SWORD DAIKON BLADE
SFX: SLASH
Hagaiou & Raparapa: A LEEK AND A DAIKON DIIIIID--!?
SFX: BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ
SFX: BO--OM
Hagaiou & Raparapa: GUWAA!!
Patchbobo: !!
Jeda: SHAO
SFX: SLASH
Jeda: THERE IS NO WEAPON THAT CAN MATCH MY WIND SCYTHE----!!!

128.
Jeda: HA HA HA
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION!!
SFX: BACHI
SFX: BUON
Caption: SWORD THAT RULES OVER GOOD AND EVIL: SATOUKIBI SABER
(Translator's Note: "Satoukibi" is actually just Japanese for "sugarcane", but I thought this would be cooler in Japanese)
Jeda: YOU STILL DON'T GET IT, PITIFUL!!!
SFX: GOOOOO
Patchbobo: DEADLY
SFX: BUWAAAAA

129.
Patchbobo: INFINITY SLASH!!!
SFX: SLASH
Wound: OKINAWA
(Translator's Note: Most of the Japanese sugar production are based in sugarcanes in Okinawa, thus the attack)
Jeda: STUPID...MY WIND SCYTHE HAS...
Beauty: AMAZING...HE'S FAR EXCEEDED THE ENEMY...
Beauty: HE'S OVERWHELMINGLY STRONG!! THAT PATCHBOBO!!
SFX: BAN

130.
Hagaiou: THAT GUY...BY FUSING TWO MATERIALS, HE CAN CREATE POWERFUL WEAPONS. HEY, HE'S A DOCTOR!
Raparapa: That's an easy thought.
Patchbobo: Tennosuke...I'll save you now.
SFX: SPLASH
Hagaiou: AH! HE'S ON THE ICE ON HIS OWN!!
Hagaiou: HA HA HA, WATCH THIS! HE'LL SINK IN!!
(Translator's Note: The verb that Hagaiou, "shizumu", has two meanings: "to sink", which they think he'll be, but also "to be depressed", which shows Patchbobo's mood and ties in with the title)
Raparapa: THIS SHOULD BE FUN.
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION!! ICE AND TENNOSUKE!!
SFX: BACHI
SFX: SHI~~N
Hagaiou: Nothing happened...
Tennosuke: YAAAAWN, THAT WAS A GOOD NAP~~~~
Hagaiou & Raparapa: WHAT THAAAAAA------!!!!
SFX: ZUZUZUZU

131.
Tennosuke: UWA! I SLEPT SO WELL THAT I BECAME HUGE!
Beauty: LOOK CLOSER!! YOU'RE ONE WITH THE RINK.
Jeda: YOU...F**KING BRATS.
Hagaiou & Raparapa: JEDA-SAMA
Patchbobo: Let's go!
Tennosuke: Who are you?
Cup: Morning Coffee
Patchbobo: ICE BULLET GUN!!!!
SFX: RATATATATATATATA
Tennosuke: BU-----
Jeda, Hagaiou & Raparapa: GUWAAAAA!!!
SFX: RATATATATA
Tennosuke: ............
Tennosuke: Beauty, what's for dinner today?
SFX: RATATATATA
Beauty: KYA! CAN'T LOOK
Tennosuke: Ooh, I've returned to original size.

132.
Raparapa: WE'RE SAVED! THE WAY THE ICE IS CAN'T PULL US IN ANYMORE!!!
Hagaiou: AH! MY BENTOU IS..............
SFX: BOUNCE BOUNCE
SFX: BOUNCE
Hagaiou: AH
Hagaiou: GIVE IT BACK~~I GOT UP EARLY TODAY TO MAKE THAT. (internally) Hmm Hm~~m (externally) GIVE BACK MY SPECIAL BENTOU~~~
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION: BENTOU AND PROPELLER!!
Hagaiou: AAH-----!!!
Patchbobo: SORTIE OUT: PICNIC BOMBERS!
SFX: BO--OM BO--OM BO--OM
Hagaiou: GYAAAAA, A BENTOU AIR-RAID----!!

133.
Tennosuke: SUPPRESS THEM!!
SFX: GOOOOOO
Beauty: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?
SFX: BO--OM
Tennosuke: GYAAAAA
Jeda: S**T...UNBELIEVABLE! I AM...
SFX: BUON
Jeda: JUST LIKE YOU----!!
SFX: GOOOO / GRAB
Hagaiou: Bentou~~
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION
Jeda: WHA?
SFX: BACHI
Patchbobo: HAGAIOU AND JEDA THE WIND GOD!!!!
SFX: BA---N
"Jedaiou": WHAT IS THIS----!!!?

134.
"Jedaiou": YOU IDIOT...THIS IS...
Patchbobo: That's match.
"Jedaiou": YOU'RE JOKING. EVEN IN THIS FORM, I CAN STILL USE MY WIND SCYTHE...
SFX: BUON
"Jedaiou": WHAT!!!? WHAT IS THIS WEIRD SCYTHE!!? (Is this a scythe?)
"Jedaiou": S**T! S**T! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME!!?
SFX: BUON BUON BUON BUON
Tennosuke: HA HA HA I'M NOT EVEN AFRAID OF HIM NOW!!

135.
"Jedaiou": F**K YOU! TAKE THIS
SFX: Wobble wobble
Tennosuke: UWA, THEY'RE UNKEMPT~~!! EXTREMELY UNCOMFORTABLE--!!
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION: APPLE AND TOILET PAPER!!
SFX: BACHI
Patchbobo: MEGASPARK HAND GUN!!!!
SFX: BAM BAM BAM BAM
"Jedaiou" & Tennosuke: GYAAAAAAAA!!!
Tennosuke: Enough...as I asked, what is he? Whom?
Beauty: That's the form Bo-bobo and Don Patch fused into.
Tennosuke: WHA--T, REALLY!
SFX: KACHING

136.
Tennosuke: IF I KNEW THAT, I WOULD HAVE LENDED A HAND!! SO, LET'S DEFEAT THEM AS BUDDIES!!
SFX: CLING CLING CLING
Patchbobo: OK
Tennosuke: EH? WHAT'S THAT HAMMER? WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION!!! TENNOSUKE AND IRON HAMMER!!
SFX: BAM
Tennosuke: GOFU!!!
SFX: BACHI
Tennosuke: WHAT IS THIS!? THIS ISN'T A HAMMER AT A------LL!!
Patchbobo: VICTORY FLYING CRASH!!!
SFX: BOI--NG
Tennosuke: WH--AT------
SFX: BO--OM
"Jedaiou": GYAAA!!

137.
"Jedaiou": GUGIGI...
SFX: SHUUUUU
Beauty: TENNOSUKE-KUN!!
Patchbobo: I only have five seconds left in which I can remain in this form...the next will decide it.
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE CRACKLE
Patchbobo: MATERIAL HAJIKE FUSION
SFX: GRAB
Patchbobo: NOSEHAIR AND NOSEHAIR!!
SFX: BACHI
"Jedaiou" & Raparapa: GET HIM----!!!
SFX: GOOOO

138.
Patchbobo: HAJIKE SHINKEN OUGI: SUMMON "DOUBLE KING NOSEHAIR"!!!!
(Translator's Note: Patchbobo fuses together "Hajike" with the kanji for "hair" (pronounced as "ke") at the end, making it essentially a fusion of both Bo-bobo and Don Patch's styles)
King Nosehair(s): WE SELDOM APPEAR--!!! N-------YOU HAVEN'T COME TO BO-BOBO WORLD!!!
"Jedaiou" & Raparapa: GUWAAAAAA!!!!

139.
SFX: POP
Bo-bobo & Don Patch: AH! WE'VE RETURNED TO NORMAL.
SFX: SLAM
SFX: BUON
Caption: Former C-Block Leader Jeda the Wind God: Crushed
Beauty: You did it you two. This time, you won with the teamwork of both of you.
Bo-bobo: YOU! HOW DARE YOU THROW NATTOU IN MY BODY!!
SFX: BAM
Don Patch: SHUT UP--THAT WASN'T ME!!
Beauty: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!?
King Nosehair: N----IT'S BAD TO FORGET TO BRUSH YOUR TEETH AT NIGHT, EVERYONE
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED

Translator's Note: It's sort of surprising: compared to the first TOKIO chapter, which felt like it took forever to translate, this one, with mostly the weird and insane Patchbobo fusions, was a breeze! As I mentioned prior, Patchbobo is a fun transformation...maybe not as memorable as Denbo but has his charm and rushed behavior that makes up for it. Though somehow I'm a bit surprised that Tennosuke had that running gag of "not knowing who he was"...considering that he was the one who took the brunt of the original Bo-bobo/Don Patch fusion, you'd expect he would know who that was with Bo-bobo and Don Patch mysteriously missing and a new guy destroying Jeda and his minions. And speaking of his minions...is it just me or was Hagaiou similar but...more mouthy than Haou? Haou was a funny silent-type character but Hagaiou just couldn't stop talking! (made me happy he and Jeda fused together towards the end: got rid of both of them)

As for the title of the chapter, I had a little bit of a situation regarding this but here's my mental question when I did it: should I have gone with the obvious reference of "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi"? The chapter (and ultimately the whole volume) has a similar title as "Patchbobo no Yu'utsu", similar to the novel series that ultimately became that hugely popular anime in 2006. (never saw it BTW, not that interested) Now the titles themselves could be coincidental...but think of this: this chapter of Bo-bobo came out at the tail end of 2003 in WSJ (essentially Jump's Christmas issue), while the first three Haruhi novels came out in 2003 as well (the first, "Melancholy", came out in June of that year, with "Sigh" in September and "Boredom" coming out about a week after this Bo-bobo chapter) While I really don't know how big the Haruhi novels were prior to the Kyoani anime, Sawai may actually have been referencing the first one and heralding the release of the third with this chapter title...but then again, the whole Bo-bobo/Haruhi matter may just be some massive coincidence and the chapter title has nothing to do with it. But of course there is one more matter to think about: Bo-bobo has the ability to change the world he's in with his randomness...while Haruhi can unconsciously bend the universe to her will as well...I'm not saying connections but it is something to ponder.