Kinnikuman 28

The Choujin Hero Olympics are finally approaching and Suguru may be selected as the representative from Japan! But there's one tiny problem...

Volume 3: I Want to B~~~e the Japanese Representative
Chapter 28: I Want to B~~~e the Japanese Representative

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Caption: This time, the English Choujin Robin Mask is an idea we borrowed from Yasunori Okashima of Osaka prefecture. Thanks (Yudetamago)

6.
SFX: BOOM
Suguru: Wa~~an earthquake. It’s the anger of Mr. Catfish~~~!!
(TN: Japanese culture has a belief of catfish having the ability to predict earthquakes.)
Meat: No, something has fallen.
Mayumi: It’s me!
SFX: POKE
Meat: Daiou, it…it can’t be that umbrella brought you to Earth?
Mayumi: Isn’t it neat?
Suguru: You think that’s great!?
Suguru: What? You’ve chosen me to be the Japanese representative in the Hero Olympics!?
Suguru: That’s! Amazing!
SFX: SA
Meat: What then is that?

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Mayumi: Here is where I want to say one thing to all you readers out there. The Hero Olympics is a great competition which is the first and possibly the last where superheroes selected from every nation meet to compete with mutual techniques to decide the greatest Choujin in the world. (out loud) By the way, I was the 10th champion. Isn’t that wonderful, readers!
Meat: That’s nothing to sail out on.
Mayumi: Nuo~~~Remembering what I did long ago makes me burn up.
Suguru: Oh—amazing.
Mayumi: Hey~~am I a konro?
(TN: A “konro” is a portable cooking stove usually using gas to cook food)
SFX: Steam steam
Meat: However, Japan’s participant should be Uldoraman…why did you choose the prince?
(TN: Yep, another Ultraman parody akin to the “Ultra Brothers” back in chp. 1)
Mayumi: He was defeated in the last competition by the English representative, Robin Mask. Uldoraman, who has a huge pride, was bitter on it and said he refused to do it this time.
Suguru: Well then—that’s the reason I’m remaining…
Mayumi: That’s not all of it, I wish for you to take part once in your life.

8.
Terry: Hold on there! The Hero Olympics
Terry: Can’t have Kinnikuman.
SFX: Boom
Terry: The Olympic steering committee have decided to hold this competition without Japan.
Meat & Mayumi: Eeh~~~
Terry: Uh…usually, you’d sink from the knowledge like Ryuuba Hoshi but…
(TN: Ryuuba Hoshi is the main character of “Kyojin no Hoshi” or “Star of the Giants”)
Suguru: No—I am the reverse nature of other people. See, even my shirt and underwear are reverse.
SFX: BOOM
Meat: That’s what you came to earlier.
Suguru: You’re a sharp-minded tsukkomi.
(TN: The “Tsukkomi” is the straight man in manzai comedy to the “bokken”)
Meat: Stop it with this whimsicality and unfunny manzai, and I won’t use a scolding voice…
Sign: Suguru/Meat
Suguru: And that’s the end of our “Life Boyaki Manzai”.
(TN: “Boyaki Manzai” is a style of manzai where the duo describe familiar things, complaining in an exaggerated amusingly manner)

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SFX: BOW
SFX: WALK WALK
Mayumi: IS THIS THE CASE FOR MANZAI!?
Suguru: U~~~mu…
Meat: You’—re blind.
Mayumi: Al—right, I’m going over to talk to the committee!

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Mayumi: Chairman~~why can’t my Suguru take part in this~~
SFX: WHAM WHAM
Chair: OWA—
(TN: We find out later his name is Harabote, but at this time I’ll just call him “Chair”)
Watchers: The Daiou is hardly deciding it with a figure-four lock!
(TN: A figure-four lock, usually a “figure four leg-lock” is locking the legs together in a toe-hold creating a number four)
Chair: I told you earlier: is it necessary for Japan’s participation now with Uldoraman’s refusal……
Package: Morinaga Cocoa (Special Reserve)
Mayumi: That’s why my Suguru will—
Chair: That would bring shame to Japan! WAHAHAHAHA
Chair: Mayumi-chan, please give up.
Caption: Hero Olympic Ch
SFX: GRAB
Chair: …………
SFX: Flick / Slip

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Mayumi: He…hey, what will you do to that!
Mayumi: Huh, loser.
Chair: If I’m a loser than you’re a loser.
Mayumi: E—I, S**t!
SFX: SLAM
Chair: Hi~~~put it back to it’s place immediately~~
Mayumi: Ha hahaha
Voice: Please hold on.
Mayumi: N?
Mayumi: Aah…you’re the shining champion who splendidly defeated Uldoraman in the last competition.
Mayumi: Robin Mask!

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Natsuko: Kin-cha—n, where did you go—
Meat: Prince—
Meat: Ah…you’re hiding in that place again.
Mayumi: This is sad, hiding down in the subway. Now, please get out.
Suguru: Well…
Sign: Subway
Suguru: I’m not able to do that……
SFX: WHAM
Mayumi: He’s already given up on the conference. This isn’t a big deal to him, he’ll cry with his heart for the goodness of not doing it.
Suguru: UWAAAAAAAN
Mayumi: SHUT U—P!
SFX: SLAM
Meat: What are you saying? You yourself were crying.
Mayumi: Haa haa haa, it’s…it’s because it was close to my ears…

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Robin: Are you the one called Kinnikuman?
(TN: I’m just calling him “Robin” in the script)
Meat: Ooh, Robin Mask!
Robin: The leftover Choujin chosen in this world are appointed my sparring partner. Since you’ve been given up by the committee, I think that’s your most suitable position.
Suguru: Wh…what—
Suguru: O—K, you’re giving me that ill-humor just now!!
SFX: CRA—SH
Meat: Prince—
SFX: SLAM…
Suguru: …………

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Robin: You surprised me, Kinnikuman-kun.
Everyone: AAH
Robin: Now, I’ll test your body to see how quickly it will give up!!
SFX: CLAMP
Suguru: UWAAA…
Suguru: Is…is this how you’ll do it…
Robin: Al—right, from here.
SFX: GUGU…
Suguru: I still, I still…
Robin: If you don’t give up, I will break your back!
Suguru: There may be many leftover Choujin, but I won’t throw away my spirit! Never Give Up.

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Meat: Prince…
Robin: You’re stubborn…
Suguru: What would happen if I irresponsibly give up? I still, I still…
Robin: S…S**t~~~my arm has become numb…
SFX: CRACK CRACK
SFX: ZUN…
Robin: Haa haa haa
Suguru: Haa haa haa
Mayumi: Suguru…

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Chair: No—splendid, splendid!
SFX: CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
Mayumi: Ah! The Chair………
Chair: He caused pain back there with the former champion. Suguru-kun will be an excellent Japan representative!
Mayumi: Eh—he will
Meat: Ya—y, he did it!!
Suguru: Uuh…
SFX: Rub rub rub
Terry: Hey, Kinnikuman.
Terry: Just now, you were selected as the Japanese Representative, congratulations!
Suguru: Eeh, really!?
Suguru: Ah……and Robin Mask?
Terry: He’s gone.
Terry: He put that big play on for your sake.
Suguru: Play?
Terry: That wasn’t his power…

17.
Terry: I’m mutually the American representative, good luck in not getting crushed out there!
SFX: SNAP
Suguru: Right!
Narrator: And within that interval, the champions were selected from each respected country; as for special training, their special training added up.
Narrator: And Kinnikuman
SFX: CRACK—CRICK—
Meat: Really, the competition is only a little bit further and all you’ve done through tonight, perhaps, was play around with your colleagues in the Gyudon Lover’s Club.
Kazuo: Everyone, you have to get a vacancy for the Hero Olympics, even if you have to pawn your wife.

TN: Somehow this chapter made me realize how much I like Mayumi Kinniku, AKA Kinniku Daiou. He may be a former superpower in the world and the current king of Planet Kinniku, but he's somewhat crazy...maybe not along the lines of Suguru but crazy enough. Anything to sort of allow Suguru to prove the greatness of the family...and speaking of greatness, here comes Robin Mask! Many of you probably already know who he is but it's somewhat weird that even he was a submitted Choujin by a fan like many of the others we've seen, primarily at this point with the Kaijuu. We'll see many more Choujin (including a couple familiar faces) next time...but more or less this chapter, even with it's weird fakeout battle between Suguru and Robin, begins to show the drama that would be revealed with the matches and battles to come. Sure a fake match in the midst of the Japanese streets are one thing, but once in the ring, it could turn into a whole other world!