Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 163

In a daring move to take down the Maruhage Empire force all at once, Bo-bobo's team has decided to raid a tournament to become the new emperor! But what bizarre challenges and even more bizarre allies await them as they travel into the unknown!?

Ougi 163: Beauty's Critical Moment!

153.
Narrator: Knowing of the existance of the "Maruhage Empire New Emperor Playoff", Bo-bobo's team
SFX: PYU--
Narrator: Must destroy this tournament.
Tennosuke: WHERE'S IT BEING HELD!!
Mole: AAH! MORE!
Don Patch: TELL US!!
SFX: WHIP WHIP WHIP
Narrator: Arriving, after a struggle, in Egypt.
Sign: The 5th Maruhage Empire NEW EMPEROR PLAYOFF: You too can become theE emperor
Bottom Sign: ENTRANCE

154.
Softon: ALRIGHT, LISTEN EVERYONE!! HERE IS THE ONLY ROUTE WHERE WE CAN GO TO THE MEETING POINT FOR THE MARUHAGE EMPIRE NEW EMPEROR PLAYOFF!! THIS IS WHERE ALL OF THE VETERAN HAIR HUNTERS ARE GATHERING!! BRACE YOURSELVES!!!
SFX: KUWA
Beauty: We have to enter through this hole?
Softon: ...
SFX: SHI~~~N
Heppokomaru: There are already traces of battles...
Bo-bobo: OK, LET'S GO IN IMMEDIATELY. WE'RE GONNA CRUSH ALL THE HAIR HUNTERS!!!
Don Patch: AAH!! LET'S DO THIS!
Headband: 5TH
Don Patch & Tennosuke: Aim to be the new emperor.
Tennosuke's Headband: New Emperor
Heppokomaru: IT'S HOT!! WHY? IT'S MORE AMAZING THAN USUAL
SFX: BUUUUURN
Don Patch & Tennosuke: COME, LET'S BREAK IN TO THE FRONT----!!!
SFX: CLOMP CLOMP CLOMP
Don Patch's Banner: AIM FOR THE 5TH
Dengaku Man's Banner: DENGAKU EMPIRE
Heppokomaru: WA...IDIOTS...UWAAAA
SFX: SQUASH

155.
Everyone: UWAAAAAA
SFX: HYUUUUU
Heppokomaru: What's on the walls? Engravings of frogs...
Tennosuke: HA HA...THEY'RE MERELY DECORATIONS.
Frogs: RIBBIT RIBBIT RIBBIT
SFX: LASH LASH LASH
Beauty: KYA
Heppokomaru: WA!!
Tennosuke: THEY RELEASED TONGUES!!!
SFX: SLURP
Beauty: KYAAA
SFX: SLURP
Bo-bobo: BEAUTY--
Heppokomaru: UWAAA
SFX: GOOO
Hatenko: Yo.
SFX: GRAB
Tennosuke: WHA!? I'M THE ONLY ONE LEFT............WHAT WILL HAPPEN? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO ME?
SFX: HYUUUUU
SFX: STAB
Tennosuke: RELENTLESS---!

156.
Beauty & Don Patch: KYAAAA
SFX: GOOOOO
SFX: SUPON / BAM
Beauty: OW
Beauty: Owow...everyone is...?
Don Patch: WAAAAA
Beauty: N!
Panda: SCREW PANDA DROP---!!!
SFX: WHIRRRRL
Don Patch: GUWAAAA
Beauty: KYAAAAAAA
SFX: WHAM
Don Patch: OBU!!
Don Patch: GUOOOO
SFX: WRIGGLE WRIGGLE
Beauty: ...WHERE ARE WE!? WATER IS COMING IN!!!
SFX: DRIP DRIP DRIP
Sign: COURSE 26
Caption: --Course 26-- SWIFT DEMONIC OCEAN-BOTTOM TUNNEL

157.
SFX: SPLASH
Don Patch: FUGOGOGOGO
Beauty: KYAAAA
Beauty: ...THIS SITUATION IS BAD...WITH DON PATCH, IT'S JUST THE TWO OF US...HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS PINCH...
Don Patch: HIP HOP PATCHMI!!
SFX: BAM
Beauty: KYA
Don Patch: Fu fu...at last it's just the two of us. Today I'll be taking the position of heroine.
SFX: CRICK CRICK
Beauty: TH...THIS ISN'T THE TIME FOR THAT NOW
SFX: SQUIRT--
Beauty: KYAAAA, DON PATCH-KUN!!!
Don Patch: WE'RE NOT RELATED---!!!!
Beauty: WHAT IS THAT TENACITY!!?
SFX: SQUIRT--
Don Patch: GYAAA!!
Voice: WHAT ARE YOU DOING, GET OVER HERE!
Beauty: EH? WHO'S THAT?

158.
Beauty: OH! YOU'RE THE FORMER F-BLOCK LEADER, UJIKIN TOKIO!!
SFX: DRIP DRIP
TOKIO: GET OVER HERE QUICKLY! SAVE ME!!
Beauty: !? US!?
SFX: DA
Don Patch: YOU--HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE--!!!
TOKIO: NOW: NATSU SHINKEN OUGI: SHRILL ICE!!!
SFX: KA--CHING
Beauty: AMAZING!! HE CREATED AN ICE WALL!!
Beauty: ...BUT, IT HAD NO MEANING AT ALL......
TOKIO: THAT'S RELIEVING.
SFX: DRIP DRIP
Beauty: EEH---
Beauty: ...but why would an enemy like you help us...? You didn't have to save us at all...
TOKIO: Heh
TOKIO: I want to go forwards on this road in order to become the next emperor, but the guardian of this course is up ahead.
Sash: Aim to be THE FIFTH EMPEROR

159.
TOKIO: I'm alone now, but this way I'll get many of them in some relation. Can't we join up?
SFX: SPLASH
Beauty: HIS HEAD ICE!! HIS HEAD ICE IS...!!
Don Patch: OSSHA---I GET IT.
SFX: MUNCH MUNCH
Don Patch: LET'S JOIN UP!!
SFX: FLING
Beauty: WAAA!!
Beauty: ...But this circumstance is fine. It may be heartening to have a friend.
TOKIO: HA HA HA, I'VE GOT TREMENDOUS STRENGTH BECAUSE I HAVE ALLIES!! I'LL SETTLE THIS BATTLE
SFX: SHUU SHUU
Voice: KUKUKU...HE INVITED GUESTS...
Beauty: EH? THE GUARDIAN?
Beauty: YOU TWO...
SFX: SHUDDER SHUDDER SHUDDER SHUDDER SHUDDER
Beauty: !!

160.
Don Patch: THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE. COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME...
TOKIO: MISS ME BECAUSE I HAVE A CHERRY...
Beauty: KU...THESE TWO...
Seijuurou: I AM THE GUARDIAN OF THE COURSE, HIGUSARI SEIJUUROU. YOU WILL NOT PROCEED FURTHER...YOU'LL DROWN TO DEATH.
Caption: HIGUSARI SEIJUUROU
(TN: As if to make him more appropriate, "higusari" is Japanese for "chain of fire")
Beauty: THIS IS...JUST THE THREE OF US MUST FIGHT THIS GUARDIAN...
Don Patch: AH, LOOK LOOK, A SHARK!
TOKIO: THERE'S SUNFISH HERE TOO.
Beauty: BE JUST A BIT SERIOUS!!

161.
Seijuurou: DIE! GALAXY CHAIN!!!
(TN: Somehow Seijuurou's attack is reminiscent both in name and style to the "Nebula Chain" used by Andromeda Shun in "Saint Seiya"..."Andromeda" was originally referred to as a nebula before being reclassified as a galaxy)
SFX: CLANG CLANG
Beauty: GYAA
TOKIO: GYAAAA!!!
TOKIO: THIS GUY...IS SUPERIOR. LET ME SHOW HIM MY TRUE POWER.
TOKIO: SCORCH UNDER THIS!! NATSU SHINKEN OUGI: MID-SUMMER SUN!!!
TOKIO: I melted...
SFX: Clunk
Beauty: IDIOT!!!
Seijuurou: WOMAN...YOU'RE THE ONLY ONE LEFT.
Beauty: EH? WHA? AND DON PATCH IS!?
SFX: TURN TURN
Beauty: WA!!!
Beauty: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! AH--HE RAN AWAY!!
SFX: SWIM--

162.
Seijuurou: KUKUKU...THE WATER IS INCREASING BIT BY BIT.
SFX: DRIP DRIP DRIP
Beauty: Ku...
TOKIO: I'M~~DEAD
Beauty: ARE YOU ALRIGHT?
SFX: SWIM~~
Seijuurou: KU KU KU, WOMAN...IF IT'S ALSO FINE, YOU'LL BE SAVED ALONE IF YOU SURRENDER.
SFX: KAPO
TOKIO: HEY THERE YOU---!! YOU SHOULD JUST SAVE ME!!
SFX: CLUNK
Beauty: WA!! YOU SHOULDN'T AGREE---WITH HIM!
SFX: CLUNK CLUNK
Beauty: HIM TOO!?
TOKIO: DON'T BETRAY US, BEAUTY----!
Beauty: I have no reason to betray my allies. I'll fight even if it's me alone!
Don Patch: !!
SFX: ZUGYUN
Don Patch: Hey...what's with that speech now? It's a bit like a heroine...Well then, that girl really isn't like a manga heroine...But, I'm a floating fish! This is bad...This situation is bad...

163.
Seijuurou: STUPID WOMAN!! WELL THEN DIE!! PLANETIC CHAIN!!
SFX: GOOOOO
Beauty: KYAAA
Voice: HOLD ON--
Seijuurou: !
Don Patch: I'M THE HEROINE-------!!!!
SFX: CRA--SH
Beauty: UWAAAAA!!!!

164.
SFX: CLING
Seijuurou: UWA! LET GO!!
Don Patch: YOU--!! DIDN'T YOU MISTAKEN THE HEROINE, THERE!!!
Seijuurou: EEH!?
SFX: CLING
Seijuurou: !!
TOKIO: I'M THE REAL HEROINE----!!!
Beauty: EEH----!! IT'S NOT YOU---
Don Patch: GYA--
TOKIO: GYA--
Beauty: ...I'm saved.........
Beauty: Are Bo-bobo and the others safe......?
Narrator: At that moment, Bo-bobo was...

165.
Narrator: Eating ramen.
Right Sign: RAMEN
Left Sign: RAMEN HOUSE
Caption: --Course 33-- DEATH RAMEN HIGHWAY
Heppokomaru: Bo-bobo, let's quickly move along...
Bo-bobo: UOOOOOO, IS BEAUTY SAFE, IS BEAUTY SAFE, IS BEAUTY
SFX: MUNCH MUNCH MUNCH
Bo-bobo: SAFE---!!!
SFX: FLING / SPLA--T
Apron: Pig Ramen
Heppokomaru: SURELY SHE'S SAFE
Bo-bobo: I THINK SHE'S TOGETHER WITH THAT IDIOT DON PATCH............
Bo-bobo: I'M WORRIED----!!!
SFX: CRA--SH

166.
Bo-bobo: BEAUTY--
SFX: BAM
Heppokomaru: He's extremely worried...
Pig: Buhi
Voice: GUESTS HAVE COME LURED BY THE SMELL OF RAMEN.
Bo-bobo & Heppokomaru: WHO'S THERE?
Kanji: (written upside down) MISTAKE
Heppokomaru: !!
Bo-bobo & Heppokomaru: J!!
Narrator: Meanwhile, Beauty's group continued to be in a pinch as well.
Don Patch: THE HEROINE IS ME
Seijuurou: KU, LET GO
TOKIO: IT'S ME
Beauty: THIS IS BAD...!! THE WATER IS STEADILY RISING...

167.
SFX: BO--OM
Beauty: KYA
Don Patch, TOKIO & Seijuurou: !!
TOKIO: WHAT IS THAT? WHO DESTROYED MY ICE WALL!! UNBELIEVABLE! IT'S HARDNESS IS 100
Beauty: ...Ah...ah...
Beauty: IT'S THE MARUHAGE EMPIRE FOUR HEAVENLY KING'S STRONGEST MAN: HALEKULANI!!!
SFX: STEP STEP
Beauty: HE'S THE WORST......
Don Patch: MONEY OVER HEROINE----!!
TOKIO: MONEY---
Don Patch: HA
Don Patch: OH NO, THEY SAW IT
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED

TN: It's somewhat shocking if you think about it but it is still true and interesting in itself: the hero, or should I say heroine, of this chapter is Beauty! Yeah, she really didn't do any fighting on her own but you could say that what she won was a moral dilemma: fighting to survive against Seijuuro as a team with Don Patch and Ujikin TOKIO...or surviving on her own! (though knowing those two weirdoes, I doubt they would be down for that long) While not strong in herself, you could see Beauty's strong heart and caring compassion for her friends and allies, sometimes able to face dangers head on while Bo-bobo...drowns his sorrow in ramen over Beauty's safety. Probably the only real nitpick I have with this chapter is that...well, everyone wants to be Tsurulina the 5th! It's somewhat complex to figure out how the heck an emperor of the Maruhage Empire is crowned but it's only going to get more messy by the end of the arc. Trust me on that.