Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 164

Without warning, J has already been eliminated from the playoff preliminaries...but what cruel, horrific person would defeat him and now face off against Bo-bobo!? And...wait, is Halekulani really going to save Beauty's group?

Ougi 164: Enrage! China's Great War!!

170.
Narrator: --SUMMARY--Halekulani appeared in front of Beauty's group.
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGO
TOKIO: .........This is the way.........
Beauty: Eh?
TOKIO: I'VE DECIDED THIS WILL BE THE WAY I'LL BECOME THE FIFTH EMPEROR!!! YAY, I SEE THIS MAN WITH THE "STAR OF EMPEROR"!!!
(TN: The "Star of Emperor", or "Teiou no Hoshi", which Ujikin TOKIO mentions is a reference to a nickname of "Hokuto no Ken" villain Souther, who was said to be born under this star)
Beauty: EEH!? HE'S WILLFULLY BEING BRIBED---!!
Seijuurou: Ku...he's Halekulani...what an amazing feeling of coercion...
Halekulani: Are you the gate-keeper...
Halekulani: GORGEOUS SHINKEN OUGI: DEATH ONE-MILLION DOLLAR WING!!!
Seijuurou: GUWAAAA
SFX: FLUTTER FLUTTER FLUTTER
Don Patch: MONEY----!
TOKIO: WHWHWH...WHAT IS THIS AMAZING ATTACK, WHO IS THIS MAN------!!!

171.
SFX: CHIRIN
Beauty: KU! (to herself) He'll turn all of us into one-yen!
SFX: STEP STEP
Beauty: Eh?
Halekulani: Girl...the fact that you are hear means the nosehair man is in this tournament too...TELL HIM "I'VE PAID BACK MY DEBT"...
SFX: SHAKE SHAKE
Halekulani: !! What are you?
TOKIO: I AM YOUR LUNCH DESSERT.
Beauty: HE--IS!!?
Don Patch: WAIT...YOU'RE JOINING HIS SIDE!? WERE YOU PLAYING WITH US!? ANSWER!!
TOKIO: You two were easy. Of--course?
Narrator: Ujikin became Halekulani's subordinate.
Don Patch: SUCH A COLD MAN! ICE! YOU'RE SHAVED ICE!
(TN: "Koori" both can be used for "regular ice" and "shaved ice", so I sort of played with it here)
SFX: SLAM
Beauty: We're saved but...

172.
Narrator: At that moment, on the Ramen Highway course---
Bo-bobo: WHAT IS THIS!!
SFX: DADADADADADA
Heppokomaru: THAT MAN IN FRONT OF YOU IS.........
Bo-bobo: ARE YOU ALRIGHT, K!!
J: I'm J.
Bo-bobo: HANG ON, K----!!
J: J
Bo-bobo: K!!!
J: I'm J.
Bo-bobo: K--------------------!!!
J: ......J
Bo-bobo: K!!!
Sign: My Name Is J
J: I REGRET THE DIFFERENCE IN MEANING.........
SFX: COUGH COUGH
Bo-bobo: TAMANEGI SANTAROU--!!!
(TN: "Tamanegi Santarou" is a corn-chip made by the confectionary company Yaokin with an onion-flavor)
Menma: THAT MAN BECAME A VICTIM TO MY RAMEN-ARU. WHEN YOU'RE TRAPPED WITH GUARD MENMA-SAMA, EVERYONE BECOMES LIKE THIS-NE.
Caption: Death Ramen Highway Guard: MENMA
Bo-bobo: A WOMAN!? THAT'S THE STRONG ONE WHO DEFEATED J......EXCELLENT!! I'LL DEFEAT YOU AND MOVE AHEAD!!
Menma: Well then, I'll deal with you together with my preceding visitors.
Heppokomaru: PRECEDING VISITORS?

173.
SFX: BA--N
Mesopotamia: Ninja~~
Kouga: Ninja~~
Indus: Ninja~~
Box: Abandoned Ninjas
Sign: Please give love to them.
Heppokomaru: UWA--THE THREE IDIOT CIVILIZATIONS!!! (Abandoned ninjas!!?)
Bo-bobo: WELL! YOU THREE WERE ABANDONED?
Kouga: Ninja~~
Indus: Ninja~~
Heppokomaru: THEY'RE APPROACHING!!!
Bo-bobo: YOU'RE SUCH PITIFUL KIDS...
Mesopotamia: Ninja~~
Bo-bobo: What's the matter? Tell me...
Kouga: Ninja ninja ninja jajamaru...
(TN: "Ninja jajamaru" is referring to the video game "Ninja Jajamaru-kun", a spinoff of the "Ninja-kun" series created by Jaleco for the Famicom/NES in 1985)
Bo-bobo: DON'T ACT SPOILED, WEAKLINGS---!!!!
SFX: WHAM
Civilizations: GUBOHAA!!!
Mesopotamia: Ninja?
Kouga: Ninja?
Indus: 2 2s is 4, and 2 3s is 5?
(TN: Indus is sort of making puns with the words in "ninja". The actual original saying is "ninin ga shi ja nisan ga go ja?", which essentially translates into what's above)
Bo-bobo: SPEAK NORMALLY!!!
Kouga: It's been a while, Bo-bobo.
Mesopotamia: Shall we kill him hu--h?
Heppokomaru: THEY'RE TALKING NORMALLY!!

174.
Menma: EVEN IF REUNIONS ARE ENJOYABLE, THAT'S ALL YOU GET-ARU!! NOW FOR THE SPECIALTY OF THIS HIGHWAY COURSE: A "RAMEN BATTLE" FIGHT-ARU YO!!!
SFX: BAN
Banner: Way of Ramen
Bo-bobo: A RAMEN BATTLE? WHAT IS THAT-ACHO--!!
Kouga: HAS ANYONE DONE THIS BATTLE-SHEI SHEI
Mesopotamia: HAVE THEY-ARU HAVE THEY-ARU
Heppokomaru: They're in high spirits...
Menma: THE RULES ARE EASY! YOU MAKE RAMEN AND YOUR OPPONENTS EAT IT. YOU WIN BY MAKING THEM SAY IT'S "DELICIOUS".
SFX: DAN
Menma: I'LL FIGHT WITH MY RAMEN-ARU!!
Bo-bobo: EXCELLENT!! THIS WILL HOLD YOU DOWN!!
SFX: RIP / CLUNK
Heppokomaru: IT'S HOPELESS--!!! (It's instant)
Kouga: THIS RAMEN WILL BEAT YOU ALONG WITH BO-BOBO'S!!
SFX: SLAM
Heppokomaru: THAT'S A MASK----!!!
(TN: Slight rhyming pun: "mask" in Japanese is "kamen", which, of course, rhymes with "ramen")

175.
Mesopotamia: HERE'S MINE!
SFX: MELT...
Indus: ......
Heppokomaru: NOW THOSE AREN'T EDIBLE----!!!
Menma: DINING TABLE ROULETTE START!!!
SFX: WHIRRRRL
Heppokomaru: AAH, IT'S SPINNING!!
Menma: LET ME EXPLAIN THE RULES-ARUYO!! YOU MUST EAT ALL OF THE RAMEN THAT STOPS RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU-ARU
Menma: THOSE WHO LEAVE ANY LEFTOVERS WILL GET DISQUALIFIED-ARUYO
Mesopotamia: Kukuku...It will be a sight where it ends up.
Menma: STOP!!
SFX: GRAB
Mesopotamia: WHA----!? IT'S ALL IN MY PLACE----!!!
SFX: BAN

176.
Mesopotamia: EXCELLENT---IF THAT'S IT----
SFX: MUNCH
SFX: BOOM
Mesopotamia: YUCK, GOPAA!!!
Heppokomaru: HE EXPLODED!!
Menma: A HA HA EVERYONE WHO EATS MY RAMEN WON'T FIND IT TASTY YET THEIR STOMACHS WILL EXPLODE-ARU!!
Voice: HE SAID "YUCK, GOPAA!!"
Menma: THAT IS RAMEN SHINKEN OUGI: FLAVORFUL EXPLOSIVE RAMEN-ARUARUYO!!!
Menma: AND THE BLOOD THAT FLOWS OUT FROM THE EXPLOSION WILL EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS OF MY RAMEN-ARUYO!
Bo-bobo: Ha! That was!!
Blood: THAT SILLY MASK WORKED
SFX: BAN
Kouga: MESOPOTAMIA--
Heppokomaru: AFTER ALL THAT----!!! OF COURSE!!

177.
Menma: Fu...all of you who can't really make ramen should come to say mine is "delicious".
Kouga: KU...WHAT WILL WE DO...
Bo-bobo: DON'T WORRY. THE TWO OF US WILL COME UP WITH THE GREATEST RAMEN IN THE WORLD.
SFX: PEKA--
Jacket: Straight Line to Ramen: 2 Months
Kouga: YOU'RE THE RAMEN SAGE!! I'LL DO IT.
Bo-bobo: INEVITABLE KYOURYOKU OUGI: CHALLENGE TO MAKE THE GREATEST RAMEN IN THE WORLD!!!
Kouga's Headband: Way of Ramen
Bo-bobo: NO NO NO / IS THIS NONSENSE OR SOMETHING
Heppokomaru: AS I SEE IT, THIS SAGE IS INSANELY COLD---!!!
Narrator: Five Months Later
Weird Man: Th...this is the greatest ramen in the world...
SFX: SHINE
Heppokomaru: Who are they.........
Weird Man: WE'LL SELL IT!!!
SFX: BA--N
Package: CUP RAMEN - DELISH~~
Kouga: Bo-bobo, I still don't know if we can give this ramen to the woman. Eat it and tell me your thoughts.
SFX: SPLASH
Bo-bobo: Fine then.

178.
SFX: SLURP...
Bo-bobo: MU!! THIS IS!!
Bo-bobo: THIS FLAVOR IS......THIS FLAVOR IS......THIS FLAVOR IS-------
SFX: SLURP SLURP
SFX: GULP
SFX: PEW PEW
Bo-bobo: ORDINARY-----!!!!
Kouga & Heppokomaru: WELL, HE SAID IT'S ORDINARY......

179.
Menma: IT'S USELESS-NE! THIS WILL END IT-ARU!! RAMEN SHINKEN OUGI: SPECIAL MULTIPLYING TEN RAMEN!!
Bo-bobo: TEN OF THEM!? WE CAN'T ESCAPE
Kouga: THEN IT'S USELESS TO USE RAMEN GUM HERE!! (It's gum...)
Menma: NOW THERE'S NO ESCAPE FROM MY RAMEN-ARU!! IT'S OVER-NE
SFX: WHIRRRL
Bo-bobo: WE STILL HAVE A TRUMP CARD!! HANAGE SHINKEN OUGI...
Bo-bobo: MASTER, THE DAUGHTERS WAY OVER THERE GET SERVICE FROM ME!!!
SFX: LASH LASH LASH
Kouga & Mesopotamia: GYAAAAA, TRAITOR-----!!!!
Menma: WHA...HE'S FEEDING MY RAMEN TO THE OTHER GUYS BEFORE THE ROTATION OF THE DINING TABLE SETTLES. THAT GUY! HIS CAPTURE TECHNIQUE IS......
Bo-bobo: VICTIM 1, 2
SFX: BABOOM
Blood: THE REAL CRIMINAL IS BO-BOBO
Heppokomaru: THAT'S HEALTHY~~~...

180.
Menma: BUT IF HE'S JUST DEFENDING, HE CAN'T WIN-NE
Bo-bobo: Look on top of the table. My cooking should have reached you.
Menma: WHAT!! I WAS UNAWARE!?
Menma: AIYA----!!!!
SFX: BAN
Indus: Weak
Indus: I CAN'T GUARANTEE I HAVE FLAVOR, BUT I PERSONALLY HAVE A CHANCE TO SUCCEED! EAT ME
Menma: EAT THIS---!!
SFX: FLING / CATCH DUNK
Indus: GYOZA SHOT
Menma: I had leftovers...I lost-aru...
SFX: Slunk

181.
Caption: --Battle Against Menma--Bo-bobo wins the Ramen Battle.
Heppokomaru: HE DID IT----!!!
Bo-bobo: WE DID IT!! WELL, WE DID IT! CAN YOU SAY SOMETHING, HEY
Mesopotamia: Hehe...Our power became one.........
Bo-bobo: ENEMIES LIKE YOU DON'T TALK------!!!!
SFX: BO--OM
Civilizations: GYAAAAAAA!!!

182.
Bo-bobo: Really, even unprepared you shouldn't show an opening---
SFX: SLAM X 3
Heppokomaru: DEVIL...
Kouga: AS EXPECTED OF OUR OLD ENEMY BO-BOBO............WE'LL BECOME STRONGER TO RISE OVER YOU
Heppokomaru: AH! BO-BOBO-SAN, PLEASE LOOK AT THAT DOOR......
Sign: Exit
Bo-bobo: IS THIS BECAUSE WE BEAT THE GUARD?
Bo-bobo: ALRIGHT, LET'S GO. BEAUTY AND THE OTHERS MAY BE THERE TOO.
Heppokomaru: RIGHT
Bo-bobo & Heppokomaru: !!
SFX: BAN

183.
Heppokomaru: WHA...THERE'S AN AMAZING NUMBER OF HAIR HUNTERS. ARE THEY ALL THE GUYS WHO CAME OUT FROM ALL THE OTHER ROUTES...
Hair Hunters: AN......BO-BOBO!! WHAT, BO-BOBO?
Hair Hunters: WE'LL KILL THEM--KILL THEM. KILL THEM. KILL THEM.
Nenchaku: Hee...that's Bo-bobo?
Background: KILL THEM--KILL THEM--KILL THEM--KILL THEM--KILL THEM--
Caption: Leader of the Assasination Corp: NENCHAKU
Bo-bobo: Beauty and the others haven't seem to come yet. Shall we wiat here?
BG: KILL THEM--KILL THEM--
Heppokomaru: ............THIS IS UNCOMFORTABLE...
(End of Volume 15)

TN: Let me get this out there first: I like Menma. I don't know if it's the cute appearance or stereotypical Chinese accent with the "aru" everywhere or just that she ends up fighting in a more psychological combined with culinary (and somewhat physical if you eat her crap) manner, but I like her. I do notice she is one of the more popular minor/one-shot villains in this series...and it's probably the reasons I listed. With that out of the way, I also like that we get a good interactive chapter between Bo-bobo and the Civilizations. Considering their fight was one of the most memorable back in the OVER arc (even if a good chunk of it was because of Bobopatchnosuke), it was good to see them there...but once again, it felt like nearly everything this time was more focused again on Kouga. Sure I know Mesopotamia had some great moments too but he was more subdued...and of course Indus is Indus and he's always going to be the weird, quiet one with his memorable moments. Maybe it's just that Kouga is the spokesmen of the trio that he ends up doing everything but I did really feel it this time around. Probably the last thing I have to say now...is I'm finally glad vol. 15 is done! Bo-bobo will hopefully be moving full steam ahead once again, moving us all the way to...well, we'll see but it will get us to some really big stuff in the near future! Hope to see you then!