Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 174

After a horrific sacrifice by a friend (well fishcake cuts really well when sliced), Don Patch has transformed into...a serious, direct, unstoppable fighting force!? Has the world gone mad or is this the trump card to stop Halon Oni!?

Ougi 174: Terrible Don Patch

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Narrator: --Summary—Don Patch has transformed into Don Patch
Don Patch: I am Don Patch.
SFX: DODODODODODO
Halon Oni: FU…I’M GOING TO ENJOY THIS A BIT.
SFX: SUCHA

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Don Patch: AAH…I’LL ENJOY IT.
Bo-bobo: Hey—what’s happened to you?
SFX: Slap slap
Dengaku Man: DON’T BE SO FIRM
SFX: WHAP
Tennosuke: And what is with that cloth? It really has no purpose but…
Don Patch: COME AT ME WHEREVER YOU WANT.
Tennosuke: He’s ignoring me—
Heppokomaru: BABU—
SFX: SLAM
Beauty: HE-KUN’S DONE IT--!!!
Don Patch: I’M FINE, EVERYONE!!
Don Patch: …………CALM DOWN, HEPPOKO…WE’LL RETURN YOU TO NORNAL SOON.
SFX: GOGOGOGO / FLAP FLAP

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Beauty: YOU’RE KIDDING!? HE DIDN’T MOVE FROM IT AT ALL!! THIS WEIRD DON PATCH IS OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT FROM USUAL
Toy: KILL, GORUA
Halon Oni: AN OPENING: SAZANPA!!!!
SFX: PYU
Don Patch: That won’t work! And I won’t let you hurt my allies either.
SFX: KIN KIN KIN KIN
SFX: CRUMBLE CRUMBLE
Tennosuke’s Body: VICTORY
Tennosuke: !!
Beauty: BO-BOBO! TENNOSUKE-KUN!!
Bo-bobo: YOU—YOU’VE RESOLVED TO TURN MY HAIR INTO A V!
Tennosuke: WHAT’S “VICTORY”? ARE YOU DECLARING YOUR VICTORY ON A GUY’S BODY!!
Don Patch: Having just that energy is no different from your life…I’m relieved.
Tennosuke: WHA!? WHAT IS HE SAYING?
SFX: Grab…

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Bo-bobo: GET YOUR SANITY BACK, DON PATCH----!!!!
SFX: SLAM
SFX: SHUUUU…
Bo-bobo: That should return him to the idiot he always is.
Beauty: YOU OVERDID IT!!
SFX: Muku…
Don Patch: Thank you, Bo-bobo…you’ve given me your spirit. I will really use that spirit of yours.
Bo-bobo, Beauty & Tennosuke: WHAA!!?
Bo-bobo: WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UP, WAKE UUUUP------!!!
SFX: SLAP SLAP SLAP
Don Patch: THANK YOU--!! WITH ALL THAT SPIRIT, I WON’T LOSE EVEN IF I DIE. LEAVE HIM TO ME, I’LL TRULY WIN!!

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Bo-bobo: IT’S NO USE……
Tennosuke: Somehow I see that you’ve become cool. (For once)
Dengaku Man: I have too.
Beauty: AAH…THOSE TWO ARE IN ANOTHER WORLD!!!
Voices: THAT’S WHAT WE EXPECT OF OUR OYABIN
Beauty: !
Kopatch: ALL OF US HAVE COME TO SEE OYABIN’S GALLANTRY AS WELL----!!
(TN: Remember: all of the Hajike Gang pretty much call Don Patch “Oyabin”, including the Kopatch and, of course, Hatenko)
SFX: BA—N
Beauty: NO ONE HAS CALLED THEM BUT ALL THE KOPATCH HAVE COME----!!!
Don Patch: ALL OF YOU HAVE COME!!!
SFX: PISHI
Kopatch: HEY, OYABIN!!!
SFX: PISHI
Beauty: THEY UNDERSTOOD!! THEY’RE THE ONLY ONES WHO CAN UNDERSTAND WHATEVER HE SAID NOW!!
Don Patch: NOW, HALON ONI. LET’S FIGHT!! YOU’LL BE TAKEN FOR BEING THE ENEMY OF KANIZAEMON
SFX: GOGOGOGOGOGO
Hanpen: !
Hanpen: IS KANIZAEMON ME…?
(TN: Of course with “kani” being “crab”, he’s obviously talking about Hanpen after last chapter)
Caption: He just returned from the sea.

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Halon Oni: COME AT ME NOW…I’LL KILL YOU.
SFX: CHAKI
Bo-bobo: SO WE’RE FINALLY GOING TO HAVE THAT DON PATCH’S REAL POWER REVEALED…BUT TO WHAT REAL EXTENT IS THIS TRUE POWER…?
SFX: GOKURI
Don Patch: LET’S GO.
SFX: BOOM
Bo-bobo: HE’S FAST…
SFX: SLASH

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SFX: PLOP PLOP BECHA
Everyone: WEAK----!!!! THAT WEIRD DON PATCH IS EXTREMELY WEAK-----!!!
Don Patch: MY ANGER…MY ANGER ISN’T ENOUGH…
Halon Oni: Your expectations are at an end. DIE.
SFX: ZA
Don Patch: …………THIS REMINDS ME OF THAT INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED THREE YEARS AGO…………
Halon Oni: Wha?
Narrator: Burger Shop
Don Patch: Two burger meals. Quickly.
Saleswoman: AH, CHILDREN WHO RECEIVE THIS ORDER WILL GET A SPECIAL ORIGINAL FIGURE FOR THIS STORE…
Don Patch: Figure?
Saleswoman: IT’S THIS.
Figure: CAPTAIN
Flag: BURGER CAPTAIN
Don Patch: HE’S DREAMY
SFX: BABUMP
Don Patch: (narrating) MY EYES WERE OVERTAKEN WITH HIM IN FRONT OF ME!!

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Don Patch: SO THAT’S WHY----
SFX: GOOOO
SFX: GA / STAB
Halon Oni: WHAT!!
Don Patch: THAT’S WHY I EVADED
SFX: DODODODODODO
Halon Oni: !!
Bo-bobo: DON PATCH’S FORM HAS CHANGED!! HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!?
Tennosuke & Dengaku Man: COOL—
Kopatch: OYABIN, WHEN HE ENTERS “DON PATCH MODE”, BECOMES ENRAGED WITH HIS PAST SELF AND RAPIDLY POWERS UP!! THIS IS GREAT! OYABIN’S PAST IS HIS ANGER POWER’S TREASURE!!!

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Beauty: DON PATCH’S PAST!? THAT’S AN EXTREME WORRY
Don Patch: UOOOO—I HAD ONE FRIEND WHOM I TRAINED WITH LONG AGO----
Halon Oni: KU
SFX: WHAM WHAM WHAM
Narrator: Ten years ago.
Don Patch: Haa haa…I can’t fight this match to the end.
“Opponent”: Aah.
Don Patch: …In five years….in five years…we’ll return here to end this.
“Opponent”: As you wish.
Don Patch: IT’S A PROMISE.
“Opponent”: AAH……
Don Patch: AND SO FIVE YEARS OF TIME FLOWED BY…
“Opponent”: I’ve been waiting.
Don Patch: You’ve come. Well, we’ll finally have our final battle…
Don Patch: BEAUTY.
SFX: BAN
“Beauty”: AAH
Beauty: EEH, IT WAS ME!!? NO, IT’S A LIE, A LIE! THAT PAST IS A LIE!!

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Don Patch: THAT MOMENT WAS INSIGNIFICANT IN MY HEART…PITIFUL…
SFX: BUON
Beauty: HEY, HOW COULD THAT WILLFULLY GIVE YOU A POWER UP!? THAT WAS A RUMOR NOW!!!
Don Patch: BAMBOO-SHOOT SWORD!!!
(TN: Bamboo shoot is “takenoko” in Japanese, but since it translates easily compared to the “Daikon Blade”, I kept the weapon as is)
SFX: SLASH
Halon Oni: GUWAAAAA
Halon Oni: HE’S INSANELY STRONG…
SFX: ZUGYA
Don Patch: LET’S END THIS.
SFX: DA
Bo-bobo: NOT YET---!!
SFX: POKE
Don Patch: WHAT!?
Bo-bobo: LISTEN TO MY ANGRY PAST TOO----
Bo-bobo: I WAS TAUGHT JAPANESE BY CATS
Cats: NYA—NYA—NYA—
Book: KOKUGO (Home Language/Japanese)

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Bo-bobo: THAT’S MY OWN ANGER----!!!
SFX: WHAM
Tennosuke: ORA-----!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO DON PATCH HERE—
SFX: SLIIIDE
Bo-bobo: GUOOOO, LET GO—
Dengaku Man: IT’S INEVITABLE—
Bo-bobo: NONONO--------I CAN’T LET DON PATCH DO THIS ALONE----!!! UWAAAA
Halon Oni: KU, UNBELIEVABLE…UNBELIEVABLE. I AM OF THE DARKNESS…HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!?
Don Patch: THIS IS MY ANGER POWER…AND…
SFX: DODODODO
Don Patch: THE POWER OF MY TEAM!!!
Beauty: THIS IS QUESTIONABLY WRONG!!! WHO ARE THEY!!!?

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Don Patch: REALLY…THOSE WHO DON’T HAVE THE POWER OF MEMORY ARE THOSE I DISLIKE.
SFX: BASA
Beauty: IS THIS AN ANGER METHOD TOO!!?
Kopatch: YES! OYABIN HAS SPROUTED HIS “ANGER WINGS” IT’S OUR TURN!!!
SFX: BA
Kopatch: THE ANGER WINGS WILL ABSORB EVEN THE MOST TRIVIAL ANGER!! FORM A LINE AND BAD-MOUTH OYABIN!! OOH!!
SFX: HYUUUUU
Kopatch: COMPLETE: KOPATCH ROAD!!!!
SFX: BAN
Kopatch: Oyabin’s a charlatan. Oyabin’s an idiot—oyabin’s stuip. Idiot—dummy—Stingy--!! Dummy—dope—
Halon Oni: WH…WHAT IS THIS!?

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Narrator: The “Kopatch Road” is a super-deadly technique exclusively for Don Patch.
Top Line: Traveling Direction
Second Line: ANGER METER
Bottom Line: BAD-MOUTH / BAD-MOUTH / BAD-MOUTH / BAD-MOUTH / BAD-MOUTH / BAD-MOUTH / ENEMY
Narrator: Traveling to the end, Don Patch saves up his anger, making him stronger.
Kopatch: Now, Oyabin, hurry and stand on top of us. Take in the pain of what we say to you even if they’re lies…
Don Patch: I…
Don Patch: AM INDEBTTED TO ALL OF YOU---!!!
SFX: DODODODODODODODODO
Kopatch: STUPID—DUMMY—IDIOT—
SFX: DODODODODODO
Bo-bobo: YOU S**T—DIE—
Beauty: !!
Halon Oni: UWAAAA, HERE HE COMES—

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Don Patch: OYABIN RUSH!!!!
SFX: BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM BAM
Halon Oni: GUOOOOO
Halon Oni: GAHA…I’VE LOST…
Halon Oni: YET ITS SPLENDED………I HAVE NO REGRETS……………
Halon Oni: BUT GOD, I JUST HAVE ONE WISH IN THE END…THIS MAN WHO’S DEFEATED ME…
Halon Oni: IF I WERE TO BE REBORN, I WANT TO BE LIKE HIM.
SFX: KA
Halon Oni: OYABI----N!!

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Beauty: EEH!? HE TURNED INTO A KOPATCH!!? WHAT?
Kopatch: WELL DONE, WELL DONE
Beauty: WHAT—
Halon Oni: God must have heard my wish…I’ll be joining your Hajike Gang from today on.
Kopatch: WELCOME, HEHE…
Beauty: AH! HE’S RETURNED TO THE USUAL DON PATCH.
SFX: FU
Narrator: And so the powerful enemy Halon Oni, one of the Under-Maruhage Four Heavenly Kings, became a Kopatch and went to live his second life.
Bo-bobo: YOU SHOWED OFF TOO MUCH!!
Don Patch: AAH? WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?
Narrator: However unknown to Bo-bobo and the others, the demonic hand of darkness drew closer moment by moment.

TN: Wow...what another perfect Bo-bobo chapter! It's sort of weird just seeing Don Patch so serious as Don Patch but...the seriousness of the chapter is probably what made it so funny and classic at the same time! Though somehow you probably would have imagined the chapter just being completely gagless and with him crushing Halon Oni on his own...but of course, the Beauty memory proved that you can't escape from the weirdness even when you're serious. (well it was that or those so called "memories" of his friends and allies...come on, Tennosuke with an eyepatch..and what was up with Dengaku Man?) Meanwhile, it was surprising to see the Kopatch after a long, long time...heck, considering how popular those guys are and how they've practically been absent since Don Patch joined Bo-bobo, I was shocked Sawai would bring them back...heck I imagined he would just ignore their popularity. As for Halon Oni's "transformation"..yeah, that was unexpected too. Somehow I have this image that this is how Kopatch are created and all of them may be defeated enemies...but I really doubt that's the whole story. But in this series, these things never make sense...such as how a teenage girl fought Don Patch ten years ago and looks the same now as she did five years ago.