Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 188

On the fourth floor of Hydrate's floating fortress, Bo-bobo and Hatenko have encountered a man both of whom know: a man from the Hair Kingdom named Bebebe-be Be-bebe. But, is he really...the revelations begin now!

Ougi 188: Petal of Morality

24.
Bo-bobo & Hatenko: YOU’RE BEBEBE-BE BE-BEBE!!!
SFX: BAN
Don Patch: Who?
Tennosuke: Um?
Dengaku Man: A GUY WHO’S SEEMS TO BE AN EXTREMELY IMPORTANT CHARACTER APPEARS---!!
Be-bebe: It’s been 20 years. MY LITTLE BROTHER BO-BOBO.
Everyone: LITTLE BROTHER----!!!?
Hanpen: ……BIG BROTHER……(It’s been a while) (to himself) He’s my big bro? Hehe…
Beauty: Not yours.
Hanpen: Pardon me—
SFX: BOING BOING
Hanpen: AH—
Don Patch: KE, THIS GUY IS HIS BIG BRO? THAT’S STUPID, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT!! BO-BOBO HAS A BROTHER AND WE HAVEN’T HEARD ONE MILLIMETER ABOUT—HIM!!
Beauty: BO-BOBO, HOW DOES HE…?
Bo-bobo: ……BE……BROEY-BE-BEBE
Beauty, Don Patch & Tennosuke: BROEY!!?

25.
Don Patch: BROEY: The highest-grade within what you can call a bro, in regards to bros, it is the phrase that represent the greatest respect!! That man named Be-bebe……is he really his bro…?
Chart:
BROEY -> MY BROTHER -> POSEIDON -> BIG BROTHER -> BRO -> INOKI
(TN: OK, I highly doubt “Broey” is what “Oniitama” is but I did want to differentiate it from the more formal “Oniisama” usually used in respecting brothers. Meanwhile, I kept “Inoki” mostly since that’s a reference to wrestler Antonio Inoki.)
Beauty: WHAT IS THAT!!?
Bo-bobo: BROEY BE-BEBE—
SFX: DA
Tennosuke: WE WHO DON’T WANT YOU TO GO ARE HERE!!!
SFX: GACHING
Foreheads: Pedestrian A / Pedestrian B
Be-bebe: !!
Beauty: SOMETHING APPEARED!!!
Don Patch: IF YOU WANT TO MEET YOUR BRO, YOU HAVE TO MAGNIFICENTLY BREAK THROUGH US, THE PEDESTRIAN OBSTRUCTIONS!!!!
Bo-bobo: UOOOOOOOOO!!!
SFX: DODODODODODODO
Don Patch: Can’t reach.
Tennosuke: Can’t reach.
Dengaku Man: Can’t reach.
Zetsubou: Can’t reach.
Beauty: WHAT DID THEY WANT TO DO!!?
SFX: PITA
Bo-bobo: JUST YOU!!!
SFX: SMASH
Don Patch: AAH!! HE DESTROYED PEDESTRIAN D----!!!

26.
Torpedo Girl: ZZZ~~~~
SFX: WHAM
Don Patch & Tennosuke: GYAAAAA, SHE’S ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL--!!!
Bo-bobo: I’VE WANTED TO SEE YOU, BIG-BROTHER BE----BEBE
SFX: DADADADA
Be-bebe: I’ve also wanted to see you. For all these 20 years…
Be-bebe: LITTLE BRO…THE THINGS THAT YOU’VE GAINED IN THE 20 YEARS SINCE YOU’VE LEFT THE HAIR KINGDOM WILL ALL BE GIVEN TO YOUR BIG BRO. “LITTLE BRO’S THINGS ARE BIG BRO’S THINGS”.
Be-bebe: SUNEGE SHINKEN!!!
(TN: Like Bo-bobo, Be-bebe has a Hair style Shinken: “Sunege” is Japanese for “Leghair”, thus “Sunege Shinken” is “Fist of the Leghair”)
SFX: SLASH
Bo-bobo: GUWAAA

27.
Don Patch & Tennosuke: WHAT---!! SUNEGE SHINKEN---!!!? FINALLY…FINALLY AFTER OUR ENCOUNTERS OF 188 CHAPTERS OF SERIALIZATION, SUNEGE SHINKEN HAS APPEARED—
Bald Man: Watermelon, big brother.
Stamp: SIBLING RECOGNITION
SFX: DON
Zetsubou & Dengaku Man: WE CAN ONLY RECOGNIZE IT IF LEGHAIR CAME OUT!! HE SHOULD BE RECOGNIZED AS BO-BOBO’S BIG BRO!!!
Bo-bobo: GUBAA!!!
SFX: SLIIIIDE
Beauty: BO-BOBO!! (Koalas are attached to him)
Don Patch: THESE ARE BONUS KOALAS…YOU GET 1000 POINTS FOR RETURNING THEM TO THE EUCALYPTUS TREES.
SFX: Cling / cling
Zetsubou: KOALAS~~~
SFX: Turn turn
Be-bebe: Little bro…your big bro’s opinions are absolute. Didn’t these leghairs teach you that when you were a kid?
Beauty: THAT’S…IS THIS MAN BO-BOBO’S BIG BROTHER…IT’S A LIE, HATENKO-SAN
Hatenko: …………It’s all true.
Torpedo Girl: PASTA PASTA PASTA PASTA

28.
Bo-bobo: Gu…he suddenly used leghair during this longtime brotherly reunion…as expected from my big brother.
Be-bebe: You’ve missed it, the taste of leghair.
Bo-bobo: Big brother Be-bebe…that voice, that personality, those seeing eyes. It’s the same as that time when we were young in the Hair Kingdom…
SFX: BANG
Bo-bobo: (offscreen) Big brother Be-bebe…you haven’t changed at all from that day twenty-years ago……
Caption: HAIR KINGDOM 20 YEARS AGO
Banner: COOL SNOWBOARDING IN HAIR KINGDOM
Beauty: THAT’S THE HAIR KINGDOM!?
Bo-bobo: Back then, when we were still young, the three of us fought together in a Sangaria……………..
Captions: BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO: AGE 7 / HATENKO: AGE 3
SFX: SLIIIIDE
Caption: BEBEBE-BE BE-BEBE: AGE 8
SFX: SLIIIIIIDE
Beauty: HE’S COMPLETELY CHANGED!!! HE’S A CAT!!!!

29.
SFX: STEP
Don Patch: WE’VE FINALLY COME……HERE TO THE HAIR KINGDOM
SFX: BAN
Caption: DON PATCH
Beauty: DON PATCH-KUN APPEARED----!!!!
Kopatch: OYABIN, PLACE YOUR WEIGHT ON YOUR FRONT FOOT…
Don Patch: DON’T PUSH DOWN, DON’T PUSH DOWN.
Beauty: HOLD ON, THIS IS A STORY OF BO-BOBO FROM 20 YEARS AGO!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
SFX: GOOOO / SLIDE / BOING BOING / ZAAA
Beauty: LOOKING CLOSELY, SOME OTHER ONES ARE HERE TOO!!!

30.
Murasame: HAHAHA—TODAY WE’LL GAIN CONTROL OF THE HAIR KINGDOM!! HUNT, HUNT, HUNT THEM DOWN--!!!
SFX: SHAAAAA
Middle Caption: D-BLOCK LEADER: YUKKI MURASAME
Left Caption: D-BLOCK VICE-LEADER: SAMUGARIN
Right Caption: HAIR HUNTER APPRENTICE: TOKORO TENNOSUKE
Murasame’s Outfit: YUKIGA (SNOW HUNTER)
Tennosuke’s Outfit: ZATSUYOU (MISCELLANEOUS)
Beauty: WHA----!!? TENNOSUKE JOINED NONCHALANTLY----!!!!
(TN: A couple silly notes about these two Hair Hunters alongside Tennosuke: while the “Yuki” is obviously “snow”, “Murasame” is “A passing shower”, thus he’s “passing snow shower”. “Samugarin” also is a pun: “Samugari” is “Cold sensitivity”)
Murasame: TENNOSUKE! YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE COME CAUSE WE WON’T BE USING YOU.
SFX: STOMP STOMP
Tennosuke: HIIII, I’M SORRY!!
Beauty: HE HAD PROBLEMS BEFORE BECOMING A-BLOCK LEADER………
Bo-bobo: OK! HERE WE’LL DEFEAT THEM ALL AT ONCE, BIG-BRO BE-BEBE!!
SFX: SLIIIIIIIDE
Bo-bobo: BIG-BRO BE-BEBE’S SPECIALTY IS LEGHAIR…
SFX: POP
Bo-bobo: AH!!
Bo-bobo: BIG BRO, YOUR WIG…THAT WAS DANGEROUS!!
SFX: GRAB / CLOMP
Beauty: HE’S REALLY AN ORDINARY CAT!!

31.
Tennosuke: KU…I HAVE TO GET THE GREATEST RESULTS FROM THIS GREAT HAIR WAR. I MUST ABSOLUTELY RISE TO THE TOP OF THE HAIR HUNTERS!!
Murasame: START THE SANGARIA!! FIRST WE’LL START CRUSHING HIM!!
SFX: SLIIIIIDE
Bo-bobo: AAH!! BIG-BRO BE-BEBE
SFX: CLICK
SFX: CRASH
Murasame: GYAAAA, AVALANCHE--!!
SFX: POP
Samugarin: GYAA
Tennosuke: HEY~~THERE, HEY HERE~~~~! IT’S FOOD~~!
SFX: SLIIIIDE
SFX: CLICK
SFX: HYU / WHAM
Tennosuke: BU
Bo-bobo: HIDDEN CHARACTERS: THREE JIZOU!!
(TN: Jizou, as explained in a previous chapter, are Buddhist statues that allow to assist people to shorten their time in suffering and serving in Hell)
SFX: WHAM
Tennosuke: GYAAAA

32.
Bo-bobo: YOU’RE AS AMAZING AS EXPECTED, BIG-BRO BE-BEBE!! YOU KICKED DOWN THOSE THREE ENEMIES ALL AT ONCE!!
Beauty: HE’S DECLARED IT!!! IF I WASN’T MISTAKEN, HE STATED THAT CAT DID THOSE THINGS WITHOUT IT DOING ANYTHING!!
Hatenko: MINARAI KAGI SHINKEN: LOCK!!!
(TN: “Minarai” = “Apprentice”)
Murasame & Samugarin: GYAAAA
SFX: THUNK
Beauty: The strongest is the 3-year old…
Bo-bobo: AAH! I FINALLY SEE WE’RE COMING TO THE JUMP STAND!! THIS IS THE BEST PART OF SNOWBOARDING!!
Announcer: NOW, THIS SANGARIA HAS A SPECIAL RULE WHICH WILL WHERE VICTORY AND DEFEAT WILL BE DECIDED BY YOUR JUMP PERFORMANCE!!!
Tennosuke: UOOO, I’M THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN DO THIS--!!
Don Patch: I AM THE CHAMPION----!!!
Forehead: BOARD
Beauty: THEY’RE WEIRD BUT THOSE TWO ARE COMING--!!
Tennosuke: I WON’T LOSE THIS MATCH—
SFX: BA
SFX: FIRST UP IS TENNOSUKE--!!
SFX: SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN
Announcer: THERE IT IS--!! THE ULTRA-C DIFFICULTY “CLOTHES CHANGING”---!!!
(TN: “Ultra-C” is a high-difficulty maneuver in gymnastics through the end of 2005, when gymnastic judging was changed)

33.
Tennosuke: WHA? WHERE DID I PUT THE SOCKS?
SFX: GOOOOO
Tennosuke: BU
SFX: BO—OM
Announcer: FAILED LANDING
Announcer: THE NEXT CONTESTANT, DON PATCH, IS FLYING--!!
SFX: BOSHU
SFX: SHURURURURURU
Announcer: AMAZING AMAZING!! THE BOARD ON TOP OF HIM IS DANCING INTENSLY, A SUPER-BALANCED SENSATION--!!!
SFX: DON / SLIIDE
Announcer: SUCCESSFUL LANDING--!!!
Bo-bobo: S***T—NO!! THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I’VE SEEN SUCH AN AMAZING JUMP—WE CAN’T WIN!!
Cans: SANMA
Flashback Bo-bobo: Big bro Be-bebe!!
Be-bebe: I missed those stories when I was a cat………
Bo-bobo: ……From then, big-bro Be-bebe was far greater than us……………

34.
Don Patch: I REMEMBER…BEBEBE-BE BE-BEBE
Tennosuke: HE CURBED OUR OUTSTANDING JUMPS. THAT’S THE MAN WHO WASHED AWAY OUR CHAMPIONSHIP…
SFX: SHUDDER SHUDDER
Beauty: THE PAST NOW WAS TRUE!!?
Hatenko: Be-bebe-san is the ultimate ideal big brother…if he hasn’t changed from then, he’s quite dangerous……………
Torpedo Girl: PASTA PASTA
Zetsubou: HEY, TAXI—
Be-bebe: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5……With Hatenko, we have 13!
Don Patch: AAH!!? WHO’S A SUBORDINATE!!
Bo-bobo: Brother, what?.........
Be-bebe: THEY’VE ALL COME, YOUR SUBORDINATES.
Everyone: !!
Be-bebe: LITTLE BRO’S THINGS ARE BIG BRO’S THINGS. SUBORDINATES, ALLIES, STATUS, POWER, I’LL TAKE IT ALL
SFX: HYUHYUN
Beauty: KYA, WHAT?
Heppokomaru: UWAAAA
Be-bebe: SUNEGE SHINKEN OUGI: DYED IN LEGHAIR-COLOR!!!
SFX: BON
Bo-bobo: BEAUTY, HEPPOKOMARU

35.
Bo-bobo: BEAUTY--!! HEPPOKOMARU--!!
Be-bebe: This makes them my subordinates. You two, swear your oath to me.
Beauty & Heppokomaru: YES….
Beauty: LEGHAIR~~LEGHAIR~~
Heppokomaru: LEGHAIR~~LEGHAIR~~
SFX: CLING CLING CLING CLING CLING
Don Patch & Tennosuke: GYAAAA—THAT’S SERIOUS. BEAUTY AND HEPPOKOMARU GAINED A STRANGE STYLE---!!
Hatenko: SUNEGE SHINKEN BRAINWASHED THEM
Don Patch: WE WON’T LOSE EITHER!! LET’S OPPOSE THEM
Don Patch, Tennosuke & Dengaku Man: SANMA--! SANMA--! SANMA--! SANMA--! SANMA--!
SFX: CLING CLING CLING CLING CLING CLING CLING
Side Fist: Stuffed Doll
Zetsubou: PLEASE BE SERI—OUS!!
Dengaku Man: WHO’S IS HE REALLY…
Don Patch & Tennosuke: EH~~~? YOU’RE INTERFERING~~?
Be-bebe: N! What will you do, little-bro…Are you unhappy?
Bo-bobo: …YOU…HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO MY ALLIES…THOUGH YOU’RE MY BROTHER, I CAN’T FORGIVE YOU…
SFX: GOOOOOO

36.
Bo-bobo: BEBEBE-BE BE-BEBE, I WILL DEFEAT YOU!!!
Bo-bobo: HANAGE SHINKEN KYUUKYOKU OUGI: BO-BOBO WORLD!!!!
SFX: BUON
Tennosuke: IT’S HERE—BO-BOBO WORLD--!
SFX: SLAM
King Nosehair: I’M BACK—I’M BACK IN THE MANGA--!!!
King Nosehair: YES—I’M APPEARING—IT’S BEEN A YEAR, IT’S BEEN A YEAR--!!

37.
Be-bebe: LEGHAIR!!!!
SFX: CRA—SH
Bo-bobo: GUOOOO, WHAT!? THAT WORD NOW DID THAT!!?
Be-bebe: In front of me, Hanage Shinken is invalid……
Be-bebe: LEGHAIR. That word controls even nosehair.
Don Patch: BO-BOBO WORLD’S BEEN BROKEN!!
Tennosuke: LELELE…LEGHAIRS ARE AMAZING--!!!
SFX: SLUMP
Bo-bobo: I’VE WISHED FOR A FIGHT THAT OPPOSES ALL OF THE HAIR GODS………
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED

TN: While it was sort of obvious even when his name was partially revealed back in the previous chapters, just hearing it here makes it all the more shocking and insane: Be-bebe is Bo-bobo's brother. While I really need to look over the beginning of the series to see what they said regarding the "children of the Hair Kingdom" (not including Hatenko...since he's sort of a strange case), just finally meeting a brother of Bo-bobo's after close to four years of story is both unbelievable and insane. (of course as I'm writing this, I am feeling shock both from this and the jubilation of the Phillies winning the World Series last night so pardon my nerves) And furthermore not only is that just the only shocking revelation...but so is the revelation of his Sunege Shinken...and perhaps the most shocking of all: he was a cat in his childhood!?!? It actually seems like a Hajike joke...but as unbelievable as it sounds and as much as Tennosuke and Don Patch confirmed it, it is true...and of course "why" Be-bebe was a cat will be explained by the end of this fight. Of course there's just so much going on even with these shocking revelations that it's impossible to take it all in...from Don Patch and Tennosuke's "earliest possible" encounter with Bo-bobo...to Be-bebe annihilating Bo-bobo World! This fight is probably a major turning point in the series (even though our impressions of Be-bebe will end up changing much later on) and it will continue next time...nosehairs or no nosehairs! (but probably with more leghairs)