Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 194

With unexpected tactics by the smallest of heroes, Hydrate's armor (as much as it was) was finally removed! But as he continues his angry offensive, the shocking truth of the Dark Emperor is finally revealed...

Ougi 194: Hydrate’s Secret

118.
Sign: Serialization: 200 Chapters (Just a bit more)

119.
Narrator: Kancho-kun chose to do a second attack!
SX: STAB
Hydrate: GUGYAAAAAAAA
Beauty: ………
Kancho: GUOOOO, STAB TOWARDS THE LIGHT…STAB TOWARDS THE LIGHT--!!
SFX: WHIRRL
Beauty: I DON’T GET THAT LOW GAG AT ALL!!
Don Patch: ALRIGHT! YOU CAN DO IT, PLATOON LEADER, A BIT MORE!!
Bo-bobo: SO IT’S IMPOSSIBLE FOR HYDRATE TO COME BACK--!!
SFX: WHIRRRL
Beauty: KYAAAA, WHAT IS THIS DRAWING!? IT’S THE WORST----!!!
Beauty: HEY…IS THIS REALLY THE FINAL BATTLE OF THIS SERIES!?
Heppokomaru: Eh…? Perhaps…
Hydrate: GUOOOOOOOOOO
Hydrate: GAHA…AM I GOING TO LOSE AGAIN…IT’S JUST LIKE THAT TIME THIRTY YEARS AGO…
Don Patch: IS HE GOING TO GO REVEAL HIS PAST JUST AS KANCHO IS DOING THAT!? THAT’S ABSURD
Bo-bobo: HYDRATE’S PAST!? THAT’S JUST FINE: IT WILL EXPOSE HIS TRUE NATURE!!!
(TN: Of course, Tennosuke has a parody “PAIO” of the Sony “VAIO” computer)

120.
Hydrate: …I was born 30 years ago as the highest-grade child in the Maruhage Empire……Not being born in poverty, I was a winning chind.
Creature: HAA…HAA…
SFX: Shake shake / KIRI KIRI KIRI
Beauty: WHAT ARE THESE CIRCUMSTANCES!?
SFX: SNORE—SNORE—
Heppokomaru: HE’S ALREADY ASLEEP!!
Hydrate: But from the moment I was born, I had already lost. My own big brother, he was…
SFX: GOGOGOGO
Bo-bobo: HE…HE WAS YOUR SENIOR!?
Hydrate: That man was my big brother, the one who would be the future governor of the Maruhage Empire. He was Emperor Tsuru Tsurulina the 4th.
SFX: BAN
Beauty: THAT’S A FACE----!!
Don Patch’s cap: Fisherman
(TN: Obviously a play on words: instead of “Tsuru” as in “Tsuru Tsurulina”, Don Patch has a cap which uses “Tsuri” or “Fishing”)

121.
Halekulani: WHAAT! HYDRATE IS TSURULINA THE 4TH’S LITTLE BROTHER--!!?
Zetsubou: SUPREMELY SURPRISING
Softon: BUT, WHY WOULD THE 4TH SEND HIS LITTLE BROTHER TO THE DARK WORLD!?
Hydrate: From the day I was born, we were raised differently.
Can: Consomme
Hydrate: The emperor and
Hydrate: The servant.
Hydrate: And then, on the day I became 7 years old, I was ordered to learn a Shinken in order to protect my big brother…In front of me was the one Shinken user that could be a leader………
SFX: ZA
Bo-bobo: Yeah yeah, that’s how you got Ashi no Ura Shinken. Did he also have smelly footsoles? Its fine then, not interested—
SFX: PICK PICK
Don Patch: HEY, IT’S A BIG ONE!!
Beauty: HEY…LISTEN SERIOUSLY!!

122.
Dandy: MY NAME IS LANDMINE DANDY! I’M IN CHARGE OF INSTRUCTING YOU. From today, I’m going to train you alongside my daughter, Torpedo Girl.
Caption: Torpedo Girl’s Father: LANDMINE DANDY (35 YEARS UNDERGROUND)
Torpedo Girl: I CAN’T STAND FOOLISHNESS.
Caption: TORPEDO GIRL (5 YEARS OLD)
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: LANDMINE DANDY---!!? AN AMAZING ONE APPEARED---!!! AND HE’S RELEATED TO TORPEDO-SENSEI--!!?
Beauty: THEY’RE REALLY BITING AT IT HERE--!!!
Beauty: I’m worried too…
SFX: Munch
Dandy: Boy…What sort of Shinken are you wishing for? Answer me with the feeling of being revealed from being buried underground.
SFX: CLANG CLANG
Hydrate: !?
Hydrate: …..MY BIG BRO……I WISH FOR A SHINKEN SO I FIGHT EQUALLY WITH TSURULINA THE 4TH!

123.
Dandy: In brief, you wish to have footsoles that won’t be afraid at all, even if you step on a landmine!
SFX: CLANG CLANG
Hydrate: I DIDN’T SAY A SINGLE WORD OF THAT AT ALL
Dandy: Soak your feet in this “Landmine Rice Bran” for 8 years to perfect the ultimate “Ashi no Ura Shinken”, which can not lose.
SFX: CLANG CLANG / WHAM
Hydrate: HEY…WHAT DID YOU ARBITRARILY CHOOSE!!
Dandy: The Shinken is surely from your thoughts and feelings……
SFX: LIFT
Hydrate: HEY…WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? PUT ME DOWN!!
Dandy: That has no meaning when you’re forced to remember!!
SFX: PLUNK
Hydrate: UWAAAAA, EH!? AH? EEH!?
Dandy: TAKE THIS, BOY! ENBAN SHINKEN OUGI: OBJECT DUTY!!! NOW, DO YOU WANT THE POWER!? HE WHO CONTROLS LANDMINES CONTROLS THE WORLD!!
(TN: Enban = “Disk” or “Discus”)
SFX: WHIRRL / ZUBABABA
Hydrate: GUWAAA
Beauty: HE REALLY WANTS HIM TO DO IT---!!!
Hydrate: And so 8 years of time flew by…(flashback) HAAHAA…I’VE SURVIVED IT TO THE END……THIS IS THE END OF MY TRAINING, MASTER LANDMINE…

124.
SFX: TURN TURN
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: LANDMINE DANDY-----!!!! UWAAAA, HE WAS DISMANTLED----!!!
Beauty: WA!!
Hydrate: Thus I obtained Ashi no Ura Shinken………
Don Patch: LANDMINE DANDY---!!
Bo-bobo & Tennosuke: DANDY---!
Beauty: They’re not listening…
Hydrate: I merely didn’t want to be my brother’s servant, I just wanted to connect to him as a normal younger brother…I wanted to be recognized by big bro as Tsurulina the 4th’s little brother. If it was with a powerful; Shinken, then anything would have been good…
SFX: CRACKLE CRACKLE
Hydrate: EVEN IF IT WAS ASHI NO URA SHINKEN!!!
Beauty: KYAAAA, WHAT? ONRYOU ARE APPEARING FROM HYDRATE’S FEET…
(TN: The term “onryou” is actually the Japanese term for “vengeful spirits”, as in a Japanese ghost who comes to the human world for revenge)

125.
Heppokomaru: WHA!? THESE ONRYOU ARE TAKING OFF OUR SHES
SFX: BA
Bo-bobo: WHAT ARE THEY DOING!?
Hydrate: WATCH!! THIS IS MY TRUE POWER, WHICH I MASTERED IN ORDER FOR MY BIG BRO TO RECOGNIZE ME!!!
Hydrate: ASHI NO URA SHINKEN CHOUSAIDAI OUGI: KILLING BY COOCHIE-COOCHIE TICKLING THE FOOTSOLES!!!!
(TN: The kanji in that attack actually translates to “Anger of the Really Exaggerated Control of Reality”. And meanwhile, “Chousaidai” is “Super-Ultimate”)
SFX: TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE TICKLE
Everyone: GYAHAHAHAHAHA GYAHAHAHAHAHA
Beauty: THAT TECHNIQUE IS A CHOUSAIDAI OUGI!? THERE’S NO WAY HE’LL END IT WITH—THIS!!!
Everyone: GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA, THIS IS BAD, WE’RE LAUGHING TO DEATH WITH THIS TECHNIQUE-----!! GUBA. WE HAVE TO GET SERIOUS-GYAHAHAHAHA GOHA!!
Beauty: THAT WILL WORK!!
Don Patch: GYAHAHAHAHA, AT…AT THIS TIME…IF I ONLY HAD MY DON PATCH STICK…
Bo-bobo: YOU…MEAN THIS?
Don Patch: !!
Don Patch: AAH!! THE DON PATCH STICK. I ONLY NEED THIS…
SFX: GRAB

126.
Don Patch: NANTOKA KANTOKA PATRONUM!!!!!
(TN: This is obviously another Harry Potter reference to the “Expecto Patronum” spell used to protect against Dementors, but I kept “Nantoka Kantoka”, which is “Somehow or Another”, to keep the mystical feel of the spell)
SFX: PIKA
SFX: PITA
Spirits: ………
Spirits: GYAAAAA, OF COURSE
SFX: JYUUUU
Beauty: OF COURSE!!?
Hydrate: GUBAA!! IDIOTS, MY ULTIMATE OUGI…MY ASHI NO URA SHINKEN, AAAH~~~~~

127.
Torpedo Girl: YOU’RE TOO RIDICULOUS----!!!!
SFX: WHAM
Hydrate: GOHA!!!
Torpedo Girl: I’VE HEARD YOU EARLIER AND YOUR “FOOTSOLE”, “FOOTSOLE” IS TOO RIDICULOUS!!
SFX: BAN
Torpedo Girl: BUT YOU TAUGHT HIM THAT SHINKEN WITH YOUR DAD!!
Hydrate: GUNUNUNU, TORPEDO GIRL…YOU AND YOUR DAD HAD GOTTEN IN MY WAY AGAIN, JUST LIKE THAT DAY…
Hydrate: JUST LIKE THE DAY I WAS BURIED INTO THE DARK WORLD…(flashback) STOP, LET ME GO
Hair Hunter: 4th, we’ve prepared to send Hydrate into the Dark World.
Hydrate: EH!? HEY…WHAT DOES THIS MEAN BIG BROTHER…? ANSWER ME BIG BROTHER
4th: Fine, send him.
Hydrate: BIG BROTHER--! BIG BROTHER---!!
Tennosuke: Daughter daughter
Beauty & Heppokomaru: UWA~~~…NOTICE HOW HE’S BECOME A-BLOCK LEADER……HIM
Tennosuke: What? What?

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4th: I AM THE EMPEROR…LITTLE BROTHERS DON’T EXIST TO ME. MUCH LESS LITTLE BROTHERS WHO HAVE STINKY FEET
Hydrate: !!
Hydrate: UOOOO, BIG BROTHER…NO, TSURULINA THE 4TH!! I CAN’T FORGIVE ONLY YOU---~!!
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Beauty: UWA! WHAT IS THIS POWER!? HYDRATE CAN’T STOP IT…
Dandy: REVIVAL ENBAN SHINKEN!!!!
SFX: SLASH SLASH SLASH
Hydrate: GYAAAAA!!
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: THERE HE IS—LANDMINE DANDY!!!
Tennosuke: I know him.
Hydrate: UWAAAA~~
SFX: ZUZUZUZU
Dandy: It’s a world to step or be stepped on.
Beauty: HYDRATE DISSAPPEARED INTO THE DARKNESS!!
Torpedo Girl: Opening.
SFX: CLANG
Dandy: WHA!?
SFX: BO—OM
Caption: AS…AS EXPECTED FROM MY DAUGHTER…by Landmine Dandy
Tennosuke: Shaka shaka
Beauty: What is this past?............

129.
Hydrate: …Thus, the Dark World I was sent to is an bizarre world created in order to bury people who opposed the Maruhage Empire…Within this Dark World, I built the Under-Maruhage Empire and continued to amass power in order to conquer all of the surface…
SFX: GOGOGOGOGO
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: THAT’S FINE WITH US!!!!
SFX: WHAM
Hydrate: GABEBA!!!!
Beauty & Heppokomaru: THEY’RE FINE WITH IT!!?
Bo-bobo: WHAT WE WANT TO KNOW IS WHAT HAPPENED AFTER TO LANDMINE DANDY!
Don Patch & Tennosuke: DID HE DIE!? TELL US!
Beauty: THEIR FOCUS CHANGED---!!!
Torpedo Girl: Afterwards, an eyewitness saw my father in the mouth of a dog-gyora.
Bo-bobo, Don Patch & Tennosuke: HE’S ALIVE! GREAT---!!
Hatenko: YOU--! HOW LONG WAS BE-BEBE BRAINWASHED BY YOU? ANSWER
SFX: GA

130.
Hydrate: FINE, I’LL TELL YOU…It was twenty years ago, on that day as the Maruhage Empire destroyed the Hair Kingdom.
Hydrate: I randomly met a guy who blew with the wind of a big brother. This man was Bebebe-be Be-bebe.
SFX: DON
Banner: GREATEST BIG BROTHER
Hydrate: I quickly ran off with him.
SFX: DA
Bo-bobo: Huh? Big bro?
Hydrate: AND BRAINWASHED HIM TO BECOME MY SUBORDINATE
Be-bebe: Meow—
Hatenko: !!! HEY…YOU! YOU WEREN’T LYING---AT ALL!! YOU REALLY DID BRAINWASH BE-BEBE!!
Hydrate: I COULDN’T FORGIVE A MAN WHO BLEW WITH A BROTHERLY WIND!! I WANTED TO SEE THIS OUT OF MY BIG BRO TSURULINA. BO-BOBO! YOU TOO NOT HAVING YOUR BIG BROTHER SHOULD HAVE BEEN CREATED BY ME
Hydrate: DIE! ASHI NO URA SHINKEN OUGI: SENDING YOU OFF WITH THE SMELL OF A BEAST!!!
(TN: Kanji Translation: “Revolution Attached to Captivating Jackal-Wolf Smell”)
SFX: GOOOOOO
Hatenko: GUO, HE IS

131.
Bo-bobo: Big brother Be-bebe is different from your bro Tsurulina the 4th…He held on to my younger self with his protective techniques…
Hydrate: WHAT!?
Don Patch: I'LL STRIKE BACK AT YOU, SO WATCH AS THIS ATTACK GOES TOWARDS YOU AND BE SEIZED BY THIS TECHNIQUE---!!! UWAAAAA, NANTARA KANTARA PATRONUM!!!
(TN: “Nantara Kantara” = a broader version of “Somehow or another”)
SFX: KA
SFX: PAN
Hydrate: GUO!!! MY ABURAAGE!!
(TN: This is a bit of a pun: while “Aburaage”, as mentioned before, is a style of fried tofu, you can also separate it into “abura”, or “fat”, and “age” or “raise”…and considering where Hydrate was wearing it…yeah, draw your own conclusions)
Beauty: WHAT IS DON PATCH!!? AND WHAT IS THIS MAGIC!? (From earlier)
Bo-bobo: SORROWFUL EMPEROR’S BROTHER. I WILL DEFEAT YOU FOR LANDMINE DANDY TOO!!!
Beauty: WHAT ABOUT BROTHER BE-BEBE!?

TN: (whirly eyes) So...is it done...and does it look right? Trust me, reading this chapter may be easy, but this chapter was a nightmare! If you want to source why it was a nightmare, just think of this: compared to the "Ashi no Ura Shinken" attacks that Hydrate threw out earlier, which exactly matched between kanji and translation, the translations and kanji just were taken to their extreme with all of his attacks this chapter! Heck, I'm still really unsure about one or two kanji here or there and it even made my translation of a few other lines here or there seem spotty! But with that said: the chapter was an important turning point regarding not just Hydrate but the whole Under-Maruhage in general. I'm still really confused about who was brainwashed and who was merely just a dissident who joined with Hydrate in his campaign...yeah, it was obvious that Be-bebe was brainwashed but what about some of those others: some parts said they were all brainwashed but their dissident nature could show that maybe some of that anger was not just from some mental control by Hydrate. And then there's Landmine Dandy...he's interesting but things get weirder with him later too! (though you sort of get possibly why Torpedo Girl hates joking so much: with everything he's done, it definately influenced her tastes) So, at least with Hydrate literally down to nothing (yeah...I don't get his taste in armor either), we're approaching the end of the arc...and trust me, it's going to be a bang!