Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 202

Bu-bubu's bloodlust is scary, but somehow it helped win a match against Fine's bizarre quartet! Yet the next set of leaders will lead to someone finally becoming the leader they may (or may not) want to be in the most disturbingly cute battle yet!

Ougi 202: Moemoe Oyabin’s Journey to Find Himself
(TN: “Moemoe” is an onomatopoeia of “moe”, which was explained in the previous chapter, yet here is the attribute of “exhibiting moe”. It remains as is in the title mostly due to the usage of “Moe” in this battle with Red K and Blue D…as well as “Moemoe” their Shinken name…yes, a “moe” Shinken, what did you expect from those two?)

71.
5th: What level is Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo?
Wandering Tofu: WOULDN’T HE BE AROUND BU-BUBU’S?
4th: If he’s around Bu-bubu’s, then he should give a good fight up to the 8th Division Commander. He won’t be a match for us.
Goisu: Ridiculous. There’s a reason this battle’s already decided.
SFX: Turn
5th: He would seem to be the one you want to fight the most but…do you have a connection to Bo-bobo?
Shigeki X: THIS REALLY IS GETTING…SHIGEKI-LIKE.

72.
Narrator: --Summary—Due to Bu-bubu’s super-cruel personality, which is said to love seeing human blood, Commander Lunac was defeated!!
Bu-bubu: AHAHAHA
Lunac: …Th…Th…
Lunac: THIS IS GREAT, YES SIR--!!!
SFX: BI
Beauty: REALLY!?
Caption: COMMANDER LUNAC: LOST FROM GOOD FEELINGS
SFX: BAN
Lunac: NO REGRETS, YES SIR—
Beauty: FROM GOOD FEELINGS!!? WHAT’S THAT?
Heppokomaru: YES! ELIMINATING ONE, IT’S 4-ON-3. YOU’VE DONE IT, BO-BOBO-SAN, BU-BUBU-SAN
Bu-bubu: NOT ENOUGH BLOOD...NOT ENOUGH BLOOD YET TONIGHT…UHIHIHI
SFX: SHAKE SHAKE
Heppokomaru: SHE’S PROWLING WANTING BLOOD----!!!

73.
Bu-bubu: HUMAN~~~WHRE ARE THE LIVING HUMANS~~~
SFX: SHAKE…SHAKE…
Package: JAR
Bu-bubu: N!
Bu-bubu: HERE!! YOU’RE SHAKING TOO MUCH
SFX: LIFT
Don Patch: PURURU PURURU
(TN: I could have written “shake, shake”, but it would have ruined the cell phone joke, considering “pururu” is the SFX of a ringing cell)
Screen: SILENT MODE
Bu-bubu: What, a cell…
Bo-bobo: Ah, this is my cell! It’s a new model. Hello…who is it?
SFX: PI
Don Patch: ME, ME! IT’S ME, BUT I DROPPED MY KOBAN IN THE MIDST OF MY JOURNEY…I WANTED TO MAKE A KOBAN TRANSFER PAYMENT THROUGH MY BANK BUT…
(TN: A “Koban” is an old gold elliptical coin that was formerly used as a monetary unit in Japan)
Bo-bobo & Bu-bubu: IT’S THE “ME ME SWINDLER”!!?

74.
Bo-bobo: SENDING IT!! SENDING YOUR REALLY URGENT KOBAN--!!!
Boxes: 1000 RYOU
SFX: BAM BAM
Lunac, Red K & Blue D: GUWAA
Bu-bubu: THEY’RE NOT “ME ME”!! DON’T WORRY ABOUT BEING DECEIVED!!
(TN: A bit weird but not translated from the language transfer: when Don Patch made his comment earlier, he identified as “Sessha Sessha”, an antiquated way of saying “I” or “me”, but Bu-bubu ends up turning it into “Ore Ore”, which is the modern way of it)
Heppokomaru: WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING!!? (Since earlier)
Bu-bubu: A “Kesshii Keshi Keshi Battle” is all four-person teamwork. Can’t you seem to understand how our unity power increases with them having three people?
Heppokomaru: SO MUCH TO BE REVEALED, BUT THERE ARE INTERPRETATIONS AND LIES……
Fine: It’s not proper to be happy—
SFX: GRAB
Lunac: FINE-SAMA~~~~
Fine: YOU’VE SHAMED US…DIE.
SFX: SAAAA
Lunac: UWAAAAA, MY BODY~~~!! I COULDN’T SEE IT BUT PERHAPS WITH CELEBRATION~~~

75.
Fine: S**T, STOP…YES SIR SHINKEN OUGI: SERGEANT FAIRY SPIRITED FORFEIT DANCE!!!!
Fairies: AMAZING, YES SIR—FUN, YES SIR—
SFX: SAAAAA
Fine: BIRYUUSHI SHINKEN OUGI: TRANS HAIR!!!
(TN: Kanji reading: “Hairball Statue Transformation”)
SFX: BAN
Beauty: IT REALLY IS BAD, YES SIR SHINKEN!
Fine: WE DON’T NEED SHIRMPS IN THE HATSUMOU SHISHI!!
SFX: CRASH
Everyone: !!
Heppokomaru: HE…EASILY KILLED HIS OWN TEAMMATE!!!
Heppokomaru: BO-BOBO-SAN, THEY’RE DANGEROUS…
SFX: TURN

76.
Bu-bubu: (H)e’s too dangerous, yet is small. Don Patch.
Don Patch: YEES!!!
SFX: SLAP
Heppokomaru: YET WHAT ARE YOU THREE DOING!!!?
Bu-bubu: STREGTHENING OUT TEAMWORK!
SFX: SMIRK
Heppokomaru: Well she’s saying that shamelessly!!
Don Patch: HEY, HE-KUN, LOOK CLOSELY AT THESE KARUTA, CLOSELY!
(TN: “Karuta” is a type of playing card game with special cards involving trying to get certain cards as quickly as possible from a pile on the ground. I’ll explain one of them a bit more in a moment)
Heppokomaru: N
Don Patch: BO-BOBO MADE THEM.
Don Patch: THEIR NAME IS “DON PATCH CRITICAL KARUTA”! AREN’T THEY GREAT—AREN’T THEY GREAT—
Cards:
Top Right: (B)itten by a stray dog, Don Patch.
Top Middle: (S)eriously tasty and stale, go Don Patch
Top Left: (C)ause he’s an idiot, he got stabbed, Don Patch
Center: (J)umped and got squashed, Don Patch
Center Left: (I)ntercepting a bug and prostrating, Don Patch
Bottom Right: (W)anted to get hit, that’s Don Patch
Bottom Left: (A) dumb boy, dumb dumb dumb dumb, he is dumb.
(TN: The card game that Bo-bobo created for Don Patch is based on the karuta game “iroha-garuta”. The game involves torifuda cards (cards with proverbs on them and a picture connected to them) with different proverbs, each one beginning with a letter of the Japanese alphabet, with the object being for anyone to grab that card as its being said, with this game in particular a typical exercise in Japanese elementary and middle schools. I had a bit of a hard time to create one with each of the 26 English letters to make this bit work but somehow it was done.)
Heppokomaru: ARE THEY NEW KINDS OF IMAGES?...............

77.
Don Patch: AAH!!? WELL THESE KARUTA, LOOKING CLOSELY…
Don Patch: USE RECYCLED PAPER! SO KIND TO THE EARTH! (They’re rough)
Heppokomaru: If you’re happy, you’re happy but…
Fine: NOW, I’VE COMPLETED DEALING WITH THE UNNEEDED HAIR. SHALL WE RESUME THE GAME?
Bo-bobo: Your treatment of unneeded hair…your teamwork is below head lice...I can’t lose to you!
Beauty: AH!! THE NEXT LEADER HERE IS DECIDED!! OURS IS DON PATCH-KUN!! IS THAT FINE!?
Sign: OFFENSE / DEFENSE
Don Patch: YES, IIIITS FIIIIIINAAAALY HEEEEEEREEEE!!!
SFX: BOOM
Heppokomaru: WA
Don Patch: FINALLY…FINALLY IT’S TIME FOR ME TO BE LEADER----!!! A LEADER’S ORDERS ARE FINAL!! HERE I AM…I AM THE GOVERNOR----!!!
Kanji: KAMI (GOD)

78.
Don Patch: HA (to himself) But that man seems like he should simply forgive me but…
Bo-bobo: Well, that’s fine. It’s the rules.
Don Patch: HE PERSONALLY ACKNOWLEDGED ME AS LEADER. HE DID IT!!!
SFX: BAN
SFX: BISHI—
Forehead: LEADER
Beauty: HE’S VERY HAPPY…NOW THERE’S PEACE……
Red K: WELL, WE’RE YOUR OPPONENT.
Blue D: WE’VE ALREADY INTRODUCED OURSELVES…
(TN: Error on Sawai’s part: the container that had Blue D (or Red K but Blue D was on the left) has them as 13th…Blue D was 9th Division. (Red K was 10th))
Red K: MY NAME IS RED K!
Blue D: AND I’M BLUE D!
Beauty: THE FACES AND NAMES OF THOSE TWO CLEARLY AREN’T EVEN 1 MM APART!!! (SHOW ME THE PARENT WHO NAMED THEM!!)

79.
Don Patch: OSSHA---I’M FACING YOU TWO. I’LL BE AS ROUGH AS ALWAYS
Don Patch: A STEP OF “DODOPATCH SAMBA”!!! I~~~WILL~I~~~WILL~DODOPATCH SAMBA~~~
SFX: NPA NPA
Heppokomaru: WHAT’S THAT!? THAT’S THE FIRST I’VE SEEN THAT!!
Red K: That’s a good move. But, we’re on offense.
Don Patch: SO, THE DANCE WON’T HURT!?
Blue D: Let’s go.
Red K & Blue D: MOEMOE SHINKEN OUGI: NYAN-NYAN MAID CAFÉ!!!
Red K: WELCOME BACK, MASTER!
Blue D: LET’S MOEMOE TOGETHER-NYAN!
SFX: BAN
Heppokomaru: THAT’S AN OUGI!? ARE THEY STUPID----!!!
Don Patch: Fu…I can read what that is.
Heppokomaru: WHAT?
Don Patch: So then all of us here…
Don Patch: WILL MOEMOE TOGETHER NYAN-NYA----N! AHAHAHA
Beauty: HE REALLY IS STUPID---!!! IT’S IMPOSSIBLE WITH HIM AS LEADER!!

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Red K: NOW, PUT ON YOUR CAT EARS, NYAN! WEAR THEM, NYAN!
Blue D: THEY SUIT YOU, NYAN!
Heppokomaru: HEY…WHAT IS THIS? HEY, DON PATCH, ORDER ME EXACTLY TO DEFEAT THEM!!!
SFX: STEP STEP
Don Patch: MOE MOE MOE MOE MOEE MOE MOE MOMOE MOE MOE MOE!!!!
Heppokomaru: I DON’T GET WHAT HE’S SAYING
Don Patch: NOW, OBEY ME-NYAN! TOGETHER WE’LL MOE-NYAN TOGETHER-NYAN!
Heppokomaru: DO THAT-----!!!
SFX: WHAM
Don Patch: AAH, THE CAT EARS
Caption: JUDGE FIRE
Don Patch: THAT’S WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO DON’T LISTEN TO A LEADER’S VIEW
SFX: POP / BOOOOO
Heppokomaru: GUWAAAA, THE RULES!!
Beauty: HE-KUN’S A STUPID SCAPEGOAT!!
Bu-bubu: DON PATCH-LEADER, IS THIS NICE-NYAN? (to herself) Don Patch is admirable for this
Beauty: WHAT ARE YOU DOING!!? WHAT’S THAT SUPPOSED TO BE

81.
Bo-bobo: SO THEN I’LL BE “ANCIENT DEHYDRATED GAL * WAKAME MUMMY” FROM THE “WORLD SAIMOE ENCYCLOPEDIA”. SORRY FOR BEING SAIMOE.
SFX: BAN
(TN: “Saimoe” is possibly a reference to the “Anime Saimoe Tournament”, a competition held on Japanese boards where moe characters compete against each other on 2ch to be the most “moe” character of the year)
Beauty: THAT’LL NEVER BE MOE---!! IT’S A MUMMY AND SEAWEED
Red K & Blue D: THOSE TWO ARE TOO MOE
SFX: BURST
Beauty: IT’S EFFECTIVE!! I DON’T GET IT NOW!!
Don Patch: BUT THOSE TWO ARE NO GOOD CAUSE THEY’RE DIFFERENT FROM THEIR LEADER’S IMAGE---!!
SFX: BA / BOOOOOO
Beauty: THOSE TWO TOO ARE SCATTERING IN FRONT OF THE “KESSHII KESHI KESHI BATTLE” RULES-----!!!
Fine: KUKKU…THE LEADER IS AN IDIOT, HE’S GIVING TROUBLE TO HIS SUPPORTERS.
Don Patch: YOU CAN BADMOUTH ME………BUT I WON’T FORGIVE THOSE WHO BADMOUTH BO-BOBO.
Beauty: That’s you.

82.
Don Patch: YOU’RE BEING DECEIVED, EVERYONE! WHAT HE’S SAYING IS NONSENSE!! A TRAP!! HE’S AIMING TO BREAK UP OUR TEAM!!
Bo-bobo: YOU’RE TOO MERRY.
Don Patch: OH NO…THOSE EYES WILL KILL ME
SFX: STIFFEN
Don Patch: MOEMOEMOEMOEMOE~~~
SFX: SLIDE SHUTTER
Beauty: AH! HE’S RUN OFF WITH THE ENEMIES
Red K: WE’VE GOT YOU, NYAN! YOU BECOME UNABLE TO GET YOUR SUPPORTER’S HELP
SFX: CLICK
Don Patch: Eh?
Red K & Blue D: DIE!! MOEMOE SHINKEN CHOUOUGI: HOLE-SMASHING KILLING RUSH!!!!
SFX: BAM BAM BAM BAM
Don Patch: GYAAAAA
Heppokomaru: WHAAAT, THEY’RE RUSHING AT HIM LIKE CATS!! THIS IS THEIR TRUE NATURE----!!!

83.
Bu-bubu: THIS IS BAD, HE CAN’T ORDER HIS SUPPORTERS AND CAN’T MOVE. DON PATCH-SAN, HURRY AND ORDER…
Bo-bobo: NO NEED
Bu-bubu: EH?
Bu-bubu: HAVE YOU ABANDONED YOUR ALLY!? LOOK AT HIM.
Bo-bobo: That’s not it.
Bo-bobo: His sprouting self is truly in the midst of a journey to “find himself”…Whatever the answer is will be reached and make him reborn………That’s because he is………
(TN: Bo-bobo is using “Moe” in this sense as in “Moeru”, which is a verbal to mean “to sprout”, as opposed to the “Moe” of Red K & Blue D)
Bo-bobo: A NATURAL-BORN BOXER!!!!
Arrow: THE GREAT JOURNEY KNOWN AS FINDING YOURSELF
Poster: BOXING LEGEND
Hat: Fisherman
Don Patch: I’m exposed.
Beauty: THAT’S WHY!!? IT’S JUST LIKE THE COVER OF JUMP #17
(TN: Beauty is referring to Issue 17, 2005 of WSJ, which uses a similar pattern of a moving arrow and changing perspective with “Naruto” lead Naruto Uzumaki)

84.
Blue D: AHAHA, YOU’RE SUDDENLY A BOXER!? THERE ISN’T ANYONE WHO CAN SURPASS MY MOE-NYAN!!! DIE—
SFX: GOOO
Don Patch: I’m reaping my conscious. Roar, my right fist.
Don Patch: BULLET!!!!
SFX: BOOM
Red K: HI…
Red K: IDIOT!! THAT BRAT HAS DAMAGED US, YET OUR POWER IS STILL WHERE…WHA!!
Red K: HIS LEGS ARE ALREADY SHAKY!! HE’S STANDING MERELY FROM STRENGTH OF WILL
Don Patch: THIS HAS EMERGED FROM MY TRAINING…THIS ALL HAS EMERGED FROM MY TRAINING…
Beauty: No, it’s not from……training.

85.
Red K: THEEEE BREAAATH OF A BUUUUG WIIIILL DIIIIIIE--!!!
SFX: GOOOO
Don Patch: MOLTING
SFX: RIP
Red K: !!?
Don Patch: BIRTH OF OYABIN BAZOO—KA!!!!
SFX: BO—OM
Red K: MOE--!!
Bo-bobo: That man is always continuing to evolve…
Red K: HE’S TOO IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT-NYA, HE’S TOO STRONG-NYA…
SFX: STRESS
Bu-bubu: HE’S TOO DREAMY
SFX: POOO
Beauty: NOSEBLEED NOSEBLEED
Don Patch: There’s one left, Do—n
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED
Dengaku Man: THE LAST PANEL IS MINE!!
Caption: TO BE CONTINUED
SFX: KUWA

TN: And hopefully that puts Moe in it's place for a while! OK, I don't mind Moe when done right...but a lot of times it just seems to be cute just for the sake of being cute instead of...well maybe now's not the time to get into a rant on moe culture in Japan. But you can say that Don Patch really socked it to those two cutesy maid girls, Bu-bubu should dress up in catgirl outfits more often (at least on her it's not moe...it's just fanservice) and Heppokomaru...well, he rebelled against moe first but he definately seems like a non-factor in this fight. (then again he hasn't had a legit solo fight since the OVER arc so it's not like he isn't trying to get back into the story) Meanwhile, after the tragedy of Commander Lunac (and perhaps an even more disturbed "Yes Sir Shinken" attack than the previous chapter), I do have one weird question in my head: where exactly do these humanoid hair people come from? I mean, it's obvious we have the Ba-Bi-Bu-Be-Bo combo and they're all special cases, but where do the many others (including many of the fighters in this arc outside a certain few, the Sentai corp...heck, even Hatenko) come from? I sort of wish Sawai did explain that a bit more but I guess it's just one of those things that's there. The arc would be a tad sillier than usual if every villain in this arc was merely a bouncing hair follicle. (or a soda can)