Kinnikuman 88

To save the planet Rakka, Beansman has recruited a team of Choujin from the Earth. But now comes the hard part: heading into space and stopping the evil invasion!

Chapter 88: Planet Rakka’s Hidden Fort

98.
(clockwise from top)

BEANSMAN (PLANET RAKKA)
Strongest Skill: None
Hobby: Kaijuu Collection

CRYSTALMAN (ANTARCTICA)
Strongest Skill: Cold Fights
Hobby: Ice Skating

KINNIKUMAN (JAPAN, OR PLANET KINNIKU)
Strongest Skill: Speed-eating Gyuudon
Hobby: Watching Wrestling, Sleeping

BROCKEN JR. (GERMANY)
Strongest Skill: Brutal Fights
Hobby: Reading

RAMENMAN (CHINA)
Strongest Skill: Camel Clutch
Hobby: Bonsai, Cooking

TERRYMAN (AMERICA)
Strongest Skill: Bull Docking Headlock
Hobby: Horse-Riding, Guitar

PUYOPUYO (AFRICA)
Strongest Skill: Transformation
Hobby: None

99.
Everyone: We Are!
Everyone: Invincible…
Everyone: Chou Jin!

100.
“Everyone”: Six!!
Suguru: Hey—we’re seven, seven!
Beans: So, with that, we’ll take Puyopuyo’s transformed Galaxy Coaster towards Planet Rakka!!
Beans: Takeoff!

101.
Suguru: OWA—
Narrator: And so, the seven warped and went to Planet Rakka.
Suguru: Hey—can’t you guys wait~~!!
Beans: Ooh, there it is!

102.
Beans: That’s Planet Rakka, everyone!!
Terry: Of course…………it’s just like Earth.
Beans: Landing--!
Suguru: Ye—s, we’re here! We’re here!
Suguru: Yahoo—
Ramen: Really, you’re noisy—

103.
Suguru: We’ve come~~all the way to Planet Rakka~~~!!
Terry: Hey! We haven’t come on a picnic.
Suguru: I’ll eat since I’m hungry—
Suguru: Mu!
Suguru: It’s…a Space Nobushi!!
Everyone: What!?
Suguru: Prepare yourself--!!

104.
Suguru: Ah…
Man: O……Ow…
Suguru: It’s just a peasant!
Terry: Hey, everyone, don’t you think it’s strange? There’s no one around aside this old man.
Crystal: Furthermore, I don’t see the Nobushi either.
Suguru: Ah…..You’re right.

105.
Beans: Hey, where is everyone? Where did they go?
Man: OK, I’ll tell you!
Suguru: Eh?
Man: Look past the holding fog.
Man: The—re, the fog is clearing.
Puyopuyo: N?

106.
Everyone: The…..that’s…
Man: Fufu…are you surprised, Beansman!
Beans: The……then you’re…

107.
Beans: Elder, you’re alive?
Ingen: Ahahaha, I’m immortal.
Suguru: That old guy’s in good health!
Beans: Well, Elder…what’s that fort?
Everyone: A HIDDEN FORT?
Ingen: All of the survivors are living here.
Ingen: The reason the Nobushi haven’t found us is that we’ve hidden this building using this constant man-made fog.
Terry: It’s no wonder we haven’t seen anybody.

108.
Suguru: Well then, Elder, where are the Space Nobushi!?
Ingen: Oh, the Nobushi?
Ingen: They’ve goner home to eat.
Ingen: We’re not attacked now due to their mid-day lunch time. They can’t fight on an empty stomach. Keeping those words, they suspend their fighting and go home to eat during the three meals at morning, noon and night.
Suguru: Eeh?
Ingen: Look at this young Choujin!
Menu:
SPACE NOBUSHI LUNCH MENU
(Pick One)

Sole Meuniere
Aigamo Cooked in Red Wine (TN: Aigamo is a cross of a mallard and domestic duck)
Tenderloin Steak

Half-Cooked Eggs (20 Eggs)
White Bread (10 Servings)
Fresh Vegetables (Horse Tear) (TN: Couldn’t really find it)

Dessert:
Cheesecake
Coffee
Yakult Jowa (TN: Yakult is more known as the “probiotic drink” company but I assume this is a dessert from this time)

Suguru: Wow…
Ingen: By the way, this is the Space Nobushi’s menu!
Ingen: Their dessert was Yakult Jowa.

109.
Suguru: Fue—they eat well. I’m drooling over it.
Ingen: And in reference…
Ingen: Our menu!
Menu:
BREAKFAST: Cold Gruel
LUNCH: Red Dog Steak for a bit of extravagance
DINNER: Ground Gruel

Caption: (Those who don’t get it should read Motomiya-sensei’s “Daikikin”)
(TN: “Daikikin” or “The Great Famine”, is a manga work written by former WSJ mangaka Hiroshi Motomiya [though I don’t think it was put in WSJ)
Suguru: Dahaha, those food lose.
Beans: Hey…..Elder--.
Beans: It will be fine since we’re already here! Surely Planet Rakka will regain peace.
Ingen: Be………Beansman!
Suguru: Yo, Utopia!

110.
Narrator: At that moment—
Everyone: Wh…..What’s that sound…
Ingen: Ooh…that must mean the Nobushi’s lunchtime is over!!
Suguru: Th…they’re coming!
Suguru: Ah…It’s the Space Nobushi……!!

111.
HERE’S WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW OF MEAT’S SECRETS

Name: Meat Kinniku
Birthdate: January 1st, 1970
Home: Planet Kinniku

KINNIKU BAG: He uses it just for going on trips. It has Kinnikuman and Meat’s underwear.
MEAT-KUN’S FAVORITE T-SHIRT
SUPER GLASSES: Can see in infa-red.
MEAT CAN READ 250 BOOKS IN A WEEK, START TO FINISH
MINCEBALLS: Somehow Meat has a weakness for Minceballs.
HOBBIES: Reading, Movie Appreciation (Superman II was good)

TN: OK...so with 3/4 of the arc on Planet Rakka done...we're talking about menus of the good and bad guys!? OK, it was a silly moment but it just felt very out of nowhere compared to the crisis at hand. Sure the Space Nobushi are finally arriving and the climactic battle has come...but there's only one real chapter left so I just wonder what the whole purpose of the arc was. (well maybe aside from introducing some more Choujin...well, maybe just one) I guess it's somewhat comparable to the Roots arc back during the first Kaijuu hunting arc...but that was a ton of fun and well put together compared to...well, this. Not much else to say: next time, the final chapter of the Rakka arc and...well, I've got something to important after that.