Kinnikuman 163

Leaping lizards: Suguru's first Devil Knight challenge involves fighting an alligator wearing sneakers in a world where anything can become reptilian! Can he avoid the charge of these cold-blooded nemesis for long?

Chapter 163: Gold Mask Arc (4): Hell’s True Form…!!

103.
New Choujin List: (clockwise from center and up)
-SNEAGATOR
-ASHURAMAN
-PLAYERMAN
-PERSONALMAN
-THE NINJA
-GOD CAESAR
-VIKINGMAN
-DOGUUMAN
-CANDELAMAN
-MAPMAN
-POLTERGEIST
-AMMONITES
-BANBANJI

104.
Sneagator: Everything within this arena, such as chairs and confetti, are under my will, transforming them into brutal reptiles. That’s the true form of Gator Hell----!!
Meat: Watch out Prince!
Suguru: Uuh…he bit all three ropes, cutting them up…
Sneagator: Kekeke—
Announcer: He’s rushing at him once again--!!

105.
Suguru: You, is your only technique biting?
Sneagator: Fufufu
Meat: Prince—you shouldn’t be unprepared—cutting those ropes was part of his plan---!!
Suguru: Ge, the ropes.
Sneagator: Gege—
Suguru: Turned into a snake…

106.
Sneagator: Die—Kinnikuman
Meat: Prince—
Terry: Ki…Kinnikuman…
Choujin: Uwaaa, my life support system has cracked---!!
Other Choujin: What—

107.
Announcer: Kinnikuman’s right shoulder has been bitten into--!!
Sneagator: Kukuku…this is still merely the prologue. The hell starts now.
Sneagator: This is the Hell Space Walk!!
Announcer: Snegator’s intense Sneaker Kick has thrown Kinnikuman high in the air!!
Meat: Aah…

108.
Announcer: And Sneagator has chomped into Kinnikuman’s obliques--!!
(TN: I actually had a bit of a tough time translating “wakihara” considering it was the “side stomach”, but since this part of the musculature is there I went with that)

109.
Choujin: Ge
Choujin: Hie—my device is cracking…
Robin: That’s three. Each time Kinnikuman is hit, they crack…
Terry: I’ve got it!
Terry: These life support systems are directly connected to Kinnikuman’s condition. Therefore, if Kinnikuman takes damage, then these devices becomes cracked…
Announcer: And another Sneaker Kick—

110.
Announcer: And this time Sneagator has chomped in three placed. It’s Ultra C—
Meat: Prince—

111.
Random Choujin A: Ge
Random Choujin B: Wa
Random Choujin C: Hi
Choujin: Uweaa~~our devices are cracking~~~!!
Wars: At…at this rate, we’ll all be destroyed as Kinnikuman is being eaten!!
Announcer: And the brutal Sneagator is slowly driving Kinnikuman to his death.
Meat: Stop already—Prince is dying~~~
Sneagator: Shut up. You’re gator food!

112.
Meat: What!?
Meat: There…there aren’t any gators, nor are there snakes or lizards.
Meat: Aah…there are the gators, snakes and lizards!
Meat: Illumination! This illumination is the light from a video projector and the chairs and ropes and everything hit by the shine all change forms into reptiles. That is, the gators and snakes that are making Prince suffer are all illusions created by a video projector……

113.
Meat: Of course: if we can cut off the light source, we can extinguish the Gator Hell.
Meat: There: the mask that Sneagator was wearing has become a video projector!!
Sneagator: Kekekeke—correct. However, you’ve realized it too late!!
Sneagator: I’ll finish this by chomping on his head!
Meat: PRINCE—

114.
Announcer: Kinnikuman has barely stopped it—
Suguru: Me…Meat, the video projector is on the ceiling!
Meat: Yes, Prince!

115.
Suguru: How dare you do this to me now.
Suguru: You’ve tricked me with this fake world—
Meat: He did it
Wolf: That’s!
Wars: Kinniku Buster
Terry: N…no, it isn’t!!

116.
Terry: It’s a Mouth-Splitting Kinniku Buster!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has ripped Sneagator’s mouth, with the blood intercepting the light of the video projector---!!

117.
Announcer: The reptiles have disappeared!
Suguru: Meat, we did it. That’s the end of Gator Hell!!
Announcer: Kinnikuman has defeated Gator Hell—
Sneagator: Keke…Even if you’ve extinguished the reptiles, you haven’t defeated Gator Hell since you haven’t defeated me!
Suguru: There’s another face beneath the ripped mouth…

118.
CHOUJIN DEADLY TECHNIQUE SERIES
6. Leg Lariat

Mongol: Actually a wrestler named Stan Hanson used a similar technique, but I’ve used this technique 4,000 years ago. Now I will have to fight that Hanson to see which Lariat has the power.
Caption: Kinnikuman is slashed by Mongolman’s Leg Lariat!!

Leg Lariat Instructions:
1. Throw your opponent into a rope
2. Jump as they bounce back.
3. Spinning kick to the chin.

TN: I probably was going to start this chapter with more comments about how cool Sneagator is...but you can see for yourself in this chapter. Ruthless as an alligator with a unique trick (and something even weirder that starts to emerge with the cliffhanger...no, I don't mean that he wears sneakers) and...OK, yeah they were all illusionary reptiles but it was still a weird psych-out. (though it was a bit weird the Gold Mask can suddenly turn into a video projector, this universe has had weirder) Probably my only real problem in this chapter is that we get these random cut-backs to all these Choujin who really seem to just "be there" and don't seem to be inspired by anything. I get that this is a Choujin problem but somehow a lot of these guys just seem like members to fill the crowds with...but hey, as long as it's not that idiot Canadianman...and speaking of "Choujin", we got more fan submissions this time...strangely enough not too many of them seem to call out, but note how some of the cooler designs could seem to emerge in this story sooner or later (like Ashuraman...or Vikingman...on the other hand we have something as blunt as "The Ninja"...could that even be a Choujin :p)