Bobobo-bo bo-bobo 77

Inside Cover (Comments by Sawai, the author):
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I've recently started taking walks on my off days, and whenever I go out, I feel like a cartoon character... but not completely; I still get leg cramps.
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Back Cover (of volume 8):
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Bo-bobo and company have been taken out of their comfort zones and sent to Over - one of the Hairless Quartet! Once they get there, they'll not only have to face Gump, guardian of the inner garden, but also the Stealth Brigade! Will our heroes be able to defeat them all AND survive Overtime...?!
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Title Page:
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BOBOBO-BO BO-BOBO
Volume 8: M·T
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- STORY (THUS FAR) -
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The world-ruling dictator, Tsuru Tsururina the 4th, has begun a "Hair Hunt", to make all citizens bald! Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, master of the "Nose Hair Fist", battles this evil Hair Hunting Squad.
Just moments after defeating Rice in the Hajike-Block Base, Bo-bobo and the gang encountered the elusive ninja Lipster, who soon sent all our heroes over to Over's Castle...

NOW BEGIN VOLUME 8!

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo
Volume 8: M·T
Secret Attack 77: I'M GONNA FLY
(Rated PG for some "crude humor")
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[Story: Our heroes have been sent to Over's Castle, and he's one of the Hairless Quartet.]
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Heppokomaru: It looks pretty far, Bo-bobo...
<<<<<<<<<<<Got any ideas on how to get there?
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Bo-bobo: I wouldn't worry about that! We're witches!
<<<<<<<We'll just ride right on over there with our broomsticks!
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Beauty: Were you expecting a straight answer?

Bo-bobo: Squadala, we're off!
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[Secret Attack 77: I'M GONNA FLY]

Both: WHO'S RIDING WHO?!!!
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Heppokomaru: What are you guys doing?!

Beauty: You're gonna end up in the emergency room!!
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[Secret Attack 77: I'M GONNA FLY]
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Voice: Hey, Kiki! Wait up!
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Guy: It's me, Chombo Kopoli!
<<<<You know, from the Miyazaki movie!!
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Chombo: (But this time I'm not voiced by Lawrence or Yamaguchi!)
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Bo-bobo: That was fast.

Don Patch: Wuzzat?
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Trio: {It's Serviceman! Our hero!!}
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Trio: {He sees us!}
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Trio: {He's about to show us his censor!}
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Serviceman: Wah-hah-hah!
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Serviceman: Whoa-oh-oh!
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Don Patch: SERVICEMAN!!!
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Serviceman: Hup!
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Don Patch: Whew!
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Serviceman: {I''ve been in this position before...}

<Kids: Give us something!
<<<<<Anything!
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<Kid: Hey, what's wrong? You're not giving us anything!
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<Kid: You're supposed to give us everything you got, like your name implies!
<<<<You're nothing but a big fat liar! I hate you! I hate you!!
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Serviceman: {I was a disgrace; I let everybody down...
<<<<<<<<<<But I refuse-}
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Serviceman: {To let that happen AGAIN!!!}
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Serviceman: {There will always be people who want!
<<<<<<<<<<And I will always be there to give them something!}
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Serviceman: Ser-
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Serviceman: VICK!!!
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Beauty: That was really something! I'm not sure what, but it was something!

Tennosuke: Let us continue.
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Beauty: Wow! What a cute little pond!
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Beauty: They've really done a nice job with this place!
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Beauty: EEEEEEEK!!!
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Head: Come on in, the water's fine!
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Bo-bobo: Who the blankety-blank are you?

Man: I can see you don't got jokes...
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Man: I am Gump, guardian of the inner garden! I have been ordered by Over
<<<<himself to see that you are thoroughly evaluated! If you wanna fight Over,
<<<<hit me now or forever hold your peace!

[Gump]
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Bo-bobo: Alright then! Schnitzel this! Nose Hair Fist Secret Attack!
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Bo-bobo: "Class Assembly"!
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Bo-bobo: Moving onward...

Gump: {Man, these summer speeches always burn me out!}}
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Gump: Let's see how you fare in the air! Catch me if you can!
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Bo-bobo: C'mon, Tennosuke! Let's show him that attack we been practicin'!

Tennosuke: What attack?
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Bo-bobo: FIRE!! MUSHY MAGNUM!!!

Tennosuke: GAGH!!
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Bo-bobo: Holy cow! Is he wearing some sort of special bulletproof vest?

Don Patch: We're gonna have to pull out the big guns on this guy!
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Don Patch: Form of "Ball"!! Now show him what we can REALLY do!!!

Bo-bobo: Okey-dokey artichoke-y!
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Beauty: What's THAT help?!!
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[The Don Factor]
[Episode #1: ~Me & My Patch~]

Beauty: Something weird is coming on!!!
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Voice: Get in the car, Tennosuke!
It's time to eat!
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Voice: We're going to Long John Silver's for some fresh fish!
<<<<<Are you even listening, Tennosuke?!
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Head: Answer me!

Beauty: Whose head is THAT?!!
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Bo-bobo: Forget the blue man, Beauty! Just look at that pond!

Beauty: What's wrong?
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Bo-bobo: You like it, don't you?

Beauty: Not anymore.
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Gump: Hahaha! What's the matter dummkopfs, afraid of heights?

Bo-bobo: Blast that man! How are we supposed to get up there?!
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Tennosuke: Wiggle Fist Never-Before-Seen Secret Attack: "Tokoroten
<<<<<<<<<Trampoline"! Go ahead, give me a try!
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Both: Thanks, but no thanks.

Tennosuke: You can fly?!
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Tennosuke: Never-Before-Seen Secret Attack: Bouncing Bad Joke!
<<<<<<<<<[Expressions From Tenmark]
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Tennosuke: Wait for me!

Heppokomaru: {He really is a great guy once you get to know him...}
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Bo-bobo: Alright, DP! Let's break his wing off!

Gump: You wouldn't!

Don Patch: Ready when you are, 3BO!
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Don Patch: Hah!

Gump: No! Not my one and only wing!

Tennosuke: That's a wing?!
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All: Bombs awaaaaay!!!
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Both: Muscle Docking!!!

Beauty: But Don Patch didn't do anything wrong!
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Bo-bobo: He ate my curry bread back in chapter 8!

Beauty: That's no reason to cripple him!!!
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Gump: {I can't fight these people! Their midichlorians are off the scale!
<<<<<<But if I don't kill somebody, the Stealth Brigade will send me to the
<<<<<<Shadow Realm!}
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Gump: I can at least eradicate the girl!
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Gump: Gab-UGH!!!
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Gump: {They never let down their guard - even for a second!
<<<<<<Who are these people?}
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Gump: Who are YOU PEOPLE?!!
<<<<<Answer me!!!
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Group: We are-
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Group: KUNG FU FIGHTERS!!!!

Gump: GYAAAAGHHH!!!
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Trio: And just for the heck of it!
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Duo: Muscle Docking!

Beauty: You two are WAY out of line here!!
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Bo-bobo: Good going, Terry-nosuke!

Tennosuke: Just doin' my job, Bobo-nikuman!

Heppokomaru: Bo-bobo! You've gotta see this!
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Bo-bobo: Who done who?
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Bo-bobo: Good gravy! They're all bald!
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Bo-bobo: How could somebody skin the heads of all these poor people...?
<<<<<<<They'd have to the baddest hombre this side of the Rio Grande!
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Bunny: (It's not even rabbit season!!!)
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Bo-bobo Q & A?!!
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[Whether it's regarding the Bo-bobo cast, or even me, feel free to ask anything!
I'll answer them all personally! Please send all questions to the "Bo-bobo Fan Corner".]
*The address is on pg.187.)
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Q: Why does Hatenkou use the Key Fist? (Tokyo/P.N. Baldini)

A: Because he's a "key" figure to the story.

Hatenkou: Is that so?
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- Secret Attack 77 End -

Translator's Notes:
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At the end of each chapter, I will try my best to provide a list of descriptions on and for the puns, localized or not, in Bo-bobo. Any fan should read this - you're bound to learn something you didn't know.
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Firstly, I'd like to inform you that not all meanings in Bo-bobo can be deciphered and that even Japanese fans struggle to understand many of them, as was discussed in one of the many chapters of the Japanese football comic, Eyeshield 21. I will describe in detail hitherto, the ones that I believe I can make out. A chosen few are localized when the chance is allowed, but I will describe EVERY single localization on this page. That means EVERY SINGLE SENTENCE I have in my translations stems back to the original Japanese save a few of which I detail below. I will NEVER change the plot, story, or dialogue in the series like your average nudnik would. I will NEVER change the names of ANY of the many main characters in the series. Only when I believe an easier-to-understand equivalent is found in the English culture will I ever localize a joke; and if I DO happen to localize one, it WILL be mentioned below with a painstaking explanation.
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Of course, most of the bald hair hunters names are localized for the initial intended humor, because most of them serve no purpose besides the pun in their name; and therefore necessity calls for such actions to be made.
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Character descriptions of the leads thus far (excluding the ineffable Bo-bobo):
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Beauty is the dazzling heroine of the series. She acts as the "straight-man" throughout thousands of jokes, making stupid gags even funnier! Her name was born from the movie "American Beauty", which Sawai saw in the mail while he was creating her character. The lucky dog!
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Tennosuke's full name of "Tokoro Tennosuke" comes from the Japanese delicacy of "Tokoroten", of which he is made of. This is a Japanese snack that is very much like Jell-O. By the way, his name is pronounced Toe-koe-row Tehn-no-skay. Now say it ten times fast.
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Don Patch's name stems from the spanish title for a man or leader, Don. However, when placed together in Japanese, his full name represents the Japanese onomatopoeia of an explosion. I would say his character is a cross between Dragon Ball's Vegeta and Looney Tunes' Daffy Duck. And if you can't tell that by now, don't worry; I'm sure you will in the near future.
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Softon's name comes from a mixture of the English words "soft cream" and "Babylon". Many believe his head is poop, but he has neither confirmed nor denied this statement. Which puts Beauty in utter disappointment and disgust at his every appearance; though she continually reassures herself that his head is chocolate-flavored ice cream...
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Heppokomaru's name is parodying the Japanese style of adding "maru" to the end of a given name. Heppoko means "untrained", which illuminates that lampoon and also highlights his seemingly perpetual need to be trained by Bo-bobo. Pronounced Heh-poe-koe-mahr-oo
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Hatenkou's name means "unprecedented". The greatest reason I can figure Sawai chose to call him that, besides being humorously corny, is that he is the first character he created after his 49 chapters of initial materials had run out, as he mentions in Volume 5's inside cover. By the way, his name is pronounced "Hah-ten-koe".
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Dengakuman's name is from a food called "dengaku" (pronounced "den-gah-koo.) It's fish or tofu impaled on a stick that is covered with miso sauce. The "man"'ning of his name, I believe, was popularized in Japan by the Kinnikuman comics and Mega Man series, where seemingly all characters are dubbed "something-man". Mega Man is known as Rockman in Japan, and that along with the fact that Kinnikuman is also singular, is why Dengakuman is officially one word, and not two. For an American example, think Superman or Batman.
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Hajikeing, whether used as an adverb, pronoun, or whatnot in the series, is when somebody has the ability to change in a split-second. The best western examples I can give in comparison to a hajikelist, (which by the way, is parodying the word "duelist" from Yu-Gi-Oh!) are Bugs Bunny and Genie from Disney's Aladdin. The literal meaning of this seldom-used word is an expression of bowling over in laughter; but in Bo-bobo, it takes on a more powerful meaning, and is crucial to understand for the full enjoyment of the series. Btw, Hajike is pronounced "Hah-jee-kay". I will translate the word "occasionally".
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In SA 77, there is a boy by the name of Chombo Kopoli on a bike calling out for "Kiki". In Miyazaki's 1989 film, Kiki's Delivery Service, there is a character named Tombo Kopoli who looks very much like Chombo, who befriends Kiki. That is the joke here. Took me awhile to figure out, actually... However, in the Japanese text, he states that he doesn't break the rules anymore. You see, Chombo is homonymous with the word Chonbo in Japan, and Chonbo is also a term for a player who violates the rules in Mahjong; but since this is impossible to translate properly into the English language, the punch line has been switched to one regarding his Japanese and English voice actors and how he is not portrayed by them here. Also, chapter 77 is named after the Kiki's Delivery Service ending theme, "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta nara", or in English, "I'm Gonna Fly".
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"Squadala, we're off!" comes from the corny, noncanonical Zelda cd-i game "The Faces of Evil".
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The attack "Mushy Magnum" is a joke on "Sunshine Magnum", an attack used by one of the main villains (Sunshine) from the Jump comic Kinnikuman. Sawai seems to really like the original series, but heck, a lot of people do... Interesting note: the character "Sunshine" looks very similar to Tennosuke in physique and shape, so that makes his using a parody of that attack even funnier. Also, the power-ups used in this chapter are DB-ish, and the attacks are primarily of the Kinnikuman persuasion, specifically "Muscle Docking" - a tag-team move used by Kinnikuman and Terryman multiple times throughout the series. That's why they call each other Bobo-nikuman and Terry-nosuke- they're spoofing Kinnikuman and his Texan friend, Terryman. Tennosuke's face looks just like Terryman's on that specific panel!
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On page 19, Bo-bobo states that Don Patch ate his curry bread back in chapter 8. Believe it or not, he actually did.
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NOT TO BE USED FOR SCANLATIONS! AND YEAH, THAT MEANS YOU.