Series: Kick of the Gods — the daily-life manga of ANCHORAGE, a kickboxing gym with 4 locations in Fukuoka, Japan.
About this episode: Episode 5, first published in Japanese on June 23, 2014, under the title "The Website Is a Hit!! Look Forward to More Manga Updates ♡." The ANCALE website is a huge hit — but when Ryota and Kenta admire it, the gods who were left out of the photos suddenly appear…
Panel 1
- Kenta: “The gym's opening is almost here, huh?”
- Ryota: “The ANCALE website is live now!!”
- Ryota: “It's done!”
- Kenta: “Whoa!”
Panel 2
- Ryota: “It's got a nice Asian taste to it, don't you think?”
- Kenta: “I mean, I'm pretty handsome, right?”
- Kenta: “And the babies are cute too, right?”
- Off-panel voice: “Yeah, nice.”
- Ryota: “Hee hee”
Panel 3
- The gods: “Aren't you putting our photos up?”
- Sound effect: “ズーン (kept as in the original)”
- Ryota & Kenta: “Whoa, you scared us!”
- Ryota: “Ah! Lord Ganesha and Lady Kali!”
Panel 4
- Caption: “*The Hindu gods guarding the gym appear only in this four-panel strip.”
- The gods: “Are we gross?”
- Kenta: “You're hanging skulls and severed heads all over yourself!”
- Ryota: “"Photos… well, live-action photos are a bit…"”
- The gods: “Deflated…”
Notes
- The outside title "ANCALE Website, a Huge Hit!!" refers to the gym's newly launched website, which Ryota is proudly showing off.
- "Almost here" renders the Japanese "byōyomi" — the countdown to the gym's opening.
- Panel 2's left pink bubble ("Yeah, nice.") points off-panel, so its speaker cannot be settled from the artwork; it is given here as an off-panel voice.
- Panel 2's two middle bubbles ("I'm pretty handsome, right?" / "And the babies are cute too, right?") are attributed to Kenta from the direction of their speech tails.
- Kali is the blue-skinned, many-armed Hindu goddess who appears here for the first time, alongside Ganesha.
- The sound effect "ズーン" in Panel 3 is kept as in the original, following the practice of earlier episodes.
- The "ANCALE" logo on the laptop screen is part of the artwork and is left untranslated.
- Free-floating exclamations ("It's done!" / "Whoa!" / "Hee hee" / "Deflated…") are kept as in the original in the image, to avoid covering the artwork; their translations are given in the dialogue above.
- This is an archive episode from June 23, 2014, from the very start of the series.
Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/674/
Next episode: Ep. 6 — coming daily.
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