Series: Kick of the Gods — the daily-life manga of ANCHORAGE, a kickboxing gym with 4 locations in Fukuoka, Japan.

About this episode: Episode 7, first published in Japanese on June 28, 2014, under the title "From Today, Pre-Open!! Your Chance to Meet Live Terrace!" The opening staff assembles to hang the sandbag — but somehow Terrace ends up dangling from the bar instead…

Ep. 7 — All the Opening Staff Assembled!!

Panel 1

  • Nameplate: “The Teaser: Kenta Washizaki”
  • Kenta: “OK, bring it on!”
  • Nameplate: “The Teased One: Hiroto Terrace”
  • Ryota: “Help me hang the sandbag!”

Panel 2

  • Kenta (estimated): “Higher!! Lift it up!”
  • Kali (estimated): “Ohh…”
  • Ganesha: “The sandbag's really heavy, so two people lift it up and hang it, I see.”
  • Chant (kept as in the original): “Heave-ho! Heave-ho!”

Panel 3

  • Kali: “It's a miracle.”
  • Kenta (estimated): “For some reason, Terrace has dropped down.”
  • Ryota (estimated): “Wha—?”

Panel 4

  • Kali: “Is that so?”
  • Ganesha: “Humans are funny.”
  • Ryota: “Having fun with the staff, now.”
  • Kenta: “For now, I'll give him a kick!”
  • Sound effects (kept as in the original): “Click! / GYAAH!! / BAM!! / Awkward…”

Notes

  • The outside title "All the Opening Staff Assembled!!" introduces the gym's opening staff: Kenta the teaser and Hiroto Terrace the teased one.
  • Hiroto Terrace makes his first appearance here. The episode title's "Live Terrace" (nama-Terrace) is a play on words: a chance to meet the "live" Terrace in person.
  • "Bari" is Hakata dialect for "very" and "yaken" for "so/therefore" — Ganesha speaks in the local Fukuoka manner.
  • Ryota's "now" is the social-media slang of the time, written as if posting a photo update on the spot.
  • The spiky bubble "Higher!! Lift it up!" is drawn straddling Panels 1 and 2; it belongs to the sandbag-hanging scene in Panel 2, and its speaker is estimated as Kenta from context.
  • The speakers of Panel 2's "Ohh…" (Kali), Panel 3's "For some reason, Terrace has dropped down." (Kenta) and "Wha—?" (Ryota), and Panel 4's "Is that so?" (Kali) and "Humans are funny." (Ganesha) are estimated from the direction of the bubble tails, as noted in the dialogue above.
  • The free-written chants and sound effects ("おっしょい" / "ぎわ…" / "カチャー" / "ギャー!!" / "バチーン!!") are kept as in the original in the image, following the practice of earlier episodes; their translations are given in the dialogue above. The "アンカレ" logo on the T-shirts is part of the artwork and is left untranslated.
  • IMPORTANT ARCHIVE NOTE: the "pre-open" announcement and the "chance to meet Live Terrace" in the episode title are from the original June 28, 2014 announcement. They are NOT current opening or event information.
  • This is an archive episode from June 28, 2014, from the very start of the series.

Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/700/

Next episode: Ep. 8 — coming daily.

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