Series: Kick of the Gods — the daily-life manga of ANCHORAGE, a kickboxing gym with 4 locations in Fukuoka, Japan.
About this episode: Episode 11, first published in Japanese on July 9, 2014, under the title "⑪ 大盛況御礼！アンカレッジオープンから1週間" (Thank You for the Great Turnout! One Week Since ANCHORAGE Opened). One week after the gym opened, members are gradually increasing, and they now call Ryota "Sensei." Ryota coaches them — "Keep your center of gravity in the middle" — while Ganesha and Kali tease him for getting carried away at being called sensei, saying he is "still in training." The punchline: a Diet Club member confesses she ate Hakata Tama ramen on the first floor yesterday and went home, and a flustered Ryota replies she will have to work off what she ate. Note: the episode title celebrates the gym's first week in July 2014; it is an archive announcement, not current opening or event information.
Panel 1
- Ryota: “G'morning!”
- Members: “Good morning, Sensei Ryota!”
- Narration box: “Little by little, our members are growing! ANCHORAGE”
Panel 2
- Member: “Ryota, sensei♡”
- Member: “Ryota, sensei♡”
- Member: “Ryota, sensei♡”
- Ryota: “Keep your center of gravity in the middle”
- Ryota: “That's right!”
- Member: “Sensei Ryota, is this it?”
Panel 3
- Ganesha: “No, no, he'll be fine. Just watch.”
- Lady Kali: “That Ryota guy — being called 'sensei, sensei' — he's getting carried away, isn't he?”
- Free writing (kept as in the original): “(Shall I smack him?)”
Panel 4
- Gods: “Sensei Ryota is still in training!!”
- Ganesha: “Yeah.”
- Ryota: “Ta… you'll work off what you ate, right?”
- Ryota (star burst): “Eh.”
- Member: “Because it looked so delicious.”
- Member: “Yesterday, on the first floor, I ate Hakata Tama and went home.”
- Yellow box: “※ ANCALE Diet Club trial blog — now serialized to great acclaim”
- Free writing (kept as in the original): “(staring…)”
Notes
- The outside title "Every Day Is Training" is a Zen-like phrase: every day is diligent practice.
- The free writings "しばくか?" (Panel 3, Kali: "Shall I smack him?") and "じーっ" (Panel 4, Parvati peeking in: "staring…") are kept as in the original in the image, following the practice of earlier episodes; their translations are given in the dialogue above.
- The yellow boxes in Panel 1 ("Little by little, our members are growing! ANCHORAGE") and Panel 4 ("※ ANCALE Diet Club trial blog — now serialized to great acclaim"), and the footnote below the panel ("※ Hakata Tama: a very delicious ramen shop right below ANCHORAGE."), are translated in the image.
- Hakata Tama is the ramen shop right below the gym (see the footnote). The Diet Club member's "Let's Diet" shirt ties this episode to the ANCALE Diet Club trial blog introduced with the diet theme in Episode 8.
- Ryota's "Ta… you'll work off what you ate, right?" is addressed to the member: what she ate must be worked off by moving. Ganesha's "Yeah." in Panel 4 agrees with the gods' teasing that Ryota himself is "still in training."
- This is an archive episode from July 9, 2014, from the very start of the series. The title's "great turnout" and "one week since opening" describe July 2014, not current opening or event information.
Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/898/
Next episode: Ep. 12 — coming daily.
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