Series: Kick of the Gods — the daily-life manga of ANCHORAGE, a kickboxing gym with 4 locations in Fukuoka, Japan.
About this episode: Episode 14, first published in Japanese on July 16, 2014, under the title "⑭ 爽やかキックジム アンカレッジ" (Refreshing Kick Gym Anchorage). Two female members praise the refreshing smiles of Ryota-sensei and Terrace-sensei — until a man in a red shirt appears, and his toothy grin carries a tiger's aura that frightens them. The punchline is a course on how to make a refreshing smile, taught by Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of fortune and beauty, with Ryota vouching for her guidance. Note: this episode is a July 2014 archive; nothing in it is current event or schedule information.
Panel 1
- Title card: "The Refreshing-Type Fighter"
- Woman in pink shirt: "Ryota-sensei's and Terrace-sensei's refreshing smiles are so healing♡"
- Woman in yellow shirt: "I thought martial arts looked scary, but…"
- Ryota (free text, kept as in the original): ("Oh, come on, ha-ha!")
- Kenta (free text, kept as in the original): ("Thanks!")
Panel 2
- Sound effect (kept as in the original): "(sound effect, kept as in the original)"
- Man in red shirt (free text, kept as in the original): ("Hm.")
- Man in red shirt (free text, kept as in the original): ("He stiffens…")
Panel 3
- Sound effect (kept as in the original): "(sound effect, kept as in the original)"
- Man in red shirt (free text, kept as in the original): ("Hee-hee~")
Panel 4
- Banner (pink box): "Lakshmi-sensei's Course on How to Make a Refreshing Smile"
- Ryota (big pink bubble): "With guidance from Lakshmi, the Hindu idol, there's no way to go wrong!"
- Man in red shirt (small oval bubble): "Oh, is that so?"
- Lakshmi (free text, kept as in the original): ("Like this, like this.")
- Man in red shirt (free text, kept as in the original): ("Grin… uuh…")
Notes
- The free writings — Ryota's "いや〜あはは" and Kenta's "あざーす" (Panel 1), the man in red's "ん" and "スッ…" (Panel 2), the red "ビクッ!" sound effect (Panel 2), the red "ギャーーッ" sound effect and the man's "ニタァ〜" (Panel 3), and Lakshmi's "こーよ こーう。" and the man's "ニタァー うう…" (Panel 4) — are kept as in the original in the image, following the practice of earlier episodes; their translations are given in the dialogue above.
- The pink banner is translated in the image; the image uses a condensed two-line version ("Lakshmi-sensei's Course / on Refreshing Smiles") and the full text is given in the dialogue above.
- Speaker attributions follow the bubble tails and the context: Panel 1's two bubbles belong to the women in the pink and yellow shirts; "いや〜あはは" and "あざーす" are inferred to be Ryota's and Kenta's from their positions. Panel 4's big pink bubble is Ryota's (its tail points to the man with glasses at the bottom right), and the small oval bubble is the man in red's (its tail points to the kneeling man); they are noted here because the original does not label them.
- "テラスセ…セの" in Panel 1 is transcribed as drawn — a stuttered "テラス先生の" (Terrace-sensei's); the translations render it as Terrace-sensei's.
- The man in the red shirt is a new character in this episode; his name is not given here. He is not Ryota, Kenta, or Terrace.
- Lakshmi, who teaches the smile course, is a new character in this episode: the Hindu goddess of fortune and beauty, consort of Vishnu.
- This is an archive episode from July 16, 2014, from the very start of the series; nothing in it is current event or schedule information.
Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/948/
Next episode: Ep. 15 — Secret Technique Unleashed!!
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