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

About this episode: Episode 15, first published in Japanese on July 21, 2014, under the title "⑮ 主役はオレだっ！！ 凌太の武者修行" (I'm the Star!! Ryota's Warrior Training). Ryota is training with Lady Kali, the dark goddess, who praises his punches for getting much sharper. Ryota reckons that with all her arms, Kali would make an amazing striker — and then he shows off his own secret technique: borrowing her many arms to eat snacks, drink coffee, read manga, watch TV, adjust the AC, fan himself, brush his teeth, scratch his head, and pick his nose, all at once, with one arm to spare. Kali's retort: he saw it on a poster in an izakaya toilet. Note: this episode is a July 2014 archive; nothing in it is current event or schedule information.

Ep. 15 — Secret Technique Unleashed!!

Panel 1

  • Title card: "Secret Technique Unleashed!!"
  • Narration box: "Today, I'm training with Lady Kali, the dark goddess."
  • Ryota: "Oh, thanks!"
  • Lady Kali: "Bro, your punches have gotten way sharper, huh."
  • Ryota (attributed by context; see Notes): "That's all thanks to you, isn't it?"

Panel 2

  • Ryota (free text, kept as in the original): ("Ripped, huh? ♡")
  • Ryota: "But Lady Kali, with all those arms, you'd make an amazing striker, wouldn't you?"
  • Lady Kali: "Ohh, that's true."
  • Red emphasis mark (kept as in the original): (red emphasis mark by Kali)

Panel 3

  • Ryota: "How's that?! Ooooooh…"
  • Sound effect (kept as in the original): "(rumbling sound effect, kept as in the original)"
  • Ryota (jagged bubble): "Ahh! Scary!"
  • Lady Kali: "That's interesting. Let me borrow that for a bit."
  • Sound effect (kept as in the original): "(thud sound effect, kept as in the original)"

Panel 4

  • Ryota (monologue, yellow box): "Eating snacks, drinking coffee, reading manga, with the TV on, adjusting the AC, fanning myself, brushing my teeth, scratching my head, and even picking my nose — and I've still got one arm to spare. – Ryota"
  • Lady Kali (burst bubble): "That was on a poster in an izakaya toilet!! Go practice!"

Notes

  • The free text — Ryota's "バキバキね♡" (Panel 2), the red emphasis mark by Kali (Panel 2), the "ゴゴゴゴ" rumbling sound effect and the red anger mark over Ryota (Panel 3), and the red mark by Kali in the burst bubble (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 yellow box is translated in the image; the image uses a horizontal layout broken into lines, and the full text is given in the dialogue above.
  • Speaker attribution for Panel 1's third bubble ("あんたのおかげやんかね"): the bubble tail looks toward Kali, but the flow of the conversation makes it Ryota's reply, so it is attributed to Ryota here and noted as an inference.
  • "あってたら" in Panel 2 is transcribed as drawn — the intended sense is "あったら" (if you had [so many arms]); the translation renders that sense.
  • Lady Kali, the dark goddess, is a returning character, first introduced in Episode 5.
  • This is an archive episode from July 21, 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/987/

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