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

About this episode: Episode 16, first published in Japanese on July 24, 2014, under the title "⑯ 男子用シャワーが一時使用不可になった理由" (Why the Men's Shower Became Temporarily Unusable). Ryota welcomes Lord Shiva, who has come to borrow the shower yet again. Brahma scolds the others for saying unnecessary things in front of the kids, Ganesha says it is because Shiva is popular, and Krishna wonders what is so funny about Shiva taking showers all the time. In the third panel, Shiva threatens to smack the idiot in front of him, and Krishna exclaims that the shower is shining in all kinds of colors — and the punchline is that it was all a myth: the shower was installed in the wrong position and is leaking. Note: this episode is a July 2014 archive; the shower outage is a 2014 event, not current information.

Ep. 16 — Why the Men's Shower Became Temporarily Unusable

Panel 1

  • Title card: "Currently Out of Order"
  • Ryota: "Ah, Lord Shiva, please, go ahead!"
  • Lord Shiva: "Ryota, I'll borrow the shower again."

Panel 2

  • Brahma: "Don't tell the kids such unnecessary stuff."
  • Brahma (free text, kept as in the original): ("Hey!" — scolding, kept as "コラー" in the original)
  • Ganesha: "Well, 'cause he's popular, right?"
  • Krishna: "Brother Shiva, you take showers all the time, but is there something funny about it?"

Panel 3

  • Lord Shiva (jagged bubble): "Hey, you idiot in front of me, I'll smack you with this!!"
  • Lord Shiva (jagged bubble): "Aaah! Stupid Krishna!"
  • Free text, speaker unknown (kept as in the original): ("Cool, Yakkun ♡" — kept as "カッケー やっくん♡" in the original)
  • Krishna: "Wow! What's with this shower? It's shining in all kinds of colors ♡"
  • Red free text (kept as in the original): ("Guh" — kept as "ぐっ" in the original)

Panel 4

  • Pink banner (translated in the image, vertical stack): "It was a myth."
  • Ryota: "Could it be a mistake in how it was installed?!"
  • Staff member, brown-haired man (new character): "Ryota! The shower's leaking!"
  • Ryota: "Whaaat? Seriously?"

Notes

  • The free texts — Brahma's "コラー" (Panel 2), the "カッケー やっくん♡" whose speaker is unknown (Panel 3), and the red "ぐっ" (Panel 3) — 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 "神話でした。" is translated in the image (stacked vertically, black text); the full text is given in the dialogue above.
  • "しょっちゃう" in Panel 2 is transcribed as drawn — the slurred form of "しょっちゅう" (always); the translation renders that sense.
  • "設置置間" in Panel 4 is transcribed as drawn — it means a mistake in the installation position; the translation renders that sense.
  • The brown-haired man in Panel 4 is an unnamed staff member, a new character.
  • This is an archive episode from July 24, 2014; the shower outage is a 2014 event, not current information.

Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/1060/

Next episode: Ep. 17 — The Elephant Who Grants Dreams

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