Series: Kick of the Gods — the daily-life manga of ANCHORAGE, a kickboxing gym with 4 locations in Fukuoka, Japan.
About this episode: Episode 19, first published in Japanese on August 6, 2014, under the title "⑲ 器用すぎるアンカレスタッフ" (The ANCALE Staff Are Too Handy). Ryota has bought an assembly bookshelf for the ANCALE library corner, and Lord Vishvakarma — the god of creation, architecture and crafts (first seen in Episode 9) — offers to help put it together. By the next panel the shelf is already assembled, and Ryota proudly says he can handle this much himself, easy. When a woman reports trouble with the women's shower too, Vishvakarma offers to fix that as well — but a staff member in a green shirt is already installing the shower, saying he picked up a thing or two last time and that he is an interior fit-out guy, so he does not need the god's help either. The punchline comes in the fourth panel: Vishvakarma, drinking with Ganesha at the counter, has nothing left to do and says he is going back home — the ANCALE staff are too handy for the god of crafts to have any work. Note: this episode is an August 2014 archive; the library corner, the DIY bookshelf and the shower work are from August 2014, not current facilities or events.
Panel 1
- Title card: "Lord Vishvakarma, God of Creation, Architecture & Crafts"
- Vishvakarma (small bubble, top right): "Leave DIY to me! ♡"
- Vishvakarma: "Ohh! Let me help you put that DIY together! ♡"
- Ryota: "I bought a bookshelf for the ANCALE library corner!"
- Text on the board Ryota carries (kept as in the original): (assembly bookshelf 2)
Panel 2
- Woman in the blue shirt (speaker estimated from the bubble tail): "There's trouble with the women's shower too!"
- Ryota: "No, no — this much I can handle myself, easy!"
- Vishvakarma: "Well then, shall I fix that one too?"
- Free text near the woman (kept as in the original): (red mark — kept as in the original)
Panel 3
- Staff in the green shirt (speaker estimated from the bubble tail): "Thanks to last time, I can handle a bit of it now!"
- Staff in the green shirt (speaker estimated from the bubble tail): "Oh, gramps, I'm fine."
- Free text near the staff member (kept as in the original): ("オレ内装屋やし。" — I'm an interior fit-out guy, y'know.)
- Free text near Vishvakarma (kept as in the original): ("あ…そ。" — Oh… I see.)
Panel 4
- Ganesha (speaker estimated from the bubble tail): "You're going back home…? What brought this on all of a sudden?"
Notes
- The title card spells the god's name "ヴィシュヴァカルマン" (Vishvakarma); Episode 9 used the spelling "ヴィシュヴァカルマ様".
- The "DIY" on the board and the music note in Panel 1 are kept as in the original in the image.
- The red mark near the woman in Panel 2 and the "《" marks near Vishvakarma are kept as in the original in the image.
- Panel 3's two bubbles overlap; their translations are placed in their own bubbles in the image.
- The speakers in Panels 2–4 — the woman in the blue shirt, the staff member in the green shirt, and Ganesha — are estimated from the direction of each bubble's tail.
- The staff member in the green shirt (blond streak, small goatee) resembles the man in the red shirt from Episode 14, but his name is not given in this episode either.
- The woman in the blue shirt in Panel 2 is a new, unnamed character.
- Kenta does not appear in this episode.
- This is an archive episode from August 6, 2014; the library corner, the DIY bookshelf and the shower work are from August 2014, not current facilities or events.
Original Japanese version: https://www.anchorage.asia/manga/1171/
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