20th Century Boys Volume 1 : Friend Chapter Two Karaoke - Page 41 - [1997] Detectives: Jesus Christ... W... what the hell happened...? We can't be sure until the body's examined... but despite the fact that there's no external wounds... All the blood has flowed out of the body... Chapter 2 : Karaoke - Page 42 - Detectives: MB... MBRF!! Spit outside, if you're gonna! Don't ruin the scene! Bleeeah! Oww!! Be careful. What's up with this place?! It's full of these bizarre mechanisms... Pretty creepy, if you ask me... Yama: Did you find his identity? Detective: Ah... yes. Kaneda Shoutarou, age 24... Graduate student at the Ochanomizu Engineering School. - Page 43 - Detectives: Ochanomizu Engineering... must have been quite the egghead. Only guys that smart could make stuff this inexplicable. Well, why don't we check up with the school? Yama: Yeah... Hey... didn't you hear about this, lately? Detective: What? Yama: In the paper, or on TV... In Africa or somewhere... Detective: What are you talking about? Yama: That virus that drains the blood from your body! Detective: V... V... VIRUS?! - Page 44 - Sign: Tamahime Speaker: The banquet is now at its peak... The newlyweds will have to leave us very shortly to change. Let's send them off with a big round of applause, everyone. People: Clap clap clap clap Kenji: Yo, Keroyon!! Yoshitsune: No matter how many times you change clothes, you're still a frog!! Kenji: It's been so long since we've seen Keroyon... Maruo: But he's still Keroyon. - Page 45 - Chapter 2 : Karaoke - Page 46 - Keroyon: What are you starin' at?! Are you that jealous I found such a beautiful bride?! Kenji, you guys are gettin' old now! You gotta get yourself settled down. Find a woman already!! Kenji: Uh... yeah. Keroyon: You don't wanna be the rotten egg! Bride: Ooh. Keroyon: Hahaha! Maruo: I feel sorry for that woman. She's gonna lay a huge mound of tadpoles. Yoshitsune: Is he finally gonna start his Frog Empire?! Kenji: Oh man, I can't believe you remembered that game, Yoshitsune!! - Page 47 - Kenji: Evil Empire... All: The FROG EMPIRE!! (HAHAHAHA!!) [1968] Kin-chan: We'll never give this world over to the Frog Empire!! Justice Ninja Squad!! Split up!! Kenji: Roger!! Where are you hiding, Frog Emperor?! Over there!! (pop) (pop) Over here?! (pop) (pop) - Page 48 - Keroyon: Ribbit ribbit. Kenji: T... the Frog Emperor!! Keroyon: That's far enough, Ninja Squad! Ribbit ribbit. Kenji: Kah!! (click click...) Oh no, out of bullets!! Yikes!! (jara jara) Keroyon: Die, ninja!! (POP POP) Kenji: Ow!! Oww!! (bing) (bing) (bing) Stop, Keroyon, that hurts!! Keroyon: If you get hit, you're dead, remember?! Follow the rules. Say "I am dead" 10 times! - Page 49 - Kenji: Okay, okay!! "I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. I am dead." "I am dead. I am dead. I am dead." "I am dead. I am dead." "I am dead." I'M ALIVE AGAIN!! We, the Ninja Squad! Will protect the world from evil!! Yaaaaaah!! Kenji: Hmmmmmm. Maruo: What are you doing, Kenji? It's not great food, but you don't wanna waste a wedding banquet. Kenji: I'm thinkin' of a speech to represent all of his friends!! - Page 50 - Yoshitsune: You should have thought of it at home. Kenji: It was a mistake to make ME do this. Maruo: Mon-chan's overseas, and we can't get in touch with Otcho... Kin-chan: You gotta do it, Kenji. Don't sweat it too much, it's just Keroyon's wedding... Kenji: Pssh, easy for YOU to say! Oh, by the way, do you guys remember this? Maruo: Huh? Kenji: (scribble scribble) This symbol. Maruo: Mmmmm? Kenji: Somethin' from years ago... Okiku: Kenji-chan, Kenji-chan. Kenji: Huh? Maruo: Oh no, Gramma Okiku from the funeral home!! - Page 51 - Okiku: What do you think about this girl? Huh?! She's got huge breasts!! Kenji: H... huge breasts?! Okiku: Yeah, maybe you can't tell from the picture. Her jugs are enormous. I checked 'em out myself!! Kenji: W-what about her enormous jugs...? Okiku: I'm talking about marriage proposals!! Even the little frog from the soba shop's got a wife. You'll be the last one un-hitched and over 30 in the shopping district. I've been settin' people up in town for 50 years now. Kenji: Who asked you to? Okiku: You keep your smart mouth shut. Leave it to me!! However... - Page 52 - Okiku: Do something about that baby your sister gave you. I can't set you up when you got that thing on your back. You'll let the big boobs get away. Kenji: Mind your own business. Okiku: What?! Kenji: I'm gonna take care of Kanna! I'll do it until my sister comes back! Okiku: But what about these giant tits...? Kenji: There are millions of giant tits out there, but there's only one Kanna!! And I'm the only one who can take care of her!! - Page 53 - Woman: Which one?! Kanna: Boooooo. Woman: Oh, you got the tamagoboro right again!! (Note: A type of candy.) Woman: Where's Kenji-chan today? Mother: Keroyon's wedding. Woman: Oh, from the soba shop... Isn't it about time for Kenji-chan, too? Which one? Mother: I don't care. I know he'll just skip out and leave his old mother behind someday. Kanna: Daaaaaaa. Woman: Ooooh, you got it again!! Amazing, Kanna-chan!! - Page 54 - Mother: She's got good intuition. Woman: Not just good. She got it right 10 times out of 10!! Kanna: Boooooooo! Kenji: Er... and so... therefore... O... our dream when we were children... Was being to protect the world from evil... - Page 55 - Kenji: And, uh, as you see us now... Maruo: Aw man, Kenji's awful. But this symbol... you remember it, don't you Kin-chan? Kin-chan: Meh... I dunno... Yoshitsune: I've seen it before. Try to remember, Maruo. Maruo: Hmmmmmm. Kenji: Maybe now Keroyon-kun can now protect the peace of his household or the neighborhood... Maruo: What IS it? Friend: You are dead... - Page 56 - Man: Huh? What do you mean, "Friend"...? Friend: You are dead. Close your eyes... Man: Yes... I understand, "Friend"... Friend: Repeat 10 times. "I am dead"... Man: "I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. I am dead." "I am dead. I am dead. I am dead. I am dead." "I am dead"... Friend: Now... what can you see? - Page 57 - Man: Aaah... I see... I SEE LIGHT...!! - Page 58 - Yama: Hey there, Chou-san. Chou: Oh, Yama-san. Yama: Chou-san, you're working that case of the missing professor, right? Chou: That's right. (tinkle) (tinkle) Professor Shikishima, Ochanomizu School of Engineering. Yama: I'm working on that student in Yatsui who died yesterday. (tinkle) (tinkle) Chou: Oh yeah. He went down pretty ugly, didn't he? All the blood ran out of his body? (tinkle) (tinkle) Yama: Yeah... (tinkle) (tinkle) But that student... - Page 59 - Yama: Attended Ochanomizu Engineering. (tinkle) (tinkle...) Chou: Ohh... Yama: As a student of Professor Shikishima. Chou: Something smells about this... Yama: It certainly does... Maruo: We've been waitin', liquor boy!! Yoshitsune: Way to go, Kenji!! (clapclapclapclap) [Protecting the world from evil was my dream...] - Page 60 - [I swore that I would never sing karaoke...] Kenji: STOP THE SEASON IN THE SUN! All: Woooooo!! [I'm fine like this...] [My life is just fine...] - Chapter 2 Owari -