Keroro Gunso (Sergeant Keroro) Volume 1 Chapter 2 Captain of the Hinata Household - Page 24 - [One day, Earth year 1999...] [Our Keronian invasion force, put into a compromising position before attacking the planet Pokopen, is set to evacuate for a time...] Keroro: "Advance squadron leader, Sergeant Keroro, is held prisoner by enemy forces..." "Kept under cruel and inhumane conditions, he is forced to work hard slave labor as-" Natsumi: Are you narrating your OWN story? Keroro: RIBBIT! Natsumi: Are you really working? Keroro: W-W-WHY, NATURALLY! Natsumi: If you want to live here in the house, you're going to have to contribute something! Keroro: Ribbit! Please, allow me to contribute as much as I can!! - Page 25 - Natsumi: Y'know, for an alien life form, you sure don't have much intelligence! Keroro: {N, Natsumi-dono is so harsh...} Natsumi: Like, if you were a Fujiko character, you'd be "Oba-Q" or something! Keroro: DO NOT COMPARE ME TO THAT PANICKY, PIGGISH, POOCH-HATING GHOST!!! SERGEANT KERORO IS EXCEEDINGLY ANGRY!!! (Note: Fujiko refers to "Fujiko Fujio" a manga-artist duo that have made many classics over the years. Oba-Q is an abbreviation for "Obake no Q-Taro", or "Q-Taro the Ghost".) Natsumi: How do you know so much about that?!! Keroro: U-ko saaan?!! (Note: Another character from Oba-Q.) Fuyuki: Oh noooo, I pressed it! Natsumi: Nice, Fuyuki!! - Page 26 - Fuyuki: I've been researching the sergeant's ball here... I know that one's an electric shock, and... here's one that's like an anti-gravity floating switch!! THIS IS WHAT SPACE TECHNOLOGY'S ALL ABOUT!! Keroro: {M-my Kero Ball... If I had that, I could send a transmission to a comrade...} Fuyuki: Although the transmission button seems to be broken. Keroro: (SHOCK!) Fuyuki: Hey sergeant, tell me what else it does! Keroro: (very well!) Natsumi: You two shouldn't be getting too friendly! Fuyuki: Huh...? Natsumi: It looks like the outcome is that we'll be raising him in our house, but... Aren't you forgetting one extremely important thing? - Page 27 - Fuyuki: AH! M... MAMA!!! Natsumi: Okay, maybe that visual was a little over the top. But what should we do? Mama HATES living things! Fuyuki: Y-you're right... there was that time I had the parakeet... And it disappeared the same night we had that suspicious fried chicken... Keroro: ??? What is this "Mama" you speak of? Natsumi: (you ARE a weirdo) How do you know about Oba-Q, but not this...? Fuyuki: I guess you could say... like, our captain? Keroro: Ahhh, your captain! Natsumi: Y-yeah, that sounds about right. Keroro: {CAPTAIN...} Silhouette: Mama - Page 28 - Keroro: If she is your commanding officer, then she is my commanding officer as well!!! I shall have an audience with Captain Mama and be officially enrolled as a member of the "Hinata Squadron"!! (FULL OF SPIRIT) (DAMPENED SPIRIT) Stuff Coming out of Keroro's "ears": Spirit Both: This is obviously more than just an animal problem... Yeah... she'd probably mutilate him... Natsumi: Maybe we SHOULD squish him under the car... Fuyuki: Don't worry, we'll come up with an idea!! Mama has a very SPECIAL job, so she hardly ever comes home!! We'll just make up a plan that will fool her once she's home! I wouldn't let any of my friends die! Keroro: F, FUYUKI-DONO! Natsumi: How about dissection? Keroro: RIBBIT! Fuyuki: Stop it, Natsumi!! - Page 29 - [Central Tokyo] Upper Sign: Kadokawa Shoten Lower Sign: HJK Ichigatani Guy: Uh... umm... H-how is it...? Mother: BELOW AVERAGE. Oh, it's got all the right mannerisms... But... it just doesn't GRAB me in the chest. - Page 30 - Mother: Well, I have other work to do. You shouldn't give up now! Keep working, N-E-W-G-U-Y! New Guy: I-I-I-I WILL!!! Door: Shounen Tarou Editorial Staff Editors: Kotsuaki-sensei's copy still isn't in? I'm heading off to that meeting! We've got some bizarre phone call from a reader!!! Mother: Typesetting, Watanabe-kun? I'll go get Shimada-sensei's manuscript then! Watanabe: Oh, thanks! Mother: No trouble at all! Watanabe: How's that new kid look? Is he gonna make it? Mother: Hmmm, well... - Page 31 - Mother: Kids nowadays are so good at art... But they just can't GRAB me. Manga is all about the characters!! Watanabe: (y... yeah, yeah!) Mother: I just want to see characters that will reach and grab me STRONG by the breast!! Okay Watanabe-kun, the typesetting is like makeup for manga. Do it right!! Watanabe: Yes, ma'am! ...Hinata-san is always so beautiful! Other Assistant: You'd never think she's a mother of two. And she's got a real passion for drawing manga... Watanabe: I'm in looooove! Mother: {Yes, manga is about characters!} - Page 32 - Mother: {Impact!! Action!! And the characters that provide it!! THAT'S what makes good shonen manga!! When the scoundrels attack... You grab them by the arm and throw...} DEYAAAAA!! Scoundrel: EYAAAAAAH?!! Mother: Hey! If you're going to feel someone up... Draw me a better-perfected rough draft! - Page 33 - Mother: Minami-Musashi station... hey, this is close to my house! ...oh, that's right! I haven't been home in close to a week! My kids are going to forget all about me. Ooh... what if they were taking care of some weird CREATURE or something? ...I should go check up on them! Natsumi: Right now?! Oh, n-nothing! Okay! We'll be waiting! (click) Fuyuki: W-was that... Natsumi: It was Mama... She's coming home right now... Fuyuki: WHAT?! SO SOON?!! OH NO, WE HAVE TO HIDE THE SERGEANT!! - Page 34 - Fuyuki: Sergeant... Huh? He's gone!! Natsumi: That stupid frog... where did he go?! Fuyuki: If he's wandering around, she'll see him!! Tentacle: (swip...) Natsumi: AAAH!!! Fuyuki: NOT AGAIN?! Natsumi: AH!! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, YOU DUMB FROG?! Keroro: You two shall be my hostages! If I am faced with the possibility of death... I will use any means possible to escape!! Fuyuki: You're so mean, Sergeant!! Can't you trust your friends?! - Page 35 - Keroro: I take it CASE-BY-CASE. (ribbit!) Natsumi: DEAD, FROG. DEAD... Keroro: DO NOT FORGET... WE CAME TO THIS PLANET TO INVADE IT! Natsumi: {T-that's right... I like, totally completely forgot...} Fuyuki: {T-then maybe it's Mama that's in danger...?!} Mother: I'm hoooome! Keroro: She's here... (flash) Natsumi: MAMA!! DON'T COME INSIDE!!! Mother: What do you mean, "don't come inside"?! You better not have picked up a stray dog or cat agai... - Page 36 - Mother: {IMPACT!!} Keroro: Let's see if you can follow my movements!! YOU POKOPENIANS DO NOT FEAR ME ENOUGH!!! Mother: {ACTION!!!} Fuyuki: Ma... Natsumi: MAMAAAAA!!! - Page 37 - Mother: (slap) Natsumi: A... aikido level 15... Fuyuki: I guess Mama is the hero this time... [At the Hinata Family emergency meeting, Hinata Fuyuki gave a detailed report of the events preceding.] Fuyuki: ...and that's what happened... Natsumi: Uh, we just tried to act natural! You know... Keroro: (shiver shiver) Mother: (SMUSH) Keroro: Eeek! Fuyuki: I-I-I'm sorry, Mama!! I'll kick him out, just please don't kill him...!! - Page 38 - Mother: You're PERFECT!!! Please, stay here!! Natsumi + Fuyuki: Whaaaaat?! Natsumi: A... are you sure about that, Mama?! Fuyuki: It's not just an animal, it's an alien!! Mother: What are you talking about? I already know it's an exception! This is the perfect character I was looking for!! Fuyuki: Lucky you, huh Sergeant? [Sergeant Keroro is now an official member of the Hinata family!!] To be continued - Keroro Gunso Chapter 2 End -