My Name is Zushio Volume 2 Chapter 8 - Page 1 - [Are you familiar with this manga, everyone?] - Page 2 - [This is a manga that caring mothers can allow their children to read without fear.] [It's called "My Name is Zushio"!] [Look at this kind-eyed young man.] Zushio: (Please, God... let there be world peace) [He is PRINCE ZUSHIO.] [That's right, he's a prince!!] - Page 3 - [Half a year ago, some bad servants staged a rebellion and stripped him of his crown,] [Killing his parents and separating poor Zushio from his elder sister.] [Little Zushio is plagued by loneliness and fear of his pursuers...] Zushio: (hiss!) Bag: Friend (meowww) [But Zushio never loses his characteristic brightness!!] Zushio: (aha...)(ahaha) (patter patter patter patter) (AAAAHAHAHAHA) Cat: (he's gone off the deep end!) - Page 4 - [The friends who flock to happy Zushio's side!] Ruriie: DON'T DRAG ME INTO THIS!! [A deepening, man-to-man friendship!] Zushio: Come pee with me, buddy. (kiiing siiiize) Ruriie: I'M A GIRL!! {...but he's never abandoned me when I've been in trouble...} (even when I would have abandoned him...) [When Zushio sings, all the birds of the sky burst into song in unison...] Ruriie: (...they're all falling stiff as boards...) [When he puts out his hand, animals come to touch it.] [Flowers bloom at his smile.] Ruriie: Look! The aftershock is killing the tree!! Tree: Tree Bush-things: Leaves - Page 5 - [In today's manga, you will often see shocking scenes of outrageous violence.] Cartoon Guy: Hero Octopus: Bad Guy [What if small children were to imitate this? It would be dreadful!] Ugly Baby: Baby Guy with Glasses: Father Father: (oh baby, please don't do that) [On this point, there is nothing to fear from "My Name is Zushio".] [Take for instance, scenes in which Zushio rampages with a knife.] [Children must never take dangerous, everyday knives and swing them around! It's dangerous!] Child: (i'm a hunter!) [But the knife Zushio uses is a "Human-Use Knife" which is entirely different!] Voice at bottom: Oh, what a relief! (mother's voice) Zushio: (this is dangerous if not used on humans as directed!) [NOW YOUR CHILDREN WILL NEVER IMITATE HIM.] [And if they do, just tie them up for an extended period of time!] Pillar: Pillar - Page 6 - [All scenes of grotesque quality have been entirely neutralized through abstract imagery!] [FOR INSTANCE, IF ZUSHIO FELL FROM A GREAT HEIGHT!!] [In normal manga, this would end with buckets and fountains of blood and gore!!] Zushio: THIS IS NOTHING TO ME!! (WAHAHAHAHAHA) [But if we insert this representation instead, the gore is entirely removed...] Sign: Teddy Bear Bear: Zushio-kun Zushio: BWAHAHAHA... pop... (FLOP!) [HE'S GONE SOFT!!] - Page 7 - [Even battle scenes look like this...] Zushio: I COULD DEFEAT YOU BARE-HANDED... Stack: Zushio-kun Zushio: Oof... [BEAUTIFUL!!] [THERE IS NO CASUAL BLOODSHED! This total commitment to wholesome goodness is proof of its high class!!] Zushio: (tataaaaaa) Angels: (tug tug) Ruriie: (liar...) [This is the KING of all shounen manga!!] - Page 8 - [DREAMS!] [ADVENTURE!] [AND FEELING!!] Ruriie: Did... did SOMETHING just pass by...?! [If you get the first volume, now you're all good to go!!] [Of course, YOU are the only one who can finish this journey! HIS NAME IS ZUSHIO!! THIS IS HIS GRATUITOUS VIOLENCE!!] [Don't miss it!] - Page 9 - MY NAME IS ZUSHIO VOLUME TWO - Page 10 - - Page 11 - Zushio: Whoaaaaa! Wild horses!! I'm going to find the one that's right for me and tame it!! -000008- -The Legendary Horse- - Page 12 - Zushio: LET'S GO, HORSEY!! Round thing under Zushio: Leg Fuurai: Wait, Zushio! Zushio: Hweh?! What are you doing, Fuurai?! Fuurai: How dare you use the proud king of Dragons, Fuurai, as a weapon!! Zushio: Forget about your dumb stick pride! Fuurai: I'LL KILL YOU!! - Page 13 - Zushio: I need a horse to take back my kingly status from those rebels! For my "Dreams and Romance! Zushio's Restoration Horseback Hang-Out Trip to the Royal Capital Through Clouds of Steam" journey!! Angel: Prince! This is more likely to be... "Dreams and Romance! Zushio's Instant Death Hanging-Head Trip to Hell Through Clouds of Blood" instead. Poyo: Poyo?! Ruriie: HANGING HEAD?! Zushio: That's quite a weather forecast, there... - Page 14 - Ruriie: ...should we really let him have a horse? (what if he leaves on us?!) Angel: Don't worry! {Wild horses never take to humans!} Ruriie: {I see... Taming a wild horse will take lots of time!} ...I'll help you find a horse, Zushio! Let's go catch the greatest horse in the world!! Zushio: THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE! Ruriie: HUH? - Page 15 - Zushio: There is no horse greater than my old "Silver"...! Horse: (Her imagination) Ruriie: {It must be a beautiful, silver-bred horse with flowing mane...} Zushio: This is the kanji for Silver, by the way. Sign: (says "Silver", the kanji mean "soup" and "grandma") Fuurai: Y... you can't just write Silver in katakana?! Ruriie: WHAT THE HELL IS A SOUP GRANDMA?! Zushio: Silver means "Grandma who spits soup at you". Ruriie: Spits soup?! Grandma: (Living in NY) Fuurai: IS IT SOME KIND OF DEMON?! - Page 16 - Zushio: Now that's a name you don't have to be ashamed of! Ruriie: YES IT IS, YOU NUMBSKULL!! Todo: ...they're getting along well. Ginji! I'm leaving them with you!! Ginji: Yeah, yeah. The great Ginji-sama, a babysitter... Even the birds could get bored doing this stuff... - Page 17 - Zushio: (horseeeeey horseeeeey) Poyo: Poyooo Ruriie: Ugh... what a dork... He's chasing the horses on foot... Poyo: POYO?! [What I saw when I turned around...] [Was a chance encounter I will never forget for my entire life.] [My first meeting with Silver!] [Silver galloped on, like the wind...] - Page 18 - [RIDING ON THE BACK OF ANOTHER HORSE!] - Page 19 - Ruriie: BWAAAAAAAAAAAH! Zushio: WHAT'S GOING ON?! Ruriie: A HORSE!! Zushio: A horse riding on the back of another horse?! Fuurai: (the fatigue of taking care of you...) sfx between F and Z: whisper whisper Zushio: (hallucinating...) (yeah, he's always been like that...) Ruriie: (kyaaaa!) Listen to me! Horses have hooves, they can't grab things, right?! So it had its hooves around the other horse's neck like this... (kyaaaa) (kyaaaa) Poyo: (nod) (nod) Fuurai and Zushio: Pitiful... (whisper whisper) Junkie... - Page 20 - Zushio: Do horses normally ride other horses? (HMMMMMMM?) Fuurai: (Zushio's right for once...) Poyo: (Hang in there!) Ruriie: Was I just... seeing... things?! Zushio: It couldn't have been my favorite steed Silver, with his mischevious hobby of riding horseback. Fuurai: (Horseback?!) Ruriie: THAT'S IT!! Zushio: Ho hooo!! My long-lost Silver has come back, you say?! (siiiiilveeeer) (siiiiilveeeer) Ruriie: There was even a plate around his neck that said "Silver"... Zushio: He's not here! Silver: (hop!) Ruriie: BWAAAAAAAAH!! - Page 21 - Zushio: Si... SILVER?! You... You're here... DID YOU FORGET ABOUT ME?! It's me! Zushio!! You're Silver, right?! Silver, who was better than me at riding horses?! Silver, whose special attack was the "Guillotine Ankle Drop"?! Poyo: Poyo! Ruriie: Huh? - Page 22 - Ruriie: WAAAAAAAH?! POYO-CHAN, LET GO... Poyo: (squeeeeze!) Ginji: A ROC?! - Page 23 - Ruriie: {ZUSHIO...!} Zushio: DROP POYO! Ruriie: {WHAT ABOUT ME?! (you could worry about me, too...) He's saved me in the past... He said...} <