- Ranma #33 -

Part 8: Trouble!!  Violent "Ema" (votive picture... usually of a horse)
        ("Ema"s: <(Prayer for victory),
                  (SUCCESS!!  Please make the cherry trees blossom),
                  (First choice (for college), SUCCESS this year!),
                  (Please let me be successful in love)>

(Page 118)
Akane: "Ema" destroyer?
Hinako: Yes.
<School success "ema" that examinees (for school entrance exam) offer to get
 their wishes come true...>
<There is a heartless person who is destroying those.>
Hinako: Ahu a peaper, by papu pu bu bumping.
        (As a teacher, I have to do something.)
Ranma: Hey, just choose between eating and talking.

(Page 119)
Ukyou: Ah, they're here, they're here.
Ukyou: Ran-chan!  Akane-chan!
Akane: Ukyou.
Ranma: Yo, Ut-chan.
Hinako: Ah!
Hinako: I guess he was here again... the "ema" destroyer!
Old man: Soon, people will make their first visit to the temple of New Year...
         Even "Miko"-san (girl working in the shrine) got scared and ran
         away...
Old man: In this rate, my Shinto shrine will...
Akane: Ooh.
Ranma: For what purpose can anybody be doing this...

(Page 120)
"Ema"s: <(To get a good family relations), (I wish for diet success),
         (School success, even if I die!), (Entry to X college),
         (Good TV performance), (Win in the contest battle),
         (To pass the audition), (Please let me pass the exam),
         (To get into XX college!!), (Absolute school success),
         (I pray for school success!!), (I want to have a good fortune)>
Akane: Good!
Ukyou: Since we have this many decoys, it'll surely lure the criminal here.
Ranma: But...
Ranma: Isn't this...
"Ema": <Offering>
Ranma: An ugly picture?
Old man: You don't have to praise me like that...
Ranma: I wasn't praising you.

(Page 121)
Old man: In my Shinto shrine, I raise a very divine, sacred horse... by the
         name of Shutsemaru (success in life).  That "ema"'s picture is...
Old man: ...A picture of Shutsemaru, sketched by me... every one of them.
Akane: It's a real horse...?
Ranma: But...
Ukyou: It's a terrible drawing.
Ranma: Yeah.
Old man: *Smirk*.
Old man: It's my autograph.  Take it.
Picture: <Shinto priest
          Beautification 120%>
Ukyou: I don't want it, but...
Akane: Wow, it's really good.
Ranma: ...That means...

(Page 122)
Old man: Uwaaaa!  It's Shutsemaruuuu!!

(Page 123)
Akane: ...It was very...
Ranma: Realistic picture of it.
Old man: You don't have to praise me like that...
Hinako: There is no time to be saying that!
Hinako: Stop right there, you enemy of examinees!!!
Sign: <Goukaku (school success) Sweet Dumpling>
Hinako: Ah, sweet dumplings!!  Yaaaaay!
Girl: We're going to go to the same college, right Huguo-kun?
Boy: Of course, Uniko-chan.
Old man: Ah!  Oh no!  The visitors are...
Uniko&Huguo: Let's put this "ema" in charge of our bright future!
Picture: <Huguo - Uniko
          School success for both of us>

(Page 124)
Uniko: Kyaaa!  Huguo-kun!
Ranma: You bastard!
Ranma: *Smirk*...
Ranma: Let's see who's in charge here, you idiotic horse!!

(Page 125)
Ranma: Haio!!
Akane: Good skill!
Boy: Give me an "ema" please.
Old man: Okay, right now we should...
Ukyou: Welcome, welcome, welcome.
Ranma: *Smirk*, a sacred horse is an animal after all.
Ranma: If I just separate it from the "ema" place like this...

(Page 126)
Old man: Eeh?!
Akane: We have to stop it!
Horse: Aa...
Horse: Aa...
Horse: Aa...
Sound effect: <*Sneezing very loudly sound*>
Akane: Aaaaaah!!
Boy: Aaah!  My "ema"!!
Old man: But why, Shutsemaruuu?!

(Page 127)
Old man: I drew them perfectly like this...!!
Akane: Can't you see that that's the problem?
Akane: If it was drawn little cuter...
Ukyou: The end justifies the means.
Akane: *Oof*!
Ukyou: It's really interested in doing that.

(Page 128)
Hinako: Ah!
Hinako: Saotome-kun, what are you drawing?
Ranma: S... shut up.  Don't distract me.
Hinako: Oh, I know!  It's a mantis!
Ranma: It's a horse!
Akane: Okay, I'm done!
Akane: Here.
Akane: Do you like it?

(Page 129)
Ranma: You bastard!  Only hitting me!
Ukyou: Okay, I'm done!
Ranma: Eeeeh...
Akane: Looks very good!
Ukyou: *Smirk*.
Ranma: I see!  A first class cook also has a keen sense in art as well...
Ukyou: Hm?
Ranma: *Gasp*!

(Page 130)
Ranma: I... it's really good, but...
Ukyou: It doesn't look like a real horse anymore.
Hinako: Eeei!  I want to scribble on it.
Hinako: Waaaah!  It's mad...!
Ranma: Of course it is!
Hinako: "Happougoensatsu"!

(Page 131)
Hinako: *Smirk*, did you learn your lesson now, you enemy of examinees.
Hinako: That was dangerous, wasn't it everybody.
Ranma: It was your fault!
Akane: But... this is not the solution to the problem.
Everybody: . o O ( If the picture of the sacred horse, Shutsemaru, continues
                   to be on the "ema", then it'll come and destroy them over
                   and over... )

(Page 132)
Old man: I guess I have no choice...
Old man: It's not as divine as Shutsemaru, but the picture of a wild boar...
Ranma: Can it be... that you raise a wild boar in this Shinto shrine?
Old man: Yes, there's a sacred wild boar, Mantenmaru (Perfect)...
Sign: <We have "ema">
Akane: Let's go back.
Ukyou: Yeah.