Catastrophic Failure
Hopefully getting knocked spark out by Reverend Penrose’s clothesline will be a turning point for the ill-fated Secret Sentai.
Hopefully getting knocked spark out by Reverend Penrose’s clothesline will be a turning point for the ill-fated Secret Sentai.
Anyone here know enough Japanese to translate?
“System offline”
“Searching for network”
“Catastrophic failure”
Thank you! “Catastrophic failure” is a pretty funny way of putting that, heh.
Google Translate on your phone. Choose “Camera” and point it at the Japanese text. Works pretty well.
For future reference.
Eh, don’t have that kind of phone.
Do know enough Katakana, a second year level of Kanji, and hiragan to have translated roughly the same in my head.
KUDOS!
I am reluctantly impressed.
I don’t know the kanji but the katakana is roughly:
システム が オフライン
shi su te mu ga o fu ra i n
system offline
ネットワークを?しています
ne t to wo-ku wo ? shi te i ma su
network (guessing from Universal Dad that the kanji has something to do with searching)
Mrs. Clovis may do the laundry, but the reverend is master of the clothesline.
Brutal! That poor thing will sleep for two days now. Mrs. Clovis will take care of it’s not allowing Maggie to be around.
The kiddies learn pretty quick never to go near the rectory on Halloween.
Reverend Penrose may want to consider a second career as a professional wrestler. I envisioned him jumping off the top rope of the ring to deliver that clothesline.
He needs a good wrestling name.
The Iron Vicar?
Pastor Pain?
The Exorcist?
Rev. Rage?
Brother Beatdown?
The Anglican Annihilator?
Brosef of Aramathea?
Father Fist?
His finishers include The Lord Is My Steroid, Hell Hath No Fury, Assault of the Archimandrite, and The Shepherd’s Left Hook!
Hey, it worked for Fray Tormenta…
He shouldn’t have paused to look at himself in the mirror in panel 4. Vanity was his downfall. Well, that and the mighty fist of Penrose.
Ah, but looking in the mirror is the moment where our Japanese friend recognised a reason for the catastrophic failure: a broken antenna.
On the other hand, is the mighty fist of Penrose powerful enough to send a catastrophic failure message a handful of panels into the past? Hmmmn.
The way I understand a clothesline move Rev. Penrose just held out his arm in front of the sentai and the speed is what made the impact so forceful. That’s what you get for POINGing in the rectory.
That clothesline will get you 15 yards here in the States.
If the 戦隊レンジャー is looking in a mirror in panel 4, then the broken antenna is on the wrong side.
Well spotted!!!! You have saved me before the artwork got to the printer.
It is my pleasure to be of service, and I shall add this successful intervention to my curriculum vitae.
The Rev. is going to feel pretty sheepish when he learns their guest was there to train on fighting the local met-men–before working up to the Godzilla-class beasties!
Bloody AutoCorrupt (TM).
did you do your stroke order right, John ? 😉
Oh, gods! I thought stroke order was going to give me a stroke.
Was that a clothesline or a lariat?
Every time I read this strip I hear the Street Fighter “Perfect!!!!” voiceover in my head during Panel 7. xD
Well played, The Englishman.
Giving Muscular Christianity a whole new meaning.