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Continuing with the second half of Chapter 7 of the Microman 2005 manga by DogMask, Theology:
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ベルーウルバンバ川峡谷上空 Peru, Above the Bel-Urubamba River Gorge
シュバッ (PEWW)
シュバウッ (PEWWW)
ビキュウウウン (VASHOOOM)
—-
ビリ (SPARK)
ビリ (SPARK)
おおおお (OHHHHH)
Optom: 後ろからなんて素敵でおしゃる〜っ !!
Oh how splendid you look from behind ~!!
アクロオプトムアクロイヤーEXO AcroOptom Acroyear EXO
Grabs: ハエどもめしつこい! Persistent gnats!
アクログラブズアクロイヤーEXO AcroGrabs Acroyear EXO
Stella: 坊やたちの相手なんかしてられないんだよ! I’ve got no time for the likes of you boys!
シュパッ (SLASH)
シュパッ (SLASH)
アクロスティーラアクロイヤーEXO AcroStella Acroyear EXO
—-
Rei: キャリバーキャノンフィールド18秒15フレーム照射! 18 seconds and 15 frames; firing Caliber Cannon Field!
ズガッ (BAM)
ズガッ (BAM)
バキ (SNAP)
バキイ! (CRACK!)
—-
シャカッ! (ZWISH!)
(Grabs?): エキゾフューズ! EXO Force!
—-
トライレーザー! TRI-LASER!
ブロウ (VROW)
Going forward, I'll be posting the 2005 Microman manga, Theology chapters 7 through 12 broken into two parts for each chapter. So this is part one of chapter 7. Check the #microman_200x archive here for the prior chapters to date!
MICROMAN
by DOGMASK ©TAKARA 2005 協力: ザインメイト With support from Design Mate
THEOLOGY 7 涙を流す者たちへ To Those Shedding Tears
ベルー リマ市 Near Lima, Peru 禁断の洞座の森 Woods Near the Forbidden Cave
アクロフレイム アクロイヤーXV AcroFlame Acroyear XV
アクロマノン アクロイヤーXV AcroManon
Acroyear XV
カチッ (click!)
シュピイイイ⋯ (VREEEE…)
Falcon: 殺す Die!
ミクロマンファルコン Microman Falcon
アサシンフォース Assassin Force
グオウッ (ROAAR)
ブフオウッ (BWOOH)
!
ガギャッ! (KERACK!)
This is part 4 of 4 translating the Microman Directory from 1977's Microman Book Kodansha TV Magazine special edition.
Part one is here.
Part two is here.
Part three is here.
Microman Encyclopedia
Presenting Microman's High Performance Machines!
RobotMachine Z
Transfer Fortress
Surveyor 1
Despite leading this section, no further info is actually given on these three classic Microman mecha here, which is a shame given they are all exemplars of the period.
Conning Tower Base M-115
Upper image caption: Control Panel (Operation Room)
The central control panel where commands are sent to Micromen all over the world. Jets are equipped on the body, allowing the base to move to any location
The main body contains a super high-performance photon engine, an anti-gravity device, and photon energy absorption cells, serving as the energy source for the entire base.
Middle image caption: Photon Engine
Each component has its own built-in independent power device and minicomputer enabling the base to transform into multiple configurations following commands from the Operation Room.
Lower image caption: Tower Base Transformed
The M115 "Conning Tower" Base set was the original, first Microman base released at the end of 1974, a perfect all-in-one playset for the four original barefoot Microman Zone figures. It would receive a couple of production runs and was also one of the first larger sets a couple of years later as the Micronauts' Mobile Exploration Lab (affectionately called "MEL" by long-time fans), with only the only alteration being a single safety tipped missile launcher replacing the original chromed double pointed missile launcher (though it would serve as the basis for the non-firing double launcher features later on the alien Hornetroid ornithopter).
However, the design was not as well suited for non-barefoot riders, leading to a significant redesign for an upgrade released in the 1979 Microman Rescue sub-series.
This is part 3 of 4 translating the Microman Directory from 1977's Microman Book Kodansha TV Magazine special edition.
Part one is here.
Part two is here.
Führer Acroyear
A321 Devils 1. October, 1976 2. Off the East Coast of America, Bermuda Triangle 3. The "boss" of all Acroyears. Devils is exceptionally clever, but also incredibly selfish. If things don't go exactly as planned, he will start destroying everything around him.
Caption: "A Führer Acroyear riding in the underside of his car.”
A322 Satandar 1. October, 1976 2. The Sunda Trench south of Indonesia. 3. He uses his "Mad Telepathy," a psychic attack, to confuse the minds of Micromen. A terrifying magician, Satandar considers himself the world's greatest villain and immensely proud of it.
A323 Daemon 1. October, 1976 2. The seabed off Nishinoshima Island, Japan. 3. He possesses a heart that is three times more evil than the other two Acroyears. He hates to see well-constructed things such as buildings, and will fire a gas that corrodes objects from his chest.
There's some minor controversy over how to interpret 総統アクロイヤー in English. It sometimes is written on Japanese media as “President Acroyear”, but “Supreme Leader Acroyear” and “Führer Acroyear” are other common interpretations and are just as valid. To add to the confusion, there's only one of each Acroyear type depicted in the manga and even the materials here sometimes seem to forget whether there is a single leader or a triumvirate. Perhaps he's a split personality? Or do they take turns? This was the third main Acroyear type, introduced in October of 1976 along with his Acroyear Navy retinue of three sea creature cyborg minions. His car shell makes him among the earliest of Takara “Transformer-esque ancestors” and is specifically designed to allow him to also link to his three minions as one rolling monstrosity. A gift playset was sold that packed the four together in one box. Aside from the car shell, he also carries a club with a magnet in it and a tiny ball bearing inside his chest that can be pulled with the magnet into a small “window” as if it were a weapon firing. His body would be reused a couple of years later with a new chromed torso front and large clear head as the Acroyear Amazons, his resurrected, mutated and upgraded form.
This is part 2 of 4 translating the Microman Directory from 1977's Microman Book Kodansha TV Magazine special edition.
Part One is here.
Super Microman
M211 Ken 1. July 1975 2. Caracas coast, Venezuela. 3. Having participated in countless battles, Ken is truly adept at exploiting his enemies' weaknesses. He cherishes the lives of his comrades; no matter how perilous the situation becomes, he remains calm, acts decisively, and invariably turns the tide of battle in their favor.
M212 Cary 1. July 1975 2. Cologne industrial zone, West Germany 3. As the leader of the Super Micromen, Cary possesses exceptional athletic prowess. Furthermore, by unfurling the "Dash Wings" (normally kept folded against his back) he can fly completely silently. This ability makes him an invaluable asset during combat operations.
M213 Kim 1. July 1975 2.Science Research Laboratory in Beijing, China 3. A space scientist with an encyclopedic knowledge of every celestial body in the solar system. For whenever he has a spare moment, Kim blasts off from Earth, visiting Mars today and Jupiter tomorrow, to explore and frolic amongst the stars. However, despite his playful nature, he is indispensable for his guidance during times of battle.
Caption: Ken firing his Micro-Breastplate
The M21X is actually the second "Super Steel" all-die-cast Microman release, but M20X was somewhat confusingly rereleased next with upgrades as M22X, which is covered next.
The original Super Microman release of M20X was accompanied with the first big TV commercial for Microman, which directly parodied the classic Fleischer Brothers Superman cartoon introduction ("Faster than a speeding bullet," etc.).
The "K" names are perhaps a reference to the alliteratively named Clark Kent or perhaps his planet Krypton. Microman's own origin story is clearly inspired by the same. "K" also could be meant to evoke "koutetsu" (steel), as being die-cast, they are almost literally (Micro) Men of Steel.
Ken is a common heroic name and in fact probably references Henshin Cyborg's alter ego as Professor Kenichi "Ken" Katagai, another alliterative "K" name (and relative of Microman manga protagonist Akira Katagai, probably his paternal uncle).
Cary probably gets his name from the suave popular actor Cary Grant, spelled the same way in Japanese katakana. His name is often interpreted as "Kelly", but this is not commonly rendered the same way in katakana ("カリー" vs. "ケリー"). It is a funny coincidence though that the first two names read that way match the full name of a famous fantasy/SF artist who became known for his work on KISS album covers a year after the toys were released, and would a bit later still paint the packaging art for Mego's Micronauts-original aliens (never a part of the Microman line, developed by California R&D instead).
It's also worth noting that in the Kodansha Microman manga by Yoshihiro Moritou, M102 Jack was killed in combat but resurrected in the same body used in the toyline as Cary's, and is the only Super Microman to appear therein. The manga doesn't use the numbering at all and doesn't always match the toyline canon, even though at various points the toylines have integrated some of Moritou's ideas and characters.
Kim is not an uncommon name in China, where he was resurrected, but it's also the name of the main protagonist Kimball "Kim" Kinnison of the classic Lensman space opera stories, another cosmic influence on the Microman saga.
(Caption: Heiwajima, Tokyo)
0:03 While the Micromen traveled from Egypt, the ones now attacking near the Katagai Institute were...
0:10 ...the Acroyear 2: Mud Pink,
(Captions: Acroyear 2
A311L Mud Pink)
0:18 Mud Green, and Mud Blue.
(Captions A312L Mud Green, A313L Mud Blue)
0:24 The resurrected Acroyear 2 now tower above. They are immediately confronted by... [music playing] ...Microman Command.
(Captions::Micro Kick, Acro Blade)
0:32 However, against such overwhelming power, the Micromen were utterly helpless.
(Captions: Great Guard Shock, Flying Plane)
0:42 Command Unit 3, having received an urgent telepathic distress call from Sharif, arrives to join the fray… but even united together, will they be able to stand up against the Acroyear 2?
0:52 [Music]
0:57 Takara Tomy
T-SPARK
LEGACYSOUL
Acroyear 2
3-Figure Set
Scheduled for Release: Late September 2026
Pre-order Period: April 3, 2026 – May 24, 2026 (Tentative)
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price: 14,300 JPY (Tax Included)
*Images are for illustrative purposes only. *Please note that this product is a prototype; the final specifications, shape, and coloring may differ.
© TOMY
While previously the Acroyear 2 were previously usually romanized as MAD Pink, Green, and Blue, and one of their attacks induced madness, their origin of being Micromen who were mutated by toxic sludge at the bottom of the ocean... literally meant they came from the"mud". So while this could be a typo, it seems that from now on, "the Acroyear 2 trio's name is Mud".
Microman 2005 Theology 6
Scanlations of chapters 1-3
Translations of chapter 4 and chapter 5
With this, we are halfway through the story, and at the end of the batch of translations I had collaborated with Yukiko on.
Going forward, in order to keep things rolling and to deal with Tumblr image count limits that will be hit by a couple of longer chapters later, I will be posting future chapters in two installments each.
There may be a bit of a wait as the next Microman Book installment is getting close to ready and there's a couple of other surprises in the wings that could pop up. However, I do have a good chunk done of chapter 7 part one, so we'll see how it goes...
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南極 ビクトリアランド Victoria Land, Antarctica:
M.I.C.R 偽装特殊訓練施設 海洋研究所 雪洞 An ice cavern outside the Oceanic Research Division of the M.I.C.R. Stealth Special-Ops Training Facility.
陛下、あなたと手を組みたい Your Majesty, I wish to join you.
貴様 人間の分際で身の程を Scum... for a mere human to presume such trespass..!
ロジャー=ハーバーブライト M.I.C.Rアクロウィルス 殲滅プロジェクト主任 Roger Harborbright Anti-AcroVirus Project Leader
もちろんわきまえてございます陛下。しかし、地球は、いまや人間の支配する世界 陛下が皇帝として存在しうるために必要なのは 無差別な破壊行為ではなく、国家の統治、そして支配でございましょう I most certainly yield to His Majesty’s greatness. However, the Earth is now a world ruled by humans. What is necessary for Your Majesty to exist as Emperor is not indiscriminate destruction, but the governance and control of the world’s nations.
アクロエンペラー アクロイヤーEXO 古代アクロイヤー皇帝 AcroEmperor Acroyear EXO Ancient Acroyear Supreme Leader
私は人間世界に精通した軍師としてあなたにお力添えをしたい I would like to assist your Imperial Majesty as a military strategist familiar with the human world.
ともに 統治か。信用出来ない Share...Our rule? Unworthy of Our trust.
承知しております。そこで 忠誠の証として あなたに生け贄を捧げました。我が軍最強の駒である兵士四人の命です。
I understand. Therefore, as a proof of my loyalty, I have prepared for your Imperial Majesty a sacrifice: the lives of the four elite members of my forces. 切り刻まれようと、捕らえて奴隷になさろうと、どうぞご随意に I freely offer them as slaves, or to be drawn and quartered, at your Imperial Majesty’s desire.
考えておこう 蘇りし時まで We shalll consider this… upon Our resurrection.
Microman ©2005 Takara
By Dog Mask with the support of DesignMate
Theology 6 - 戦に敗れた者たちへ To Those Once Vanquished
幻影だったか、真の復活はまだ.......か Was it all illusion, or is the true resurrection still to come…?
(グッ Clench!)
エネルギーがあと28秒。武器は全然使えない。輸送機に戻らなくちゃ There’s only enough energy for 28 more seconds! Our weapon systems are locked...we need to fall back to the transport!
ベルー リマ市上空 Peru In the skies above Lima...
無理だ！どう計算してもエネルギー残量と上昇距離の折り合いがつかない！ We can’t! There’s no way we’d make it back up there before we run out of energy, no matter how you look at it!
このまま落ちるしかないってのかよ！？So what, are we just going to fall, then?!
それより、俺たちが奴等を止めなくちゃ輸送機が狙われる We have to stop them, somehow! If we don’t, their next target will be the transport!
輸送機には人間がいる。仲間がいる。リンも........ There are humans on the transport. Our comrades are there.. Lin too…
俺、食い止める I must stop them!
(ギャイン! Screech!)
0:03 Command 1 Erich and Command 2 Sami were in Aomori Prefecture searching for Command 3 and the others.
0:11 Then suddenly, a Jomon-era sculpture-shaped capsule was at last discovered!
0:19 They fired the Spectral MX beam...
0:26 …and now Microman Command 3 has been revived!
0:35 Caught in the midst of rejoicing, Command 2 and the others received an emergency telepathic message via Spectral MX signal of an Acroyear attack. They immediately set out to handle the issue.
0:44 Keep striving ahead, Microman Command Unit! Your Microman world will evolve and be reborn.
Random (twitter) images of new Legacy Soul Microman prototypes for 2026! We're getting Acroyear 2 (Japanese numbering) and vehicles such as the displayed updated version of Drag Tiger...a Spy Car, so could Spy Magicians be up after the Command series? Time will tell...
Two of the displayed Acroyears have their pelvis reversed, though. I guess that unicellular brain doesn't know how to put their own briefs on right...
Now that the official setting has been released, it has become clear that Altered Nano, formerly Project M, is firmly rooted in Takara SF Land concepts after all, largely borrowing concepts from the old Timanic series (space and time travel using teleoperation and telepresence through remote android proxies, or what Masamune Shirow once called "decots") and Microman (especially Hoodman) for use of miniaturization technologies. It's Microman adjacent, much like Timanic and other splinter Takara SF Land lines have been in the past, clearly an offshoot, yet deliberately more open to interpretation (not to mention copying many presentation style elements of Kotobukiya's long successful, Microman and Zoids-like Hexa Gear series).
Translation below captured by Google Web Translate from the official Altered Nano page.
Source: Microman Book, Kodansha TV Magazine special edition release 1977
Preceding Takara's own self-published Zero Zero Magazine, Kodansha published the rather remarkable Microman Book as a cheap supplemental newsprint magazine format companion piece to their publication of Moritou's popular manga series and accompanying promo spreads. An intro to the book, particularly the big pin-up poster/board game and calendar bonus extras included have been covered here briefly previously (though the boardgame hasn't been posted here just yet).
The book is divided into a few sections. The first, full color section, The 99 Secrets of Microman, compiles some wonderful prior magazine promo spreads with accompanying 99 "secrets" of Microman lore (largely taken from the catalogs and other materials). I have these scanned, but they need some further cropping/pairing before I can get to putting them up just yet.
The remaining sections are mostly in monochrome (except some of the manga), usually purple ink on newsprint. This includes a lengthy chapter of the Microman manga, an "educational" manga (together, these make up more than half the page count) and the contents listed below:
Microman Directory
Complete Profiles!*
*(translator note: as of date of publication in mid- 1977, before Lady Command's release and Zero Zero Magazine later the same year)
Contents:
Page 64 - Microman
Page 67 - Spy Magicians
Page 69 - Microman Command
Page 72 - Super Microman
Page 74 - Titans
Page 76 - Titan Command
Page 79 - Acroyears
Page 82 - Uniquer Corps
Page 84 - Presenting Microman's High Performance Machines
Tower Base M115 and RoadStation, Transfer Fortress, Cosmo Cars, Command Cars, Spy Cars
---The monochrome portion of the book is in the cheapest manga magazine newsprint, which even on perfect specimens, did not weather the test of age well, the purple ink saturating the thin paper, bleeding through over time to make many of the pages effectively transparent, showing the print through each side. This is the same problem faced by much of the other non-reprinted manga, and a challenge to restore and reproduce. I have used photoshop to filter and reduce the bleeding.
I had some promising results using Google Gemini to further restore the pages (as with the title page shown), but after uploading them, I found too many errors slipped through so I am replacing that with my original processed scans. I believe I can still do better restoration later, but it will take a lot more time so this will have to suffice for now. But this may get updated further later. I haven't had a chance to properly crop a couple of images, so they will get fixed at least.
Speaking of errors, it should be noted that the publication itself was compiled by magazine editorial staff and may at times be apocryphal, sometimes mixing bios or names up or even possibly contradicting material published elsewhere. Japanese toy historians I have spoken about this with have recommended considering Microman Book and other contemporaneous guides published by Kodansha as a secondary source when compared with the materials published directly by Takara (though Microman Book appears to have been in turn used as the basis for the character bios in the new Legacy Soul Microman reboot materials), and to give precedence to the original Takara materials when there are said contradictions.
I will try to note such discrepancies as I catch them, though these may come as later edits or updates. It's likely I may miss some of them at first, so again, please feel free to submit any corrections or questions.
For this blog entry I will be covering up through Command 3. Future entries will cover the rest, but may be interspersed between other blog updates such as the next 2005 manga chapter. Translation is aggregated from Google Translate, Gemini, and my own personal translating, reinterpreting, and editing.
(below, bottom right)
Profile Key:
1) Year of Appearance on Earth
2) Place of Revival
3) Unique Characteristics
Microman
M101 George
1. October 1974 2. Near Neptune in the outer Solar System. 3. The mind of George embodies the full range of Microman science, encompassing all cosmology. He can freely control molecular fusion and create various things. As just one example, he can create diamonds with the greatest of ease.
M102 Jack
1. October 1974 2. Near Neptune in the outer Solar System. 3. Revived alongside George, Jesse and John, he is the strongest among the four. Even when pulverized by the Acroyear, his love for peace manifests in his Microman pride and courage, giving him the strength to fight back.
M103 Jesse
1. October 1974 2. Near Neptune in the outer Solar System. 3. Jesse has particularly strong psychic abilities, possessing a repertoire of twenty-five different special moves. Among them is psychokinesis (the ability to instantly levitate and hurl objects with the power of thought).
M104 John
1. October 1974 2. Near Neptune in the outer Solar System. 3. He excels in technology, especially in the art of assembling electronic circuitry. He plays an active role in the construction of bases.
★ Microman encased in crystal, wandering through the Cosmos
About Microman 1/1 scaling...
When Takara introduced its Rescue line, it flirted with the idea of smaller scale Microman figures. It released a line of wind-up amphibious toys called Rescue Servo. Each toy came with a miniature Microman pilot and tiny cockpit. The figure was strangely packed with the toy in a small cup-shaped depression in the top of the plastic bubble, sealed into it with a circular sticker on top showing an illustration of how the toy can use both the minifig as well as be used by a full size figure. But you can see in the manga panel above that they are indeed intended first and foremost to represent full scale vehicles, not tiny ones.
Each came with an accessory to tow a full scale figure behind it in the water like a diver, all the same. I haven't translated any explanatory text for the scale difference just yet, but will update later should something emerge for an in-world explanation. As long as I have been into this toyline, there's always something new to learn about...
Image sources Yahoo Auctions and https://twicomi.com/author/heronotakashi
Takara reinforced this scale dynamic with a miniature figure inside an "elevator tube" in each Rescue Microman figure capsule, perhaps meant to visualize miniaturizing the figure to this unique alternative scale.
Source: https://robotoydays.com/toystorage/takara-sf-land/microman/rescue/
A Rescue Servo helicopter drone also makes up one of the three main components of the Rescue Machine 3-4-5 set, looking a bit mismatched in scale as a result.
About a year later, the miniature scale was used one final time for the tiny Death Marck pilot figure for Interstellar Emperor Death King just before the reboot into 1981's New Microman.
Note: Unfortunately the Death King pilot was misreported as the first and only such miniature Microman figure without the full prior context in a post by an otherwise more or less reliable toy historian on BlueSky, who was disappointingly unwilling to accept a correction I submitted...
Given the rescaling of the small MicroRobots launched in that line, which were originally planned as part of the the original series (and which share similar styling with Death King), it seems likely to me they may have been intending to link this miniature scale to them to give the pocket and pocketbook-friendly MicroRobots a much larger feel (along with their die-cast parts) though that's currently just my own personal conjecture.
It was not these that led to the development of Diaclone, which evolved as a concept before this and completely independently, based on other past interviews with the staff, alongside talks I have had with a notable Japanese native toy historian, who immediately shot down my old pet theory about such being the case. I'm always happy to stand corrected when it comes to these matters and learn more!
It is much more likely though that the Microman development team may have been compelled to explore this scale in their well known inter-company rivalry with the Diaclone team (which also had led to the Giant Robot Base-inspired design for Punch Robo).
The newly established Inch-Man scale would also get explored around this time in the short lived Combination Warrior Blockman line, sold abroad as Robotech Robo-Links by Revell/Joustra as part of their 1980s toy and model license deal with Takara...
And just lately Takara Tomy lately seems to be expanding further into this particular scale format beyond Diaclone into other licenses...
You can spot the tiny pilots riding the servos right in the second cut of this commercial:
This isn't really a question but you've closed DMs so I just wanted to say that the video I made about the Diaclone Reboot is finished now. I did of course credit you, and thank you again for allowing me to use your translation! Tumblr doesn't allow links in questions apparently but I'm Droyer22 on youtube as well if you want to look it up.
Thanks for the attribution and heads up way back when. I didn't mean to close DMs but Tumblr is giving me some issues...
Hi! i just found this lovely archive; i was looking through your Microchange posts and found that the links in your post "GanguStars presents Missing Microman: Chameleon Goods Protos & More" no longer go anywhere - do you have any idea if there's a way to access this information?
Sorry, I'm not sure, he closed his blog a long time ago. I might have the info saved though so I will try to look into it when I get a chance to fix broken links and such later (hopefully).
MICROMAN 2005 - Theology 5
Scanlations of chapters 1-3
Chapter 4 translation
Chapter 6 is taking a bit longer as it wasn't fully polished yet. I'm also debating continuing to translate the sound effects past chapter 6 to help speed along the new translations. I can always go back and add them later if folks prefer it that way, but I think it will be easier for me to get these out as it will reduce manual transcription time as I have to enter them by hand (OCR can grab most of the rest of the text). Let me know in the comments or on Facebook if you prefer the sound effects translation, or won't mind if they are skipped, at least in favor of getting more chapters done potentially sooner.
I am providing the transcripted Japanese text for all these raw scans to make it easier to tell which line is which for both readers and text replacement in any future scanlation efforts, as well as to give transparency for my reading as translation is always open for interpretation due to language nuances and cultural differences. It's also why AI manga translations aren't a good idea, at least not until an AI exists that understands the full extent of cultural, linguistic, and visual context.
That might or might not be so far off, but for now it's extremely questionable at best and outright offensive garbage at worst.
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Microman By Dogmask ©Takara 1974-2005 With support by Design Mate
太平洋上 Above the Pacific Ocean
フォボス マグネアクロイヤー Magne Acroyear Phobos
スビュウウウ SVOOOM
私はある男から 皇帝陛下に言づてを 授かっている もしお会いできたら---I have a message from a man to His Imperial Majesty the Emperor. If I could have an audience with His Majesty---
心配要らないわ お前のような者が ご注進しなくとも 皇帝陛下にはすべて 見えておいでだからね アハハハッ♪ You need not concern yourself any further. His Imperial Majesty requires no advice from the likes of you, for he has foreseen everything, after all. Ahahaha♪
アクロスティーラ Acro Stella アクロイヤーEXO Acroyear EXO
ロジャー＝ハーバーブライト主任 あなたの計画を知りたい What are you plotting, Chief Harborbright?
――計画？ --Plotting?
南極ビクトリアランド Victoria Land, Antarctica M.I.C.R 偽装特殊訓練施設 海洋研究用雪洞 M.I.C.R. Camouflaged Special Training Facility Ice Tunnel for Marine Research
ミシェル=M=アラウジョ 特務機関M.I.C.R局員 Michel M.Araujo - Personnel of International Special Covert Operations M.I.C.R.
あなたの行動には疑問が多い 万全のウイルスプロテクトができないフォボスたちを リマ市のアクロウイルス発生現場に向かわせ There's a lot to be concerned about your behavior lately. You sent Phobos' team, insufficiently inoculated against the virus, to the site in Lima where the virus originated.
ロードフォースをさしおいて 秘密部隊のアサシンフォースを 制圧用に送りこみ回収に失敗した In place of the Road Force, you sent in the covert ops unit Assassin Force to handle the suppression and they failed in recapturing them.
一方で制圧能力を失ったはずの ロードフォースを回収された フォボスたちの見張りという 誰でもできる任務に就かせた Meanwhile, you put the disarmed Road Force on surveillance duty for the Phobos team, duty which anyone would have been suited for.
私の推測はこうです I figure it's like this:
あなたたちはフォボスたちを アクロウイルスに感染させ逃亡させる必要があった You needed to let Phobos' team escape after their infection by the AcroVirus.
しかし回収後は 一定時間手元に置く必要があった But due to their recapture, you had to keep them in your possession temporarily.
先程フォボスたちが逃げたのは あなたの計画が次のステップに移ったからだ So you needed to change your plan slightly after the Phobos team's aborted escape in order to make your next move.
それで？ And that would be...?
――傍受できたんですよ。あなたが脱走したフォボスたちと交信をして 『皇帝陛下』との謁見を取り付ける会話を --I intercepted it. The two-way transmission between you and the escaped Phobos about gaining audience with this "Imperial Majesty the Emperor".
スパウッ SPOWW! ドッ BAM!
Microman 2005: Theology 4
A Microman Club translation. With humble gratitude and appreciation for Yukiko’s translation support and Tomoyoshi’s original scans from Quanto Magazine in 2005.
Originally started as a project for the former Micropolis Embassy Yahoo Group.
This is the long delayed continuation of sharing our translation of the uncompiled, twelve chapter 2005 Quanto Magazine publication. The first three scanlated chapters from over 20 years ago (has it truly been so long?) were previously linked here.
Having set the precedent with the Zero Zero translation appendix, and recognizing that I have neither the time nor realistic capacity to do further full scanlations any time soon, I will simply be uploading "raw" Japanese scans with text translations going forward, first clearing out some of the old backlog, which includes chapters 4-6 of Theology. This will probably be delayed some by (aside from personal offline time constraints) reformatting issues and corrections--Tumblr seems a bit fussy to post these on. The remaining half of the chapters mostly have very rough translations, so I will try to get those cleaned up and put out eventually once we get past these three, but I may publish some other materials in the interim.
Anyone is welcome to pick these up for "cleaning" and typesetting, but note that Tumblr does compress the images. If interested, though, please get in touch and I can give access to the original scans and any other relevant materials. Eventually I wish to put most of my Microman Club relevant archives into the Internet Archive for public use, and will update here should these files become available at that point.
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ズズズ・・・ Zzz Zz Zz・・・ ドッパァン SPLASHH ピシピシ CRIICK CRACK ゴバアッ SHATTER
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御顔が見とう御座います。 How I long to see thy face.
お声が聞きとう御座います。How I long to hear thy voice.
どうかお目覚め下さいまし。Please awaken from thy slumber.
お側に置いて下さいまし。Pray, let me join thee by thine side.
愛しの皇帝陛下様 Beloved Imperial Majesty.
愛しの皇帝陛下様 Beloved Imperial Majesty.
私は此処に居りまする I am at thine service.
MICROMAN
THEOLOGY 4 破壊を導く者たちへ Those Who Lead to Destruction...
By DOGMASK ©1974-2005 Takara
Support From: Design Mate
南緯７１度 Lattitude 71° South 東経１５９度 Longitude 159° East 南極ビクトリアランド Victoria Land, Antarctica 総合研究観測基地 Integrated Research Observation Outpost
(M.I.C.R 偽装特殊訓練施設) (M.I.C.R. Camouflaged Special Training Facility)
ブツ ZOOM ヒュッ ZING
リン！しっかり！！ Lin! Steady!!
管理者にダメージ User Damaged.
ザッ ZAP ヒュッ ZING ブーン VOOM
今だ！撃って！！Now! Shoot!!
えっえっ！？ H-huh? 無理無理だよ I can't, I can't do it!
早く！Hurry!
ヒュッ ZING ヒュッ ZING ヒュン ZOOM
Page Two
Sidebar:
これまでのあらすじ The story thus far:
身長10センチの人工生命体ミクロマンと、ウィルスを持った悪の人工生命体アクロイヤーの戦いから3年。南米ペルーでアクロウィルスの原種が発生。その場に居合わせた看護師リンセー意匠は、ウィルスに感染しない体質を見込まれ、国際特務機関M.I.C.Rへ半ば強制的に入局させられてしまう。若きミクロマンカイトとペアを組み、「戦う検体」としてアクロイヤーとの戦場に身を投じる決意をしたのだが
Three years have passed since the battle between Microman, an artificial life form 10 centimeters tall, and Acroyear, an evil artificial life form carrying a virus. The original strain of the Acro-virus has emerged in Peru, South America. Nurse Linse, who happened to be present, is recruited—all but against her will—into the international special forces organization M.I.C.R. due to her natural immunity to the virus. Paired with the young Microman, Kaito, she resolves to throw herself into the battlefield against the Acroyear as a "test subject combatant."