L'épisode 13 du 4ème volume du manga "Rurouni Kenshin" s'intéresse à un aspect de la culture japonaise qui nous réunit tous sur ce forum : le sumo !
Voici un résumé (en anglais) de cet épisode qui devrait ravir les fans à la fois de manga et de sumo !
13: 'Going for the Grand Championship'
Kaoru, Kenshin and Yahiko are in town buying miso when they run across a famous ozeki [an accomplished rank in sumo wrestling] named Senryouyama surrounded by sumo friends. Moments later another ozeki, Toramaru, runs from the Akabeko (the 'beef hot pot' restaurant frequented by Kenshin & Co), not having paid his bill. We discover that he's run away from the training stables and the other sumos take the opportunity to pummel him for this disgrace. When Kaoru tries to stop them, it sets in motion a great 'fight' sequence that somehow ends up with Kenshin facing half a dozen sumo wrestlers armed with nothing but two buckets of miso. It’s very funny! Predictably, Senryouyama is a bit of a bully and Toramaru is, of course, the bullied; Kaoru manages to stop the latter from committing suicide and takes him back to the dojo.
From there, things fall comfortably into the expected formula, underscored by a few in-jokes. For example, Kaoru - not to mention the rest of the gang - is so taken aback by Toramaru's love of her cooking that she offers on the spot to be his sumo trainer, utilising the Kamiya Kasshin style! There are some very dodgy butt-pinching moments to encourage Toramaru (as requested by him to remind him of his mother's chastisements... no comment!), but eventually his spirits lift and he begins to grow more confident again. When Senryouyama and his cronies catch wind of this, they converge on the shrine Kaoru and Toramaru have been using for practice to put him out of action. There's the usual flurry of activity with Toramaru trying to carry Ayame and Suzume (the two granddaughters of Dr Gensai, who seem to spend all of their time at the Kamiya dojo) off to safety as the fight breaks out in earnest.
In the end, everything is settled by a duel between Senryouyama and Toramaru, from which the latter emerges victorious. The master of the sumo stable - who has been watching, having followed Senryouyama to the shrine - chastises him publicly, and the latter admits he was jealous of Toramaru's potential.
Du bel oshizumo en perspective ! :P
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