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Plasma Bomber · #3 Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:07 am

I have the original Japanese Super Bomberman 3 manual, so I'll be glad to show you that yes, they're exactly what they've been called in the west. Oh, and about the "Fire Bomber" thing, that was just a manual error, he is explicitly referred to as Golem Bomber in the storyline page. If you look at that page with all five of them and their boss machines, you'll also see that Plasma Bomber's machine (final boss) is shown instead of Pretty Bomber's (sun), at least in the American version.

Now:

マグネツトボンバ - Magunetsuto Bonba - Magnet Bomber
ゴ-レムボンバ- Goremu Bonba - Golem Bomber
プリテイ-ボンバ- Puriti Bonba - Pretty Bomber
ブレインボンバ- Burein Bonba - Brain Bomber
プラズマボンバ- Purazuma Bonba - Plasma Bomber (If you're wondering about the lightning bolt, lightning is a form of plasma, or at least plasma is present in it)

Also:

プロフェツサ- バグラ - Purofetsuso Bagura - Professor Bagura

For some time now, I've been under the impression that they are called the Five Heinous Bombers. However - and yeah, sorry about this switch again, but it seems accurate - they are really the Five Fiendish Bombers.

From the Super Bomberman 3 manual:

凶悪ボンバ -
凶悪 translates as "Fiendish" or "Villainous." Try here or url=http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html]here[/url].

In any case it's not Dastardly, I hate that name.

As for what they are, I am quite sure they are human cyborgs, evidenced in about four ways:
1) The helmets. They are not traditional Bomberman helmets, they are more rounded and have chins.
2) SB3 password screen, you can see Pretty Bomber's face (which looks nothing like Honey, mind you), and it is human.
3) Max is a human from Phantarion, who was turned into a Bomberman cyborg because of events involving the Five Fiendish Bombers. Hmm.... Brain Bomber, anyone?
4) In the story manga for SB3, on the line right below the one I translated above, is another line, which I have not fully translated. What I can show is this:
5 人 _ よつ!
The blank space indicates a kanji I am currently unable to find. The 5 is obvious; the next character, though, is 人 which, by itself, means "person" or "human."

Also, if you'll remember, at the end of Super Bomberman 2, when the ship explodes, Shiro falls back to Earth. In the intro to Super Bomberman 3, Bagura flies to Earth to pick up the Fiendish Bombers, NOT the middle of space. Ergo, the Fiendish Bombers (along with their wreckage) fell to Earth as well. I'm stating this because someone earlier had thought they'd been thrown into a trash dump or something of the like, and I'm certain that's not true. They likely survived the fall, though needed reparation by Bagura.

If I can find that missing kanji, I'll get back to you about that. Also, if anyone has the Japanese Super Bomberman 2 manual, I'd very much appreciate scans the story and character pages, if at all possible. I have the entire SB3 manual scanned also, if anyone wants/needs it.

Oh yes, and welcome back to the board.

EDIT: Here is the panel with the text I translated in the latter portion of this post. I'm looking at the third line, and yeah, I'd like to know what exactly those tiny prints above each line are for.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/9061/bagurapanel.png