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In このボクのように完ペキな仙人仕様にはまだ成れなかったんだよ彼も！
I thought that it meant "Just like me, not even he could attain the perfect sage method!"
However the official translation is
"He couldn't become the perfect sage that I have become!"
My understanding or the sentence is that 彼も and このボクのように implies that both persons couldn't attain 完ペキな仙人. Am I correct or is the official translation correct? And why?
Here's a picture for more context, the sequence is 1-2-3 from left to right:
The official translation is probably better, because apparently this creature is claiming to be a "perfect sage" himself. (But it depends on the story.)
Probably you're misunderstanding what この僕のように modifies. You're treating この僕のように as something like a sentence adverb, but this この僕のように actually only modifies the na-adjective right after it, 完ペキ. この僕のように完璧な仙人 forms a noun phrase that just means "sage who is as perfect as me" or "perfect sage like me".
If there were a comma after この僕のように, then it's possible to interpret it as a sentence adverb.
- 彼のように私は英語を話せない。
I can't speak English like him. = My English is not as good as his.- 彼のように、私は英語を話せない。 (sounds a bit unnatural)
Just like him, I can't speak English (either).
EDIT: 仕様 here is not a synonym for 仕方（しかた, a way of doing） but a different word meaning "spec". As a suffix, ～仕様 means something like "-grade", "-spec", "-ready", etc (eg 冬仕様 = winter-grade). So strictly speaking, this sentence is talking not about actually becoming a sage but about the "readiness" to become a sage: "He could not be as 'perfect-sage-ready' as me ..." or "His body was not prepared for becoming a perfect sage ..." The official translation seems to have simplified this part.
