Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 09

 

https://nyaa.si/view/1962838
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Inka version:
https://www.inka-subs.net/2025/04/lonelychaser-inka-tongari-boushi-no.html

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 29

https://nyaa.si/view/1959562
Fansub credits are in the link above.

V-Jump Festival '95 Video - Slime's Adventures (1995)

 

https://nyaa.si/view/1956932
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Sometime in 2022, the folks at Kineko Video got ahold of various V-Jump Festival Video VHS tapes—I don't know too much about them other than that these were showcases of then-upcoming video games that were being displayed at a festival hosted by Shueisha. Most of these tapes featured a small animation short at the end, titled "Slime's Adventures"—centered around Dragon Quest and based off a similarly-named manga that chronicles the misadventures of a slime named Slikichi as he & his friends get themselves into all sorts of trouble.

It being Dragon Quest-themed already caught my interest, but an anime short starring the slime? Absolute kino, you can't convince me otherwise.

Anyways, in this short, Slikichi is approached by a group of men who offer him free dinner in exchange for a rare hat he owns. Slikichi's friends, having realized the huge mistake he committed, head off to a nearby casino where the hat is being sold for an abhorrent amount of money. They get real close to winning it, until they participate in the final game and lose... only to realize that the player they were competing against was cheating in the first place. And thus, they set out to his hideout to settle things once and for all, and to rightfully claim back the hat too.

Kineko passed off an encode of the short to me back in Dec. 2022, but I must confess that I've been really slow with the progress of this translation 🗿—I didn't get this translated until around August/Sept. 2023, and it wasn't until a few months ago when I finally decided to start looking at it and get this TLC'ed/QC'ed  😅

In any case, it's finally finished now! I'm aiming to translate whatever other of these shorts exist in the other V-Jump tapes, though as usual I can't say when I'll get to them.

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 28

https://nyaa.si/view/1955822
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Almost two years since the show's most recent batch was released... sasuga

Anyways, a lot has changed for this show's project since then. I've made considerable progress on getting this subbed in Spanish but I also realized at the same time that I made the mistake of releasing the sub files for them online without providing the fonts for them. So, at this point, I'm not releasing any more Spanish episodes publicly and will probably wait until the full show is done—that way I can just easily combine both the ENG & SPA subs together.

Additionally, when I was attempting to resume this show back in Dec. 2024, I had to go back through all of the currently-released episodes again and make a bunch of changes with regards to in-universe terminologies and all of that...

I finished doing whatever fixes needed to be made, but holy hell was it exhausting. 

Final notes:

• The rest of the episodes that will be released from this point on will be utilizing new typesetting—basically the same font I'm using for the majority of my current releases right now. All of the previous episodes have had their typesetting changed too so that it's all consistent with each other but I'm not re-releasing those until the show's final batch release.
• When I was releasing these episodes frequently years ago, I was aiming for a release every Friday—I don't think this will disappoint anybody but I'm opting to ditch that for now. The current plan is to release one episode per month (or two, depending on my mood) whenever I can. The show is practically three episodes away from being fully finished anyways, so you can expect the whole show to actually be done this year for sure.

Normally I'd end this with a small episode plot summary, but...
The same thing that happened with my Memole plot summaries happened with Borgman as well 💀—I had all the summaries written up in a text file that somehow got misplaced. So don't expect any small summary write-ups for the next few episode releases, at least not until episode 32 or so.

Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari (1981)

Front cover image of the 7-inch vinyl
single release of the TV special's OP/ED theme songs

https://nyaa.si/view/1948897
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

 

Another collaboration with perevodildo, released under the "LonelyDildo" tag—this is "Bokura Mangaka: Tokiwa-sou Monogatari", a Toei Animation TV special from 1981.

 

Tokiwa-sou was the name of an apartment building in Japan which was famous for housing many influential manga artists, some of which include Osamu Tezuka, Fujiko Fujio, and Fujio Akatsuka, among many others. The animated TV special—which, interestingly enough, was broadcasted one year before the building was demolished—centers around the lives of the manga artists living in Tokiwa-sou, though most of the special focuses on Fujio Akatsuka as he slowly begins to doubt his skills as a manga artist and questions what type of manga he should truly be drawing.

 

Funny enough, this project dates back to 2022... but it is entirely my fault and the result of stalling. edo999 was in possession of an official Shotaro Ishinomori DVD that contained this TV special, and sent the DVD ISO over to me. I later sent that ISO over to this project's encoder, and the TV special was... pretty much just kept dormant in my SSD throughout the next years, with me telling myself that I'd eventually get to it "soon".

 

Several months ago, perevodildo expressed interest in translating this, to which I had asked if he was interested in collab'ing on this since it was on my radar too. He agreed, and the project pretty much finally kickstarted from there—Yume timed & translated it, perevodildo helped TLC, imatu and I QC'ed this, and an anonymous user offered to help QC this to help identify & fill in references to various manga & anime that none of us on the project's team knew—said user also helped TLC this and fixed some lines here & there.

 

I think that's pretty much it. Despite this anime special featuring various prominent authors, there's only a few handful I really recognized in here. The others—either I vaguely knew them somewhat or didn't know them at all... and TBH I have no interest in checking them out either 😅

 

Regardless, enjoy!