Friday, April 21, 2023

Triple Release: Choriki Robo Galatt - Episode 15 / Noriko '85 (LD) / Maple Town's Traffic Safety (16mm 1080p Scan)

Decided to do something different for today. I have three fansub releases for today, but I didn't feel like separating these into their own posts just out of pure laziness, so I will be combining them all into this single post. I'll try and divide each release accordingly.

With that being said...

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https://nyaa.si/view/1663403
CHANGE, GALATT!

Same case with my recent Getter Robo Go upload from last week—I didn't intend on continuing this until I finished my (next) ongoing Borgman batch, but that's still a WIP. So I need to throw some other stuff up in the meantime. This episode was actually sorta already completed for a few months now, it just needed TLC which I've thankfully gotten around to this past week.

Anyways! In this episode, Michael and friends finally arrive back to Earth, only to find Doctor Kiwi in shambles...and with a new female assistant?! She acts kind of weird though. Salad Oil also arranges another visit to Earth after a supposed surrender, which doesn't last very long. Also: the show seems to be hinting at a new wave of enemies that even the Space Syndicate are scared of. I wonder who they are?

Last note: I also want to put onto this post two TL notes, one of which I was unable to put into the episode due to timing length constraints.

1. Sakuko, as you can probably tell after watching this episode, acts very old-fashioned. Somewhere in the episode, Michael and friends guess that she was born in the year of the boar and that her blood type is B. Apparently there's a Japanese superstition that the year you're born in and your blood type affects your personality. Not that I know anything—I'm just passing down what I heard from the TL'er and one of the guys who helped TLC this for me.

2. Before Salad Oil's arrival, an airshow plays out between two fighter jets.

Please note that there is a chance that the commentator's subbed lines in this episode may not be correct.

His dialogue gets drowned out as soon as the governor and the others start speaking—I've had multiple people TLC this (a native JP speaker being one of them) and they all had trouble with this. What is currently subbed so far is the best that could be made out considering all the context and such. If by some chance someone figures it out then maybe I could update it in the show's next batch, but for now I'm leaving it as is.

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https://nyaa.si/view/1663406

This one is actually long overdue LOL.
Anyways—this is a LaserDisc containing music videos based off several tracks from Noriko Watanabe's vocal album of the same name. Lyrics have been subbed in English, and the LD was captured using a Domesday Duplicator.

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https://nyaa.si/view/1663407

Another short collab with Kineko Video. This one's yet another educational short taking place within the Maple Town universe that centers around traffic safety. Doesn't seem to have gotten a DVD release (per the usual), having only been circulated to schools via 16mm reels and VHS copies.

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That does it for today's fansub releases. As usual, fansub credits for each separate work can be found in the Nyaa link aboves.

Sunday, April 16, 2023

Getter Robo Go - Episode 15


https://nyaa.si/view/1661539
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

I wasn't planning on resuming Getter Robo Go this soon—not until after I put out my next batch for Sonic Soldier Borgman that I had been talking about elsewhere for a while now...but it seems I still need more time for that. So I've made a change of plans and have decided to put out more episodes of this show in the meantime.

As of me writing this out, this anime has been translated up to Episode 20 so far and will sooner or later go up to 25 (heck, possibly 30 even), so who knows? Maybe it won't be too long before I put out another batch for this show. In any case I have something to keep myself afloat with for a while.

Anyways, with that being said—in today's episode, Yuji receives an SOS call from a camp in Canada, and proceeds to head out by himself in an effort to save the camp's kids as soon as possible. He is joined by the Getter crew, but unbeknownst to them, another Metal Beast lurks near their way...

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Kizudarake no Kunshou / Desperate Pursuit (1986)



https://nyaa.si/view/1657618
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

So...how did I stumble upon this movie?

Many many years ago I used to be in contact with a certain user who just so happened to own a bunch of rare Japanese OSTs on vinyl and offered to sell them to me. Among one of them was the soundtrack to Kizudarake no Kunshou, which I bought a copy of long ago.

The cover image—which depicts two of the MCs walking across the Egyptian desert—caught my interest at first. Old JP movies, to my knowledge, hardly were filmed outside of Japan. Yet, there seemingly was this 80s movie...filmed in EGYPT of all places?? Count me in!!

Unfortunately at the time, I didn't have much luck—my research at the time showed that this movie only had a VHS & LD release, both of which are really rare...so, even though I wanted to know more about the movie, I couldn't do much due to its rarity at the time and I couldn't be bothered to continuously search up copies every once in a while due to laziness.

I re-visited the OST again some time ago and later found out that this was finally remastered in HD via Amazon Prime! So I had someone rip it for me, and the rest is history...

Overall? This is a good movie! Lots of plot twists that are executed just well and with a synth OST that, surprisingly, REALLY fits the movie. Lots of unreleased BGM though... 😥

Anyways, enjoy!