Lightning Superhuman Gridman - Episodes 01 ~ 05

https://nyaa.si/view/1890880
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Marty subbing toku... who would have thought?
(This won't be the last time, but that's another story for another time)

I had heard for a while that the live-action Gridman show has... really bad official English subs. Matter of fact, Gridman was one of those shows that I wanted to check out eventually but the lack of an actual good-quality release resulted in me putting a low priority on checking it out.

It seemed like someone was going to scrub the subs years ago, but only episode 1 was put out and the project got dropped afterwards for some unknown reason I don't know of—despite the subber still being active nowadays...

I randomly got the urge to check out Episode 1 many months ago, and... despite the somewhat dated production values, I really liked it! It's got an interesting premise and I enjoyed the idea of having cyber heroes fight off villains looking to wreck the real world via "digital" means. And so—seeing how nobody else was seemingly going to fix up the subs any time soon...

I decided to do it myself :)

Episodes 01 ~ 03 are the /m/subs release, but with various lines tweaked & re-timed here and there. Episodes 04 & 05 are translated from scratch by Yume—and the rest of the show, going forward, will be TL'ed from the ground up too.

The show is currently translated up to episode 9—more & more episodes will be translated in the following months, but they will still need to be edited by me. The plan after this release was to upload the remaining episodes one by one (and do batch releases later), but maybe I might just do batches of five instead like with today's release. This is subject to change though, it's not final!

That said, enjoy these subs. They're a huge improvement over the official Mill Creek release and really deserve this treatment!

Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 04

 

https://nyaa.si/view/1888794
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

After having won the tug of war against the adults in the previous episode, Memole & friends set out to visit Marielle once again. After their arrival, they learn more about Marielle's (rather strict) caretaker, as well as her pet cat Jojo—they also ask Marielle about what she had meant by that "comment" of hers after her revival, and Marielle proceeds to give them some backstory about her past and what led to her current situation.

Inka blog:
https://www.inka-subs.net/2024/10/lonelychaser-inka-tongari-boushi-no.html

Kaitei Daisensou: Ai no 20,000 Miles (1981)

https://nyaa.si/view/1886837
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

This is an English fansub of a 1981 TV special by Tatsunoko Productions, titled Kaitei Daisensou—taking place in a world where the evil Gabia empire (controlled by Emperor Darius) has taken over most of the planet Earth, undersea explorers Ricky and Ben dedicate themselves to searching for ancient underwater civilizations when they are suddenly picked up by the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. Things begin to get tense when Emperor Darius eventually starts chasing after the Nautilus, as he firmly believes he can't be a complete ruler unless he gets rid of Captain Nemo...

Many, many years ago, GANGO translated this into English after I managed to snag a low-quality raw from a (now dead) torrent. A while back, I found out that this got added onto JP streaming services, utilizing a slightly better video source than that of the original JP VHS. And so, perevodildo and I partnered up together to do a touch-up of GANGO's subs while also using better materials.

The video source is taken from Hulu JP—this was on Amazon JP as well but it was split into 3 separate parts for whatever reason... Hulu JP had the entire special as a single video file, so it was more convenient to use that instead. The streaming version uses optical mono audio but we also included a stereo track, taken straight from the VHS release (captured by Japanese Hoarder, and stitched by w0wmd). You want my recommendation? Even though the VHS audio is technically in higher quality, it's mixed really weirdly and I don't like it, so I'd honestly go with the optical mono track here.

Lastly: what did I think of this...?
As that One Piece GIF goes... this shit is so mid 💔

I must admit I've never actually seen this until now, when I began my QC & editing pass of this title. The storyline's interesting, but... Idk how to explain it—it just gets really boring around the mid-way point. It was so mid that I actually neglected to work on this for various months until perevodildo asked me to resume it again earlier this month 💀
I think one of the pet peeves I have with this title is that a lot of characters seemingly just... disappear near the end and the anime never explains what happens to them. What happened to the scientist of the Nautilus? Ricky and Ben seemingly had their own crew before they were also forced to work for Captain Nemo—were they forced to participate in the big battle at the end? Did they all also die? It just seems like Tatsunoko was in a hurry to finish this and consequently didn't properly wrap up the fates of those characters. Was also hoping for a proper showdown between Nemo & Darius but that didn't happen either...

Oh well.

Anyways, enjoy...?