Makyou Gaiden Le Deus (1987)

Another stalled project done & dusted...

JTaylorPro from Twitter had gotten a LD copy of this OVA and got it captured via Domesday with tanks404—I requested to have an encode sent my way since I was interested in doing something with it, but alas... this was back in July 2024. I hadn't touched this until this month LOL

It's finally done now, though :)

So, what is this OVA? Just a one-off project by Ashi Productions featuring designs by Aran Rei and directed by the same dude who'd eventually go on to direct Sonic Soldier Borgman for Ashi Pro, too—who would have thought? Plot-wise, this takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where treasure hunter Liot, alongside his two pretty sidekick twins, are searching for a mysterious treasure that is said to save anybody if used correctly. Unfortunately for them, Kaiser and his gang are after it too for their own nefarious purposes...

I had listened to the soundtrack long ago (which rocks) but only just now got around to watching this. I seriously wonder WTF Ashi Pro were doing when working on this. There is an insane number of shots where you can see the edges of the cel sheets used, another shot where some black bar slowly begins to start eating up the image at the bottom around the OVA's halfway point, and even one scene near the end where the MC is triumphantly yelling in his Le Deus mecha before engaging in battle—except he doesn't actually say his full line because the editor accidentally cut him off before he could even finish 💀

I like the OVA and think it's pretty good, but production-wise? This is a mess.

This OVA had actually gotten an official release at some point, via a UK company that released it on VHS—naturally, this has long since been out of print. These subs were eventually OCR'ed and slapped onto a mediocre-quality LD rip back in 2012. The subs weren't bad, but admittedly barebones & required some fixes—all in all, the adjustments aren't minor, but not major enough to call this a new translation from scratch either.

What I do consider major, though—besides this release utilizing a first-ever Domesday rip—is the inclusion of new song translations in this release. I think things have changed since then but the Le Deus OST was somewhat rare to acquire back then and for that reason I think nobody had attempted to translate neither the insert song or ending song because of it. Thankfully I have a physical copy myself, so that's been covered in this release :)

Typesetting for the title logo was also added in by our resident Russian, perevodildo. 

That's all I got. An HD release of this OVA would be preferable, but given Ashi Pro's track record, this is probably the best we'll be getting for now.

This can be found at the usual spot under the [LonelyDildo] tag. 

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 34 & 35

 

Whew... What a ride this has been.

Ironically enough, despite this not being the first TV fansub project started under the "LonelyChaser" tag, this release now officially marks Sonic Soldier Borgman as the first anime TV project that this fansub group has now finished in its entirety. I'm so proud 🥲

There's actually more Borgman-related material I want to address, but I'll save that for a later post.

Anyways: in episode 34, Ryo & Dust Gead fight to the death, while Mesh drops a bombshell of info (bombshell for the audience, at least) revealing the mysterious connection between Dust Gead & Memory. The Demon King gets finally unleashed in episode 35—both Memory & the Borgman team resort to a final tactic to defeat him once and for all.

Both episodes are now available for downloading at the usual spot.

I'll create a proper credits list for this project once I inevitably release a final batch for this show, but in the meantime, thanks to everyone who helped cooperate on this in one way or another. You know who you are ;^) 

Double Release: Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 32 & 33

Episode 32 — With newly uncovered instructions left behind by Memory in the event that anything happens to her, the Borgman team sets out to the Megalo Building to prepare for a final showdown against Dust Gead and the others. Meanwhile, Memory & Shinji—having been captured by Dust Gead—attempt to seek out a way to escape the cell they're confined in while Memory sends out a distress signal for Borgman.

Episode 33 — Anice discovers a clue that possibly hints at the current status of Memory & Shinji, but due to the urgency of the original task at hand, she and the other Borgman members are forced to set them aside temporarily while they continue onwards to the GIL Triangle. In the meantime, Miki & Chief Burger try to figure out a way to safely evacuate the citizens of Megalo City, but the kids from Gray Town discover something in Tokyo's old subways that may solve exactly just that...

Both episodes can be found in the usual spot.

Double Release: Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 30 & 31

EDIT 6/25/2025: Due to multiple DMCA notices that I received, torrent links have been removed for the safety of this blog. The actual content itself can still be found on the usual spot—that is, if the torrent pages there weren't deleted by me.

Fansub credits can be found in the links above.

Episode 31 is a recap episode—personally, I didn't see there being any use in releasing Ep. 30 today and having users wait weeks (or another month) for the next episode, just for them to find out that it's exactly that. Rather than waste everybody's time, I decided it'd be more convenient to just put up 30 & 31 together.

And with that, May's round of Borgman episodes has already come to an end, despite us being only 3 days into the month so far. Ep. 32 (and maybe 33) will be posted sometime in June.

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 29

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Fansub credits are in the link above.

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 28

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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.

Zukkoke Knight - Episode 09 (16mm HD Scan)

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Fansub credits can be found in the description above.

Bit of a funny story behind this one. I acquired this episode on 16mm back in March 2023 but didn't actually get it scanned until a full year after this was acquired LMAO

This got translated in July 2024 but I hadn't begun looking at it until the last few weeks of October. It was pretty last minute, but it suddenly hit me that I wanted to post this on Halloween since it was a Dracula-themed episode, and so I made every effort to try and get this edited & TLC'ed so I could post it on time.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it on time for 10/31... but at the very least, this episode is finally finished now, so I'm posting it tonight to get it over with.

That said... this is a film scan of Episode 9 of Zukkoke Knight: Don de la Mancha. This show hadn't received a full release of any sorts until earlier this year when it finally got added onto streaming, but it uses a very bad tape master and some of the episodes are even corrupted...
Ashi Pro still has the masters, but they're unable to get them scanned in HD due to budget issues, so an official HD remaster isn't happening any time soon. For now, this is the closest we'll get to seeing what the show would look like in HD.

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Batch 3 (Episodes 01 ~ 27)

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Took longer than I had expected...but the 3rd batch for my ongoing Sonic Soldier Borgman fansub is now finally up. This contains v3.5's, v2.5's, and v1.5's of previously released episodes.

Lots of changes were made for this batch. I kept a list of changes made, though I stopped continuously updating it at some point so some of said changes might not actually be listed in here. Right off the bat, though—I re-watched the whole show starting from Episode 1 up to 27 for the purpose of re-timing lines, fixing any typos, and making various adjustments to how the lines were presented on-screen. 

Here is what was changed for this batch:

• The title logo now has fancy typesetting, thanks to Windii!
• ED 1 has lyrics that fade in & fade out, but I neglected to actually add in said effects for the English-subbed lyrics. Effects have now been properly added in, once again thanks to Windii.
• Episodes 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 16, and 20 have new typesetting-related additions, added in by Windii.
• Some of you may have noticed several episodes ago that I lowered the height of the default dialogue subs—previously-released episodes have been edited to have the subs match this same height level as well.
• Various lines throughout the episodes were reaching the red zone with regards to CPS in Aegisub—these have been re-worded and/or re-timed to prevent this.
• Romaji lyrics for the insert song in Episodes 10 & 13 have been added.
• So, throughout the episodes, the students sometimes refer to their teachers as just..."teach". Or "Ma'am" when referring to Anice. I've left it as is for Anice, but for Ryo/Chuck I've switched it to Mr. Hibiki/Mr. Sweager respectively. There are probably instances where I've switched it to "Sir" instead but I don't remember—not a big deal anyways.
• Ep. 8: "Episode 8" was supposed to show up alongside the EP name as well but I missed this, somehow. This has now been fixed.
• Megalo City and Megalo Building had inconsistencies throughout the episodes with regards to their capitalization, but this should be fixed now. If there's an extra instance that I somehow missed then I will fix it in a later batch.
• Inconsistency with Randou's name in Ep. 1 & "Baltector" terminology in Ep. 1 (I think some of the early episodes past Ep. 1 had the "Baltector" teminology issue too, but I don't remember)
• Ep. 5 NEP: "Droll" should have been "Toru" instead, this has now been fixed.

As usual, thanks to whomever has been helping out with the show so far—you know who you are.

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 27

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Phantom Swat infiltrates the space block in an attempt to take down the GIL Triangle, but ends up getting kidnapped in the process. The Borgman team, despite having sustained serious injuries from their previous battle, march forward regardless to save them...

(NOTE: Show will be put on a hiatus for now in order to fix the previous episodes, as established in previous updates that I posted elsewhere.)

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 26

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

A continuation to last week's episode—the Borgman team is still stuck in the demon world as Dust Gead throws more enemies their way. While Memory continues to attempt searching for a way to rescue them, an unexpected adversary returns...

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 25

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

In an attempt to investigate Megalo City's space block after Dust Gead sets up his newly-established GIL Triangle onto it, the Borgman team is inadvertently transported over to the demon world—and to make matters worse, they can't contact Memory nor can they make any weapon transfers! How will they be able to survive?

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 24

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Miki, having been placed under the control of Dust Gead, heads to CySonic Academy in an attempt to arrest & take down the Borgman crew...Ryo & friends suspect something is obviously not right and look for a way to save her & the students whom Miki has temporarily imprisoned.

This is the first episode (out of three) where Chuck's VA was replaced with Shinya Ohtaki, who's been serving as the narrator throughout this show—though you might recognize him as the MC of a certain Western-themed 80s mecha anime show by Tomino & Sunrise...I was a bit weirded out by it at first but actually got used to it pretty quickly as the episode went on.

Anyways, enjoy!

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 23

 

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Credits can be found in the link above.

The Borgman crew invite Shinji to their secret base as a birthday gift, but when the team goes out to exterminate more demons, another one somehow makes its way into the base...and Shinji's all alone in there? Will they be able to make it back in time and save him?

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 22

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Ryo, Chuck, and Anice take their students out for camping—unfortunately for educational purposes rather than for fun! However, something lurks among them—Felmina seems to have brought with her another demon to attack them with...

(Fun episode! I liked this one. Lots of good expressions here and a certain someone makes a realization about Borgman...not spoiling anything!)

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 21

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

After the shitshow that was episodes 19 & 20...we're finally back on track quality-wise! Here's Episode 21, where Shinji stumbles upon a weird starfish that seems to grant him super strength...at the cost of him slowly descending into a more evil version of himself. Furthermore, he uses the starfish to control his friends and eventually the rest of his classroom...

GET THE TEAR-GAS GRENADES OUT!

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episodes 19 & 20

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I don't typically upload two episodes at once, but unfortunately I had to make an exception with these two. The plan was to just upload 19 yesterday but after seeing how much worse 20 was than 19, I didn't want people to waste a week waiting for an episode that they think would pick up in quality again, so I've decided to include these two together to save them the misery of waiting.

Episode 19 has Ryo & Chuck coming in to save Anice after she discovers an underground structure which bears a resemblance to a certain Megalo building.
Episode 20 has Ryo befriending a blind girl whom he saves one day and asking for Memory's assistance in helping her get her eyesight back.

Storyline-wise, both episodes are okay but the animation dips like fucking crazy. 20 suffers the most from this—the characters are so off-model it's not even funny.

Tread with caution!

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 18

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

A red star mysteriously looms over Megalo City's space block, and so Borgman is dispatched to investigate the situation when a new demon refuses to let anyone gain entry into the building.

No spoilers, but a flashback into Memory's past with her and several of her colleagues is also revealed here...

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 17

 

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Chuck meets the gorgeous Miki Katsura one day and the two agree to go on a date together...at a museum where its owner was attacked by demons the day before—which the two know about. Coincidence? To make things worse, Shinji and Molly follow them to record their date for the school newspaper...surely nothing bad will happen this time!!

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 16

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Chuck volunteers to act as the main lead in an upcoming action movie, only to find out (to his dismay) that his role is nothing more than a simple stuntman job. However, the movie set doesn't look as normal as it seems, and something evil lurks behind the scenes...

 

Sonic Soldier Borgman - Episode 15

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Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

Another demon spotting within the world of Borgman, this time located in a fashionable, highly-populated city...and said demon only targets young women. Oh dear! Anice goes undercover as an unsuspecting woman in order to lure it out...

Also, remember Fritz? That guy in the early episodes who wished for the dismemberment of the Borgman team? Well, despite having died, his wishes for the World Police to handle the demon invasion have come true, under the newly-established "Phantom Swat" team... will they assist Borgman? Only time will tell...