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Having to confront the possibility that this rivalry will never get better than this

Damn this has been reblogged so many times that people are seeing it not knowing I've been a world class twelfth Doctor diehard from day 1 and this is also what I think

this is one of the funniest responses I've ever gotten to a sub I've been chuckling about it for hours

#but yes the title of the episode is just verbatim the japanese title of the opera Der Freischütz #and the planet in the flashbacks is named after the opera's composer #gavan infinity #super space sheriff gavan infinity #fansubbing

tsunflowers

I thought it was just setsuna but I guess the whole planet is like this

cough-droplet

(No it is just Setsuna, the gag here is just that they all react with the same exact words as him against all odds)

tsunflowers

interesting how that lady from the ruined dust planet told him this in a flashback and he just sat on it for a while until some random annoying guy showed up and said it again and this time he was like "damn hes making some points"

cough-droplet

Well the woman and Reiji were not communicating the same point at all.

The woman told Setsuna to live for himself—i.e., to follow his own wishes rather than be beholden to someone else's. But Setsuna doesn't really have any personal desires, so he just wanders aimlessly.

When he's given a "purpose" in the form of the title of Gavan, he still thinks of that as him doing what someone else wants of him; He thinks "helping people" and "following my own desires" are incompatible things. Then he overhears Reiji say that helping people is his own personal desire, he realizes that it can be his as well, and that he can therefore honor both what the woman asked of him and the name Gavan at the same time.

(This is going to sound really serious to start so disclaimer this is gonna be about a baby TV show for children LMFAO)

So, for whatever reason, one of my most vivid and enduring early memories is of a social studies class when I was 5 years old.

Specifically, it was the day we were taught about the colonial status of my home, Puerto Rico. Even at that age, when I didn't know anything about anything, I remember being paralyzed by the inherent dilemma of colonialism: I recognized that the things being done to us were not right, but the things that would have to be done to fix it were fucking scary.

So this has been an ever-present struggle in my mind for 21 years now. It sucks to be a second-class citizen without full rights just because I was born in the wrong place, it sucks to have to watch things get worse and worse for my people as our home is treated as a commodity by those who legally declared us an "alien race". But at the same time I know that, if that oppression ended tomorrow, it would cause untold pain and struggle. I know that millions of lives, including my own, would be upended. I know there's even a real possibility that I might be cut off from some of the most important people in my life if that happened. And I'm terrified of that. That's the thing about colonization: Even if it ends, the people will have to live with the scars.

Anyway, last year I worked on a fansub of Kamen Rider Gavv, having no idea that the show would end in a depiction of that exact dilemma. After a year of struggling against the imperialist Granutes' colonization of the human realm, Rakia—the only one of our protagonists to be a full Granute—essentially gets hold of the Magic Stop-Colonization Button. If he smashes the doors that link the worlds, all of the death and destruction and exploitation and horror of colonization perpetrated by his people will end. So he does it.

It's a good thing. And it sucks.

Rakia has ended the colonization of the human world, at the cost of upending who-knows-how-many lives. The show ends with the rest of our heroes having to set up a support network for all the Granutes who were once cogs in the imperialist machine and are now cut off from their families and homes, possibly forever. The world is saved, now we have to live with the scars.

This bittersweet ending was incredibly poignant to me as someone who's been haunted by this exact dilemma for my entire life. And honestly I think depicting that reality for an audience of children is an important thing, the kind of thing that's a part of Kamen Rider's mission statement. After all, I've had to grapple with this since I was 5 years old myself.

I see a number of people who really hate this ending for being cruel to a number of the characters, or who hate Rakia for putting this suffering on them unilaterally. But that's simply what real people in this situation inevitably have dealt with, or will deal with. Those scars would always be there, one way or the other.

Like yeah, a coexistence ending would've been nice. It would be ideal if they could talk to all the Granutes, convince everyone with any power to abstain from exploiting this less-powerful population, and have everyone live happy with their loved ones. But that is simply not reality. That day in social studies class, I was only one among millions of small children who've had to make peace with the fact that they will never see that happy ending to their oppression. I do not see the point in hiding that reality from anyone else's children.

#kamen rider gavv #kamen rider gavv spoilers #kamen rider vram #rakia amarga

toei calling up agito after fumbling the sentai anniversary

#kamen rider agito #kamen rider

So an HD remaster of the famously banned episode of Ultraseven recently leaked and Flame and I subbed it if you wanna check it out

Disclaimer this isn't actual dialogue from the episode but I was thinking about that video when I wrote the actual line

#ultraseven #ultraman #fansubbing #tokusatsu #lost media #? i guess

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HIDEO KOJIMA WHAT COULD YOU POSSIBLY MEAN BY THIS

cough-droplet

he means "this goes hard. feel free to screenshot"

thegunfighters

average first doctor episode title: the italians

average second doctor episode title: the scary monsters

average third doctor episode title: mitosis of the daleks

average fourth doctor episode title: the apocalypse of death

average fifth doctor episode title: zarpegis

average sixth doctor episode title: explosion

average seventh doctor episode title: the cool awesomeness

cough-droplet

not entirely accurate. the average first doctor episode title is something like "The Sacrifice of God" but then when they put the full 7-parter on vhs 20 years later they just title the vhs tape "the italians" and now no one calls them anything else

#doctor who #first doctor

#self dox i guess now you know what my baseball team is #hearing someone say that name in japanese just made alarms go off in my head #kamen rider #kamen rider saber

#i don't actually believe sentai is ending i'm pretty sure this is just a rebrand #you guys don't have the context but this image originally said 'asked to write five more shows' in the bottom line #it's an inside joke with my buddies lmao #super sentai

tsunflowers

I saw someone complain about this line and that's fair but I feel like it works if you accept "granutes" as "people trapped by social roles in granute society." shoma is part human so he didn't fit and no one acknowledged his human side so he just had nothing. lango internalized the toxic message of being the toughest baddest businessman

cough-droplet

Oh wait are people interpreting this line in an unintended way? He's just using "Granutes" in this sentence in the place where you would use "people".

So it's not like "they turned us both into {{Granutes}}";

it's "they turned us both into {{Granutes who struggle}}".

I don't know if that's actually what the complaint you mentioned was referring to or if it's something else but I see how the syntax of the translated sentence might unintentionally make it seem like he's saying Granute as a negative maybe? Which isn't the intent. I'll try rewording it for the updated release later in the week if it's causing confusion like that.

(Unless it is a separate thing the critique was about but either way this drew my attention to the possibly confusing syntax so thanks lmao)

#fansubbing #kamen rider gavv

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With Kamen Rider Zeztz starting next week, we now have official details on how it will stream in international markets.

Every Saturday at 7:30PM PT (2 hours and 30 minutes after the Japan broadcast), a new episode of Zeztz will air. This will be followed by a re-run on Sunday at 9AM PT and a re-run the following Friday at 5PM PT. This broadcast will be available in the USA, Canada, Puerto Rico, UK, Australia and New Zealand on SHOUT's Youtube and Twitch channels

Please note that unlike Tsupro's Ultraman uploads; these episodes will not be permanently uploaded to SHOUT's channels. If you miss an episode when it first broadcasts, you must catch one of the two re-runs as there is no streaming on demand

narashikari

Is Toei trying to set themselves up to fail??

I mean... we have some idea of the turnaround time on the production side thanks to the leaked episodes of Gavv. They started filming in March 2024. Three episodes showed up on Chinese Bilibili in July 2024, ahead of the actual start of broadcast in September 2024.

Meaning, four months into production they already had enough material completed for 3 weeks of broadcast. And they were still two months out from the start of the show.

Now, we know Zeztz also followed the new production schedule. Are you telling me they couldn't use the two months they had free between them finishing post-production on the episode to get the material to their authorized subbers so they could ACTUALLY simulcast worldwide day of??

And yes, while the leak happening might explain why they don't want to hand the finished episode so early... If they don't trust the subbers they work with not to leak the episodes, why work with them at all?

Heck, it's not like they haven't had some massive blunders on their end, like that time a Japanese streamer accidentally aired an episode of Geats weeks in advance, or the trailer for an episode of Gavv being uploaded to YT before the episode it was tacked on aired!

Also, why aren't they being allowed to keep the show on the archive permanently for on-demand streaming? Are they doing that with Telasa (the streaming service for the TV Asahi network which broadcasts Kamen Rider and Sentai)? I doubt it, so why are they pulling that crap on their subbers?

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE, TOEI. You want to welcome outsiders from Japan to watch your show, but you limit the reach it has to a few select countries, you can't even be bothered to put in the work and trust for an actual simulcast and on demand streaming!!

And don't forget that they even banned outsiders from accessing Japan's Premium Bandai through 3rd party sites which would allow us to THROW MONEY IN YOUR FUCKING FACES ON MERCH

cough-droplet

I don't know where you're getting the idea that Toei isn't sending Shout the episodes in advance? They obviously are. There's only a 2-hour delay between the Japanese broadcast and these releases, which is not at all uncommon and also obviously the entire subtitling team isn't doing all their work in a 2 hour window each week. I think that particular rant is kind of misguided lmao

narashikari

Funny... somehow, Fuuto PI WAS a worldwide simulcast, airing on Tokyo MX in Japan, Crunchyroll where it was available and Muse Asia in SEA (where I live) all at the same time. Muse Asia, btw, still has the episodes of Fuuto PI up on their YT, where you can watch for free. No "you have to watch at these timeslots or you can't watch it at all" clause like with Shout's broadcast.

As you say, it's unlikely that they haven't gotten the material ahead of time so they can work on subbing it already. Ergo, they probably already had subbed the firsr episode by the time it actually airs in Japan on Sunday.

So there's absolutely no reason why it couldn't be a simulcast with the Japanese broadcast. And there is even less reason for them to not do on-demand streaming. It's probably what happened with Fuuto PI, so why aren't they doing it with Zeztz now?

It isn't even a main line show- the manga it's based on isn't officially translated into English, and W itself has yet to have an official Western release! Meanwhile, Zeztz is a main line show that they were planning to release to the West, likely from the ground up!

So why is it that they managed a simulcast on several platforms for Fuuto PI, but not for Zeztz? Why do they allow on demand streaming for Fuuto PI, but not for Zeztz? Why is the new main line show, which is what the audience actually wants to watch the most, getting shitty treatment compared to a show whose source material and parent show isn't even officially translated into English, years after both were released?

If they managed it with Fuuto PI in 2022 they can manage it with Zeztz now, if they actually fucking tried.

But did they? Are we just gonna be satisfied that they're doing something, even though they've already done something better just a few years ago?

Again, make it make sense.

cough-droplet

I wasn't actually trying to argue about whether or not it was well-handled lmao, I was just saying that the part about "they didn't want to give the subbers early access" didn't really have anything to do with the rest of your point is all