Rush! The Queen Cosmos
Kinkinman and Ginginman attack the Cosmos by launching their combined robot, Kinginder. Kugo’s arm is injured by Kinginder’s special attack, Storm Plasma, and he is unable to use his Astro Pole. Kugo and the others are backed into a corner, and they let Princess Aurora escape without regard for themselves. There is no time to hesitate to fulfill the mission. Princess Aurora once chose to go to the Great Planet, but she cannot abandon her friends who have traveled with her, and makes a U-turn of the Cosmos toward the battlefield!
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Translation Thoughts
I always struggle with names. Always. In this episode, Solda goes out with an army of bugs that look a little bit like ladybugs if you ask me. The name I hear is エドバー edobaa but it can be anything.
At 6:17 Kinkinman says: 万一の場合を考えエドバー星人を一緒に連れて行け Man’ichi no baai o kangae EDOBAA seiji o issho ni tsurete yuke (“Take the EDOBAA aliens with you just in case”) and this is the first time I hear the name. Solda says the name again at 13:32. What do you think he says?
At 12:53 Solda says まずはお前から血祭りにあげてやるぜ mazu wa omae kara chi matsuri ni agete yaru ze, which can be directly translated to “First of all, I’m gonna give you the bloodbath!”. Don’t you agree that it doesn’t sound like a kid show anymore? I’m not sure. I changed that to “I’m going to make a bloodbath out of you first” because it’s easier to understand. Both are totally valid translations.
Since you are asking, I’d go with “ladybug.” Considering what the creatures look, I’d say they are calling them “redoba.” Yes, they’d probably add a “gu” at the end if they were truly going for “ladybug”, but I think it is the whole PC == passocon thing again. That and a little bit of creative license to give it a sci-fi touch. And, if that is the case, I bet 99.9% of the target audience also did not get it when it aired there 🙂
But that is not important. What is really important is that a bruised arm equals fatal wound for this cyborg that can travel many times faster than light and can destroy tanks with his hands.
Heck, the only thing stronger than those 3 cyborgs are their ships which, unlike the enemy ones, can survive all sorts of head-on collisions without a single scratch.