The Man Who Came Back From Hell
After the destruction of the planets Gyuma and Lassetz, the remnants of Gyuma’s army continued their activities, despite Princess Aurora’s prayers for peace. Prince Gaima, son of King Gyuma, was surprised to hear the news of the destruction of his planet. It seems that a man named Kugo defeated his father and destroyed his homeland. Prince Gaima, proud to be the strongest cyborg warrior in the Gilara system, vows to take revenge on the Cosmos, Kugo and his friends!
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Translation Thoughts
This is the first episode of the Prince Gaima arc, which goes up to episode 56. This is also the last arc of the series; after this it’s just episodic stories (or fillers if you will) until they reach the Great Planet on episode 64, the last episode of Starzinger I.
Prince Gaima is King Gyuma’s son who was in the Zeta star system, but he returned to this home planet after the whole Zeta star system exploded because of the weakening of the galaxy’s energy. He didn’t know that both his father and his planet were gone.
At 1:57 Kugo says:
うるさいんだよなもう人がせっかくいい気持ちで眠ってるってのに
Urusai nda yo na mou hito ga sekkaku ii kimochi de nemutteru tte no ni
It’s noisy even though there are people sleeping peacefully
The direct translation shows a little more of Kugo’s sarcasm than the line I used. I just felt it didn’t sound right, so I changed it a little bit. It’s funny to me how, after this line, Hakka asks the same question to Jogo, but quieter this time.
I struggled a little bit with the line at 2:14:
ボスは死んだんだよそんな生き残りたいしたことはないよ
Bosu wa shinda nda yo sonna ikinokori taishita koto wa nai yo
The boss is dead, they are not a big deal, surviving like that
What Kugo is trying to say here is that since the boss is dead, what kind of life could they have? How can they survive like that? It’s not much of a survival.
Hakka says at 5:34:
あれが本当の一人相撲だぜ
Are ga hontou no hitori sumou da ze
That’s real one-man sumo wrestling
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about sumo, the national Japanese sport. The joke here is that the army destroyed itself, and it looked like a one-man fight.
hey! It’s Red Boy! He even has a “tripple-cannon-something”, another reference to his Journey To The West powers (albeit a wrongly translated one. By the Chinese, I mean).
But the heroes didn’t see him. They were too busy flying right past squadrons of enemy fighters that had not seen them. Had not seen them until the heroes decided it would be a good idea to fly right in the middle of those squadrons. In a ship without weapons. And carrying the princess they must protect at all costs…