Month: June 2022

Which One of the Aliens is a Liar?

Kugo and the others find Pompo, a boy who needs help, estranged on a small planet. When the cyborgs try to pick him up, Pompo hijacks the Cosmos, taking the princess hostage, and tell her to take him to another planet. Kugo seizes him using his clone skill. Thinking that he is just a runaway boy, he tries to hand him over to his mother, who comes to pick him up, but Pompo tells them that she is a monster and fiercely resists. The group is not convinced that he was lying about his mother, and the Cosmos heads for the planet Dandan, a planet famous for being the planet of love and peace.

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Translation Thoughts

This is a great episode and, in my opinion, a very funny one. The episode is centered on the game called 輪投げ (wanage), which is ring toss or quiots. The 狸 (tanuki) are Japanese raccoon dogs, and in this episode they toss rings from their tails using their magical attack called 輪投げカッター (wanage kattaa), or “Ring Toss Cutter” (that’s the best made-up translation I could come up with, sorry about that).

The belief that these raccoon dogs are shape-shifters and can take the form of a human and are living among us is part of Japanese culture. Many anime shows are based on this, most recently 有頂天家族 (Uchouten Kazoku) “The Eccentric Family”, which is a very good show.

The Japanese love their onomatopoeias, and it seems they have an onomatopoeia for everything. In this episode, Kugo says ぱくぱく (pakupaku), which is the sound when you eat with your mouth open, and むらむら (muramura), which means either being disgusted or angry about something, or having a stomachache. Kugo is fed up with Hakka eating all the time and the sound he makes while eating, and tells him that’s distracting him from the game. The joke is that Hakka offers him medicine for his stomach, because he thought Kugo had an upset stomach.

Also, a nice thing to note is that since this was a show for kids, when a difficult word comes up, like hijack, they try to explain it to the viewers. In this case, it’s Hakka, who hasn’t heard the word before and asked what it means.

Love! Beyond the Galaxy

Kugo left the Cosmos with the pain of not being believed by anyone. Princess Aurora, who ordered his banishment, was also suffering, unable to understand Kugo’s behavior. Prof. Kitty, who heard what happened, revealed that the series of incidents was a trick using hyperspace transfer and discovered that the culprit was the monster Bemura, which is not a living organism. However, it is already too late, and the Cosmos has gone missing due to the Bemura. Can Kugo save the princess from Bemura’s demon hands?

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Translations Thoughts

It seems the space army of the Bemura is called “Space Dobers”. The Bemura leader says at 7:26:

スペースドーベルに攻撃命令を出す. クイーンコスモスをおびき寄せて.
SUPEESU DOUBERU ni kogeki meirei o dasu. KUIIN COSUMOSU o obikiyose te.
Give the attack order to the Space Dobers. Lure the Queen Cosmos out.

But there was a japanese toy back in the 70s called Space Dobers that were dobermans, that were part of the Microman series. The Bemura space army guys don’t look like dogs to me.

Anyway I translated it to “Space Army” at first so the audience could have a little more sense of what is going on but at the end I left the literal translation “Space Dobers”. I hope the viewers can understand that the Bemura Space Army is just called like that.

That is of course, if anyone is actually watching these episodes.

Tears! Become a Shooting Star

The spaceship that Kugo destroyed, thinking it was full of space monsters, was actually full of refugee girls who had lost their home planet. Princess Aurora decides to protect them and repair the ship. Princess Aurora is then targeted by a time bomb. Kugo believes that a monster disguised as the young girl Maria is the culprit, and he severely injures her. However, there is no evidence of such a thing anywhere. Kugo gradually becomes isolated, and even Princess Aurora sentences him to a cruel verdict!

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Translation Thoughts

According to Wikipedia, the official names of Kugo’s attacks are:

アストロボー (asutoro bou): Literally “Astro Bo”. A bo is a stick or staff used in martial arts. Since other groups have used “Astro Pole” and phonetically sounds very similar, I decided to use this translation.

アストロ・ザンダー (asutoro zandaa): Literally “Astro Thunder”. Nothing you can do.

アイアン・キッター (aian kittaa): Literally “Iron Kitter”, but a kitter is a cat, right? Other groups have used “Iron Cutter” and that’s very good because Kugo cuts things with this attack. But keep in mind that if that was the real name, then it should be アイアン・カッター (aian kattaa). I think the seiyuu just messed that up and nobody ever noticed. Anyway I’m also using “Iron Cutter”.

パライザー・ビーム (paraizaa biimu): I don’t really know what this is. At first I thought it was an attempt to say “Paralyzer Beam” but definitely that beam doesn’t paralyze anyone. So the most phonetically accurate made up word I could think of was “Palizer” so that’s what I’m using from now on. Also it seems that Google Translate agrees with me.

クローベルト (kurou beruto): “Crow Belt”, but it can also mean “Claw Belt”. Some people may argue that the Starcrow is actually Starclaw. Does this spaceship looks more than a crow to you, or a claw? Let me know. I’m using Starcrow since other groups have used that name, but personally, I think it’s Starclaw, and “Claw Blaster” and “Claw Belt”.

Salute! The Hero of the Mud

After catching a strong energy reaction, the Cosmos landed on a planet that was already in ruins. Hakka went on a reconnaissance mission and encountered an attack force from the planet Grieg, led by Captain Lugen. Captain Lugen was trying to exterminate the subterranean monster Alingo in order to protect the safety of his people living in the underground city. Hakka asks him to avoid a futile battle, but Lugen refuses to recognize the underground monster as his equal and launches a final extermination mission using incendiary mines!

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Translation Thoughts

Since this show was mainly aimed at kids in the 70s, most of the episodes try to send a message to the children. The topic of this episode is discrimination, and that people shouldn’t discriminate against others based on where they live. I think it’s an important message.

For this episode I used some font styling so it looks a little bit more like coming from a serious fansub group, even though I’m not. It’s all about appearances!

I sincerely hope if anyone out there is actually watching these episodes that you like the new fonts and style.

I also added the romaji lyrics to the songs for people that like to sing them. Sometimes I sing them, I have to admit.

I feel like I didn’t express well enough that the reason they are landing on planet Grieg is because there is a strong energy reaction in the area, and they take that chance so the princess can also rest.

Let’s take another look at what I think they’re saying, from 02:25:

Princess Aurora:
もう少しでグリーグ星のエリアに入ります, 異常ないでしょうね
mou sukoshi de GURIIGU sei no ERIA ni hairimasu, ijou nai deshou ne.
We’ll soon be entering the area of the planet Grieg, is there anything out of the ordinary?

Don Hakka:
いいえ、べつに
iie, betsu ni
No, not really

Sir Jogo:
そんなことはないはずだぜ
Sonna koto wa nai hazuda ze
That can’t be true / That shouldn’t be the case.
(Jogo is trying to say that there is actually something weird out there).

Don Hakka:
いいやあそんなバカな
Iiya, sonna baka na
No, that’s ridiculous.
(Hakka is trying to say that it’s ridiculous there’s something out there, he hasn’t seen anything yet).

Jan Kugo:
おい、何だこれは
Oi, nanda kore wa?
Hey, what’s this?
(Now the Cosmos’ computer is detecting the anomaly).

Don Hakka:
かなり強烈なエネルギー反応だ
Kanari kyouretsu na ENERUGII hannou da
It’s a pretty intense energy reaction.

Jan Kugo:
エネルギー反応
ENERUGII hannou?
Energy reaction?

Sir Jogo:
しかし長いことひこう続けたんだ, グリーグ星でした休みしないと姫が疲れてしまう
Shikashi, nagai koto hikou tsuzuketa nda, GURIIGU sei deshita yasumi shinaito hime ga tsukarete shimau
But we’ve been flying for a long time, if we don’t take a rest on Planet Grieg the princess will be tired.

So as you can see it’s not really clear from direct translations that the energy reaction is the cause that Jogo doesn’t want to continue until it clears maybe, and he takes the opportunity to land so the princess can rest for a while. That meaning is like… lost in translation I guess. That’s the best I could do.

I wonder if professional translators are well paid, because this is so tough.

Even Small Planets Have a Sun

The Cosmos is attacked by a monster glory flower shaped plant monster. Kugo and Hakka go out to fight it, but they are entangled by the strong vines, and the Cosmos is pulled by a planet’s gravity, forcing them to make an emergency landing. Kugo goes out to check on the situation and helps Malt, a boy who was fighting the monster. Malt, whose beloved friend Luna was killed by the monster, had vowed to avenge her death with his own hands and had been fighting alone. Kugo hopes that Malt, who reminds him of himself when he was a kid, will somehow be able to fulfil his promise to Luna.

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Translation Thoughts

Being the lazy person that I am, when I started working on episode 17 I just copy/pasted the songs from somewhere and gave a poor translation based on what I got. Since I’ve been noticing a lot of grammar errors and typos after each release, I decided to do proper QA on this episode and watch it from its very beginning.

That’s when I notice both songs had a lot of errors! Wrong kanji causing wrong translations, and it was a mess.

For the opening, well, the lyrics are just there in the video. Nothing you can do. The song is called スタージンガー のうた Starzinger no uta.

Here are the lyrics:

狭いもんだよ 銀河系
Semai mon da yo gingakei
星の彼方に 夢を持て
Hoshi no kanata ni yume o mote
ひとつ世界を とび出せば
Hitotsu sekai o tobidaseba
胸もふくらむ 血もおどる
Mune mo fukuramu chi mo odoru

ジャソジャソやろうぜ! ジャソク-ゴ
Jan Jan yarou ze! Jan Kugo
ドンドンいこうぜ!ドンハッカ
Don Don ikou ze! Don Hakka
サ-サ-がんばレ!サ-ジヨ-ゴ
Saa Saa ganbare! Saa Jogo

ジャソ·ドン·サ-　ジャソ·ドン·サ-
Jan · Don · Saa Jan · Don · Saa
俺たち やらなきゃ だれがやる!
Ore-tachi yaranakya dare ga yaru!
ジャソ·ドン·サ-　ジャソ·ドン·サ-
Jan · Don · Saa Jan · Don · Saa
俺たち やらなきゃ だれがやる!
Ore-tachi yaranakya dare ga yaru!

For the ending song I really had my doubts if they say 見られない mirarenai or いられない irarenai. So I decided to look for another version with higher quality audio and I found this mostly weird but very funny karaoke video. It’s definitely いられない irarenai.

The song is called 姫のためなら Hime no tame ni, and these are the lyrics:

青く輝く 月よりも
Aoku kagayaku tsuki yori mo

姫はまことに 美しい
Hime wa makoto ni utsukushii

じっと見つめる 眼差しは
Jitto mitsumeru manazashi wa

胸にズキリと 突き刺さる
Mune ni zukiri to tsukisasaru

あ~あ~ 堪らない 堪らない
Aa~ Aa~ tamaranai tamaranai

とても暴れちゃ いられない
Totemo abarecha irarenai

姫のためなら 姫のためなら
Hime no tame nara hime no tame nara

宇宙の果てまで 飛んでゆく
Uchuu no hate made tonde yuku

Farewell! Jogo

The air conditioner of the Cosmos has broken down, and the ship has become a steam bath! The planet they land on for repairs is none other than Jogo’s home planet. However, the planet has been turned into a cold, frozen world by the ice monster Todan. Jogo is reunited with his former subordinate, Monper. He loses his usual cool while facing Todon, and ignoring Kugo and the others’ attempts to stop him, he sets out alone to avenge his comrades!

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Hot Waves And Hearts

Kugo and the others help Gerard and Amira that were inside of a drifting rocket. In their hometown planet Vester, a young girl is sacrificed every year in Skull rock to calm the wrath of a monster named Velania. Knowing this, Princess Aurora heads to Vester to save the people there. Velania is stronger than you can imagine, and Kugo and the others can’t defeat it. Realizing that it’s impossible for the cyborgs to win the battle, Princess Aurora heads for the Skull rock without telling anyone to fight Velania herself!

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