Kamen Rider Stronger episode 31!

Kamen Rider Stronger episode 31:
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Update: Packupload is having issues again, so I moved the script download.  It's working now.

Reeling from the loss of Tackle, and facing the increasingly stronger Cyberdemons of the Delza Army, Jo Shigeru has seen better days.  And his battle with Major Skull couldn't be going much worse.  Tachibana is worried after Shigeru suddenly disappears. But when he returns, he comes back with his batteries recharged...

If you're a Heisei fan, this episode is a relevant milestone.  Stronger's Super-Electronic upgrade marks the franchise's first use of a power up form (yes, Kamen Rider gets an upgrade, but that's not the same.)  You could also say that Kabuto's Clock Up was a reference to Stronger's Charge Up call-out.  And if you want to draw even more vague connections, the part of the Kabuto Riders' belts that they hit to activate Clock Up is the same part of Rider 1's belt that activated his power up.  WELL NOW.

In other news, we're officially back.  Our side project with our friends is over, and we're ready to get back into the full swing of things.  Part of that is going to be v2s for our older releases, to get them up to the same level of quality as our newer stuff.  And to fix some annoying mistakes.
I don't know if you guys saw over on Facebook or Twitter, but we're going to focus on MKV releases only for the v2s.  It's going to make releases much faster, and the changes won't be drastically different from the currently available AVIs.  Don't worry, when we get around to releasing them I'll be sure to post a quick guide on the best way to play MKVs on your computer (it's super simple, I promise.)  AVI releases of some sort should follow in the future.

Well, that's it for now.  We'll be releasing some Stronger v2s soon, and we've got quite a few other surprises in store.  Not to mention a resurrected project...

Updates!

This is a cross-post from our facebook page, where we've been very active with updates and information recently.  If you want to stay connected, get news on upcoming releases, or offer feedback, stay connected on Twitter and Facebook!

I've been thinking about this for a while, but I think we might go MKV only for our V2 releases. That means that we won't be reencoding any AVIs for older episodes.  New releases will still have a dual release, though.
This is going to save a lot of time as we work on getting our older releases (which are quite a few!) on par with our newer stuff.

Expect to start seeing those soon, as we start to wind down on our work with Over-Time and Midnight crew on Jojo (yes, it was us, big surprise) and we start thinking about the future. And expect those Stronger V2s to be in full swing in the coming months.

Speaking of Stronger, guess what our next release is?
See you soon!!

Kamen Rider episode 36!

Kamen Rider episode 36:
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First of all: Sorry for the delay, guys.  If you want to read more about that (and how we've got a ton of new stuff on the way, and more time to work on them) you can see our Twitter and Facebook updates!

Now, on to the episode:  Shocker has unearthed an ancient evil.  And he's here to A Borro Borro and Ee Borro Borro, and he's all out of Borros.
And as much fun as an ancient babbling fire-breathing Mummy is, this episode  is really about Zol.  He's got some great scenes, some great reactions, and some all around awesome villainy to be had.

Also, check the script notes to see some wacky last minute writing and dialogue changes that must have went on with this episode.  There is a very hasty feel to the editing halfway through the episode, and you'll notice it.  It doesn't take away from the fun of the Rider's battle with Egyptus, but it certainly is curious.

We'll be back with some more Showa Rider action.  We're going to work on a few episodes of Stronger, as we pull into the home stretch and get ready to finish the series!  We hope to see you soon!!

Kamen Rider episode 35!

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This episode has one of my favorite Shocker Cyborg name puns, a vicious knife fight, killer ants, and a string of fart jokes.  What more could you ask for?

It's a fun coincidence that this episode is very Taki-centric, because earlier this month was actor Jiro Chiba's birthday.  Although he retired from acting in 1982, he has nothing but good things to say about his time in Shotaro Ishinomori's universe.
He was born Mitsuho Maeda, and after Kamen Rider he would go by the name Jiro Yabuki, only to re-adopt the name Jiro Chiba again as of 2006.  Jiro is a bit of action star royalty.  His brother is the baddest hero in the whole damn town, Sonny Chiba.  The Street Fighter, Hattori Hanzo.  But Jiro has a pretty impressive list of credits too.  He was the trusted friend and comrade to TWO Kamen Riders, a detective with a good heart but lot to learn about equality in Robot Detective K, the human ambassador to the demons with the hearts of gold in Akumaizer-3, as well as appearing in the Bijinda arc of Kikaider 01.  He also guest starred alongside his brother in the definitely not for kids cult samurai film Makai Tensho, directed by Kinji Fukusaku of Battle Royale fame. And not to mention an impressive list of action movies and detective dramas.
Although he hasn't acted since 1982, he has appeared in interviews where he has had nothing but positive things to say about his time on Kamen Rider.  In 2006 he appeared at an event for Kamen Rider's 35th anniversary, and has recently met with Takeshi Sasaki to reminisce about their roles as action heroes, and revisiting some familiar locations from Kamen Rider's history.

Also celebrating a birthday this month, although unfortunately posthumously, is the big man himself; Shotaro Ishinomori.  His legacy is more than well known, but we'd still like to talk about some of his contributions to tokusatsu, comics, and the influence he had on many of us.  But we'll save that for the next post!

So enjoy the episode, come back soon for more trivia, and stay tuned for more episodes coming much sooner than our recent erratic schedule would have you expect!

Kamen Rider episode 34!

Kamen Rider episode 34:
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In case you deliberately skipped episode 39 to watch the series in order: We've polished our episodes up a little with new typesetting and new timing.  But now we're sprucing them up even more, thanks these awesome new video encodes thanks you our friends at Bunnyhat Raws!

 In this episode, Shocker has a dastardly (and highly improbable) plan to blast Japan in twixt with a massive nuclear bomb.  And also mind-wipe a brilliant inspector that's on to their twisted schemes.  And also kidnap some kids, because WHY NOT.  But Hayato and Taki are there to take them down.

Literally.

Stick around for one of the silliest finishing attacks in the history of the show.  It's a fairly infamous scene, if you've been around the internet.

But after that silliness is one hell of a depressing ending.

And some awesome trivia from our resident voice-master, JeffB!

This week features one of the bigger voice talents throughout Showa Rider, Ritsuo Sawa. The man has voiced monsters in every Showa series from the original all the way up to Super-1 and can be heard in other such shows like Kyodain, Chojin Bibyun, Battle Hawk, various Ultraman shows and CarRanger. In V3 he has the distinction of voicing Scissors Jaguar, the first monster to appear in that series (he also holds this distinction for Skyrider as well with ChameleonMan). As for the original Rider series, he's already appeared in episodes 6 and 27 and we'll continue to hear him throughout the series all the way until episode 82. As for his appearances in Stronger and Skyrider he appears in Stronger episodes 2, 7, 10, 11, 14, 17 & 19 and Skyrider episodes 1, 7, 19, 30 and throughout that series until episode 50.

In some site news, you may notice that all of the mediafire script links are dead.  Don't worry, we've already moved them over to Packupload.  Check the release page for new links as I get a chance to update them (this may take a while, so keep checking back!)
On that same note, we'll be updating the releases page so that all of our current releases are properly linked on there.  WOOPS~   Again, check back soon.
Update: All Kamen Rider links are up to date
Update 2: All Super-1 links are up to date
Update 3: All Decade Musical links and Hibiki scripts are up to date

Also this week, aside from our usual team (Sky79, HeatMetal, Scissors Jaguar, Steel A Jeeg, and now Bunnyhat Raws) we'd like to give a HUGE thanks to our friend Ignis, for helping us get this little propeller plane of an episode off the ground.  We'd be grounded if it wasn't for her this week!

Anyway, thanks for watching, and we'll be back soon with another action packed dose of Showa Rider justice!

A Holiday Surprise - Kamen Rider episode 39 - The Christmas Special!

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A holiday gift for all of our fellow Friends of Justice!

Ah, Christmas specials.  No matter what holidays you celebrate, there's always something fun about a good Christmas episode. And this one has all of the classic tropes.  Teamwork, heroes saving an orphanage, granting the wish of a child, a toxic virus that turns people into wolves, and the death of a major character.

Oh, wait...

That's right.  For a special out-of-order Holiday Celebration release, we're bringing you Kamen Rider episode 39.  Also known as the Christmas Episode!  And it sure packs a punch for a Christmas episode... but be warned, there are spoilers abound!  If you're set on watching the series in order, then consider this fair warning.  Everything after the cut will discuss spoilers.  But if you're in the Christmas spirit, and you want a good old fashion superhero Holiday special, then feel free to proceed!

Kamen Rider episode 33!

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In this week's episode, Shocker has a visitor from Brazil.  He stopped by to catch up, get some much needed rest, check out the local attractions... and blow up all of Japan's gas tanks.  Sure, why not!  And while he's there, he figures he might as well finish that little project he started a while back:  Brutally murdering an entire family!

A family from Brazil, that looks suspiciously Japanese... hmmm...

Anyway, his plans get cut short when a little turbulence comes his way, in the form of a few Rider Kicks.  How is a multicolored Armadillo-about-town supposed to relax like this?!

There is some top notch directing and action choreography in this episode.  The plot... eh.  Let's just assume it was sacrificed in order for that awesome final battle on the bridge to happen.

And coming to you from one of our favorite fans, whom we are a fan of, and he himself is also a fan of voice actors: Jeff Burns trivia time!

This week has an interesting voice actor portraying Armadilong, Michihiro Ikemizu. We've heard him before as Zanbronze, Scorpion Man and Hitodenja and will continue to hear him more throughout the series up to Super-1. The interesting part is that years later he will go on to be one of the many voice doubles of Kamen Rider 1 and he can heard several times in Skyrider (and also Kamen Rider Stronger when Shigeru Araki was unavailable during his initial appearance). Other Toku Credits (as listed on wikipedia) include Fireman, Jumborg Ace, Chojin Bibyun, Barom-1, Battle Hawk and Ultraman Ace (filling in as UltraSeven). Another well known Toku related role he played is Moonlight Mask in the 1973 Anime adaption.

Awesome stuff, as always.  You know how much we love trivia here!

Anyway, sorry for the delays lately.  Like I've mentioned a few times elsewhere, I'm working on a side project with a few friends from some other groups.  It's not a tokusatsu series, and for various obfuscated reasons that even I don't understand, I'd like to keep it kind-of-a-secret on here.  Anyway, that project is a weekly.  So it takes up a lot of my time, and it's released on a time scale I'm not quite used to yet.
The good news is that it's teaching me a lot more about the technical aspects of subbing, and getting me much more comfortable with editing our already-amazingly-translated scripts.  And as we release more episodes, I'll get more comfortable with doing more than one release a week.

And with that said, I'm going to try to make sure that episode 34 comes out a lot faster than this one did.  So we hope to see you again, soon!

- Steel A. Jeeg