Where Now?

As Goggle V wraps up, many have been asking the obvious – what now? Well, at the moment, I’ll be taking a well deserved break from subbing. Honestly, the past five months have been rough. I learned a valuable lesson from doing this and that’s subbing is hard! Especially when you’re doing it all by yourself.

I got into this thanks to the release of the Power Rangers movie back in March. I grew up watching the original show back in the ’90s and I knew it was based off of Super Sentai then. The new movie only renewed my interest and led me to finding the original shows. Then I discovered they weren’t all subbed. There were gaps in the sequence. I searched near and far for subs to Goggle V and other shows, but all for naught. Then I discovered a set of really bad subs that had been translated from Portuguese, so I sat down to see if I could turn them into a story that made sense. Even that proved difficult, but I persevered. It was slow at first, but as I got used to things the subbing went a little faster.

I’ll tell you this, though: I abandoned the dubtitles back around episode 30. I started using the translate apps speech-to-text feature – and yes, I know that’s not accurate either – to start translating the Japanese directly. Sometimes it didn’t work. But then it started to make sense.

I’ve begun learning Japanese. Some will say that’s not easy as well, but I’ve learned I’m good with languages if I put my mind to it. I picked up Spanish as a kid while my classmates struggled to say their names in the language.

So where do I go from here. Well, obviously there’ll be second versions of the episodes, especially the first 30 and the others as I refine my language skills and make the subs much better. There are errors, yes, but those can be fixed.

As for subbing other shows. I’m not sure yet. I’ve done some test runs on an episode of JAKQ as well as an episode of Fiveman. I had actually thought of doing Fiveman, but a subber named XIG has apparently taken that one so I won’t step on anyone’s toes there. There was talk of Flashman, once, and yes, I have fallen for that show. I love the end theme for that one. So that could be a possibility.

Then there’s always Denziman. It’s the one that’s never been done, which is odd as it was one of the most popular at the time. No one’s touched it since DeadFish went under, it seems.

I think, for the moment, I’m going to enjoy the episodes of Dynaman currently subbed. It’s a good show and seems to have gone in the direction Goggle V could have gone.

I think when I do finish the second versions of Goggle V, they’ll be released as batches as opposed to single episodes, so do keep an eye out here for any updates. For anyone not following me, do so so that you’ll get updates when I post new material.

Until then, my friends. Keep on keeping on!