[DreamSword]

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Originally Posted by Kamen Rider Die

Please welcome DREAMSWORD to the Decade chat! DreamSword was kind enough to share some thoughts on these two Ryuki episodes for Kamen Rider Decade, despite neither of them being animated like I'd promised.

It's been exactly a year since Die and I talked about this arc of Decade.

And it also came to my attention awhile back that NonActionableFansubs was doing a scrub of the show, using both Earthly's' and RiderTime's' subs.

As such I grew curious: Given the ups and downs of RiderTime's' subs, which are the ones that I used to initially watch Decade, could a new and improved sub at all help in getting me to understand this show at all?

The short answer is... no, not really.

Having rewatched the two episodes in particular with the new subs and cross referencing a few key moments, I can say that, while NFA's' subs are definitely overall better in terms of timing, font, and just translating certain bits in general, that really didn't do anything to save these episodes for me.

Sure, certain bits of information are made a bit more clear, but the overall package is still essentially the same, and as such my big gripes with not only these two episodes, but Decade in general still hold true for me. If anything, I ended up coming out this rewatch disliking these episodes a little bit more than my first viewing.

As an aside, while RT's' subs do certainly have their issues, there are still some key moments that I think were done much better than NAF and Earthly, for example:

RT:

NAF:

Granted, I still have zero idea what the hell that line is even supposed to mean, but atleast RT's' sounds like a proper non-sequitur that rolls off the tongue alot easier while still getting the idea across.

So in the end, yeah, I don't see myself rewatching all of Decade anytime soon, if ever(improved subs or not). But this served to be an alright thought experiment for me in the end.