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Originally Posted by Baltan II

The original Japanese R2 (and the Blu-Ray, playable in US players woo!) had their own English subtitles, originally made for the benefit of the composer but graciously included on the retail discs. I don't know why you opted for the Malay DVD, but it's possible that it had the same subtitle track. If it didn't, you might like that version even more.

Also, to address your "slightly off" example, SPOILERS FOR ULTRA GALAXY (THE SERIES):

It's supposed to be Raybrad Seijin.

As in Bradbury.

Ultra Galaxy has a clever and almost baffling series of homages to classic Western horror and science fiction. The planet of monsters in the first series? Planet Boris. The island Rei kept flashing to? Vincent Island. The Reionyx commander in the sequel series Never Ending Odyssey? Harlan. Reionyx (or Rayonyx) homeworld? Planet Hammer. There are likely more homages I don't know about simply because there's no good translations yet or they're slightly too obscure to pick out easily. Maybe even the ZAP Spacy crew's names too.

I did not know that about the Raybrad homage! Good to know that my subs are not as "slightly off" as I thought it was. I had noticed Vincent Island and Boris as well. Very amusing.

I went with the Malay DVD because I do not have a Blu-Ray, and I had seen enough samples of the subs to know that they were good. Also, the cost was a factor, as I got the disc for like $11 US shipped. Similarly, I have the Malay releases of Revenge of Belial and Ultraman Saga, and in the mail today I got the DVDs for Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle and UG:MMB NEO.

The subs on UG:MMB are of the wacky variety, but oddly, the ones on NEO are really quite good. So strange. But bad subs never really bug me that much, I guess from years of watching Raws. Very much interested in watching those shows, once we finish with Nexus, I guess.