[Kamen Rider Lucha]

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Originally Posted by Fish Sandwich

Didn't the Hikari Senshi versions have two scripts specifically to address that potential complaint?

They do! It's the second subtitle track on every Hikari Senshi encode. Wildranger is reverted to Gekiranger, the titles of the various "halls" and "fists" are left untranslated. I like the "Wildranger" translated versions (which are just translations, cause, you know, they actually translate all of the Japanese words ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) better than the less translated one, which was pretty confusing.

That said, I don't really love either of them. Specifically, I dislike how Hikari Senshi translates Jan's onomatopoeia/ideophone-speak. I'm sure there was a better way to translate those into American-friendly onomatopoeias, possibly by using familiar comic book-style sound effects. The way they did it, Jan is very easy to understand -- which is confusing when his teammates try to figure what he meant because, as translated, it's very clear. We're meant to be a little confused by his way of speaking, and that just doesn't come through when he says stuff like "jumpy jump." In an instance like that, I would have preferred a translation like "boing boing" or something.