[Fish Sandwich]

Oh, and I definitely want to mention this: That last post was actually my 2000th on this forum. Nowhere near as impressive as having 2000 skills, but a milestone nonetheless.

I mentioned right in the introduction that the stars lined up to make this thread happen, but I don't think I realized at the time just how true that would turn out to be. This year marks Kuuga's 20th anniversary, and I don't know how much better a birthday present it could've gotten for that occasion than an official western release with extremely high-quality English subtitles. I would've never guessed in a million years we'd get here, but it happened, and I am just... beyond happy about it.

Indeed, I failed to see this coming so hard, I actually had an entire post written I was going to put up between episodes 26 and 27 about the absurdly huge amount of errors I had found from Midnight Crew Subs' releases just in the first half of the show. The number by episode 24 was over a hundred individual lines that were messed up in some way. This is why you haven't seen dialogue on any of the screencaps I've used. I was literally keeping track of this stuff the entire time, and then, not long after I finished putting together that post, that consisted largely of me walking through some of the "greatest" hits I'd come across in an effort to vent my frustrations, it all became completely irrelevant. The last paragraph had a line, that, no joke, read "it's my sincere hope this post becomes obsolete one day. Whether that be due to a newer, more thorough fansub, or even, dare I dream, an official English release that meets a professional standard, it doesn't matter that much."

But that dream came true, and now, that post is so obsolete, I never even posted it. And that's awesome. While I've yet to watch a full episode, I've went and checked dozens and dozens of bad lines from MCS' translation to find, nearly every single time, they're fixed up perfectly. And as an even more pleasant surprise, the dialogue just plain reads great. Very natural and smooth without losing the meaning. Plus, the theme songs are translated to that same standard, so it's even better. There's basically no downside to this situation. Just like Shout's Sentai stuff, it's streaming for free on several different services, too, so it's just as cheap as piracy! The only thing to even consider being bummed about is that the Grongi language is rendered in English, but, as much I'm *firmly* on the side that believes it shouldn't be by default, there are legitimate arguments to be made in favor of handling it that way, and, I'm telling you, it's a total non-issue in the face of how good a job was done. Just think about the implications of complaining about it for a second. The biggest problem with the official Kuuga release is that they did too much work. Well, that, and being in a region where you still can't watch it officially, admittedly. Still! There has never, ever been a better time to watch Kuuga, whether you're new to the show or not, and if you doubt the people making this stuff happen have a real passion for what they're doing, just take a look at what clip TokuSHOUTsu's YouTube page chose to sell people on the show. You don't pick this one by accident!