Lensman: Galactic Patrol (1984) – Episodes 01-25 (complete!)

Posted on December 29, 2024 by Nanto

Due to the intrusion of various real life things in 2024, it was not a year that I got a lot of subtitling done. I even struggled to keep up with my credits and quality checking of Dr. Slump episodes, and I didn’t get any rare old VHS stuff posted to MySpleen. That said, as 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the Lensman anime, I’m pleased to announce that right at the end of the year we’ve finally finished subtitling the Lensman TV series!

The Lensman TV project was a dream come true. Only the first six episodes have ever gotten a home media release in Japan, Since helping the /m/subs crew with the Lensman movie in 2015, we started subtitling the TV series as a joint project with them in 2016. This has been a labor of love for all involved. Thanks to sky79 for the translation, starseeker for translation QC, MartyMcFlies for final checks, Alrow for the Laserdisc rips, Dougo13 for the Betamax rips, Laurine for the VHS rips, Kineko Video for the 16mm rip of episode 23, and RetroAwesome for the restored versions of episodes 24-25, with the Japanese audio combined with the Catalan dub.

How many American anime fans out there were familiar with the Lensman movie (probably thanks to the Streamline dub) but had no idea that a TV series was rushed into production to capitalize on the success of the movie? Well, with both movie and TV series now you can make up your own minds about how the series stacks up against the movie, and indeed against the original novels by E. E. “Doc” Smith.

Download the soft subtitled version from Nyaa or Mega…

…or the hardsubbed version (for hardware devices that don’t support softsubs) from Nyaa or Mega.

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Dr. Slump & Arale-chan (Ep. 101-155) [Batch #3]

Posted on April 8, 2024 by Nanto

As many of you know, in addition to my own subtitling projects and joint projects with other groups, I also help out (shiteatersubs) with their releases of Dr. Slump & Arale-chan. I’m responsible for subtitling the OP/ED credits, as well as a QC pass. Subtitling Dr. Slump is a project I never would have been able to tackle on my own due to the high episode count, so I’m very happy to be able to help out with this.

Sad news this year, as Dr. Slump and Dragonball creator Akira Toriyama passed away on March 1st, 2024. This release is meant to honor Toriyama’s legacy, by allowing English speaking fans access to one of his greatest creations.

Get batch 1 (1-54) from Nyaa.

Get batch 2 (55-100) from Nyaa

New batch 3 (101-155) from Nyaa.

Mega links for earlier episodes can be found here.

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April Fools: Pocket Monsters 062-065 and 071-072

Posted on April 1, 2024 by Nanto

I figured a good April Fool’s release would be something you’d never expect to see released by TSHS. I actually don’t hate this show or anything, but I find the main characters rather bland and uninteresting. I do like the Japanese opening theme, and The Rocket Gang are cool villains.

This batch of subtitled episodes actually started life back in the analog VHS subtitling days. Special thanks to SakoeraTyan for help with styling and QC, and Some-Stuffs for the OP lyrics and the Rocket Gang’s motto.

Get the episodes from Nyaa or Mega.

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Tetsuwan Atom (1963) – Episode 093: “Cobalt”

Posted on February 16, 2024 by Nanto

Here’s our first release for 2024, another episode of Osamu Tezuka’s groundbreaking first anime series. This episode has some impressive credits, written by Masaki Tsuji and directed by Rintaro. The latter even appears in a fourth-wall breaking opening, voiced by Shoji Ichimura.

This episode features the debut of a new recurring character, Atom’s “older brother” Cobalt, a robot created by Professor Tenma before he made Atom. Cobalt has the same 100,000 horsepower as Atom, but he doesn’t have Atom’s seven special powers. He’s a bit of a bumbler, but he is kind and good-hearted like his younger brother.

Get the episode from Nyaa or Mega.

Episodes of the 1959 live-action version of Mighty Atom are also available from Mega.

Obviously I don’t have the resources to do a complete subtitle of all 193 episodes of Mighty Atom, but hopefully I will be able to continue releasing a few odd episodes of the series now and then. I really wish Right Stuf would release this whole series in Japanese with English subtitles, or somehow work out a sub-license with another company like Discotek. It’s a shame that so many anime shows from the 1960s are available only as English dubs. Massive props to Funimation for their deluxe release of Speed Racer, complete with subtitled Mach GoGoGo (both the original series from 1967 and the 1997 remake). That’s the way you do it!

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Happy Halloween with GeGeGe no Kitaro!

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Nanto

As per our usual tradition, TSHS and our partners have cooked up some subtitled Kitaro episodes.

GeGeGe no Kitaro (1968) – episode 24

In episode 24 of the original series, a single parent whose wife died during childbirth makes a deal with the Yokai Hakusanbo that he lives to regret.

Get it from Nyaa or Mega.

GeGeGe no Kitaro (1996) – episode 13

In episode 13 of the fourth series, Nezumi Otoko’s latest scam involves Yokai House, a haunted house with a ¥1,000,000 guarantee to scare all who attend.

Get it from Nyaa or Mega.

Thanks to Hokuto no Gun, our partner group on these 60s and 90s Kitaro episodes. You can check out their website here.

GeGeGe no Kitaro (2007) – Episodes 46-49

And finally, here’s four episodes of the fifth series, a joint project with Skeweds Translations. Many thanks to everyone at Skeweds, you can check out their site here.

Get the episodes from Nyaa or Mega.

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Obake no Q-Taro (1965) – Episodes 01A & 12B

Posted on August 12, 2023 by Nanto

Based on the gag manga by the duo known as Fujiko Fujio, here’s the very first segment of the original black and white anime. The first series featured Machiko Soga as the voice of the mischievous ghost, who in addition to voicing 007 in the 1968 Cyborg 009 series, later went on to portray villains in many live action tokusatsu series including Rainbowman, Denjiman, Sun Vulcan and Zyuranger. This first segment was taken from a TV special about the work of Fujiko Fujio (A), and also features an introduction by Machiko Soga herself.

About 5 years ago I subtitled the second segment of episode 12. I haven’t made any changes to that segment, but both of the old links are dead, so I thought I’d include it here as well. These two partial episodes are all I have of the original 1965 series, so if anyone else can find more please let me know!

Get both segments from Nyaa or Mega.

This original monochrome Q-Taro series is very rare, never having been released on home video in any format. Many thanks to cartoonist Charles Brubaker for providing the raw sources for both of these partial episodes! He also wrote an article about the series on the Cartoon Research Site, you can read that article here.

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Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho (1969) – Serial 03

Posted on July 29, 2023 by Nanto

So many legendary franchises have been launched by manga originally serialized in the magazine for the manliest of boys, Weekly Shonen Jump. Mazinger Z, Cobra, Kinnikuman, Dr. Slump, Hokuto no Ken, Dragon Ball, City Hunter, Sakigake!! Otokojuku, Saint Seiya, Rurouni Kenshin, One Piece, Naruto, and countless other fan favorites made their mark on the public, often being spun off into popular anime and merchandising empires.

One of the first strips in Shonen Jump to really become a massive hit with the public was Hiroshi Motomiya’s Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho, which made its debut in October 1968 with issue #11. The story’s protagonist is Mankichi Togawa, a middle school delinquent being raised by a widowed mother in a tiny rural fishing village. Mankichi is known as “the boss of the brats,” due to his devoted following of downtrodden younger kids.

With the huge success of the manga, this anime adaptation debuted the following year, in September 1969. Unlike the standard format of 25 minute weekly episodes that has been the norm for most televised anime, Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho was shown as a daily serial, with each story comprising of six parts running about seven minutes each, shown from Sunday through Friday.

Here’s the third serial, a joint production between TSHS and Hokuto no Gun. You can visit their site here.

Get serial #3 from Nyaa or from Mega.

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Lensman: Galactic Patrol (1984) – Episode 23 (thanks to Kineko Video for the 16mm print!)

Posted on July 21, 2023 by Nanto

Here’s the latest episode in our joint project with the /m/subs crew. When we started this project, we had a complete set of Lensman episodes, but in variable degrees of quality. As we’ve slowly moved through the series we’ve had great luck in upgrading the episodes with LaserDisc rips from Alrow, Betamax rips from Dougo13, and VHS rips from Laurine. Episode 23 was one of the problem episodes, spliced together from two different sources, in fact it had a spot of about 43 seconds where there was no video at all.

That has changed now, with episode 23 now the highest quality of any of our Lensman releases. Massive thanks are due to Kineko Video, a professional fan-based community specializing in anime film scanning & video transfers, for finding and transferring the 16mm print of this episode. So not only does this one look even better than the LaserDisc episodes, we’re able to offer it in HD resolutions as well.

Get the 480p hardsub from Nyaa or Mega.

Get the 480p softsub from Nyaa or Mega.

Get the 720p softsub from Nyaa or Mega.

Get the 1080p softsub from Nyaa or Mega.

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Tetsuwan Atom (1959 live-action) – Episode 06

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Nanto

In this episode, Atom storms the island base of the ZZZ Gang, attempting to rescue Michelle and her father Professor Leon.

Get it from Nyaa or Mega.

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Saint Seiya (1986) – Episode 039 (VHS HiFi rip with subtitled commercials)

Posted on May 13, 2023 by Nanto

Here’s an episode of the OG Saint Seiya anime, as it was originally broadcast on Japanese television complete with commercial breaks. This is near the end of the third story arc of the Sanctuary chapter, where Dragon Shiryu battles Gold Saint Cancer Deathmask.

Get it from Nyaa or Mega.

Thanks to Dougo13 for finding this original broadcast in his unique collection of old videotapes.

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