https://nyaa.si/view/2143719https://www.inka-subs.net/2026/08/muteki-choujin-zambot-3-1-6/And now for one you probably didn’t see coming. This is a from-scratch redo of the subs, since your only options up until now were the nearly 20 year old Shin-Getter hardsubs or various horrible OCRs of them. If that wasn’t enough, we got one of the best fansub typesetters around to work her dark magic on the show, and it looks great.Episode 01: “Zambo-Ace Appears” (October 8th, 1977)Local troublemaker Kappei goes from racing bikes in the streets to piloting a giant robot built by his ancestors when the Gaizok attack Earth.Episode 02: “The Burning Flower of Death” (October 15th, 1977)When the Gaizok unleash their first true Mechaboost upon an unsuspecting Earth, all seems lost until Kappei is joined in his fight by two more giant robots.Episode 03: “Zambot 3 Appears!” (October 22nd, 1977)Kappei refuses to work with Uchuuta and Keiko until the might of the latest Mechaboost forces his hand. And so, a legendary robot is reborn.Episode 04: “Assemble! King Beal!” (October 29th, 1977)Kouzuki storms Beal II, armed and demanding answers - but when a suction cup-based Mechaboost attacks the town, all three Beal ships must unite into one to save Zambot 3.Episode 05: “When the Sea Burns with Rage” (November 5th, 1977)The Gaizok dispatch their toughest Mechaboost yet on a ship heading for a refugee camp. But when Zambot 3 intervenes, it might end up causing more trouble than good.Episode 06: “The Day Father Came Home” (November 12th, 1977)Kappei’s father, Gengorou, returns home amid another Mechaboost attack. But when his ship is destroyed and he’s captured by an angry mob, it’s up to Zambot 3 to save the day.
>>23975681This was subbed forever ago
>>23975681I mean, I thought the Shin-Getter subs got across the message well enough, even if some higher quality would be appreciated. Not that Zambot is a particularly subtle show to begin with. But were there some inaccuracies there?
>>23975712>>23975740the major crime with the shin-getter subs is they're hardsubbed, at least with this release, if nothing else, there's a real decent softsubbed base to work off of now. we've done stuff like this in the past, whenever we do something that has existing subs it's usually because they're too old to really look good anymore - see the 2007 GR show, Mellowlink, etc./m/ isn't my blog so i won't get into this too deeply but it's important to remember that when you run a group staffed by volunteers, you kinda have to do stuff that interests people - i and others wanted to work on this show, so that means it gets done.
>>23975681>>23975775So who did this translation? We have many, many reasons not to trust the quality, what with ARR's lingering legacy and board terrorist, AIslop ruining SRW Z, and that one weirdo who insisted Mellowlink be spelled "Merowlink".Also have you considered doing Trider?
Fuck off duel
>>23975775Hey, cool. I didn't want to sound ungrateful or anything. An upgrade is always appreciated and is probably a lot less hassle than starting from scratch. So thanks.
>>23975782>So who did this translation?touge. same guy who did galvion and most of the inka catalog>Also have you considered doing Trider?it's much longer, only has DVDs, and is being worked on by another group, so not right now
>>23975775Of course. And it's not like there's many unsubbed shows left out there anywayOnly ones I can think of off the top of my head are Getter Robo G(almost done), Jeeg, Wataru, SD Gundam Force, and I guess Gaiking LoDM still only has crappy subs too. But that's about it. Zambot isn't too long anyway, knock yourselves out if it's what you wanna do.
>>23975681Great work OP. People would call this unnecessary but many Tomino shows have had really bad old subs so any type of upgrade is appreciated.
>>23975790>is being worked on by another groupDo you remember the name of that group?
>>23975799well, i thought it was a group, but it's apparently some guy on bluesky MTLing from italian and people don't really seem to like the work he's putting out, so consume at your own risk maybe?https://bsky.app/profile/cavery210.bsky.social/post/3mriuwtofus2r
>>23976051Looks like he’s also working on Danguard Ace, I get what you mean but hey at the very least it’s better than ARR
>>23976216>Looks like he’s also working on Danguard Ace,Neat. I was hoping someone would do that for a while. I remember the old force five version.
>>23975681Nice.Btw is Skyers 5 a project or 1 ep for the 60s chadnime memes?
>>23975740Besides being hardsubbed, Shin-Getter does feature a handful of mistranslation, and more, persistently, rather awkwardly written lines. Going through episode 1, here's a few timestamps where I think they messed up:02:15 Shin-Getter interprets this as Kappei wanting to take over Kouzuki's gang, but the actual line is that he just wants to keep the bike he just stole from Kouzuki. Nothing about the gang.02:46 "We should finish it off in the offshore island."Sounds not only extremely awkward and grammatically off ("finish it off" for a brawl like this?), but "offshore island" (if you assume it's not just a tautology) might imply the Jin family's platform, which is near there, but not the spot they end up fighting at.04:28 Failed to make the connection that 204 is the car number, which makes it sound weird.04:42 three-liner07:23 Shin-Getter is missing a sentence here, where Kouzuki says that it's supposed to be a fight between men (and thus Aki and Michi shouldn't be there).11:13 "Chute In" instead of "Shoot In" since he's literally going down a chute, into the ship. 16:18 "Homing missiles" but they misheard ig?17:27 連中 usually refers to people, so Kouzuki is asking who in the world "those guys", i.e. Kappei's family are. It's not about the Mechaboost or anything.18:07 another mishearing, It's 坊の岬, Cape Bou.19:01 "joyful power" wrong meaning of ご機嫌, closer would be "healthy power", i.e. "healthy amount of power". Which is why we went with "Now that's what I call powe—"22:21 inconsistent on how to do the ship numbers, first "Second" then "2nd" etc. In Japanese they use 世, which in English corresponds to I, II, III, as in regnal numbers (keeping with the "King" Beal motif). We went with those.23:15 Kinda misses that the whole song is addressed to their home, Planet Beal.So yeah, there's a few things. And the OCR is worse yet, adding typos and dropping lines, even rewriting some (mostly for the worse).
>>23976710>07:23 Shin-Getter is missing a sentence hereI remember this happening sometimes in the later episodes, didn't know that even first episode suffers from this.
>>23976216>it’s better than ARRPlease don't settle for low bars to excuse Italian MTL. I'm this close to saying Daitarn 3 has no sub to spite this statement.
>>23976710Ah, thanks for the examples. Its been so many years since I've watched Zambot, and it truly is the best 70s mecha show. Knowing it'll finally get a translation worthy of it is great, and it'll be a good reason to finally see it again.
>>23976216One could easily find enough Italians on this board to do a proper eng translation of Trider instead of using MTL like a retard
>>23976872Italians don't go outside of /int/. The only non-Anglos who use other boards are Latino or ASEAN.
>>23975792Getter Robo G isn't even half way done, I think episode 18 was the last one to get subbed? Also Jeeg has been fully subbed for a while. With Wataru, that's crabstick hell, very different.
>>23977015>Also Jeeg has been fully subbed for a while.No. That release is not viable.
>>23977049It has problems, but they are a little better than crabstick subs. Good luck trying to convince anime streaming websites that have them up or the people that already downloaded them.
Someone already resubbed all of Zambot 3. Forgot his name, but he's the guy who redid the Gundam movies and Zeta Gundam. He used to post in the mecha museum thread. I think he used to go by MechLovin.
>>23977139I'm still around, I just don't use my name much because I kept getting bothered by others to sub stuff.I never actually finished Zambot 3. I got up to the 30s and was burned out, having redone subs for all the Gundam OVAs, movies, 0079, and Zeta.OP, I can dig up my subs (they're on a different computer) and throw them in a Mega for you to use. They're timed to the Italian BD set, as I couldn't find a rip of the Japanese BD set.
I just realized it's been three years since Gango last did Granzort.
>>23977155>I got up to the 30sThe show is only 23 episodes long you liar
Wait that's not even a trip, that's part of the username. You fucking fake. I can't believe I gave away evidence to a troll.
>>23976216As the guy that edited their Danguard subs I agree, anon
>>23977166>Wait that's not even a trip, that's part of the username.The site took out the typeface difference between the two a while back.
>>23977171No they didn't
Oh my god this whole website is fucking unusable. There's no way to tell tripfags from fakes.
Okay maybe the secret is that fake trips don't have exclamation marks?
I'd still like to know how someone could say they stopped "in the 30s" for a 23 episode show, though
>>23977254https://4chan.org/faq#tripOpen up little baby newfag
>>23976956>americans have such a poor understanding of their own language that they can't grasp the nuances added to it when a european uses it
>>23977290Not what I said in the slightest you illiterate retard
>>23977155we have your (or "your", if you are an imposter) subs already, but thanks for offering. we'd love to have you join us if you are the real deal.>>23976361skyers is a real project, not sure if we'll do shin skyers yet.
>>23976956I'm Italian and own all the Trider DVDs. What software do you guys use to insert and time subs?
>>23977434Well, here they are again, just in case:https://mega.nz/folder/laMUQZKZ#UkHtSwD3i27cio4nbUwmBALooks like I got up to episode 19. And thanks for the offer, but I'm done with subs. These are yours now.
>>23977942That's 19 episodes. Why did you say it was in the 30s?
>>23977942thanks, don't think we had that song script in our archive - you're still welcome to come hang out, no pressure to work on stuff if you don't want to. old mecha subbers need to stick together.>>23978245little known fact, not having photographic recall of the number of episodes in a 70s robot cartoon does not in fact make you a liar imposter pretender>>23977658kind of you to offer, but ultimately a real trider project would have to be done from the JP to be worth anything, likely using the JP DVDs too. translating from italian or another dub language was common in the real olden days when JP -> EN TL was still a niche subset of all language translators, but now any project worth anything translates from the source language.worth mentioning that if we were going to pick up another long-ish mecha show, it'd probably be something like the original jeeg that has JP captions, since that greatly simplifies things for the translator.
>>23978375Dude just do the Daitarn stopgap. It's better than letting Duel feel like he's winning.
>>23978375>translating from italian or another dub language was common in the real olden days when JP -> EN TL was still a niche subset of all language translatorsHow long ago do you actually mean? I know luurah was doing that less than a decade ago before he dropped off the face of the planetFor some of these older shows, isn't that kinda the only choice anyway? Like the whole reason we never got Dai Apolon season 2 subbed is because no had ripped it anywhere
it still gets me.
>>23978446Is Dai apolon 2 even a brand new thing? From what I know the actual main show ended in episode 26
>>23978632It's mostly just the first season again with a bunch of new/replaced footage.
>>23978407>Let's do another translation of translation that is mostly the same but I hate a guy that worked on itIf Trider G7 is going to be redone we should translate the Japanese audio so it isn't needed a third time.
This reminds me. Whatever happened to /m/subs finishing up Raideen? I thought they said they would get back to that. Six months ago.Darn.
>>23977155I haven't payed attention to shit in ages. Zeta's subs got redone? Redoing anything that needs redoing is always a plus, but I remember people finding a few things in the original subtitles that were just flat out wrong or missing. A lot of nuance and context seemed to have been gone.When was this redo done? Easy enough to find?
>>23978820>>23978814>>23978700Shut the fuck up Duel
>>23978821Ya know some years back I just wasn't on /m/ much for a few months, maybe a year, I don't know. Ever since then some fucking wackos are bitching about some guy named Duel. I have no idea who he is, why he's hated, nothing. Based on how they bitch, I also can't be assed to figure it out. It's just strange.
>>23978823SHUT THE FUCK UP DUEL!I HOPE YOU FUCKING DIE!!!
>>23978824https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAGO4mLigk0&list=RDFAGO4mLigk0&start_radio=1I just want to rewatch Duel. Haven't seen it since G4.
someone pls make subs for Godam
FUCK OFF DUEL FUCK OFF DUEL FUCK OFF DUEL FUCK OFF DUEL FUCK OFF DUEL FUCK OFF DUEL
>>23978446luurah was one of the last holdouts of the whole italian to english dub translation style, and his stuff is generally considered to have issues because of it. way more common 15-20 years ago at this point.>>23978851thats where i draw the line, i even attempted to watch an episode of it raw but besides the bd being nice and grainy (too much of a good thing, actually, as it's completely unrestored, gateweave and horrible visible glue seams all over the place) and it just looked atrocious. i would rather do trider or pick up ga keen or anything, literally anything besides gowapper 5 godamn
