#over-time

So the wife and I watched the first two episodes of the Singaporean dub of Kamen Rider Wizard via OZC-Live. (here: http://live.ozc-anime.com/tag/kamen-rider-wizard/) 

They’re doing BD re-encodes of series with soft subs by O-T, Aesir, and others all packed onto one file. At the same time they’re doing Wizard, they’re also doing versions with the Singaporean dub on it. 

The dub is.... not terrible. But we noticed something: The Singaporean dub script is the same as Over-Time’s. To the very last line. Rinko’s voice is terrible and inconsistent, sometimes she has an English (maybe Aussie?) accent, sometimes she doesn’t. Haruto isn’t bad, even if everyone pronouncing his name as Ha-ROO-to is like nails on a chalkboard. Shunpei’s voice is appropriately ridiculous.

It’s watchable, definitely, aside from the >.> that is O-T’s Wizard. The dub versions are only being released in 720 for now, but if you want the full 1080 (also missing things like train delays, typhoon and earthquake announcements, and fan club things randomly popping up on screen) that’s the place to go.

This is the final VS Rant Special I’ll be doing for now until something I find really interesting to debate comes up.

Most fans of tokusatsu works in the West like Super Sentai and Kamen Rider would have heard of those two groups. Like many competing groups, there’s always a debate as to who is better.

There are a few forum topics discussing this on the internet, but I’ll just give a couple of quick points:

Over-Time:

They release their subs about 2-3 days after its airing in Japan

They cut to the chase, no extravagant effects

Lots more things are translated (and localised), including equipment voices and contextual lines

TV-Nihon:

They take a bit longer to release their subs, sometimes taking up to a week

They use a few special effects in their subtitles

Some things are left untranslated, such as honorifics and equipment voices, so some understanding of Japanese is recommended

I don’t want to say much about this issue, so I’ll just skip straight to the point. Some Facebook pages providing subtitled episodes of Super Sentai and Kamen Rider to fans usually post both sub versions. I’ll watch Over-Time subs for the story (since they release their subs first) before watching TV-Nihon subs for the effects. I know some Japanese so I won’t be confused by the untranslated parts, if anyone’s worried about that.

Kamen Rider Ghost - Over-Time Release Images (11-17)

Kamen Rider Ghost - Over-Time Sub Release Images (1-10)

Includes witty little descriptions because why not.

Gotta love these new Over-Time release images.  

Dude, I don’t even think TV Nihon translates for TV Nihon.