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F2 Grand Prix (1984)

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  https://nyaa.si/view/1846614 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. Back with another live-action movie sub! Toho's "F2 Grand Prix" from 1984—"the first and last F2 racing movie", as Wikipedia JP likes to put it. This is a drama set in the world of F2 racing, where three racers—Yutaka Imoto (Ken Tanaka), a regular, Keiji Sasaki (Toru Minegishi), a longtime champion, and Satoru Nakano (Kiichi Nakai), a rookie—all compete for the title of champion in the '83 Japan Grand Prix tournament.   Interestingly enough, this movie was made before the F2 racing boom hit Japan—this kind of racing wasn't yet popular in Japan and consequently the movie did not do well as a result. I guess even the author of the original book that this movie was based on wasn't confident about turning this into a movie, as he seemingly went "Are you serious?" when he was approached by Toho and asked about making a live-action adaptation of his work. I originally d

Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 01

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  https://nyaa.si/view/1843295 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. NEW PROJECT RAHHHHHH  🗣🗣🗣 TL;DR—this is another collaboration I'm doing with Inka Subs. We actually happen to have the whole show translated but only the first few have been edited (or are in the process of being edited) so far. The plan is to release these episode-by-episode and compile them into batches later. The long version: Memole was one of those anime shows I admittedly didn't know about for a while but I got invested into it the more I began checking it out. The art is by far probably the most beautiful that I've ever seen for an 80s anime show, and it has music by Nozomi Aoki to go along with that... I think I read somewhere that the staff wanted to make this show as if you were reading a storybook of sorts, and they absolutely nailed it with that look & feel. Naturally, I wanted to see if subs existed online, and unfortunately they didn't. Yume—whose services I've been u

Getter Robo Go - Episode 29

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  https://nyaa.si/view/1841860 Fansub credits can be found in the link above. Sho begins to feel lonely after her cousin, Saeko, gets married—Saeko and her husband decide to spend their honeymoon in Okinawa but things go awry when the Baron Yasha brothers decide to attack there with the purpose of building a Metal Beast factory there. With Saeko and the others being held captive, the Getter crew assemble and head there ASAP to stop the brothers & free the hostages.