Kaitei Daisensou: Ai no 20,000 Miles (1981)


https://nyaa.si/view/1886837
Fansub credits can be found in the link above.

This is an English fansub of a 1981 TV special by Tatsunoko Productions, titled Kaitei Daisensou—taking place in a world where the evil Gabia empire (controlled by Emperor Darius) has taken over most of the planet Earth, undersea explorers Ricky and Ben dedicate themselves to searching for ancient underwater civilizations when they are suddenly picked up by the mysterious Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus. Things begin to get tense when Emperor Darius eventually starts chasing after the Nautilus, as he firmly believes he can't be a complete ruler unless he gets rid of Captain Nemo...

Many, many years ago, GANGO translated this into English after I managed to snag a low-quality raw from a (now dead) torrent. A while back, I found out that this got added onto JP streaming services, utilizing a slightly better video source than that of the original JP VHS. And so, perevodildo and I partnered up together to do a touch-up of GANGO's subs while also using better materials.

The video source is taken from Hulu JP—this was on Amazon JP as well but it was split into 3 separate parts for whatever reason... Hulu JP had the entire special as a single video file, so it was more convenient to use that instead. The streaming version uses optical mono audio but we also included a stereo track, taken straight from the VHS release (captured by Japanese Hoarder, and stitched by w0wmd). You want my recommendation? Even though the VHS audio is technically in higher quality, it's mixed really weirdly and I don't like it, so I'd honestly go with the optical mono track here.

Lastly: what did I think of this...?
As that One Piece GIF goes... this shit is so mid 💔

I must admit I've never actually seen this until now, when I began my QC & editing pass of this title. The storyline's interesting, but... Idk how to explain it—it just gets really boring around the mid-way point. It was so mid that I actually neglected to work on this for various months until perevodildo asked me to resume it again earlier this month 💀
I think one of the pet peeves I have with this title is that a lot of character seemingly just... disappear near the end and the anime never explains what happens to them. What happened to the scientist of the Nautilus? Ricky and Ben seemingly had their own crew before they were also forced to work for Captain Nemo—were they forced to participate in the big battle at the end? Did they all also die? It just seems like Tatsunoko was in a hurry to finish this and consequently didn't properly wrap up the fates of those characters.

Oh well.

Anyways, enjoy...?

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