Because I think it's important to be up-front about this kind of thing: I do understand a little Japanese, and I can read kana, but this is mostly a machine translation. However, I also want to emphasize that I am in there every step of the way, doing things like looking up unfamiliar idioms, using jisho.org to make sure the translation is appropriate, double-checking every actor's name so I know I'm reading them right, and other such supervision. This translation won't be at a professional level, but it's also not just a copy/paste job. Every word of this was written out by hand. I don't endorse machine translation on an industrial scale, and I urge you to support your local (and non-local) fansubbers and translators. They need work.
The images are obviously quite small, so I'd recommend doing something like saving them to your computer or opening them in a new tab on your device so you can zoom in. I also compiled
notes. I highly advise you to read them as they provide light historical and contextual background as well as explanations for certain translation decisions (and one or two stupid comments).
Here is a table of contents in case there's anything you want to read first and foremost. Read these pages from right to left.
- Pages 1-2: Overview
- Pages 3-4: Introduction and development process of The H-Man
- Pages 5-6: The "liquid humans"
- Pages 7-8: More about the "liquid humans"
- Pages 9-10: Cast of characters, part I
- Pages 11-12: Cast of characters, part II
- Pages 13-14: Plot overview, part I
- Pages 15-16: Plot overview, part II
- Pages 17-18: Makoto Satō/Tadao Nakamaru biographies
- Pages 19-20: Introduction and development process of Secret of the Telegian
- Pages 21-22: Sudo, the tele-transmitted human
- Pages 23-24: Cast of characters, part I
- Pages 25-26: Cast of characters, part II
- Pages 27-28: Plot overview, part I
- Pages 29-30: Plot overview, part II
- Pages 31-32: Biography of Hiroshi Mukōyama and "I Watched Godzilla at the Cinema" column
- Bonus: Toy ad
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Over in the real world, I host monthly screenings of tokusatsu films at my local library. For this month's screening, I put together four TV episodes featuring Hirata (my lineup was Operation: Mystery, Ultra Q, Rainbowman, Fireman). On my home projector I also had my own private screening of the Ultra '66 "Iwamoto Speedrun": episodes 5, 12, 13, 16, 25, and 39 back-to-back. There was cake. (Left over from my own birthday on the 13th, I’m not that weird.)
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