Question about Grongi Language and Fansubbers for Kuuga

m121akuma

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I've noticed that TV-Nihon has English subtitles for the spoken Grongi language in Kuuga, while SCS Works just transliterates it. Is there an actual official Grongi-Japanese translation that TV-Nihon are going by, or are they essentially hypothesizing based on the events of the show/on screen actions?
 
There's a Kuuga Complete Box you can buy that contains copies of the shooting scripts for the entire series. The shooting scripts usually contain rough translations of what various Grongi lines were supposed to be, to help the actors deliver them properly.

Grongi itself is just a phonetic substitution of Japanese and isn't a complete or consistent language. There are certain words that consistently mean the same thing, but for other lines the phonetic substitutions are pretty much whatever the writer thought would sound cool.

Overall I prefer the subs that just transliterate the Grongi. Using the script book translations throws off Kuuga's pacing, since the Grongi talk about certain plot things to each other long before the show "reveals" things to them to the audience.
 
Yeah, I've been sticking with SCS Works for now because of that, but I don't think they've done the entire series as of yet. Any other sub groubs that just transliterate Grongi-speak?
 
I'm not totally sure, I don't plan on checking out any of the Kuuga subs until someone finishes the series.

That said I'm pretty sure someone besides SCS is handling Grongi by way of transliteration.
 
there was a guy on rangerboard who was making soft subs for the scs version of kuuga so you knew what the grongi were saying but so far he's only done the first 9 episodes, hopefully he will continue to do the rest of the episodes at some point
 
There's been special airings of Kuuga on Toei Channel where the Grongi scenes were subtitled, so maybe someone at TV-Nihon has copies from that airing that they go by. :shrug:
 

That's a lot of effort. :disappoin
 
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