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Crunchyroll, Mushi Hold Subtitle Translation Contest
posted on by Egan Loo
The Wonderbeat Scramble science-fiction anime series. Crunchyroll is already hosting the first two episodes of this 1986 television series with English subtitles, but the two companies are looking for translators to complete the 26-episode series. To that end, they are asking for contest entrants to submit translations for a nine-minute Wonderbeat Scramble television special, which Crunchyroll is streaming with the original Japanese dialogue.
Mushi Production has provided some prizes for the top four entries, as well as a grand prize for the translator who is chosen to complete the series. Mushi Production notes that it cannot compensate the winner financially for this particular series, but contest co-organizer Dororo, or other titles on Crunchyroll. Pinansky notes that an older "retro" children's anime series like Wonderbeat Scramble is "a show with some historical importance and a high degree of pedigree (Tezuka himself) that would, frankly, by anyone's imagination, fail miserably in the West if it was tried to be sold in the usual channels."
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