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Gossameru Fansubs

@gossamerufansubs

Starting a fansub group in 2023? Why not! I grew up on fansubs in the early 2000s and want to continue on the grand legacy of fansubbing.
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Welcome to Gossameru Fansubs! I have done translation professionally in the past for other languages (French and German to English) but now just do it as a hobby.

I only translate and post items that are out of print and extremely difficult/impossible for people to find in English.

I am studying Japanese at the N3 level and use a combination of my language skills, auto-transcription, and translation tools to do my translations. They are amateur but I hope to continually improve as I do more of them! You can find most the ones I've done so far at this link on Archive.org. I also will have more comprehensive information, including credits lists and song lyrics from the movies, on my Neocities page.

I use a mix of Subtitle Edit, Aegisub, Handbrake, and Adobe Premiere Pro to do my fansubs.

Gossameru Fansubs is named after my cat, Gossamer.

Current projects:

  • Working on: Reina (1995)
  • On the docket: Something from Center Island probably?

If you know any other indie heroine 80s-2000s tokusatsu films that haven't been subbed, let me know! I can't guarantee I'll do them but if they look cool I'll add them to the list.

If you are on this page, you've probably already seen Hazel's video, where I first got the idea to translate these kinds of movies. If you haven't seen it and you're on this page, definitely go watch it!

I keep a list with 4 tabs: unsubbed films that I may do one day + what I've already done, already subbed ones I will get around to watching, ones I don't intend to fansub but hey maybe someone will, and a miscellaneous tag for my own personal recordkeeping. The lists may have some films that don't fit the above criteria but the majority do. If you also do translation, feel free to use my list to do your own translations (I just nicely ask that you not translate on anything I put in "working on" haha but anything else is fair game, just let me know so I can remove it from my list!)

#introduction post#tokusatsu#indie films
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Making Of - Evaroid Seria

40 minutes of behind-the-scenes footage film "Evaroid Seria". The film "Evaroid Seria" is an indie heroine android tokusatsu film by production group Eiyu Club. It is part one of its series; its sequel is Aucensia Memoria.

You can see the English subtitled movie + behind the scenes footage on the Gossameru Fansubs website, as well as on archive.org.

#tokusatsu#eiyu club#gynoid#robot girl#2000s#Look. I know no one wants these. But I do. So I will keep being deeply niche and self indulgent because why else do I do this#even though they are significantly harder to translate than the regular movies it does make them that much more rewarding to finish
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One page about the series Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knights (movie 1 and movie 2) from HEROINE magazine Volume 2 (2004). This edition focused on independent heroine tokusatsu production companies such as Eiyu Club, Center Island, and more. The series had several Gamera cameos, as one of the creators of Gamera was involved in the production of these films (Noriaki Yuasa). The series was also produced by the same production company as Gamera (Daiei Film).

English translation below the cut.

#tokusatsu#1990s#cosplay warrior cutie knights
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Ausencia Memoria (2003)

The daughter of a top robot technology scientist, Hinako Izumi is faced with the truth of her past as a mysterious Evaroid named Sharan hunts her down. 

"Ausencia Memoria" is an indie heroine android tokusatsu film by production group Eiyu Club. It is part two of its series, as it is the sequel to Evaroid Seria, See how to watch the English subtitled version on the Gossameru Fansubs website, as well as on archive.org. 

#tokusatsu#eiyu club#2000s#gynoid#robot girl
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Evaroid Seria (2002)

Robots are being taken out one by one by the Executive Destruction Federation, and it's up to Evaroid Seria to try to stop it before she and her kind are completely eliminated.

Indie heroine android tokusatsu film by production group Eiyu Club. It is part one of its series; its sequel is Aucensia Memoria.

See the how to watch the English subtitled version on the Gossameru Fansubs website, as well as on archive.org.

#eiyu club#tokusatsu#2000s#gynoid
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Cyber Lady Suzuka 2

"The secrets of Suzuka's past are revealed, and then her new parts are put to the test when ZELDA strikes again!" 

The sequel to "Cyber Lady Suzuka", this film is another heroine tokusatsu movie by Eiyu Club. It is one of their earlier movies, from 1998.

See it with English subtitles by Gossameru Fansubs here, or see more ways on the fansubber's website.

#tokusatsu#eiyu club#fansub#gossameru fansubs#1990s#this one had so much charm to it and was so fun to translate
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Who was "Eiyu Club"?

Eiyu Club, simply put, was a small independent production company in the late 1990s to late 2000s who primarily did low-budget android heroine tokusatsu movies. 

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[A behind-the-scenes shot from Eiyu Club production Red Lilac: Dream of Shudder, presumably on the state-of-the-art landing pad for the action scenes.] 

It's been difficult to find an English-language summary of who they are, so I've done a bit of a dive into their history and how they worked. Join me below the cut to figure out who exactly Eiyu Club was, and how they made their films!

#eiyu club#tokusatsu#1990s#2000s#watch me post this and then someone links to a better written extensive history of Eiyu Club lmao#still was fun to research though!#There was stuff I had that I didn't include here but this is kind of a lot of it
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Two pages from HEROINE magazine Volume 2 (2004). This edition focused on independent heroine tokusatsu production companies such as Eiyu Club, Center Island, and more.

English translation below the cut:

#eiyu club#tokusatsu#2000s#I got this magazine and absolutely lost my mind when I saw how much Eiyu Club there was I really didn't know what to expect#translation mine not sure if I need to specify that lol#there's more eiyu club but I haven't subbed the movies those are about so once I get to those I'll post them later
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Cyber Lady Suzuka (1998)

Facing off against the evil forces of ZELDA, everyone hopes that Cyber Lady Suzuka is up to the task with her new system overhaul! 

The film is a heroine tokusatsu movie by Eiyu Club. It is one of the earliest movies from the production group.

See it subtitled in English by Gossameru Fansubs here, or see more ways on the fansubber's website.

#tokusatsu#fansubbing#eiyu club#1990s
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Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knights 2: Teikokuya's Counterattack (1996) Behind the Scenes footage

Behind the scenes footage for the film - a fantastic peek into indie tokusatsu filmmaking in the 90s. Including a few great behind the scenes shots of the Gamera costume!

See the film + behind the scenes (in one file) over on Archive.org, subtitled in English by Gossameru Fansubs. There are 31 minutes of movie and 29 minutes of behind the scenes.

Tumblr post for the film itself

Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knights 1 information

#tokusatsu#1990s#japanese movie#gamera#fansubbing
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Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knights 1 (1995)

Cosplay Warrior Cutie Knights 1 is a heroine tokusatsu film starring Chiemi Chiba, Miho Yabe, and Sara Shimada, and was directed by Noriaki Yuasa. It's notable for a guest appearance of a human-sized Gamera. The movie was created by Daiei Motion Picture Company. 

English subtitled video by Gossameru Fansubs over on Archive.org. 

35 minutes of feature film and then 43 minutes of music video/credits + bloopers + behind the scenes footage. 

#cosplay warrior cutie knights#tokusatsu#gamera#gifs
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