And so, we come to the end of another Rider series, and with that, another wrap up post.
If you’d asked me a year ago whether I thought W would get dethroned as my favorite Rider series, I’d have probably said no. However, after watching through Drive for the 2nd time while working on the BDs, I think I can safely say that Riku Sanjo topped his previous entry and I’ve got a new favorite. Was it flawless? Of course not. But at the very least, it stuck the landing better than W did. Anyway, enough rambling about what I like.
Doing Drive as the BDs came out rather than waiting for the series to be complete was a bit of an experiment, but I think it turned out to have worked well. Not only did it mean getting BD versions out while the show was still fresh, but it also got us access to the BD exclusive shorts.
So, what’s next? Well, Drive isn’t quite over, although our direct involvement is probably at an end now. Over-Time has been given the sources for the Drive summer movie Surprise Future, as well as Type SCU Episode 3, with 4 uploading to give to them right now. We also have the Drive x Ghost team-up releasing on BD in the Spring, along with the Kamen Rider Chaser V-Cinema. Since all of these need subs, I’ll be waiting just as anxiously to watch all of these when they are out.
As usual, a series batch will be posted in about a week or so. I also am planning to encode some of the bonus material to post up as raws in a separate batch, but there’s no specific ETA for those.
As for our next move? Fourze will continue on as it nears completion, when we’ll move on to Wizard, but be sure to keep your “eyes open” in April when we keep the quarterly releases going with Kamen Rider Ghost BD Box 1!
Fabulous work, thank you so much! Yes, please do complete Fourze when you can. So excited to see your encodes of Wizard, too. You are a godsend!
Thank you for the wonderful work it has been doing with the series on BD. I wonder if you are interested in Super Sentai as Kyoryuger and Ninninger?
Thank you!
I’m interested in doing several Sentai shows, including Gokaiger, Go-Busters, and Kyoryuger, but I’d like to get caught up with the Rider releases first before I branch off into Sentai stuff.
And any interest in doing ToQGer too or Ninninger?
Not a lot of interest in ToQger at the moment, I’d like to do Ninninger but I can’t afford to buy both the Drive/Ghost BDs and the Ninninger BDs, and I already have enough of a full plate with the back catalog Rider shows. I’d consider switching to doing Sentai once I catch up with Rider.
Hello friend, first congratulations for the project, and second, I would like to know andyou want to work with Kamen Rider Wizard?
As it says at the bottom of the post, Wizard will start after Fourze is done.
Hello thank you for tout super job! Will you translate the movie Surprise Future too?
Allow me to point to the post you have commented on. Specifically, the part that says:
“So, what’s next? Well, Drive isn’t quite over, although our direct involvement is probably at an end now. Over-Time has been given the sources for the Drive summer movie Surprise Future, as well as Type SCU Episode 3, with 4 uploading to give to them right now. We also have the Drive x Ghost team-up releasing on BD in the Spring, along with the Kamen Rider Chaser V-Cinema. Since all of these need subs, I’ll be waiting just as anxiously to watch all of these when they are out.”
Well, when you do Ghost, could you keep the scenes that appear before and after the opening, at least for episode 1 since it showed Akari running to the temple.
I’ll keep whatever is appropriate to keep as long as it is on the disc. If it’s one of the sponsor bumps, it will get cut because those don’t have anything critical whatsoever.
Okay, also it seems over-time had made a v2 for the scripts of episode 12. Just a heads up when you get the first bd box set for it.
Yep, not to worry, I update all my scripts from their script repository right before I start working on a newly released set, that way I always have the latest version, and since Drive was 7 months behind the broadcast episodes, there was always plenty of time for them to upload the updates before I needed them.