This week, Capcom has been running a marathon of the old English Mega Man NT Warrior dub on their Twitch channel from 1PM Eastern to around 10PM. The marathon is still ongoing and will conclude tomorrow, but they've gone ahead and uploaded all of the episodes to YouTube for free until September 20th. This is the first time that NT Warrior's English dub has been made available digitally (legally). It's also especially exciting for Axess because that season never got an English DVD release, and it's become increasingly more difficult to find until now, especially in any kind of decent quality.
The only catch to this is that for whatever reason, for the first episode of Axess, they've opted for an English subtitled version of the original Japanese episode rather than the English dubbed version. The subtitles use names and terms consistent with the English dub, but otherwise, it's the original Japanese episode and the translation matches it faithfully. They showed this episode during the Twitch stream earlier today and it threw folks off because Capcom hadn't said anything about officially translating the Japanese version of the series, so it wasn't clear if they accidentally showed the wrong version of the episode (and possibly had plans to release the full series with English subs) or what. Now that they've done the same thing for the YouTube upload though, I think it might be safe to assume that the English master for that episode has been lost, and they just translated that one episode so that it would still be there in some form. (It's worth noting that none of the episodes that the dub skipped over back in the day have been similarly translated.)
Even with that caveat though, this is still exciting and cool, and I'm really glad they've done this, especially for Axess. I hope they also consider officially releasing subbed versions of the complete series. That first episode of Axess being subbed is such a (seemingly unintentional) tease.
Playlists for both seasons are below:
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRJf4sy8d-s0g73r8Z3AxvYPOkYex7jS
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRJf4sy8d-teYYZQJh0epBfFEvpnNKad
The only catch to this is that for whatever reason, for the first episode of Axess, they've opted for an English subtitled version of the original Japanese episode rather than the English dubbed version. The subtitles use names and terms consistent with the English dub, but otherwise, it's the original Japanese episode and the translation matches it faithfully. They showed this episode during the Twitch stream earlier today and it threw folks off because Capcom hadn't said anything about officially translating the Japanese version of the series, so it wasn't clear if they accidentally showed the wrong version of the episode (and possibly had plans to release the full series with English subs) or what. Now that they've done the same thing for the YouTube upload though, I think it might be safe to assume that the English master for that episode has been lost, and they just translated that one episode so that it would still be there in some form. (It's worth noting that none of the episodes that the dub skipped over back in the day have been similarly translated.)
Even with that caveat though, this is still exciting and cool, and I'm really glad they've done this, especially for Axess. I hope they also consider officially releasing subbed versions of the complete series. That first episode of Axess being subbed is such a (seemingly unintentional) tease.
Playlists for both seasons are below:
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRJf4sy8d-s0g73r8Z3AxvYPOkYex7jS
View: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvRJf4sy8d-teYYZQJh0epBfFEvpnNKad
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