#dt translates

[dtriad]

小猫头鹰

one of the more memorable descriptions in 3K Workers (imo) is Sima Yi as an owl, but when I searched through the text I was surprised that the explicit comparison doesn't actually come up that often... it probably got stuck in my head because of lines like these lolol

Ch. 679:

司马懿就是在此时匆匆跑进来的，整个人身上透着很有喜感的违和，既想符合这么多年世家教育的矜持，冷静，从容不迫，又恨不得阳光健康地爬行，大叫，柔软翻滚，扑扇羽毛。 Sima Yi hurried in at this moment, his whole body giving off a very funny sense of disharmony. He wanted to conform to the dignified, calm, and unruffled poise taught by his gentry education over all these years, but he was also itching to crawl, shout, roll over softly, and flutter his feathers in a sunny and hearty manner.

someone commented on this chapter: your depiction of Sima Yi always makes me think rather inappropriately about raising a owl (a bird in prison for life)

Ch. 687:

外面还是白昼，但她这里好像突然就暗了几度——不是因为外面刮进来的妖风，而是什么人忽然抖搂了��下羽毛。 It was still daytime outside, but here around her it suddenly seemed a few degrees darker—not because an evil wind had blown in, but because someone had suddenly shook out his feathers. 司马懿还是那个司马懿，但这次不是阳光健康的司马懿，而变成了一个阴森嘶吼，蠕动爬行的司马懿。 Sima Yi was still the same Sima Yi; however, this time he was not the sunny and hearty Sima Yi, but had turned into a sinisterly shrieking and wriggling Sima Yi.

^turns out these are both referencing an Arknights meme HAHAHAHA

[aduckwithears]

From Georgia’s insta for your auditory delight.

[aq2003]

just random trivia that I’ve been sitting on, but when the fax did the the cycle of history plays DT played Richard ii and Alex Hassell was Henry V

wait omg i never knew that!! ty for the trivia anon :]

[loveletterworm]

on a somewhat regular basis i look at the ralsei playlist i made 3 years ago and just think about how imo i did really well on it i think i was operating on a very accurate ralsei wavelength and the songs sound nice together. It is one of my best works in the field of "putting songs in an order". I think I've mentioned it before but I don't remember if I actually ever showed the whole thing

are you rocking with the ralsei playlist i made 3 years ago. Do you like the picture on it at least

[agnesandhilda]

What is in your opinion the best way to read the Bacchae?

As you seem fairly knowledgeable of it.

lmao no I'm just reading it for the first time and having a brainrot episode 💀 I don't think I'm a good source for that. thanks for asking, though!

[thistledropkick]

#didn't realise Taichi and Despe had a fling! #from the timestamps I'm guessing this was while Dangerous Tekkers were on a break #and before Taichi and Sanada got together

Going by their twitter posts, Taichi and Desperado have at the very least been drunkenly and nakedly making out for many years, including while Dangerous Tekkers were a tag team. The older tweets from Desperado are all gone since he's deleted his older twitter accounts, although Taichi and Kanemaru's side of the conversations are still there. They only stopped tweeting about this kind of stuff after Suzuki Gun disbanded - and even then, Taichi's last tweet to Desperado about the faction disbanding was "Let's get naked together again someday"

Desperado (quoting a tweet from New Japan's official twitter which is about an interview with Desperado but accidentally used this photo instead):

"That photo ain't me!"

Taichi:

"To think, that's what your face really looks like under there...

You really are ugly!!"

Despe:

"Wait a-! Dummy!

I said that ain't meeEeee!

And don't expose what I look like!"

Taichi:

"From the beard to the bone structure,

that is definitely you!!

I'm shocked at how incredibly hideous you are Don't talk to me ever again with that ugly face"

Despe:

"What kind of discriminatory behavior is this!!

We've been dating for a pretty long time now, and I've had a face like this the whole time!

And anyway I don't get what's wrong with it!?"

Taichi:

"Your beard is always scratchy when we kiss!"

Despe:

"Ah, sorry about that.

I'll be more careful from now on."

[katoobee]

colorkiller,,,,, again

i tried real hard to write their dialogue in the proper arabic (standard arabic for killer, egyptian arabic for color) and i hope to god they say what i want them to say, i was clinging to translators like my life depended on it

context for this is like. killer comes home during stage 1 and assumes based off the DT on his face and how tired and shaky he is, he must be having a rough day. fragile killer being held by color

aside from that, my own headcanon AU territory!!! killer with Night Terror :D

"HOLD STILL."

i plan to make another proper post about NT, covering his powers and design and stuff like that. for now a brief explanation

NT got gross hands that bring the worst out of people. its like acid to everything and not just dream. amplifies the negativity of anyone who touches it like tenfold

utilizes that to apprehend killer and inflict the NastyTM upon him, which sends him frighteningly quickly from stage 1 to stage 3, and sets him loose upon anyone fighting NT

aka "sic em boy"

[coventh]

“ FOR ME . ”

seveett {umikochannart}

Starring…??;; König x AMAB reader

Genre…??;; Smut

Warnings…??;; Doggy style (implied missionary), Auralism kink (look it up.), Possessiveness (?), Marking, Spanking, Daddy kink, Multiple Orgasms, Sub König .

König always made pretty noises every time you fucked him, the noises he would make only made you want to fuck him harder, faster.

So thats why you're here now, König laying on his stomach while desperately holding onto a pillow as you rammed your cock in and out of his eager hole.

dark marks like hickeys trailed all down his body, from his shoulder to his hips and all the way down to his legs. You raised your hand up and slammed it back down on his ass, watching the fat ripple and the red mark of your handprint appear.

König’s body convulsed as he was pushed further into the mattress with your rough thrust, hole clenching around your fat cock, loud pretty moans leaving his mouth.

“ You sound so pretty .. All for me , Yeah? ” you said, the words sending shivers down his spine as a deep moan was pulled from his throat, cock repeatedly jabbing at his prostate.

“ For you .. All for you , Vati—mghh ” (Daddy) König cut himself off with a guttural moan, cock shooting out cum down onto the dirty cum soaked white sheets. Your hands gently slid down his back, his body arched into your touch as you placed your hand back onto his ass, giving it another hard smack.

a few more loud smack sounds filled the room before you pulled his hips flush to yours, emptying your cum deep inside his greedy whole for the nth time.

You swiftly pulled out of him which made him let out a low whine, König was getting ready to complain and ask why you pulled out but before he could even look over his shoulder he felt himself getting flipped out onto his back.

König let out a gasp at the sudden movement, watching as his legs were thrown over your shoulders, feeling your thick cock slipping back inside his tight hole.

Chants of the name “Daddy” left his mouth, his hand searching to hold yours as his other gripped the pillow behind his head, throwing his head back as his eyes rolled back into his head, those pretty noises leaving König’s mouth as your dick repeatedly hit his sweet spot.

᪤; works belong to seveett, do not translate, copy or repost anywhere.

dt: @shaesbby (wanna join? dm me!)

[leclercloml]

Birthday boy | CL16

pairing: Charles Leclerc x bestfriend!girlfriend!reader.

summary: charles's childhood bestfriend y/n's birthday post for him throughout the years and them slowly falling in love as the year passes by.

genre: SMAU

warnings: grammar mistakes i guess , incorrect timeline to match the storyline, google translated french, mention of death of Jules and Hérve (I'm really sorry)

author's note; I had so much fun making this I hope you guys like it and happy birthday charlie ❤️

16th october 2016

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yourinstagram happy 19th birthday to my least favourite leclerc 💙

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charles_leclerc least?? LEAST?? Who's your favourite then???

⤷arthur_leclerc me, duh.

⤷lorenzotl sorry guys it's clearly me.

⤷yourinstagram it's non of you, it's tante pascal ❤️ (aunty)

⤷pascal.leclerc355 merci beau ❤️ (thank you beautiful)

⤷lorenzotl fair enough.

charles_leclerc merci idiot!!

⤷yourinstagram you're welcome or whatever 🙄

username who else is here in 2023?

⤷username me! I came to check y/n birthday post for Charles as always and I think I scrolled a bit too far.

⤷username me too! their comments 😭 my favourite childhood bestfriend to lovers

username their bestfriend era 😭

⤷username just because she's his girlfriend now that doesn't mean they are not bestfriends anymore.

username here before y/n posts charles birthday post for 2023!

username my favourite couple.

username who would've thought they would be the cutest couple in 2023.

16th october 2017

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yourinstagram happy 20th birthday to my bestest friend❤️!! and to the f2 world champion!!! 🏆🎖️.

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charles_leclerc thank you for being my unpaid therapist for 13 years!

⤷yourinstagram you can pay me back by giving me paddock passes when you get into f1 🥰.

⤷charles_leclerc let me get into f1 first.

⤷yourinstagram you will, i believe in you.

⤷charles_leclerc i know you do, I won't let you down.

⤷yourinstagram I know you won't.

⤷username i think this was where they both started liking eachother romanticly.

⤷username nah charles said and i quote "i fell in love with her the moment I saw her" - Charles Leclerc in dts 2022.

arthur_leclerc F2 WORLDCHAMPION 🏆🏆!!

⤷yourinstagram world champion 🏆🏆!!!

username literal childhood bestfriend to lovers.

⤷username "she has been by my side from the very beginning, karting, f3, f2 and F1, I knew from the moment I saw her that if there's anyone I wanna spend my future with, it's her." -charles leclerc dts 2022

⤷username that's so sweet 😭😭

16th october 2018

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram happy birthday mr. formula 1 driver, it's just the beginning of your F1 career, you have achieved a lot of things this season and it's just the beginning there's many more to come 💪🏻!!! and just in case, I believed in you, i believe in you and I will forever belive in you and one day you'll drive that red car ❤️🏎️, enjoy your day idiot.

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charles_leclerc thank you so much sol, and thank you for believing in me ❤️❤️!!

⤷yourinstagram always stupid.

arthur_leclerc Joyeux anniversaire mr.f1 driver (happy birthday)

⤷charles_leclerc merci frère 💙 ( thank you brother)

username the hand replacement in first pic 😭

username little did they knew....

username she believed in him and he didn't let her down and right now he is driving that red car!

16th october 2019

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram joyeux anniversaire charles ❤️, and this one is very important because not only you made me, tante pascal, arthur and lorenzo proud but you also made Jules and oncle Hérve proud, not only you drove for ferrari, you won a race with them, in their home, in Monza, I'm so so so proud of you that even these words can't explain and not matter what happens I'll forever be proud of you! joyeux anniversaire il-predestinado ❤️ forza ferrari sempre 🏎️

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16th october 2020

charles_leclerc grazie mille sole ❤️❤️!! this means a lot to me, you mean a lot to me, that win, mama, papa, arthur, lorenzo, jules and ferrari all of you mean a lot a lot a lot to me, that win was for all of you, thank you so much ❤️!! forza ferrari sempre ❤️🏎️

⤷yourinstagram ofcourse Charlie and I mean every single word from the bottom of my heart ❤️

⤷arthur_leclerc that is way too much red heart but it's okay, joyeux anniversaire charles and yes you made all of us proud!!💙

⤷charles_leclerc merci arth 💙

pascal.leclerc355 Je t'aime ❤️ (love you)

⤷yourinstagram Je t'aime aussi ❤️ (love you too)

username this post will never not make me cry

username Jules and Hérve part 😭

username they both were meant to be.

username I'm not crying, my eyes are cosplaying waterfall.

pierregasly happy birthday charles 🎂

⤷charles_leclerc merci pierre.

sebastianvettel tell Charles that we're proud of him too.

⤷yourinstagram done seb.

⤷charles_leclerc thank you seb ❤️.

username thisss 😭😭🤌🏻🤌🏻

username this is literally the sweetest thing ever.

16th october 2020

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram happy 23rd birthday banana man 🎂❤️ quarantine would've been horrendous without you! can't wait to celebrate it with you!! I love you ❤️

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charles_leclerc meri amour ❤️ and quarantine would've been horrible without you too thanks for being by side through everything, i love you too ❤️.

⤷yourinstagram ❤️❤️

landonorris there are kids on this app.

⤷charles_leclerc yeah, like you.

⤷username lmfaooo 😭😭

username we literally went from "least favourite leclerc" to "amour" 😭🤌🏻

maxverstappen1 happy birthday charles!

⤷charles_leclerc thank you max!

username the banana outfit 😭😭

danielricciardo I think we should make that banana costume a paddock fashion

⤷charles_lelcerc no.

username my favourites.

16th october 2021

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram happy 24th love ❤️ i love you so much.

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charles_leclerc merci merci merciii ❤️❤️

⤷yourinstagram 🎂🎂

charles_leclerc i love you too ❤️

⤷yourinstagram I know 🙄

⤷charles_leclerc good.

username cutieeess 😭😭

carlossainz55 happy birthday mate!!

⤷charles_leclerc thank you mate!!

arthur_leclerc happy 24th bro ❤️🎂!

⤷charles_leclerc thank you arth 💙

username my favourite couple.

username they're literally the best.

16th october 2022

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram 25!!!! Joyeux anniversaire mon amour🎂🎂!! This year has brought you so much! There were many missed opportunities but it's okay because we make our own opportunities and I know there's many more coming for you, I'm so proud of you!! ❤️❤️

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charles_leclerc thank you so much love, for being there for me at my worst and my best i love you so much ❤️

⤷yourinstagram I love you too ❤️❤️

landonorris you both are so gross.

⤷yourinstagram shut up kid, go away.

⤷landonorris rude.

⤷username lmao 😭

username the team fucked him up multiple time this year but it's okay we'll always be there for him, happy birthday charles 🎂!

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carlossainz55 feliz cumpleaños charles 🏎️! (happy birthday)

⤷charles_leclerc gracias carlos!

⤷username spanish 🤌🏻🤌🏻

alex_albon happy birthday charles 🎂🎉!

⤷charles_leclerc merci albono.

username the last slide 😭

username happy birthday charles!!

16th october 2023

yourinstagram

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yourinstagram Happy birthday to my best friend, my lover, my partner, my beautiful boyfriend and the person I trust the most in the world! Happy 26th love, I can't believe now that you're closer to 30 than you're to 20, how time have passed so quickly 😭 I usually would be scared for us to get older, but as each year passes, I'm just happy we have more time on this Earth together! I love you so much and hope this year brings you so much happiness, I love you - your no.1 support mwah ❤️

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charles_leclerc thank you much love, thank you for being there for me from the very beginning, thank you for believing in me and just thank you for existing in my life, I'm forever grateful to have you and i love you so so so much even words can't explain, thank you ❤️

⤷yourinstagram merci amour ❤️

⤷arthur_leclerc ew...you guys are cute I guess... And happy birthday big brother 🫂

⤷charles_leclerc merci little brother 🫂

carlossainz55 happy birthday lord perceval!!

⤷charles_leclerc thank you carlitos!!!

pierre_gasly happy birthday mate!!

⤷charles_leclerc merci pierre!

maxverstappen1 happy birthday charles 🎂

⤷charles_leclerc thank you champ 🏆.

username they literally grew up together!! 😭😭

username look at them 😭

username the first picture ahhhh!!!

username i love them your honour.

username mother and father.

username they're the best

username happy birthday charles!

username he really mean it when he said "I fell in love with her, in the moment I saw her"

⤷username ikr look the way he's looking at her in first pic 😭🫶🏻

username they're the reason I believe in love.

username happy birthday charles, enjoy your day at fullest!

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PS: i think I kind of rushed the ending but anyways I hope you guys like it and happy birthday charles, us tifosi's love you so much and infact every F1 fan loves you so much, enjoy your day at fullest! And we're forever proud of you. Happy Birthday ❤️🫶🏻🎂

[everysongineverykey]

source! plus a closeup on the wingdings if the first pic's blurry

one more tidbit from the localization book for gaster lore hunters: one image caption is written entirely in wingdings, and it's just a fun "reader challenge" suggesting the reader try and write their own name in wingdings.

the weird part, however, is that it's deliberately placed as the caption for an image of the determination extractor machine in the true lab.

[pucksandpower]

Hey!! Can I request a Charles insta au where you appear in Drive to survive and fans finally get to see what your relationship is like and it's super sweet with everyone loving you. Thank you 🥰

Charles Leclerc x protective!Reader - Social Media AU

yourusername

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yourusername season 5 of drive to survive is the best yet (because i’m in it)

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pierregasly i don’t think they’re ready

carlossainz55 i don’t think ferrari’s pr team is ready either

yourusername 😇

f1wagupdates am i going to drink way too much coffee and binge the entire season in a day? yes and i’m not ashamed to admit it

ferrariflowers it’s my guilty pleasure in the same way that really bad reality tv is 🫣

leclercupdates

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leclercupdates y/n y/l/n’s dts interview completely changed my brain chemistry

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livelaughleclerc it needed to be said i just can’t believe a wag actually had the guts to say it

feralferrari on camera no less

f1wagupdates and that’s why we love y/n

torturedtifosi i have never fallen in love with someone this quickly

torturedtifosi i hope charles can fight because i’m going to steal his girl

charles_leclerc

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charles_leclerc i couldn’t ask for a more fervent defender. je t'aime tellement, mon coeur ❤️

*translated from French: i love you so much, my heart*

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yourusername i will always have your back just like you always have mine. i love you forever and always

pierregasly y/n is one DNF away from getting stabby 🔪

talkingtifosi as she should

f1wagupdates she’s not just your girlfriend, she’s ✨our✨ girlfriend

smoothieoperator charles will have to learn to share y/n with the fans now

[maxedes]

Nico Rosberg gave his opinion on the whole George & Max fight on Sky Germany before FP3. Here is the translation.

Peter Hardenacke: „Nico, you are close to the Mercedes team and know both drivers pretty well. What is your opinion on this dispute?“

Nico Rosberg: „Well first of all, I think we all want Verstappen and Russell starting next to each other in the race.“

(PH: „That’d be good“)

NR: „I think that’d be my biggest wish. (laughs) It’s obviously incredibly funny to watch. From the outside at least! Internally It’s super stressful, because the whole world is watching & participating. Your family, your team, the team principals have started a fight. Toto Wolff & Christian Horner. It takes up so much energy. It’s so stressful internally. But from the outside it’s incredible. On the one side we have ‚the street fighter’ Max Verstappen, I think he’s (inaudible because of wheel guns :/), partly rightfully so & George Russell who’s… well, I don’t know, trying to… The dutch people say he should get put back into his, what do you call it? The thing you push babies around in?“

PH: „A stroller?“


NR: „Yeah, they say should be sitting in a stroller with toys in his hand“

PH: „Oh, so George Russell is too soft? You think so too?“

NR: „Well you can’t call him soft! He’s fighting super hard, really pouncing on it now. He’s holding his line and pushes back. Can’t call that soft, it’s good!“

PH: „Is that his way of putting himself into his new role at Mercedes as the team leader, once Lewis leaves?“

Ralf Schumacher: „I think so, yes. Seems like he made it his mission to improve himself and stand stronger and harder, but it isn’t really authentic. I don’t buy it. I believed Max when he said that George knows what he wants and isn’t really straightforward and honest about it. That’s by the way what you keep on hearing from internal sources, that Geore changed his personality quite a lot and not only in a positive way and I think you can notice that based on his comments.“

PH: „Nico?“

NR: „Hmm I’m gonna stick to… Well I see what [Ralf] means, and I think it’s partially true, but…

RS: „It’s still entertaining though!“

NR: „For sure, incredibly entertaining but obviously you can understand George’s perspective. The rule is he has to stay over his minimum delta time and the other driver has to move over. That’s the basis of this whole thing. Hence…anyway“

PH: „Netflix was filming the drivers parade in Qatar and was super close to the dispute between the two of them there. It was going on for three to four minutes and they had two cameras on it, but the sentence George mentioned about Max threatening to bash his head into a wall apparently wasn’t said. We’re looking forward to the DTS episode.“

NR: „No you should absolutely believe George. He wouldn’t make that up.“

PH: „But Max also said he made it up!“

NR: „Well, come on! I’m not so sure about that. It certainly happened. Pretty believable that Max would say something like that! I mean he’s the one that said in a press conference once that he’d headbutt the journalists if they kept rubbing him the wrong way.“

PH: „Oh, he really said that?“ (truly shocked hahaha)

NR: „Yes of course! Back then… So it’s not surprising he’d say something like that. He’s a just a ‚street fighter.’

Disclaimer: this is my translation & not a word by word. If I made some grave mistakes or misquoted them I am open to constructive (!) criticism.

If you can make out what he said while the wheel gun was going of please tell me.

Sorry if the video quality is trash, had to compress the video because it was too big originally

I love Nico, George & Max, so i enjoy a good discourse but blatant hate against anyone in reblogs/comments will be blocked

[babyrubysoho]

Guess who just spent a month making Japanese subtitles for the entire DT Richard II play, because I am simply that determined to force two specific friends to watch it and fangirl with me and talk to me about my fic XD

I started out using the classic professional Japanese translation of the original play (by Fukuda Tsuneari), which is written in period-accurate Japanese. When I showed one of my friends the subs she said "period Japanese is too hard!"

(This is a page of Henry's speech to Northumberland and York just before capturing Richard at Flint Castle... Yeah, holy wall of text!)

So now I've cobbled together a modern Japanese version using a mixture of adapted lines from the original translation, bits from The Hollow Crown (which is the only Japanese-subtitled version of Richard II one can buy, though that version leaves out half the lines and is much more forgiving on the subtitler cos they all speak so bloody slowly and with...I'm gonna say minimal energy😂), and a soupcon of super-abbreviations of dialogue that is waaaay too long in Japanese to fit on the screen.

Some of the jokes of course don't land in translation, which is too bad cos this particular production really leans into the gag potential of the play; e.g. puns like rain/reign😁

(Classic usurper humour XD)

Next step is to show it to my most patient friend and have her check it for errors and places where over-long lines can be made more succinct in a natural way. I won't lie, this project is fun as feck!

(The subs look giant cos my friend has poor eyesight🤣)

[terramythos]

hi people who have finished Dawntrail MSQ. have you recently done the Stormblood DRK quests because i am reeling at how much of the text explicitly telegraphs the plot of Dawntrail i was kind of losing my mind (this is the English translation)

a little preview of what I mean:

LIKE???? it really seems to me that the DT story was literally directly inspired by this. it's kind of insane

acknowledging that some of this applies to shadowbringers w/ amaurot as well

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

I was a skeptic about Criterion releasing any post-Showa Godzilla movies on disc, but lo and behold, they're teeing up Godzilla vs. Biollante, my favorite movie of all time, for 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (or just plain Blu-ray) on March 18. The description:

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

New 4K digital restoration, with 5.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack

In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features

New audio commentary featuring film historian Samm Deighan, host of the podcast Eros + Massacreand coeditor of the book Revolution in 35mm

Making-of program from 1993 featuring director Kazuki Omori and special-effects director Koichi Kawakita, among others

Short documentary from 1993 about the Biollante and Super X2 vehicle concepts

Deleted special effects

TV spots and trailers

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by science-fiction and horror film expert Jim Cirronella

Yes, this means they're skipping over The Return of Godzilla and not waiting until all the Heisei films are in their hands to unload them as another box set. I was surprised at first, but it makes sense. Biollante is the only Heisei movie Toho has released on 4K in Japan so far (with The Return of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II joining it in June), and arguably the best-regarded. Toho's always going to prioritize the domestic market first, so this is Criterion's best shot at a new release during Godzilla's current swell of popularity.

I have mixed feelings, as is usual when any new English kaiju/tokusatsu home release is announced. I'm glad the movie is back in physical circulation; it's again become legendary as the most difficult Godzilla movie to find on home video for a reasonable price. Only one library in my county owns it, and that number is about to spike. It'll be a major visual upgrade to boot. The non-G54 movies in the Criterion Showa box set didn't have audio commentaries, so I'm glad they sprung for one this time. I'm not familiar with Samm Deighan's work, but I think she's the first woman to record an English commentary for a Godzilla movie.

But...

I saw the Criterion presentation of Godzilla vs. Biollante at the Dryden Theater in October, and the subtitles were... simply not proofread, or at least not proofread by anyone who should have a job in the field. "More typos than a Mill Creek Ultraman Blu-ray" was how I described it at the time. I believe Criterion is using a number of vintage (we're talking probably-shown-in-Hawaii) subtitle scripts for the Toho tokusatsu films they're made available on streaming but not on disc, and I dearly hope they show more care with the Biollante 4K.

There's also no English dub.

This suggests that Toho is now doing its best to bury all the pre-Reiwa Godzilla dubs, even the ones they commissioned themselves. I doubt Criterion will bother to include the film's English visuals either. So... the version of Biollante I rented from Blockbuster some 20 years ago, the version I grew up with, will just be completely erased from the latest-and-greatest (and last?) edition. Depressing stuff. The current incarnation of Toho might be embarrassed by those old dubs, but as an indignant woman in the Diet Building once exclaimed, the truth is the truth! And Biollante's one of the films I prefer to watch dubbed (for one, nobody can argue that the English the actors spoke on set was better than that recorded by the Hong Kong Players).

Lesser concerns: I'll have to double-check, but I think the making-of program and the short documentary were on the old Echo Bridge discs too. The trailers would be new, but, well, they're trailers. So potentially nothing fresh in the featurette department, certainly not a retrospective with surviving cast and crew. (Somebody get one of those done before we lose even more of them!) And I do feel bad for Ed Godziszewski, whose commentary for Echo Bridge was effectively pocket-vetoed by Toho and is now truly never going to see the light of day.

Bleh.

[directdogman]

Yo, just wanted to know if omair, from the Roger dlc, had last name or anything

He does actually!

So, I realized a lot of the basegame names are mostly English based so I wanted to give the new characters some more etymologically distinct names for the sake of variety. Obviously I usually base my names off neat little puns or etymological links, and the new names are no different.

Fabron's name basically translates to 'young blacksmith', which I felt suited a young IT guy. His surname, Farrow, is a surname also associated with smithing. Obviously 'IT Guy' wasn't a job when most surnames were linked to professions, so I felt something that involves metalworking fits an IT guy at a factory.

When I was deciding what name to give Omair, I figured I'd also make one of the names Blacksmith related, but wanted the first name to be different. I looked up names that meant 'problem solver' (which is also a good approximation of what an IT guy does) and Omair came up and wound up being my favourite of the names.

Since the name has Arabic origins, I thought a matching surname would work, so I went with Haddad. It's quite common in the Levant, kinda the regional equivalent of 'smith', so I felt it'd work. Bonus points, the name's also associated with a Mesopotamian bull god of Thunder, who has links to some of the other entities I based bits and pieces from DT's inner story on, so it was just sort of a perfect fit.

Hope this helps!