piraticoctopus:

piraticoctopus:

Myuutsu no Tanjou (The Birth of Mewtwo) is a Japanese-only radio drama that was broadcast in five parts in the weeks leading up to the debut of Myuutsu no Gyakushuu (AKA Mewtwo Strikes Back) in Japan. It was later released as a CD with an illustrated booklet (which is what the images above are from). The story goes into detail on the reasoning behind Mewtwo’s creation, the mysterious phantom Mew, and Mewtwo’s life up through the beginning parts of the movie. 

Now, since it’s only in Japanese, that means if you don’t speak Japanese you’re stuck trying to read along with the English translation in a Word document. 

Except I didn’t want to do that. 

So I subbed the entire thing and put it on YouTube. (Because who doesn’t want to spend a month using Windows Movie Maker for obscure Pokemon stuff, right?) I made some (mostly nit-picky) edits to the grammar and did my best to add a few lines that were untranslated, but for the most part I just added it as subtitles. I recently added updated versions of Parts 3-5.

The original translation, audio files, and scans of the entire booklet can be found over at Copy Cat.

Update: Apparently it’s been up since 2012 but there is a Portuguese subbed version also on YouTube (link goes to Part 1).

Hey, if anyone who actually knows Japanese has suggestions for improving the translation, I’d love the input.