Masterforce & Victory

[GoktimusPrime]

Sure, some aspects were Anglicised to make sense to an english-tuned ear, but they still retained the basic information from the original Japanese dialogue.

Exactly. The subtitles translating "Convoy" as "Optimus Prime" and "Cybertrons" as "Autobots" is entirely different from the dubs translating "Minerva" as "Nightbeat" (which someone remarked that on a female character makes her sound like a street hooker), "Blaster" as "Billy" and "Ginrai" as "Optimus Prime" - which, as kup pointed out, is factually incorrect.

And I've heard that the Madman set has two set of subtitles - one with the Anglicised names and one with the Japanese names, which is good for people who insist on reading "Cybertrons" being translated as "Cybertrons" instead of "Autobots."

I'd prefer the Anglicised names... not that I use the subtitles.

[Paulbot]

And I've heard that the Madman set has two set of subtitles - one with the Anglicised names and one with the Japanese names, which is good for people who insist on reading "Cybertrons" being translated as "Cybertrons" instead of "Autobots."

I've been watching the Madman Headmasters series with English name subtitles and - maybe this is because I work as an editor - I just keep finding problems with them. Apart from typos and some find and replace problems (like skullcrunchercruncher, who was also called Rippersnapper once) the translations to English are sloppy. I've lost count of the number of times where it still says the "Cybertron base" when with English names it should be saying "Autobot base".