However, it's nowhere near perfect and gets 7/10 from me. I've watched this series 3 ½ times and gotta say, though most likely the suitable demographic is children, this series still holds a special place in my heart. Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier also has one of the best soundtracks I've come across and I even ended up purchasing the two albums. The sound design has become iconic to myself and if any of those sounds used in this show are used in any other installments, I will notice. If you don't know Japanese and can't spot the differences in the general dialogue, then at least you'll notice the non-existing dialogue that according to the subtitles is taking place. But if you watch this with English subtitles, I'm almost positive, that you'll end up with the subtitles that are straight copied from the English audio. What I mean to say is: watch the original version! The characters are more believable with their voice acting and the dialogue makes a lot more sense. Changes like this are all over the series and make the characters way too undeviating. Meanwhile-' and then he goes on and on narrating about the statues and setting up the next ark when the original let the pictures talk for themselves. Ross gave us an adventure we'll never forget.

The English version made me cringe The same scene goes 009 saying 'Dr. to himself 'what did we fight for?', then after a slow fade transition the scene shows some statues under a lighting storm to set up the next 'adventure', if you can call it that. For example let's take the last scene in episode 21 : in the original version couple people of the cyborg group hear unfortunate news and 009 ponders English version also sometimes changes lines completely.

After watching the both versions, original and English dub, it must be said that this is one of those unfortunate shows that got 'dumbed down' or 'softened' when it hit the air outside Japan There are times when English dub adds dialogue that never took place in the original, English version has censorship when it comes to death (though no blood was shown in the original either) and so on.

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