Care of TFW2005 members Sanchimaru and Jalaguy, we are able to present the finale of the Unite Warriors Manga for your reading pleasure in English! This is the second part of Ruination’s story, and yes, it is also the finale – implying that Ruination may be the final Unite Warriors release. It is a good way to end what has at times been a very strange story, and if nothing else, gives us Scourge riding into battle on the back of Sky-Byte – what is not to love?
Check out the translation attached to this post, and see also Jalaguy’s notes regarding the translation project:
- Read right to left.
- English names and dub attack callouts used again.
- Grand Scourge’s combined mode is named “Scourge Grand Prime” in the original Japanese, to match “Convoy Grand Prime”, I’ve used “Grand Scourge Maximus” to retain symmetry with “Optimus Maximus”.
- Galvatron II’s early adventures in the Japanese G1 universe, before travelling back in time, were in the post-G2 era, where he fought e-HOBBY Laser Ultra Magnus. His adventures in the ’80s are from the TV Magazine story pages.
- When Galvatron II discusses Trypticon, in the original Japanese he says he commanded “Dino-saurer [Dainozaurā], the earliest version of Dinosaurer [Dainazaurā]”. Sakamoto is being a massive nerd: the former version of the name was used in the Scramble City OVA, where Trypticon also had a different character model, so the idea is that Trypticon was renamed when he was rebuilt in Five Faces of Darkness.
- The “heart” at the end is the Zodiac, which would indeed eventually revive Optimus as Star Convoy.
Thanks once again to Sanchimaru and Jalaguy for their hard work translating this and sharing it with the wider fandom!
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