User:Universal Emerald

Introduction/ Bio
Hi, I'm Universal Emerald. I'm an Asian not living in Asia and speak fluent English. I love to help out on this Wikia from time to time when I have access to a device or when I'm not having technical difficulties. Real life gets in the way.

I've been a fan of BoBoiBoy since 2011 (you can read my BoBoiBoy journey/history down below) and have been hooked back into it after discovering the full episodes on YouTube. I mainly tidy things up on Episode or Character articles and my main project is writing English Transcripts for the Episodes and adding plots to the Galaxy Episodes.

The Discovery
A few years ago (I think it was back in 2011) I visited my lola (that means grandma to those who aren't familiar with Filipino culture) in the Philippines. Because I was a young kid and I didn't really know what to do in the house, my brother and I mainly watched shows on Disney Channel Asia, which was pretty much the only kids channel that was in English. Our favourite show was BoBoiBoy. We tried to watch as many episodes as we could while we visited there but the episodes often just replayed and by the time we had to leave, we had only watched up to that one episode in Season 1 where BoBoiBoy and his friends were turned into Draught pieces.

Forgetting About It All
The next time we went to visit my grandma again, I went on to Disney Channel Asia and found that they had stopped airing BoBoiBoy. I was very disappointed because the last episode we remembered watching ended on a cliffhanger. I never truly forgot about BoBoiBoy after that, I always kept his memory in my head, I just thought there was no way I could watch it now. That all changed a few years later (again, I can't remember how many years).

The Rediscovery…and then Forgetting About It All Again (or the Reforget if that makes sense)
Somewhere around the year 2015, I got really bored. I got so bored I started racking my head for something to entertain myself with and suddenly unearthed my memory of BoBoiBoy. Even though I didn't think it would work, I decided to search it up on YouTube because I knew that often people would upload episodes of TV series (only to have their videos deleted because of copyright stuff). I didn’t think that BoBoiBoy was too popular at the time and since it had been around 4 years since I had last seen it, the series was probably over. So you can imagine my astonishment when I found the complete official collection of the entirety of Season 1, in English! Not to mention a complete Season 2 and an in-progress Season 3! And here I thought the series was over!

I got super excited and told my brother about it (he wasn't as excited as I was at the time but he's always like that). My brother and I watched all of Season 1 from the start to jog our memories and it was "memang terbaik!" 😉 After that, I tried to find English versions of Seasons 2 and 3 but after a few hours of scouring YouTube I sadly couldn't. I had actually also discovered Wikias at this time but I wasn't as into them then as I am now. Plus, no offence to anyone here but, I was kinda put off this Wikia because of incorrect grammar (I'm slightly OCD) So once again, unfortunately, I gave up on BoBoiBoy for the next few months.

The Second Rediscovery (or the Re-rediscovery)
Eventually, I remembered BoBoiBoy and searched again for English versions. I did find a few Malay scenes from the episodes that were fan dubbed and fan subbed but I didn't start watching those until early 2016. I decided to come back to this Wikia because the translations of the episodes were actually pretty decent after thorough inspection, even if some parts didn't make total sense. In fact, this Wikia actually helped me to take a different approach to understanding what the characters were saying. I would watch the Malay episodes and guess what they were saying based on what the Wikia said (confusing, right?).

I would listen and look very carefully at what the characters were saying and if I recognised anything that sounded like separate words, I would guess how to spell it and enter it on Google translate and figure out what they were saying. I would also refer back to this BoBoiBoy Wikia to see if any translations were available, and many actually were.

The Present
At present, I have caught up on all the episodes and eagerly await the next one, which at the moment, is part 2 of Season 3, Episode 25 Episode 19 of BoBoiBoy Galaxy. I was super hyped for the first movie and I still really wanna watch it but I live in New Zealand so that's gonna be a bit tricky😁. Anyway, this series has just gotten better and better with each episode, especially Season 3. The improvement in BoBoiBoy Galaxy is just phenomenal and I like how they’re trying to cater for the slightly older demographic while still keeping it simple enough for younger viewers.

On the wikia my big job is editing the Episode pages (I don't know if anyone else noticed but we do have duplicate episode pages) and making English transcripts for the episodes so people like me can understand what the characters are saying. If any Malay speaking users can help with these I would be most grateful.

I’m currently drifting in and out of the fandom because of Monsta’s crazy upload schedule.

That's all for now! Bye!