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Out of a mix of nostalgia and curiosity (since I watched Macron 1 as a kid), I started watching the ye olde GoShogun anime on Amazon, which I think uses Discotek's localization. The subtitles for the first two lyrics of the opening song (after the "5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0" countdown) seem odd though:

Do you know the red button? Do you know the blue button?

Is that really what the song says?

FWIW, here's the Romaji of those lyrics according to https://www.virtual-rotation.com/chirlind/others/sentai/goshou.html:

Akai botan wo shitteru ka? Aoi botan wo shitteru ka?

Aki Tanaka
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Yes, the English translation is correct.

For comparison, here is the lyric in Japanese:

(5! 4! 3! 2! 1! 0!)

赤いボタンを 知ってるか
青いボタンを 知ってるか
[...]

Lyrics taken from Uta-Net+ (Japanese)

Which does translate to

(5! 4! 3! 3! 2! 1! 0!)

Do you know the red button?
Do you know the blue button?
[...]

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