This is a UTW post. I repeat, this is a UTW post. We are not GG. Flower post pic though. Teehee!

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Some people think I never say bad things about stuff I watch. My opinion is that I just find good things about shows a lot easier than bad things, and that I don’t find anything good about criticizing things that I can’t somehow fix myself. That said, epic finale folks ;_; I’ll add on an extremely long-winded wall of tl;dr about the series once i’m not playing LoL (what, it’s Sunday) so look forward to that! 😛
And the obligatory staff curtain call!
Moshiburner (Translator/QC): 25 o’clock in the morning or not, this show made my Thursday. This is the first show I’ve worked on with so much work going into its content, and every week I found it to be worthy of multiple re-watchings, whether it be for QC pass number 3 or simply because I’m waiting on someone else to finish their part. Worth every drop of effort I put in to (almost) perfect each script. Which includes timing one of the episodes. You’re not alone ar, lol 😛 Anyway the series was a great follow-up to spring season (almost lost my head in that one with all that entropy increase) so I’m hoping there’s more stuff I can sincerely laud in fall season. Preferably the thing I’m working on, because otherwise I won’t watch it (unless people keep spamming OMG THE [anime title here e.g. meduka] EPISODE WAS OMG every week in the staff channel) since I’m busy n stuff. Conclusion: Amazing catharsis, has those you-watch-it-then-you-cry-then-you-watch-it-again scenes. Definitely a pick for 2011’s recommended shows.
Raze (Editor/QC): This show turned out to be a LOT of effort to work on for some reason (Hidan no Aria airing at pretty much the same time didn’t help either) and I kind of altered my editing style for the show as it progressed. It’s been a bumpy road and we made a couple derps along the way, but here we are with the finale. And what a finale that was! Great series.
ar (Encoder/Typesetter/Timer): Twas a fabulous show, well other than the changing of ED lines every week (lucky there wasn’t k-timing to fix) and that damn pain in the ass diary with all its curving pages and zooming and panning and whatever else it did. Thanks to comfag and his travelling around the world, I ended up timing this series too for the last few eps so it ended up being a bigger pain every week than the pain it started off with (lol). Anyway I enjoyed the series, but I probably won’t be typesetting and encoding a FujiTV series again on the same day anytime soon, I’m beat.
commander`A timed the first six episodes or so and then disappeared. He also stinx.

Slap slap slap! Clap clap clap!

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Oh man, this episode is tear-jerking ;_; like drama all the way. [across the sky etc.] Let me tell ya, they are not going to leave any loose ends regardless of its shortness as a series. Everything’s starting to get wrapped up in a neat bundle… yet they manage to keep a huge part of the story teetering on-edge until the end. And by end I mean the part that hasn’t been aired yet. I can’t wait for next week already! Cookies for the writer. So yeah, tons of drama. But hey! We still managed to find our Kodak Moment inside, as you can see by the post pic. (Here’s one more btw:)[spoiler][/spoiler] I would put a lolcatz banner around it and write sth like Why Poppo, why? but it seems like a lot of work for just a release post <_< and now that I’m in JP I’m working at late night I’m all “I can’t take it anymore!” since I prefer not to be dead the next day. Well, looks like I don’t get everything in life. Bi-quitting!
Nah jk, late-night kinda sucks but I’m not quitting with one more episode t[[[SITUATIONAL IRONY DETECTED; POST HAS BEEN CLOSED]]]
P.S.: Voraciously avid religion enthusiasts will probably rage at the fact that rebirth comes up in this episode, as well as our change from “attain Nirvana” to “go to heaven”, which not only turns Menma’s whole disappearing act into something of Christian rather than Buddhist significance but also spits in the face of many well known religious contexts. Whoops. My bad.
Honestly though, we kind of figured that we should do something when being reborn came up this episode, since attaining Nirvana -> becoming a Buddha -> can’t be reborn cuz you’re enlightened -> o noez paradox. So our answer is “go to heaven” and yes we will fix the previous resultant oopsies in the batch, don’t worry. Now you may want to complain that in a Christian context going to heaven is also an end-of-the-path action, but since we’ve already generalized heaven enough to be used acceptably within the Shinto-Buddhist context of Japanese religion I believe it can be just vague enough to be a suitable intermediary for whatever kind of rebirth they’re talking about. Besides, there’s already an angel and a ghost coexisting. I’m sure throwing in heaven can’t be that bad.
Disclaimer: No, I don’t study religion. If I’m terribly mistaken in some regard then leave a comment. If you are also a) stupid or b) retarded such that you didn’t understand the contents of this P.S., I am right and you are not because I am not stupid or retarded and you are one or both. Don’t comment. Enjoy your ghost girl animu.
Okay last one zZ: This is the site of some game that Raze mentioned. It is about a ghost. It is about a ghost who comes back. It is about a ghost who is a girl. It is about a ghost who was very close to the protagonist. It is about a ghost very few people could see. It is about a ghost… who is eerily similar to Menma.
DUN DUN DUUUUN…
So there you have it. Give it a look if you have some time, cuz I haven’t even clicked the link.

Oh Anaru, why are you so perfect?

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Ano Hana ep9 gets released first because it got done first (thank god Moshi found time to translate it). Please enjoy.

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So uh, I forgot to do last week’s post. Teehee.
Raze says: SUCH. A. GOOD. EPISODE.

Insert witty caption here

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*INSERT MOSHIBURNER RANT HERE*

DAMMIT JINTA TURN AROUND! THERE’S A GODDESS SITTING BEHIND YOU AND SHE’S IN DERE MODE!
Also: epic starfish hairpiece is like pokerface.jpg

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This week, WAITNOSTOP!
This article should be read after you’ve watched at least the first nine minutes due to implicit episode spoilers. Not the download part though. All that’ll spoil is you. With anime goodness.
Okay. Moshiburner saying we’re done here. Moving on.
This week, [spoiler]Jinta goes to school. And you know what that means: cute girls in the background! Screeny time.

• Normal but cute[04:24]
• I call them bon-bons because it looks like they’re either 1. wearing chocolates on their head, 2. copying that loli on sankaku, or 3. trying to be chinese. Though bon-bons are french.[05:25]
• You’ll see a few more of the bushy twin-tails on the right. If you’re going to do bon-bons, do these. Much better.[05:28]
• Stereotypical glasses. I’m looking at you, NYandere. You want your post mention, you get your post mention.[05:49]
• Bushy twintails pt 2. She looks vaguely familiar to someone…[05:57]
• Part 3. Okay it’s similar. Fine.[06:41]
• Surprisedface.jpg, probably the second cutest expression in the whole group.[08:02]
• And part 4. Just cuz I can.[08:50]

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EDIT (5/20/2011):: v2 released to fix chroma glitch in the second half. No patch, since it’s a new encode. The encoder says he’ll mess around with the settings to rein in the filesize by next week. No promises, but we might include a more appropriately-sized encode of this episode in the batch for you archivers out there.

>WTB contacts

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EDIT (5/13/2011):: So yeah, we screwed up the reference to One Piece. The v2 fixes the relevant incorrect lines and adds a semi-important sign at time 15:17. If you already downloaded the previous version, you can use the patch provided above to update the release. The XviD v1 release already contains the fixes and the new sign.
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<Moshiburner cynicism here>
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>Me when I wake up and I find that this “One Piece the show you retards” shit is actually true
1[2011/05/13 0723.20] …what
1[2011/05/13 0723.24] wait
1[2011/05/13 0723.28] that wasn’t trolling?
1[2011/05/13 0723.49] THAT FAG WAS GOING TO WATCH ONE PIECE “2 DAYS EARLY”?
1[2011/05/13 0724.12] WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY SO CONFUSING I’M FUCKING NATIVE AND DIDN’T GET IT
2[2011/05/13 0725.35] LOL
2[2011/05/13 0725.43] i think the writers were trolling
2[2011/05/13 0725.45] if anything
1[2011/05/13 0725.55] well they succeeded cuz I’M MAD NAO
1[2011/05/13 0726.33] the one episode i don’t do a complete cc run because there’s so much simultaneous dialogue (actually introduced an unnecessary line cuz of it)
1[2011/05/13 0726.40] they talk about ONE PIECE THE ANIMU
1[2011/05/13 0726.54] fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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DRAMA TIME!
Get ready for wall of text. And episode spoilers (sort of).
[spoiler]It’s hilarious how teachers consider a project to be the best way to close a high school career and how THEY ALL DON’T REALIZE ALL THE OTHER TEACHERS ARE THINKING THE EXACT SAME THING. Hence, I am now working on 9000+ assignments at the same time while having to worry about college applications (long story short I’m going to college in the motherland) and having to deal with an ever-lethargic self thanks to all the stress that I’m building up. Maybe I’ll start seeing dead childhood friends too, eh? Well regardless, I still try to make our releases fabulous in every way possible, and as usual Raze and I both did multiple passes through the episode (something like 5 total). We never even noticed the One Piece thing. Call me retarded, but when I hear Tsuruko talking about the white, ribboned one-piece earlier in the episode, Menma has been wearing it for all 5 episodes (past or present), Naruko wears a similar one for an episode or so and even Yukiatsu hops on the bandwagon, I tend to expect that the next “wanpiisu” I hear refers to a one-pieced dress. I know, I should’ve expected this kind of trolling when they made a direct reference to Garigari-kun (which, if you didn’t realize, is a brand of popsicle on sale in Japan) but MAN. Did it have to be the name of another anime? Really?
I was bored and tired and annoyed so I read an /a/ thread about the episode. Bad idea. You can tell I was tired just from the fact that I made this decision. Well, since I read it, might as well make something out of it. Some responses to general idiocy:
?? = stereotypical, not the letter ?. That’s ???. Not that I expected you to hear the difference. That’s why we exist in the first place: so you don’t interpret something completely incorrectly.
Someone already answered it, but yes, the creators pick out one random line by Menma from the next episode, strip it of all context, put in a random screenshot from this episode as “video”, and call it a preview. Well, the clips you see during the ED aside, that is. I hardly know what she’s talking about or why she says ?????? so loudly either. I am not a Showa person, so I’ve never seen the TV show where they originally used the phrase. Hell, I don’t even know if I managed to figure out the correct reference. She might have been saying “bro, shoot!” in Engrish for all I know; the lack of context is excruciating. Sorry, but I’m not the god of all things Japanese. Just a native translator fluent in both languages. (hint: I’m probably still better than you)
“We were left behind.” Don’t remember the line word for word, but guys. Look. The train passes by while spitting out a lot of noise and the scene changes directly after the line. The least you should get out of the orchestration is that there is a deeper meaning to his words.
Okay, I’m done for now.
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If you were scared by the wall of text or don’t feel like reading it:
TL;DR: I wrote an essay here because I didn’t want to do my homework. I wonder if my teacher will give me extra credit? lulz.
Hopefully next week will be better off guys, sorry for such an epic failure.
Moshi signing out.
/seppuku