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Calling All Artists! And Fate/Zero BD Update

EDIT (19/3/2012): A couple of you have asked me for more direction regarding the slides. Here are some notes I’ve jotted down on what I’m imagining this to look like at the moment, though you’re of course free to go with your own interpretation.

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The Fate/Zero season 1 Bluray box set came with a drama CD about Kiritsugu’s and Irisviel’s first days together, and I mentioned in a previous post that I wasn’t sure if I’d translate them. I’m currently leaning towards yes, but here at UTW we always strive to go the extra mile when possible, and I figured it’d be nice if we could get some of you artists out there involved in this fan effort.
I’m looking for one or more people to draw up a slideshow of images to go with the events that transpire in the drama CD. The images don’t have to be full-blown colored and rendered (since I understand how long that would take); they can even just be tastefully-done sketches, as long as they are appropriate and match what’s happening. Since these tracks in the drama CD are pretty much just dialogues between Kiritsugu and Irisviel, I estimate that each track won’t need more than 3-4 images (some of them can be reused across tracks, too), though the actual number would be entirely up to you, of course.
You can find the translation for the first track below:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
The audio you can grab here or from the usual sources.
If you’re interested, go ahead and try drawing images to go with the first track. Send me an email by next week so I know you’re interested, along with any images you have completed so far. Feel free to also link to them here by writing a comment to this post.
If you can’t draw (like me), do help us out by contacting skilled artists you might know, or by spreading the word.
If this works out, we’ll have these nice little video slideshows with the original drama CD audio and timed subtitles for you guys. If it doesn’t and I decide to go ahead and translate the rest of the drama CD anyway, we’ll probably just release the translations through the site and in the batch torrent.
As for the episodes and other specials, we’ve decided to throw them out as they get done via XDCC and DDL; there will be no torrents until the final batch torrent at the end. We should have the first episode or two and the first Einzbern Consultation Room special ready by the end of this weekend.

Amagami SS Plus – 11


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DOWNLOAD HD Video Fix Patch: amaplus-720p-ep11v2-framefix-patch.zip
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_11_[XviD][7D98B3E2].avi [DDL1]
This episode was god-tier in so many ways. I guess they really were saving the best till last.
We should’ve seen it coming when we learned that Haruka’s middle name was “Lovely”, but this is on a whole new level. Pretty amazing family that Haruka’s from.
And yes, the dialogue really does say Jessica has green eyes, but this somehow failed to carry over to the animation. I’ll attribute this discrepancy to AIC screwing up their communication or something.
NB: I’ve updated DF with the v2 mux, and you can grab the patch for the v2 below the HD in the link. This fixes the partial encoding glitch on frame 7829, caused by an intermittent random memory error that I haven’t been able track down the cause of yet.

Kill Me Baby – 11

DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW-Mazui]_Kill_Me_Baby_-_11_[h264-720p][01E9FCAE].mkv [DDL1]
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW-Mazui]_Kill_Me_Baby_-_11_[h264-480p][C431C113].mp4 [DDL1]
Kusion forgot to write a post again, so until I find time to find a fabulous mandatory Seizon or Meguca pic, or otherwise Kusion supplies one, this release will be pic-less.
Good day gents.

About Fate/Zero BDs

Yes, we’re working on them and have been since the BDMVs appeared on Share. We said we’d do it and never announced we’re dropping them.
Most of you are expecting that we’ll wave our magic wands and somehow manage to have the entire 13 episodes plus all the specials perfectly subbed two days after the box set got released in Japan or something. It’s not going to happen.
Downloading ~120GB off Share happens to take more than a few hours; it takes days. We only just finished grabbing the last disc. You should all be glad the guy who’s uploading it from Japan did it so quickly with a fast connection too, because we wouldn’t have gotten it any faster even if we had ordered the box set itself.
Some of you also seem to have conveniently forgotten that we need to encode 13 episodes and at least 2 specials. Encoding isn’t an instant process (omg!) and actually takes hours per episode if you don’t want shitty video. If the BD video was of perfect quality we’d probably have it all ready for you in about a week from now if we busted our asses; unfortunately, they’re not, meaning we’ll be experimenting to find the right settings and be forced to filter quite heavily, which will slow the encoding dramatically. This picture should demonstrate the main problem we face quite clearly.
If you have zero patience and don’t care about video quality, allow me to point you to these releases that are already available; some of them even have the official English subs that came with the BD box. If you’re going to wait for our Fate/Zero Blurays, don’t expect them until at least 3-4 weeks later. They’re not going to be ready any earlier.
As for the specials, we’ll most likely be doing the Einzbern Consultation Room ones; they’re typesetting hell, though, so it’ll be a while until they’re ready. I’m still on the fence with the drama CD (which is basically about Kiritsugu’s and Irisviel’s first month or so together). We definitely won’t be doing the commercials.

Amagami SS Plus – 10


DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_10_[h264-720p][CCD2E833].mkv [DDL1]
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They used one of those artist illustrations for the opening sponsor screen as well as the ending one. It’s silly to include the opening sponsor screen when we haven’t been doing so for the last 9 episodes, so we’re using it, at 1280×720 resolution, as our release picture instead.
Thank god we’re done with Little Miss Earrape and that butt-annoying narrator. I don’t think I could stand them (especially the latter) any longer.
I already can’t wait for Haruka’s arc. You can’t really blame me, with an episode title like that.

Kill Me Baby – 10

DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW-Mazui]_Kill_Me_Baby_-_10_[h264-720p][EE97C340].mkv [DDL1]
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW-Mazui]_Kill_Me_Baby_-_10_[h264-480p][6AE1D8F8].mp4 [DDL1]

WEEKLY DOSE OF KAWAIIUGUU SONYA-CHAN

Reading Scanlations Teaches You Japanese!

This group is so good, I dare not utter their name. Thought I’d pick up Nozoki Ana today because Raze said it was fucking awesome, and I have to agree. Good series always get good groups, and I’ll be showing you an example of good scanlating.
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Amagami SS Plus – 09


DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_09_[h264-720p][C9990DF9].mkv [DDL1] [DDL2]
DOWNLOAD SD: [UTW]_Amagami_SS_Plus_-_09_[XviD][621DA158].avi [DDL1] [DDL2]
Body +5
Voice -10
Total -5
Enjoy the episode.

Kill Me Baby – 09

DOWNLOAD HD: [UTW-Mazui]_Kill_Me_Baby_-_09_[h264-720p][3B1FBC3C].mkv [DDL1] [DDL2]
Mandatory Seizon image appended.
Edit: New version has working attachments.

DDLs and Donations

We’ve opened donations for the first time in UTW history; the funds will contribute towards paying for our main storage and distro servers. Please help us out by donating; every dollar counts!
If you like reading giant walls of text, you can read more on the subject after the break.
EDIT:: You. guys. are. AWESOME.
Your donations totaled $412.52 USD in the space of just a few hours! I can now fully pay for the servers for two months and still have change for the month after.
Donations are now closed (until at least two months later). Thanks to all of you who contributed!
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