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Best female ghost ever, or best female ghost ever?
Here you go. The staff did some thinking together over the week, and we’ve made some changes, most notably translating 怪異調査部 as “Paranormal Investigations Club” (we used “Detective Club” last week, which on second thought is perhaps too vague). Episode 1 will be v2’d for the batch for format and terminology consistency.
fnord and Sindalf wanted to blog about stuff, but I was rushing to get to work and forgot to save copies. I guess I’ll put them up when I’m home.
EDIT: Here’s fnord’s blog on one of the lines in this episode.
[spoiler]There was a little discussion about a line this episode. My interpretation wasn’t persuasive enough for the rest of the team, so it was banished to the blog. Here’s my minority opinion. When Momoe recites the chant after the demon has gone into ‘hiding’, she says 「夕子さん　埋めた、柱に埋めた」, which could be a reference to an ancient Japanese practice called 「人柱」 (hitobashira). Hitobashira was a form of human sacrifice whereby some of those involved in the erection of a large structure, usually a fortress, would be buried alive to bless it and protect it from anything that might threaten its enduring presence, such as natural disasters, or, in the case of fortresses, pillaging armies (a very real threat in medieval Japan). The idea was that burying men alive within the walls of the structure would infuse it with the souls of the workers, and, since nature in Shintoism is swarming with spirits, move the building closer to the spirits and essentially make it a part of nature. A different, in literature popular explanation sees the sacrifices as the slaughter of workers that had participated in the construction of secret passages inside the fortress, and whose death would ensure the secrecy of the tunnels, thereby protecting the fortress and its lord. This is probably artistic license, especially since evidence of secret passages is unconvincing at best, but the practice of hitobashira as a whole seems largely undisputed and urban legends drawing from it persist. The reason why I am bringing this up is rather apparent if you’ve seen the episode.[/spoiler]

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Moshi is probably hitting up chicks in Tokyo University at the moment and it’s way past fnord’s bedtime, so I’ll write up this release post in their stead.
Here’s the first episode of our third project of the season, a joint with sister group Underwater. I’ve never worked on an episode quite like this before, but despite the :effort:, it proved to be quite a lot of fun to sub. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it just as much as we did!