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Also known as the Amagami SS OVA, this is basically a group of short ~5 minute animation sequences for each of the six main heroines. The first set features the first three heroines (Haruka, Kaoru, and Sae) for a total runtime of about 15 minutes.
It felt good to work on Amagami SS again, though we kinda slowpoked this release, being an OVA (okay I lied; this would’ve been out over 24 hours ago if it wasn’t for me/Father’s Day/sleep/work). This is available only on DVD, so 480p is the highest (and only) video resolution you’ll get.
I’m too tired to try and remember if I missed anything, so I’ll hit the sack and spare you guys from additional reading. Enjoy the release!
arEdit: No, we will not being doing XviD’s for this because it’s 480p. So stop asking about them.
Amagami SS Short Animations – 01
Gosick – 22
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So we have the Charming Monster (Monstre Charmant) mentioned finally, and we’re about to head into the final arc of the anime. According to the summaries for Episodes 23 & 24 they come out of Gosick VIII, but I don’t really know much than that until the reviews start appearing sometime after June 23rd, when Part 1 of Gosick VIII goes on sale. How they will condense 2 full novels into 2 episodes is beyond me, but we’ll see what happens!
If anybody is interested, this is all the Japanese info I have managed to collect so far on the upcoming VIII Part 1 Novel and Ep23/24 Summaries. Before you ask, it’s in Japanese, so either throw it through Google Translate (the rough translation is readable for the most part), or if you can read Japanese, bonus!
Gosick VIII Part 1 & TV Ep23/24 Summary Stuff
Time to enjoy this weeks Gosick. Sayonara, Sayonara, Sayonara~
Hidan no Aria – 10
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I figured a Mutou release pic this time around would be cool, since he’s all “Man, I’m badass” in that scene.
Nobody wanted to time Hidan no Aria this week, so I ended up doing it, making me the TL/Timer/Editor/QC for this episode. Release would’ve been out earlier, but I’ve been extremely busy recently with the million things that are happening with my life right now.
Oh, and let it be known that THERE WILL BE NO HIDAN NO ARIA NEXT WEEK. Both episodes 11 and 12 will be aired on June 30th.
P.S.:: Yes, we will be doing the Amagami SS OVAs. Please stop pestering us about it.
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. – 10
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.
Gosick – 21
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So with that, we’ve reached the conclusion of the tale of Queen Coco’s unsolved murder. Next weeks episode covers Victorique’s birthday, which is still from Gosick VII I believe although it’s possible it’ll be a mix of Gosick VII + GosickS IV (went on sale 25th may). From there on, episodes 23 & 24 look to be from Gosick VIII: Twilight of the Gods Part 1 and possibly some content from Part 2 which won’t be on sale until late July and most likely just ties up all the loose ends.
Gosick VIII is set to take place at the beginning of World War 2 (going by the summary blurb), so I guess that puts the timeline around 1939, which would be roughly 14-15yrs after Gosick VII (December, 1924). Considering Victorique was born on December 25 1910, it’ll put her age somewhere around 28-29 and Kujo around 29-30 iirc (can’t remember his birth year).
Anyway, that’s enough Gosick trivia blogging. Enjoy this weeks ep!
Hidan no Aria – 09
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This episode had over 400 lines and parts of it were a giant pain in the butt to translate. I hope you all enjoy it.
Kusion would like me to mention that he filled in for the timing and did it with a laptop mouse at his workplace. That’s pretty boss. Though I was going to blog about how he’s a dick for shirking all work to play iM@S if he didn’t agree to time.
Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. – 09
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.
Delays for Aria and AnoHana Today
Some of you may already know that I basically get up at 2am every Friday to fansub anime for you guys. I’m thinking of simply getting my full night’s rest this time, however, for two reasons.
1) I have a very important interview tomorrow which I want to attend in tip-top condition. Not getting enough sleep because I was fansubbing in the dead hours of the night probably isn’t a good idea.
2) I had LASIK surgery done on my eyes a few days ago, and it’s pretty important that I give my eyes plenty of rest this week. Waking up prematurely to stare at a computer screen for hours straight when I’m supposed to be sleeping doesn’t seem very good for my eyes.
I probably shouldn’t be sabotaging both my future and my eyes just to give you your subbed anime several hours earlier, which means the soonest I can (and will) get to them is when I’m back home after the interview. Which would unfortunately mean a delay of about… 10-ish hours.
Incidentally, today is Moshiburner’s last full day in the US. He’ll be having his graduation and an all-night party before he embarks on a long flight back to his native Japan on Friday. Which means he probably won’t be translating Ano Hana this week (and he can’t fill in for me for Hidan no Aria either).
If things go well, we could probably release the episodes for both series by this time tomorrow (this would require me to translate Ano Hana instead of Moshi, which I could probably do after Hidan is released). We’ll see.
—TL;DR LINE HERE, MAINLY CUZ OF MOSHI—
Hi Guise. Moshi here. I put on my robe and wizard ha—graduation cap, and now I’m back for a bit before I’m off to party. Though my head hurts whenever I stand up. Lol.
Speaking of Lol I might be LoL’ing with my RL bros so you may want to look for my presence online in something like three to four hours. Not sure if we have 5. No, I won’t be subbing there. Why? Because 1. Raze is gone anyway and he lurvs to do at least 1 edit/QC pass on hana before it’s released, and 2. I’m sure I can spend the last night for a while with my friends before I go to the motherland without you guys ragefacing, right?
Right?
/runs
Oh, and no worries about Raze being all “man two scripts a week that’s so INTENSE that I need to do really bad work on flower” because I made a flvraw pass and a CC pass on it (that’s 1 TL pass and 1 check pass) before I went to grad. Beast. You’re welcome, Raze.
Anyway I’m sorry for the lack of my usual lolzy links and cynicism (if it’s missing at all). If you saw some kind of spelling or grammar or Englolish in my post, blame my head. Me duele.?????? Oh, and the lack of a release. Lol.
My flight is tomorrow so I may or may not have a chance to make a lolzy Anohana release post (given it’s released tomorrow), mainly because I’ll either be finishing up my suitcase packing or be all-day partying (proceeding all-night partying. Trololol.).
NYandere, get chance and luck bro. Best of wishes.
arEdit: (10/6/2011 08:33 (GMT) )
Ano Hana Ep09 status – Encoded, Typeset, Timed, Translated. Needs QC or Editing or w/e Raze calls it. All stalling is his fault this week (and not mine lol).
Generic no Aria Ep09 status – Encoded. Possibly Translated, idk.
So according to the status of each show, Hana will probably come out first and Aria at some point one day this weekend (comfag is travelling around the world instead of fagsubbing, so technically all Aria delays are his fault). Please forward all Hidan no Aria related complaints, death threats, love letters and so on to troll4ever_89@hotmail.com (commander`A) and he will get back to you as soon as possible (depends how bored he is lol) .
Gosick BD Vol. 1-2
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This package contains:
- Episodes 01-04
Now for starters this will only be getting a 720p release due to the source not really warranting a 1080p one. I included FLAC audio (even though it doesn’t really warrant it or need it either) but otherwise I’ll get a lot of requests for it, so it’s easier this way. Now to mention size, this is quite large for a 720p but due to the dither/grain in the source and all the dark scenes it is most definitely required to preserve said dark scenes. I’ve done my best to keep size down but this was the best I could do without killing off dither/noise that stops the banding. I don’t want to hear any complaints about how this is too big for a 720p, so deal with it.
The BD version isn’t that different to the TV version, there is no de-censoring or extra scenes (so far). They did remove the GOSICK text between the two parts though. Simply put, download this if you want to archive a better copy of the series. If you are happy with the TV versions then there is no reason to download this because you won’t gain that much, other than the dark scenes looking quite stunning now. The bright scenes look pretty much the same, except without the compression/telecine artefacts, broadcast station’s logo and analog tv is being canned this july warnings (lol).
720p Release
* Video – CRF 17.5
* Audio Track – FLAC 2.0 16bit
Also take note, I’ll be releasing Gosick BD’s every 2 volumes because it’s a hassle to only release 2 episodes each month.
Amagami SS & Kampfer fur die Liebe – BD Batches
Amagami SS
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Kampfer fur die Liebe
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Nothing much to say about the Kampfer batch: they’re our own encodes, and we’ve included the creditless OP/ED as standalone files for you collectors out there. Oh, and commentary audio tracks are included in the 1080p releases but not the 720p releases to keep file sizes down.
We’ve v2’d a lot of the Amagami SS BD releases though:
- Episodes 1-12, 24, OP1a-c, and ED1 have all been v2’d to “fix” a problem that messes up the styling for the Japanese in the karaoke for those of you using JP locale in Windows (which would be like 5% of you anyway). There’s nothing else wrong with original versions otherwise, so feel free to save your bandwidth.
- Episodes 21-22 have been v2’d to fix up a strange timing error at the OP that resulted from faulty shifting.
The Kampfer torrents should be well-seeded, but I’m only using one seedbox for the Amagami SS batches due to their huge size. Feel free to use the DDL links instead, and please do help seed.
Enjoy for now! More goodies to come tomorrow.