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This episode brings us up to the first major battle in the 4th Holy Grail War, featuring Irisviel’s delicious legs as she gingerly steps into the sea on a cold winter night, as well as Saber in a suit. I guess there’s also Kiritsugu with his guns.
Please enjoy! C3 later today.
Fate/Zero – 03
THE iDOLM@STER – 15
Season highlight!
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Another ep with killer volumes of typesetting to do. Seriously, this show never lets up.
No plot advancement! Whatsoever! But I’m totally cool with it because the focus seems to be narrowing down on Haruka, Chihaya and Miki bit by bit. Also, the ED this week is my #1 favorite iM@S song.
Several truly amazing moments in this week’s ep. But you guys know us pretty well by now. Can you guess our #2 after the above spectacular Haruka vs a box shot?
Tamayura ~hitotose~ 01 – Take 2
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Here is the v1 of Tamayura ~hitotose~, now with less “beacause” and more Fuu-nyon! We’re hard at work with episode 2, as fotc and I were busy yesterday, so you can expect the release to be a little late. As stated in the previous post, there will be no 720p release. The source is crap.
fotc isn’t around, but I’m sure he’d want me to, once again, mention that Kuroneko = mai waifu.
This release is obviously 10-bit, too. Just in case you didn’t get the message about every new show being encoded in 10-bit.
arEDIT: Also since we’ll likely be using SUNTV most weeks for this show, which doesn’t air until Thursday morning in Japan, expect this sometime around the weekend each week. Have a good day friends.
C³ – Cube×Cursed×Curious – 02
>mfw I’m subbing Horizon
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Okay, okay, I went overboard on that one. Three post pics, one that’s actually from the show, and none that are of girls. And an internet meme. A shame that I must go to such lengths for you to read this blog post.
…
Well, not that I have anything to say.
In this episode:
1. Blood (well there go the lolicons)
2. Scary eyes
3. CRAB BAAATTTLLEEEEE (link has gore)
4. A cooking battle! (sort of)
5. No crabs, just pincers D:
6. New characters and school
7. Powerpoint slides and excel graphs animated in the background
If you are allergic to any of the above, don’t eat crabs raw. Or watch this episode. Hell, don’t eat crabs raw to begin with.
And here’s your real post pic, three of the four girls you’re going to be seeing a lot of:
[spoiler][/spoiler]
Enjoy.
Note from Daiz: While the OP animation / audio didn’t change at all from the previous episode, we decided to do a v2 for it due to the fact that it had much better quality in the Tokyo MX broadcast this episode than in ep1. The new OP file is intended to replace the old one, so feel free to delete the old one. Or at the very least, don’t keep the two versions in the same folder because you might end up having the old version in the episodes.
Fate/Zero – 02
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Yeah, we’re featuring another loli (and a certain unshaven man) for our release pic this week. I-It’s not like we l-like lolis or anything! L-Loli Ilya was just too cute!
Apart from how I couldn’t see jack crap on what was going on for half of the Ryuunosuke scene, the way they handled that Caster summoning scene was pretty cool (heh heh). Dat Gate of Babylon was mighty sexy, too.
And that’s it from me this week. Please enjoy!
THE iDOLM@STER – 14
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Are. You. LADY? Oh wait.
It’s a new season! A new OP! Out with the old and in with the shiny! Everyone has learned Haki and come back with fewer clothes! Or something like that.
The new OP song will need some time to grow on me, but the visuals are great (and often hilarious.) Dancing loli Chihaya?! You got me sold. Miki’s deviation from iM@S2 at around 6:43, giving the first game a nod, got a huge thumbs up from me, too.
Dewa dewa, ladies!
Gosick BD Vol. 5-6
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This package contains:
- Episodes 09-12
Here’s the next 4 episodes, only 12 more to go (6 more months!). Enjoy.
Tamayura ~hitotose~ – 01
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Annnd, here’s the third project with UTW: Tamayura ~hitotose~. It’s a joint, too! This is my first time translating a series for UTW (aside from that one thing I did before…), so I’m really excited about it. fotc from Mazui kindly agreed to TLC, and Ulrezaj offered to QC the script for me.
This was the most fun I’ve had working on a show. Nothing beats a calming, peaceful, cute show like Tamayura.
Note: We used a share raw for this weeks episode, and we will re-encode it when we get a better source. We won’t be doing this as of next week, as we will get AT-X caps. We’ll be releasing faster next week. Sorry about the video quality, though. We tried!
Hope everyone enjoys it!
Oh, and fotc wanted me to add: Kuroneko = mai waifu
EDIT: There seems to be a problem with the spacing in MPlayer. I have no idea how to troubleshoot it. Have you tried updating? Dunno, bro. For the time being, considering this is a v0, you can re-mux the script yourself (download it here), or wait until our v1 release.
UPDATE: We have the tvk .ts. All of the sources are LQ. We won’t be releasing anything in 720p (maybe 576p) because all I’ve heard are complaints from the encoders. We will be doing the blu-rays, however, so hopefully that makes up for the loss.
We’ll release the v1 (with script fixes and an actual encode) when __ar comes back to help~
UPDATE: (7/10/2011)
Below are 3 frames I picked randomly from one of the TV broadcasts (transport stream). The quality is nearly identical between the 3 broadcasts I have seen so far, and that reinforces the likelihood these problems were present on the tapes used for broadcasting, which have one thing in common, the studio that did the production work. The broadcasts look like utter shit, as per below, and have been field upscaled from most likely the post-production master, which based on the required steps to correct the problems, has a vertical resolution of no greater than 480 lines. Broadcast info/logo/commercial telecining (1 or more re-encodes of the digital tape provided to the station) has left field ghosting on at least 60-70% of fields from the bad upscaling job, and is irreversible/unrepairable on at least 20-30% of the ghosted fields.
tl;dr The broadcast is field upscaled from 480i/p to 1080i, The quality is abysmal, and there is ghosting of previous frames all over the place. I have compromised with Kusion to do 576p for the mkv release, but there will NOT be a 720p release period. It doesn’t even really warrant 576p, but it’s easier to work with so I’m partial on it.
– ar
C³ – Cube×Cursed×Curious – 01
Fear has the right idea. TV sucks!
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So, after Moshi fell asleep while translating Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon (or whatever happened to him), we dropped the project and picked this up when he came back a few hours later. It’s a pretty cute series, and we had fun working on it. This will be our second project at UTW. Look forward to some fun times (and an earlier release next week)!
Note: This release uses ordered chapters to have the OP as a separate file, which is then seamlessly linked into the episode. Why? The reason is twofold: For one, the OP is a huge bitrate hog. If it was included in the episode 1 file, it’d take a whopping 25% of the entire filesize. And remember that this is just the opening that we are talking about: 90 seconds of content. Time-wise it’s only 6,3% of the episode runtime. The second reason is that the OP looks terrible in the TV broadcast. Due to the excessive filtering required to make it look at least somewhat less terrible, it takes a damn long time to encode the thing. So in other words, future episode encodes would slow down considerably if the OP was included every single time. Thank you for your understanding, and have a nice day!
Clarification Edit: I would normally never use ordered chapters for TV releases, but the huge filesize of the OP and the excessive encoding requirements makes this a very special case.
Oh, and this release is obviously 10-bit, too. Just in case you didn’t get the message about every new show being encoded in 10-bit.
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Moshi here, jacking a post before it’s even published.
The spoiler is a wall of text about how horizon is bad and how I don’t want to TL it.
tl;dr: no plot and too confusing. DROPPED.
[spoiler]Oh man. OH MAN. DOES HORIZON SUCK. Like, man. This plot—no, no, wait, I’m getting a Null Pointer Exception. Oh that’s right, THERE IS NO COW LEVEL PLOT. I mean seriously, this show is devoid of any comprehensible storyline until the last minute, and even then it’s impossible to figure out how the past 23 minutes (which consisted of a teacher running away from her {(I.S. + Nanoha) / 2}-like spellcaster-mecha students, beating them up, beating some demon gangsta dude up, then beating the crap out of the main character (who also happens to be the main character of seitokai no ichizon) while some old man and a secretary watch) are remotely related to the explanation just given, save the random “Holy Calendar Year X” things that pop up. Oh right, and I still don’t really understand where they got their uber mecha-tech from or how it works. I mean the archer girl had some shrine maiden chibi mascot go fetch her buffs for her shots via teh intarwebz in exchange for working part-time shifts there and bribing the chibi with cake or something.
Now okay, you might be telling me to go look at a plot summary or something related so I get it. And yeah, there is some stuff on YouTube like this “let us explain some of the jargon you’ll be hearing” video. (in Japanese, text only. If you don’t get it, take a look.) It helped. Like, a lot. But you see, even if I now get it and make an epic TL of this thing and we all somehow get this to the point of release, now you, the audience, will go through the exact same procedure of total and utter cranial chaos. You won’t get who they’re talking about. You won’t understand if something is a meme, a name (or nickname), a landmark, an idea pertaining to the series, or something else entirely. Oh, and you’ll feel like you’re watching from around episode 5, when people who watch from the beginning are starting to get used to the world and people who’ve never watched it become quite confused. No sir, this is episode 1.
Now interestingly enough, there is an Introduction and Prologue section on the official site, the intro talking about the original writer etc. and the prologue equivalent to the last minute of ep1. Not useful. Oh look, there’s also a Story section, how convenie—
What.
No.
No. way.
IT’S GRAYED OUT.
I CAN’T CLICK IT.
THERE IS NO PLOT LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLLOL
I rest my case.[/spoiler]
Now uh, regarding what I did do. Cube is semi-generic and quite pantsu, but very watchable. Just another decent loli-comes-stumbling-into-your-house show, lol :3
…well, at least so far. The fight scenes may not be so.
Anyway, it’s easy to work with and shouldn’t be much of a hassle to keep up with, either. Do enjoy.
Oh right, and I’m back after my 1-season hiatus. BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!
Fate/Zero – 01
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I am very happy to present to all of you our offering for the Fall 2011 season: Fate/Zero! This series tells the story of the 4th Holy Grail War, precedent to the 5th as detailed by the original game of the franchise, Fate/Stay Night. You can jump straight into this series if you haven’t encountered anything Type-Moon before, but you might be confused at some parts, and you’ll also pretty much spoil the entire Fate/Stay Night plot for yourself.
Loli Rin almost gave me a heart attack from moe overdose, and Irisviel was so lovely that I had visual orgasms every time she appeared, but I decided to go with Loli Rin for the release pic since Irisviel will surely have a lot of screentime to come.
With just the first 1-hour episode, we’ve covered both the prologue and Act 1 of the original light novels, which would amount to about a third of the first book. How they’ll stretch out the rest of the material to accommodate 25 episodes should prove interesting.
We’re using Aniplex subs, but I’ve given them quite the editing makeover, hence the tag. The delay was due to some unfortunate problems we ran into with encoding; I did take the time to do an extra QC run, though. It also turned out the MBS cap wasn’t much better than the Tokyo MX initial airing, so we’ll be using the MX caps instead as it’s faster etc.
And that’s enough blogging from me. Please enjoy!
arEdit: The HD release is 10-bit. Please make sure your codecs/codec packs are up to date. If you see falling tiles or it looks like the video is on acid, you are probably using non-recent codecs and it would be a good idea to update them.