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Since we no longer host illegal files on this site, as part of our next phase, we're going to be focused on fostering the fan community. First, the forums.

We have a fanfics forum - Why not take a moment and stop by and read some? Just be nice

Members-only lounge - Remember when we made maps to figure out where our fans are? We also attempted to set up meet-ups between fans. I know the lockdown has a lot of us feeling lonely. If you want to try meeting a fellow fan, feel free to use our forums to do so. Just remember to use good sense and caution when meeting any stranger.

Also, we still have many subtitled works that aren't owned by Toei. Maybe use this time as an opportunity to check them out?

Newswise, nothing to report. I sent a reply to the e-mail and will see how it goes from there.

Meanwhile, I just wanted to express my appreciation for the fans who've enjoyed our work. I don't know what our future will look like tomorrow or the next day, but we certainly couldn't have made it 18+ years without your interest, zeal, support, friendship, free labor, I mean help, etc.

Like I commonly say, we're not a for-profit group. Everyone here is a volunteer and we all have full-time or part-time jobs on the side to support ourselves in addition to working on these subs. We like this work and it's our hobby, so if we can't sub Toei shows anymore, we'll probably find something else to work on. Hopefully some of you will follow us with those projects in the future. Realistically, a lot of you won't, but I hope you all have good lives and that our paths cross again if this has to be the end.

I'm sure you have a lot of questions. So do we.

Discussion Thread

Downloads

It's only through torrents right now. I recommend using a seedbox for torrents. Most clients will let you subscribe to the RSS feed to let you download it as soon as there's a release (There's probably ways to filter it if you want only certain torrents).

But if you have a Dropbox, send me an e-mail or forum PM and I'll add you to our released folder. If you have Dropbox set up on your computer to sync automatically, the files will download as soon as they're added.

Wiki stuff

In the episode article page there'll be a link to the forum discussion thread in the Navigation box (as well as info on who the writer and director are for the episode). There's list of guest actors, trivia, and what commercials are included. At the bottom there's a link to the Japanese caption transcript if you want to double check our work. After about a week we added the average reaction to the viewer poll in the discussion thread to the Nav box.

On the series page, at the bottom you can see a list of files released, in case you're trying to figure out what you're missing from your #TV-Nihon fansub collection.

There's also the disc release article in case you're wondering when a certain release will come out. I'm also trying to be good about having an article link to whatever upcoming projects there are. Hopefully it'll cut down on the number of people asking "Are you going to release this?" Even though we all know that question is secretly "When are you going to release this?"

Forum Thread

We have episode discussion threads for every release we do. There's a poll at the top which gets the average result posted in the following week thread. It's not super scientific, but it's a fun temperature test of how the series is going. Link to episode wiki in thread itself, link to series wiki at the top of the forum.

For Zenkaiger in particular, it'd be fun if we could see how many Sentai references we can spot!

[05:45] <private> I'm working on a project for the best release of season zero.  I have VHS transfers for 12-27 (lossless transfers, donated to me by someone.)  I plan to use 1-15 subs from GX_ST, but seeing as your release is the only one that covered 16 onwards I wanted to ask if you care if I transcribe and softsub 16-27.  I heard a rumor saying that I would get death threats if I did
[05:46] <private> I don't want scripts or anything like that.
[05:46] <&Lunagel> no that's cool, go for it
[05:46] <private> Thanks man
[05:47] <&Lunagel> also: death threats? really? ;/

A) We don't send death threats. It's pretty shocking what kind of lies people will tell to make our group look bad.

B) Do I need to say this? If you're a fan, don't send death threats on our behalf. That's super uncool in so many ways.

Imagine coming home from work for lunch and finding out others are saying your group is sending death threats to people. So surreal XD

We met our server donation goal last night! Thank you to everyone who donated! We really wouldn't be anywhere without community involvement.

That said, we're just going to leave the donate button up year round now, in case people want to leave tips. Donations receied during these times will be used to cover material costs (buying DVDs, paying for streaming services, etc.). So no obligation to donate from here on, just leave a tip if you like what we're doing. Thanks everyone!

tl;dr Probably will continue as we are now unless we hear something more concerning.

http://forums.tvnihon.com/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=24331

I need to capture some footage from a VCR player and a Laser Disc player, does anyone have good advice for how to do that?

I'm currently working with someone to redo our Toei Yu-Gi-Oh anime subs, but this tech can be used for other stuff too

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So we're teaming up with Tokusatsu TV on Twitch. They'll be streaming our episodes and hosting our viewing parties. They also have a Discord so if you want to download the video and just watch it in sync with everyone, you have that option too.

We have reached out to Takenoko and are pleased to help host the viewing parties currently. We will strive to bring something great to the table as far as public awareness for the genre and to help those here, as well as newcomers, connect on an even greater level. We want to help spread the word about an amazing group of people that we have held in high regard for years and to assist in nurturing and growing their audience to the best of our abilities for the foreseeable future.

To that end, we will be altering our onscreen transitions in-between episodes to include the TV-Nihon name as a wonderful source of Japanese media. We will also be altering our channel description (Site/Discord links; etc) and encourage many viewers and fans to go check TV-Nihon out.

Everyone here hopes you will have just as much fun watching together as we've had making all of this possible and, from all of us at TokusatsuTV, "If you Kamen, They will Ride!"
Link to the channel: https://www.twitch.tv/tokusatsutv
Link to our discord: https://discord.gg/ZymkRv9

Starts at 6 PM Pacific!

Viewing Party Thread

Hi, if you're using our RSS feeds, you might need to add an s to the http sinc ethey're not on https.

If it's not working for you, let me know, but otherwise I think it should be fine with the updated url.

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Edit: From the forum in case other people have the same issue:

"Nope, making the URL https didn't work, but I found the problem. My client is set up to use a Socks5 proxy (for torrent privacy in general), and apparently https feeds can't be downloaded over a proxy. The only solution I found is to switch to a different client that only uses the proxy for the actual torrents, not the rss feeds."

I want to have a viewing party for the next Zero-One release. Let's start with something simple like meeting on IRC and just doing a countdown. If it's popular maybe we can research one of those other programs (Unless someone wants to do that for me)

So for the next Zero-One release, viewing party! Details:

Time: 6 PM Pacific time same day of release. So if it releases before 6 PM on Tuesday, we watch it that 6 PM. If it's after, then we watch it on Wednesday at 6 PM.

Place: IRC web client: http://cgiirc.synirc.net/
Channel: #tv-nihonwatchers

Again, if someone wants to come up with a better system and handle it for me, I'll gladly step aside and we'll try their plan.

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Would people be interested if we set up meeting time to watch a release?

Like maybe 10 PM Eastern, 7 PM Pacific on the day of a release people can meet up and watch the episode release together? It'd just be an excuse to hang out and experience a thing together with other people

We can probably set it up on discord or whatever

Feedback thread

There's multiple ways of getting our files.

If you have a Dropbox, let me know and I can add you to a release folder.

If you have a torrent client or seed box, you can set it up to auto download the torrent using RSS feeds:

http://tracker.tvnihon.com/rssinfo.php

You can even use filters to only download the HD, HD720, or SD versions. I might not get the odd one out like the Hyper Battle Videos, but it should be mostly automatic.

And donations are closed again. Thank you to everyone who donated this year!

If you've donated and want to be credited, just shoot me an e-mail with the name(s) you want to be credited by.

These donations help offset the cost of running a translation group. Thank you again!

Hi everyone!

We're running a second donation drive this year to cover server costs. Looks like they only need 350 this year.

We had extra cash from the materials and service drive earlier this year, but I think we're just going to keep it separate from server drive. We've got enough from this year's drive to not need one (a materials drive) next year, barring some terrible catastrophe.

Thank you again to everyone who donates and support this group!

I still need to get off my lazy ass and make the donor appreciation splash for the episodes. Oh! If you want to be credited for such a thing, please mention that in your donation and I'll gather up those names later on for a second splash.

It's been pretty fun talking with donors and stuff so if anyone wants to just talk about stuff, feel free to shoot me an e-mail via the contact button above.

Facebook finally pinged that the new fanpage was a complete copy of the old one so they deleted it again. *eyeroll*

So if you're looking for the CMs online, I'll be uploading them weekly to Twitter when the episode is released. Follow @tvnihonsubs for releases and videos.

Also a poll for how many years you've been with us.

Looks like the stats just aren't updating because of the stuff that happened yesterday. If you connect to the tracker, you will get the file.

Our site admin will get it fixed as soon as he can. He also works a full time job and essentially volunteers for us the same as everyone else who works here, which is pretty ridiculous considering. We're super lucky to have him.

So I should have e-mailed everyone who donated to us. Please check your e-mail and junk folder in case my message ended up there. I want to try rewarding people who donated to us.

Also, some of you guys sent in some great comments and stories, so if you did that, please let me know if it's okay to share that.

We're in the process of contacting facebook to see if it's possible to get the original page back, but as it seems unlikely, we've set up a new page. If the original page gets restored, we'll delete it, but until then, please add

https://www.facebook.com/officialtvnihon/

We look forward to getting banned from social media again~