Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 21:59
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 03:12
So last night I was thinking that it'd be cool to see someone photoshop Decade posed with his DecadeDriver in hands overhead like he was about to open it like the Matrix of Leadership. Yeah, sorry for wasting your time. Hopefully my next post will be interesting or announcing something that you want to see released.
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 04/27/2011 - 01:54
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 20:22
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 04/25/2011 - 15:07
About the forums
I just want to remind people to label their spoiler tags. Also, if you get a warning, that's just me sending you a message. Don't throw a fit just because you got one.
About bootlegs
A lot of the shows that we've subbed have never been released on DVD in America. If they had been, we'd have pulled it for being licensed. Most of these DVDs are Hong Kong bootlegs. Someone wrote in to me saying he watched the fansubbed versions, then bought some DVDs, with the following results:
they turned out to be only comprehensible enough to follow the stories, and there are mistakes of every sort throughout; characters referred to incorrectly, confusing English sentence structure, etc. (Not to mention that, on more than one disk for Ultraman Mebius, the opening menu is actually from Ultraman Max even though it contains the episodes for Mebius.)
Some signs that your DVD may be bootlegged: Show isn't licensed outside Japan, DVD is all region, comes with Chinese subtitles, poor video quality (maybe have a clock in the corner, like they do in TV broadcasts), the videos are actually from fansubbed material, parts are chopped out (to take out the fansubber credits).
There are a lot of ways to stream your videos to your TV nowadays. If you have a modern TV or gaming device, you can usually just drop a video on a USB stick and play it from there. There's no real reason to buy bootlegged versions of stuff that we're putting out for free.
Garo spinoff
Looks like one's in the works
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 15:11
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 00:25
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 23:06
To further the advancement of SCIENCE, #TV-Nihon has picked up Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Who knows what kinds of hilarious things can be learned by subtitling these vegetables?
I remember growing up watching this show. I enjoyed the subversive humor and the 4th wall breaking. The humor seemed revoluntionary to me at the time. It was pretty great stuff for a children's cartoon.
Wait, what am I thinking? This show is in English. Plus, there's nothing funny about tomatoes! It's not even a true vegetable!
What vegetable could we use instead? Something like "tomato"... Hmmm
Tomato... Tomato...
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 20:42
3 hours left at present. Yep.
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 15:02
Recalculating...
Tracker torrential energy decrease by 80...
Kisama yarou 100 percent drop...
Recompensating for loss of robots in disguise...
Transferring Buster units to takenoko...
Shifting forums to licensed...
Loading Shout Factorys...
Recalculating...
Reboot complete, #TV-Nihon Labs is ready for science!
(Thanks to Buster for letting us host his translations for Transformers for so many years and to Shout Factory for bringing the series to the US)
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 14:09
Gokaiger 9 test simulation has begun
The word:
Otazunemono お尋ね者 【おたずねもの】 (n) wanted man, person sought by the police
A big one this time. But the nice thing about Japanese is that you can usually break it down into component parts. Like mono in this case means "person". And tazuneru just means "to ask". The o is just the politeness prefix. How many other words can you think of in Japanese that end in -mono? (Kind of a tricky question, since mono with a different kanji means "thing")
About #TV-Nihon
Other stuff: We're aware that there's some problem with the Gosei vs Shinken HD release. I tried reencoding the audio, taking out a stream, adding a stream, etc. but all I can do at this point is just reencode the video. It plays fine on my PC, but I've received reports that it doesn't on others, and it doesn't play on the PS3 at all. So I'm looking into that.
Also, Shout Factory has announced that they're doing Transformers Masterforce and Victory, so please pull those torrents, remove those files from distribution so that we can support their efforts. Thanks!
Submitted by takenoko on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 00:15
Gosei VS Shinken
It's out! Go enjoy it. Farewell, once more, to the Shinkengers!
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 21:58
And there's the HD version too
Submitted by takenoko on Wed, 04/20/2011 - 20:35
Mezool, come back!
The Word:
Yasuuri 安売り 【やすうり】 (n) discount, bargain sale, selling cheaply, (P)
Literally cheap-sell (yasu and uri). What I think is funny is the kanji for yasu means cheap, but it also means relax or peace. If you know your radicals, you can see that the kanji is just a roof over a woman.
About #TV-Nihon
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 02:12
Transcript 10 released
In this special Christmas episode, Aya and Kana discuss Christmas, their live performance, Monster Hunter, and Santa Claus.
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 04/18/2011 - 01:16
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 21:00
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 04/17/2011 - 04:27
So we released the Versus Theater version of Geki Vs Bouken. For those of you who don't know, during Goseiger they aired the Versus movies as half hour episodes with the Goseigers introducing the movies. Since Geki Vs Bouken was filmed in HD, we were able to release this TV edit version.
Since the others just use the black bars (4:3 aspect ratio), we're not going to release the main films (a lot of which are series that we haven't worked on anyway) but we are planning to do the Goseiger intros, so look forward to that in the future.
Geki Vs Boukenger HD release
Submitted by takenoko on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 18:06
Hope everyone's having a good Friday. This isn't toku related, but I saw this picture earlier and thought it was fascinating.
It seems kind of interesting because which leg she's pivoting on and which arm is outreached will change depending on the direction she's going. What a truly marvelous creation.
At first I was only able to switch her directions by looking away or doing something that broke my concentration while looking at the picture. But then I was able to focus on just the pivot leg, and if I could get that to switch around, I could get the whole picture to switch. I don't really know if I can make it switch by looking at the whole picture, since some expectation will kind of force it in the direction it's already spinning.
And currently it's spinning counter clockwise for me, but I can see it both ways. Which way is it spinning for you?
Submitted by takenoko on Thu, 04/14/2011 - 20:51
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