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Oh, one more thing (about OOO 26 and Gokai 5)

I forgot to mention that last week's episodes were the first ones that aired after they skipped a week for the earthquake and tsunami recovery. So in the episodes there was a frame around it where there was disaster information being displayed. So after every commercial break it'll start with the video in full frame, then the borders will appear around it, like this:

Earthquake pic

Our encoders worked really hard to eliminate the border so that you can enjoy the full video the way you usually would. But a side effect of this is that when the border is appearing, the screen will look jittery. This is just a side effect of the video zoom out, and there's nothing we can do about it. Maybe we'll rerelease it from the Blu-Rays when they come out

Diana Wynne Jones, author of Howl's Moving Castle, passes away

Howl's Moving Castle

This is pretty unfortuante, I really enjoyed her writing. In case some of you didn't know, the Ghibli anime Howl's Moving Castle was based on a British writer. I highly recommend reading the book if you enjoyed the anime, since it makes more sense and is just overall a lot better than the movie (Don't get me wrong, I love the movie too).

Howl's Moving Castle was also followed by two indirect sequels that take place in the world. Castle in the Air and House of Many Ways. I highly recommend that people check them out. You can probably find them at your local library.

Edit: Shadowneko has set up a forum thread about the matter

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Kamen Rider IXA released

Kiva

http://archive.easymodo.net/m/thread/6279175#p6279833

So someone took the fansubs that we put out there with no strings attached, and cut them up to make a Kamen Rider show that has no present day stuff. This is infuriating!

No wait, I mean, this is hilarious. Good job to that guy!

Everything you read is true

Everything you read is a lie

Winds Score take on Shinkenger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYuCZAMWwVw

Thread Thanks to Lonegamer for pointing this out

Yes, they did air OOO and Gokaiger this week

Yup, they're back. But let's just keep in mind that it's still a country in recovery (For example, they still had five aftershocks in the last six hours). Also, some other fansubbing things might be affected, like Amazon Japan had to delay shipping my Precure Movie because of the damage to their shipping node.

But let's try to keep thinigs in perspective. Sure, it's an inconvenience for us, but what they're going through is really terrible. I couldn't begin to imagine how I'd cope if I were in one of the affected areas right now, y'know? If stuff gets delayed or they need to cancel some things, let's show some understanding for what they're going through.

On our part, I think the best thing we can do is to just not take the good things we have in life for granted. That stuff won't always be there, after all.

An art game for the Kamen Rider W Net Movies

W

So Cheetah and SilentWolfDog had a fun idea for the Net movies. In one segment, the actors draw something from memory and they have a contest to see who does the best (and worst) job. SilentWolfDog took a hand at it, and you guys can too.

So the rules are simple. Just draw the thing from your memory. Don't look it up, cause that'd be cheating. When we release the Net movies, just post the thumbnail and link to your picture in that thread. It'll just be for fun to see how well people do.

The drawing subjects are: [Money Dopant, Gene Dopant, Revolgarry, W CyloneJokerXtreme, Terror Dopant]

IRC chan

Just a reminder that we don't allow Guest or default Mib_12345 type names in the IRC channel. Pick a real nick before joining.

While I'm at it, try not to use colored text since you can never tell what background color someone is using. And it's an English language channel, so don't have conversations in another language while there. Thanks

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Quake Map

Spot the girl

So we were playing a game in the channel. The game is, spot the girl among a bunch of Final Fantasy guys. It basically took 12 minutes for the channel to guess it. Good luck, you guys are going to need it. If you know the answer already from seeing this before, don't give it away. Cause that's just lame. It's more fun to see people fail at it

Kiva HD release batch complete

IXA

I guess we released this? Who knew?

Pic from Oving's site. Fantastic artist. Just don't look at the adult version of his stuff, unless you're into that sort of thing: http://oving.jp/gallery/n/

So Climax Heroes is super laggy over adhoc

Hyper Clock up please

Hyper Clock Up please?

So I tried playing Climax Heroes OOO with the PSP over Adhoc with a couple people from the staff. It sucks, it's super slow. We tried it using both the American and Japanese adhoc party programs. Everything is just super laggy. Anyone have any idea on what can be done to make the play experience better?

Climax Heroes OOO thread

Edit: Does anyone have a larger scan of this Kabuto picture?

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Gokaiger 4 released

Pirates
I've meant to make this joke for like forever

Gokaiger 4 released Just a reminder that there were no episodes aired this week

Mijuku 未熟 【みじゅく】 (adj-na,n) inexperience, unripeness, raw, unskilled, immature, inexperienced, (P)
Literally means "not ripe/mature"

About #TV-Nihon

Before and after the earthquake/tsunami photos

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm

It's pretty disturbing. It really gives you some perspective of the damage done

OOO and Gokaiger not airing this weekend, this may change

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/go-kai/

http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/ooo/

Interesting to note, right now the OOO page still says 16 days till the 1000th Kamen Rider episode airs. Don't know how the quake will affect that. By the way, can someone count up all the Kamen Rider episodes to double check those numbers?
Thanks to Mac, we've got the number count: http://forums.tvnihon.com/viewtopic.php?p=142089#p142089

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