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Hey, I bet some of you guys out there are studying Japanese. Anyone want to take a stab at trying to translate?

More specifically, the Winspector deal that we had seems to have fallen through. But y'know, there's always something that needs translating. I guess, e-mail if you're interested. Thanks!

Also, great job with the donations. It's really something that helps both the staff and the fans and basically keeps the site up. So a heartfelt thanks to everyone who donated

Why not have a fried onigiri?

If you enjoyed this commercial, you might want to check out their webpage. They have more animations that include songs and even games. Onigiri related games

Pic from this blog, check them out

Again, no Precure or OOO this week This was kind of a neat pic though. Precure done up as God Speed Love. The best part is Coupe-sama done up as the Kabuto logo

OOO 09 released

Remember no Kamen Rider or Precure next week. Or Kamen Rider Precure

The word:

Negura 塒 【ねぐら】 (n) (uk) roost, nesting place

Don't you wish all problems could be resolved so simply?

The word:

Yowamushi 弱虫 【よわむし】 (n) coward, weakling, (P)

From the kanji for weak and bug

Dogu-chan 2 released

Run, Agri, run boy!

Anyone dress as anything interesting?

I like how this is something that we can make a thread about

OOO thread

HeartCatch thread

Edit: Why not kill some time by looking at this OOO fan art?

W keeps living on in the DVD shorts.

It's Halloween eve and Garo is in theaters now

OOO 08 released

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Ever wondered what those numbers at the end of the file mean? Those are used to calculate the CRC, which checks to make sure your file is complete. You can use a program called RapidCRC to double check it, handy if you're having playback problems.

The word:

Ma-e-ga-ri 前借り 【まえがり】 (n) advance (in pay), loan, (P)

Mae means "before, in advance" and kari/gari means "to borrow". Simple

HeartCatch 37 released

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About karaoke: I'm sure you know that the karaoke is formatted so that you can sing along to it. But did you also know that the all-cap parts are words that are written in katanana (the alphabet used for sounds and foreign words) and the double vowels are used to represent long vowel sounds.

The word:

Uchiki 内気 【うちき】 (adj-na,n) bashfulness, shyness, reserve, timidity, (P)

Made of the kanji uchi/inside and ki/mind/spirit

So right now we have a policy of splitting up our batch torrents into DVD sized chunks. The idea behind this is that if someone wanted to seed a batch, all they'd need to do is get out their DVD and point it to that

But how many people find this useful? Considering how cheap external drives are, how many people would rather just have all the series files in one batch. Would that be more convenient?

Using Shinkenger as an example. It looks like the SD batch is 14.37 GB while the HD is 16.81 GB

Which do you prefer?

Note, that if you tend to only grab the HD stuff, there's stuff in the SD batches that you won't find in HD. If you're a completionist, you might want to double check the SD batches to make sure you have everythi

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Remember that you can resume batch torrents

Gosei 35 released

I don't have many Goseiger pics, so how about Saint Kaiser instead?

Goseiger Forum

Can't fool you, of course there's one more Garo to release

Beast of the White Night ver 2 released along with a Game CM, and some other misc. stuff that we released before

8th Anniversary Thread

That's it. And no more Garo ever!

Last but not least, what would our group be if not for the Kamen Rider series? To show the climax truly never ends, here's Den-O in HD goodness while you patiently wait for the Chou Den-O Trilogy. Hope you enjoyed these releases!

8th Anniversary Thread

We do a lot of Sentai...

SMAP's Sentai parody: Rolling Bomber special

Dice-O Promo April

8th Anniversary Thread