Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 15:56
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Submitted by Lunagel on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 13:53
So I got an email from my sister that I wanted to share, since takenoko shouldn't have all the fun of posting random stuff and dashing your hopes for a new release.
So I just came in to the teacher's room with a friend for lunch cause the lunchroom is loud and dirty and etc. So we eventually got onto the topic of tv.
Teacher: Actually, Dr. Who isn't the longest running tv series. It's some japanese series from the 60's, I forget the name.
Me: It's totally Ultraman.
Teacher: No, it was something other than that. Something that you would have never heard of, it was never brought over.
Me: KAMEN RIDER
Teacher: Um, yeah that was it! But how did you-
Me: Kamen Rider aired in 1971, not the 60's. Ultraman is about 5 years older than it.
And then I proceeded to be a nerd.
Share your own geeky moment, or when you were surprised by someone else being a geek!
Happy Belated Easter, btw
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.
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