Anime

HeartCatch 23 released. If you follow this show, this is the episode to watch

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I notice we're not getting many downloads, so I'll try to talk up the series for new people. Ostensibly, this is a shoujo anime, but a lot of dudes watch shoujo anime if the circumstances are right. See Sailor Moon as an example

In addition to loads of cuteness and darling mascots as well as silly day-to-day life circumstances, we also get strong heroines who get in physical brawls with the monster of the week. Like it's not coincidence that people who watch Kamen Rider also like Precure, the show airs right afterwards if you've noticed. Anecdotally, I joked about combining the Super Hero block of Sentai, Kamen Rider, and Precure into a single file to force people to check out all the series

The characters are genuinely likable. Marine's manic nature is a good match for Blossom's shy, earnest girl. Then we have somber, tragic Moonlight. There's also a good firm cast of reoccuring support characters which help to really define the world. The villains are fun to watch too. Dark Precure is moody and mysterious, the three commanders are stereotypes of extreme manliness, metrosexual, and hysterical woman

Overall the stories are pretty earnest. There's usually a message, but it rarely feels heavy-handed or condescending. It's pretty good at sucking you into caring about the week to week conflicts, plus there's long-term conflicts that are ongoing which are interesting

And if that's not enough, the girls are really cute too

HeartCatch 22 released. Countdown to awesomeness has begun

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HC 21, hilarious!

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HC 20 released

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HC 19 and CM released

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HC 18 and CM released With special guest Magenta. Wait what?

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I really like 4 panel comics, so here's two pages from this manga. I'll probably do more soon

HC 17 and CM released

So we released the Xvid SD version. The HD version will be coming later. I know we're releasing so late that it's kind of past the point of relevance, but the staff's been working hard to fill the 6 week gap that Magenta's group left us when they departed. The rest of the episodes are pretty much in distro and or final QC stage plus this week's episode (25) entered QC earlier today, so things are looking better for this project

People will probably notice that things are going to be different from before, it'll probably be closer to the stuff you see from our toku subs like Rescue Fire and such. In-episode translator notes and everything has a more Japanese feel to it. I'm sorry to people who enjoyed the previous style, but we worked really hard to catch up, so please check out the new direction. I'm hoping people will like the new effects that we use

I'm also going to do some bonus stuff. Like I included a commercial in this episode. I've been wanting to add bonus content to this series for a while, but it was shot down previously. So let us know what you think. If people don't like it, I can cut it back or release them separately. Or we'll do more if people enjoy them

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HeartCatch 16 released

So this is the last HeartCatch that'll be done by the Magenta and Lobster members. Because they're leaving to do their Precure on their own, the timing, translation, and typesetting will be done by other members

For people who don't know me, I'm takenoko and I'll be doing the translation. I was previously on the show as QC, so I'm pretty familiar with the show. I've translated for the live Sailor Moon show, Fairy Musketeer Akazukin, and Powerpuff Girls Z, and am a fan of shoujo in general (I've bought the HeartCatch CD and a couple of the DVDs). In any case, the show is in good hands with people who care about it. There won't be any month breaks on my watch

Some changes to expect:

-Different typesetting and karaoke of course

-SD will now be in Xvid encoding and 704x396 resolution, HD will still be 264

-HeartCatch will now be weekly. One of the reasons for the split was I wanted this series done weekly, so it'll probably released along with Kamen Rider W and Goseiger from here on once we're caught up

So far I've got up to 21 in QC. Just need to translate 22 and 23 and we'll be caught up for this week. Things will be different, but I think it'll be okay. Maybe some things will be even better, who knows?

Yes Precure will not be continued by this group. But Magenta says he plans to continue on with it, so don't give up hope on it yet. He's also staying on to continue the Rockman/Megaman anime. So that will proceed as scheduled

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So unfortunately, some of the staff is breaking off due to disagreements. Yes Precure is cancelled for TV-Nihon. Heartcatch will be continued, but by different staff. Rockman will continue on schedule

See the dancing crazy man teach you to not pirate movies. Check it out, there's a whole page of ascii art like this

                  "The slow mo is really creepy" -QC

Delusion 4. What wacky thing will Shoutarou come up with this time?

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Surprise, we're still subbing this!

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Axess 4

14 released

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I'm thinking about doing a question and answer thing for the staff that'll be posted on the front page blog. If you have any questions, e-mail them in and I'll compile them, maybe add them to the FAQ.

Get it now if you missed it the first time!

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I'm thinking about doing a question and answer thing for the staff that'll be posted on the front page blog. If you have any questions, e-mail them in and I'll compile them, maybe add them to the FAQ.

Patch up those boo boos with Transformers Band-Aids

Included this time are a toy promotion video, a karaoke version of the opening, and a better quality TV promo

More Cutie Honey in HD!

Picture from here

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I'm thinking about doing a question and answer thing for the staff that'll be posted on the front page blog. If you have any questions, e-mail them in and I'll compile them, maybe add them to the FAQ.

HC 13 released

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First

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Another pic from Ridforever

That's another disc down

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Car Robots 7 released

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