Submitted by takenoko on Fri, 02/25/2011 - 18:42
For those of you who noticed the original HD encode being too dark or stuttering, here's a version 2!
And episode 2 will be released hopefully tonight or tomorrow
Some people have asked for a clarification on the designations that we use. SD and HD stand for Standard Definition and High Definition. SD is small resolution and encoded with the Xvid codec, HD is higher resolution and encoded with the H.264 codec. In short, HD will look better, but SD is around if you aren't able to play the HD version. DC stands for Director's Cut, usually that just means footage that was added in that wasn't originally in the theatrical cut. DVD and Blu-Ray just show what the source material for the encode was. MV is for Music Videos. OVA stands for Original Video Animation.
Am I missing anything? I guess that covers that
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 02/21/2011 - 17:47
Sorry it took a while, we were doing a lot of fine tuning. Let's go! Pirates go! Go Gokaiger!
So let's talk a bit about an underrated show, Chousei Kantai Sazer-X. It was the third in the series that was akin to the third party for Toei's Kamen Rider and Sentai series. Just 38 episodes long (and a movie) and following the more popular JustiRiser series, I kind of feel like it fell on the wayside with people finding the humor goofy and the other tongue-in-cheek elements just offputting. I mean, you either love Sazer-Gordo or you vehemently reject him.
So what happened to the three main heroes of the series?
Well, Miura Ryousuke seems to be doing pretty well for himself. Apparently he acts in J-doramas, he had a guest role in Decade, and he's currently a main character in Kamen Rider OOO. That's pretty awesome if you think about it.
Shindou Gaku apparently is still getting work too. He was in Fuuma no Kojirou the live version and now he's doing voice acting for one of the villains in Gokaiger.
But what happened to the main hero of Sazer-X? Where's he gone? The year's still young, maybe we'll see him pop up in some toku somewhere else
Submitted by takenoko on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 20:19
So we got some raws for 43-50. Expect HDs of them coming up sometime in the future. Looks like we're missing some episodes inbetween, so let us know if you know where to get them.
We're also still looking for a personal HD raw provider for the group as well.
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 02/12/2011 - 17:19
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 02/06/2011 - 03:31
Women in the front, men in the back!
Penultimate!
The word:
Kaishoku 皆既蝕 【かいきしょく】 (n) total eclipse (of sun by moon), totality
From the kanji "total", "previously/already", and "to eat into (by worms), spoil". Yup, that sun is just a big apple waiting to be eaten
Question corner:
Q. Who is Mark Musashi?
A. He's this great tokusatsu stuntsman that has been in many of the shows that we've previously subbed. He did Rider stunts for The First, was Zero and the butler in Garo. He even shows up unmasked as Duke whats his face in Cutie Honey and Peace in Sh15uya
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 22:43
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Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 13:16
Goseiger 46 released
The Word:
Monokage 物影 【ものかげ】 (n) a form, a shape
This word interested me because it uses kage/shadow to describe an object's shape/form. I dunno, kind of reminds me of a silhouette
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 14:55
Submitted by takenoko on Sat, 01/08/2011 - 12:22
Chiba Reiko, who plays Mei, later on became a yoga instructor. You can see how she looked in 1995 because she did a guest appearance in one of the Hibiki commercials. For a while, there was a rumor that she was the daughter of Sonny Chiba, but this was proven false and IMDB has removed this information from her page since then. (Sonny Chiba does have children, but they took on his real family name, Maeda)
Looking at her Japanese wiki page, apparently she had never met a man as scary as Director Toujou Shouhei during the filming of ZyuRanger. In an unverified pargraph, it says the director said things like, "Mei, you idiot! Why don't you go die?!" "You sure are crying a lot! Stop it! Change in scenario! Switch heroines!" "I've never seen such an awful female warrior before!" which would cause her to cry everyday. But he strictly taught her manners and courtesy and in the end she was grateful to him. The last thing that it says is that they both came from Fukushima, so the director complained that she had a bit of an accent. Secretly she thought, "The director also has that accent..."
Like I said, I didn't see a source for this story, so who knows how true it is. Take it with a grain of salt
ZyuRanger 05 released
Submitted by takenoko on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 16:34
Submitted by takenoko on Sun, 01/02/2011 - 15:06
First release of the year is ZyuRanger 4! And now we're all caught up with ourselves from last time. Go us
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Goseiger 44
The Word:
Katou 下等 【かとう】 (adj-na,n) inferior, base, vulgar, low grade, lower class, (P)
The down kanji with the kanji for class. Notice the tou kanji is made of the bamboo radical over the temple radical
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