This is a big post, so I’m scared to see the amount of comments.
First, Mio is my favorite. If not for anything else, for her ED. ^.^
Second, this release uses ordered chapters. This means that we encoded the OP and ED once, and now we will never have to again. In future episodes, put the episode in the same folder that the OP and ED is in and USE CCCP. It’ll play the episode just like normal, and you’ll only have to download 100 MB! 100 MB gave a P-quant 16.3, so it’s not constraining bitrate either. Quality looks just fine.
Second and a half, as usual, we will sub the widescreen version. If there are minor errors, please paste them in the release threads so we can note them and correct them between versions.
Third, we are going to drop Queen’s Blade. Simply, the show is bad, and it’s not worth the time to sub it.
Also, Asura on Tuesday or Wednesday. IT WILL NEVER BE RELEASED BEFORE D-SUN AIRS IT!
Enjoy your moe!
h.264: Moeeeeee~
XviD: Jimi Hendrix makes an appearance in three weeks in WS version!
Wheeeee111!!! K-ON! Thanks as usual!
Oh, my, God. Put episodes in same folder?!?!?!?! Jk… Love ordered chapters. If you don’t, somethings wrong with you.
@Lenmaer
Disliking ordered chapter… That’s like punching a baby. Anyone that dislikes ordered chapters can use the door and GTFO. 🙂
just wanted to give a shoutout to chihiro for helping me play .mkv files, I felt like a total scrub til i read ur previous post tyvm
Can i have ur eng sub script in srt file, Chihiro? Thank you!
I ask that you reconsider your decision to drop Queen’s Blade. As many have pointed out, it is what it is. The posturing people have against it is silly – the original game was entirely ecchi, and the accompany illustration and whatnot was dedicated to that. If you’re dropping Queen’s Blade because it has too much over the top fanservice, then that makes no sense as you guys have subbed over the top anime like that before.
Now, if you’re dropping it because it has bad voice acting (even with an all star cast), ridiculous (no) plot, and exploding acid tits, then I can understand.
And anyone who gets up on a pedestal and postures against it and being all elitist about it is in fucking denial – secretly fapping to it while acting all high and mighty about it.
Keirnoth, look for the latter. “Now, if you’re dropping it because it has bad voice acting (even with an all star cast), ridiculous (no) plot, and exploding acid tits, then I can understand.”
That’s why.
I think you should do Mainichi Kaa-san. If you don’t comply it proves that you’re elitists and secretly fapping to it. ^______^
just watched queens blade on a streaming site i found….kinda wish i hadnt bothered its utter crap from start to end, good choice dropping it guys youve gained major cred by doing so imo
sorry but i hate the idea of spliting the op and ed off of the anime.
i could understand doing that so many years ago, when harddrives were just breaking 10-20gb, and the advrage person didnt even have more than 5gb. and i can also understand it if it was befor dvdburners became more or less a standard. even the internet is so fast that even an estra 100 or so megs is just prety much meaningless.
i mean useing a new codec because its beter, ok.
experimenting with the codec is fine too, so long as there is an alturnitave.
but doing somthing like that… spliting the file… i just never saw a reason for it anymore.
i hope you do a good job, and luck with it, but my hands are off
YAY … WHOO-HOO!!
EPISODE 1 IS OUT ^^
i don’t want to spam …
so, there’s only one simple word to comment this …
THANKS ^_0
I have no idea what these ordered chapters are about, I guess I’ll see in future episodes, but I just wanted to say I picked to follow your guys release of K-ON! over Coalguys because your kareoke isn’t obnoxious and all over the place like theirs is. Thanks guys.
thanks i love u ppl been waitin for this : )
What happens if I rename the OP/ED files, will it still work?
That’s one kickass ED, good taste. I like the animation style for this show, and the motions are animated well in my opinion, they look natural. It also has its funny moments, i really underestimated this show.
And as a guitarist i’m getting a laugh out of Yui’s musical ignorance, more specifically a 5000 Yen guitar LOL
is much better than I expected. Really Funny XDDD
I Really like the Op I can’t wait to download the MP3. ^_^
“What happens if I rename the OP/ED files, will it still work?”
Yes. You can rename the files all you want, as long as they’re in the same folder as the episodes.
K-ON owns,Ending double owns.
YAY! Saw the raw yesterday. Good show! ^^
Well I’m not gonna flame or anything but it IS Jimi Hendrix after all…Your only misspelling the name of one of the greatest guitarists who ever lived.
That note aside fantastic job I really enjoyed the episode. The Subs where easy to read and flowed well. Keep it up, will be following.
Where do I find the OP and ED by the way? I could only find the episode proper.
I have CCCP installed, but I can’t get the ordered chapters to work. Can anyone tell me what to do?
Ordered chapters: nice move. Since the op doesn’t seem to show in Media Player Classic, it’s definitely the easiest way to skip it.
Queen’s Blade: I agree with the “so bad it’s funny” comment. However, the show is so basic that subtitles aren’t really needed. Just grab the raws.
Never mind, I figured it out.
“Ordered chapters: nice move. Since the op doesn’t seem to show in Media Player Classic, it’s definitely the easiest way to skip it.”
You’re obviously doing something wrong, because my Media Player Classic plays it fine. Remember, it’s not the encoder, it’s you. It’s not the encoder, it’s you…
@>>~K[e]NT[a]~>
I don’t like ordered chapters why? Because we don’t live in the 90s anymore and don’t care about space and bandwidth.
Secondly real anime fans wouldn’t cut animes just to save space and timing time. Matroska supports chapters so I can switch the intro if I want.
So I’ll take the CoalGuys subs.
“Yes, because one name being misspelled = worst group ever. Go troll somewhere else.”
Well, if you are subbing a show about music(kind of) and misspell the most influential guitarist of all times, that does makes you shit group.
Hope we can get widscreen or 720p good show but looks horrible in SD apart from that good work and thanks.
The avi is appreciated.
I appreciate the merits of ordered chapters, but I prefer a file that is self-contained and compatible. I don’t fancy instructing the fellow anime friends I may share the series with about technical intricacies.
Gotta check this out, hopefully it will be better than Haruhi and lucky star since I literaly slept past them (booring as hell 😐 (IMO)) But I look foward to this.
“I don’t like ordered chapters why? Because we don’t live in the 90s anymore and don’t care about space and bandwidth.
Secondly real anime fans wouldn’t cut animes just to save space and timing time. Matroska supports chapters so I can switch the intro if I want.
So I’ll take the CoalGuys subs.” – same here…
If people don’t care about space and bandwidth anymore, how am I running out of space when I have 1 TB of HDD space? Probably because I have shows on my hard drive that take up close to 10 GB for 24 episodes. Maybe when people no longer have to pay for hard drives, ordered chapters will be stupid, but for now, go advertise the other group somewhere else.
@Tony,
If you want K-On in a slightly better quality I prefer PLATiNUM’s 1024×768 V2 release, it uses Coalguys subs. And I don’t think it has any chapters either. This is as good as it gets for now.
URL:
Look, stop advertising for other groups.
K-ON… hmmm, i`ll dl anything from chihiro, you usually have good taste.
So moe. I don’t really have interest in shows like this that concentrate on music, but I just might watch it.
On another note, why doesn’t the ordered chapters work ? I got them saved on same folder, I launch the episode and only the episode plays. I have CCCP installed and I use Classic Media Player.
If I recall correctly, CoalGuys used “Jimmy” Hendrix too, so I guess everyone’s a failure.
I don’t watch it for the music. I read the manga released by pew-pew, and I think it’s rather cute / funny like Hidamari, so I’m watching it for that.
Mio is infinitely better than the other 3 combined (she’s cuter and hotter) <3
thanks for K-ON!!
cant wait for the next epi..
love you guys~
LOL at those who can’t deal with ‘new’ technology 🙂 (well it’s not really new :P)
Why would I want 13 copies of the OP and ED on my HDD when can get the same result with 1?
Damn, better hope that another newer and better compression codec or container format isn’t ever created … can’t have that happening 😛
OP: mediafire.com/?imy0qmnxmdx
ED: mediafire.com/?ymmmmi1xdmv
Also, I don’t get your criteria for “crappy show”. Don’t tell me that Akikan – which had *nothing* worth watching/hearing/thinking – yet, in your opinion, was worth the time spent subbing it – is in some way better than Queen’s Blade (which at least doesn’t pretend to have a plot), that at least has boobs & nipples? Have you seen these *ahem* .. hurried (none other exist) releases of QB by other groups.. no, other “groups”? Don’t you want to save part of your audience from dying of eye cancer?
P.S. Thanks for K-ON! sub. I’ll hardly watch this show further, but will most likely download = seed next eps.
P.P.S. If you have a free slot to fill, I’d suggest Higashi no Eden.
It was pretty good, the translation was good and understandable. I was a bit troubled by the angles they used in the anime, it was just like they wanted to show us that the characters have odd legs in some parts o.O
Opening was pretty lame but the song in the end of the episode was a lot better. Gotta check the next episode as this one was pretty enjoyable, but like in many series it didnt really tell what the serie is going to be like.
If I could make a suggestion about your BS-i series (they’re the only idiots who do this crap right?) release strategy, I realize you’re trying to be a speedsub group, trying to out-do other speedsub groups and such, but how about, with these stupid BS-i_3_week_late_WS series, instead of releasing the 4:3 as soon as possible (or at all), you use the 4:3 as a launchpad to get the translation, editing, timing, typesetting, and positioning as complete as possible then you’ll be able to get the WS out as soon as the encoding is done. that would give you 3 weeks to iron out everything before the WS release, keeping you from wasting time, processor power and bandwidth on the 4:3s, without ending up falling behind. consider them real-time quality releases.
sorry, I haven’t started watching the show yet, so I can’t say whether it’s good or not myself yet. I just had to get that out there, I’ve been following Chihiro since last summer (Ikkitousen, World Destruction and Zero no Tsukaima), and since this dual-release silliness started, it’s been giving me a headache.
Sarreq Teryx: That’s what we do. If you watch this release or Asu no Yoichi, you can tell that our 4:3 releases are really high quality. For mistakes, the most I’ve heard of was 2 in a release, least was 0.
But we’re human and will make mistakes. And that’ll be fixed for the BS-i version, and eventually, the Blu-Ray version in August.
Why Akikan is better the Queen’s Blade you ask? Well, that is simple: Akikan does not take itself seriously, pokes fun at itself, and is actually quite funny. Also, the fanservice is well placed, and not repugnant. Queen’s Blade takes itslef seriously, what with the “epic” story line…and has fanservice so bad it should be in a La Blue Girl OVA. And by the way, I am the reason Queen’s Blade was dropped, since I was supposed to translate it, and I’m proud of dropping it. I also worked on Akikan, and I can say it’s 100 times better then Queen’s Blade.
….no one else is subbing QB properly….. even if it is a bad show a lot of people still want to watch it…please don’t drop it! maybe do a poll?? even though the first ep sucks I wanna see how it plays out, seems like a lot of people do.
Wow 90+1 comments.
let’s do our best to get 100.:3
No, we will NOT sub QB. How hard is it to understand. Nobody will sub something they don’t like.
just watched this and its awesome!
So are we releasing version 2 for this release in respect to Jimi Hendrix?
We’d release a v2 even if there were no mistakes. We have to do the WS.
There will be no v2s for FS unless there is something major, like forgetting the chapters, not compressing audio, forgetting fonts, etc. Other issues will be fixed in 3 weeks with the WS.
Kyaaaaa thanx sooo much!!!!!^^
This show will be sooo amazing!!!!
The first episode was so great,i like it very very much!!!!^^
And yh,me too!^^ MIO ALL THE WAY 4 ME LOL!!!!! Especially at the ending…awww..she’s totally cute!!!^^
So no one bothers telling me why the fuck ordered chapters won’t work for me ? I have CCCP as I explained.. I suppose I’ll lean over to CoalGuys then if you’re so independable..
Ordered chapters are not hard… I’ll put step by step
1) Download CCCP codec and install it (do it again even if you have already done it in case it has been updated.)
2) Download the following: Episode 1, ED 1, OP 1 (in DDL they are 3 separate files, the torrent has all of them)
3) Make a folder, call it “K-ON!” or whatever you feel like calling it
4) Move all 3 files into the folder
5) Open the episode 1 file with media player classic, it should have the OP and ED in it and play fine.
if you have done every one of the following and it still doesn’t work… post again
for future releases download the main episode and stick them in the folder you made. If you decide you want to skip the ED and OP than just delete the files or move them to another folder.
and it’s not just about hard drive space, it’s also about download time… Cutting out the OP and ED is around 50megs… let’s say you DL at oh… 300 kb/s that’s around 3.5 minutes off of every download… might not seem like much but when you are waiting for an episode 3.5 minutes can seem like an eternity.
If you guys want QB so much, ask a group that normally goes into that area, like the groups that sub H-OVAs. <_<
I’m glad Chihiro’s not subbing it after looking at the screens on Random Curiosity.