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Well, it’s been 5 days, so I’m making a status thread to let you know what’s going on.
The Chinese group we were using to translate PMH, KTXP, has seemingly stopped releasing Penguin Musume. Maybe it is a harder episode or they’re stuck on the English at the start or something, but either way, they’re extremely late. As in, they used to release about 6 hours after air time for episodes 1-11, and now it’s been 4.5 days for this episode.
For J->E, it’s extremely hard to do a Penguin Musume episode. They speak slurrily, and fast, so it becomes extremely hard to hear the dialogue. Beyond that, our J->E department is already stuffed with projects, so we wouldn’t be able to add it on any time soon.
So, we have a few options right now. First is, if you’re a J->E TLer of ANY level (So long as you do the episode, we can TLC it), please contact me. By any, I mean JLPT 4, 3, 2, or 1. If a J->E TLer does not come to me, the second option is to continue to wait for Chinese subs, but I don’t know if the Chinese group just dropped it or if they’re just behind by a lot. The third, if a J->E TLer doesn’t apply and Chinese never release, is to drop the series, and we REALLY don’t want to take this option.
Anyways, I’d write out a full status thread, but our status is stuck at translating and will be until one of the forementioned things happen.
So, I’m going to skip any usual ranting to talk directly on our releases on Zettai Karen Children in general. ZKC is a fun series, and we have some people willing to translate it. However, the main translator for the series entered a new schedule of post-summer where he basically only has 4 hours of free time per week. As such, we needed to change translators. To compound to that, the main person TLCing it has told us that he doesn’t want to TLC this series again due to Aya Hirano making TLCing impossible. As such, our TL has been relying on what I call “light” TLC, where the editor has some knowledge of Japanese, but not a whole lot, so he does not catch all errors.
Simply put, we ran out of options on ZKC. We cannot have a strict J->E TL of it yet, because our only J->E TLer is working on other series and is at his max for the rest of the summer. We cannot get a J->E TLCer either, since we have 1 busy with school work, one busy with RL, and one who refuses to do it. So, this is C->E with two light J->E passes on it. Hence the lower TL quality as of late.
For the saying “They released it poorly for lols”, no. We haven’t released something for a laugh in months, and even then, that was Jaka releasing for laughs, me to release.
We will solve our TL issues after this season finishes, though. We’re doing a little project shuffle for the fall so that we’re doing less series than we initially planned so as to allow for better concentration on them and for more of a possibility to sub shows that need them later on in the season, and that should solve some problems.
Also, Chihiro doesn’t troll. We get trolled. On an unrelated note, this episode threw in a different challenge to me, so I was unable to do VFR on it. I’m going to try on episode 23 and see how it works out.
h.264: Troll Free Version
XviD: Oops, forgot to write this in.
Dreaming loli. Isn’t that all what this is about? What could she be dreaming about? About how one day she’ll grow big breasts and become God without knowing that she is?
XviD will not be out for a while because I am presently dealing with episode 19’s lossless which will then turn into a timeraw when I wake up, and then eventually h.264. THEN I’ll do the XviD. 19 is our goal episode to release tomorrow, with 23 on Wednesday (Assuming it doesn’t go onto the backburned for Sekirei or WD).
Also, for those complaining about jerky frame rates, you have been heard. I’m looking into some way to fix it. Convertfps=29.970 would also create jerky frame rates since this is VFR, not 29.970. And speaking of which, what genius capper though it’d be a good idea to release the raw in VFR x264 .avi? I think I found a solution to the VFR stuff, but it’d either require us to release XviD in an MKV container (Not compatible with DVD players), or we’d add about 8 hours of encoding time onto XviD weekly.
Lastly, we are working to make a better style, but bear with us while we work on it.
Now, off for my own loli sleep. ^_^
h.264: Dreaming Loli…
XviD: Waking loli…
So, yeah, I failed. I failed hard. Forgot to take out a resize filter, so I got a lossless at 704X396 resolution instead of the 720p I needed to encode both h.264 and XviD from it. But, I was able to encode XviD, so that’s what we’ll release now.
HOWEVER, this means that we did make 2 ZKC releases this week, enough to compensate for last week and this week. And to be honest, ZKC 23 will by most odds be out tomorrow, with 24 on Tuesday.
Just an update on Penguin Musume. Still no Chinese subs to base off of, so we’re trying to J->E it for now, but J->E on Penguin is REALLY slow. Penguin takes about 4 times longer to do than a normal show because they talk really really fast.
Also, when tosho comes back up, could somebody put our torrent up there with a like to our IRC network and our website?
XviD: Tosho is down
h.264: Tosho is still down
*UPDATE*: We’re not skipping 22. That’s for today.
Nyan nyan nyan nyan, ni hao nyan~ Gorgeous, delicious, and deculture!
Boy this screenshot reminds my of some other show that we did a while ago. Now, what was that called again?
To Love Ru will probably be delayed next week since our translator is going to be traveling to college and then has orientation.
By the way, nice UFO.
h.264: There’s Ranka, now where’s Sheryl?
XviD: There she is!
Chihiro never was too good in math. After all, the episode after Sekirei 01 is episode 03, the episode after ZKC 12 is 14, and the first episode of School Rumble is 25, not 01. So, we obviously thought that 18+1=20.
Heh. Let me explain what this is. We have presently 4 people working on the ZKC translation project. The guy who was working on episode 20 was the fastest. So, we timed it, TLCed it, and it ended up being ready for release before 19. I am NOT a believer of holding back a new release for any reason, so chronological order is not a solid reason. Since this is slice of life, it shouldn’t matter, I don’t think.
By that way, loli rape.
h.264: Now when will they show that kaoru h-scene…
XviD: Lalala
We’re going to finish this series. Be it that we release first or last every week, we’re planning on finishing it for anyone who wants to stay with the same group. This is a long status post, so I don’t want to take too much time speaking about the episode.
Here’s a little bit of the rest of the week’s plans. To Love Ru should be out by 10 PM EST tomorrow barring catastrophe/TL oversleeping/Encode failing/Lithuania losing the basketball game/Penguins taking over the world. Penguin will be out on Saturday. We will be releasing at least 3 Zettai Karen Children episodes before next week (My week starts midnight Monday). One to stagnate last week, one to stagnate this week, and one to advance towards catching up. We can be releasing up to 5 before the week is out, depending on how our TLCs fair. Ikkitousen OVA will be out as soon as we can get Chinese subs for it. I don’t know how fast they sub OVAs, so I can’t say.
Also, look at her eyes! They are hypnotic, aren’t they? That’s intentional. She’s saying “Vote Chihiro in Saimoe”
h.264: Here
XviD: Here
This is Kristen when she wakes up at 3 AM to start the XviD so we can release now and not 3 hours from now.
One more episode to go. Again, this episode was going smoothly, but it had encoding issues. Is this the third week in a row? This time, the show ran for 24 minutes, but stopped when there were 7 minutes left in the video. So, again, XviD first. Also, there’s a new ED at the end.
One more thing. Our server is exploding, so we’re going to have a bit of down time for a few days. It’ll be back soon.
Also, troops, it’s time to rally! Chihiro’s test in SaiMoe is coming rapidly!
To learn how to vote, go to: SaiMoe Voting Info Thread
To see the present voting thread on 2ch, look for it in the post: Vote Here under “Current voting thread”
Go to the present voting thread (It’ll be in Japanese) on 9/14 some time during JST and post your support for Chihiro by posting your voting code, and then <>
I will post the voting thread and stuff on here before the time to vote runs out, but try to vote using ASuki.
XviD: Your votes can make it happen!
h.264: Vote for eyepatch moe!
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