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Progressive emoticon studies, franz – 2010

Best ED of the season: MASSACRED

Himari is ANGRY (about things)

Angry post time yeeeeah. So yeah you know the Omamori Himari ED, the one I ripped the audio for the TV lenght version myself such was its awesomeness? The シーディーSingle came out today (or last night?), and yeah, it’s all fun and games. UNTIL 1:49 WHERE THERE’S A PAUSE IN THE SONG. Both for the normal version and the karaoke version. Both on LonE and Nipponsei’s rip.

I will cut someone if they fucked up the master, I really will.

They totally won’t be getting my money that I wouldn’t be giving them anyway due >lol stuff only being released on Japan.

Right there at 1:49, the offending pause.

Thankfully there’s a version with no pause floating around ([EAC] [100224] おまもりひまり​_BEAM my BEAM/ひまりんこ・L・しずくえす (ape+cue 鮭無 rev 米).​rar), no idea if that was fixed by someone, or different CD batch. But yeah, gg anime music releasing japs, GG.

Update; Well what, apparently that pause was intended? According to http://matomech.com/article.aspx?aid=265872&bid=154, gay. The comments there sum it up pretty well:

Www momentum
Discomfort was felt.

Well said, google translate, well said.

Update 2; Oh god the b-side, “love and peace” rules so hard too!

:hmm:

涼宮ソレヒ er I mean :hmm:

So, this popped up on 2chan. Real or not? (oh god please let it be so.)

(That’s announcing an excerpt of the haruhi book 10 (surprise of) for April 30, btw)

Second best ED of the season – Hatsudou!! Love Beam☆ (Hanamaru Kindergarten ED #4)

After Omamori Himari’s BEAM my BEAM, of course. The bass line is so awesome, voice started weird, but the kindergarten singing grew on me. And in contrast to Omamori Himari, GAINAX (GAINAX’d) actually knows how to animate things. The Hanamaru Kindergarten EDs are my favorite part of the show.

Poor quality MP3 ripped from the video. (my server doesn’t support unicode filenames apparently.)

Update! Ok so me and and my bro @bitmapblog (hate twitter notation) got together to try to transcribe the lyrics, it was an arduous task (he got more stuff than I did ofc), but here’s what we got:

はちきれそうなこのキモチ ストレートにオセオセで
Hachikire sou na kono kimochi.  Sutoreeto ni ose ose de.
先ずは自信を付けましょう 勇気を出すためのコツよ
Mazu wa jishin wo tsukemashou. Yuuki wo dasu tame no kotsu yo.
大人の女磨いでギュギュ
Otona no onna migaite. Gyu! gyu!
スキンケアバシャバシャして
Sukinkea pasha pasha shite.
鏡の前笑顔の練習健気でかわいいでしょね
Kagami no mae, egao no renshuu. Kenagede kawaii deshou ne?
早く大きくなりたい未来へワープ出来たらな
Hayaku ooki kunairitai mirai he warp! Dekitarana.
アナタへの思いが今強く強く発動
Anata he no omoi ga ima tsuyoku tsuyoku hatsudou.
らぶビーム・GO!
Rabu Biimu GO!
こっち向いて
Kocchimuite.
らぶビーム・GO!
Rabu Biimu GO!
クリーム Feb 1 update: might be
振り向かせたいったら がんばるの instead
Kuriimufurimu kaseta itara. Ganbaru no.
らぶビーム・GO!
Rabu Biimu GO!
ライバルがいったって負けないよ
Raibaru ga ittatte. Makenai yo.
Disclaimer neither of us actually speak fluent Japanese so this transcription is just a GAMBLE to see how many we get right once official lyrics come out.
(also we kinda know what the lines mean but I don’t want to paste them and gamble further than what I’m comfortable with.)

aw man I totally forgot about this place, totally

Me on the middle after Yuno h4x'd me for being late

Okay let’s see. First I apologize for forgetting about the mirai nikki stuff, but still no prediction of when I’ll pick it up again.

Second, wrap up of the past season:

  • Haruka Purezza: it’s going somewhere, I can tell, third season plz.

Spoilers: this is totally misleading like the whole series etc

  • Kampfer: lol dumb end for dumb series. (THE LIGHT NOVELS ARE SUPERIOR)
  • Seitokai no Ichizon: I laughed I cried I moe~’d, A++ would watch again (or a second season)

Best character?

  • Sasameki Koto: cool, shame it’s an ongoing manga so no real end.
  • Nyan Koi!: hated the cats hated the cats hated the cats (character design and personalities were cool tho)

stalker twin 4 lyf

And finally, for what I picked up for this season:

  • Baka to Test to Whatever: oh god I hate the plot but why does it look so gooood? and the characters are cute and the animation is well done and it’s colorful and fff

Word on the street former SHAFT folks are working on baka test, I love how it looks.

  • Chu-Bra!: most likely candidate for me to drop, lol little girls lecturing on underwear
  • Dance Dance Vampire Revolution: thought it would be the best series this season, and it looks great (<3 SHAFT’s antics), but I hope they don’t stray too much away from the manga. I’d feel cheated it that happened.

She's cute, that's a plus right?

  • DRR!!: Interesting look, lots of characters, could go anywhere. One to watch for.
  • Hanamaru Youchien: kindergarten kodomo no jikaaaaaan
  • Ladies vs Butlers: more like Kanokon 2: the maido’s revenge (dumb fanservice but interesting-ish nonetheless)

Flameheart is my favorite character so far. Not for weird reasons, she's just funny okay?

  • Omamori Himari: so generic but I love it! shame the animation/character design is not even close to the quality of the manga. Seems like it will be a bad series but I like bad stuff ._.

p.bad animation, but cool nonetheless

  • Sora no ウォト: aw man it looks awesome, and and watching it feels good. In b4 endless comparisons with K-On!, but whatever, I like it a lot.

the owl compressed itself? I lol'd!

So yeah 8 new series plus old stuff that I’m still watching as Bakemonogatari (shaft what the fuck get the new episode out already), Kimi ni Todoke (sawako what the fuck murder kurumi already ._.), Sister Princess (need to progress on that lol) and finally the new-ish addition of Onegai Twins

Moe potential twins with Kagamine Rin/Len uniforms? Sign me up bruv. Also the student council pres is awesome

Yeah, lots of stuff, added to the fact that classes have started, I wonder when I’ll have time to keep this up.

Aw man and I didn’t even mention the manga I started… well I’m running out of space anyway.

Release: Mirai Nikki 30

terrorist life protips

Same drill as with chapter 29, better quality scans, reworded and retranslated in some parts. Noteworthy:

  • In page 45, Yukki’s dad says “Acchi” (アッチー), which we believe is slang/dialect for “Atsui” (あつい), “hot”. Old scans had just left it as “Acchie.”
  • During the exercise sequences, they stretch the vowels when counting, “ooone”, “twooo” was the best way to keep that imo, sorry if it looks weird. :P
  • In page 49, it looks like the balloon is Minene’s, but the text is Yukki speaking, so yeah.
  • Page 52 had a new balloon compared with the magazine!
  • In page 70, the previous scans had those balloons as being Yukki’s. While it’s not entirely clear, the way Kurou is addressed there points to them being Minene’s, so I adjusted them as such.
  • The letter in page 71 was retranslated, original scans mentioned school and work, both of which weren’t there. Blaming that on hard to read handwritten kanji on bad quality magazine scans, lol.
  • Page 74 had “kachou” (課長), which is the term Nishijima uses to refer to the 4th, all other scans around have that as “captain”, so I kept it like that. Same for the orphanage’s name on 73.

Aaaaand hopefully that clears up the differences between the original Twilight Scans and this release, for those comparing them (I know you are.)

Download: MediaFire

Release: Mirai Nikki Chapter 29

wat? Releases? In my NEO ZEED Marine Stronghold? More likely than you think.

Yuno is moe~

I was discontent with the quality of the current scanlations for Mirai Nikki from chapter 29 onwards. So I decided to re-edit those myself using tankobon raws. Note that I have no experience in manga scanlating. Summary of changes compared with the previously available ones:

  • Used tankobon raws with much better quality
  • Yukkie (wtf) was fixed to Yukki when applicable
  • Sakura Mei City was fixed to Sakurami
  • Small grammar changes (these vs. those, etc.)
  • Reworded a couple lines (always trying to keep the original meaning naturally)
  • Used a better font (in my opinion) (Wild Words + Hiragino Kaku Gothic Latin for Screens, got any suggestions of a better ones?)
  • Translated a previously untranslated phone screen (0025.jpg, if you want to try spotting a mistranslation)

I mostly did it for my own collection, but thought I’d share it. I may or may not do more chapters, depends on if I have time etc. Okay yeah I’ll definitely finish vol. 7 I only wanted to get this one out cause calling him Yukkie was too much for me :(

Anyway, download link: MediaFire; Links because nobody will type the ones in the credits page: Raws, Original Scans, Proofreader

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New Haruhi Disappearance Trailer: omfg

Appeared in http://www.haruhi.tv/ this afternoon. omfg can’t fucking wait. it’s happening for real ;_;

hnnnnnng

sdfgdx

itt I finally play the Kanon VN. Nayuki is so my favorite girl

Oh and just so this isn’t a useless post, found the files for the alarm clock sounds:

朝〜朝だよ〜 (hnnnng)
朝ご飯食べて学校行こよ〜 (hnnnnnng)

The file names have the number, so I could probably try looking for those once I download that 1.7gb hi-fi voice rip.

(brb setting that as my phone alarm clock tone)