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Carranger ep 10 v2

Drazic — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:43:13 +0000

Now that we’ve finally reached ep 10 and are almost out of v1s we’re going to stop with the batches and going to do single ep releases again. This is also the first ep one of our drama translators worked on and he’ll also be the one making sure we can release new eps as well. So enjoy and look forward to the rest of the v2s being somewhat faster than this one.

And on a slightly unrelated side-note we’re also looking for someone to help us sub a winter season drama from japanese subs. If you’re interested in helping please join our irc channel which you can find here: #HaroRangers @ irc.rizon.net (Or use this if you don’t have a irc client/don’t know what irc is). When you’re there poke Drazic or Makhazol and they’ll give you more info!

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Angel Bank – Episode 8

Drazic — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:25:24 +0000

1 year after we started and 1 year after the series premiered in Japan we finally wrap this thing up. We understand the wait must have been tough for you guys, but you have to trust us when we tell you it was worth it. Basically every moment the TL for this project wasn’t working on it he was studying to improve his Japanese skills, and in the past year that’s meant about a 10x improvement in translation speed.

This last episode of Angel Bank is pretty amazing. Kosuke Suzuki guest stars and shines as usual. The man is such a good actor whether he’s playing a kind of deranged villain character like Fukunaga in Liar Game or a rookie detective in a show like Keibuho Yabe Kenzo. We were really excited to see him pop up again in this show.

This episode is a little more plot heavy with regards to Mamako, but the Job Change of the Week is also very well done. They managed to end the series on one of the most important issues facing Japanese society in the modern day. I’m not sure it leaves very much open for a second go-round, but that’s okay. This show was really interesting with the 8 episodes it got, and it’s a very interesting depiction of Japanese culture.

Not very many Japanese shows are this self-aware about tackling some of the unfortunate problems that arise in Japanese society from time to time. It was nice to see a show like this that at times almost bordered on being a public service announcement, maintain an appropriate level of dramatic tension. It’s these kinds of interesting niche shows that inspire us to do what we do. We can definitely promise you that there’s more in the works after this.

The batch torrent will probably take a bit longer than usually as I want to change some minor things in the earlier eps. I’m still seeding ep 1-7 on my seedbox though so this shouldn’t matter too much. Just grab the singles instead of waiting for a batch.

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DDL for ep 1-7:

ep1 – ep2 – ep3 – ep4 – ep5 -ep6 -ep7

Thanks to all the members of HaroRangers that made this possible through their TL’ing, QC’ing, Timing, Encoding, etc.

Angel Bank – Episode 7

Drazic — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:47:27 +0000

It’s been a little bit since our last Angel Bank release. We had some computer technical difficulties as well as work ethic difficulties that prevented us from releasing this in a timely fashion. There is some good news, though. The finale(#8) has already been translated, and is now going through final timing and QC. We will finish this project close to a year after we began. It’s been a fun ride.

This penultimate episode is more character-focused than other episodes of the series, and has more to do with the basic impact of economics on people rather than high level economic theory. The theme is the value of a dollar and how it correlates with a person’s individual happiness. The guest stars turn in some very good performances, and there are more of them than usual.

I think this is one of the best episodes of the series. It’s structured really well, and you do end up feeling for the characters involved. I hope you guys enjoy watching it as much as we enjoyed helping bring it to you.

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Thanks to everyone involved with encoding, TL’ing, timing, QC’ing, and releasing.

Angel Bank – Episode 6

Drazic — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 21:44:32 +0000

This episode will always occupy a special place in my heart. You see, it guest stars Ms. Maju Ozawa. I was first taken with Ms. Ozawa when she guest starred in the two part season finale of the other excellent series, Keibuho Yabe Kenzo as the woman guilty of shaking down old people for their pension checks. Here’s a picture to jog your memory:

Some of you may also know her from her somewhat creepy digital performance in Yakuza 4(龍が如く4) as Lili. While she tends to be tied down by quite a few more clothes in this episode she still manages to do a great job. Because I think there are far too many pictures of her looking sexy on the internet I thought I’d counter balance it with my own screen cap from this episode.

What is she doing indeed! Countless thanks to Drazic for the timing, QC, packaging release, and whatever the hell else he does.

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Ningen no Shoumei DVD v2 ep 1

Drazic — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:12:59 +0000

So while we finished Ningen no Shoumei a while ago I thought the end result could be better. It was one of the series we still finished hardsubbed mainly for the sake of consistency but now we only do softsubs so Ningen is starting to look out of place. Also, hardsubs suck so it was kinda lame to have one of our series hardsub only.

And while the subs weren’t horrible it wouldn’t hurt to give them another editing pass, fix some of the timing and do proper typesetting. So I bought the DVDs and this is the first re-release of Ningen no Shoumei using the DVD source. It has a way prettier looking encode from the DVDs and improved subs thanks to Kazetrigger taking another look at them and Lynxara doing a editing pass.

For those of you who’ve seen the series already the DVDs do include extra scenes as well so if you really liked the series it’s worth a rewatch just for that and the better video quality/subs.

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Jikou Keisatsu 2 ep 6-9 softies

Drazic — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:40:48 +0000

I have no idea why I didn’t do this ages ago. I guess I kinda forgot about it xD Anyway, here are the softsubs for Jikou Keisatsu season 2 ep 6-9. There’s no need to share ep 1-5 as we were using the translations from kazuya5661 anyway which you can find at d-addicts. The translations for 6-9 were done by SOS’s ce.ar however.

This isn’t our last release for Jikou Keisatsu however, we might go back to season 1 and do some DVD versions of that. I’d have to find ISOs or buy the DVDs first though.

softies

raws:

ep 6: http://www.multiupload.com/M2DPLN89QU

ep 7: http://www.multiupload.com/6C7MAXEJ6C

ep 8: http://www.multiupload.com/JPWAYCDU9S

ep9: http://www.multiupload.com/9V44JY3NP1

Last Mail – Episode 1

Drazic — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:40:41 +0000

This project’s been on the back burner for so long I can’t believe we’re actually releasing it. But here it is, episode 1 of Last Mail! A comedy about a girl getting text messages from the dead. Read more about the drama here. It’s pretty awesome. If you’ve found yourself attracted to a girl in a sheep costume then now is the time for you!

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Angel Bank – Episode 4

Drazic — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 20:05:45 +0000

Continuing in the tradition of previous episodes of Angel Bank, this episode tackles yet another kind job changer. One of the really interesting things about this show and about this episode, from my perspective, is the explanation of various pieces of Japanese culture. These explanations are quite remarkable for two reasons.

First, the concepts of honne(本音) and tatemae(建前) permeate Japanese culture in such a way that it can be difficult to get a real honest assessment of things. Tatemae, the politically correct official version of situations, is usually what you end up getting most often. So lots of Japanese people can talk to you at length about how the lifetime employment system means that loyalty is a two way street. If you’re loyal to your company then they’ll be loyal to you. Discussions of the negatives of such a system, the truth or the honne, are slightly harder to come by. They aren’t impossible to find, though, as is demonstrated by this episode of Angel Bank.

The second reason these explanations are remarkable is that the economics and mechanics of these situations are described in a fairly comprehensive fashion. Sometimes the explanations are even accompanied by animations to help make the point. This makes translation somewhat tough for me because I’m learning about new things along with you guys and Mamako. So when I do my first pass through an episode it sometimes takes me a little while before I fully understand what Mr. Ebisawa is getting at. I find myself in Ms. Ino’s shoes a lot asking myself, “What the hell did Ebisawa mean by that?”

This was most problematic in the first episode during Mr. Ebisawa’s conversation with that shadowy figure. It was just so difficult to understand what the point of that conversation was. It was slightly sinister, but yet Mr. Ebisawa is supposed to be a good guy. I can tell you it has gotten much easier for me as the series has progressed, and also as my own ability to understand has grown. Thank you all for being patient with me, and I assure you that the wait was worth it. Some of what I did during the hiatus was study my ass off to improve my Japanese, and it’s resulted in me being able to get through translations much much much faster. What used to take me days to do is now being accomplished in a few hours.

Many thanks also to Drazic who takes the gibberish I turn into him, and times/polishes into something palatable. He does a good job cracking the whip and getting a finished product out to people.

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Angel Bank – Episode 3

Drazic — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:04:47 +0000

And it’s episode 3 already! Which was a bit slowish again but hey, there’ss only 5 eps left anyway. Those will probably get released a lot faster though.

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Angel Bank – Episode 2

Drazic — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:08:01 +0000

It’s finally time for another episode of Angel Bank! We realize it took way too long and we’ll try to make the next eps faster. Can’t promise anything though! It’s only 8 episodes anyway. Once i’ve finished seeding ep 2 I’ll add a DDL for both ep 1 and 2.

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ep1
ep2