This is the latest we’ve ever been on a release of our primary shows. 8 days or something? Well, could have been worse. Whatever it is, Special A has significantly improved in the last few episodes. Perhaps it’s because they’re suddenly following the manga much more closely now. Not so much the new ending song though.

And, just to reiterate, the karaoke for the OP and ED were intentionally left out. We didn’t accidentally forget them or anything. And no, we most likely will not make v2s when the official lyrics come out. It’s just karaoke after all.

Discuss: – [Special A Discussion Forum]

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We will be releasing a version 2 for Itazura na Kiss 13. The wrong raw was used, and that resulted in the entire script being mistimed by a few milliseconds. That’s enough to cause scenebleeds throughout the entire episode. Most people don’t care, but anal people like me notice it and it bothers the heck out of us. Also, there were more script errors than usual. I did a second pass to fix up the errors as well as improve the diction and phrasing of many lines. You can blame that one on me since that’s my job. 😮

As for Special A 13, that should be released tomorrow barring any mistakes in the RC. And as we mentioned before, there will NOT be any karaoke for either the OP or ED. We’re going to wait until the singles come out on July 15th so that we can use the official lyrics the first time around and not have to fix it later. This means that episode 14 will most likely not have the karaoke either.

In other news, we have been working on a secret show over the past few weeks. We’re not going to pick up this particular show; we just subbed it for the lulz. There’s still some touch up work we have to do but it’s almost ready. We’re also kinda deciding what group name to slap on it before we release it.

As for me, I will be away on a business related trip for Tuesday and Wednesday. I have to get up at 4:30AM tomorrow to head there. 😮 I’ll be back home on Wednesday evening on the east coast of the U.S. It’s not exactly a vacation but at least I can get away from home for a few days. If there’s any kind of mess up with the releases, make sure to blame Saoen in our IRC channel as it’ll most likely be his fault. 😉

I’m still working on To Love-Ru widescreen versions as well as Seto no Hanayome, so don’t despair over the long delays for those two projects. I will devote my Saturday morning to finishing up the script for Seto 19.

I think that’s all for now.

-tun

Here is episode 13. The new ED is here and I like it a lot. The episode itself was very good, and episode 14 looks to be even better.

Special A 13 will be out probably today or tomorrow.

-tun

Discuss: – [Itazura na Kiss Discussion Forum]

Download: Itazura na Kiss 13 (XviD) – [Bittorrent | Direct Download]

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Happy independence day to all our American fans. How did you guys spend the day? Well, I sure didn’t do anything as it isn’t independence day here, hohoho.

Anyways, I guess some people have been clamouring for updates and such. The status of projects, etc. Well, it is kinda odd that we’ve slowed down so much in the past month. We normally release within about 3 days in the past, but now it’s getting closer to 6. We used to try to push stuff out quickly last time, racing against an invisible clock. However, it’s far more relaxed now. With the majority of the staff having summer vacation, the holiday mood has kinda set in. (And they’re actually more busy now than they normal, strangely)

Special A has been a bit slow. Well, if you didn’t already know, our translation checker for S-A, Fighter747, suffered quite a traumatic event recently. He was caught in an attempted heist and held at gunpoint. Not surprisingly, he isn’t in the mood to do fansubbing. We’ve transferred responsibilities to asagao recently, but his priority is Itazura na Kiss which he’ll put ahead of S-A. Also, the fact that he’s currently running on dial-up doesn’t help either.

Either way, for me personally, I’ve still been putting out scripts at my regular pace. However, the checking is an important step, and the typesetting too since people love that for some reason. If we skipped that every episode, the quality of the translations and accuracy will take a nosedive. So, please bear with us. Thanks for reading.

Dedicated to neko, the bastard who keeps pestering us about this.

I couldn’t get much proper checking on this episode, so please don’t mind any mistakes.

I don’t know when episode 04 is coming out, so please don’t ask.

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It’s been a while since the last update, so I guess I should get you guys up to speed.

Special A 13 has a new OP and ED, so please expect delays. I personally don’t like either of the songs. The ED in particular is gonna take a while to translate because quite frankly, the singer sucks. I didn’t bother to check who sang it, or listen to it a second time, but it’s definitely worse than the normal Special A OP. It sounded like the same person from the first OP (the voice actress for Hikari, Yuuko Gotou). Hard to believe she outdid herself if it really was her singing it.

As for the show itself, it’s starting to focus more on Akira now (much to my enjoyment). I’ll let you guys watch the new OP/ED, episode 13, and preview for episode 14 to see where they’re going with her.

And in another staff related note, I will be out of town on July 8th and 9th for a business related trip. I don’t know if it will affect work on Special A 14, but the show is kind of in limbo since our translation checker is on and off after that robbery. I’ll let you guys know as we get closer to that date, most likely in the Special A 13 post.

-tun

Edit: We will not be doing the kara for Special A until the official singles come out, because I frankly don’t understand what they’re singing for half the lines. Especially the Engrish. It’s honestly quite pointless to have a karaoke where most of the lines are wrong, so I won’t bother with them until later on. Also, it’s incredibly tedious to correct and modify karaoke scripts. Thank you.

– xess

Episode 12 marks the midway point for Special A and Itazura na Kiss. I hope you all have enjoyed the shows thus far. Since we’re the only English group doing those two shows, I guess there’s not much in the way of choice. Our speed has slowed down quite a bit recently, but it’s kinda unavoidable with most of the staff being more busy during the summer.

The spring line-up of anime was an especially good one. We were blessed with plenty of great shows like Kurenai, Crystal Blaze, Souleater, Code Geass 2, Vampire Knight, Kanokon and much more. Which ones did you enjoy? Though I started the season watching many of the shows, I ended up only completing a small handful like Kanokon, Maid Guy, Druaga and Major.

Episode 03 of Kimi ga Nozumu Eien ~Next Season~ is almost ready. It’s just going through a check, then it’s gonna get encoded. I was having trouble looking for a checker since my first choice turned me down. I wonder why, since it’s only just a single episode. I think there’s supposed to be another episode. No idea when that’s coming though.

Compared to the spring season, the summer line-up looks a bit weak. You can see the listing here. Please don’t vandalise the site. That ain’t cool.

So, what are our plans for the summer season? We’ve got some surprises lined up, so be expecting it! Thanks for reading.