At long last, Ran 08 is finally here. If you didn’t know, episode 08 didn’t air last week. Itazura na Kiss 19 will follow in a few hours.

Download: Ran 08v2 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Ran 08v2 (h264) – [Bittorrent | Script]

Here is Nogizaka 06. There are many references in this episode, so I hope you guys are otaku enough to know most/all of them. We’ll update the bored section some time later with a list of references.

Discuss: – [Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Discussion Forum]

Download: Nogizaka 06 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Nogizaka 06 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

edit: Dom wanted me to add pictures, so here you go.

Hi guise, here are some references that you might not get (not going to post obvious ones),

• The guide by Nobunaga is an imitation of the guide being seen by Amuro Ray while entering the cockpit of his Gundam in Mobile Suit Gundam.
• When they were lining up for buying the doujin, Yuuto asked Haruka why she wanted to buy the doujin from A Cat Bus Stop, Haruka replied because she liked the artist. In fact, the artist is the one who drew Haruka. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaa -> click on his personal website… and mind = blown )
• The person who Nanami dressed up as was actually Taro Aso , he is a famous politician, also is known to be a manga fan. He was seen reading Rozen Maiden at the airport, thus earning his nickname ‘Rozen Aso’.
• The day this episode aired was actually the start of the real C74 in Tokyo.

There are more references in this episode, but those are the obvious ones, so I won’t name them.

-Mango

The episode you all have been waiting for, the exciting Megumi episode! You have to pardon my typesetting as I did it kinda haphazardly. Our typesetters were both on holiday, so I had to do it myself. There were over 20 signs, so I wasn’t going to do them frame by frame to look pretty. So, just ignore the ugliness of the moving signs. Plus, I couldn’t figure out how to squeeze stuff into the small board she holds up at times, so I just placed the TS next to it using ThaEagle’s template.

Anyway, it’s a great episode. Enjoy.

tun edit: If you’re wondering why Megumi’s voice actress sounds so familiar, it’s because she also did Isurugi Noe from True Tears. 😮

Download: Special A 19 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Special A 19 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

I released the wrong episode last night, so there was an issue with the audio compatibility in stand-alone players like a DVD player. There is absolutely no difference between this v2 and the original aside from this fix. Only get this if you have issues with audio playback like a few people complained about in the release post. The h264 version is perfectly fine and unaffected by this audio problem.

Download: Itazura na Kiss 18v2 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Here is Itazura na Kiss 18. We’re back on anirena since they removed the anti-piracy measures. According to our med student ilikefood, the medical terms in Itazura aren’t entirely correct as stated by the characters. We stuck with what was actually said (mostly British English terms for certain words).

Download: Itazura na Kiss 18v2 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Itazura na Kiss 18 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Thanks to this episode, I was able to get back to my college sleep cycle (going to sleep at 5am, yes that’s a good thing). Like I said in the previous update, we switched to a transport stream source and the picture quality is much better now. We had to increase the file size for the h264 version to 200MB in order to accommodate the bitrate needed to encode it. This shouldn’t be too much of a problem since this will be a 13 episode series (I think). Anyway, please enjoy episode 05.

As for Itazura 18, we hammered out the script tonight thanks to the help of our medical expert, ilikefood. I’m hoping we can get it QC’ed and encoded by tomorrow evening, but no promises.

Oh and one more thing. We switched over to Nyaatorrents tracker since people were having problems with Anirena. Let us know if you have any problems with Nyaatorrents.

Discuss: – [Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu Discussion Forum]

Download: Nogizaka 05 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Nogizaka 05 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Incestmango wanted me to mention that Natsucomi in Episode 4 should have been Summer Comiket.

Thanks for the feedback on the torrent trackers. We’ll go with multi-tracking next time.

Yes /a/, that was me.

I guess I was wrong about the summer Olympics btw. Exciting shit is exciting. Anyway, some more updates.

Nogizaka 05
Encoding will begin tonight when BiGGuY gets back from work. We’ll be QCing the script and TS during the day while we wait. If all goes well, it should be released tonight, but tomorrow at the very latest. We also got a transport stream for Nogizaka now, so the quality will be much improved. I know people bitched about the blurriness in episode 4, so we looked into getting a different raw source. I saw some before and after pictures of the episode 5 encode, and it looks great.

Itazura na Kiss 18
Waiting on translation check. This one has quite a bit of medical terms, so that might be a source of hold ups. We have a few TL checkers so hopefully they can collectively figure them all out in case asagao can’t get it by himself (he should be able to though ;)).

Special A 19
Were waiting on the transport stream for this one as well. If you saw the episode 18 picture quality, I think you’d agree that it is worth every single second that we wait for it. The script is also waiting on translation check, but the transport stream doesn’t come to us for a few days. This is also a Megumi episode if you haven’t already heard, so the TS is insane once again.

Seto no Hanayome 19
I’ve finally gotten some time to work on this. This show is truly a fansubber’s nightmare from almost every aspect. If I didn’t have the actual Japanese scripts, this show would be impossible to do accurately. Episode 19 is about halfway done with editing. Hopefully I can have it ready for ThaEagle for typesetting when he gets back from vacation. You guys will have non-shitty subs for this great show eventually.
I have no idea what’s going on with the DVD’s. The ripper seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. I might ask BiGGuY to continue them for me, but TV rips come first.

In other news
Our typesetter, ThaEagle, went on vacation today, and won’t be back for 5 days I think. xess and maybe Soichiro will pick up the slack on SA 19. Thankfully ThaEagle did the Itazura 18 TS before he left though, so that is taken care of. That’s it for today.

The broadcast of episode 08 has been cancelled this week due to some high school baseball thingy. Episode 08 will air next week on its regular Saturday slot.

Good old late night release for you guys. This episode is a little larger then the others because we used a better raw for it, and with the better quality raw we had to increase the file size to keep most of the details. And this is also Soichiro’s first encode, if you like what you see, be sure to thank him.

Download: Special A 18 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Special A 18 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Anyway Enjoy =D

Big day around the world as the Olympics begin today. I personally don’t like the summer games too much, so I don’t really care. The winter games are where it’s at. Anyway, I have a few minor updates.

Baka-wolf
As you all know, we’ve split from Baka-wolf several days ago. However, they still host our files on their DDL. You may still get them there.

Itazura na Kiss
Itazura na Kiss will now air on Saturdays on channel TBS. CBC decided to air episode 16 twice in a row for some reason, so now they don’t air Itazura first anymore. Sun TV is two weeks behind. Please delay your whining by 3 days to make up for this change. 😉

This does however kinda spoil our scheduling as everything gets packed into the weekend.

Special A
We’ve been swapping some staff around for Special A because of how swamped we are with so many projects. Though we did also do four projects at a time two seasons ago. Seems like people are a bit more busy this season. Clephas will be the new translation checker for S-A. TS will be jointly done by xess, Revenant and ThaEagle now.

Also, please welcome Soichiro, our new encoder for S-A, who will hopefully be able to obtain transport streams for Special A on a consistent basis. The raw quality for Special A has been notoriously bad and we’re hoping that getting the transport streams will improve the video quality. The script itself is 100% ready, and typesetting is on hold until we get the transport stream and make a work raw out of it.

If you don’t know what a transport stream is, read the wikipedia article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_transport_stream

Anirena
Some of you may be experiencing problems with Anirena. They’ve apparently incorrectly banned certain IPs or something, I don’t know. Either way, we’ll be multi-tracking using nyaa torrents from now on to solve this problem. We are in no way affiliated with Anirena, so that’s out of our control.

That’s it for now. Thank you for reading.