More lovely reverse harem goodness here. Episode 02 was pretty amazing. A must watch.

Also, even though the piece of paper in the episode says ‘mellow’, we are pretty confident that the correct English spelling is merrow. It’s a bit hard to trust them when they have words like ‘rabyrinth’ in there. And the cheque was written for ‘five pounds’ instead of ‘five hundred’. I suppose five pounds is a pretty good sum over a century ago, but still… Anyway, I’m sure the cheque will bounce.

Well, here’s our review of episode 02:

<ichigo69> sure is naked bishies in the ED
<tun> last scene is hot
<tun> edgar and lydia
<tun> oh god
<tun> so hot
<tun> there’s just something perfect about two beautiful people having sex

Oh, and there are apparently some differences between British and American punctuation styles. But, at the same time, this distinction isn’t very true because major British media like BBC use both. To me, it’s still simply personal preference.

Download: Earl and Fairy 02 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Earl and Fairy 02 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

For the purpose of quality, we have decided to use ordered chapters for our high resolution version. Please read this guide by TheFluff on AnimeSuki forums for everything related to ordered chapters.
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We realize that this limits viewing capabilities for those using MPlayer, VLC, or any other player that doesn’t use Haali’s splitter, and we apologize for this inconvenience. However, we feel that this is the best way to give the show the proper bitrate that it needs.

Also, if it’s true that Tokyo MX is starting to censor the episodes, we might drop this show. Everyone that is working on the show hates it, and if there’s no ecchi, it removes all purpose for doing this. Just be warned. We’re hoping that episode 03 is just an isolated incident. Otherwise we might just wait for DVD releases.

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 OP (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 ED (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 01 v2 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 01 v2 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 02 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 02 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

xess note: the episode ones are incorrectly labelled. They should be v2s but I don’t know why nobody labelled it as such. Everything is exactly the same except for some encode fix in the karaoke for the xvid and the removal of the ED in ep 01 for the mkv version. I really don’t understand what the other staff’s motives are by attempting to sneak a second version without actually labelling it as such and creating unnecessary confusion.

Hey guys, it’s been a while since the last real non-release update. I was very busy this past weekend because I had to leave school and go home to take care of some things. Any spare time I had was spent on Chaos;Head that weekend, so some of the other shows got neglected a little bit.

Rosario + Vampire Capu2
If you watched last season, you might have known that we had two translators splitting the episode in half. After episode 2, we will finally end that practice because it’s a pain in the ass for me, and it’s a slow and inefficient process. Having to normalize two different translation styles is also a really unnecessary burden. One of the translators also forgot to put the names for each line, so it makes styling everything even more difficult for me. SpiegelEiXXL decided to match the subs to people’s hair colors in season 1. Personally, I think it looks nice, but the job of assigning styles to the right character suddenly became mine.
Anyway, I hope this will allow us to release the episodes in a more timely fashion. It will also allow the translation checker to do his work faster since he is busy for a 3 day stretch if we don’t get it to him by a certain time. As for episode 2, I’m currently editing it. I have a big presentation to work on for a class today, so if I get to it at all, it will be late at night. And as I thought, the joint with Ayako is becoming more and more of an m.3.3.w only project. This was the initial work sharing plan for season 2.

TL – Split 50/50
Timing – Ayako
TLC – Ayako
Edit – m.3.3.w
Typesetting – Ayako
Encoding – Ayako
Karaoke – Split 50/50

Now it’s become this.
TL – m.3.3.w
Timing – m.3.3.w
TLC – Ayako
Edit – m.3.3.w
Typesetting – m.3.3.w
Encoding – m.3.3.w
Karaoke – Split 50/50

Earl and Fairy
Sorry for those two little mistakes with “Miord” and an unnecessary “the” in the Milady line a few lines afterward. Those were my fault (there will not be a v2 though). Anyway, episode 2 aired just recently so we’ll get started on that as soon as we get our hands on the raw. And like I said earlier, if you have the h264 with a CRC code of [038C3386], you have the wrong file. Delete it. [1EA2A396] is the correct CRC code for the h264 release. The [038C3386] was a RC (release candidate) that failed and wasn’t removed from the bot in a timely fashion, which lead to its accidental distribution.

Chaos;Head
We’re probably gonna release a v2 of episode 1 after getting some feedback on certain lines. We will provide a list of explanations for certain lines that were changed and lines that were kept. The typesetting in the h264 was also wrong because of a missing font, but not noticeable unless you paid close attention to the typeset lines, untypeset lines, and the XviD version. Episode 2 airs tomorrow.

Telepathy Shoujo Ran
Episode 16 is at translation check. Not much else to report here.

The release of Ran seems to get slower and slower every week. Lol. Well, it’s been a busy week.

Download: Telepathy Shoujo Ran 15 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Telepathy Shoujo Ran 15 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

What’s m33w without a shoujo anime project? This is more of the traditional romance drama that we normally do. I’m sure you fangirls will love this one because Midorikawa Hikaru will be voicing the Earl. And of course, our favouritest seiyuu Mizuki Nana will be playing the fairy doctor. She’s also Kotoko and Moka if you can’t recognise her voice.

British English
We’ll be using British spellings for this series because it’s set in Britain. Please don’t complain about spellings like favourite, recognise, enrol, etc. because they’re correct. Also, British putting punctuation outside quotes is some kinda American urban legend. There’s no such thing. Just go to bbc.co.uk for examples. But, there’s no official body to govern the usage of English or whatever, so people are free to do whatever they want.

Hakushaku to Yousei
Note that Hakushaku to Yousei is the Japanese title. We’ll be naming the files Earl and Fairy, the English equivalent. Please also note that it’s not ‘Count,’ as that’s not a British title. The official pictures on the website also have Earl and Fairy used as the logo.

Both XviD and h264 versions are about 170MB and Standard Resolution.

Download: Earl and Fairy 01 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Earl and Fairy 01 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

anidb link for Earl and Fairy for those bad at searching stuff.

Note: If anyone has this file, you have the wrong one.
[m.3.3.w] Earl and Fairy – 01 (H.264) [038C3386].mkv
This was a release candidate that failed and was not removed from the bots in time. Another bot autodownloaded it and it was distributed accidentally. Please delete it and download the correct h264 version with this CRC code. [1EA2A396]

Hi guys! This took a little longer than expected. I’d personally like to thank ThaEagle who worked over 24 hours(!!!) on the typesetting to get Chaos;Head done. Simply a monstrous effort.

So, what is Chaos;Head about? Apparently, it’s a psychological thriller based on the visual novel game. Takumi is a recluse geek who lives by himself in a container. He’s a bit schizophrenic and his delusions start to get very real. Ah, I’m not sure how else to describe it. Just download it, okay?!

Download: Chaos;Head 01 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Chaos;Head 01 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

We also have some sad news to report. We are breaking off the joint project for Toaru Majutsu no Index with Eclipse. One of our primary roles in the joint was to provide a transport stream, but we are no longer able to do so. This basically means that we’re not really contributing to the joint, so there is no need to continue it. Don’t worry though, Eclipse will continue to sub the show so please support them.

Earl and Fairy (Hakushaku to Yousei) will also be released within 24 hours.

I know some of you guys were complaining about the boxtorrents tracker. I know, we hate it too. We’ve moved the torrents to a private tracker, so hopefully it works now. Easier than clicking 24 separate torrents.

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

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

I wrote a short preview guide for the spring season, but never bothered with the summer one as that season didn’t seem very interesting. Well, again I’m going to write a little bit about what I’ve watched just like what I did last time. I will not write about the shows we’re doing, and sequels of past series: ef – a tales of melodies, Gundam 00, Nodame Cantabile, Clannad, etc.

The ratings I use are based on the first episode and the first episode only. It’s meant to give you a small idea about the story, and also to tell you my impressions of the first episode as a whole.

These are the ratings I will use:
Excellent – the show truly impressed me.
Good – I liked it.
Fair – Neutral, didn’t hate it, didn’t love it.
Poor – Not for me, but maybe you might like it.

The following are the random shows that I’ve watched:

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Name: Akane Iro ni Somaru Saka
Genre: High School
Subs: Eclipse
Score: Fair

High school romance based on a visual novel between the wealthy transfer student Katagari Yuuhi and her fiance the Genokiller, Nagase Jun’ichi.

Akasaka kinda disappointed me a little as I had higher hopes for it. The cast of voice talents is incredible in this show, but the story feels very stereotypical and unoriginal. Even though nothing is original nowadays, a good storyteller can tell the same story over and over again a thousand times and you won’t get sick of it. It definitely doesn’t have the x-factor that would make it truly shine. Well, that’s only the first episode, so I hope it’ll get better.

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Name: Kyou no 5-2
Genre: Comedy, Slice of Life
Subs: Chihiro
Score: Excellent

Slice of life comedy about a bunch of naughty ten-year olds. Now, this one exceeded my expectations as I’ve never liked little kids much. The kids are very strangely drawn, but just ignore that. The comedy in it is very good. I guess you could compare this to Minami-ke, ‘cept this is more down to earth, and perhaps a bit funnier.

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Name: One Outs
Genre: Baseball, Gambling
Subs: none
Score: Excellent

Baseball + gambling anime. Superstar batsman, Kojima, who has failed to win any trophies despite his incredible skill, begins a final training camp at Okinawa. There, he meets pitcher, Tokuchi Toua,who specialises in a gambling form of baseball known as one outs.

This one is another which exceeded my expectations. If you enjoyed Akagi, the one with mahjong, you’d probably like this one too. Much of the cast and crew are the same(at least the main voice actor is the same). It focuses a lot on the mind games and how pitcher Toua outwits the batter using fear and such. Hopefully, some good group will pick this one up (instead of having 9 groups doing Tales of the Abyss).

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Name: Yozakura Quartet
Genre: Action
Subs: Sonzai
Score:

Will watch in full later. Doesn’t seem very interesting though.

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Name: Toradora
Genre: Romance (I think)
Subs: gg and others
Score: Good

High school romance about the tsundere palmtop tiger, Aisaka Taiga, and the snake eyed, Takasu Ryuuji.

This fell a bit below my expectations. I found the story to be a little confusing, as there were barely any introductions, and it felt like it jumped straight into the middle part of the story. Taiga’s behaviour was even more confusing. I guess she’s the ultimate tsun tsun girl? Very difficult to judge from the first episode.

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Name: Hyakko
Genre: Comedy
Subs: Ayako (sorta)
Score: Fair

About four girls who attend a super huge school. I guess it’s supposed to be a bit like Minami-ke or Azumanga Daioh? The girls are very nicely drawn and the voice talent line-up is also very impressive. Unfortunately, it’s just not very funny. Perhaps it’ll get better in the coming episodes. It’s hard to dismiss it after just one episode.

I’ve read the earlier chapters of the Hyakko manga beforehand. This may have had a negative impact on the rating.

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Name: Shikabane Hime
Genre: Action
Subs: Lunar-Anime
Score: Fair

Makina, the undead princess, specialises in asskicking other undead abominations. Witnessing her asskicking session is orphan, Kagami Ouri.

One thing that really stood out about this show is the rather bland voice acting. That’s little surprise, as this is Akiyama Nana’s debut role. She’s pretty hot in real life though, but that’s beside the point.

Either way, I’d give this a fair, as nothing really stood out in this show for me. The action was all right, but there were no intense moments like you’d get watching Hajime no Ippo or such. The enemy was easily dispatched, before he could even introduce himself, really. It might get better in episode two if they focused more on the day-to-day life of being an undead.

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Name: Skip Beat!
Genre: Shoujo
Subs: none
Score: Fair

Now, this is a rather famous manga (I think) about country girl, Kyouko, and two bishies, Tsuruga Ren and Fuwa Shoutaro (Sho). Ren is the most popular bishie (Ren is the actor from what I gather) in all of Japan and Sho (the singer) plans to take him down. Kyouko then joins the entertainment industry to have her revenge on Sho for breaking her heart.

The art in the Skip Beat! anime seems unusually old-school. Don’t know if it was intentional though, but I do remember Kyouko looking better in the manga. If you’re looking for another classic shoujo hit like Itazura na Kiss or Hana Yori Dango, I don’t think this one will deliver. I was rather looking forward to it too.

Finally! Here’s the pantsu you’ve all been waiting for. Sorry for the delay as there was some internal drama and squabbling, so things got held up. This is the uncensored version as well, so you don’t have to worry about the annoying bat blocking Moka’s panties.

The MKV version comes in two flavours of subs. The default sub is the multi-coloured one, where each character gets a different sub colour. If you do not like this, you can switch to the single-coloured unstyled SRT subs from the subtitles option in your video player.

[edit]
MKV = 1280×720
AVI = 704×396
Grtz, the encoder 😉 .

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 01 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Rosario + Vampire Capu2 01 (h264) – [Bittorrent]

Well folks, here is the secret show that we were talking about for the past couple of days. As you can tell from the release tag, this is a joint project with Eclipse Productions. We are very pleased to be working with them on this show. Eclipse is doing most of the work while we’re providing the transport stream and doing QC.

The show itself is incredible and I highly recommend it. You guys will fall in love with Index almost immediately.

Also, I’m hoping that Rosario + Vampire Capu 2 will be out later tonight. Everything is ready for encoding.

Enjoy!

Download: Toaru Majutsu no Index 01 (XviD) – [Bittorrent]

Download: Toaru Majutsu no Index 01 (h264) – [Bittorrent]