As alluded to in episode 0, this episode is the Valentine’s Day episode. If you’ve watched enough anime, you probably know the basic premise of an episode such as this, but Kimi ni Todoke doesn’t let us down in terms of eventfulness. Nice winter snowscapes in the episode — ironically, it is also currently snowing outside as I write this (though I can’t personally verify that from this room, since there are no windows here). I want to say more, but pretty much anything I say about the episode will end up being a spoiler, so I’ll just let you guys watch the episode, yeah?
An explanation of the Valentine’s Day tradition in Japan can be found under the “Bored” tab of this site. I’ve never liked the phrase “obligatory chocolate,” but that’s the super-literal translation, so we left it. In a short paragraph, “obligatory” (giri) chocolates are the ones you give as courtesy to those you have been close to (usually friends or co-workers, people like that), the people you have a (loosely speaking) close relationship with. Oh, wait, that wasn’t really a paragraph, was it? Oh well.
By the way, about a third of the way in, there’s a scene with Chizu-chan, and some horses. Since no one wants to see badly written puns in their subs, I’ll explain it long-hand here. うまい (umai) = delicious. ウマー (うまあ) (umaa) = “delish”. 馬 (うま) (uma) = horse. You see the joke?
4:43 am on January 13th, 2011
I always thought the chocolate thing is the same as the paper punchout valentines we used to give each other in school, same thing only they give chocolates. Much drama as we got to high school, they pretty much gave up on it lol. This is all totally relatable to me. Brings back memories.
4:52 am on January 13th, 2011
Thanks for the release
5:32 am on January 13th, 2011
yahooooooooooooooooooooooowwwww…
3rd place in comment..
thanks m.3.3.w you are really awesome..
^_^ godlike sub like eclipse..
6:51 am on January 13th, 2011
Thanks for the episode!
8:13 am on January 13th, 2011
Yay! Good quality and fast KnT 🙂 🙂 🙂
Any update on Mitsudomoe though?
8:48 am on January 13th, 2011
That’s not ironic! That just coincidental!
Well, yes, I suppose you are correct. This is why I’m not an English major, eh? — Love, asagao
9:00 am on January 13th, 2011
Thanks for the release!
9:11 am on January 13th, 2011
Great job. Thanks.
10:20 am on January 13th, 2011
yay thnks for releasing the 2nd season of this series ^_^ !!
love kimi ni todoke <3
i wonder if the SD version will be an avi ??
please *_* ??
Dont count on it. We officially dropped XviD many eons ago, if enough support for XviD is shown we may bring back XviD
~Saoen
11:10 am on January 13th, 2011
You rock. Thanks.
1:05 pm on January 13th, 2011
Quite fast this release!
Thanks for it!
Comps.
2:25 pm on January 13th, 2011
thanks for subs guys, also WTB pro m33w subs for kimi ni todoke live movie 🙂
2:53 pm on January 13th, 2011
thank you very much
btw, what with the warming near the beginning
3:11 pm on January 13th, 2011
Earthquake warning
3:46 pm on January 13th, 2011
is there a way to get rid of it?
It’s not a softsubbed earthquake warning, if that’s what you mean. The way to “get rid” of it, is to either buy (or otherwise acquire) the DVD when it comes out, or wait for another television broadcast raw that didn’t happen on the day of an earthquake, and mux with that raw. Hope that helps? — Love, asagao
5:30 pm on January 13th, 2011
Thank u guys 🙂
11:04 pm on January 13th, 2011
Thanx for episode one of the new season, been looking forward to it (^_^)
12:55 pm on January 16th, 2011
Thanks for the episode! =D
Also, I was just wondering…what happened with MM?
Stalled at Typesetting. Completely different team than KnT, so that’s not what’s causing it. — Love, asagao
11:47 am on January 17th, 2011
Would you guys consider re-encoding for Kimi ni Todoke 2nd Season to create an Xvid (.avi) version as well?
It’s mostly due to the fact that some of us actually have software issues with playing MKV, or wanting to play it on other devices… Converting doesn’t really work out all too well (with all the subs going missing and all that).
Well, at least consider it. I’ll just continue to search for methods to handle this issue as well…
Thanks for the release
We officially dropped XviD support many years ago. As for bringing it back it depends on how much support there is. So far the support for XviD is very low so dont count on its return anytime soon.
~Saoen
Also, learn to encode .avi properly. http://anime.nickistre.net/blog_entry/anime/2007/03/03/mkv_h_264_codec_to_avi_xvid_codec_conversion — Love, asagao
7:06 pm on January 17th, 2011
@asagao: Oh, I understand the whole different teams thing, I was simply wondering what happened to it. The fact that it’s stalled means it’s not dropped so I’m happy. Thanks for the reply =)
For the record, we would tell you all if we were dropping something. — Love, asagao
6:30 am on January 19th, 2011
episode 2… yeaaaaaaah waiting to release..
7:34 am on January 20th, 2011
Hello there! First time to watch something with your subs and I’m really happy that I found you, guys. The translation is proper and you even made the karaoke part really enjoyable so I’m very grateful to you for subbing Kimi ni Todoke. Hope you’ll enjoy the series just like the fans out there.
12:39 pm on January 20th, 2011
Wow… one episode in and already she’s back to square one… a little disappointing really…
11:24 am on January 21st, 2011
When will be the second episode ready?