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So this question comes from jackhunter the frank hunter. He writes:

"i would like to ask you questions i would like to know why others teams dont like you i have been told that tv-nihon translates fast but with poor quality"

/me brings up a choice menu

Paragon Option: Oh well, just as all the members of #TV-Nihon don't have unified opinions on certain matters, I'm sure that opinion isn't universally shared by other groups. Sometimes groups get misrepresented by their loudest member, like a lot of people think my opinion is the sole deciding voice of the group, which is absolutely not the case.

And maybe other group's have a fair point. We're only human and we make mistakes sometimes. Our Fourze 1 script was revised at least 8 times and there's still stuff that people can find in the script that could be better. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion.

Neutral Option: Eh, it's just the Internet. There's going to be people who decide that anything that doesn't align to their subjective opinion is wrong, and a lot more people are going to write in to complain about something compared to the people who are happy/satisfied with how things are going. The fact that people who aren't happy with how #TV-Nihon does stuff, and then decide to go off and form their own group instead of joining us shouldn't be very surprising.

Asshole Option: That really says more about the attitudes of other group's than it does about the quality of #TV-Nihon's work. They probably suck and can't get people to download their stuff without resorting to being sleazy and mudslinging. Just wait a couple of years and they'll be gone anyway, 'cause their motivations are all in the wrong place. If this is what your group is saying about other group's work, don't be surprised if people say the same thing about yours. I'm pretty sure your stuff isn't beyond criticism either.

Jokes aside, I do want to address the "fast but poor quality" comment. Considering how people are always complaining about us being slow, that seems like an obviously contradictory comment? Our QC process is rather long and it takes several steps. We had a really good stream of daily releases last month, but the work load that went into that release was several months to half-a-year (or more) in the making. And while the extra iterations almost always help, in the end there might still be a flub here and there. You can point at a mistake and make a big deal out of it to the extreme, but that doesn't mean that it's some fatal flaw that ruins the quality of the rest of the work. People put a lot of work into this stuff and (usually) a lot of thought goes into the final product.

There's a difference between, "Let's rush this out, quality be damned" and "Let's put this out at a reasonable rate and not take forever to do it."

*I haven't played the Mass Effect series, but I'm sure they call it the asshole option, right?

Last HeartCatch Batch released, added DX 3 SD version

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Man are Blossom and Marine's proportions preposterous compared to the other Precures. I like the picture of the blue team. It kind of reminds me of Luna's Jetman fart splash. I like the pose that Moonlight is doing in the yellow team pic.

Anyway, that's all for Precure!

...unless Toei was totally lying and HeartCatch comes back for DX 4: The Quest for More Money.

Something that happened while I was on break

Thought this was funny, so I figured I'd share this with you. This happened while I was outside during my break at work. I was reading my Shinkenger manga when a guy comes up.

"Hey, which one is that? Is that Kamen Rider? Which one is that?"

So I have a mouth stuffed with crackers at this moment. I'm desperately trying to chew it up and swallow them so that I can give the guy a decent answer.

"Oh, it's Power Rangers isn't it?"

Finally able to answer, I respond, "Yeah, it's the Japanese version of Power Rangers."

His response was, "Oh! I thought it was a mix between Kamen Rider and Ultraman. I hadn't seen that one. So it's Power Rangers." And then he left before I could ask him which Kamen Rider he'd seen.

So... weird! A guy who knows Kamen Rider and Ultraman, but not Sentai. Even funnier, he looked at the Shinkenger and didn't immediately go "Zombies!" No wait... "Power Rangers!" I mean, let's face it, all Sentai/Power Rangers looks the same. I don't know if I'd ever look at a Power Ranger and go "Is that a Kamen Rider?"

Now I wonder what Kamen Rider shows he's seen. Seeing him walk away, I feel disappoint that he left before I could quiz him on that. Anyway, if you're that dude and you watch our subs, maybe post a response on the forums?

Last HeartCatch Batch released, added DX 3


The big version of these pics can always be downloaded from our photobucket account:

http://s194.photobucket.com/albums/z189/takkynoko/Anime/Precure/

Kamen Rider Fourze 1 SD/HD Released

It's been a long time coming and a lot of work, slacking, being poked by a trout to stop slacking, and more work but with some sort of fishy aroma lingering in the air, but here's our very late night/early morning release of the first episode of Fourze.

So please sit back, get some Febreeze, relax and enjoy this high school drama about friendship, evil star monsters and cliques.

Oh, and SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Episode 1 Discussion Thread

Garo 23 version 2 released

Garo

So I was standing on the toilet trying to hang a clock when I slipped and hit my head on the bathroom sink. When I came to, I realized there was a line incorrect in this episode. Please delete the old one and replace it with this one. I also tidied up some of the timing and made slight adjustments to some lines.

Garo 23 ver2

Gokaiger 28 SD released

Gokai

New Superhero time starts now!

Fuu-gawari 風変わり 【ふうがわり】 (adj-na,n) strange, eccentric
From Wind(fuu) and Change/weird(kawari/hen). Since fuu is used to talk about tendencies, a strange tendency makes one eccentric.

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How about some new QCers?

OOO

First, it's been a week. So here's my thoughts on OOO as a whole.

So let's talk getting new QCers. QC does the reviewing of the subtitles and providing feedback/corrections. It seems like a simple job, but it really is work.

The ideal candidate would be able to make time for our work. It's a fun job, but we still expect you to do a good job. That means doing things in a reasonable amount of time, following instructions well, and being good at communicating. If you don't do a good job, thanks for the interest and no hard feelings, but I'm throwing you out of the group, simple as that. In that sense, if you're under twenty and have never had any sort of responsibility in your life before, you're probably not a good candidate for this.

They must be observant to find mistakes and creative enough to offer suggestions of their own. Knowing Japanese is a plus. Having a good grasp of English is kind of essential. If you're kind of anal and like to find fault in others, great, that's the best.

I mean, it's a labor of love. You join up because you want to add your contribution to make our releases as best as possible. If you've read all this and this sounds like something you're interested in doing, please send me a forum PM (To takenoko) with about about a page of writing to describe yourself, your work style, why you think you'd be good at this job, etc. Don't e-mail me to apply, those will be thrown out for not following instructions and because we do most our work through the forums. So an account is necessary.

Precure Drawings

Moonlight

This site is pretty neat: http://drawr.net/show.php?id=1223388#rid1736641

If you click on the picture, you can watch the person draw it.

The rest of the Kamen Rider W SD batch is up

W crew

If you were in the middle of downloading, just move the incomplete files into the folder and resume it with the batch.

Oops!

Edit: Maybe it's working again?

http://krdl.info/

Hurray, I get to use this pic, that I meant to use when we version 2'd the last OOO episodes. Sorry, guy!

[01:56] SSH has frozen.
[01:56] Jesus christ..
[01:56] 24.75
[01:57] Well, serves me right.
[01:57] How many hits does TVn get on average a day?
[02:00] 55.28 fuck.
[02:05] * Solidarity (Ping timeout)

Well, hope people got something from that server in the 20-30 minutes since the plug. Please refrain from using the site for a bit while he works on getting something more robust. Thanks!

Small plug

Someone has generously offered to host our Kamen Rider files on his site. If you're having trouble with our DDL (direct download) forums, maybe try his site out?

[Link Redacted]

Precure DX 3 HD released

 

HD release

I went a little nuts with the Blu-ray screencaps. Anyway, they're all on the TN photobucket so feel free to download them. They're 1920 x 1080 in resolution if you choose the download original size option. Check it out.

Precure DX 3 SD released

All StarsSD toy

Wrapping up another series. This time we've got Precure DX 3 and its dance in SD format. HD later.

The let's go kamen rider parody pic from this site, probably: http://tjtype1.blog28.fc2.com/

I thought these SD figures were cute, so I scanned them too.

W 33-44 SD batch released

W

Also includes Delusions 1-5, the A to Z movies, the Net movie, the rest of Healing Princess, and some music videos.

OOO 48 HD version 2 released



So since we couldn't use all the splashes at the end, here they are now. Remember, we're always looking for splashes for our current shows. We can always use them somehow.

OOO 48 discussion

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