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Andou Haruka as Morita Ryouko, Hitomi's friend.

Shimegi Enoku as Rai's human form.

Also we could use more Gouraigan splashes. Thanks!

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Since I do want people to download this batch (I personally think it's super neat), here's some of the new stuff:

• GenSeiShin JustiRiser CGI short movie
• Mahou Sentai MagiRanger's junctions. Watching this is like watching a digest of the series. It covers a lot of stuff. Strange how Kamen Rider includes its junctions, but not Sentai (in general)
• Zoids Genesis CGI bonus 1.
• Kamen Rider Decade's junctions.

But in general, it's just really kind of amazing to look at the artistry with which the karaokes were made over the past 11 years. Especially early on, when all the special effects were written by hand. (With Aegisub you can automate the code generation to some degree).

I just think it's fun to see the older stuff in higher quality and a higher resolution. Even some of the relatively newer stuff like the Gokaiger endings noncredit versions are fun to watch, because there's so much detail within the video itself. Check it out yo!

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DC for now. The Theatrical Cut from the Blu-ray will be released in HD later. So that and the TV Special are next in the queue. After that, we go back to releasing the episodes.

Chronologically, this movie was released after episode 33, so it's fitting to release this around this time period in the TV episode release.

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Obligatory plugs

We have a Facebook page. We have a Twitter that we seldom update.

We have a Wiki for containing all our infos and hosting our pictures. If you see pictures where I'm the source on tumblr, you can often find a larger version on our wiki (Since tumblr resizes my pics)

Most of our members are on IRC. You can visit us using the web client Mibbit.

If you visit our forums, I highly recommend using the new posts link.

Policy stuff

People have been pretty good about this of late, but in general we prefer that people don't ask when stuff will be released. It also helps to realize that the DVD/Blu-ray might not even be out yet. Check the Disc release article to double check that.

It's super helpful if people can check the Tracker page for unseeded torrents and the torrent seed request forums. It helps us keep the files active and alive for other fans.

If you have problems with a file, run it through RapidCRC or check it with a torrent to see if it's complete. If it's incomplete, the torrent will complete it for you.

File stuff

In general I stream most of our files to my PS3. On my computer I like to use GOM player, but you can always use VLC or Media Player Classic to play our stuff.

Other

If you're an artist, we always like getting pictures for our splash screens and banners for our forums. Submission thread.

As some of you might recall, we didn't really do all that much for the 10th anniversary (plus we got the date wrong).

To rectify this, for the 11th anniversary I carried out what I was planning to do for the 10th anniversary. Which was to release a nicely done clip show of openings, endings, and other stuff that we've done over the past 11 years.

The batch file contains almost 100 files of cleaned up footage. I encoded them at a slightly higher bitrate, so it should look better than usual. For the 4:3 ratio videos, this will be the first time that they're being released in h264 format.

When it was available, I used footage that didn't have any credits on it. If there was HD footage, I think I tried to use that, but it's not super consistent. Unfortunately, I have no idea where a lot of files and source material went, so the batch doesn't contain everything. But it's a good representation.

My recommendation? Just dump all the files into GOM's library and set it to random. Then bask in nostalgia. If you're new to TV-Nihon's works, maybe this will be a good introduction to the different series?

Also, I had a nice Photoshop file for the pic that I'm using, with all the layers intact, and its original size, but apparently I didn't save the final product that way. So the JPG that's there now is all I have XD Also, AkibaRangers got put in the back by accident because I used a curly brace for T-N in the file name, so it was in the wrong place in the list.

Edit: Updated the thread with a spoiler tag containing the 93 files in the batch.

Edit edit: And of course, thank you to the best staff in the world. You guys help keep this engine running! And thanks to the fans as well! Your support is like the fuel for that engine.

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Also congratulations to #TV-Nihon. It's our 11th birthday today!

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In case Kaoru's actor looks familiar, he's Kikuchi Takanori. He was on Ultraman Dyna, and he played the man in the coat in DekaRanger 1-2.

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My pecs are on fire!

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Looks like we have three warring factions this year. Which series are you watching of these three?

Take the poll on our forums!

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Obligatory nudity warning... for the rest of this series!

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So I was looking up the guests for this episode, and apparently this show was filmed last year (the actress joked that she had gotten fatter since then). And Luna recognized something in it that dated it too. I'm not sure who this girl is in the episode, but I got the pic off her blog.

You might recognize one of the guys in this episode as being that asshole from Daimajin Kanon, actor Shimegi Enoku.

Nothing toku related this time guys. Just plugging in a cause that I believe in / lay a guilt trip.

Most of you don't know this, but recently I've started volunteering at the local animal shelter. At our city, this is especially important because the city's really poorly managed and a few years ago the shelter was taken over by mostly volunteers, since the city couldn't find the money to fund it anymore.

And volunteering is really important for animal support, especially in the case of dogs.

The dogs are kept in these two part cages that can be separated by a guillotine. Since a lot of these dogs are off the street, they don't quite get the concept that they poop/pee on one side and sleep/eat on the other. It can get really messy sometimes.

What I do is called canine support. I go in for two hours a week and basically just walk as many dogs as I can. Typically dogs go for a walk for 20 minutes.

Now here's the guilt trip. Imagine going to a job where your 15 minute break was the only time you were let outside of your cubicle (also you get a private toilet, but it's in your cubicle, and the toilet doesn't flush). Plus you sleep in your cubicle.

That 15 minutes outside would be pretty sweet right?

If more people volunteer, more dogs can go outside and get some exercise. It's always good to get more sunlight and exercise.

So go down to your local shelter and help out. They take old cloth for beddings and food like peanut butter or whatever too. You might make a furry friend along the way.

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720 encoding now.

Change list

Hey, someone pointed out some mistakes in the first episode that are worth addressing. V2 on the way.

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