Girls und Panzer Blu-Ray Batch + Specials

Self-congratulatory applause.

And so the Girls und Panzer TV  BD’s are officially done and released.
What a great series this was. Definitely one of the more enjoyable shows of 2012.

Girls und Panzer Blu-Ray Batch + Specials

If you haven’t noticed yet, the batch also contains OVA01-06.
We took the liberty however, of naming them “Specials/SPs,” because although technically they are OVA (as they even call it OVAs), I know that there will be another Girls und Panzer “OVA” chronicling the battle against Anzio, and another movie with a brand new story arc. Take that bit of information however you guys want to.

The OVA/SP’s are based on Hiryuu/AK-Submarines scripts.
OVA1 is from Hiryuu, while the rest are AK’s.

However, they have been heavily (and I do mean heavily) modified.
They were re-timed from scratch, with new dialogue scripts *based* on the original scripts. New typesetting for 99.99% of it as well.
The OP/ED’s used for them are Commie’s v2 karaoke.

You guys have nova to thank for even suggesting we do the specials, and of course Farfie for encoding them.

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Bad news is that everybody will have to re-download episodes 1-10. I know I said 1-8 before, but there have *major* changes to the scripts; enough to warrant totally new versions. The number of changes is anywhere between 500 and 1,000; frankly I’ve lost track a long time ago. Sorry for no patches either, but some episodes required new encodes.

Good news is that the scripts are a lot better, at least in my opinion.

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Special thanks to Farfie, nova, and Utahime for putting up with my aegisub derpness.

I hope you guys enjoy watching the series as much as I did.

As for future releases, you’ll just have to wait and see. I prefer batch releases, whether I’m downloading them or working on them (apparently), so take that into consideration from now on. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a mountain of anime that’s been backlogged because of this. Cya.

OniAi done!

Releasing a batch is always a great thing. It’s that… feeling completeness and telling everyone of a job well done. Of course, as a BD re-release group staffs are typically 1 person, but we like to run it through a bit of editing and QC just in case. Sub groups aren’t perfect, and although what we churn out isn’t either, it just doesn’t feel right without at least giving it a little bit of love if it needs it. We will be a lot more perfect in the future when things aren’t so crazy. Anyway…

For this show, it was me and Utahime, who did some editing and QC.
Farfie – The loli manager is best girl… probably.
Utahime – I’m gonna miss the OP.

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Girls und Panzer Volume 5

Hey guys, I’m the QC working on the series.
Since I’m the biggest GuP nerd on staff, it naturally falls to me to make a release post.

Here’s Volume 5 of the greatest show of 2012, Girls und Panzer.
Episode 09
Episode 10
Next up is the batch release.

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Unfortunately however, the batch release will include new versions of episodes 1-8. It sucks for people that have already downloaded them, but I promise they will be worth it. There are more than 250 fixes/changes that come with these new versions. I decided that a patch would be too bothersome to implement in a batch release. On top of that, episode 6 will require an entirely fresh encode.

It’s my fault however for not picking up on these mistakes the first time around. You can direct the blame towards me.

Lastly, as many of you know, the final BD volume of GuP is going to be released on 6/21. We’ll put the batch release out some time after that.

Recruiting Typesetter

Yep. You should at least know, in theory, how to do complex typesetting. Being fast isn’t required, which is the benefit of being part of a sub group that’s not a seasonal speedsub group.

So if you’ve been dabbling, and feel confident you can handle almost anything given enough time, now would be a good time to see what you can do for a group that needs stuff done.
Shoot me an email: farfie@qq.com

TLRD Finished!

Wow, finished on one of the first things we decided to pick up (or was it the first actually? I can’t remember). Seems like it took longer than it was supposed to, but we got everything out in an orderly time frame… I guess it just seems like longer than it should have taken.

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Anyway season 2 is already announced (not it’s not, sorry Doom for getting your hopes up! But thanks for correcting me anyway) an OVA was announced, and yes, of course we’re going to do it. It’s of my opinion that this show is proof that God exists, even if Tim the Kangaroo tries to convince you otherwise. You probably already have your own opinion on this matter, but you can’t deny that Mikan’s heavenly presence makes you think twice… “God definitely put her here for me. No doubt about it.”

Credits:
Everything: Farfie

Please enjoy! I know I have… way, way too much.

why australia needs white castle and how we condense down our appreciation of anime into “more than it is”

i don’t actually know anything about epistemology other than entry-level xD sceptic hypothesis but let me tell you about bullshit 

whenever the fuck i read a book i’m personally quite interested in overexpanding on the content for more value than its worth; it lets me reflect on whatever texts i’ve read / written on and then i can always seem like i know a lot more than i do. people are fucking intimidated by big words. one of the reasons word counts exist on essays in academic structures is to prevent individuals who would otherwise write ever-expanding bullshit and bluff their way to a degree from being able to get away with that (but, of course, the bar needs to be set at a specific point – and considering the epidemic of idiocy, that’s quite low ~ although farfie would have you believe that everyone is a beautiful individual, he’s a cunt for it, just go listen to Tyler Durden’s speech and then rant in your little head for a while about how you’re not and see where it leaves you) and instead cram their thoughts into a more manageable, malleable and refined fashion (incidentally, academia will kill you). anyway, overexpanding.

its the same with anime, or at least, that’s why im watching less of it lately. one of the reasons i think (and i do, whatever my prose would have you think otherwise) shounen sits so well with younger people is we’re much more impressionable  and can see more themes that we enjoy in bleach, naruto and so on. as we become older and more cynical we start to determine that we’re meant for better things, so we read edgy people (like nietzsche, and like watching sakamichi no apollon). at this point, /a/ (stand-in for animefags) diverges into two extremes:

• those who have given up on meaning and like cartoon girls doing cute cartoon things (or just amusing shit; lupin goes here)
• those who havent given up on meaning and insist upon seeing sincere deep characters doing things with greater impetus and resolve as a result of a history of generation their character, or in other words, depth

as for me, i’m of the mindset that fuck both – eventually, the second one becomes destructive and has to leave the anime field. it’s only so long that one can sustain pretentions of being deep while watching cartoons. i don’t want to say that you can’t analyse things, or that meaning is anything more than what you make of it (<insert postmodernist bullshit here>), but that holy shit i’ve gotten bored of trying to look for it. it gets to the point where, of the three different solutions for the absurdist dilemma that Camus posits in his Myth of Sisyphus, that you can’t dismiss suicide & philosophical suicide (killing yourself or adopting religion as a cure to failing to find meaning in real life) from the maintaining of the pursuit; they’re all ‘leaps of faith’ in a sense, and most extremely anime; you’ve really got to take for granted that there’s meaning there.

or maybe the correct path isn’t to take any meaning at all and just enjoy things for what they are. but who the fuck would be happy with that? don’t you all have the stream of thought that “man is made for better things” or that we should “BECOME HARD” for the sake of a gloriously phallic parable (google: The Hammer Speaks)

anyway, the line of thought I’m trying to build up is something along the lines of a discussion of the following image, which I’m sure you’ve all seen too many times (if you’re a social media fag especially, but I’m not, because (here’s a joke) man is made for better things)

 

in a sense, to enjoy anime, you have to imagine that the curtains are more than blue.

in another sense, you just sort of tell yourself that it doesn’t matter and watch mildly amusing shit for the sake of being mildly amused. has anyone ever actually sat down, with a chinese cartoon, and found some incredibly gripping meaning in it? and don’t you go fucking commenting on this shit as contending “naruto is full of deep and important meaning” because its not, of course its fucking not, why the fuck would it be, its just supposed to be cool and you’re overdetermining content into meaning whenever you try to discuss themes. 

maybe i’m fucking with the ‘real’ too much, maybe i should let you enjoy cartoons (maybe there’s a part of my mind that is specifically fearful of articulating my thoughts in a highly developed and formidable prose fashion for the basis of either not wanting to disturb your enjoyment – because why would you be on farfie subs if not for anime – or being fearful for your enlightened – maybe im being a cunt, maybe not – criticism of my thought processes). whatever the case, if any of this made sense to you, i hope you’ll all sign the following petition:

 

alright now im fucking upset i made this really nice petition for white castle in australia and it disappeared so im going to give you the image i drew and PEACE

 

oh, one afterthought, have this: 

http://imgur.com/gallery/GKuF2

and you should say to yourself

‘im glad i love anime’

go on, say it

 

 

ONE MORE FUCKING THING

ONE OF YOU FUCKERS DONATED MONEY THROUGH THE BITCOIN DONATION THING

I PERSONALLY THINK YOU’RE A CUNT BUT FARFIE SAYS THANK YOU AND HE DOESN’T THINK YOU DESERVE YOUR OWN POST

P.S. IF YOU TAKE CREDIT FOR IT YOU LOSE THE KIND WORDS IM TYPING HERE AND YOU GET TO BE SEEN FOREVER AS A CUNT

 

Joshiraku “finished”

The TL of our dreams never showed up, so the previews remain untranslated. We decided that it was okay though, since they’re just previews, and you can just fully watch the next episode. If this was a TV airing or the like, we would obviously not go for this. We will never release something with main dialogue unfinished. Not that we have any plans at this point to do TV shows, but who knows what might come along in the future.

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Credits are all me again. Gets pretty lonely sometimes…

Rinne no Lagrange?

Yep! One of our new guys really wanted to do this. I was like: “sure, I’ll have it…” without the crush at the end (I hope people get that). Oh yeah, and I deleted the first one I uploaded because I didn’t realize that what I originally had as NCOP and NCED weren’t actually that. They had credits. So I removed them and re-uploaded… sorry about that.

BDs

QC – Nova
Everything else – Farfie

Oh and about that really random post on the front page? That’s Tim’s Philosophy Corner. He’s an angsty teenager who just started college majoring in Philosophy. I know it turns the site into something more meta than people would usually want, but as long as it doesn’t appear in our anime I don’t think people can get too angry. He just wants to sometimes post when he feels strongly about something, usually Political or Philosophy related. I thought it might be an amusing experience so I made him an author here.
Now this is usually the part where I should say something like: “if you hate him, just ignore him.” But no. Instead, I’ll tell you: if you hate him, TELL HIM he’s a stupid jerk that doesn’t know crap. I do it every day anyway…

Why the fuck are you here?
Here’s an excerpt from me dismissing Farfie’s requests for me to pseudophilosophise on this blog on Skype:
“if you’re getting your philosophy from a wordpress dedicated to glorifying your anime experience to the epitome of QUALITY, you’re cheating yourself. If you’re getting it from an institution, you’re subjugating yourself. If you’re getting it from me, you’re fucking yourself. From Farfie, stunting. From anime, cheaply and blindly. Everything is wrong, fuck off and watch cartoons.”

And seriously, you should fucking follow it.
I know the cunt champions the internet as the greatest achievement in history but fuck off, you’re being a lazy cunt, so am I, so is he;
didn’t people in the past do shit with their time? Or was it just different modes of wasting it?

Fuck, it’s an irritating thought, and if it doesn’t bug you, maybe you should read a book. Or don’t, here’s the segue to actually philosophy (l0l):

So, utilitarians. Ethics. Maximise pleasure. Bitches love pleasure.
John Stuart Mill was like ‘How the fuck does one determine if it’s better to be an ignorant proletariat scumbag enjoying the pleasures of a world he thinks he understands or an utterly depressed but wise Socrates?’ and then he decided on the latter without much consideration. I don’t really want to argue for it, I just want you to think about it, because fuck it whenever you watch a cartoon over studying / finding a girl (you’re not asexual and you’re not taken and you’re not above it and you’re not gay or a girl) / making the world a better place, you’re basically taking the first of the two options:

But, then again, it doesn’t matter, because if this post hasn’t motivated you to get off your ass, you’re a nerd anyway and I’m not going to be able to motivate you away from whatever the fuck you’re doing; ‘the miracles of eloquence can only be expected from the man who thinks on his legs’ (Emerson), now fuck off and do something productive.

I’m only writing this because IF someone does, then I, by extension, have effectively contributed to some production on someone else’s account, and thus given something back to what the fuck I’m stewing in (the world!) – but I’m not detracting from your activity, just sort of gleaning from it / basking in the glorious radiance while I sit back and continue farming because I don’t actually have it; it’s 20 minutes and I’m enjoying missing all of my last hits on Spectre, floating brown boots and the recipe, nothing more.

TLRD Vol. 5 and Vividred Vol. 2

It’s probably completely against my better judgment to attempt to seed a second show before the first finishes, but it’s also against our policy to make people wait any longer than they have to. Policy won this time; be patient and good things will come.

Vividred
TLRD