No.129059[Last50 Posts]
The scorching heat of
summer has arrived and it's time for a new round of shows to distract us from our bodies melting!
https://www.livechart.me/summer-2024/tvhttps://anilist.co/search/anime?season=SUMMERWhat are you going to watch?
Will Oshi no Ko give Kana official main character status as she deserves? Is the time of /qa/ belly anime finally here? Will the fansubs of Dedede save us from mediocrity?
FIND OUT IN THE 2024 SUMMER ANIME SEASON! No.129061
Excited for:
Oshikko 2
Gimai Seikatsu (Heard about the LN a while ago, always wanted to read it)
Thinking of trying:
Alya-san
ATRI
Koi wa Futago
Katsute Mahou Shoujo to Aku wa Tekitai Shiteita
Senpai wa Otokonoko
Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai
Make heroine
Shoushimin series
Rick and Morty the Anime (what the FUCK)
Nige Jouzu no Wakagami
fat elf anime
Dungeon no Naka no Hito
Mayonaka Punch
na-nare hana-nare
0 Saiju Start Dash Monogatari
Tasuketsu
And will probably try all the isekai/fantasy stuff.
No.129070
Sengoku Youko continues, so that one for sure.
Shika no ko nokonoko Koshitan-tan? Shika no ko nokonoko Koshitan-tan.
Nige-Jouzu looks neat.
Shoushimin is from the author of Hyouka, make of that what you will.
But I'm really not sure about anything else...
No.129086
Move over Patchy, I'm trying to read about kissu's show of the season.
No.129087
>>129086maybe if it had released two years ago
No.129232
I think I've found the Monogatari show for me
https://anilist.co/anime/177879/0-Saiji-Start-Dash-Monogatari/Seems like a generic premise, but she's cute and it's a short so it's not like it can overstay its welcome
No.129235
>>129232>it's a shortand so is she!
No.129236
dumb shorttard
No.129237
shortard
No.129242
I dont really watch new stuff that much, but that new deer anime has me hooked lol. The only new anime i watched this year was Gushing over magical girls.
No.129278
>>129273>ending theme>by Mori CalliopeSNEAKY NEAKY NEAKY NEAKY
No.129281
the OP/ED look kinda cheaply made
i'll check out its regular animation out of curiosity
No.129285
>>129281The fuck are you talking about? The OP looks absolutely gorgeous, so much movement and activity in each shot even if there's not technically a lot of 'movement'.
Also, while I'm a complete sub purist, I feel like this might be one of the extremely rare almost never exceptions to where I'd prefer the dub to the sub (if it exists? don't see any english cast listings). Dub actors are dogshit, but actual English VAs? Especially the ones for Batman and DC animated stuff? They're great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5vNY_FJeEAlso the Batman cartoon and Batman Beyond were two of my favorite cartoons when I was younger so I can't be too skeptical of a new animated project since maybe it could be great and DC's just letting WIT do whatever instead of heading the project like they did with all their disaster movies.
No.129291
>>129285>I can't be too skepticalIt's a promotional anime for a DOA live-service game following the same strategy of stapling the currently popular thing to an existing IP expecting it to sell. How can you have a single ounce of hope for this?
No.129292
>>129291>It's a promotional anime for a DOA live-service gameWell...
but yeah for a comic book thing it could go either way. If they're given enough freedom and comic book writers and everyone else that doomed that industry aren't involved then it has potential. The characters are great and they used to be VERY enjoyable as I share
>>129285's opinion. Man, it's depressing to think America used to produce such great 2D stuff so relatively recently. I wouldn't count on the English voice actors being any good, though, the 90s had ex-theater people and so on.
It never hurts to rub more salt in the wound of an industry that has fallen so far.
No.129293
>>129285>The OP looks absolutely gorgeous, so much movement and activity in each shot even if there's not technically a lot of 'movement'.There's still massive concern that it's just wearing the skin of a good show, since it's a western IP, connected to the current culture war. Seeing that episodes are storyboarded and directed by japanese staff is reassuring but it's a western IP with potentially a
strong female "character". A big holoEN vtuber being involved also doesn't bode well, since it indicates a desire to appeal to the "Western Audience"; which usually seems to end in missing the mark completely on what the "Western Audience" watches anime for.
The show definitely deserves a chance but it's a western IP with the possibility of being caught in the current culture war; a large dose of skepticism is deserved.
No.129294
>>129293There are retarded people having retarded internet battles over everything so I'm not sure why you'd bring that stuff up. Batman stuff used to be good. It might be good again in Japanese hands.
No.129295
>>129294That makes no sense. The Japanese had no hand in the batman cartoons you watched as a kid. Why would putting a property even further away from the people who made it improve anything? The Japanese aren't innately better at everything, that's stupid weeaboo logic. They even did a batman anime a few years ago and it wasn't any good.
No.129299
>>129295It's not that it's in their hands specifically but it's out of the hands of the people that have been doing so poorly with it.
No.129300
>>129285>The fuck are you talking about?It's impressive, the more I look at it the worse it gets.
Let me enumerate, to make a point: first you have a bat just moving down and pretending to rotate by slowly shifting its texture towards the left, then it's a 3D model doing it, then Deadshot standing still under the rain, a living bat which admittedly looks nice, the static prison they slowly zoom into, now it's Peacemaker standing in the rain with minimal movement, Harley isn't moving either, Clayface I like, King Shark is completely flat and again slowly moving towards the right, buncha bones slightly rotating, the tiny fetish also slowly rotates insode of more still bones, the enchantress looks up, da Jokah smiles... It's slow not just in movement but in the time it takes compared to other OP/EDs, which is
over fifty seconds. Across all of this, the camera is staying still. It's at most zooming into things or slowly panning. It's a lot of nothing, it attempts to introduce its cast one at a time with a single shot each but there's practically no meaning to it. Why do Peacemaker and Deadshot do the exact same thing when they're completely different characters? If you want to hint at a tragic anything, why not use something beyond rain=sad by actually reflecting past or future events? The only one I can say I like is Clayface, contrasting a sickly-looking mug and creeping mud against his good looks elsewhere. Some of them have good motion, but it's still extremely simple and takes more than half the OP to do, for the sake of what? Giving you a conveyor belt of portraits? It's very poor for a gallery.
So nearly 2/3rds of the OP consists of displaying one thing at a time with largely simple movement, and the other third is people... moving, without much coherence.
Cloud girl is falling down, the dragon winds up his breath attack and then without animating it cuts to the flames hitting a water tank, but why? There's no one there, only bricks fall from it. Then the characters are falling... from somewhere that isn't the tank, a guy flies in front of a cloud, Katana is on her own far away standing on.... something, looking at... some other thing, and then the crew runs across nondescript terrain, fleeing from... another thing we don't see, if it's the dragon then they should've included it in the shot. The other girl brings us back to slow rotations and then Harley screams, why? Because of the lightning? Why not show them together in one continuous shot rather than with a weird jumpcut? Then Ratcatcher waves and once more you have flat wolves moving from right to left, cliché hand thingy, and then I don't even know what I'm looking at, all I know is that it's moving slowly again because maybe it got hit but there's no indication of what may have happened, now the crew is slowly walking forward while there's a black cloud behind them, and finally the princess slowly falls backwards to vaguely hint at her downfall? With no connection to anything else, isolated. It's random in a bad way, even for a montage it's really bad.
But the weirdest part is the music, actually. It sounds like the background to a classic car chase and it's pretty uniform throughout, it's not a rollercoaster like you'd find in so many songs which makes it rather odd compared to all the other OP/EDs. The problem is that it's really, really basic for video to be paced according to the music, but that doesn't happen here, it's kind of a slideshow of regular intervals. The most noteworthy shift comes when the dragon is introduced but then the track continues to be uniform in a different way. You have many images with varying tones which are simply not conveyed by the music, it's like it was hastily pasted together into a ball of glue. But it's not paste, that's for sure.
It's like they put together a bunch of snippets made separately with the backing of whatever music they could muster. Compare SQ's OP to Salad Bowl's, DanMeshi's, Urusei, Mushoku, Konosuba, it's night and day. There is so much more going on with so much better pacing and continuity. Nevermind anime, manga music videos do a much better job at everything here. I hope you won't say now that the ED is good, because it looks fucking abysmal. It's a ton of still sprites, some with added fluttering, and gifs of Amanda dancing pasted repeatedly over a flat backgound. What little animation there is in its random gesticulations most definitely doesn't make up for it.
No.129302
>>129295>The Japanese had no hand in the batman cartoons you watched as a kid.no one tell him
No.129304
>>129295Look at this dude
No.129310
>>129294The issue is how much those Japanese hands influenced the show over how much those retarded people influenced the show.
No.129312
>>129303All the names are still American there. Outsourced animation work doesn't exactly have a meaningful impact on the production, unless you think Chinese and Koreans are the ones responsible for making anime good.
No.129313
>>129312It's literally the entire studio in this case. Japanese studios usually only outsource in-between frame.
>Chinese and KoreansIt's mostly Viets these days.
No.129353
>>129292>I wouldn't count on the English voice actors being any good, though, the 90s had ex-theater people and so on. Those people from the 90s still exist and there's good performances still. That said, apparently the dub was by a normal dub studio so it's godawful once again. No idea how you fuck up a DC property's dub when basically the cast is handed to you and all you have to do is get the voice actors to reprise roles. Everyone sounds like a discount/bargain bin version of someone better. Guess there's no exception once again.
No.129359
>>129353if this is true it would explain why the joker especially sounded so strange but for some reason the english voice actors are not even listed in the official site or credits or anywhere else it's only the seiyuus
No.129361
although listening to the japanese dialogue they sound kinda generic
No.129362
>>129361they sound genericish yeah but still miles better than any dub actors
No.129363
>>129362harley sounds like just about any girl out there instead of her distinctive accent and joker isn't joker at all while deadshot is some rando with no previous roles
peacemaker is dio and that doesn't make much sense to me either, though clayface i can't say for sure since it's a different take on him
generally weird stuff
No.129367
>>129313I know US companies will outsource entire segments to foreign studios, but they're still just doing animation, not the writing or direction.
No.129424
Fighter has a season 2 annouce
No.129425
Rangers*
No.129440
> Sengoku Youko: Senma Konton-hen
> The second and third cours of Sengoku Youko, adapting the "Thousand Chaos Demons" arc.
16 Days
No.129462
>>129441Oh yeah, the story focuses on Senya now. Sengoku Youko is divided into 2 parts with 2 main characters, first with Jinka and the second with Senya.
Depending on who you ask, this second part is the real story and Senya is the real main character, but either way things get really crazy and exciting from here on out
No.129500
>>129499am I really that retarded when it comes to transcoding? it looks perfectly fine on my end. All I did was
ffmpeg -c:v libvpx-vp9 -c:a libvorbis No.129501
>>129500Great, I'm retarded at posting too. Meant to code block.
No.129502
dangerous code snippet
No.129504
ye, it does this on firefox and chrome. You used some forbidden tech
No.129526
>>129525I'm giving it two more episodes. I don't think it'll get close to Chobits or anything but I like the premise especially now that such technology might happen within my life time. When Chobits first aired I didn't think I would live to see it. I've actually been trying to buy the parts needed to build my own Gatebox as of late.
I won't buy the one they're selling right now because it's hooked up to "the cloud"/"AI" and I can't design my own waifu. I want one but I want it to be locally hosted on my home server. I'm sure it'd be much cheaper to have multiple holograph boxes so she can follow me around the house (and in my car!). I'll admit I almost bought the 6 foot tall version though.
Plus the lag with them is awful if you live outside of Japan. Since all queries go to Japanese AWS server.
Kind of off topic sorry...
I liked the first episode. Sure nothing happened. But it didn't do anything to turn me off. If nothing happens in the next episode though I'll probably drop it as well.
No.129527
>>129500Admittedly I'm not an expert in vp9 codec but this looks like a screwed up IDR-frame to me. Could just be how your browser is decoding it. I don't feel like downloading it and picking it apart right now.
This is just proof that you can't throw random stuff at ffmpeg and expect good results. All codecs will shit the bed sometimes randomly depending on the source and software involved.
No.129528
>>129526>I won't buy the one they're selling right now because it's hooked up to "the cloud"/"AI" and I can't design my own waifu.A huge turn off for me too, from anything that will be advertised for the mass. My ideal is creating my own from scratch, with my own model and customizations. Far from that right now, but I'm on my way there...
No.129529
>>129528Yeah I don't understand why the all-in-one home server solution for a lot of stuff isn't the norm. Well I don't understand why no one is marketing it at least. I understand why big companies don't want to do it: They want to make money off the data.
But imagine a company that sold an all-in-one easy to set-up and use package that did:
- media server
- security camera recording/streaming
- personal AI waifu maid
- ran video games and streamed them to every display device in your house (or over the internet)
- storing home movies/photos with way to back up your photos from all your devices
- ...and much much more...
People would buy it. Even if it cost $1k people would buy it. You could even make a lot of money selling dumb terminals/mini-PCs/set-top devices that were plug-and-play with it.
If I had the funding I would build and market such a thing. The home server hobby proves there is a market. Hell most of those guys would give up their homebrew solutions with Linux if someone provided something as simple to use as Apple/Android devices that solved the problem. All the software is already written to. Someone just needs to integrate it all together with a nice UI.
On the subject of robowaifus in particular: There is no way in hell I want some robot (or hologram) that is in my home 24/7 talking to a server I don't control (or the internet at all for that matter. Maybe through a reverse proxy I control. _maybe_)
Oh and I know a guy that's building homebrew robowaifus. He's making good progress. He collaborates with that guy that runs the robomaid cafe in Tokyo. The stuff they're building for cheap is already really impressive. I want to visit the cafe whenever I go to Tokyo again. I've chatted with the owner a few times and he's a really cool dude. I've heard the coffee he serves is really great to.
Video related is his place. Those are all built using off the shelf parts and are running on way less CPU than you might expect.
My issue is I can't find anyone to sell the same holograms being used by the Gatebox wholesale. I'm sure they'll start showing up cheap soon though. The Gatebox is a really cool product. It just doesn't have good latency if you're outside of Japan at the moment and I don't like the TOS where they're selling your data to third parties. It also doesn't support English at all. Which isn't an issue for most people around here. But it's a hard sale for most people in the west. No one wants to learn a second language just to interact with a toy. Also it relies on IR blasters to control devices. Which doesn't work well unless you live in an apartment or small home. Most people in the west would need at least 3 to control all their stuff. A long with retrofitting everything from their AC/Heating unit to their coffee pots.
No.129539
>>129059Is Tensei Shitara Slime really that popular? I only read part of the LN and thought it got old around when the dragon girl shows up
No.129540
>>129539People seem to really love it. I snoop upon watch habits on my server. Pretty much everyone gobbles that show up the moment it hits our server.
No.129544
>>129540That's surprising to me. Even I was who was watching every episode the last season in a fairly timely manner have found myself stalling on the latest season because it was just so much talking.
No.129546
>>129540you run a streaming site or something...?
No.129550
Das vidanya
No.129554
>>129549I'm not really a speaker of Russian, I just studied it for six months with a friend, but somehow whenever she spoke in Russian it bothered me. Making me consider whether to continue watching, but it might just be that I know nothing about Russian. To be fair, Russian shouldn't be pronounced cutely, even if it's by a cute girl. It's like Korean, it's a language that can't be cute. Perhaps that was what bothered me.
No.129555
Everything sounds better with a Japanese accent
No.129561
>>129554To be fair. I don't know much Russian myself but everytime she spoke in Russian I got second hand embarrassment. Even more so the fact that the MC understood her. It was like me speaking my native language in between speaking English with the natives, I could never.
No.129831
>>129830>Megami CafeOh, didn't try it because I don't think I've watched the first season.
No.129833
>>129832Heh, looks nice. Might give it a try.
No.129834
>>129833If I remember right it takes a little bit to get into the proper story, with there being a bit of a plot change after the first episode or two, but then it's smooth sailing from there. The serious moments are decent enough, too, so it's not just all just boobs and humor, although I do think the humor is its strong suit. Great outfits, too.
First episode of season 2 was pretty good, so I have high hopes.
No.129975
>>129974It's an anime with absolutely abysmal subs from MTL and official.
No.129976
>>129974I thought shikanokonokonokokoshi
tantan was pretty well known around here
No.129989
>>129979I just bit this 'ab
No.130004
was this cour of spice and wolf devoid of drama/action?
No.130011
>>130008I scanned through the latest episode and it was very sol
No.130013
>>130012i have no recollection of the second half of the first season...
No.130014
>>130013Oh wait, the first cour? Yeah, the second half is quite action-y near the end.
No.130080
>>129546It's more like private netflix for friends, family and random people I let on. We're upgrading to fiber next month to support more users.
>>129975Both subtitles are MTL. It's decent enough if you can understand basic Japanese and the references. Not sure why everyone is mad about the first episode. I'll continue watching it just for the practice with spoken Japanese since my ability to understand has gotten kind of bad these last few years as I stopped consuming so much media and don't get many chances to speak the language in person anymore.
>>130047I watched this and the vtuber show this morning. They both seem decent enough. Although, I'm not sure if they can keep the vtuber thing going for 12 episodes and keep it interesting.
I'm going to check out the second episode of the robowaifu anime tonight once I finished the last three of last season's train anime.
No.130089
>>130047I went into this one expecting it to be some cheap youtuber anime cashgrab at first and was assaulted by high budget PA Works. Then I find out that the doing youtube part didn't even really make up much of the first episode at all and it focused a lot more on gags poking fun at the MC alongside a gracious amount of time with the vampires. Usually in these kinds of shows I'd say the vampires are the meat and bones of character that make up most of the personality but this MC's got quite the character of her own. A bit bitchy and violent and smug, but her heart's in the right place of wanting to be the best at what she does.
I'm quite interested in seeing where this goes especially since it seems like they're not shying away from playing up the supernatural element.
No.130090
>>130084I wanted to kill myself watching the second episode of this and apparently it's also rushed to hell and skipped a bunch of fanservice/ecchi for no reason so I dropped it.
No.130091
>>130090was it really that bad? I just enjoyed the loli and that's about it. Honestly, don't even remember the plot to it.
No.130094
>>130091It was exceedingly boring and I was already poised against it from the start of episode 1 for being a budget Solo Leveling so it was probably trend chasing and it looks bad and there was no fanservice or eye candy to merit sticking around for even that. So pairing all that with the mind-numbingly cookie cutter isekai dungeon progression made me realize I shouldn't be pounding nails into my skull and instead focus on things that aren't pandering to mush brain.
No.130095
>>130094>a budget Solo LevelingEhhh... it didn't seem anything like that to me. It's just some forgettable generic MC undeservedly surrounded by cute girls, isn't it? It's definitely stupid, but stupid stuff can be enjoyable if it's cute.
I guess it depends on the personalty and humor of the girls, but I do like the blue-haired one, so the worry would be that she get sidelined for a harem type of deal which is quite possible.
No.130096
>>130090>skipped fanservice/ecchiThey dare skip loli fanservice/ECCHI from us! Blasphemy!!
No.130101
>>130095Well I mean I just skimmed the manga to see what the fanservice was like and in doing so I also came across the arc that encompasses Lucelia's summoning and inside of it she's summoned first as an adult evil demon that they spend a few chapters fighting against until eventually beating her into a pulp where she takes on that loli form in the anime.
>>130096More like oppai service. The artist seems to like boobs a whole lot more from what I read.
No.130105
>>130101￥beat up an adult till she turns into your harem lolioh if only the world worked like that..
No.130107
>>130101lmaoing@leftmost one
it's just her tits and nothing else
No.130201
>>130089She's just a violent, full-of-herself bitch and I hope more bad things happen to her. The show has enough to make me overlook the youtuber anime thing, but it smells like a classic PA Works flop to me.
No.130202
I liked Akiba Maid War, Buddy Daddies, and Skip to Loafer.
No.130220
i like how oshiko frames good and bad characters
No.130226
>>130220really? To me it's more one of these boring "no one really is at fault for anything it was all a misunderstanding" that plagues so much of Japanese writing.
Giving motivation to errors is fine. But simply relieving all characters of any fault worse than "communication failure" is lazy and cowardly
No.130227
>>130201I hope the series leans into Youtube-chan being a complete spiteful sociopath and that she gets rightfully bullied for it.
No.130229
>>130226The author is obviously an asshole and it's setting her up for a glorious failure that aqua has to save
No.130250
>>130201>violent>full-of-herself bitch￥genki￥true to herselfFrom what was shown in the first episode, I like her.
No.130256
>>130253I liked how this show starts by saying that NBR is fucking shit and not worth it, then spends the next 22 minutes proving that fact.
No.130271
>>130269The concept isn't very novel, but the visuals are quite nice.
It kind of reminds me of Frieren at times, which does mean it leans heavily into the post-processing stuff with chromatic aberration and depth of field blurring and other stuff that kind of annoys me.
No.130324
>>129858Been bugging me how you called the style "generic" and "unimpressive", it's
CUTE, the style is
CUTE; generic would be the kind of style in Gimai Seikatsu, now that's generic, Dungeon no Naka no Hito is
CUTE!!!
No.130329
>>130328I checked the DeerGod release of episode 1 when it came out the other day. It's a really good translation. I can't see how anyone could do better. I don't know what the other one is but I'm assuming it's just the re-worked official subtitles from the youtube channel. I wouldn't bother with it.
No.130330
>>130328>>130329Okay I just looked. [YouDeer] is the cartel and they're already crying in the comment section about getting beaten. So I wouldn't bother with them going forward unless the anons behind DeerGod decide not to do further episodes. If you like Commie-level of translation then YouDeer is probably for you.
No.130334
https://www.diffchecker.com/Y3aH195g/This translation is really funny and I'm going to shit on it. The opening is obviously written by someone that can't speak Japanese and isn't familiar with the references. Every joke has been localized badly. "Conan-kun" is now "Sherlock" and Columbo used for another reference.
Then we have this;
>All according to keikaku. (Translator's note: keikaku means plan)and they somehow left in the "horns" mistake despite having over a week to correct it.
There is a lot more. But the above is enough to turn me off anything this "group" puts out. The encode itself is also really bad because they filtered it for no reason while using the same WEBrip as everyone else. So they bloated up the file size just so someone else could list their username in the credits.
No idea why they even bothered considering they got beaten by a better group in two days. It's obvious no one in this group can speak even basic Japanese.
No.130340
>>130324It can look generic and unimpressive and still be a great show. It's just... so unremarkable. The girls can be cute and it can be fun, but ehh, it still doesn't
look very noteworthy.
No.130402
>>130396>to compare with officialThe problem is that the official is retarded MTL and barely coherent at times. The only really 'good' releases in terms of coherence right now are [YouDeer], [DeerGod], and supposedly [LWL]. But the big debate is between [YouDeer] and [DeerGod] with the former being very much Commie-style localized while [DeerGod] is much more accurate to what's being said.
No.130405
Allow me to offer you another choice for episode 2. It isn't localized. We even have Onee-chan and everything! But seriously, if you liked our Onimai release you'll probably be okay with this. Been up since midnight last night TLing, editing, timing and QCing it. Probably isn't perfect but what is.
MEGA:
https://mega.nz/folder/gvdAzCpB#-h3qzzfjCfJflLDfDkpIeAMEGA includes torrents if you want those. Don't want to post the large magnets here but I will if someone needs them. It's on our XDCC bot on #miyosmiyos@rizon as well. Use trigger !shikaAVC or !shikaHEVC for the version you want.
Original translation not based on anyone else's. It's probably a little rough around the edges in some places but what do you expect for two guys working together for 5 hours. TLer went to sleep hours ago and stuck me with finishing alone.
No idea if we'll do more episodes. We just wanted to put out something a little more polished than LWL and all the MTL/not-MTL/whatever attempts. If you find any errors let me know.
.ass script on MEGA if you want to use it for different audio/video source. If someone could post it on nyaa that would be great. I included a .txt file in the archive for you to copy/paste.
No.130407
>>130405I know it isn't you guys. But I really hate when I push something out like this. First 3 people that grabbed both of the files didn't stick around to seed. Then the swarm grew to 20+ each on both files. Now I'm seeding out to all those people on a connection that's already flooded with other things.
I really need to spend the coin on a dedicated seedbox if I'm going to keep releasing stuff.
No.130408
>>130405>>130407I downloaded the zip and will watch it soon, but I gotta say that I really prefer the trimmed down ASW releases. I don't really notice any drop in quality in my display. I think only people with bigass 4k monitors get any real noticeable benefit from downloading those huge file sizes.
Also, I can't find your release on nyaa yet.
No.130409
>>130408>Also, I can't find your release on nyaa yet.Because no one has uploaded it. I can't because they refuse to reactivate my old accounts.
>I prefer ASWASW hasn't released episode 2 yet. I used the best HEVC source I could find. Didn't encode these. I don't bother encoding WEBrips because there is no point in putting in the effort to filter them when the BD is coming out in a few months anyway.
No.130442
>>130441there's been a fair bit of them even last season had mahoako
No.130443
I love this dude.
>>130442Haven't watched mahoako...... missed my chance to weekly it and now it's in the backlog blackhole...
No.130454
>>130443You should pick it up now that the BDs are out. It's really fun. I miss my weekly magical girl rapefest
No.130462
>>1304614 of 4! Okay this one is long and it's the last minute of the show so kind of spoilery, or at least as much of a spoiler as the end of the first episode of something new can be.
I don't know why no one else (well okay one person does) sees the beauty and potential in this...
No.130619
>>130477The new thread button is right there in the corner...
No.131181
>>130405We're back with episode 3. Managed to get it out before the CR release and much better quality this time around. We had a new person show up that was really good at doing signs and typesetting. He also timed the entire thing. Same TLer as last time. We have some TL notes for you this week as well.
You can DDL it here along with all the extras:
https://mega.nz/folder/omF1DR7K#TBTMsqCdrUQcAoZd38povAIt's up on nyaa as well:
https://nyaa.si/view/1848008All the extras are attached to the .mkv file as well. So if you grab it from the torrent just open the attachments in the .mkv if you want TL notes, a pdf related to the TL notes and all that good stuff.
Going forward we're only going to do an HEVC version. Since the source video isn't that great and a higher quality one always comes out on Sundays in the west. If you need an AVC file because your toaster can't handle HEVC grab the .ass from the /scripts/ directory along with the fonts then mux them into whatever AVC version you have.
If there are a lot of requests I might consider releasing AVC versions as well. But last week the HEVC was downloaded more than the AVC. So I didn't bother with it. I have to do everything twice if we do an AVC release and I'm kind of lazy. I don't want to re-encode AVC as well. Since the quality will only suffer no matter what kind of filtering I do and the source we get mid-week isn't that great. I did do a bit of filtering to improve the visual quality this time around though. It's probably the best version you can find until CR versions are dumped on Sunday.
Really interested to see how CR does compared to our script this week. They did a decent job last week. But even our rushed translation was better imo but I'm biased of course.
So far it looks like we have enough interest in this show to keep doing it going forward. Although the week where our usual series comes out it might be delayed by a couple of days.
No.131183
>>131181Cool to see you guys doing this and even cooler that you're here posting on kissu!
So, uhh.. what is HEVC and AVC? Is it just file compression stuff?
No.131184
>>131183They are two different video codecs. AVC is over 20 years old now. It's what you typically found in an .mkv file up until about 5-8 years ago. HEVC is a newer codec that allows you to get better quality at a smaller file size. It's basically an extension of the AVC standard.
We use HEVC because it has native 10-bit color space support on all devices that support the standard (pretty much everything released in the last decade). AVC standard does not require a device to support its 10-bit color space. So support for it is spotty at the best of times. However, 10-bit AVC became the "fansub standard" long ago. So the majority of stuff is released in it. Meaning the majority of stuff can't be played on lots of devices.
You want the 10-bit color because it prevents banding in flat areas of the image. You have to throw A LOT of bits at something to prevent it in 8-bit AVC.
Since I/we target set-top device support like Roku, Xbox, AppleTV, Firestick and others I standardized on HEVC last year. It just werks everywhere. Trust me I've done a lot of testing on various devices. Also anything that can handle HEVC typically can handle the typesetting in .ass files. With very few exceptions for very advanced karaoke effects and such.
If your computer or device is less than 15 years old you shouldn't worry too much about it. It can likely run either AVC or HEVC. People argue all the time about one being better than the other. But in truth they're both just fine for the file sizes people release anime in these days.
The main reason I use HEVC for my personal media server is the fact that files are half the size compared to AVC versions. Meaning I can store double the amount of anime in my limited HDD space. Right now I'm hosting/serving over 1,000 full series, OVAs and movies in about 4TB of HDD space. If I were using AVC I'd have to double that easy.
No.131185
>>131183>>131184Oh and since your pic related is an EMBER release you're already using HEVC. Wish I would have noticed before I typed all that. Just chiming in again to say if anyone here can't run HEVC releases let me know. I'll make an AVC one just for you.
No.131193
>>131184Huh, on Roku and Firestick and stuff? Does that mean people jailbreak those to play other media files on them or something? I just have my computer so that stuff is alien to me.
I don't pay much attention to this stuff since I delete most shows after the season ends, leaving me just the obsessive amount of screenshots I take. (apart from really nice shows I download BDs of eventually).
I think the Samurai show is an example of a show I'd probably want the BD of someday. Well, not physically since I don't have the money...
It's really nice to be living in the age of the cheap multi-TB hard drive.
No.131194
>>131193>Does that mean people jailbreak those to play other media files on them or something?You don't have to jailbreak them. Most of them let you install a player/client for free directly from the app store. Most of them even have KODI listed in the app store. I host anime on a streaming server and my users access it through those devices. It basically looks/run like netflix or similar services. You can browse through the library and it keeps up with your progress. Pic related is from my home screen for the PleX side of my server. It isn't the best example because I load up a lot of stuff just to check it (hence all the episode 1s of different series). I manually check most things when I add them.
Anyway, you log-in to my server on your device and it will allow you to remotely stream the content. Since they all support HEVC my server doesn't have to transcode. It simply sends the video+audio track+subtitle track to the client device for decoding. For content with multiple audio/subtitle tracks the extra tracks aren't sent over the network. Just whatever is actively being watched.
It took awhile to set this up but it has been really useful for even non-otaku related reasons. I can take my little Firestick anywhere in the world and access my content at home. I set all my family up with access and a bunch of my friends to. Most of which were either paying a lot of money a month for multiple streaming platforms and cable TV or using ad-ridden streaming websites.
>I'd probably want the BD of someday. Well, not physically since I don't have the money...In most cases downloading the BD/remux is a massive waste of space. These files are more for people that want to encode their own version for release. Although a lot of people do download them and think it's a big flex to show off they have enough HDD space to store thousands of BDs.
The reason they aren't as good is most of them have a lot of errors due to a poor mastering. Someone like me will clean them up and re-encode them into AVC or HEVC. With filtering applied they look better than the BD itself and they take up a lot less space (going from 2-6+GB per episode down to 200-800MB).
Most people don't even watch the BDs they do buy. It's more of a way to support the show and try to get new seasons made. You buy the discs then you put them on a shelf somewhere with your figures and manga. I personally don't do that anymore unless I really like a show. What I do buy I don't even show off. I rip them, share them and then they get stored away in a closet never to be seen again.
Out of all the BDs I've bought there were only like 2 that didn't have obvious problems caused by a bad mastering process. The people producing content for BD are really lazy and/or bad at what they do. By the way BDs are in 8-bit AVC. One of the reason the episodes on them are so large is because they inject artificial grain into the video to prevent the commercial AVC codec they use from producing banding into the flat areas of the picture. If you buy a US BD with more episodes on it than a JP one they typically suffer from a lot of banding. Since Americans won't buy 2-3 episodes per disc and spend $100s on 12 episodes. Where Japanese viewers will happily put up with that kind of stuff.
No.131228
>>131181I like the included deer tips and look forward to more of them if you continue to work on this show. I remember you'd mentioned giving some hunting related advice in a past thread, so I'm glad to finally see some of it here. I'd try the funny fishing line trick, but our garden already has a conventional fence and a small electric fence set up around it, plus I doubt it'd do much to stop the groundhogs and other small critters. Maybe in the future I can dig out another spot for just corn or something where it can see some use.
The show is good. Humor is kind of hit or miss, but the good parts are great. Lots of great facial expressions and yankee no neesan is very cute. Bullyable blonde girls really are the best.
No.131231
>>131194Seems cool, but can't see it as something I'd do since I'm connected to my computer.
>In most cases downloading the BD/remux is a massive waste of space.When I say I download BDs, I'm really just downloading the higher quality MKVs or whatever. It's very noticeable in shows like Precure where the bandwidth guts transformation scenes and other intense moments. It also just tends to look really good like in Akebi. It's pretty rare that I get the BD MKV stuff after I've already seen a show.
No.131281
>>131228Thanks for kind comments. I'll try to include more deer tips. The fence works really well. For groundhogs I'm afraid your best option is a rifle and/or catching them in a cage. But relocating them is basically a death sentence. So you're better off shooting them painlessly if possible. Same goes for rabbits I'm afraid.
I like the show to. I think it'll get better now that the rest of the cast is about to be introduced in the next episode.
>>131231>When I say I download BDs, I'm really just downloading the higher quality MKVs or whatever. It's very noticeable in shows like Precure where the bandwidth guts transformation scenes and other intense moments.Ah I thought you were referring to straight BDMV rips. Yes encodes done from BD sources are always much better than web sources depending on the group. Plus usually they're uncensored or less censored. Just be careful where you get them from because some people have no idea what they're doing.
If you've made it this far into my long reply I have a secret for you: I've hidden some fun stuff in my two last releases. See if you can figure out how to find them.
No.131283
>>131181Also little update. For those that need AVC or prefer slightly higher quality (CR WEBRip vs ABEMA) we released an AVC version tonight. You can find it listed on nyaa here:
https://nyaa.si/view/1849046It's also in the MEGA folder linked in the last post. A bit of a one-off (for the moment).
I've also talked with the guys that helped me with these. We'll probably issue a v2 for EP3 sometime in the next few days if we have the time. It will include some minor changes to the script (nothing drastic) and improved audio/video quality since we now have better source to work from. We will also be going back to re-do EP2 and doing an original translation of EP1 sometime in the near future. This way people don't have to jump between so many groups going forward and can stick with the one they prefer.
Also of note. Some shady stuff has been happening with our seedbox and listings on certain fansubDBs like anidb. We're trying to get to the bottom of it. But our seedbox was ddos'd and the hosting provider isn't happy. Our anon emails that we use to talk to viewers who report issues/bugs/want to help have now been added to all the spam lists as well. So now we can no longer exchange mail with people using major email services like gmail and outlook. We're doing what we can to fix these problems but we can only do so much. The seedbox situation isn't that big of a deal. But I would prefer to have one.
We've also been having some asshole attempt to break-in to our XDCC bot for the last 2 months or so. Thankfully, the anti-ddos protection on the network it's hosted on is really good.
No.131285
>>131281>I've hidden some fun stuff in my two last releasesIn the video itself or do you mean in an .nfo or file somewhere else? I'm not sure if I have the patience to do a frame-by-frame search. Well, I guess answering this question would be kind of spoiling, it, huh?
No.131352
>>131336I will buy her!
Change for ¥2000?
No.131406
Anime is just Saturday morning cartoons to Japanese
No.131407
>>131406That's true for most but definitely not for all
No.131410
>>131406saturday midday and saturday evening and saturday midnight
No.131510
>>131405Completely forgot if tensura was still airing or not... and turns out it was, I just forgot to carry it over to the new season's RSS watch list. At this point I'm just watching it for the sake of watching it.
No.131512
funny maou in isekai shikkaku is maomao
No.131558
>>131513Are you on AB? I had the same issue when the season started so I restricted my downloading software to 1080p. I'm using sonarr and stuff but on taiga you need to go to options > Torrents > Filters and change up some settings there.
No.131563
Most shows are no different between 720p and 1080p. Most of them aren't even in 1080p and are just upscales. I realize they're broadcast in that resolution. But the 720p version is typically better if the encoder knows what he's doing since the studio upscale has been undone.
No.131564
if you watch it fullscreen on a 1080p screen then what does it matter whether its in its native 720p or upscaled 1080p...
No.131567
>>131563I hear that fairly often and I strongly disagree.
I watch anime on a 4k TV and there is a noticeable difference between 720p and 1080p. Whether 1080p is just an upscale or not doesn't matter to me, it's still better looking.
No.131568
>>131567Do a blind test you might surprise yourself
No.131668
>>131634Looking forward to it! (I just watch it in the kissu seasonal stream so we're a week behind)
Oh yeah, did you guys notice in episode 3 that the karaoke subs in the OP didn't move along? (or was it not supposed to?) I'll go see how it is in episode 4.
No.131680
>>131679alright that makes sense
No.131681
>>131680Originally, we were going to have kana + English translation at the bottom. The guy that did the editing wanted to have romaji+kana+English but we didn't want all that crap on screen. So we decided not to do karaoke and to drop the kana from the English script since there were already Japanese closed captions for people that wanted them. Maybe we'll add karaoke at some point some interest has been expressed by the guy that did the karaoke for episode 4's song (and for some other stuff we've done).
Thanks for reporting it though.
No.131697
fellow curse tards unite
No.131706
Not trying to flood the thread. But I did another encode from a higher quality video source this morning and uploaded an AVC version (8-bit). These are a bit higher quality video/audio wise than the first release. Since the ABEMA rips we use aren't as good as the CR+Amazon ones that come out on Sundays. It also includes the CR subtitle track and several other languages if you're into that sort of thing. Otherwise, nothing changed in our own scripts and includes everything as this release did:
>>131634Not on nyaa yet but you can find it for DDL here. Along with .torrents if you wish to get it that way.
https://mega.nz/folder/wyVmWZ5Y#tWM4H7HX6SaB0WZY5Rpt2AThey're also on our XDCC bot:
http://miyos.hydraulic-handpu
mps.com:8000/?g=NEWSTUFF
Going forward I'll probably continue to do these after the CR/Amazon WEBrips release on Sundays. Expect them to come out on Mondays since it takes about 12 hours to make the HEVC version. Going forward I won't announce them since we'll be uploading them to the same MEGA anyway.
No.131733
>>131726Dang they even gave the ED a full MV, went all the way with this. Honestly I didn't expect an episode like this coming from an anime about making YouTube videos, but I'm pleasantly surprised by it. Elevates the anime to something well above just trend chasing and invests me in Fu way more than typical SoL fun would.
Hopefully the episodes from here on out are able to keep up this same quality or surprise me in some way with where they take the concept of Vampires making videos.
No.131910
>>131901reminds me, havent watched the new danmachi...
No.131951
this anime season is pretty trash as I was thinking...
No.132073
>>132019man this anime has absolutely zero budget
No.132083
the olympics needs to stop!
No.132142
>>132136>>132137I told you /qa/, I told you Yuki a best
No.132280
>>132276Did you not see them h*nd h*lding after? Tsundere-chan won big.
No.132297
stop the olympics for getting in the way of anime...
No.132321
>>132319That's an impressive amount of dedication! Yeah, I don't know how you guys are able to release such quality at such impressive speed.
>I know most people here don't need subtitlesI don't think this is true. There's a few of them, but far from the majority. We do use your subs when we do the kissu seasonal stream every Saturday!
No.132323
>>132321Did you guys not stream it this week or were you forced to go with CR subtitles?
We're basically churning them out quickly like this;
Encoder-kun produces a workraw in about an hour after the raws hit the usual places. He runs through and manually inserts I/IDR-frames at all points where there will be a chapter (there are over 20 this week haha). The translator translates all of the signs on his lunch break on the day this show airs. Then passes a long a .txt file to the typesetter. The typesetter than starts working on doing all of the signs. He did a ton of work this week and now that we aren't rushing to have them out by Sunday he got to spend more time than before. He's the same guy that typeset those subtitles on that laptop in show above. He also times a premux version of the script with no dialog. He's really good and can do an episode in about an hour or less.
After premux is done the translator gets to work later that night and over the next couple of days working out a literal/rough translation. We do research about anything we might not be sure about (references mostly). Meanwhile, encoder-kun runs through the entire episode filtering it scene-by-scene. This week there were over 100 scenes to filter. Script was over 1,000 lines long. He can get through an episode with that many scenes in about 2-3 hours. Once he's happy with the results he does a final encode. With even more forced I-frames at every frame where there will be a sign on screen. Various reasons for this but mostly boils down to device support and less stress on the viewer's hardware. He also goes through and adds "zones" to every scene that needs a bitrate boost. This week I think there are about 25 or 30 of those IIRC. He runs a test encode for the episode which takes about 8-10 hours depending on contents of each episode. Typically, the first "final" encode test is good enough and what we go with. But for a couple I've ran multiple encodes eeking out a little more quality at the same file size or giving the codec more bitrate to work with globally since the file size was so small. Although he tries to keep them under 800MB. This weeks will be about 700MB with everything (audio, video, subtitles, signs etc).
Once signs+script+final encode is done then Encoder-kun goes through the script again and strips out everything that isn't dialog. We convert it over to .srt format and do edits where needed (adding signs as dialog or adjusting things to get around the limitations of the .srt format for when two characters are talking at the same time). We offer the .srt for devices that can't support .ass. This takes maybe an hour or two depending on episode. Oh and at some point we go through the Japanese Closed Captions and check those to make sure everything is good and there are no errors.
After all that encoder-kun muxes everything together. We upload it to MEGA. Everyone watches for QC. If it's good we release to public.
I forgot one very important thing: After dialog TL is done we all give it a once over with multiple editing passes. We're up to v6 this week so far.
Anyway, typesetting just finished and we're going to go over dialog again. Then I'll strip it down for .srt and we'll push a release out in the next couple-few hours.
Thanks for watching.
No.132324
>>132323>Did you guys not stream it this week or were you forced to go with CR subtitles?Generally we try to give fansubs a wide berth so we watched episode 5 yesterday. If you miss a week we'll just delay a week. I wanted to keep Kaleido for Atri, but they seem to average about 11 days per episode (and fan subbing usually gets slower through the season) so it will quickly lead to issues in a weekly stream that doesn't pause at all for the next season.
I can't pretend to understand any of the technical stuff you mentioned, but I can definitely appreciate the TL notes and crazy subtitle stuff!
No.132325
>>132319that scene's double subs were very impressive, all around great stuff, great typesetting still
i'll admit i was thrown off by the lersant translation which, although after looking it up i understand is the same wordplay as tsuno->notsu, at first it seemed like french or something entirely different to me, so maybe a small note for that one wouldn't hurt
>>132323damn, you guys work fast
and is this all the same crew as miyosmiyos or did you get anyone else on board?
No.132334
>>132324Good to see people still willing to wait on "quality". If I could get paid to do this for a living I would (encoding/video mastering). Working on some software right now to try to make progress on that front. No excuse for how anime BDs are mastered.
>>132325We picked up a third guy who is a typesetting wizard and a couple of other people help out with various things. But we're always looking for more help with stuff (QCing, editing, suggestions, distro). If you haven't already stop by the IRC channel. We have one on rizon under the name you mentioned. We also have pretty good XDCC bot where you can grab stuff early.
Speaking of;
It's out:
-nyaa links (thanks to the anon that keeps posting these for us)
https://nyaa.si/view/1858709https://nyaa.si/view/1858710MEGA:
https://mega.nz/folder/L2w2yZ5Z#I1okLr0Kiyzlo73h4w6HhQXDCC: http://miyos.hydraulic-handpu
mps.com:8000/?g=NEWSTUFF
Note for XDCC you'll need to be in our channel on rizon to access it. Also note that someone keeps ddos'ing and trying to crack into the bot lately (we seem to have some haters). So uploading to it has been slower than usual. Download speeds don't seem to be affected. I'm going through logs later tonight to see if they're sending malformed packets again.
I will eventually make a section just for this show when I have time. For now it's always under "new stuff" section. Also note that I've decided to drop releasing AVC version due to low number of downloaders (who were probably mostly interested in the multisub/ESL subtitles anyway). But if I get one request to continue I'll start muxing them and uploading them again.
See nyaa posts or .nfo files for information about some changes in this release concerning subtitle tracks, TL notes and release schedule going forward.
Short version: We'll be doing HEVC video+AAC audio version and HEVC video+E-AC3 audio version. Source for video is CR on both with _lots_ of scene filtering. I am sure it's the highest quality you can find until BDs are released and I filter/edit those. Audio sources are CR for AAC version and Amazon for E-AC3 version. You probably can't tell the difference but if you need to pass through Dolby Digital Stereo to your TV go for the AC3. Otherwise, AAC works everywhere and is probably what you want. Both will work just fine on PC with the E-AC3 being slightly larger (10MB or so).
Thanks for kind words!
No.132336
>>132325>i'll admit i was thrown off by the lersant translation which, although after looking it up i understand is the same wordplay as tsuno->notsu, at first it seemed like french or something entirely different to me, so maybe a small note for that one wouldn't hurtThis of it like this: Lersant is Antlers backwards much like tsuno->notsu. Now imagine it being used for greetings among other things. It's used all over the place. I won't try to argue which is better (CR doesn't use Lersant obviously). In all honesty DeerGod did it first and we couldn't come up with anything better. So we rolled with it. We also took a line from their OP for the same reason. That's why I like the TLer working on this show. He's willing to do stuff like that.
Since we haven't gone back to do episode 2 yet (and episode 1 at all) we haven't really made a TL note for it. Since it should have been part of TL notes for episode 1/2. But 2 was a quick and dirty script we threw together because doing ep2 just kind of happened with no plans before hand.
If you're interested in all the TL notes so far:
https://files.catbox.moe/q3byi3.txtJust know there are a few for EP6 that contain spoilers. I would suggest reading their after you've watched the episode. Assuming you didn't want it early this week already. I think the other one is for EP3.
No.132337
>>132325>i'll admit i was thrown off by the lersant translation which, although after looking it up i understand is the same wordplay as tsuno->notsu, at first it seemed like french or something entirely different to me, so maybe a small note for that one wouldn't hurtI asked the TLer and we updated the TL notes on the MEGA archives. Thanks for suggestion.
ALL EPISODES
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Lersant - Shikanoko often uses the made-up word "Notsu" (のつ) as a greeting/farewell and the like. This is the Japanese word "Tsuno" (つの/角) with its two syllables flipped around. It originally means "horn-like appendage", and thus applies to the antlers of, you guessed it, deer. So, Tsuno (JP) becomes Notsu, Antlers (EN) becomes Lersant. She also mixes the word into some familiar phrases in a punny fashion, which we have translated accordingly (i.e. "Notsukaresama" , a spin on "Otsukaresama" (お疲れ様, a very versatile phrase that can in a specific use case mean "Take care", becomes "Take caribou".)
No.132387
at least wednesdays are good...
No.132481
>>132480what does hazure even have going for it
No.132483
>>132481apparently the elf
mostly just her design too, I'd assume
she has no character
No.132520
>>132519Quite surprising, granted it's only 968. Pretty impressive for a VN, and impressive that a recent VN got a good anime adaptation in 2024.
As for the VN/anime differences, it's pretty accurate but some stuff is switched around is a bit strange. Episode 5 and 4 should have been switched around if it was accurate to the VN, but some other stuff was also earlier than it is in the VN.
No.132521
>>132520you need to read the number on that big bar again
No.132523
>>132521I really don't know how to read it.
It's hard to tell... it shows 16k total reviews and the lowest bar representing a month is like 100ish with the average being around 300 and it's been out for 4 years?
But then there's 1,481 positive reviews on July 1st? But the previous day is 45 or so and July 2nd is the same? Huh? Everyone bought it on July 1st?
No.132524
>>132523No that's a monthly bar
No.132556
this week's monogatari looks like a snoozer
No.132641
NO idea why i don't feel bad starting every new episode of shinmai ossan despite it being one of the eliminated on week 1 shows this season for the stream
No.132666
isn't shikanoko just luckystar(2024)
No.132667
>>132666i don't think so, satan, not particularly
No.132672
>>132670this ougi looks a bit goofy i think it's the mouth combined with the head shape
No.132806
>>132805this is LITERALLY the v and berun meetup
No.133001
Is there no oshiko this week?
No.133009
>>133001>oshiko that's pee dude!