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Great Mazinger 1

starseeker — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:42:46 +0000

First volume of the Great Mazinger manga is out, big thanks to the guys at Dynamic Pro scans for the typesetting, editing and raw cleaning and to Lunasaint for being my translation checker. This volume is more a combination of the events of Great General of Darkness and Great Mazinger proper, Great itself doesn’t turn up til half way in.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GYUIPUVY
http://www.mediafire.com/?pco4jd6lxn97sju

I really ought to just grit my teeth and finish the next ep of Raideen, even though I hate the episode with a passion.

A special Magical one-off Ginguiser

starseeker — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:48:55 +0000

I know, I know, it’s been a while. To explain: this started as me attempting to prank the uni anime society for our termly anything-goes marathon. That was in November, this became much more difficult and brain breaking that expected. Hell, LN my timer gave up 2/3 of the way through, declaring it to be Cthulu the anime, so I had to rope in another mate, Sealy, to finish it. In the end I missed the deadline so I sat on the rough draft for a few months becase I really, really didn’t want to finish it. In the meantime [ARR] released a version of it. Let’s just say LN was not the least bit amused at the prospect that his work and sanity would go to waste. Cue 3 days of me being yelled at over IRC and being reliant on a lot of Robot Unicorn, sugar and 01011001 to get me through the translation check without wanting to curl up in a ball and cry. I apologise if there are any dodgy lines or translation errors, I did the best I could but this show kills brain cells and LN was utterly sloshed when he did the QC so he’d survive it. If you haven’t figured this out already THERE WILL BE NO EPISODE 2. Episode 2 was painful enough just to watch, I can’t even begin to contemplate the idea of translating it.

Ginguiser is a show about a stage show magician based giant robot. It has dodgy production values and does very nasty things to the 4th wall. Whether it’s bad in a good way, or bad in an awful way is a matter of opinion.

For those of you who wish to try it, here are the links:
MU
Torrent

Anyway, now this weight is off my soul, I can get back to working on Raideen properly (the first volume of the Great Mazinger manga is half done).

Mazinger Z volume 5

starseeker — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:37:07 +0000

And with this volume, the Mazinger Z manga comes to a close. But fear not, for Great Mazinger shall be worked on next. Thanks to the guys at Dynamic Pro for handling editing, typesetting and tracking down the raws for this.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7zwwb5c0xf9bph4
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9Z3H8UZI

Torrent for the whole thing here

Raideen 24 , aka I’m not dead yet

starseeker — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 23:19:27 +0000

After many delays caused by uni delays and technical issues, I finally get a new episode out.

Only got the torrent up at the moment, ~~will have DDL up later.~~
Thanks to VF-kun for the DDL

Torrent
DDL

Mazinger volume 4

starseeker — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:04:39 +0000

This got delayed due to issues on the editors part. Enjoy more giant robot badassery. Majuu Sensen is still being worked on, don’t worry. The funny accents Boss does were in the original and were a royal pain to deal with. Yay for subbing in English accents to try and retain the effect.

http://www.mediafire.com/?nedynzwtlmm

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SKRDVJDB

Raideen 23

starseeker — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:16:17 +0000

Originally planned to have this released by Christmas. As you can see I failed on that. So I set today as my final deadline, which is the 1st anniverary of the founding of /m/subs. Somehow we actually kept it together. Took us 3 months to get a release out, but we’ve kept trying.

Anyways, here’s ep 23 of Raideen, where Daldan’s brilliant plan involving reconaissance, 2 monsters, and a lot of explosives, still fails in the traditional fashion. Hopefully the next ep will be out before mid-February. Need to get to doing Majuu Sensen like I promised the Dynamic Pro guy. I don’t know when the next Maz\inger release is, I sent off the completed script before Christmas.

Next release will be sooner due to me being at risk of winning the title of laziest translator on the IRC channel off Iriliane from Blue Fixer.

DDL: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LK9S3RAB

~~Torrents will be up later~~

Torrent: http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=111089

Raideen 22 released

starseeker — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:06:24 +0000

I apologise for the delays, real life issues came up, colds, uni work etc. Anyways, here’s episode 22, an episode that seems to be all about messing with the stock footage sequences in quite jarring ways in some cases.

Episode 22: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NAQRKAXC

Also, v2 of episode 21 as I discovered watching episode 23, that a single misheard vowel meant I misinterpreted 3 episodes worth of enemy plans. That was kinda embarrassing as a translator, sometimes we have to guess, and sometimes we miss badly.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JZG7YGKE

Torrents will up later, once I get back from the Physics department Christmas do.

Edit: Torrents now up
Episode 22: http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=102563
Episode 21 v2: http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=102564

Raideen 21

starseeker — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:48:58 +0000

In any series where the initial bumbling villain is replaced with a more evil and competant commander by the chief villain, there is always an episode where the new villain gets to show off just how evil he is. This is pretty much that episode. And it was no surprise that the degree of evilness was displayed by use of an easily escapable situation with one inept guard (well, more like a death trap and with inept supervision in general). I wonder how long it will be before the villains just aim straight to kill instead of faffing about with death traps that are easily escaped from around the 17 minute mark, followed by it being blown up.

Edit: v2 released due to badish translation fuckup spotted in the episode. Please do not use old links, Xvid is still based off the v1.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JZG7YGKE

Edit: Xvid encode kindly provided by HiroTsukasa

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SS6864SF

Mazinger Volume 3 Fire

starseeker — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:44:42 +0000

After many months, it’s here. Just realised that at this rate, all 5 volumes will have taken more than a year. (I remember doing some of the early pages on the train back home for Christmas)

http://www.mediafire.com/?hdjiryfwwxm

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=27EJZ9FM

Read the wonderous antics of Count Brocken, and the heartrending story of Lorelei.

Thanks to these guys for the editing and putting up with me and Luna’s strange comments in the margins

http://getterrobo.blogspot.com/

Random but related translation notes: Donau is the German name for the River Danube. Lorelei is the name of a rock in the Rhine and the name of the Rhine maiden that lured ships to their doom upon the rock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei

Raideen 20

starseeker — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:34:42 +0000

Somedays you just can’t get rid of a bomb.
Episode 20, finally done after I spent several days procrastination over the translation check, which was nowhere near as bad as I feared.
New villain Daldan shows his true colours this week. As opposed to Agyaru, who to me is the bumbling Sargent Major who wishes he was still an NCO, Daldan is the lank, evil officer with a moustache (he’s a vampire as well).
And Sharkin is the pretty boy guy in charge who talks big and only got his position through nepotism.

Due to whining about sendspace, release is on Megaupload this time

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BI91UABO

Episode 20 torrent ~~will be made when nyaa behaves again.~~

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=85965

Finally got round to making a torrent for ep 19 as well

http://www.nyaatorrents.org/?page=torrentinfo&tid=85964

Edit: Xvid encode for this episode kindly provided by HiroTsukasa in the comments

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=98EDY1TG