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Requests / Re: Seishun Forget

« on: January 15, 2013, 04:28:50 am »

Well, Manga-Heaven's MediaFire folder is still there at http://www.mediafire.com/?d7t5806ds0fvq#i2p1d9xm4j52c and that will get you up through chapter 18. It's listed as Youth Forget there. Then it's just digging around the casanova website or #casanova on irchighway for the last two chapters.

If all else fails, you can use the reader on the casanova site at http://manga.casanovascans.com/reader/series/seishun_forget/ and just save the last two chapters image by image.

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Games / Re: Hangman~

« on: January 14, 2013, 09:38:08 pm »

Sorry, no Ks.

A _ I _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Strikes (4): H, K, M, S
Vowels used: 2/3
Guesses used: 0/3

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Anime / The Winter Season So Far...

« on: January 13, 2013, 09:23:53 am »

Out of the new shows, I only have one real favorite this season. Maoyuu Maou Yuusha has a lot of the feel (and of course the voices) of Spice and Wolf but the comedy isn't quite as restrained, maybe it's the somewhat dumb hero. Anyway, quite the interesting plot, good comedy and maybe some romance too.

I'll probably be following these too: Kotoura-san had a good transition from the heavy start to the fun lightness later and I like the development of the perils of telepathy. Ore no Kanojo is promising, I'll see how the comedy and probable harem develops. With Tamako Market I'm waiting to see how much more of the annoying bird they focus on - it jars my suspension of disbelief - but I like the rest. Yama no Susume - cute little 3 minute shorts.

Most are continuations from last season or previous seasons: Bakuman S3, Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT, Chihayafuru S2, Little Busters, Magi, Minami-ke Tadaima, Psycho-Pass, Robotics;Notes, Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, Shinsekai Yori, Uchuu Kyoudai and Zetsuen no Tempest. There are also Big Bang Theory and Castle for my live action quota.

Finally there are the maybe shows, where I'm waiting to see which drop out after the next few eps: Even given the Amnesia, the heroine is a bit too bland and there are more bishounen than I need to see. Dropped it, the heroine is too much of a non-entity for me. Mondaijitachi feels a lot like Dog Days. Too much perhaps. Funny enough to continue, but not archiving. Sasami-san@Ganbaranai might be too niche for me. A little more comprehensible after the 2nd ep. Watch and delete so far. Senran Kagura looks like a present-day high school version of that boob-ninja show a few seasons back - oh yeah, Manyuu Hikenchou - without as much fan-service. 3 eps in, I'll probably continue. Finally, Vividred Operation has a bit of a pedo-vibe so far, Negima crossed with Rinne no Lagrange perhaps? However, it's kinda cute and the plot is interesting enough to follow. Oh yeah, Cuticle Detective Inaba didn't make it past one episode for me before I dropped it. Its humor doesn't match mine.

So what are your picks?

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Doki Fansubs / Strike Witches movie options

« on: November 27, 2012, 11:23:57 pm »

I was amused by the [Flying Pantsu] group name I saw today for a Strike Witches movie release and remembered this thread. Well now you have at least four options to choose from: Underwater, Bloatgirls err Coalgirls, Strike Subs and Flying Pantsu above and beyond the re-encoders.

... i'd settle for by christmas ...

And it's not even December yet.

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Visual Novels / Re: Gameplay Heavy Visual Novels

« on: November 23, 2012, 09:28:30 am »

They aren't visual novels, but I strongly recommend Portal and Portal 2.

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Requests / Re: kodomo no jikan

« on: November 20, 2012, 02:09:01 pm »

You should include BakaBT in your torrent searches, just google "BakaBT <name of show>". They do remove torrents of licensed series, but no U.S. corporation is likely to take the risk to license Kodomo no Jikan. Anyway, each of these listed 38 or 39 seeds:
http://bakabt.me/130682-kodomo-no-jikan-anata-ga-watashi-ni-kureta-mono.html
http://bakabt.me/146413-kodomo-no-jikan-ova-2-doutei.html

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Anime / Fall 2012 So Far ...

« on: November 15, 2012, 06:09:12 am »

Now that there have been few weeks for things to settle it's looking like a fun quarter overall.

Favorites of the season:
Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai! - this has me laughing loudly every episode. The characters are goofy and fun but not shallow. The animation is good, I like the art and the plot is very believable - from the real to the fantasy. The six Lite shorts are also excellent and shouldn't be missed.
Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo - is also funny, but heavier on the fanservice. The different insanities in Sakurasou are great fun for me.
Sukitte Ii na yo - a sweet little romance that has become better in my eyes as the season progressed.
Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun - this hilarious rom/com started off with excellent and unusual character development. It also keeps a great balance between the romance, comedy and drama.

Other excellent shows: Girls und Panzer (cute girls doing tankwondo), Little Busters (KEY, a bit of a given in this forum), Psycho Pass (great dystopian SF), Robotics Notes (getting very interesting now), Shinsekai Yori (a compelling future, amazing ED song) and Zetsuen no Tempest (good balance between thought and action).

BTOOOM!, Kami-sama Hajimemashita and Onii-chan Dakedo Ai range from OK to good and I'll finish them. I've only made it through one ep of Magi so far - it's a maybe. One factor on its plus side is seeing what new CRCs GotWoot will come up with next.

Ongoing shows: Bakuman S3 is slow but still interesting for me. Hayata no Gotoku S3 and Jormungand S2 are collect and watch later. Nogizaka Haruka Finale is some light ecchi for series-completion's sake. Sword Art Online I still enjoy a lot, but the new villain is pretty tedious and cliched. I can make it through To Love Ru: Darkbeams, the censoring isn't as bad as say R-15 or 30-sai where the TV versions were unwatchable. Finally there's Big Bang Theory, Dexter and Walking Dead over in Live Action-land.

Drops: Busou Shinki - mini-loli-mech show to sell figurines. Meh. Code Breaker - the female lead was the only interesting character to me. The others felt two-dimensional and I didn't care. K just couldn't hold my interest and my backlog of shows to watch is too large as it is.

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Requests / Baka to Test 480p

« on: October 26, 2012, 11:31:10 am »

As far as I can tell, Doki only ever did 4 episodes of Baka to Test season 2. That was a joint with SGKK. Those weren't on the Doki's packlists but I did find them on SGKK's packlist. Eps 1-4 of season 2 were the only 480p versions I found as XDCC.

In torrents I found [Mochi]'s 400p .avis of season 1 on Nyaa with 1 seed and a 480p torrent for [FFFpeep]'s season 2 on Nyaa with 7 seeds. Nothing was on BakaBT since the show has been licensed.

It looks like you will have the most luck getting 720p: I found XDCCs of the entire S1 and S2 by other groups at http://doki.co/releases/xdcc/. Enter "Baka to Test" in the search bar and it brings up the [Mochi] 720p S1s and the [FFFpeeps] 720p S2s. Click on any listing and it gives you the exact /msg (example: "/msg Ginpachi-Sensei xdcc send #5276" for Baka to Test ep.1) to copy and paste into your IRC client. I did a quick test and it seems like you can send a /msg to Ginpachi-Sensei from any Rizon channel: The Ginpachi-Sensei bot doesn't have to be listed in the users with the other %bots.

One good general packlist to search is #NEWS where I found even more Baka to Test releases here. Like the [Ayumi] releases of S2 episodes and specials on Rawrbot you can access in #Doki. A tricky bit is getting the experience to know what channel the assorted bots can be found in. Most bots (like Cerebrate) require that you send the /msg from a known channel where the bot is located in the %user list. However, a good clue is going to the IRC channel of the group that did the release and looking in the user list there for the bot name.

Good luck.

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Music / Re: What Are You Listening to Right Now?

« on: September 30, 2012, 08:35:13 am »

Since Cyriak made the video I got interested - and the video is suitably twisted and bizarre. The song is from the soon-to-be-released Flying Lotus album and it's a bit of an earworm.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQGfk9Gmgo" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuQGfk9Gmgo</a>

P.S. "TETSUOOOOO!"

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Visual Novels / Re: Tomoyo After

« on: September 27, 2012, 03:31:32 pm »

... I would like a simple yes/no answer to my question ...

(click to show/hide)

Did Tomoya die in the game?

And here's the second question. Aside from the bad end and the ending mentioned in this thread, does the game have more routes? Or only the ME does bring an alternative ending?

(click to show/hide)

Yes: Like the old joke goes, "The surgery was a success, but the patient died," except that Tomoya's final decline took some time after the surgery.

Question 2: No other routes (that I know of) and I've never played the ME version.

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Anime / Re: Little Busters gets anime adaptation

« on: September 16, 2012, 10:16:19 pm »

Yeah, but he got *puts sunglasses on* a sharp reprimand.  x.x

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Requests / Re: Bakemonogatari BD 10bit/1080p

« on: September 16, 2012, 01:14:19 am »

I don't think you'll get your request: Doki never subbed Bakemonogatari. It's not on their planned project page either.

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Anime / Re: Little Busters gets anime adaptation

« on: September 16, 2012, 12:44:45 am »

A Visual Novel is a type of video game where you read a story - often romantic or erotic stories with one or more sex scenes: You scroll through walls of text with rare choices to click on between two or more options. Going through the VN multiple times with new choices you can get to other paths that focus on different characters. Instead of the full animation of anime shows on Japanese TV, VNs have static images with limited changes of costume, posture and facial expression. Some VNs have an occasional animated scene or three but that is rather rare.

Many anime are based on the story from an earlier VN/EroGame, but might blend the many routes into one story line. When done badly it makes the protagonist look like an indecisive ass or out to make a harem. Yosuga no Sora is an example of a well-adapted anime as far as following the different story lines without mashing them all together or ignoring most of the routes.

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Requests / Re: Fate Zero season 2 searches 720p

« on: August 08, 2012, 08:09:02 am »

For archiving quality I'd take [UTW]'s Fate Zero s2 over [Horrible] ... if you can do 10bit. Although there seems to be more seeds on bakabt - a great site for finding complete (non-licensed) seasons.

[Hatsuyuki] is a group that focuses on quality over speed. They would be a good 8bit alternative for archiving if you can't do 10bit. They tend to be too slow for my tastes on a week to week basis, so I haven't followed them much in the last few seasons. There's no handy batch torrent, so you'd have to torrent their individual eps and maybe use IRC/XDCC instead of torrents on the oldest eps without seeds.

On occasions where I'm only mildly interested in a show out of curiosity and want the tiny 480p file size to conserve bandwidth/HD space I'll go for [Horrible].

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General Discussions / Re: Start Menu, what's inside yours?

« on: August 06, 2012, 01:01:53 am »

Mine is pretty boring as well. Desktop by Digital Blasphemy.