tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35367999958352141732012-02-01T01:01:50.251+13:00A blog about fansubbing and other stuffshadow-of-sinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3536799995835214173.post-88222501065464583922008-04-28T11:07:00.002+12:002008-04-28T11:15:35.002+12:00

This is another site for you asian drama fans. As I mentioned in one of my previous blog entries, I've been watching quite a bit of JDrama on streaming sites recently. Until now, it's either been crunchyroll or mysoju. However, from what I've experienced so far, these sites pale in comparison to aznv. It offers streams for a number of dramas. Also, unlike other sites like crunchyroll, they

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As I explained in my last post, I've recently been reading posts at Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar Forum . One of the useful points I've encountered is the non-direct, actual translation of "明日が見えない夜" ("ashita ga mienai yoru"). It actually means "hopeless night", as apparently, if you can "see tommorow" you have hope (for tommorow), hence if you can't see tommorow, you are hopeless.If you've

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Argh, you can count on the crap internet of NZ to ruin my holidays. Yes that's right, I've been capped to dialup speeds after blowing my small 20GB data cap. This may be uncommon to some, especially to those in countries like the US with better broadband. But over here, not only do they give us broadband with sub-par speeds, they limit our data cap too. And people over in the US with comcast are

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Well, recently I've been alot more into JDrama rather than anime, and I found an index site with links to streams from various sites: mysoju.com . I know alot of people don't like streaming videos due to their crap quality, but sites like this make a difference to those like me (who live in New Zealand and have slow internet with data caps). While this site is useful, it does have it's

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Ok, so if you read my post about translating anime staff credits, you'll have read my mumblings on the greatness of WWWJDIC. I still think it's one of the greatest dictionaries out there and I still use it extensively, but I've found something alot better (well it depends on your point of view). What is this fabled dictionary that is better than JDIC? It's the Yahoo Japan Dictionary: http://

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Well I've finally decided to stop being lazy and actually translate something. Yeah it's a bit late, and if you've been following Formula's releases you would know about it already. It's called: "Yotsunoha" (more info here: http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=5275 ). This is the first chance I've had to TL something since like Mid-2007. Speaking of which, kansai-ben is soo

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I've recently been asked (well not me personally- more like an open request for anyone in the group that knows Japanese) to translate the staff credits for Shugo Chara. However, this somewhat daunting task (especially for me whose Kanji knowledge is by far lacking) is not new to me as I did the same for the "Tales of Symphonia OVA" series. So I decided to share with you (my readers-which at the

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Ah...I haven't posted on this blog for ages...Anyways, as you might have guessed with 8 months of no posts, I'm tired of blogging about anime. So this blog will be converted to include my rants about fansubbing (mainly translating).Speaking of fansubbing, I'm still a noob translator (that hasn't changed and is unlikely to change for quite a while) so I mostly do tasks like TLC. Though whats

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Yeah, for once this weeks episode of Polyphonica (#4) was actually good. Sure the animation was as bad as ever, but the actual plot of the kinetic novel has started. I'll describe it without giving too much away :D. In this episode, they flash back to when Pholon was a student at the Shinkyoku Academy and is visited by Peserti and her twin. This is the episode that they actually explain properly

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And by PoT I mean Prince of Tennis, not..... Anyways, yay another sports anime! Except this time its about cycling. I'm not sure if you liked PoT, but you should have a look at this one. It's story revolves around Shinozaki Mikoto a high school student, who's well...weird. No not weird as in Haruhi weird :D. Hes extremely shy and unathletic. He has a crush on Fuzakawa-san; a girl who sits next to

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Ughh...I am just so tired of this anime, don't know why I put up with it (but maybe that's cos I've already read ahead in the manga- I mean who wouldn't with all those horrible fillers going on for 2 years!). Naruto used to be quite interesting, but nothings been that exciting recently- even after the fillers. Things that make these type of shows interesting (atleast for me) is new techniques and

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Well I've recently been watching some of the RAW anime that is broadcast on TV Tokyo. I don't know if its the studio or just TV Tokyo but I've noticed that a lot of anime now has OP and ED lyrics on screen and even with furigana (lucky star, hayate no gotoku etc). That really helps, especially for fansubbing -at times I see wrongly transcribed lyrics in some releases. It also helps me to

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The Sola OP single came out yesterday. So for my first post on this blog I will post the OP lyrics/romanization.羽根が白く光　眩しく飛んで行く 心だけ乗せて欲しいのに 冷たい手を伸ばす　届かない　知ってる だけどいま触れたい君に 懐かしい風には　あの頃の舟 幻が思い出を見せた 「忘れない」誰かの声が切なく響く 始まる予感にふるえて 「忘れたい」願う自分がわからない 待っている　揺られながら夢ひとつを Hane ga shiroku hikari mabushiku tonde yuku Kokoro dake nosete hoshii no ni Tsumetai te wo nobasu todokanai shitteru

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Hello and welcome to my anime blog. First of all I will introduce myself. I'm currently a translator in the fansub group formula sub (http://www.formulasub.com) and previously a translator for Shonen Subs (a.k.a NarutoNation). This blog is for my comments and view on anime (I will also occasionally post lyrics and translations of OP/ED songs too).-shadow-of-sinshad0w0fsin[AT]yahoo[DOT]co[DOT]nz

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