It appears that Marmot is a member of some kind of underground intarweb secret society who all blog about the same thing on the same day. Anilluminati. Or maybe Moejestic 12. Anyway, the current discussion is interesting so I felt like contributing my own rambling five cents on the subject. Reading through these entries, it really seems that a fair amount of the discussion, when you boil it down, is about the inherent sexism of the ‘moe movement’ which is so heavily represented in the design of this generation’s anime productions.
The entry I was writing ended up morphing into something only peripherally related. The role of archetypes in galge / visual novels and the anime adaptions thereof. Continue reading ‘Gender in Anime: Galge Archetypes’
In the end, after about nine separate attempts using different approaches I wasn’t able to get EiEn-acg’s raw to re-encode correctly. I don’t know if it’s a problem with my setup or with my raw or with the phase of the moon or anything. Utterly mystifying. Additionally this delay has seriously eaten into the time I’d allowed for doing ep 6 this weekend. I’ll still try, but don’t expect to see it until a few days into next week.
Anyway, rather than just pack up and go home, I decided to just release with the current raw. EiEn-acg use CQ encoding, which essentially means constant quality at the expense of unpredictable file sizes. This means that for high-motion episodes like ep 1 and ep 5, the file size is significantly bigger. On the upside, the quality on this is excellent.
Other than that, exactly the same deal as the previous four. Chapters, Karaoke & no-Karaoke subs, h264 video, AC3 audio. Using yesy’s subs, again with a few minor edits to improve readability - there were a couple of sentences in this episode which really didn’t make sense, so I reworded them to have the same meaning but read better. If I’ve done my job right you shouldn’t even notice.
Torrent is here
Sorry guys, I’ve run into what is at the moment a showstopper. Ep 5’s sub is done, ready to go. The problem is that my raw for ep 5 is a little over 500mb. Given the number of complaints about ep 1 being 400mb, I’ve got no intention of releasing something as big as this. From what I can see, the size is because EiEn-acg encode with the same settings for each episode, so episodes with a lot of action like ep 1 and ep 5 end up being much bigger simply due to the amount of motion in them.
I sort of know what I’m doing with video encoding, so I was able to produce a 300mb encode which looked excellent. The snag? For some reason, bits of the video are cut out of where you would normally expect to see them and appended to the end of the file. I’ll keep hammering away at things, but I’m not too proud to admit that this is not an area that I’m highly experienced in and it’s probably something stupid I’m doing wrong. If anyone happens to have any clues please let me know.
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Yes, I’m still doing these. Various life-related activities (including Nagi getting me addicted to WoW) stopped me getting these done two weeks ago when they were fresh. This time, I had a little help from Coxswain Balls, who is actually able to somehow get Subrip to sometimes produce relatively correct output, which has sped me up significantly. Pretty much the same deal as episodes 1-3 - EiEn-acg raws (h264 video, AC3 audio), yesy’s subs, once again used without permission because I’m an evil subtitle thief. Two subtitle streams, karaoke and non-karaoke (though without the stupid, distracting effects that fansubbers love). Some minor edits have been made to the dialogue here and there to clean up the grammar, add clarity and readability - you shouldn’t notice the difference. And it has chapters. I don’t know what it is with all these groups moving to MKV recently but not bothering to make a chapters file, it takes all of two minutes.
Eps 1-3 seem to be unseeded so I’ll hop back on them once this torrent is healthy. I don’t have a lot of upstream bandwidth though so if you can spare some and you have those episodes, any help would be appreciated.
Torrent is here
It took a little while, but the 5th and final installment of the third season of Maria-sama ga Miteru is subbed. With it finished I decided to finally sit down and watch 4 and 5, as I’d decided to hold off on the fourth episode until the whole season was done. So, how was the OAV experiment overall? I think it’s been reasonably successful.
This entry will undoubtedly have spoilers, though I’ll try not to be too specific. Also, if you’re just expecting a summary of what happens, don’t bother - you can find that on a myriad of other anime blogs instead.
Continue reading ‘Marimite S3: Final Thoughts’