Zettai Unmei Mokushiroku » Completed

Shoujo Kakumei Utena – Adolescence Mokushiroku

kureshii — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:51:32 +0000

Despite our name, Utena isn’t quite ZUM’s raison d’être, but it needs no mention that were all huge fans of this anime title. I’ve had this project in my list for a long time, and now I’m finally feeling sort of ready to release it. Video and main audio is from EtB’s release, remuxed with CoR’s commentary track and english dub.
(Yeah, yeah, “dubs yuck” etc. It’s just 60MB anyway, and not the default track.)

In some ways this is not a “final” release; I’m trying a lot of new timing and typesetting things (described on Taipu), inspired and supported by IRC discussions and ideas. I’m throwing these ideas into this release because other stuff I’m working on don’t fit these ideas as readily. There are kara styles in here I can never use anywhere else, and subtitle text flow I won’t get to try in many other places.

We anime viewers watch our anime under a variety of conditions: on a large-screen HDTV at least three feet away, on a 24″ IPS panel, on a 15″ laptop screen, on a 10″ tablet, on a 4″ smartphone, just to name a few. Some typesetting metrics work well in some situations, some settings in others. I do not have all of the above-mentioned devices, and even if I do I’m sure my viewing setup is rather different from yours. Let me know how the new typesetting metrics are working out for you; let me know what your viewing setup is like as well. I’ll detail my ideas in a future post.

Good typesetting should be invisible, and I might have gone overboard on some of this over-thinking. If you find anything in this release overly distracting, do leave a comment!

Shoujo Kakumei Utena info on Nyaa (torrent download)

Armored Trooper VOTOMS – Roots of Ambition

kureshii — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:58:48 +0000

Roots of Ambition is an OVA in the Armored Trooper VOTOMS franchise, a prequel to the Pailsen Files OVA, which is a prequel to the 52-episode TV series. I am releasing this because its the only title in the franchise which hasn’t been updated to “glorious modern fansub standards” yet.

Encoder: nodame (jackoneill)
TS/editing/timing: kureshii
Original scripts: newtype-classic

Typesetting hurfing on Taipu

Roots of Ambition info on Nyaa (download torrent)

Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun

kureshii — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:28:58 +0000

Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun, or My Neighbours the Yamadas, is a Ghibli film adaptation of Nono-chan (or some of it, anyway). There weren’t any Bluray releases of this when I checked, so I took the liberty to encode it along with some edits to the niizk script.

More info on Wikipedia.

Typesetting hurfing on Taipu.

Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun 1280×688
Houhokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun 1920×1036

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

kureshii — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:47:59 +0000

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou is a laid-back slice-of-life show, steeped in heavy mono no aware. Don’t keep waiting for things to happen in it.

Typesetting hurfing on Taipu.

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou torrent

Fate/Stay Night – Unlimited Blade Works

kureshii — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:02:49 +0000

This is technically our first project. It’s a joint with MII, who encoded the release.

If you’re interested in the nitty-gritty, Path and I have hurfed quite a bit on the editing and typesetting for this release.

Fate/Stay Night – Unlimited Blade Works 1080p