Category Archives: Doujin Work

Late Season Episodes

Thursday, August 23, 2007 – 11:32 am

I can tell that I’m going to be driven crazy now that all of these spring and summer series are heading towards their conclusions. The two shows that I think I’ll go craziest over are School Days and Idolmaster Xenoglossia, as all hell as now broken lose in both of those series.

Luckily for School Days, we now have what looks like a very reliable speed sub group taking it on, and they appear to at least know how to write English, so that’s good. That means less waiting time to get more of that.

Idolmaster is, well, behind but not as behind as they used to be. Serin is still 2 episodes behind on getting it out, but once again it took 10 days between releases. I’d download the raws, and if this were earlier in the season I might, but I don’t want to be half-spoiled about what happens by watching the episode but have no idea what people are saying.

As for other series, none of them are really heading towards any sort of major ending as far as I can see. Nagasarete Airantou has the potential for a significant ending, but we’ll see what they do. Lucky Star will probably just end with graduation. As for Seto no Hanayome…well, well see. Doujin Work will probably have some sort of cute ending. Sky Girls is supposed to be a full season I think, so we’ll have to wait until December or January or thereabouts before seeing how it ends. For Moetan, Nanatsuiro Drops, and Umisho - I don’t really give a flying flip for the most part.

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Doujin Work - Episode 05

Tuesday, August 21, 2007 – 7:26 pm

Episode 5 comes around, and Najimi is ready to sell her second doujinshi! Also, Justice has another major misunderstanding (led on my Tsuyuri) which leads him to write a massive doujin to teach a certain someone a very important lesson.

I need a Rival!
Justice is worried Nooooo! We ran out of money again!

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Doujin Work - Episode 04

Sunday, August 19, 2007 – 11:58 pm

It’s Episode 4, and Najimi gets a job. Err, other than attempting to write Doujinshi. See, she can’t manage to sell any yet, and she still has to pay for things such as printing, so it’s time for a part time job (isn’t she trying to write Doujinshi so she doesn’t HAVE to get a real job?) She tries hiding her new job from Tsuyuri and Justice, but you know how well that will work out.

Also, there’s a bonus screenshot at the end of the review!

I sold a copy of my doujin! Yeah!
Is your relationship with Justice really OK, Sora? It's a secret!

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Anime Credits - Doujin Work Opening

Friday, August 17, 2007 – 3:16 pm

Enjoy!

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Doujin Work - Episode 03

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 – 9:26 pm

The review of episode 3 rolls up and this time Najimi gives birth to her precious new creation, but she hopes this new fact won’t drive away her loyal customers. However, Tsuyuri and Justice have their own thoughts on Najimi’s new bundle of joy.

Everyone shall love my perverted manga!
You do realize that doujinshi is porn, right? Najimi describes what it feels like to give birth

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Doujin Work - Episode 02

Thursday, August 9, 2007 – 10:10 pm

It’s Episode 2, and Najimi is doing some serious research into, er, porn. Also, when you start researching porn, you find that it’s hard to keep it from the people you least want to find out about it. (of course!)

Najimi shall prevail!
Reading Material Ooh! Porn!

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Fansubs

Tuesday, August 7, 2007 – 7:23 pm

Maybe this is standard operating procedure and I just don’t know it since this is the first anime season that I’ve downloaded fan subs for several shows, but it seems to me that fansubbing groups are rather, well, slow.

I’m probably not one to talk, but it would seem to me that, even if you take up something like fansubbing which is volunteer work, a group should at least try to stay on schedule (ie, get an episode out before the next episode airs, or at least before two more episodes air). The primary reason for this is that there are people who are waiting to watch, and the more behind you get, 1) the less likely they are to watch your shows later, and 2) the more likely they’ll just read about what happens elsewhere.

Given the range that I’d kind of expect an episode to be out, that’s basically an episode weekly, so between 6 to 8 days, give or take on any given week. However, most groups seem to be way behind, at least as far as the series I’m watching.

In any case, here are how the fansubbers are doing by series, with days since the last episode released, and number of days since the next episode they need to release has been aired:

School Days
Conclave: Last release yesterday; 14 days behind next episode

Nagasarete Airantou
Ayako - Last release 4 days ago; 6 days behind next episode

Seto no Hanayome
Ayako - Last release 22 days ago; 30 days behind next episode (at this rate, might have dropped)
gg Fansubs - Last release 5 days ago, 9 days behind next episode
Otacon - last release 5 days ago, 2 days behind next episode
Your Mom - last release 8 days ago, 2 days behind next episode

Idolmaster Xenoglossia
Serin - last release 10 days ago; 29 days behind next episode

Lucky Star
JEEB - last release yesterday; 9 days behind next episode
a.f.k. - last release 10 days ago; 9 days behind next episode

Sky Girls
Ayako - last release 11 days ago; 12 days behind next episode

Umisho
Ayu - last release 9 days ago; 7 days behind next episode

Moetan
FSH/MugiMugi - last release 16 days ago; 16 days behind next episode
Kedex - last release 9 days ago; 9 days behind next episode

Nanatsuiro Drops
Kedex - last release 18 days ago; 15 days behind next episode
Aquastar - last episode 3 days ago; 15 days behind next episode

Doujin Work
Spoon - last release 6 days ago; 7 days behind next episode

Ok, so ten series, and only 4 which are on time, if you consider 7 days behind still on time. Given the best group for each show, the average lag time is currently 11 days, and even if you take out the month behind Serin is on Idolmaster, it’s still 9 days. I guess actually looking it up, it’s not even as bad as it feels, but 3 series are now a full 2 weeks behind (one is 4 weeks behind) and another is at 12 days.

Also, there doesn’t seem to be any groups which are always good or bad. Ayako is on time with Nagasarete Airantou but almost two weeks behind on Sky Girls, and may have abandoned Seto no Hanayome, for example. For six series, it has also been more than a week since any group that is subbing those series has released an episode as well.

Then there are groups like Devil’s Lair which seems to just be taking up random episodes here and there, and while they’re quick, they’re not consistent on what show they’re subbing.

Also, am I the only one infuriated that 6 of the 10 series I’m watching only has one group which is taking up the series, yet 5 groups are doing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai. Ok, I know that it’s a sequel to a pretty popular show, but come on, we don’t need 5 groups doing the same series when we have other series who have only one group doing them and is behind.

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Doujin Work - Episode 01

Sunday, August 5, 2007 – 7:25 pm

Here is episode 1 of Doujin Work, a half-episode animation. The show actually lasts for a full half hour, with the last half hour apparently taken up by the two lead voice actresses trying to make a doujinshi themselves, but I’m not going to put any of that on my blog, just the animation part.

If you can’t guess by the title, this is a show about making doujinshi, and thus is kind of inherently ecchi in areas, but I still think it’s funny. Also, see shots of the opening and ending credits at the end.

Doujinshi
Najimi Osana Fired

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Episode Review Trio (or Threesome, whichever you prefer)

Sunday, August 5, 2007 – 12:01 pm

Today I’m gonna try to put three, yes three, episode reviews up, of Nagasarete Airantou 16, Doujin Work 1, and School Days 4. Hopefully I’ll get them all up today. This will get me to within about 1 episode for NA and SD, but of course I’ll still need to catchup with Doujin.

I’ll try to post at least one more, and if I’m lucky, two more Doujin Work episodes this upcoming week, but I still need to finish catching up with the other two series too, so two more episodes may be pushing it.

PS:

Remember that if you hover your mouse over the pictures in the episode reviews, you get a little text pop-up, either describing the scene, or making fun of what the scene looks like. Also, on School Days and Doujin Work, if you click on the big pictures, you can see an even bigger version of that picture.

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Doujin Work

Friday, August 3, 2007 – 12:38 pm

Given that I like this show, and it’s only a half-episode (14 minutes or so), I think I’ll go ahead and pick this one up to do an episode-by-episode review of it as well. I’ll start from the beginning and try to do 2 or 3 a week or so if I can (yeah, we’ll see how that goes). That way hopefully I’ll be caught up in 3 or 4 weeks.

I’m not really sure how long this series supposed to run. There are 12 “episode titles” listed on ANN (though most of them are blank), so someone there seems to think it’s only going to be that long, but I don’t know.  I’ll be sad if it’s that short (it’d be the equivalent of 6 full episodes then) but if it is, then it is I guess.

Anyway, I hope to get the first episode up Sunday if I can, along with trying to catch up with Nagasarete Airantou and School Days while I’m at it.

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