Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Saint October 01 - Lolis to the Rescue



Torrent [CRC=48297F24]

Here's the first episode of Saint October, a Winter 2007 anime that first caught my attention because it was one of the last latenight 4:3 TV anime. It's a quirky, strange show that involves magical Gothic Lolitas battling the tarot-power-wielding minions of a powerful corporation and its maniacal president. The colors are garish, there's what can only be called "intentional banding," and the animation had its share of issues. But Saint October was an original anime, and it shows evidence of creative ideas put into it, just without the budget and experience to execute everything properly. Still, this serious has a lot of heart as it dances between the serious and the absurd, and its dramatic parts surprised me more than once.

Needless to say, it wasn't popular enough to get fansubbed on a weekly basis, and in fact wasn't completely subbed until late last year. The existing subs are a patchwork of various groups, all with their own name spellings and renderings of common phrases. And the first half is only available in TV quality, in some cases only Xvid/avi. So, it was a prime candidate to be fixed up and edited for consistency. Fortunately, BakaBT user Alaford was also interested in the series, and is helping out with some timing and typesetting.

Subtitles will be taken from any and all groups that subbed a particular episode. See the torrent link for more technical info. Since this is mostly a softsub -> softsub project, I will be starting another 100% hardsubbed TV series (a 16:9 one) after I return from vacation early next week.

14 comments:

  1. This makes me very happy.

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  2. Ohhh, Saint October. what a nostalgic title. I heard about it amybe in 2006, in my anime magazine :)

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  3. oh very very good. glad to see interest in this. just a few weeks ago I streamed this for 4chan.

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  4. Thanks for doing this.I lost track of the subs after the first half of the show and never finished it.So this gives me a good chance to finish it.

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  5. thanks! this is one show that I didn't watch because of the mess with the subs, your work is mostly welcome!

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  6. A nice surprise.
    Thanks :)

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  7. oh, thanks so much! you guys are the best!!

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  8. Fuck yes, this is one of my favorite zany series.

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  9. Thanks guys! I'm going to follow your works on this anime, then keep up the good work!
    By an Italian FanSubber ;)

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  10. OMG Finally. I've been waiting for someone to properly complete this.

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  11. http://www.ulozto.net/xpHmYd7/redone-saint-october-01-dvd-48297f24-mkv

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