Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Strawberry 100% 07 - It's Too Late to Apologize


Y'know, I worked fast food for a number of years, including some in management. And I can tell you, low-level employees like Junpei and Satsuki never would've been left alone over the afternoon off-peak. But willing suspension of disbelief is a necessity for a lot of anime. Given how the members of my local anime club nitpick minor physics issues in some shows, it's a wonder they enjoyed others like Gurren Lagann.

Oh, and in other news, Junpei gets a golden opportunity for some real action. Will he exploit it, or will he screw it up? I'll tell you who wouldn't have screwed it up: MANkoto Itou. He would've banged every girl in this show multiple times by now, perhaps even simultaneously. Except maybe Aya. She'd probably be the one with the boat.

On a final point, if anyone's curious about the changes I've made from the yesy subs, extract the .ass files from the .mkvs. I often leave comments in there about problems and errors I saw in the original subs, and why I made the translation and wording choices I did. In general, changes are made on a "they misheard Word A as Word B" or "this line sounded really awkward" basis.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Strawberry 100% 06 - Worst. Birthday. Ever.



Thank you, Oukusa, for explaining why Manaka fails. But at least Manaka realizes that he should do a little explaining instead of letting things continue as they are. Also, the low production values in Strawberry 100% become evident in this episode -- observe the completely frozen-in-place bystanders during Manaka and Oukusa's conversation, pictured above. At least other shows like Hidamari Sketch and Minami-Ke acknowledge their shortcomings by abstracting background characters.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Strawberry 100% 05 - Life's a beach, then you die



Riiiiight, Manaka. We all know what kind of "research" you want to do with her. This episode is the requisite beach/swimsuit/hotsprings type episode in every show from thsi genre. Once again, no added nudity in this version. Then again, I'm impressed that the broadcast version wasn't steamed up to kingdom come and back.

I swear, yesy's editor must've been on vacation for this episode as well, considering the number of lines like "There's no one here, such a deserted beach is boring" that I felt compelled to clean up. Get it while it's hot:

Sunday, April 4, 2010

Ikki-Tousen Supreme Strawberries 04



Episode 4 of Strawberry 100% introduces yet another new girl, Satsuki Kitaouji. She's a raging violent tsundere who's constantly overwhelmed by both her tsun and dere sides. A lot of anime girls (and some guys) use that heel drop kick, but I have to think it'd be really impractical in an actual fight. In other news, Manaka acts like an idiot and girls still like him.

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Strawberry 100% 03 - Baka & Test & Summoned Loli



No foolin', this is a 100% genuine release of Strawberry 100% episode 3. I think Yui Minamito is my favorite of the girls in this series. Devoted childhood friend type + tendency to sneak into others' beds + not much of a nudity taboo, what more could you want? Sadly, I haven't seen any additional or uncensored ecchi scenes in the DVD videos so far. So... take what you can get, I guess.

Strawberry 100% 02 - Cuz now I'm trapped in the closet



Here's episode 2, wherein Strawberry 100% recycles the "guy fantasizes about girls during entrance exam" gag that was surely already old when Love Hina used it. If you want an example of the kind of localization I'm doing, take a look at 19:40 or so. Yesy originally left "suberidome" in the subs, with a note explaining "suberidome = taking entrance exams as a safety measure in case one fails others." I changed "suberidome" to "safety school" and removed the note. Much more concise that way, with no major change in meaning.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Strawberry 100% 01 - Fruity panties by sunset.















Strawberry 100% was one of my first true anime disappointments, back in the spring of 2005 when I'd first started downloading fansubs for myself. But that was because I was expecting actual plot and character development, when I should've been expecting pantyshots, ecchi situations, and harem wish fulfillment. By that second set of criteria, it's not such a bad show. Why am I calling it "Strawberry 100%" instead of "Ichigo 100%," you ask? It's all about consistency. If you're familiar with the show, you know there's plenty of talk about strawberry panties. Now, the dialogue subs don't talk about "ichigo panties" in the original yesy subs or my version. So why leave it untranslated in the title? Plus, Viz is releasing the manga as Strawberry 100%.

So, I'm already violating one of my request conditions by releasing this, since Kira-Fansub has already released a few episodes. However, I didn't know about this until I'd already done the OCR and preliminary corrections on all 13 episodes, since Kira's files are still not on AniDB. Thus, I'm going to go ahead with the project.
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Vital Stats:
Raw Source: Zero-Raws
Video: 640x480 4:3 h264 23.976 fps, ~1050 kbps
Audio: Japanese 2.0 AAC, 128 kbps
Subtitles: Based on yesy's, with some TL corrections, editing, and retiming.
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