Believe it or not, I have been doing some work behind the scenes during some of these months-long breaks between releases. This is one of four shows where I have all episodes timed, and I decided to start releasing it first rather than doing yet another VN adaptation. My Wife is a High School Girl hails from Summer 2005, and is told from the perspective of the titular 17-year-old wife, who's secretly married to her high school physics teacher. If you forget that summary, don't worry, she'll remind you of it not once, but twice in every episode. Indeed, this series features two stories with separate titles in every episode, which is why some database sites list it as having 26 episodes. This release will feature 13 standard-length videos with two episodes apiece, just like the TV-rips did.
Translations for this come from the only complete English subtitled version by the now-defunct hybrid R1DVD-ripping and fansubbing group LIME-Anime. While I was involved with that group for a period of time, that time came after My Wife is a High School Girl was released. The changes I've made to the subs may be a mixed bag to some viewers; while I've labored to fix mistranslations, editing errors, and awkward phrasing, I have also made some localization decisions like Americanizing the English and using context-appropriate translations of Asami's "Danna-sama." I know not everyone will agree with those choices, but I think the good outweighs the bad, and compared to the TV-rips, this version offers better quality and possibly some decensoring. I'll have to dig out or re-download the TV-rips to check.
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I understand that there were Blu-Rays released for this series, but as it's a low-res, low-budget 4:3 show from 2005, I have to believe that the BDs are just SD upscales. I don't plan on releasing BD versions at this point, but if you think it's worth 720p, let me know which raw version is better. Or if anyone else wants to remux these subs with BD raws, they're welcome to. (Just be careful when timeshifting -- at least for this episode, these subs are shifted 2 frames forward from where Aegisub says they "should" be, because they were appearing 2 frames early when I muxed them with my DVD raws for testing purposes.)
Hi, is this going to be released weekly?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the other 3 shows you have waiting on the backburners? Maybe.............Mamotte Shogogetten, perhaps?
ReplyDeleteI do have raws and scripts for that, but it's not one of the three. They're two VN adaptations from 2004 and 2008, and one unpopular sequel from 2008.
Deletethanks for the release, I was hopping for BDs +1.
ReplyDeleteAh, too bad. Well, I hope you might find time to do Mamotte Shogogetten in the next few years. I remember watching it on Cartoon Network in the US after school, I think.
ReplyDeleteVery funny series, i enjoyed it, just wish they made it end after her graduation and their honey moon, but oh well. Mamotte been a long time since i saw it, it was okay, did not hate it, so look forward to your release of that in the future.
ReplyDelete300+ MB for SD anime.
ReplyDeleteIsn't that too much for current video compression technology?
Perhaps so, but these raws were encoded (not by me, of course) probably sometime in 2010 or before, so I wouldn't say they were made with current technology. And they are 528p instead of the usual 480p, as well. The 448 kbps AC3 audio also plays a part, as most other SD rips use AAC at lower bitrates. Given that the BDs or at least the available rips of them aren't so good, having a little extra size in SD likely ensures the best quality one can get out of this series.
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