To Heart ~RmM~ 13 - Don't you forget about me

Well, after 3/4 of a year of operation, I finally have my second "series" complete, or third if you count the Strawberry 100% TV series and OVAs separately. It's a suitably heartwarming, bittersweet, and most importantly, conclusive final episode, complete with not one but two time skips. Also, listen for a musical cameo of the OP from the 1999 To Heart series, "Feeling Heart." Despite the "meh-ness" of this series, I hope some of you out there have managed to enjoy it for the second or first time in better-than-TV quality, with I daresay better subs as well.

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Although I used the non-specific "To Heart" label for these release posts, this may conclude my work with the To Heart franchise. Currently, my competitor/collaborator Kaishakunin over at Jumonji-Giri has announced plans to do the To Heart 2 TV series.

To Heart ~RmM~ 12 - And the reason is you

Here I am once again, fighting back sickness, and coughing, hacking, and sniffling through the penultimate episode of To Heart ~Remember my Memories~. Multi goes missing, and it's up to almost everybody who's had any screen time in this show to find her. Along the way, Hiroyuki learns some startling truths about his and Multi's past. But that knowledge only gives him more determination to track down the fugitive Naru Narusegawa Minori Kushieda Tamami Chanohata Kotori Shirakawa Tohru Honda Ayu Tsukimiya Eri Sawachika Multi.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 11 - A New Year Dawns

First let me assure you all, it was totally part of my keikaku to release To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ 11 on 1-11-11. I certainly didn't get lazy or distracted by OCRing and converting Kimagure Orange Road subs, I can tell you that much. At any rate, we see another, more traditional love triangle developing in this episode, between Hiroyuki, Akari, and Masashi. Too bad Masashi doesn't know he's the best male friend of the main character of an H-game. But thankfully, he's not treated nearly as badly as others like Clannad's Youhei Sunohara or Kanon's Jun Kitagawa. Which is definitely a mark in To Heart's favor, despite the lack of 9001-hit combos.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 10 - Sad Girls in Snow

Just in time for Christmas, here's the Christmas episode of To Heart ~Remember my Memories. People stand outside in the snow and talk about stuff, I guess. Oh, and there's also considerable focus on lolfang-tan blonde malapropist foreigner girl Lemmy, who knows how to celebrate Christmas American-style.

And due to that snow, episode 10 is a little bigger than the average for this show. Still smaller than average DVD-rips of other series, though.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 09 - Amping up the Angst

Screenshot has little to do with what actually happens in this episode. But I'd thought I'd give Shiho a little feature and show off her investment intelligence. That girl's going places, mark my words. But no, the real focus of episode 9 is (surprisingly) on the central relationship between Hiroyuki and Akari, where the latter calls out the former for preferring a robot girl over a human girl.

This release was mildly delayed by one stupid sign, the cell phone at 07:10. I had actually gone in and typeset it the same way Conclave-Faith had it, with the translation fading in and overlaying the Japanese text. But for some reason, the color of the overlay boxes, which looked fine in Aegisub, didn't render correctly after muxing. After 3 tries, I had to give up and go the lazy route. But I really didn't want to be lazy this time -- you can even look at the script and see the TS commented out.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 08 - Robot Roll Call

This episode brings us the first true emotionally-wrenching content in To Heart ~Remember my Memories~. But I've always been a sucker for sad robot-girl stories ever since I saw episode 20 of Love Hina 7 years ago. Additionally, we start to see something of a love triangle between Hiroyuki, Akari, and Multi. Yes, there may be no place for Hiroyuki amdist the interspecies yuri passion between his childhood friend and the robot maid. *checks sankaku* Dang it, why is there no Akari x Multi Rule34 out there?! I am disappoint. Shoutbox denizens, can you come to the rescue??

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To Heart ~RmM~ 07 - Now Sasameki Koto

After the events of the tournament in episode 5, Aoi Matsubara becomes the darling of the school and the media. That puts her friend Kotone Himekawa (pictured above) in a tight spot, as she's still looked on with fear for having rather cool telekinetic powers. Perhaps a transfer to Academy City is in order? Anyway, episode 7 of To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ actually shows signs of plot advancement in the form of several love confessions. So the pleasant days of being able to watch nothing happen for 24 minutes may be at an end.

Also, I think this was the first episode where I didn't get any 3-line subs during my test watch. I wouldn't intentionally create them, but the anamorphic squishing to 4:3 tends to make weird things happen.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 06 - Was this trip really necessary?

Aaah! It's a Diclonius! Run for your life, kid!! Sadly no, that's not true, but that would've made this episode slightly more interesting. The gang goes to Kobe and... watches soccer tryouts, visits shops, looks at skylines, and talks about stuff. Oh, and there's a return appearance by former class rep Tomoko Hoshina, if you remember her from previous seasons.

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To Heart ~RmM~ - 05 This hand of mine glows with an awesome POWER!!

For the conclusion of the mini-arc dealing with Aoi Matsubara, we have the Ultimate Raw No-Holds-Barred Extreme eXecutor Fighting Tournament. So yeah, a fair chunk of this episode is girls fighting. Surprisingly though, there's no pantyshots or clothing damage. What are the odds? And there's not much going on with other characters either, other than Multi finding things either amazing or scary.

Oh, there's a fair chance of some phail typesetting in this, but at least I made the attempt with \move on some lines instead of just doing \an8.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 04 - All the lights on the ground are strawberries

Just when I thought I was done with strawberries after finishing that other show, To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ 04 has to throw this episode at me. It must be nice to be Hiroyuki and have so many rich female friends with vacation houses and plenty of room/food to spare for all the tagalongs like Akari and Shiho. Then again that aspect is not exactly unique among anime characters. Anyway, Aoi and Ayaka have some Extreme Practicing, while Multi goes strawberry-picking and meets a random old guy of no significance whatsoever. And... that's about it, really.

I think I missed a few lines that should've had the "Offscreen" style, but I don't think they're worth doing a v2 over. Unless I can get patches working, anyway.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 03 - Fun Things are Fun

In this third episode of To Heart ~Remember my Blurry Video Memories~, Hiroyuki has a little amusement park outing with Akari and Multi, the two other members of To Heart's One True Threesome. There, they try to teach Multi the true meaning of fun, before learning of the cruel yet not unusual fate that awaits her.

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To Heart ~RmM~ 02 - Know Your Role

As the picture shows, episode 02 of To Heart ~RmM~ has Hiroyuki laying down the law and showing where women robot maid girls belong. I kid, I kid! Also, some history/flashback both to the 1999 To Heart series and what happened to Multi in the time between that series and this one.

For some reason I kept getting 3-line subs when I muxed test versions to watch, even though the Aegisub display showed only 2 lines. I think I've gotten rid of them all, by dropping the overall font size down a point, and using scaling/margin tricks where the 3-liners occurred.

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To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ - 01

Just so I didn't forget about this show, here's To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ 01. Before To Heart 2 and its unending run of sequels, there was this 2004 sequel to the original 1999 series. And I have to say, the cel art in the old version looked a lot better than this modern rendition. The extreme popularity of robot maid Multi is also in play, as To Heart ~RmM~ features her return and continuing adventures. But if you like this set of characters, this is a decent little show, with more of an ongoing plot than the original had.

Vital Stats:
Source: DVD (Zero-Raws, transcoded from wmv via HandBrake)
Container: .mkv
Video: 704x480 Anamorphic 4:3 h264/AVC, ~550-800 kbps, 23.976 fps
Audio: Japanese 2.0 Stereo AAC, 128-160 kbps
Subtitles: English styled .ass softsubs
Subtitle Source: Anime-Keep&Anime-Faith (1-8), Convlave&Anime-Faith (9-13)

Is it better quality than the TV-rips? Honestly, I'm not really sure, given that I'm working with re-encodes of pre-encoded raws here. But at the very least, you get:
* Softsubs instead of hardsubs.
* Some TL and editing fixes. The originals were pretty good, though.
* Less intrusive insert karaoke. Here's some samples:


* On the minus side, you get slightly worse typesetting, as my TS skills are not as good as the average fansub group TSer. I also didn't include things like staff credits and some irrelevant signs. But I tried to imitate the originals where possible.

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To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ Extras pack

I know you're all craving for more Touka Gettan, and possibly more Strawberry 100% OVAs. I'm currently editing the next episode of those two projects. But To Heart ~Remember my Memories~ was originally going to be my first project. And since I've had the raws and subs sitting around for a few months, I wanted to release something for it. I'll probably get some more of Touka Gettan out before I launch into the main series, though. Let me know if you think I should do something differently on the karaoke fonts/colors/sizes, and also if I'm "doing it wrong" when it comes to the anamorphic scale compensation. (I set the Y scale to 91%, since the video is being compressed horizontally from 704 to 640.)

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Extras include:

Included in this torrent:
Clean OP
Clean ED
Clean ED (Alternative Version)
Clean ED (Episode 13 Version)
Heart Fighters Omakes 01-07 [Contains some ecchi content, especially omake 7.]

Source: DVD (Zero-Raws, transcoded from .wmv)
Container: .mkv
Video: h264, 704x480 (anamorphic 4:3), 24fps*
Audio: Japanese, 2.0 Stereo AAC
Subtitles: English, soft, styled .ass.
Subtitle Source: Anime-Keep&Anime-Faith (OP/ED), yu (Heart Fighters)

*24fps is a bit odd, since 23.976 is the norm. However, I suspect that the raws were also 24.000 fps, since I didn't change any frame rate settings when I ran them through HandBrake. So it's beyond my ability to fix, unless somebody can dig up the .isos and encode new raws.