Wind Christmas Special - The Cake is a Lie

Here we are at last with the Christmas special/omake for Wind ~ A Breath of Heart. This does appear to work as a sequel to either the TV series or the OVA. Enjoy opening visuals from then-up-and-coming artist Makoto Shinkai, as well.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA 03 - It's a Hell of a Town

With this, we've reached the end of the Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA series. All said and done, it reaches a fairly similar conclusion to the TV series, just with fewer side stories and a lot less emphasis on the abilities employed by the residents of Kazune City. Just remember, that "Location Where Everyone Has Powers" anime genre isn't quite so recent.

I'll also be putting out the Wind Christmas special/omake, and maybe some of the other extras that're sitting around in the raw collection I obtained.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA 02 - He Had it Coming

This episode of the Wind OVA features more exploration into the past, not only of Makoto and Minamo, but also of their parents, both living and not. We also get girls frolicking on the beach in swimsuits later on, but while tragedy from beneath the waves is averted, the real disaster is waiting on land.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA 1 - Return to the Windy City

Well, we must all soldier on despite the loss of everyone's favorite feline torrent site, but I choose to do so by kicking off the Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA. This is basically an alternate adaptation of the game, and does not precede or follow the events of the TV series. Some things are similar, like Makoto and Hinata moving to Kazune City, their meeting the rest of the group, and Makoto and Minamo reuniting. But their mother, Yuuka Okano, is merely missing, rather than deceased, and in addition to the airship, there's also a phantom train carrying a mysterious girl. (Should've used a Phoenix Down, Makoto!) This release uses some old wmv3 DVD raws, which were the only raw source I could find, and translations by Static-Subs, AKA the only group to completely translate the OVA back in 2004.

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For older torrent links on this blog, replacing nyaa.se with nyaarchive.moe should work, so please bear with me as I go back and edit them over time.

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 17 - You Belong to the City

After a long time without much required effort, I bring you the 17th and final episode of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart. (Episode is numbered 13 on AniDB and most sites.) This episode is a recap episode that mainly focuses on Makoto's and Minamo's relationship, rather than covering the entire story of the series. No doubt it caused some confusion when it aired at the end of the TV broadcast, as it includes some content from the DVD-only episodes 9.5/10 and 10.4/12 that no one had seen at that point.

Anyway, now that I've recovered from some mysterious post-holiday illness that had me running a fever of 102 (or 38.9 for those of you in the non-insane part of the planet) while trying to watch the Nanoha A's movie, maybe I can get to re-releasing another mid-00s VN adaptation and a couple of shorter OVA projects (including, perhaps, the Wind ~ A Breath of Heart OVA), as well as that pesky Mokke episode some have been asking about.

Ep 17 Torrent || Batch (Nyaa) || Ep 10v2 Patch

The v2 patch for episode 10 only changes the Next Episode title of ep 11 at the end of the episode.

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 16 - The Kid who Stays in the Picture

We've arrived at the bittersweet epilogue episode of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart, wherein our happy couple enjoy the school festival while reflecting on what they've lost. Or is it lost? While the airship and the abilities it conferred seem to have vanished, one tormented figure seems to be enjoying life in a different vessel. This episode was originally DVD-only episode 12.5 ("When Feelings Are Answered"), but has been renumbered as 16. Guess that just leaves the full-series recap episode 13/17 now.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 15 - To Make Kazune City Great Again

After a busy couple of months and some setbacks in the form of lost Internet connections, I bring you episode 15 of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart. Turns out you can't put ancient curses and traditions to rest without some losses along the way, and Makoto is about to find out what they are.
Re-numbering note: this episode is known on most sites as episode 12, "With the Wind."

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 14 - I Invite You to Burn

This episode of Wind offers a look back into the dark, tragic past of Hikari and Kazune City alike, with a shocking conclusion. Maybe six feet ain't so far down. Astute viewers may note that this episode is nearly twice the size of any other episode of the series. Well, I hope you like extended flickering-light film-grainy flashbacks complete with artificial scanlines, weird flower overlays, and dark scenes punctuated by fire and sparks. In other words, it's a tremendous bitrate hog, perhaps on par with the sandstorm flashback in Iriya's Sky, Summer of UFOs ep 02. Fortunately, the GFE encoder wisely allowed this episode to break filesize consistency with the other eps. On the other hand, Static-Subs kept it at 99 MB (CD-R/7?), and the results were rather lacking, as can be sampled below. I don't even want to think about how this ep looked at 75 MB (CD-R/9??) in Anime-Keep's release.

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As with previous episodes, this has been renumbered; it's better known as episode 11, "Destiny from the Ancient Times."

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 13 - Resistance is Futile

After everything turned out for the best in the previous episode, Makoto finds Hikari up to her old tricks: making people disappear and doing vaguely violent things to them. Apparently the more interaction a girl's had with the male lead, the more danger she's in.

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Renumbering note: this is elsewhere considered ep 10.8/S3, "Uncertain Feelings".

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 12 - Gonna Need a Nicer Boat

In this starkly intense episode of Wind, Minamo's feelings of grief, jealousy, and rejection boil over into a concoction most perilous. I get the feeling this is what happens when you trip a few flags for other girls by doing nice things for them, while generally/half-heartedly heading down one particular game route. Luckily, things turn out a little better for this Makoto than for that other one. Or maybe this Makoto's results are just as good as the other one's were, until they weren't.

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Once again, this episode and all others after 09 have been renumbered in my release to remove decimal/fractional values. Although I'm numbering it 12, this episode is listed on AniDB and elsewhere as episode 10.4, "Tell me your Feelings......"

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 11 - The Final Sacrifice

After several false starts and frame shifts that I'm not sure I ever needed to do, I present you episode 11 of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart, which is generally listed as episode 10 on database sites. Things get real this time around, and somebody's on the ultimate chopping block with no Rowsdower around to save them. Some of the scene connections and transitions don't exactly make sense, but I assume there's some game information I'm missing out on here. At some point, there will be a v2 of my ep 10, though it will only change the title of the next episode at the very end of the video.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 10 - The Toxicity of Our City

The script for this episode exhibits the peculiar property of having the least dialogue of any episode so far, but the largest total amount of lines. Thank goodness the fine folks at GFE took care of a whole lot of frame-by-frame typesetting. At any rate, I've decided to renumber the remaining episodes of Wind to remove fractional/decimal episode numbers. So, this episode is better known as episode 9.5, the first of the DVD-only episodes that were translated by Shinsen-Subs rather than Static/Keep. Minamo's father confronts Hikari about the more sinister side of Kazune City, and, well... not a whole lot else happens, I guess?

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 09 - Power Perversion Potential

For some reason the image uploads aren't working, but take my word for it -- Wind TV 09 features the darker side of a city where everyone possesses special abilities; as it turns out, some choose to use them for nefarious and/or creepy purposes. And on top of that, it seems like everyone's abilities are becoming inconsistent and unstable, not just those of wannabe raepists.

Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 08 - Two Girls for Every Boy

After the shocking turn of events at the end of the previous episode of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart, our hero finds himself on a summer festival date with Minamo, highlighted by an enchanting encounter with the ever-enigmatic Hikari. I have to hope that in a city where everyone has special abilities, festival-goers can even the odds against those cheating carnival game operators.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 07 - A Bridge to Starry Skies

Well, whaddaya know, two beach episodes in a row, and I'm not even working on RahXephon! Feast your some obviously performance-enhanced beach volleyball and jealousy-generating sequences, and then get ready for some shocking advancements in the show's romantic threads after nightfall.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 06 - I know now why you cry

This latest outing of Wind ~ A Breath of Heart manages the feat of combining two mostly-distinct stories into one half-length episode, involving a shopping not-a-date and a movie sorta-date. Also of note: the use of Edvard Grieg's "Death of Ase" as the public-domain soundtrack for the movie, and the random tricks people in the park are doing with their town-given powers for the sake of amusement. Nice to have a "people with powers" series without any tournaments or "confrontations with random thugs in a restaurant" scenes.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 05 - Regally Blonde

This episode of Wind focuses on "doomed to be a side character" Nozomi as she battles her weak constitution to compete in the Obligatory Sports Festival, albeit one marred by rampant special-power-aided cheating. At least Kazune City is probably free of PED and HGH scandals. Meanwhile, Mysterious Girl Hikari is skipping out on athletics, but she is participating in strange and arcane miko rituals.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 04 - Stray Cats Underrun

In another CG-filled episode of Wind, Makoto dodges some potentially lethal cuisine, learns a bit about his family's history with the city, and spends some time philosophizing about a cat with mysterious shopkeeper Hikari. Not a bad slate for a 12-minute episode.

Funny story -- the Static-Subs translation (which has probably not been as available as A-E's for a long time, due to BakaBT hosting A-E) for Hourglass of Summer 02 called Koutarou's best friend "Tsutomu" instead of "Takeshi" on several occasions. Clearly they were working on this series at the same time, and the team got their "VN adaptation MC's male best friend whose name starts with T" mixed up. It baffled me for awhile after I first transcribed SS' Hourglass subs, until I started working on both of these shows at roughly the same time myself.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 03 - To Kill or Save the Animals

I'm sure it seems strange to see a landline being used in 2016, but that just goes with the territory of working with series from 2004. For Makoto, integrating his childhood friend into his social circle leads to a whirlwind tour of shopping and parties, but not before he meets an independent businesswoman with a quiet demeanor and an odd view of morality.

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Wind ~ A Breath of Heart 02 - Singlular Fist Strike Male

In this perhaps-long-awaited episode of Wind, our male lead re-connects with his childhood friend, much to the jealous consternation of the non-bald individual above. Then, they find out that parental absences may have more than mere story convenience behind them. One technical observation I've made of this series: there's a tradeoff between having more dynamic camera angles and rotations than a typical school romance series would have, but at the expense having of some noticeable and low-detail CG in use.

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