I saw a big excitement among the team members and fans following the release of Eden of the East.  Also came was a flood of question – is this project done, what about that?  This is what’s going on:

  • K-On: This is getting close to releases, and should be out within next couple of days. We plan on making two releases – low resolution, full screen version, and wide screen, high resolution version.  High resolution version will trail the low res one by about 3 weeks.
  • Ristorante Paradiso: This is in progress as well.  This one is a bit behind the other two.
  • RideBack episode 12: This is also close being done.  This should be out by this weekend.
  • Lupin vs Conan special: Quality checkers are now hard at work, squishing all bugs and errors.  I’m going to risk and say this will be out by the end of the month.
  • Gosenzosama Banbanzai: We have full intention of continuing with this project.  But no further translation has been completed as of yet.  (I think episode 5 is partially done.)  This will be out when it’s ready.
  • Black Jack: Episode 46 is nearing release.  No work has been done on episodes 47 and on, but we’ve secured next 3 volumes of DVDs.  We also are finalizing renewed and dedicated group for this project.  I hope that the pace will pick up.
  • Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter: The team now wants to release the rest of the episodes in one go.  Episode 6 is done.  Episodes 7 through 9 are almost done.  Translation for episodes 10 and 11 are done.  This will definitely be out by End of May.
  • Yoshimune: Next couple of episodes have been translated.  This was always a side project for all parties involved, so this will continue to move slow.
  • Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto – Natsu no Sora: Ureshii and A-Kraze are still working on it.  That’s all the information I have of this one.
  • Charady’s Daily Joke: I give you a fair warning—we won’t be releasing episode 12 for the time being.  We’ve looked everywhere, but we can’t find the source video.  We are continuing our work with episodes 13 and up. I’ve just been told that we now have the source for episode 12.  We may release some episodes out of order, but they will come. Now I’ve been told that the raw file they found was corrupt.  We’ll be searching for it again…
  • Candy Boy episode 7: The production team has not announced the release date of this episode yet.  As soon as I hear a news on this, I’ll relay the message here.
  • Skip Beat: Ureshii and Yoroshiku are planning to finish up to episode 12 before dropping the project.

As for the question about those shows licensed by Crunchy Roll – the group consensus was that their quality really warrant a better version by fansubbers.  It wasn’t really because of our hate toward their business practice or anything else.  Also, Frostii is different from Froth-Bite.  We may not drop licensed shows.  We’ll decide on them on case-by-case basis.

Any other questions?