Frostii

This is one of the shows I’m so looking forward to see coming winter ^_^; I have a weakness toward this type of show… unique! As some may already know, this show runs for a full year. One hour each month with 2 weeks exception between first and second episode.

This promotional video contains scenes from the first 3 parts.  So, enjoy this teasing and stay tuned for the real thing in few weeks ^_^

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The fun continues. Find out what the first snowfall brings in the next exciting installment of Winter Sonata.

Crazy Eye Lady approves this release.

Release information:
720 p – [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_05_[49F51C37 ].mkv
480 p – [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_05_[C094B966 ].avi

Enjoy!

-tlynnec

We thought we’d start the year off right by introducing a new series. So, without further ado and together with our friends at Live-eviL, we bring you Winter Sonata.  Our dedicated team has slaved for the last week to bring you not 1, not 2, but 4, yes 4, episodes to begin your new year!

Since we have left the staff credits off of the releases, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank our incredibly dedicated staff:

• Translation: amanist
• Timing: nanne
• Typesetting: tlynnec & goof
• Karaoke: sylf
• Editing: tlynnec
• Encoding: ArabianSwan & BlueLotus
• Quality Control: CP, Robo210, & Oracle

As many of you may know, the Winter Sonata anime began broadcasting in October and is based on the wildly successful K-drama that was popular in Japan about 10 years ago. What you may not know is that the anime is voiced, in Korean, by the original K-drama actors.

Release information:
720p MKV:

• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_01_[29A27D61].mkv
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_02_[EB990E15].mkv
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_03_[A5CAD6FC].mkv
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_04_[2FC5D84B].mkv

480p AVI:

• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_01_[FEF71ED8].avi
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_02_[13B4EDC4].avi
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_03_[DC24698F].avi
• [Frostii_Live-eviL]_Winter_Sonata_-_04_[EE04171E].avi

A few notes about the show:

• As mentioned above, this anime is entirely in Korean. It was broadcast with Japanese subtitles, which we cannot (unfortunately) remove. We have the pleasure of working with some great high quality raws (the original transport streams in fact) so we can confirm that these subtitles are not optional; they are part of the video itself and cannot, therefore, be removed.
  While this may sound like a problem, I would like to assure you that it is not. We have placed the English subtitles directly below the Japanese ones, and our staff have reported that after a few minutes they forget that the Japanese is even present.
• Those of you who can read Japanese will notice that the Japanese and English subtitles do not always agree. Even those of you who do not will notice that we often have longer subtitles, and that there are more total subtitles in English than in Japanese.
  There is an excellent reason for this: our translation has been taken directly from the Korean audio. We are blessed with a professional level translator who is fluent in both Korean and Japanese and he has pointed out that the translator for the Japanese subtitles was, well, lazy. While the Japanese subtitles get the point across, they are not always accurate. We hope that you will, therefore, enjoy watching the show as it was intended to be understood.
• Korean is a pain to romanize. I can not make it any clearer than that. There are multiple possible ways of spelling every Korean word. Therefore, we have chosen to spell names according to what we believe is easiest to read in a subtitle. Depending on what translation of the K-drama you may have watched, our spelling of the names may differ.

So, for everyone who ever enjoyed Winter Sonata, and for everyone discovering it for the first time, enjoy!

-tlynnec

PS from Swan: for those of you who have less than cool pc/laps… there will be an xvid 848×480 release soon…

Three and a half years since the start of the project, we are finally at the end of the series.  I personally was ready to give up on number of occasions.  But the enthusiasm of the fans were stronger than my will to stop.  After all these years, and almost forty people on working on the series (the 4 Miracles, the movie, and Black Jack 21 included), we could finally deliver the entire series.  Thank you both to those who worked on the series, and those fans who has supported all these years.

Episode 60 download
Episode 61 download
Extra Karte NG (DVD extra for episodes 59-61)

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Christmas release rush continues.  It’s by coincidence that some of these episodes have a tinge of Christmas taste as well.  Yes, these are the re-release of Candy Boy based on the DVD sources.  With softsub goodness.

And for those of you who didn’t watch the series the first time, here’s the suggested order to watch these episodes:

1. ONA
2. Episode 1
3. Episode 2
4. EX1
5. Episode 3
6. Episode 4
7. Episode 5
8. EX2
9. Episode 6
10. Episode 7

Or you can wait for EX2 until the very end.

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The original story for episode 59 has a small taste of Christmas.  With that, I thought it would be nice to be able to release this episode in time for the season.  The Black Jack team has worked hard to make this dream come true.

If you only watch the anime version, you might wonder where the taste of Christmas is.  It was edited out in the anime version.  The original chapter was in the first volume published by Vertical.  Go buy your copy today!

Episode 58 download

Episode 59 download

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P.S.
I just realized that episode 58 is Frostii’s 200th release.  (Not counting the duplicate releases of HD and SD etc. or the previews.)

Earlier today, we released a promo video for one of the shows we liked.  Of course, that isn’t the only show.  Some of the shows we are thinking for January 2010 include:

• Ookami Kakushi – as you saw in the last post.  Pending the full compatibility between the translator and the show confirmed—we’re on
• Nodame Cantabile Finale – I will continue working on this show personally
• Lupin III the Last Job – slated to be aired on Feb 12.  I’ll work on this too
• Boku Otariiman – 40 minute OVA.  Also my project.
• Musashi the movie – this might be oversubbed… but we like it enough that we want our own version
• Omamori Himari – not sure at all yet, just like Ookami confirmed—we’re on
  
• Dyurarara!! – not sure on this either, just like Ookami confirmed—we’re on
  

Does that sound like we’re stretching ourselves too thin?  We should have ourselves covered pretty good.  There are some very excited members for each and all shows I just listed.

What do you think?

updated 1/12: all shows are now confirmed – we’re doing ‘em all.