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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Candy Candy
« on: May 11, 2004, 01:46:59 pm »
The TV series:  no, it's impossible to find it in any source, there has never been an actual video release of any type due to licensing troubles internal to Japan.  

As far as english-translated manga, go to the old Candy Candy English Translation homepage.
http://members.fortunecity.com/candywhite/menu.html
Nearly complete.

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Answer this: what do you mean when you say: "being italian is NO EXCUSE for being ANNOYING"?!?!?! >:(

A sword often used grows dull.  Overuse capitalization, it has no effect.

English language has many different ways to say similar things.  You don't need to capitalize a word / sentence to accentuate or draw attention to it.  If it doesn't stand out on its own, try saying it in a different way, or shorten it so it has the effect you want.

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why you begin to fansub new series if you don't have finished to fansub other ones?  :P
P.S. Will you also fansub CREAMY MAMI's MOVIES and OVAs? Please answer me... BYE-BYE SAYONARA ;) ;) ;)

Not everyone can work on Pelsia or Mami.  Even within this group it is only a select few who can partake such a task of monumental importance.  It is extremely scary and fearsome for most people to work on an a show like this.  The majority of the group subs other shows only, the group is very compartmentalized in this way on purpose, to protect the uninitiated and maintain the sanity of all members.

I have seen grown men collapse in fear, shielding their ears and begging "I just can't take it anymore, make it stop... make it stop... please... please...".  I have seen people cough up enough blood to fill a small cup while squealing in pain and yelling "I don't want to die!".  I have seen mentally capable and very intelligent people revert to the psyche of a 5-year old who shields his eyes and grasps for the nearest object and refuses to let go, calling it his 'blankie'.  I have seen computers reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble in a matter of tens of seconds.  It ain't a pretty sight.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Naruto?
« on: April 02, 2004, 12:07:38 am »
We'll be releasing one episode per day from now on.  Soon you'll be able to see a given episode before it's even shown on Japanese TV.  You bet.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 24, 2004, 06:38:35 am »
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In the small amount of time I've looked at fansubs I found out pretty fast that out right asking for scripts was a no no, in fact it was something that usually got you banned from a groups irc channel.  If you wanted the script that much you could have copied it line for line and timed the thing yourself.  If I can learn basic timing skills in about 20mins, if that then you could have done too.

Or he could have just asked nicely and then politely listened and responded to the concerns raised.  We (the group live-evil), not he, are the experts as far as subbing this particular show.  We know what it takes from our own experience, the people, the (specialized) equipment, the necessary safety supplies and precautions.  Any reasonable person understands the importance of these matters.  He turned hostile and became accusational rather quickly.  What's there to say/do when the requestor turns hostile with nothing but accusations and attitude.  

There are certain standards of 'acceptability' that need to be met for just about anything in life.  For instance you don't show up at a paintball game without a working safety mask and expect to be let on the field and play like everyone else (with no mask).  There are certain things you just accept and do not argue about.  A person with common sense understands that a safety mask is for your personal protection and playing w/o a mask is only asking to be permanently blinded or worse.  A person without common sense, or one who does not care if he is permanently injured is still subject to the same rules.  He wears a safety mask like everyone else, or he is simply not allowed to play.  

This situation is similar.  If you want the meteriel in question, at a bare minimum you have to meet the requirements laid out to use that materiel safely and in a way that is acceptable.  If I had not a C-type fire extinguisher to put out the electrical fire it could have easily spread and done considerably more damage.  We don't want to see anyone put at risk in this fashion, it is unacceptable.  A fire that spreads can easily go beyond affecting the original user and endanger the lives of others.  Hence the situation is even more dire than the above example of wanting to play paintball without wearing a safety mask.

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General Forum / Re: Mad Man's Rare Anime Request
« on: February 19, 2004, 01:42:59 pm »
Iga no Kabu Maru - No idea what it is.

Tokimeki 'Tonight' - The anime is a bit disjointed, bits and pieces of the manga from here-and-there.  Something like Creamy Mami or Rose of Versailles is quite coherent and continuos when it comes to story and story arcs.  The manga is better, and, there are better titles avaliable from the same author.  IMO if they would stick with Ranze as the main character it would be just fine.  Otherwise there is too much jumping around.

Hana no Lunlun - No raws, pre-Majoko Megu-chan...
If you are in Germany or Spain you probably saw a localization, a pretty bad localization at that.  Then the pre-80 style is just too different.  Many people would barely even recognize it as anime.  

It's hard to get raws of the older animes, and even when they do exist it's hard to find people truly willing to work on them.  You can try to recruit more people, but then the people you recruit expect to work on the 'latest and greatest' popular current shounen title and leave or refuse to work on older titles that are ignored or ridiculed by most groups.  

As for the role of the fansub community, there's many reasons, some just do it for 'the love' of doing it and if it happens to be useful to fans, that's nice too, but not the focus.  Sure there are pleanty who are in it just for the glory and status, but that has faded with so many groups out there.

And people who genuinely want to work on the older titles, come to the channel or post on the recruitment forum; we're set up to do pleanty of things more if we had people willing to do them.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 17, 2004, 09:31:39 am »
Ah, the lost art of listening.
Don't let this happen to you, folks.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 15, 2004, 07:39:00 am »
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No. And I should listen to you, Sindobook... why exactly? Why don't you prove you are indeed LE staff and get all the moderators to post and refuse my script request.

I don't need to prove anything to you.  To your ad-hominem attacks and veiled hypocrisy and hostility, I say only that you should watch those Pelsia LDs you supposedly have and try to take them all to heart.  There is no hope in life for those who have become corrupted by wants and needs that go beyond human nature.  

If you find that you anger or frustrate easily, that you place demands on others without examining yourself, that you lack a basic trust for people, both yourself and others:  then you really should watch it and watch it again until you can really understand it.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 13, 2004, 10:47:25 pm »
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Anyway, I again would like to request a timed script for Pelsia episode 5. Thank you for your time.

No.  It is obvious you cannot meet the requirements for even using the script.

Read the thread over and re-think your request.  You cannot even use our scripts with the computer you have.  When you can demonstrate that your computer has sufficient soap-chewing capacity (6bpm minimum), you can resubmit your request.  Use regulation bars, not those tiny things you find in hotels or the liquid stuff.  Take a movie of the test with a digicam and send it to us over IRC, then we'll send you a liability waiver form, sign it and mail it back to us and then we'd be glad to provide you with the script.  Otherwise, we have a policy here of "safety first".  If that disappoints you, tough.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 12, 2004, 09:47:06 pm »
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...single red cent. I just wanted the script to play with my LD-BOX so I could watch it subtitled on my TV. Geez.  

Yet you say in a message above
"Please allow me to assuage any fears you may have. I own the Japanese LD-BOX of the complete TV series. I have scripts for episodes 1-4, 5-28. I want to play my laserdiscs of the series in conjunction with an output".

So while you already have the script for #5, you're requesting our script for #5 (and only #5); likewise you accuse us of not being serious when in reality it is you who is not being serious as to the motive behind your request.  Enough, it's pointless for me to continue.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 12, 2004, 03:02:41 am »
First of all, I understand what you are talking about just fine.  I know what you are requesting and I am trying to insure that 1) you can actually use the script you are requesting in the way you say you will, and 2) you will not misuse it in some other way.

When we first started on Mami and Pelsia we did not realise the importance of soap-chewing capacity either.  One of our computers was a top-of-the-line sony VIAO and the poor thing started making popping noises and spewing smoke.  Then it violently caught fire and before we knew it, it was reduced to a burning pile of rubble.  Fortunately I keep a C-type fire extinguisher in the house and put it out quickly enough to stop the fire from spreading.  It was under warranty and Sony was kind enough to replace it free of charge.  But it took a week just to get out the horrible smell, and Piiki, the pet pig has been very jumpy ever since.

So these days before loading or using (playing back) a mami / pelsia script I will always feed the computer a few bars of soap to purify / sanctify it.  If you are catholic this is not too much different from what happens in confession (ritual cleaning) except that it is a computer instead of a person.  The problem is that most off-the-shelf premade computers like VIAO or Compaq or such are not designed with soap-chewing capacity in mind.  You will have to very lucky to chew through anything with them, and they are likely to fail if you do it repeatedly.  It took some time but using resources on the net like www.digikey.com you can order most of the parts you need by mail.  My current setup has a 110W AC motor which drives a 10" diameter grinder fan made of titanium alloy.  Then a self-guided driver arm rotates and feeds the soap into the grinder fan, and the rotation of the driver arm is syncronized to the fan speed monitor (if the fan slows down too much, the driver arm will slow its own rotation rate to compensate).  Likewise you need a removeable basket of some type to catch the soap shavings and dust, otherwise it will begin to pile up inside the computer and eventually could cause something to go wrong.  With this system I haven't had any failures since so I am very happy with the overall performance.  The only problem is storing the soap that I get in bulk at the local costco.  I run about 6 bars for every script so right now I estimate I'll need about 500 bars to finish both Mami and Pelsia.  And I haven't even begun to think about Sweet Mint... probably another 200-300 bars for that alone.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: February 11, 2004, 07:09:30 pm »
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Pardon me, but what are you talking about? Perhaps an easier question would be what file format is the script in? SSA? In a worst case secenario, even a txt file would save me the trouble of having to manually transcribe the script.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, then it is very doubtful your computer even has the soap-chewing capacity necessary to even use the script.  If you don't plan to look at it on your computer, what do you plan to do with the pelsia#5 script?  Sell it on the black market?  Auction it off on e-bay?  Something else that would not be acceptable to a fansub group?  I would not attempt something like Pelsia on a computer with anything less than 6bpm, the results could be disastrous, to say the least.  Safety first.

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Current & Future L-E Projects / Re: Pelsia Ep 5
« on: January 27, 2004, 06:45:31 pm »
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Hi. Now that it has been subbed, I would like to request a script of Magical Fairy Pelsia episode 5. I own the LD-BOX. Great job on subbing it, thanks. My apologies if this is the wrong forum in which to request this, but I did not see a specify arena in which to ask for things like this. Thank you for your time.

Does your computer have the soap-chewing capacity necessary to use the script?  We had problems at first, I mean we had to build a special computer system for pelsia and mami scripts to work at all.  A top of the sony VIAO P4/2800 failed due to it's mediocre rating of 2.93 bpm.  A high-end Dell also lags at around 3-4 bpm.  It's sad that most modern 'brand' computers even with their high prices and snazzy sounding names skimp on such vital requirements as these.  I custom built a Cel-2000 with optimized parts and a good motherboard, custom fans, etc. and this alone delivers more than 11 bpm of capacity for a fraction of the price.  Unless your computer has at least 10 bpm or so you wouldn't even be able to use our script, and my guess is most likely you'll need to build a custom system to achieve that.

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Candy Candy
« on: January 27, 2004, 06:19:04 pm »
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Is there really only one Candy Candy movie/episode? It only seems to cover a little of the story.

There is a complete manga (translated into english) and a long-running anime from sometime around the 80's.  The anime was never officially released due to licensing problems within Japan, and the Manga is out of print for the same reason.  

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Past L-E Projects / Re: Creamy Mami.....
« on: January 08, 2004, 01:08:09 pm »
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I love Creamy Mami since childhood... I remember how upset I was because I could never ever catch the last episode.  In fact, I have a very faint memory of Yuu being on some shattering cliff.  I really really hope Live eviL will continue fan subbing this series!  It's like seeing an old friend from a long time ago :)  Thank you soo much Live eviL team!

BTW, anyone using Kazaa sharing these files?  I don't seem to be able to get all the files from bit torrent.  Any help would be great :)  Let me know which files you guys need as well... I am happy to share.

The last episode is not the end of the series.  There are 3 OVAs which bring the TV show to its true resolution (which is what Studio Pierrot intended).

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