Miyuki, Complete (with Spoilers)
'Twas the night before Christmas...FroZen(-Evil) has released the 37th and final episode of Miyuki. It's taken close to two years to do 37 episodes, or roughly an episode every three weeks. The team...
View Article2014 in Review
This is not a summary of my views on 2014's anime; why should you care? I didn't watch many shows. Instead, I was mostly working on editing projects, with a sideline of typesetting. Highlights...
View ArticleD4 Princess (Take Four)
Starting off 2015 with a bang, Orphan Fansubs presents D4 Princess. This short-episode series has a long and checkered history. It was subbed back in the VHS days, but numerous attempts to do a DVD...
View ArticleThe One(s) That Got Away
All cultural media suffer from artifact loss, as a result of time or changes in taste. Time causes books to decay, photographs to fade, movies to disintegrate, etc. Changes in taste relegate...
View ArticleMiyuki - Forever Selection
Blame BakaBT for this.When I offered the Miyuki batch on BakaBT, Al_Sleeper asked about including the AMV (animated music video) special called Forever Selection, which offers nine songs in complete...
View ArticleYawara-chan Returns!
Yes, the FroZen-EviL gang has reunited to put on another show, in this case, the Blu-Ray version of Yawara! The first two episodes have been released, and despite a mixup about fonts, it's now possible...
View ArticleI Say, "-uusei"
So here is Kakyuusei (1995), a four episode h-anime OVA. It should not be confused with Elf Ban Kakyuusei (1998), a four episode non-h OVA, or Kakyuusei (1999), a fourteen episode non-h TV series, all...
View ArticleAkatsuki no Yona: A Retrospective
I haven’t done much fansubbing of current shows for the last few years. Most contemporary series have been junk, and the few standouts have been claimed by teams I don’t work with. Akatsuki no Yona...
View ArticleIt Never Rains...
Normally, Orphan Fansubs had a fairly short backlist of projects, due to lack of scripts, lack of raws, or both. However, the heavens have suddenly opened, and we're overwhelmed with interesting raws...
View ArticleTokimeki Tonight
Tokimeki Tonight has been on my list of orphan series for a long time, but I didn't think there was much chance to do anything about it. Then, in fairly short order, I found raws, a translator, and...
View ArticleTomoe ga Yuku! (Tomoe's Run!)
Orphan has done a number of OVAs from the 80s and 90s, including Dallos, the Lion Book series, Blazing Transfer Student, Sonic Soldier Borgman: New Century 2058, and the Maze fanservice special. While...
View ArticleShirokuma Cafe
I 've always been puzzled by the cool reception fansubbing groups gave to Shirokuma Cafe (Polar Bear Cafe). No one resubbed the original Crunchyroll streams; no one bothered with the BluRays. In doing...
View ArticleShirokuma Cafe, Part 2
Here's the second set of episodes for Shirokuma Cafe. Once again, the original subtitles are from Crunchyroll via HorribleSubs, retimed by ninjacloud, edited and typeset by me, and QC'd by Calyrica....
View ArticleTypesetting Shirokuma Cafe
That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Friedrich NietzscheIf Nietzsche is to be believed, I'm a stronger typesetter than I used to be, but it was a near-run thing....
View ArticleParol no Miraijima
Here's a little charmer from the 2014 Anime Mirai set of OVAs: Parol no Miraijima (Parol's Island of the Future). This is the last of the four OVAs to be available in English. macros74 translated the...
View ArticleShirokuma Cafe, Part 3
With this batch of twelve Shirokuma Cafe episodes, we pass the halfway mark and start heading for home. The third quarter brings a number of subtle changes and a clear rise in the general level of...
View ArticleShirokuma Cafe, Part 4
And now we're done with the main series. For the last time, we've seen Polar Bear devastate a conversation with his puns, Panda reflect contentedly on his cuteness, Penguin quaff his body-weight in...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: CP
Internet fansubbing is a funny thing. You rarely meet the people you work with in person, and yet you get to know them and even be friends with them anyway. And when they leave, it hurts.I learned this...
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Shirokuma Cafe Batch
Here's my "last word" on Shirokuma Cafe. The batch includes the fifty episodes, the three non-credit OPs, the twelve non-credit EDs, the "picture drama" special, and three archives of scans from the...
View ArticleKakyuusei (1995), Take 2
When Orphan first released Kakyuusei (1995) back in March, I wrote that if a better source turned up, Orphan would redo the show. Well, it did, and we have. Orphan now presents take 2 of Kakyuusei...
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