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Anime Ajin Episode 1 English Subtitles

20 Jan

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Since HorribleSubs isn’t subbing Ajin, I went looking for other subbers and came across a copy of episode 1 with English subtitles but found that the translations aren’t very good. I’ve added some lines (actually only 2) and corrected most of the translations by the original subber. It’s not perfect but I hope it’s painting a better picture of what they’re saying in episode 1. Within the extracted ass (subtitle file) file I see, ‘RakuSubs’, ‘JKanime’, and ‘Subanima’. Not sure who the original subber was but I’m crediting them all because I’m too lazy to find out. I hope you guys enjoy my version.

Update: I came across a softsub by ShiteSubs and the translation seems to be the same as the mkv I found. So maybe they’re the original subbers. I also credit them here just in case.

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Japanese Emoticons 2

18 Dec

Ψ(｀∇´)Ψ　ヽ(´―｀)ノ　(*´д｀*) 　(´・ｪ・｀) 　ヽ(;´Д｀)ﾉ

Japanese Emoticons on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard)

For those who switched to Mac and wondered how you can input Japanese Emoticons, here’s how you do it. If you’re not sure what I’m talking about, please head over to Japanese Emoticons 1 for an interesting read on Japanese smileys.
01. Head over here and download kaomoji.zip.
02. Uncompress the archive and you’ll get a directory called “かおもじ” and a PDF file called “かおもじ.pdf”. All you need is the “かおもじ” directory.
03. Copy or move the “かおもじ” directory to /Users/yourusername/Library/Dictionaries
04. Open the input menu on the top right hand corner of your screen and select Kotoeri Preferences.

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日本へようこそ！ I’m in Japan!

17 Jan

Haven’t been posting much as I was busy with preparations for school in Japan, resignation, and moving over. Finally I’m here! I’ll be in Japan studying the language and assimilating their culture. Now that I’ve almost settled down, classes have started, I realized I may not even have much time to watch my animes! I’m going to be here for at least a year and hope that when I’ve gotten the hang of things I’d have time to do my otaku-ish stuff and update you guys on what’s new and cool in Japan. While I’ve been gone, Dice has been performing a terrific job of updating the site with contents and I hope she’ll continue to do so ;)

I’m staying in Tokyo and perhaps I’d be able to meet up with Danny sometime when he’s free to bring me around and do fun stuff together.

Gonna hit the books so as to be able to keep up with my class, signing out for now. Cheers!

 
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Amazon Revoltech Danbo

23 Nov

So what do you do after much success with the line up of super cool robots & mecha? You go back to brown paper packages and make THOSE cool! And when that has gotten hot, you add a brand to it. Now that’s what I call packaging!

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Bokurano’s OP by Hatsune Miku

18 Nov

Image of Hatsune Miku

I’ve heard this song before. I was searching for and watching Hatsune Miku videos on YouTube. It didn’t occur to me then, that it’s the same song in the anime Bokurano‘s OP. I thought it was one of the best works by her even though it sounded kinda odd the way she goes, “aniso, aniso…”. I wish I could say, “More moe images of Hatsune Miku after the break”, but it’s gonna be, “Hear her in the video after the break”. ヽ(;´д｀)ノ

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Balding Japanese

07 Nov

Image of a balding Japanese using comb-over technique to ‘grow’ hair.

What happened to his hair?!

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School Days OVA

02 Nov

School Days OVA - Kokoro-chan’s image

Didn’t get enough of the anime School Days? Not to fear, late March 2008, 0verflow will be releasing Magical Heart Kokoro-chan「マジカルハート☆こころちゃん」 a School Days OVA DVD.

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Japanese Scarecrows

31 Oct

Japanese scarecrows that only show the legs.

If you’re visiting Japan and happen to come across these, please do not attempt to rescue them by pulling them out. They are actually scarecrows. Made in Japan, and only in Japan. :3

Via Danny Choo, Himazin

 
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Japanese Emoticons

24 Oct

Ψ(｀∇´)Ψ　ヽ(´―｀)ノ　(*´д｀*) 　(´・ｪ・｀) 　ヽ(;´Д｀)ﾉ

What are those extremely cute smileys?!
Japanese emoticons are called Kaomoji 【顔文字【かおもじ】】 (face characters) or Emoji 【絵文字【えもじ】】 (picture characters). My first encounter with them was probably when I started playing Final Fantasy XI in 2002. At that time, the NA version hasn’t been released yet and the servers consisted of mainly Japanese players. While they were conversing, they used these very cute and expressive emoticons that I’ve never seen before. Then, I saw a fellow non-Japanese using it as well and I asked him what are these called. Kaomoji he replied, and told me I’d be able to find instructions on how to get them on a FFXI forum that we non-Japanese frequented. I went on the forum and browsed through the threads, sure enough, I came across one that taught users how to install Japanese emoticons for use in the game! This is what I am sharing in this post, how to use Japanese emoticons on your own english based PC.

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Anime Look-Alike

11 Oct

Anime Look-Alike : Aburame Shino in battle stance with his arms stretched out in battle with Kankuro in the anime series Naruto.

Who do you think resembles Aburame Shino from Naruto in this image?

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Gundam 00

09 Oct

Apart from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED and Destiny, this is the third Gundam series that I’m watching. Based on a different universe and era, unlike SEED and Destiny, there are no genetically enhanced humans(coordinators) who can pilot mobile suits more efficiently than regular humans. That seemed to be the main reason how coordinators in Gundams can take down entire fleet of enemies easily. In this series it seems that everyone is only human. Perhaps that is why Sunrise is focusing on faster, more powerful, and specialized Gundams to set the pilots apart from the rest. With images and some captions, I’ll introduce the Gundams that appeared in the first episode below.

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Japan Origami

09 Oct

Japan Origami : 1000 yen note folded into Hideyo Noguchi with a turban.

This is “Turban Noguchi” created by Mr. Nakajima, a 29-year-old Nagoya resident. With his origami technique, he outfitted Hideyo Noguchi on the 1,000 Japanese yen note with a turban.

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Myself ; Yourself

07 Oct

Myself; Yourself : Photograph of Syuri, Nanaka, Sana, Syusuke, and Aoi from left to right, top to bottom.

Left to right, top to bottom: Syuri, Nanaka, Sana, Syusuke, and Aoi.

Sakuranomori is the birthplace of Sana Hidaka, a sixteen year old high school student, who grew up with his childhood friend Nanaka Yatsushiro, Aoi Oribe, his best male friend Syusuke Wakatsuki, and his twin sister Syuri Wakatsuki. Sana left Sakuranomori when he was eleven years old, but returns five years later living on his own in the apartment building Aoi’s family runs. Sana soon finds out that while some things have stayed the same, there are still just as many things that have changed.

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Secure Connection

03 Oct

As IRC data is transmitted in plain text, what is send from your PC to the IRC server can be captured or recorded by your ISP. For example,

[!})B
EHo@#Q).Th=PWPRIVMSG hocchan :xdcc send #101

can be captured by the ISP. What the above says is that the user is sending an IRC message to hocchan to request for xdcc pack #101. If SSL is used to connect to the IRC server, then any information that is exchanged between your PC and the IRC server will be encrypted.

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