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I bet you all thought it was over! Well, It’s not!
Just kidding, this is actually more of a documentary, which you probably already figured out by seeing the picture. The right-most person is the VA of our beloved Yawara. =)
And apparently, today is the 10th anniversary since the first episode of Yawara aired on Japanese television. lol
Hope you’ll enjoy it!
So we’re nearly 60 episodes into Charady’s Yearly Joke and I still have no f*cking clue what this orange thing is meant to be… Answers on a postcard, please.
Every once in a while, we at Saizen look at our current workloads and say to ourselves, “We’re not stalling subbing enough series.” Luckily, a few months ago, Sigh Subs approached us with a baseball anime called H2 that looked like the perfect series to stall sub. H2 follows the fortunes (or misfortunes might be more apt) of former middle school baseball pitcher, Hiro, as he joins a new high school and embarks on finding a new hobby to take his mind off the fact he can’t play baseball. And if that hasn’t tickled your fancy, maybe the fact that this is an Adachi Mitsuru show might. Yes, we’re doing another Adachi show – and if this keeps up, we might have to change our group name to AdachiZen >.>
But for the time being, let Saizen and Sigh Subs entertain you with the first episode of H2:
This release requires the latest CCCP codec pack installed. You can get it through the link to the left of the torrent link below.
EDIT: Excuse my terrible manners for not mentioning this at the time of release (I blame the massive stall), but thanks to CentralAnime who kindly allowed us to use their DVD source even though they were too far along with their releases to consider jointing with us. Make sure to thank these noble gentlemen (and gentlewomen?) when you’re next in their neck of the woods. 😀
Additional Translation Information: Because this series is circa 1995, there are a few cultural points we felt relevant to the understanding of certain lines. We have added the information with the relevant timestamp below.
09:36 “Hoshino” refers to the legendary “giant killer” Senichi Hoshino who played baseball from 1969 to 1982 for the Chunichi Dragons. He has since gone on to be one of the Central League’s most well-known managers.
20:55 “Hayashiya” is either a reference to Hayashiya Sanpei IX who was a voice actor on previous Adachi adaptations, Touch and Hiatari Ryoukou! (I’m guessing the voice characters might be quite similar in a shattering-the-fourth-wall kinda way), or it’s a reference to his father, the rakugo comedian, Hayashiya Sanpei I, who apparently used similar phrases as Kine uses to open his jokes. Take your pick on that one 😀
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Was hoping to get FalseDawn write you one of those awesome news posts, but it seems like you’ll have to do with my shitty one. ^^
So we started another joint with our friends over at Ruri… quite a while ago actually, as by Saizen standards. lol j/k
Anyways, this is gonna be a movie triology, but there is very little information on the remaining movies, except for the second movie to be in cinemas next winter.
The movie trilogy will be an adaption of the late Tezuka Osamu’s manga, Buddha. (Seriously, didn’t need a genius to figure that one out, did it? ^^) The first movie features the life of the young prince Siddhartha, who will later be known as Buddha “the Enlightened One,” the founder of Buddhism.
We chose to work with the raw provided by QTS, which looks really damn good if you ask me. Other than that, expect the same high quality you’re used to be getting from yours truly. 😉
[Ruri-Saizen]_Tezuka_Osamu’s_Buddha_-_01_The_Beautiful_Red_Desert!_[720p][Blu-Ray][F4FA273F].mkv
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We’re finally done making you all wait for this epic conclusion of this epic series! =)
I’d like to thank everyone that contributed to this series, and hope all of you Yawara fans have enjoyed it as much as we have.
The Saizen member that decided to pick this series up, and set the whole joint thing etc. together, was Sqall, and although we don’t know where he disappeared to, I hope he’s been watching our releases too, and is happy that we finally finished it. Live-EviL are probably happier though, considering they’ve been subbing Yawara since 2003… ^^ (Yawara had been licensed until recently though)
FroZen-EviL credits for those who have helped out throughout the way, some more, some less:
Translation: kokujin-kun, Urasawa
Timing: Juggen, kokujin-kun, sangofe
Editing: Collectr, Yoshu-sama
Karaoke Timing/Styling: Juggen
Subtitle Styling: Sqall
Quality Checking: CP, it06128, Juggen, Mamo-chan, kokujin-kun, Rosti, Saji, sangofe, Skr, tlynnec, Yoshu-sama
Encoding: Skr, toster
DVD Provider: CP
You can visit Frostii and Live-eviL through these links. Make sure to at least visit Frostii for a history lesson. 😀
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Hope you had a nice Christmas Eve, and today it’s Cristmas Day, so of course we have another Yawara for you to watch. =)
Some of you might have even watched it yesterday, when it was “leaked” by our distro guy, [M]-V.^^;
So as Yawara picks up her training again, we wish you a continued happy holiday! ^^