Spring 2010 Fansub Comparisons

My thoughts and comparisons of groups subbing the anime I'm watching this season. Note that most of this is based on only the first one or two episodes so group quality may change throughout the season. The tag listed next to each title is ...

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Des Loves to Move, Des Loves to Groove, Des Loves the Lovin' Things

A while ago I got an M3DS Real flash cartridge, which lets me load stuff from a microSD card to run on my DS. Among other things, this lets me use my DS as an audio player by using the MoonShell homebrew media player, which is what I've been using...

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Ara Ara Ufufu~

My Aria the Origination DVD box set arrived today. I feel like dropping everything and just having an Aria marathon through the night.

Also, I finally got around to watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Rei. I went through all five episodes in a row last night, and wow, I'd forgotten just how great Higurashi is when you see it for the first time. Rewatching the first series with my friends has been entertaining, but it does lose something when you already know what's going to happen.

The Maria-sama ga Miteru parody in ep5 made me pause the video and laugh until my eyes were watering, by the way. That may just be the best comedic episode in the entire show.

Fun with Batch Scripts

Say you've started watching a new anime with a great OP or ED song that you'd like to listen to regularly, but the single for it isn't going to be released until weeks, maybe even months later. (Yes, this is related to the previous post.) What do ...

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On the Road to Diabetes

I picked up Heartcatch Precure! on a whim after I saw Doremi put up ep1 on Tokyo Toshokan. I'd never seen any Pretty Cure/Precure before, partly because there's OVER 9000 year-long series in the franchise and that's always a bit intimidating. (Same reason I haven't watched any Ojamajo Doremi yet.) But hey, most of them aren't directly related to one another and here was a new one just starting.

Holy crap, this show is full of sweet and sugary sparkles. And the ED looks like an iDOLM@STER video overloaded with even more cuteness.

I need MOAR.