True Mazinger Impact Z Epic - Episode 4

Someday perhaps I'll be consistent about the title between two posts.  Nah.

It's a little weird to say this, but I'm not entirely certain what the status is.  I know I finished a run through the whole script, and Mandoric has it.  I think he went through most of it.  I'm pretty sure Zorak has started timing it.  Really hard to do status when you spend most of your time away from the people doing the work I guess.  Workflow seems less busted this week anyway.  Updates as things happen that I actually know about!

Shin Mazinger Z Epic - Episode 3

Another week, another pile of Japanese ass to claw through and make palatable for English consumption.  We're doing a little something special this time, so look forward to it.

Status:

• 4/18 17:42 - Working on the first pass now, all of it since Mando is out and I'm faster than the other two anyway.  It's not like they can release my shit, but at least I can get rid of the easy stuff.
• 4/18 20:12 - more than half way in, Mando is checking what I have now and I'm continuing forth
• 4/18 23:06 - finished first pass, got the workraw finally due to the special magic going on.  Some lines still need total insertion due to not being in the CC script for various reasons.
• 4/19 02:18 - おぬし is not 大虫, and I am not competent. 
• 4/19 18:05 - Oh snap!  There are some errors in the genetic splicing, things are getting a little... nightmarish.  This is going to take hours to fix :(.
• 4/20 00:58 - No new workraw, but have the premux done and fixed for sync issues.  Got the timing for the ass done, but probably no more forward movement on TLC/missing line plugin as Mandoric's kind of fucked for various personal reasons.  Not that I'm not speaking to the void or anything here.
• 4/21 03:10 - Finally working on editing, but probably not going to get much of it done tonight.  Release tomorrow?  Ughh.
• 4/22 02:54 - Finished editing like 30 minutes ago.  Could QC now if not for an uploading snafu... please wait while I insert a small piece of lead into my gray matter at high velocity.
• 4/22 14:29 - Released a while ago, while I was asleep.  Can be grabbed here.

Shin Mazinger Z Epic - Episode 2

Another week, another episode.  Anyone worried last week about the horrible headache inducing qualities of starting with the finale can rest at ease; this week is much more straightforward, taking us back from the ending to the beginning.  I can't say everything about this episode is explained, but at least it runs in a sane, linear path of scenes all in the same day, leading to the introduction of the titular mech.

Status:

• 19:15 - I've handed off the B-Part script to Zorak (translated in chronological order this time!!!1), who is supposedly timing.  Mando hasn't started the A-Part last I checked.  Workraw ready, and there shouldn't be any redo on the premux raw like last week.
• 01:05 - I finished off the bits of the A-Part Mandoric had left before dinner, he can worry about the messy shit we both skipped and then just do a good TL check before editing.  Zorak timed most of it, we can probably get it out earlier tomorrow than last week.
• 15:35 - It's all timed, but Mandoric is at work so probably not getting it finished anytime too soon.  Whoops.  Premux has the font attached though, so no issues there.
• 17:58 - Editing start!
• 01:05 - Christ this took too long... QC ending, muxing and distro shortly.
• 01:50 - Didn't even notice that there were exactly 24 hours between two of those statuses.  It's finally out, available here.  Public tracker this time because koda's not around.
  

Tales of Abject Failure - Coda

This post is a long time coming, but I couldn't really get the energy together to make it.  The tech called shortly in advance of arriving, inserted the card, and called the number.  It worked.  While this confirmed to me firsthand that there was no need for a professional, it was not a train wreck, so there wasn't so much to talk about.  I don't miss the Motorola DVR one bit though, Viva TiVo!

Shin Mazinger Shock! Chapter Z Episode 1

Today marks the beginning of the anticipated new Mazinger show in Japan.  About a year ago it first crept onto schedules under the moniker Z Mazinger, implying that it would be an adaptation of the alternate universe manga of the same name.  Well, clearly that's not the final name.  This name implies that it's a redo closer to the true spirit (meaning the original manga, not the drawn out kid friendly TV show).  Well it's not that either.

Skipping ahead a bit, let me spill the beans that I'm one of the translators with Gattai working on the project.  I worked on the second half of the script and I still don't know what the fuck it is.  Sorry, I do know one thing about it.

It's utterly awesome.

Yasuhiro Imagawa, of G Gundam and Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still fame, is the director of this show, which the staff has insisted is not a remake (I believe you now.)  Like his Giant Robo OVA, this series seems to be throwing together all sorts of characters and iterations from the various works of the original author (Go Nagai in this instance), and diving in in medias res with little to no regard for comprehension.  He is not a haphazard man though, so this will not remain incomprehensible for long, and even the events here will eventually tie in beautifully.  Imagawa is not Anno.  Fortunately, what this episode lacks in sense, it makes up in giant robot action, and giant robots being utterly awesome.  If you watched GaoGaiGar, Gurren Lagann, Gunbuster, or either of the other Imagawa works (this blog post brought to you by the letter: G), do yourself a favor and download this when we release.  Do not worry that you do not understand what is going on; nobody understands what is going on.

Episode 1 Status:

• As of about 21:40 today, the parts of the script I translated and the parts translated by another member of the team have been assembled and we're waiting for the main TL to go over it, and likely call me an idiot a lot.
• 00:25 - Whoops, seems like the encode is taking long enough that it won't be ready until the encoder is asleep and can't hand it off.  Script is corrected but not properly GARed up, working on that in #gattai now.
• And, without further ado: [Gattai]​_Shin​_Mazinger​_Shougeki!​_Z-Hen​_01​_[23941873].mkv

My part in this was, well, a goddamn mess.  Fortunately, we had a better translator to fix my crap, and a heavy dose of editing to the whole thing.  The title of this episode is Finale, so please, don't freak out when it makes no sense.

One Final Update: 

Zorak pooched the release so it has no fonts, but because I love you so much, I made an xdelta patch with application batch file to fix that.  There's no changes to the script or anything, but it's a much narrower and less Arial font.