Picture of the day – 25/08/2010

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Picture of the day – 24/08/2010

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Some monochrome art for a change.
Japanese artist post tomorrow.

Picture of the day – 23/08/2010

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Thanks for everyone who voted on the poll. I’ll implement those changes in the next version of the chart, which should be out in a few days. This will make the chart a bit bigger, though.

Denpa teki na Kanojo – OVAs 1 & 2


Files details:
DVD – 1024×576 – x264 – AAC

Plot Summary:
Juuzawa Juu is a delinquent high school boy who just wants to be left alone. One day, he is approached by Ochibana Ame, who claims that she knew him in a previous life, and now wants to serve him as his “knight”. At first Juu wants nothing to do with Ame, but after a classmate is murdered, he accepts her help as he looks for the killer.

Screenshots:
Episode 1

Episode 2


Okay, so here are the OVAs 1 & 2 of DtnK.
Original subs by Senpachi Fansubs(Website link)
All translation credits go to them. They did a great job in my opinion.

In their original release, they had some artifacts showing on episode 2. As their translation was pretty solid, I thought it was a waste no to fix the whole thing, so that people like me could archive it. I asked permission to do a fixing, which they kindly accepted.
While I was at it, I took a higher resolution (720×480 -> 1024×576), fixed some minor typos I found here and there, and increased font size accordingly.

Release : here.

Trouble reading the files? Either use the CCCP Codec Pack OR Shark 007 Codecs (XP, Vista, Seven only). Remember to uninstall your current codecs before you install one of those.

Give DtnK a try, it’s really awesome ;)
Be advised though, there are some violent scenes from time to time. It is definitely not intended for minors.

If you find or have any problems, feel free to comment about it.

Picture of the day – 22/08/2010

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Now that’s one big hammer we got here. You don’t wanna make her angry.

Picture of the day – 21/08/2010

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I had to do some patchwork on this one, because the original wasn’t really “safe looking” :s

This is actually an upscale I did myself. The original size can be found here. Although, I think the upscale has no real difference with the original, except if you’re extremely picky about the details.

Tomorrow, anime release of Denpa teki na Kanojo (DVD 1024×576), remuxed from SFS translation.

Picture of the day – 20/08/2010

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Picture of the day – 19/08/2010

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Enhancing your audio experience

I often listen to Japanese music (OST mostly), and I’m extremely picky about the quality (I rarely go under 320kbps/FLAC) because you miss some sound effects, and the sound is dull (when your ears are used to it, you can tell that there’s a noticeable difference between 192kbps and 320 kbps).

But anyway, my biggest regret is that I don’t have surround speakers (5.1 or 7.1) even though my sound card actually supports 7.1. The only thing I have are those cheap 25$ speakers (which are actually incredibly good, for their price) COMEP SP2 6050 :

I actually have the money to buy a new set, but I don’t want to spend money on this, since 5.1 or 7.1 is no small price.

One day I was looking for a way to improve my audio experience a bit, with the cheap stuff I had.
I then stumbled on the DFX plugin, and since then, it follows me on every computer I have.

This little plugin, which works for Windows Media Player, Winamp, RealPlayer, MediaMonkey, J. River Media Center, foobar2000, Musicmatch, DivX Player, completely changed my music experience.
I’m not really the type of person to advertise a software, but this one’s nice.
I believe it was the first of its type to be released on the Net, though there are probably some similar softwares now.
It has a paid and a free version. I personally use the free version, which is more than enough.
For the settings, I usually go like this :

If, like me, you don’t have extra-super-awesome surround speakers, you may want to try this.

Try turning it on and off, you’ll see the difference ;)
If you like music, a software like this is a must-have (provided you don’t have surround already).

Website : DFX Audio Enhancer

Side note: If you ever want to uninstall one of those plugins, you need to do it from the “Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs” utility.

Picture of the day – 18/08/2010

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Did you know that a new Angel Beats! is supposedly in the works for Spring 2011?
Troll or reality? Time will give us the answer.

For details, click here

Discover this anime – Denpa teki na Kanojo


Today, Denpa Teki na Kanojo (Electromagnetic Girlfriend)

Categories: Action, Novel, School Life, Seinen, Sexual Abuse, Tragedy, Violence

Plot Summary:
Juuzawa Juu is a delinquent high school boy who just wants to be left alone. One day, he is approached by Ochibana Ame, who claims that she knew him in a previous life, and now wants to serve him as his “knight”. At first Juu wants nothing to do with Ame, but after a classmate is murdered, he accepts her help as he looks for the killer.

User Ratings: 121 ratings have been given

 Masterpiece: 27 votes

 Excellent: 46 votes

 Very good: 29 votes

 Good: 8 votes

 Decent: 8 votes

 So-so: 1 vote

 Not really good: -

 Weak: -

 Bad: 1 vote

 Awful: 1 vote

 Worst ever: -

Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.496 (Very good), rank: #198
Weighted mean: 8.336 (Very good), rank: #209
Bayesian estimate: 8.280 (Very good), rank: #117

Source: Anime News Network

Recommended Fansubs: Eien no Anime [EnA]
or, if they fix episode 2 video problems, Senpachi Fansubs [SFS].

My opinion: Yet another little awesome show that didn’t get enough attention. Although very short, DtnK doesn’t fail on any aspect. Be advised though, the series can be violent from time to time.
Let’s hope they do release a 3rd OVA in the future.
It’s only 2x~40minutes, so it won’t hurt you to give it a try ;)

Picture of the day – 17/08/2010

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“Discover this anime” article tomorrow, and a random article aswell.

Picture of the day – 16/08/2010

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Picture of the day – 15/08/2010

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