Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito 01-13/13

OK, the time has come to upgrade this nice series (AniDB).

Video: x264 712x476 4:3 23.976fps CRF13 (1107-1584kbps)
Audio: Japanese 2.0 Stereo FLAC

Three subtitle tracks:
Subtitle track #1 - translation by Shinsen-Subs.
Subtitle track #2 - translation by Shounen-Ai.
Subtitle track #3 - translation by Miyuki Fansubs.

The subs were OCRed using VideoSubFinder, which produced surprisingly good results for all three hardsubs. The only editing I did (except of fixing OCR errors) is changing Hadzuki (SHS)/Hatzuki (S-Ai)/Hatsuki (M-F) into Hazuki, because this romanization is displayed in the show itself:


Just for fun, I used different fonts for the main dialogue in 3 subtitle tracks, similar to what was used in the original hardsubs (SHS -> Nyala, S-Ai -> ITC Korinna, M-F -> Teen). The colors, however, are all set to white with black outlines.

Some notes about translations:

Shinsen-Subs - liberal English translation, no honorifics, "Onee-chan" becomes "Sis" and so on. This is the default track.


Shounen-Ai - if you want honorifics or don't like Nyala font, watch this track. Translation is more or less similar to SHS track.


Miyuki Fansubs - quite a lot of lines are translated differently. Since it's not very likely that both SHS and S-Ai translators consistently made similar errors, this track is probably less accurate.


Some funny demonstrations:

SHS: Love is something that makes the pain stop.
S-Ai: Love makes pain go away.
M-F: Love is something that you'd get hurt about.

SHS: So don't bother fixing it.
S-Ai: So just leave it.
M-F: Very well, then. Go ahead and fix it.

SHS: Come right home, OK?
S-Ai: Come home right after school, okay?
M-F: We'll party until it's night time!

etc etc.

The video is unfiltered. Since SHS release was also based on DVD source, the difference in video quality is not as great as in case of TV-rip -> DVD-rip upgrades, but still it is better. Additionaly, this re-release has a benefit of being 100% softsubbed, features lossless audio and includes complete archive of fansub translations.

Here's screen comparison with SHS hardsub.
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25 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 4:52 AM

    Good to see u back and thank you for the release.

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  2. NikuJuly 27, 2011 at 8:14 AM

    Oh God, I love you.

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  3. AnonymousJuly 27, 2011 at 11:25 AM

    Thanks so much
    one of my favorite older shows

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  4. TugaFanJuly 27, 2011 at 12:29 PM

    Hi Thanks for the release but i cant open the file.
    Im using k-lite codec pack

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  5. kaishakuninJuly 27, 2011 at 12:59 PM

    Try CCCP. It is built specifically for playing anime and usually causes the least amount of problems. Though I just tried the file on a PC with K-Lite Media Pack Standard and it played fine too (using MPC).

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  6. TugaFanJuly 27, 2011 at 1:40 PM

    Just update my computer to CCCP.
    Now works just fine.
    Thanks allot e keep up the good work.
    I was looking for this series for ages

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  7. dragon132004July 27, 2011 at 1:42 PM

    Thanks a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot
    for this nice nice treat... I will be looking forward to watch this series using your release..

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  8. James MasonJuly 27, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    Thanks for doing these; I've been meaning to rewatch this series for ages now

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  9. XtyfeJuly 27, 2011 at 3:31 PM

    Me love you long time!

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  10. NikuJuly 27, 2011 at 8:54 PM

    Whoa, I thought I was going to have to wait but four episodes already?

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  11. ZalisJuly 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM

    Yeah, I'd say there are some visual improvements from SHS to this, at least in the form of less blur and better background textures. Just curious, are M-F's ridiculous and lulz-worthy TL notes included in the M-F track?

    Shameless advertising: For those who liked this show and want to see more work by the same studio and staff, be sure to check out my release of Touka Gettan. Heck, the YamiBou characters even make a cameo appearance in one episode.

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  12. kaishakuninJuly 28, 2011 at 10:44 PM

    @Zalis: All M-F notes are included. The only thing not included is the text that is displayed in every M-F's episode before the video starts. This one:

    Originally a H game released by ROOT at the end of 2002, this Anime series can be quite confusing if you didn't know the background story. Long ago, only a single being by the name of Adam existed in the universe, Adam wanted to create things to fill the universe with, hence Lilith (Ririsu) was born. With her, Adam created many worlds safe for people to live in. To populate those worlds, Eve was born. With Eve, Adam created humans who spread across the worlds. But soon, other beings of great power (Gods) appeared and started to wage battle against each other. Fearing his creations would be destroyed forever, Adam created the Great Library, where each book was a record of a separate world. And in order to protect the Great Library, Yami was born…

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  13. TugaFanJuly 30, 2011 at 6:36 AM

    Amazing work.
    Keep up!!

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  14. dragon132004July 30, 2011 at 8:29 AM

    COOL Man.. you have completed this series.

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  15. AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    Amazing bro! completing the whole series in 3 days.

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  16. aniluvJuly 30, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    What else can I say? I a fan. =D

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  17. CoreydbzJuly 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM

    Again, thanks for being awesome. What's next?

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  18. AnonymousJuly 30, 2011 at 12:06 PM

    @kaishakunin

    Aww. I like that opening text. It was helpful when I first this with M-F's release. You should make a patch to have that back in!

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  19. ZalisJuly 30, 2011 at 12:48 PM

    @Anonymous: There's always text documents and such. M-F actually added time to the videos to add that note, which would've meant more encoding work, more space taken, etc. I'll suggest that they add an attachment with that note when this gets offered on BakaBT.

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  20. AnonymousJuly 31, 2011 at 1:41 AM

    @Zalis

    That sounds good.

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  21. AnonymousAugust 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM

    Thanks for your amazing work!

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  22. Arisato-kunJune 20, 2012 at 11:49 PM

    I guess with DDL sites pretty much dead these days, most of the DDL links got taken down right? I can't even seem to find a way to download these eps anymore. Should have done it all back in the day...

    Is there a different page with all the episodes somewhere?

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    1. kaishakuninJune 21, 2012 at 4:15 AM

      Since DDLs are dead, there are two ways to download the episodes:
      1. bakabt
      2. irc bot

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  23. Arisato-kunJune 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM

    Oh, do you guys have an IRC channel? Must have missed it. Or do you have the eps up on a different bot?

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  24. Hunt77September 6, 2016 at 2:28 PM

    Thanks a lot for your work! I really enjoyed this series, it was like a mix of Touhou and TwilightZone.

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