Perevodildo's ramblings

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In a rare good month for perevodildo-fansubs, another joint release I'm extremely proud of. Song of Raiyantsuuri stands proudly as probably one of the best shows I translated, on par with Futari no Lotte and Ningen Kakumei.  Nyaa | Collectr's post | AniDB | DDL | Subs only  

Episode 1 I'm really glad the DVDs WOWmd bought had VobSub on them. I literally wouldn't be able to figure this series out without them - the characters use a whole lot of religious text quotes, which are, may I remind you, from the 13th century or earlier, and consequently use deprecated pronunciations, kanji combinations, and the meanings more obscure than the muttering of a doting grandpa, which I had to look up... at Soka Gakkai's official web sites for interpreting Nichiren's writings! The context is also enormously complex. Being a complete layman in Buddhism, I often find myself in a recursion, when looking up some concept I need to understand to properly translate the line, I have to additionally look up two more explanations, each one of which also has in itself some concept I need to look up, etc. This is honestly the slowest I've ever translated an anime, despite having the Japanese CC. Oh, and let's not forget, I also need to furnish this very file y

Collectr's Blog: Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu : Here's another project that has been stuck in limbo for a very long time: the 2001 movie Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu ( Life on E...  Nothing much to add on this one. Felt peculiar translation-checking the script after another Russian team for the first time. Surprisingly, though, it wasn't half-bad. Gotta go pay them tribute someday. Alas, as far as I know, the team was disbanded around 2013 or so.  Another funny story is that this movie was an absolute slog for NorainuG when he tried to TLC it, for some reason. I didn't find neither the movie completely awful nor the translation completely hopeless and so was done with it in 4 days or so. That said, though, it's another concentrated midness so I wouldn't try to shill it as something worth your time.  Nyaa | Subs only | DDL