They Were Eleven / Juuichinin Iru / 11人いる！Live-action TV film (1977)

Raw acquisition, editing	Paul Geromini
Encoding	Anonymous
Translation, typesetting	Perevodildo
Translation check	sotoo

On this perfectly ordinary day of a perfectly ordinary month, at the perfectly random UTC time, we present to you NHK’s “Shonen Drama Series: They Were Eleven.” I don’t know why we did this. I don’t know what to say about it either, the short version is “this movie is mid and the RAW is worse. Watch the anime instead.” The long version is that Paul saw a DVD for this on some auction, saw that it doesn’t have any rips yet, and bought it, god knows why. It lingered on his hard drive for some months, until I became so desperate for something to do I agreed to translate it. Sotoo then saw we’re working on it and expressed interest, since the NHK Shounen Drama shows are somehow 𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄 to him (although I am personally too philistine to call a pile of garbage “aesthetic”). So there you have it.
The first encoder we sent it to had this to say about the video:

This isn’t even a tape master, I think NHK got rid of their original master like the smartasses they are and just acquired somebody’s own VHS rip they did of the special when it broadcasted on TV; you can encode it with literally any settings with ffmpeg or x264 and it cant possibly make it worse than it already is

So we had someone else half-ass this encode better than me full-assing it. The production value of this special pretty much matches this video quality, so don’t repeat my mistakes by watching it sober.
This torrent also includes the original DVDISO image (if you’re mad enough to try your hand at encoding this), the DVD cover scan and the insert booklet scans that Paul made from his own DVD.
This show is basically a shady amogus in the 70s: you’ve got a spaceship (also with medical, electrical, and meeting room), an impostor, a vote, an emergency button, an amogus with a dumptruck, several other amoguses with ostentatiously peculiar hats, the sus impostor sabotaging the ship, then getting spotted while trying to unalive another amogus, etc.

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