Perevodildo's ramblings

Episodes: 0. Winbee’s 1/8 Panic {ツインビー ウィンビーの⅛パニック} Venus’s Smile {ヴィーナスの微笑み} A Midsummer Mirage (That’s Exactly What it is) {真夏の蜃気楼（そのままじゃん）} Evil! Rise Again! {悪よ復活せよ!} Specials: 0. Tulip Beach Stories No name Day 365 Final Episode Episode 0 sub is based on this translation from wiki. Unfortunately, I can’t really tell who translated it (probably random masters way back in 2009?), but the translation was spotty. Special 4 (Tulip Beach Stories) translation seems to have the same origin. For the rest, it’s my OTL. Episode 0 has this strange number because it was originally released as a limited-edition video for the winners of some Super Famicom lottery in late 1993. Later, on December 28, 1998, it was released again as “Vol.0” for general sale when the rest of the OVA was released. So kind of a similar situation to You’re Under Arrest OVAs and TV (which we’ve also done, but marty decided to stall to kingdom come, duh). As for Special 4 “Tulip Coast Stories,” it was originally include...

Raw AnimeFesta WEBDL, ripped by Eternal_Blizzard (special thanks to Blankaex) Translation, typesetting Perevodildo Editing Paul Geromini, Marty Mcflies ( LonelyChaser fansubs ), imatu The raw is a new 960x720 rescan of the show, ripped from AnimeFesta service by Eternal_Blizzard (he also dug up the lyrics for the ending and insert songs 🧎). While the video looks excellent and sexy, and blows the previously existing 2008 vintage 240p VHS rip out of the water, the audio is so muffled that even the ancient VHS rips have unironically superior MP3 sound. Enter the Toei preservation culture. Safe to assume they binned the masters/audio reels, and this remaster was restored from optical audio or some equally shitty source. I slapped the audio from the old 240p rip on the remastered video and synced it to the best of my ability, like I’ve done before for Magical Taruruuto-kun movies, though the VHS audio also had a few dropouts, during which the sound reverts to shitty for a second (I’ve stil...