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Translation Perevodildo Editing Paul Geromini darkcart The project started when Paul found some alleged DVD rip for this on Avistaz. The encoding leaves more questions than answers: why is it 716x372? Why is it forced to display in 2.25:1? Why is it 30 fps? Why is audio AAC? There’s an alternative DVD encode on Rutracker, but it’s even crustier. Needless to say, it was never released on BD or in any form in HD, and it probably never will. It’s a pretty good looking (for 1957) color film, though of course it couldn’t match the scale of “The Bridge over the River Kwai” or “War and Peace” which came out the same year, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it—the whole of this movie is about as good as one episode of Animentary Ketsudan. We’re merely doing our small preservationist part here. Unexpectedly, I found some Japanese subtitles for it on  opensubtitles.com , uploaded in the summer of '25. I’m not sure what’s the deal with those. They are not straight-up whisper transcripts, because ...

Translation Perevodildo Editing Paul Geromini Quality check JmePenseBon (eps 1-4) Episodes: I hate St. Clare’s! {クレア学院って大嫌い} Look at my Lacrosse! {見て! 私のラクロス} Mam’zelle Abominable {嘆きのマドモアゼル} Janet is up to Tricks {いたずらジャネット} The Great Midnight Feast {真夜中のパーティー} Poor Kathleen {かわいそうなキャサリン} Stay Strong, Miss Kennedy! {がんばれ! ケネディ先生} The Four Presents {四つのプレゼント} Sheila’s Secret {シェイラの秘密} Breaking the School Rules Together! {みんなで校則やぶっちゃえ!} Isabelle is Cheating?! {イザベルがカンニング!? } A Disaster! Who Will Take the Role? {大ピンチ! 代役は誰に} Goodbye, Miss Kennedy {さようならケネディ先生} The Homework is Burned! {宿題を燃やしちゃった!} The Lovely Miss Roberts {素敵なロバート先生} All-Night Debate! {朝まで討論会!} The Big Birthday Bust-up! {誕生日に大ゲンカ! } The Great Tarot Fortune-Telling Craze! {タロット占い大流行!} Don’t Leave, Hilary! {やめないで、ヒラリー!} Bonjour in Bathing Suits {水着でボンジュール} Miss Walker’s Gift {ウォーカー先生の贈り物} Run, Gladys! {走れ! グラディス} What! History Might be Changed?! {あっ! 歴史が変っちゃう!?} A Dieting Craze! {みんなでダイエット!} Give Back Binks! {ビンクスを返して!} Tha...

This is a special one. The movie itself is quite good and essentially “Papa Mama Bye Bye” done right. It’s one of the better documentaries we’ve done. But it’s also why the show itself is quite technical in nature and requires a degree of knowledge about Japan’s geography to keep you engaged while the countless events, occurring in various parts of the country, are hurled at you just to leave no impact because they’re but an empty sound to someone unfamiliar with the area. For that reason, the notorious “TL notes” here go beyond what you’d usually expect to help you understand the geography of events. Still, if you think yourself above that and just want to experience it “as-is,”  there’s an alternative, “Noteless” subtitles track. Now comes the sad part. The current rip is eye cancer-inducing, the video is a 374p reencode of a youtube upload of someone’s horrendous rip of their VHS recording of the movie, made while it aired on TV Tokyo (yep, not even a rip of the retail tape, whi...

Yep. Rescuing another mid.  I promise these two will scissor after episode 146. Episodes: I hate St. Clare’s! {クレア学院って大嫌い} Video is taken from that recording of the 2013 rerun of this show. That rerun is the only source of Japanese audio we have for this show—it was never reissued on DVD, let alone better home media—and that audio, all things considered, is pretty shitty: muffled and all, but it is what it is. The video is not great either. A viable alternative would’ve been taking the video from the German DVD of the show (ripped on U2), or one of the other European releases, but that would require someone to encode, then color correct, THEN sync the audio for it, provided, the video itself is not re-edited in the first place, and that is simply out of the realm of possibility for a mid forgotten show like this one. Yes, for all its perceived yuri potential, this show isn’t worth Futari no Lotte’s toe. Usually, “Ochame na Futago” would mean “playful / mischievous tw...