Dyepez wrote:

If there is no ChuChu sub-series included, he can eat his remastered dvds... lol jk... or maybe not

Reminds me of the Chuchu vs Saionji animated shorts I proposed here some time ago..

As for all of the suggestions re: getting around DVD region coding, I appreciate the ideas, but aren't we putting the cart before the horse at this stage?

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Yes!!! Yes!!! Yes!!! Such good news for us Utena fans!!! Can't wait to see the final product!!!

This is amazing news. It's so great to see Utena getting fresh attention. I really, really hope, like everyone else, that they smoothen out the kinks in the animation. Like, y'know, the entire first arc.

And wow, he mentioned Jacob's Ladder? That's... hardcore. I had no idea that was an influence for Utena.

About the DVD coding problem, I'm fairly sure there will be a fansub group who will take it upon themselves to re-release Utena with subtitles via torrents. I'd be surprised if nobody bothered.

Ikuhara's latest blog entry is only indirectly Utena-related, but it was cute, so I thought I would share:

Chu-Chu-Taro

At a meeting, I saw Lady Saito Chiho for the first time in while.
Just like always, she was beautiful.

I also saw Chu-Chu-Taro for the first time in a while.
Just like always... is that really a cat?
He's gotten enormous...

Be sure to check out the photo, too!
http://www2.jrt.co.jp/cgi-bin3/ikuniweb … e=20071219

Last edited by atolm (12-20-2007 08:11:42 AM)

atolm wrote:

Be sure to check out the photo, too!
http://www2.jrt.co.jp/cgi-bin3/ikuniweb … e=20071219

Chuuuuuu...... :3

Gio wrote:

As for Ikuhara, who is the chick in his layout? emot-confused Looks vaguely like Nagano's work.

According to the little blurb under the picture, the illustration is by Nakamura Asumiko, from "Nokemono to Hanayome" ("The Outcast and the Bride"). I assume it's a more recent project of Ikuhara's, probably in collaboration with voice actress Kawakami Tomoko? I should probably mention that he shares this blog with this voice actress (about whom I know nothing). It is quite literally their own Exchange Diary!

I found her official site for the artist, for anyone who's interested: http://www.asumiko.com/

It would be good at the very least to see this happen to the remaster in order of preference:

1/ Nice clear duotone subtitles you can read no matter what colurs happen to be behind it.

Notice that in both examples that having a thicker high contrast haze or border around the letters makes it easier to read even against backgrounds where the letter would be obscured?  Also they should also translater written words and revelent signs. Thats my first wish.

2/ Rewrite the subtitles so they reflect the original Japanese dialogue better, keeping in the -san, -chan, -sama, -kun, -sensei and -sempai in as most SKU watchers have absorbed at least the basics in common Japanese suffixes, if they didn't they wouldn't be all that interested in the original Japanese language version in the first place.

3/ Redub it! While some of the dubbed characters were up to scratch IMHO (Shiori ), some of the other voices were way off (Tsuwabuki sounded like his 'balls dropped' bigtime ) and when they do the dub dialogue, keep the suffixes and get them to pronounce the names right. (Its Kozue not 'Clothes away' )

4/ Replace stock footage like for instance, Utena climbing up the stairs with ones that suit the mood for that episode (show it from different angles for example) and maybe even have a different version of ZUM that reflects the mood.

5/ Fix up some of the crappier frames where mutant hands and stuff like that show up.

1:I liked the idea with the duelling arena reflecting the opposing duelists mood/situation/etc.

2:Sanjouin Chigusa, anyone?

3: Utena is a series that makes you want more, so I'm always up for 139 episodes. Won't happen, but hey...

4: Whoever did the movie's animation NEEDS to come back.

IceQueenChigusa wrote:

As for the animation i like the way the series was drawn. I doubt they'd re do the animation.

I love the style the show is animated in, just...







PLZ TO FIX IKUHARA

Giovanna wrote:

http://www.ohtori.nu/galerie/d/14558-1/ … 35_024.jpg

I've probably been staring at this image for too long, because it looks perfectly fine to me.

Complete CD Box?  As in, complete-complete?  That would be...mmmm....

Anthiena wrote:

I did Babelfish. That can turn out hilarious. "The success person rides in the bonnet". I am going to guess Utena as written is translated as "A you". Some of the footage was badly preserved and someone was off-key, perhaps Iku-sama himself. (That's how I understand the terribly translated stuff anyway.)

(This is going to be somewhat off topic, forgive me.)

No, that's just Babel Fish being a shitty translator. Everything you put into it comes out as "Engrish" -- horribly mistranslated Japanese to English because the translation system doesn't compensate for hiragana/katakana/half-width/full-width/Roumaji and grammar/syntax checking. There are surely better translators out there, it's just that Babel Fish is the most popular.

I once tried translating some videogame Japanese with Babel Fish and it came out terribly butchered beyond belief. No, best to have somebody who knows Japanese translate the thing for you. Patience is a virtue, not a curse.

OMG YAY! *KERMIT FLAIL!!!* How'd I miss this thread? XD

Has anyone else seen the Evangelion Platinum DVDs? I don't pay much attention to re-masterings and the times you can notice it, it sometimes looks like crap (Hi 'Cinderella' DVD. I AM LOOKING AT YOU.) The series' look improved ten fold. The first arc just needs new animation, but color clean-up would look great on the rest. Especially the last episodes. All the color gets washed out in the last episode. XP

Omg, I'm so excited for this. Might be worth blowing money on a second DVD-ROM for a Region 2 player.