YAY!! Please let us know when they are done!! Everyone will PM you.

this is very exciting!

I didn't get it on Friday because UPS screwed me over. It went "Out for delivery" today, my family & I have been at our house all day looking for him and when I check the tracking at around 7:00 PM it says "THE RECEIVER WAS UNAVAILABLE TO SIGN ON THE 1ST DELIVERY ATTEMPT.". Which is a complete lie. This is actually te 2nd time its happened but I let it slide the first time, now I'm just pissed. If he had actually tried he would've left a yellow slip on my door which he didn't, my guess is he called it quits for the day because it was so late(UPS always delivers very late to my house).
Other people have this same problem with UPS, so while I love that they are fast & seem to take decent care of packages, their service is lacking. They don't deliver regular ground shipping on the weekend so I should get it on Monday for sure, if they don't I'm calling them up to scream like a fanboy.

Now for some good news, someone is working with me on getting the old fansub sub files. We have the first 25 episode so far with a few episodes that aren't timed that he is working on. So the 2nd set won't have the fansub version unless someone knows where we can get them with the times.
I'll be adding both the fansub & R1 subs. I'm pretty much all done with the editing and just need the R2J DVDs so I can time & then apply them.

The fansub version will have styles/color applied, the translation is much more literal(its got honorifics for example). Dialog will be yellow, songs will be white, etc.

I'm gonna keep the R1 subs simple, just white subs, because some people prefer simple. Having two very different versions of the subs gives a wide variety to peoples taste on sub viewing.




While I wait for UPS I made a sample, I applied the fansub version to the CPM video to get a feeling how the fansub version will look.

CPM DVD sub:     Fansub DVD sub:

Last edited by Copyman (01-12-2009 01:15:30 AM)

Throwing in my words of support, flimsy though they may be. I will be so incredibly grateful if you finish this project, you won't be able to believe it. I'd even be willing to lend a bit of PayPal support toward the price of those DVDs (that must have hurt!) once I'm in a financial position to do so. I applaud the work you've done so far, and wish you major luck on continuing it.

I'm all done with the first disc. Plan of colored subs dropped because with the current programs for DVD subbing you lose the antialias adjustment when you choose the option to use multiple colors.

R2J with R1 Subs:


R2J with Fansub Subs:


What CPM version looks like:

Last edited by Copyman (01-13-2009 07:41:07 PM)

I just got my CD set.  I was going to stop there since I already have CPM's release of the entire series, but seeing that there are material differences on these new DVDs is really tempting me toward the DVD sets as well.  D=  Oh if money were no object!

But so what's this I hear about an HD release?  They're gonna do the whole series on DVDs, remastered and all that good stuff, then again HD?  Also, HD=BlueRay now?  If such be the case maybe I should wait for that rather than buy this set.  Maybe by then I'll be rich. 

Disc 2 is now complete.

OMG!! It's incredible Copyman GREAT WORK!!!!

Cool! I can't wait to see more. I am dying to see what you do with the Black Rose Saga since the Art and Animation is even stronger then....

So Disc One is available?

This is something I just was looking into the other day actually. Please forgive the (probably) stupid questions - I just want to make sure I have stuff right before I dish out 3-7 hundred dollars.

This set is in two relases. I found them on yesasia.com - which I presume is as legitimate a website as anywhere else (please poke me if that's wrong....)

It's Utena. But remastered. So you have better pictures (like Gio's!!~!), and some of the awkward sound moments have been filled in. A few of the graphics have been changed - but very few. More or less. Is that the gist of i?

It's a region two DVD. Which means i'm hosed - as a citizen of the US. I can either watch it on my pc (my computer lets me change reagions up to like....4 times or something. I have few changes left. Enough to change it to region two on last time, at the very least), or I can keep it in a box looking pretty. Alternately, I can go out and order a dvd player from japan, adding an extra 100 or so dollars to the price tag. I can watch it on my japanese DVD player, on my normal US (but japanese made) HDTV, and say yay. And be happy.

It has no subtitles. Unless I download the (kindly created and offered) versions here. The official DVD though, has no subtitles though. Which is either good for practicing my japanese, or annoying for my tv enjoyment..... depending on my mood that night. Correct?

This is all I know. I don't know the difference between the first/second set, and would appreciate it if someone could help me out. I've been thinking about grabbing this if only as a tool to work on my Japanese (Utena w/o subtitles would be a good way to practice, if you already know a good bit...... just find the words you don't, memorize them, and carry on).  But yeah.

Are my impressions of the set right? Anything important I'm missing? I want to make sure I've got it all down right before I spend/waste 300 dollars.....

Last edited by Valeli (01-21-2009 02:10:43 AM)

Wow I so don't have the funds for this. But it is pretty in comparison.

Ashnod wrote:

Copyman wrote:

Ashnod wrote:

So Disc One is available?

I've uploaded disc 1 & 2 so far.

I'll start uploading Disc 4 either today or tomorrow, I'm done with all the editing/timing of the R1 subs but still need to do the fansub subs.

Uploaded where?

As I said its "on a private torrent site and you'd have to PM me to get it since it might not be safe to openly advertise such a site".
Its absolutely free with no ads or anything, the only thing required is that you keep a decent ratio.