ZOMGFTA Updates
4.08.2009
Subbed ED, and...!
HAHA. I forgot to mention in the last post that I was still working on subbing the ending. Sorry if that confused any of you!
It would have been done a few days ago but I kept needing to correct mistakes that I noticed only after I'd finished encoding and everything.
ANYWAY IT'S DONE NOW, ENJOY.
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist ED
No Youtube link, Sony Music is laying the smackdown. :(
NOW. I also mentioned that we were going to be fansubbing a different anime, and some of you are probably curious what it is!
We will be subbing...
\o/ YAYYYYY it was probably kind of predictable but whatever.
Yes, it's very different from Fullmetal Alchemist, in that Hagaren is a shounen series with quite a bit of a dark undertone, and Doremi is a cute sugary shoujo anime geared towards girls around the ages of 4-7, but HEY. It's still awesome, and my absolute favorite anime ever. (Though it's not totally "happy-go-lucky always happily-ever-after!" and had me outright sobbing more than a couple of times when I watched it. Makes it even more amazing in my opinion!)
It's actually the fourth season of the Ojamajo Doremi franchise, but that's okay. Doremi fansubs have subbed the entire first season, most of the second season, and all of the OVA (which takes place during the third season). They've also subbed both movies (one for the second season, one for the third), and will probably be starting on the third season sometime this summer (my own estimation). (4Kids also dubbed the first season, and while others may disagree I think they did an amazing job with it.) If you don't feel like watching all those episodes, that's okay too! I'll be writing up a rundown of the important events of the first three seasons, to make it easy enough for people to just pick up with Dokka~n! if they choose to. :Dd
The first episode will be ready... soon? We've just barely started translation, and I'm waiting for the DVDs that malanhelen from Youtube have kindly offered us, but it shouldn't be too long. ♥ Hope at least some of you like it!
PS: we might be subbing something else at some point also.
Labels: doremi, fansub, hagaren
4.05.2009
So about those Hagaren subs...
Sup guys.
So, you may be wondering if we're going to be fansubbing the Fullmetal Alchemist episodes, as we had been considering. The first episode aired today, after all.
(Un?)fortunately, we will not. In light of FUNimation's aquisition of digital streaming rights we have elected to not sub the show. We encourage support of the American anime and manga industry, and while we did continue to scanlate the manga long after Viz had licensed it, this is a different matter - a matter of the official, legal version being available four days after Japanese airing.
Chances are we would have gotten a C&D by the fifth episode or something anyway. *shrugs*
SO. We encourage all of you in North America to watch FUNi's subbed version via their online video portal Thursdays at 10 am Central Time! If you live in a country that is also providing free official subs, go ahead and watch those. If you live in a country that ISN'T providing free official subs... well, there are other groups that are illegally subbing the series, like Shinsen. Or you could get behind a North American-based proxy and see if you can access FUNi's site that way. It might not work, but it's worth a try!
We will, however, be taking on another series to fansub. I'll announce that later, but if you've been poking about our Livejournals or Youtube channel or something chances are you have a pretty good idea what it is.
Also I'm subbing the opening and ending just for the hell of it. ENJOY!
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist OP
4.02.2009
HaganeFA PV Collection
Sup guys!
So, here's the story. I'm trying to figure out how to make torrents and all, but the torrent for the Doremi episode a few days ago apparently wasn't working too well? (By the way, if you wanted to download that episode but the torrent wasn't working, here's a Megaupload link.) I'm not sure if that was a problem with my first attempt at making a torrent, or if it was just that there weren't many people who would want to download and seed it in the first place, though. :/
SO. I made a batch torrent with all six PVs that we've subbed, and hopefully it'll work better? WE'LL SEE.
[ZOMGFTA] Hi-Def PV batch torrent
PLEASE SEED WHEN YOU'RE DONE DOWNLOADING. My internet doesn't allow me to stay on to constantly seed stuff. :(
Also, before any wary readers ask, no, this is not another April Fool's joke. I swear. It's the second already, April Fool's Day is over. So go ahead and download the torrent without any worries.
4.01.2009
AWESOME.
GUESS WHAT, GUYS.
I found a full version of the OP song, "again" by YUI! It's a PV rip, but it's still pretty good quality. So I thought I'd share it with all of you!
Youtube link
Download link
Enjoy!!
Labels: hagaren
3.29.2009
PV 5!
All right, here we go!
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist HD PV 5 (subbed)
Youtube link (HD)
Also, a commercial with a snippet of the OP has been aired. I'm not sure if we'll actually sub that commercial, but you can see a general translation of the lyrics here. :Dd
Enjoy, feedback and advice is lovely, etc. etc. etc. ♥
Fullmetal Alchemist PV 6
Yeah so apparently I was WAY off when I predicted that the fourth PV would be the last.
Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist HD PV 6 (subbed)
Youtube link (HD)
No, I did not forget how to count. There is a 60-second PV that came out between the fourth one and this one; I'm just still working on it and all. Expect it later tonight, or whenever I decide to stop being such a perfectionist about stupid text effects that don't really matter. ¯\(º_o)/¯
Enjoy! ♥
Feedback/advice (ry
EDIT: That's a pretty cool-looking Youtube URL we got. /random
9.12.2008
Errr.
Uh. Hey guys.
Okay. I'm not going to go into detail about what's happened these past several months, or give any excuses as to why the site was basically abandoned, because giving excuses is lame. And I have to get running to work, so I'm going to make this quick.
We were going to start scanlating Fullmetal Alchemist again starting with this month's chapter, but the scans are horrendous. If any of you could point us towards good scans (stuff of the quality of scans in previous years, and, like 1200px height?), we would be immensely, eternally grateful.
I have faith in you guys. Now go.
Labels: fail, hagaren, umeko_is_teh_lame_guyz
4.13.2008
Fullmetal Alchemist 82 RAW!
After leaving the site abandoned for a good three months, I felt that it was my obligation to get this month's RAW up for you the INSTANT I caught wind of it, even if I had other things that I should be doing.
So, here you go. Here's the RAW even though I certainly do have other things that I should be doing. 8D I haven't even read it myself yet, though I did glance at it to see how the scans were
So the scans are, erm... I wouldn't call them low-quality, but they're not medium-quality, either. Somewhere in between. If something better comes up, I'll upload that instead, but for now, these aren't bad. All they need, really, is some [insert babbling about image editing here].
Oh. And remember how I said in my last update that I'd have a surprise/announcement within a few days, unless RL got in the way, but I'd try to make sure that it didnt? Ahaha, well... I had completely forgotten that this week is finals week (can you blame me for forgetting about that I mean WHY THE HELL IS IT SO EARLY???). And thus the "other things that I should be doing" mentioned earlier in this post.
...So! I'm off to do some BS homework, while you guys can enjoy your RAW, if you choose to download it! ♥ See you~!
EDIT:
GUYS.
THIS CHAPTER.
IS AWESOME.
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12.15.2007
Chapter 78
The chapter 78 RAW scans are fugly and hueg and I was going to wait for ones I liked better to come out before posting the RAW... But it's already scanlated anyway (anyone know where a zip/rar/whatever download of it can be found?) so I guess I just won't bother this month. Unless people request that I do, in which case I'll wait a few days for some other scans, and if they don't appear I'll just upload what I have.
...Okay, the real reason I didn't post the RAW was because, since the RAW came out, I've been either at work or sleeping. Sorry. (Though it's true that I don't like these scans.)
I'll reset the countdown ticker tomorrow, right now I, um. Want to get back to bed. D:
EDIT: By the way, if you want to read our chapter commentary (it's kind of amusing), you can find it here. :D
Labels: hagaren, raws, umeko_is_teh_lame_guyz
11.12.2007
DO YOU KNOW OYASHIROSAMA?
Hay guys. Lately we've been watching Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. It's pretty awesome.
On that note, I bring you an omake for chapter 77. It is Higurashi-inspired, and it MIGHT help to have some knowledge of it. Chances are it won't make a lick of sense even to Higurashi fans though, because it's just SO retarded.
Anyway.
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
(Btw, the image files are kind of large, because they're not grayscale. That's what I get for using RED LETTERS.)
Enjoy...? :O
Labels: hagaren, omake, umeko_is_teh_lame_guyz
10.11.2007
Chapter 76 RAW
For those who want it, here's Fullmetal Alchemist chapter 76 RAW!
I'd reset the countdown ticker but at the moment my computer is unusable and I'm on my brother's computer which won't let me use FTP. (Cynthia was the one who uploaded the chapter to the site~) So, yeah.
Enjoy!
Also, if you don't want to be spoiled, I suggest you do not look at the comments on here before reading the chapter. Though I discourage people from doing so, someone is bound to comment with spoilers, especially since I hear that this chapter is causing the fandom to explode or something (I haven't finished reading it myself)... So just be careful.
9.12.2007
Chapter 75 RAW!
Download it here!
I haven't read it myself yet (I'm waiting for Cynthia to get online so we can have our crack-filled chapter reactions over AIM 8D), so I can't say anything on it, but download it at will! :3 (Also I won't be reading the comments to this post yet for that same reason, so if you ask me something, don't expect an answer for another few hours. ^^;)
I'll also be doing some tweaking to the website today, as appropriate for our current Fullmetal Alchemist hiatus.
On a related note, apologies that the countdown hasn't been reset in a couple months. That's one thing that will be fixed today. :3
Later!
EDIT: The countdown has been reset, and the In Progress page has been updated. I'm planning on also making a "Hagaren Hiatus Survival Guide" which will include links to other scanlation groups. You'll find it on the main menu bar when it's ready. I might also update the FAQ page, and... hey, I might as well do something with that Links page that has never existed before! XD
5.16.2007
Chapter 71 DONE!!!
Sorry for the delay! Download the chapter here!!!
Hope that nothing got screwed-up in transferring the file 9123478562349863246 times. Tell me if there's a problem and I'll see what I can do! ^^;
Labels: hagaren
