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…and it’s no other than Gonzo themselves.

Following this article, new Gonzo anime will be made available online by GDH, on the same day of their airing on TV in Japan.

The new titles, the Tower of DRUAGA -the Aegis of URUK- and BLASSREITER, will be available on YouTube, Crunchyroll and BOST TV, with English subtitles. I suppose this kind of Youtube service will remain free of charge, while the other two will provide higher quality videos for a small fee, depending on the situation.

This measure is said to counter the propagation of pirated anime files that have been circulating on the internet, known under the more common name of “fansubs”. It is to grant access exclusively for overseas viewers to legally view anime as soon as they are broadcasted in Japan.

Honestly speaking, I do not think this will be a very popular measure, albeit the legal aspect of the offer might seem attractive to some. Also, I highly doubt that Gonzo or GDH are going to put up with the trouble of translating all of their future animes in proper English. Furthermore, I cannot imagine such releases having a nice typesetting either, at least not at the same level we know from decent fansubbing groups.
The biggest problem with this, is that their solutions mainly provide anime over streaming platforms, and I guess that is the point where most leechers would resort to the traditional fansubs, to download and archive anime. I highly doubt sites other than Youtube will make those episodes available for download, because, who would eventually buy Gonzo’s DVDs then?

On the contrary, it might even help most fansubbers (especially the translators) to speeden up their work - since they already get a draft of the script by watching those subtitled versions, they might complete their work much much faster. So perhaps this marks the beginning of a new speedsub era?

I am pretty eager to know if this measure will be successful or not, and if there will be more anime producers who will follow soon too.

I see what you are doing thar.

Tadaima, kaerimashita. Well, it took me a long time to do this. For some reason, I have been avoiding my own blog for over a month and a half… Don’t ask me why. Maybe I was in a state of oversaturation again… And that even if I was only following two series. Haven’t been in touch with anime ever since my last blog post. Well, maybe sorting out the hundreds of random episodes I have been downloading all this time. So… What am I going to tell you now? A lot of things, actually. Since it is too much, especially for such a run-on entry, I will divide the news into sense units after the jump.
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Because I can’t find any fitting picture, I’ll just show you a picture of what I will be playing in a few minutes: Pangya. BTW, this is Hana when she hits a HIO. Too bad that animation can only be seen in season 3…

Well, I think it’s time for a new poll, the old one already lasted for one entire month, and I am quite surprised that there were so many votes! Wow… I’d never have imagined that 77 (seventy-seven!) people would take their time casting their vote on this. Compared to many other blogs, it’s still a small of a number (of course, brag all you want), but for my standards, it’s already a revolution! (last poll had only 11 votes or so…..) Thanks for voting! May you be as many to vote on the next poll! More after the jump~
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It’s been a long time since I was looking for some live Hare Hare Yukai dancers on Youtube, and most of them were… crappy. Now today I stumble across this video, and I must say this one looks pretty good, sync-wise! There are also plenty of cosplayers totally unrelated to the Haruhi anime, which made me laugh quite hard, especially during Mikuru’s part XD And the singing, well it’s not that bad, considering that Haruhi’s cosplayer has to do extreme moves. I need moar of such videos!

EDIT: And a funny live parody from the Ending of the TV version! Ahaha I lol’d!