Strike Witches - 05 is Released

xvid - 704×396
- Torrent
- DDL @ Megaupload by rshackleford | Animetake

Late again ^^

No more re-time for HD raw. raijinshou won’t do it anymore. You are welcome to re-time it yourself. We provide the script as always. We support StrikeS’ for HD release. They have released up to episode 4 with uncensored raw. FYI, uncensored air later (I think around 1-2 weeks) after censored, so that’s why StrikeS is behind us. They are not slow. Check their site out: http://strikesubs.wordpress.com/

The~Genkz and StrikeS = friends 4ever ^^

Strike Witches - 05 is ~Coming Soon~

We are truly sorry. We are too pessimistic so we decided to drop it very fast. We thought nobody even care a small group like us, not to mention our quality is not good. But thanks to those requests, we are giving a thought. raijinshou asked help, and few helps did comes.

Here comes the new members:
1. Anongiri - Encoder and Initial Seeder. He will be responsible of hardsubbing the subtitle into raw so that the final file (avi format) is ready to be released. And he will be the one distributing it as well as initial seeder. With his 60 KB/s upload speed, swarm will have completed file 12 times earlier, compared to our 5 KB/s upload speed.
2. mirobu - Editor. Will be working in proofreading the script for error checking especially about typos (humans make mistakes). This would guarantee less to none typos.

Expect a release soon. Use feeds for our sites so you can notice immediate change. We’re doing our best to release as fast as possible. We are not going to edit script for HQ raw anymore. StrikeS is doing good job for “High Quality Release”, so HQ lover must download their release. We are going for speed, so we’re going to release even faster than before.

Ah, nearly forget. I want to say sorry guys to make you worried. And I would like personally thank you for your care about our small group.

Though I have no more position in this project, as a leader, I will always be the middle-man. You will see me posting everywhere as usual.

Strike Witches is Dropped

Strike Witches is officially dropped by us. There are few reasons we do it, we will state it later.

First, we want to say thank you very much for watching our release. The team has put effort in this series, which is the first anime we do. I’m sure you guys know how hard it is to do something for the first time in which that you have never done it before. All of us have no experience in fansubbing, and learning it after we decided to do Gigantic Formula. You can check our Gigantic Formula release and you will soon know how the fact that we are just beginners.

Second, I would like to apologize to all our fans. Please don’t be angry. Since you guys will be enjoying from another fansubs which are doing much and much better job than us. There is no reason for our release while they are better at every aspect. We ourselves start to collect their release of Strike Witches ^^.

Lastly, these are the reason we drop Strike Witches:
1. There are other fansubs doing much better job.
2. We are starting busier with our working life.
3. We are againts “many fansubs do 1 anime” (like Sekirei).

I would like to suggest you guys for download StrikeS’ release. Their jobs simply awesome. Several points they do win over us:
1. Lyrics. They have opening and ending lyrics. It’s awesome. They have a translator, which we don’t have (not really, our translator is simply busy with his university life and manga translation in Shoujo Crusade, not to mention she is a girl with not a chance in hell taking interest in loli anime).
2. Video Quality. They have access to transport stream directly from the Japan broadcaster. In simple words, it means they have thousand times better quality than us.
3. Uncensored. I’m sure you guys agree “loli anime + censor = sucks”. Come on man. You guys must agree with us in this point ^^

So, we are dropping it. BUT, if by chance StrikeS or LoliPantsu are dropping it or taking long time to release, we are re-continuing it.

Comments are welcome. No harsh comment, okay? Childish and brainless comments are to be deleted. No worry, we are not going to ban you (we may if I am pissed). But if that kind of comments are to be many, we are going to lock the comment permission.

Ah, I forget. Here are the StrikeS releases. Check it out. It’s awesome.
StrikeS’ Website: http://strike-subs.blogspot.com/
Episode 1: Torrent ( h264 | xvid )
Episode 2: Torrent ( h264 | xvid )
Click For Screenshot

Bla bla bla and Request from fans + new help from team member = resume the project.

Sorry guys, and thank you very much for the supports. We love you guys, really…

Strike Witches - 04 is Released

xvid - 704×396
- Torrent
- DDL @ Animetake (not there yet lol patient guys)

A bit late ^^

And fast speed now, eh…

HD Lovers: HD Raw + Script v2
You are welcome to release it. We are happy. Especially to Tarball for crediting us ^^
Reminder: Don’t forget to include the fonts in the MKV attachment ^^

Strike Witches - 03 is Released

xvid - 704×396
- Torrent
- DDL @ Animetake

Sorry for late =.=lll

Please seed after download ^^

Late, Late, and Late (and sorry)

Late release lol

We have finished up the script very early. But our internet even sucker than before, so we end up release it very late. Currently re-encoding again (read below why), so end-up again another delay for late release.

Internet is sucks (our ISP sucks, so expect slow upload). If you want fast upload, wait until there is more than 1 seeder (as usual).

Another news, there are lying few Digital-Broadcast raws. Means it’s better quality. I can’t say for sure it’s upscaled or real HD, but the quality is good enough for HQ release. But due to our slow upload, we are not going to do it. We do keep sub it for ourselves (our DL is fast, but UL is shit), so we have adjust the subtitle’s script timing to match those HD raw. If you want, you can download the HD raw plus our script and then simply muxing it to MKV. If you want to re-encode, it’s up to you though (the script is free for you to use and it’s up to you want to credit us or not).

We will point our the HQ raw match the timing of our scripts.

HQ Raws + Script (match, no worry):
Episode 1: HQ Raw Torrent + Script v3
Episode 2: HQ Raw Torrent + Script v2
Episode 3: HQ Raw Torrent + Script

Note: I suggest you re-muxing to MKV. I know that simply rename to same filename will work, but sometime there is bad raw-encode (timecode is the most obvious) which can easily fixed by MKV (this is the superior of matroska). Episode 3 raw has this problem, and I don’t even know how to fix it (not manually for sure). So… well… just mux it to MKV.

For episode 3, HQ raw will be used. So you can expect the AVI quality is kinda good (not good enough, blame low filesize xvid and my lousy encoding skills *taekuda wishes to learn from TheFluff*)
EDIT: Shit broken timecode raw. Other than using MKV to autofix it, I have no idea manual method. So I will be using other raw. Bad quality though…

Next post would be about episode 3 release~~~

Strike Witches - 02 is Released

xvid - 704×396
- Torrent
- Megaupload (fixed, thanks to rshackleford)

Yeah, we know that we have uploaded few hours ago, and no seeder. Blame goes to our ISP. They love to disconnect us. Now our upload speed is back to “slow”, which is better than “sucks”, with upload speed 05-30 KB/s. Please bare a while.

Please seed after download ^^

Strike Witches News: HD Raws are fake

Yeah we found it lying in Tokyo Toshokan. There are 3 raws differed by the broadcaster we guess. we have checked on and the quality is nice.

Since we have things to do, we will release this HD quite late. Not to mention we need to adjust the timing to properly match this raw.

So expect Episode 1 in HD soon. Again no lyrics for Opening and Ending, since we can’t find one. Please post in the comment if you can find one. Very much appreciate.

To xvid lover: Yeah we know the quality of the xvid release is bad. We will be using this new HD raw for releasing good quality of xvid. But that have to wait for 1 reason: Opening and Ending lyrics. Yeah, we want to wait for that so that the v2 contains good quality plus lyrics. We simply don’t want to release 3 version. You guys have to bare for a while. I ask for your patient.

To h264 lover: Since HD release is fully softsub, there will be also v2 release. But not to worry, we won’t release fully v2, but only the script. Please refer to my Muxing Guide and re-mux back the v2 script later on. OK?

Everyone has agreed to abandon HD release plan. Since there is no decent raw that good enough to be said “HD”. Even the quality of SD 396p is not that good. The HD raw posted in tokyotosho seems to be fake enough.

So we will only release xvid avi in 396p flavour. No stupid upscaling, as it’s pointless. No worry, script will always be posted, anyone may use it easily. If by chance we do see real HD raw, we will re-release. Anyone also is welcomed to use our script for that reason. It’s very well timed, so it will save your time for sure.

v2 with song lyrics of episode with no lyrics may / may not be released. Well blame goes to our ISP. The internet is getting more unstable. All of us are desperate and lost hope. No single good ISP in this country.

Episode 2 is in process. The raw quality is a little bit better than last week.

We Have Allies Now…

Just a news, not a release update though.

We have got few allies by now.

1. Animetake
We are very grateful to have them as our allies. First, they will become our “distro” in both seeding and Megaupload link provider. They are in 100mbit dedicated server, so you can expect how FAST they seed. Of course Megaupload link will as well out in few second (not even a minute). Expect fast download speed when you grab our release. I would like to give the thanks to Naga.

2. Anirena
Yeah we have got ourselved a tracker now. So we can manage our torrent easily by pointing to one link only. Yay…

Thanks to all “allies” that are willing to help us. We are very much appreciate it. Hope that our friendship lasts forever ^^

Strike Witches - 01 is Released

Because raijinshou likes moe…

h264 - High Definition
Status: Waiting for sane raw

xvid - 704×396 (for those avi lovers and low-cpu computer)
- Torrent
- Megaupload (Thanks to Animetake.com for uploading)

.ass: DDL

No lyrics in Opening and Ending, since we don’t have and can’t find the lyric. We don’t have someone fluent with japanese language, so expect v2 scripts later when official lyrics are released. If you have, please contact me: taekuda@gmail.com . Very much appreciated.

Yeah I know the quality is bad, due to bad raw. There is no single good raw on the net, so we can’t do anything. If you can provide us a good raw, please contact me.

Additional Notes:
1. Loli-Wolf 720p is an upscaled from 396p. (Real 720p has HDTV tag)
2. Zero-Raws 720p is an upscaled from 396p (We did ask)
3. 576p Zero and Shinsen is real (from the “Hi-Vision” tag in the anime). Quality is bad and there are strange black dot. So we are not going to use it.

Printscreen:
1. HD Tag

2. Evil Black Dots