Sarai-ya Goyou (House of Five Leaves)

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Akitsu Masanosuke is a timid ronin on his way to Edo from the countryside when he accidentally encounters a playboy named Yaichi, who asks him to be his bodyguard. But it turns out that Yaichi is actually the leader of a group of bandits called the "Five Leaves," and he's hoping that Masanosuke will join them. Masanosuke is reluctant to help them, but as grows closer to his eccentric new companions, he learns to relate to them and grow as a person in the process.

(Adaptation of Ono Natsume's House of Five Leaves [Sarai-ya Goyou] manga.).

Episode 01 - KPR


This was another one I was interested in this season.
Artwork is unusual, and switches somewhat depending if dealing with present/past.
Period samuari anime, main character being skilled with the sword, but his personality leaves him weak.
Very slow starting off, reckon will need to watch 3-5 episodes to get proper feel for it, though looks as it's going to be main character joining gang, and coming out of his shell, gets the girl too no doubt.

I'll stick with it for the time being.

I am absolutely in love with the artwork. I don't know what it reminds me of, but it does something. *shrug* I also like that it is a period samurai genre and two great voice actors that stand out to me.

Although the first episode was slow, I think I'll stick with this one. I am very interested in seeing what happens.

Art is similar to Ristorante Paradiso, a nice josei series that aired a few seasons ago.

Your own GotWoot fansubs has picked up House of Five Leaves as its first anime to sub. As such, I am here to announce our first release (If you did not see it on the front page). We are happy to bring this wonderful anime into your homes.

Without further adieu, here are the links you have been waiting for: HD Torrent

Is there any way to get it in .avi format? I have a touchy computer that gets pissy whenever it tries to play .mkv even with the right codecs. >_>

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Originally Posted by Testarossa Autodrive

Is there any way to get it in .avi format? I have a touchy computer that gets pissy whenever it tries to play .mkv even with the right codecs. >_>

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Use MPC-HC and its built-in codecs.

I do use MPC-HC or have in the past. I think right now I'm just using VLC when I want to broadcast something and in .avi format because MPC video doesn't like to show up. I've tried every codec known to man and fiddled with the output options as well to no avail.

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I spy GotWoot on TokyoTosho. Nice. Guess I'll download ep 1. The past 3 or so eps I've downloaded the BigPancake files which're just Funimation rips.


edit: Watched most of the ep, not a bad job so far. Maybe it's just me, but I felt some of the translations were a tad too literal, and then at other times quite liberal with jargon. For example the lines "Those dumplings looked scrumptious.", "My bad", "This guy is such a pussy.", "Bitch I'll remember this."

The touches were nice, like translating shop signs, etc.

I'm not sure if I missed it or not, but isn't there supposed to be a credits thing somewhere? Like Raw-Provider, Translator, QC, etc. People usually throw that in the OP Karaoke. Maybe people don't do that any more, shrug.

I just watched it now myself. I like the show already and I thought you guys did a bang up job on your first attempt at fansubbing as a fresh team.

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Originally Posted by animus

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I spy GotWoot on TokyoTosho. Nice. Guess I'll download ep 1. The past 3 or so eps I've downloaded the BigPancake files which're just Funimation rips.


edit: Watched most of the ep, not a bad job so far. Maybe it's just me, but I felt some of the translations were a tad too literal, and then at other times quite liberal with jargon. For example the lines "Those dumplings looked scrumptious.", "My bad", "This guy is such a pussy.", "Bitch I'll remember this."

The touches were nice, like translating shop signs, etc.

I'm not sure if I missed it or not, but isn't there supposed to be a credits thing somewhere? Like Raw-Provider, Translator, QC, etc. People usually throw that in the OP Karaoke. Maybe people don't do that any more, shrug.

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A lot of stuff in the episode just Japanese slang (or downright rude), so transliterated it somewhat into American colloquialisms. When Masa bumps into the ronin gangsters, he says a form of "excuse me" which is so slangy/disparaging (my bad) that it's not in the dictionary, which is probably what offends the ronin and makes them want to fight. I interpreted it as out of character for him, (perhaps an attempt to quell an argument before it starts because he's socially awkward?) thus coming out awkward and offending them. "What the hell is 'My Bad?!'"

There's also the rampant use of "gozaru/gozaimasu" (how Masa speaks which is pretty much samurai talk. If you've ever watched "Samurai High School" it shows you the tension between samurai speech and every day speech. It isn't common everyday Japanese, especially as opposed to other characters in the show. Like Shakespeare meets Will Smith. Kudos to Lunar (and RIP) for transliterating their slang top notch! Umezou and Ichi are a bit more "everyday", with Ume opting to be more rude. Still working on how to transliterate this in a flow that's audience friendly.

And for scrumptious--> Realized I would get tired of using delicious (literally one of Japan's favorite words) and opted for a synonym lol, Eclipse seems to get away with this XD. And tasty/yummy sounds weird for a starving samurai. Bitch --> He cusses at them. Dark humor. (IMO) Pussy --> I think he literally says weak willed coward+offensive/belittling conjugation (from what I remember).

I find it pretty interesting that Masa is the only one who talks like a humble samurai. (Samurai form = extremely humble). Perhaps it's because of his personality problem? (Or maybe just because he's a samurai lol) Either way, it sort of sets him apart from other characters. Had a discussion with Kit about this so maybe she can provide input. Or shinta, our lovely TLC.

Some things were/are just so archaic that they could not/cannot be translated, even by a native Japanese. I assume this was intentionally done to make things more authentic. Thus there are some limitations to doing a historical anime.

You brought up VERY good points, If I could I would put up TL notes on the FP after comp revamps it.

We won't be having credits in the episodes since so many people do/did different things, and it would mess with the quality to cram all the names in. But maybe Al or someone has time to write down who did what in here if you're curious

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed the release!

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Originally Posted by Testarossa Autodrive

I do use MPC-HC or have in the past. I think right now I'm just using VLC when I want to broadcast something and in .avi format because MPC video doesn't like to show up. I've tried every codec known to man and fiddled with the output options as well to no avail.

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Try the latest CCCP beta, with default settings and use the MPC-HC that is installed with it.

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Originally Posted by Sapphire

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Positions

Raw Getter/Capper {elitefags}
Translators {shinta, masamune (signs, miscellaneous), Sapphire}
*Translation Checker {shinta, kaq}
Encoders {BoC}
Karaoke {Sapphire, pyointa}
Timers {namaiki}
Typesetters {KitKat}
Distro {Spiegel (FTP/MAIN), DO (XDCC), Comp (TRACKER)}
QCers {KitKat, RedNeckNoob, Spiegel, Alhuin}
Editors {Sapphire, KitKat, BoC}

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Just copied it from the "Gotwoot Subs" thread.
Since we are just starting out, we don't have a set "team" to design credits for... As it is, I actually didn't do anything for this release because of my work schedule and IRL issues I had to deal with. And I'm not even sure who pyointa is, or kaq; I don't remember seeing them in the IRC channel.

Anyways, after time, we will probably integrate GW credits into the OP credits, much like every other fansub team does.

We won't be adding credits to the eps.

Also, various staff members in the group may taking multiple roles per ep and it will probably continue to be like that regardless of how long we've been a group.

pyointa and kaq took on the roles as stated in Al's staff list. Also, pyointa isn't staff per se, but I added him because he's teaching me how to Karaoke FX and we used his script for the OP/ED

@Testarossa: One of the encoders also suggested that you try mplayer.

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Try the latest CCCP beta, with default settings and use the MPC-HC that is installed with it.

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Yeah, I've done that. Had CCCP for some time now and just redownloaded it. Still doesn't do a damn thing.

@Sapphire: I tried that. It's still freezing every second, though the audio is still synced with the video. It's not playing smoothly.

No offense, but maybe it's your PC? Or if you have a decent video card you can try turning on h.264 DXVA in the filter options.

1080p files didn't play smoothly at all for me without that turned on. But then again the file's 720p, so shrug.

I'm assuming it's my PC. Everything I've tried which should have had at least some slight difference is not working, so the only thing I can think of is that my specs are sh*t. *shrug*

Try uninstalling all of your codecs instead of MPC itself. If that doesn't work, everything uninstalled cept CoreAVC. It worked for me. XD (Not that it would necessarily wok for you)

I've done that before a while ago when I was first trying to fix the problem. I've Googled the issue a countless number of times and have been working on it for a while, but I just don't know what the problem is. I've settled for .avi from now on unless the file is reencoded (Board of Command's reencoded FMA Brotherhood .mkv files worked fine), but not everyone offers that.

Nice! I have been waiting for GWSubs.

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Originally Posted by Testarossa Autodrive

I'm assuming it's my PC.

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What are the specs?