Juuousei: Jyu Oh Sei - Planet of the Beast King

[masamuneehs]

Apparently another new group by the name of Nozomi is subbing this series. They've also released episode 1, in xvid and a higher quality avi format

Nozomi - Jyu oh Sei ep1 - xvid

Nozomi - Jyu oh Sei ep1 - h264

Will take a look at the better quality version, just to try this group out.

edit - wow, the h264 version was beautiful, filling up my laptop screen without even opening the player to full screen.

The translations also seem to be right on the mark. They even subbed some things that the other versions left out (like, and I find this quite important, the scene with the twins watching the presentation about Earth. At the end it says "There has been no word from Earth in the last 50 years, however...")

They also translate the times of day on Chimaera (they spell it like it's pronounced) into Noon and Night, emphasizing the temperature difference. The text used and timing was also damn good too.

Quite impressed.

Xvid files play at 704x396
HD eps play at 1280x720
Awesome

[masamuneehs]

Nozomi seems to have the best so far, so I'm sticking with them.

Nozomi has also released episode 2 so i'm posting the links to those versions as well.

Nozomi - Jyu Oh Sei - Episode 2 - xvid format
Nozomi - Jyu Oh Sei - Episode 2 - h264 format

edit - spoke to some Nozomi staff on irc. Server is Rizon, #Nozomi is channel.
Apparently they're a totally new group with no experience. This totally blew my mind as their first release was on level with, if not better than (i say better) than Paragon's.

Also learned that Jyu Oh Sei is also going to be a rather short series, 11 episodes. The manga is apparently short as well.

[NeoBear]

thats odd to me cause in the op it looks like thor ages if it's true that it will be short that means they are gonna have to haul ass with the plot. wich might not be a bad thing nothing i hate more lately then the standerd first 1-4 eps of intro/filler crap that most anime's seem to adhear too

Well just watched ep 5 and at the end in the preview it shows what looks like a much older Thor and Tiz so I guess this show is going to be short

[Roxy]

does anyone know what's going on w/ paragon? i've only seen episode 1 b/c i've been waiting for them to release more, but it's been awhile and perhaps they dropped the project or something?

[NeoBear]

Ep:6

http://bt.94kan.com/torrents/1/85c43...d504f6.torrent

looks like there all grown up now for a 16 year old Thor looks … really freaking old =O

[Hakeem_21]

You will let us know when that is out right? I rather wait for a good group.

[NeoBear]

Lol I know everybody seems to hate kiss subs, im not very critical of sub groups unless they suck and they would have to suck ultra hard like the hell-sub group that does bleach that shit is an affront to mankind =p

[Darknodin]

Lol I know everybody seems to hate kiss subs, im not very critical of sub groups unless they suck and they would have to suck ultra hard like the hell-sub group that does bleach that shit is an affront to mankind =p

ya me too... this is the only series where I download twice... and it has more to do with the HD release than the sub... an awful lot happened in episode 6... between this and explaining what happened in the past 4 years, this was a very busy ep... a little too much, but hopefully things will get back to normal next week...

[Death13a]

get used to fast pacing as this series only 11 episods and we already more then half way.

[NeoBear]

Ep:7 Kiss subs

http://bt.94kan.com/torrents/1/a914f...d1bdb0.torrent

its 350meg... oh man even i have to hate on these guys now

[masamuneehs]

Black Sheep is also up to episode 6, and from the one episode I saw from them they're miles better than KissSub. You can find their releases here: Black Sheep - Jyu oh Sei releases

I've been waiting for Nozomi's releases and just got to watching episode 3. This show isn't as fantastic as I'd hoped (it was one I really was looking forward to) but it has some pretty interesting parts, especially with how brutal Chiamera is.

I can't believe Thor is 11 years old. Even by anime standards he looks older than that. He's one jacked 11 year old... Saad is so going to become Thor's 3rd.

[Arcn3ss]

I am gonna have to agree with Masa on the show not being as fasntastic as it I hoped. Honestly, the first 5 episodes were great. I liked it better when Thor is a kid, and we got see all about the brutiality of Chiamera, but then episode 6 they jump ahead years. The first 5 episode had chiamera as an enemy. The planet itself was an enemy to all who lived on it. Now in the future, the planet is reasonably liveable. The planet as an enemy gave the story a need edge, that separated it from generic animes. I've seen up to episode 8, I dont like Thor character development, or the storyline development.

Since its only 11 episodes, every thing is so rushed, so the gradual progression of story isnt there. What would have fixed this problem, is if the series was 26 episodes. This would allow for that gradual story/character development progression to have actually occured in a decent manner.

[Board of Command]

Just watched this entire series today and it's quite good. It felt rushed in the second half (time jump) because people were dying left and right. I mean, Karin only lasted what? 2 episodes? The ending was also rushed as they were hopping planets in the blink of an eye. If given more time, I'm sure the story development could have been much improved.

Nonetheless, an above-average series.

[Knives122]

yeah it seemed like more or less everyone was killed:

-Yukki, got killed the ep. he was introduced
-Karin, two eps later
-Tiz, Third, Doctor guy, Rai, The old man in the cave, Top all of them dead(which I couldn't understand why they had to kill off Tiz)

And for some random odd reason Thor ended up looking like Third. None of it made anysense by the end despite it being a good series..

[Board of Command]

The ending was bad because the transition from Chimera to sci-fi was way too abrupt. No idea why they limited this series to just 11 episodes.

[masamuneehs]

well i have officialy given up on Nozomi subbing this thing... Tried out episode 4 from Black Sheep and was pretty impressed.

I like how this show isn't afraid of dealing directly and bluntly with death. I'm also coming to like the characters, particularly Saad/Third. Manipulative, smug bastard reminds me in a way of Griffith from Berserk, but without the obvious ambition.

Black Sheep's subs are pretty solid, and the picture quality was top notch!

[Munsu]

Just finished the series, and I really liked it. The ending was OK, the way Tiz died was the most fucking dumb thing that could've ever happen in the show, it was pathetic. If she died, they should've killed her like Karim was. I liked Thor's new look at the end of the episode, I bet his skin and hair changed colors so that Chen would fall in love with him, his DNA giving him the best chances of survival.

As for fansubs, I really recommend Black-Sheep, at least I know that the translator is the best in the fansub business, so you can't go wrong with them. For direct downloads:
http://bs.dryfire.org/

As for the shortness of the series, I assume that the reason was because the manga itself was short, only 5 volumes. I only hope that they at least made it as acurate with the manga as possible, though I would've really liked a longer series. It really was an interesting world they lived in, and the characters themselves were good.

[Kraco]

I finally decided to have a look at this, and liked it quite a lot. It was certainly very hurried, here and there, but generally speaking it didn't lose its integrity. The story was quite interesting, much more complicated than I expected, and the characters especially good, with thought-out backgrounds and motivations. The way the characters were almost all used by others one way or another at some point was a nice touch; it build an intricate and believable network considering how huge the scale of the story was in the end, yet how little most knew of the whole picture.

It's also, for me at least, a memorable moment every time when I come upon a series where the main characters just start to drop dead left and right, and nearing the end you can only say: Everybody dies in this show. It's so refreshing compared to those traditional animes where nobody but some historical or background characters ever perish. This was indeed sealed by Tiz's death. Even in the most cruel of normal shows her character would have survived.

[Munsu]

Yeah, but they way she died was the dumbest shit ever. I got no problem with her dying, but come on, I'm sure they could've come with a better death than that.