Episode 15: PAT
Section 9's Tachikoma fleet is down for routine maintenance. While the technicians inspect the fleet the think tanks begin a philosophical discussion on the Individual Eleven case and the implications and motives behind it. Gradually, this discussion shifts to the topic of the self and the reason why the Tachikomas have felt the sensation of looking down on themselves. Meanwhile, Togusa, Batou, his personal Tachikoma, and the Major report to Spring 8 to gather evidence collected by the staff from the 11 deceased members of the Individual Eleven.
Episode 15 - "PAT"
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Episode 14: Poker Face
Representatives from the American Empire have arrived in Japan to discuss a new security treaty, and Section 9 is one of the various groups assigned to secure the building where the talks are taking place. In their off-time, members of the security teams strike up a poker game, but so far Saito has won every hand. Intrigued by this, the Tachikomas assigned to the security truck shift their discussion from the reason for the new security treaty to the reason why Saito is consistently winning a game of chance.
Episode 14 - "Poker Face"
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Another Monday, another update. Lets get started, since there is a lot to go over.
Up first, the return of 2nd GIG. I know I promised these last week but circumstances once again prevented that. Don't worry, episodes 14 and 15 will be releasing shortly after this post. I'm hopeful that another two will come out late this week.
On to 08th MS Team. We only have 3 episodes to go, and the recreation of Bandai Ent.'s clean ending for episode 11 was successful, so Episodes 10 and 11 will be out this week, with Episode 12 possible this week as well.
Next up, Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage. I have the first two of four discs ready for encoding, and I'd like to resume releasing these this week or next week. Nothing much else about this.
Lets talk upcoming releases now. Zeta Gundam's test encode was a success and has been passed to the staff for inspection. If all looks well, Qriist can start encoding them later this week. As the encode time per episode is very long, I'd like to let Qriist work ahead for a few weeks to build a stockpile. The estimated start date for Zeta is early April, after the last of Geass R2 and the start of 00 season 2.
I've also purchased, using donations, DVD's for a new series. I'm not going to announce it yet as I'm still securing BD ISO's to encode from, but it does give us another show on deck. More on that as things get closer to starting, but I wouldn't expect it until mid to late summer.
In other release matters, as some of you may be aware, the site's 1 year anniversary is coming up on April 5th. We have a few surprises in store to roll out sometime around then, though they may not be ready for their debut on the anniversary. Still, we have some new things planned that I think will be of interest to many people, and might provide an opportunity for some interested parties to join our team.
Lastly, I spoke about this last week, but now the plans have been set in stone. Myself, a friend, and EZ8 will all be attending the screening of Gundam Unicorn Episode 1 at the Viz Cinema in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, March 20th at 2:30pm. If anyone else will be in the area and would like to join us, let us know in the comments. Below is a link to the event page where you can pre-order tickets.
VIZ CINEMAThat about covers it for this week. As I said, we've got some cool new stuff in store for the anniversary so I hope people will stick around to see what we have to show you. Until next week, thanks for your support!
OZC
Episode 9: Front Line
Several Federation officers watch a battle of the Apsalus attacking a Federal Forces fleet in space and entering Earth's atmosphere unhindered. The Apsalus heads for South America and destroys the headquarters at Jaburo, when an officer calls for the simulation to end. Kojima and Ryer want to find out more about Apsalus, and Ryer has a plan that involves using the 08th Team. The team is deployed on a recon mission to scout for the Zeon stronghold in the area. The team launches in a parachute drop and engages a Gaw transport crewed by soldiers that escaped Odessa. Letting them go, the team lands and Karen's suit is heavily damaged by a surprise attack. The team splits up, with Sander and Shiro entering battle against the Gaw's commander, hoping to get revenge. Shiro uses his newly rebuilt Gundam, the Ez8, and quickly defeats the enemy but spares the commander's life. Meanwhile, Yuri and his men arrive at Ginias's base...
The 08th MS Team Episode 09 "Front Line"
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Episode 8: Duty and IdealsShiro is court-martialed under suspicion of being a spy. He says that there are good people on both sides of the war, and he hopes for the time that the war will end. The panel laughs at him, and he is asked if he could still shoot the enemy. Unable to answer, Shiro is restricted to his quarters and taken off of duty. At the same time, Ginias observes that Aina has changed since the incident with Shiro and deduces that she is in love. Later, a squad of Zakus approach the guerrilla village in search of food. The 08th Team catches word of this and head out, with Shiro breaking orders, in order to help his friends.
The 08th MS Team Episode 08 "Duty and Ideals"
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Results from
Lunar New Year (2/14/10):
Yes, I celebrate it. - 61 (24%)
Nope - 95 (37%)
Only if it's an excuse to get drunk! - 28 (11%)
There's ANOTHER New Year?! - 68 (26%)
Thank you to all the respondants for such interesting and varied poll results. To those who did celebrate the Lunar New Year, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did if not more. To those of you who did not know such a holiday existed...well, you do now! Unlike traditional New Year's celebrations which lasts a day, the Lunar New Year's festivities span 15 days, meaning February 28th was the final day. Which is good timing since this leads us to our new poll topic...
So in case you haven't wandered into our forums, there has been an active
topic there regarding the prospects of creating PSP/PS3/X360 compatible encodes for OZC's releases being handled by 2 dedicated members of our community: Brent and Snake-Eyes. We already have ssj2_goha of our staff who is working hard providing iPod/AppleTV compatible encodes. However, problem arises when the iPod format is not compatible with the PSP for anime pleasure on the go.
Since its already been asked if people wanted these new encodes, with the majority saying "Yes, dub and sub," I now just want to see how popular this viewing preference is on different devices.
Do you watch anime on portable media players and media-enabled devices? If so, which ones? (laptops, netbooks, and tablets do NOT apply)
Wow, March already? That means only 12 days until Unicorn Vol. 1! Anyway, congrats to ExcaliburXDestiny for the winning submission in the Photoshop contest!
So, now that all my much needed computer upgrades are done, including doubling my file storage by adding a dedicated 1.5TB drive for anime projects, replacing my aging 8800GTX card with a new GTX 260, and getting a new keyboard, I'm ready to get back to work on releases. Lets take a look at whats on deck this week.
Up first, releasing tomorrow is episode 8 of 08th MS Team. I had wanted to get that going on Sunday but I decided to take a break. I'll shoot for Episode 9 on Wednesday.
This week also sees the return of 2nd GIG after a 2 week break. Expect at least 2 episodes in the later half of the week, if not 3 episodes. Aside from the break (hopefully) next month for 00 and Geass, GitS will stay on the schedule until it is completed. I am STILL trying to get the last couple hundred megs for the Individual Eleven compilation, so it is possible that Solid State Society will release before Individual Eleven. We'll see what happens.
The BD's for the first half of Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage are out, so BD ISO's should be available soon. Once I can get my hands on those, Second Barrage will kick off.
I didn't finish my entire cover art update last week so I'll be trying to make some time to finish that up this week. I have to scan the rest of the items I need to update, and I've just been too lazy to hook up my scanner. I'll get around to it sooner or later.
On the topic of Gundam Unicorn, I'll be attending one of the afternoon screenings at VIZ Cinema in San Francisco, CA, on Saturday the 20th. Along with myself and one of my friends, EZ8 and a friend are also likely to attend. If anyone else in the area is interested in meeting up with us, drop us a message in the post comments and once the screening time we'll be at is finalized, we'll be sure to coordinate with anyone else interested in joining us. No crazy stalker people or we'll have to kill you.
Lastly, lets talk about the caption contest. So far, the response has been somewhat lukewarm. I am of the opinion that it is partly my fault, being that pictures I find funny for captioning may not be funny to anyone else. So, now, I'm going to be changing up the way it works. Starting this week, you can post just an image OR an image and a caption of your own. Each week, we'll pick from the submissions and choose one we like for the weekly post.
A few little details about this new setup. If your caption doesn't get selected, you may re-submit it for the next week. After that, you have to take it out of the submission pool for at least two weeks. Also, you may submit as many images as you want in a week. Lastly, while it won't be available immediately, guests will be able to submit images/images+captions, without needing to register for the forum. We'll run that on a trial basis. All previous rules for image submissions stand.
So, you can find the new submission thread
HERE. Have at it!
With that out of the way, I'll shut up and go back to work for another week. As always, thanks for your support!
OZC
Episode 7: ReunionIn Europe, Zeon forces retreat when the Federation successfully completes Operation Odessa. Yuri and his soldiers are left behind, but he promises to take them to Ginias's base and get them back to space. He doesn't care if the Federation has the Earth because the war will be fought in space. Meanwhile, Shiro clings to the damaged Apsalus as it flies through the skies. Inside, he finds Aina, and they attempt a dangerous landing, nearly killing Shiro in the process. Shiro struggles to find shelter in a blizzard when he finds his wrecked Gundam, but passes out. He is rescued by Aina, and after finding out that Ginias is not her boyfriend, but her brother, the two begin a budding relationship. Soon after, Norris arrives and battles with Federation fighters above the crash site, leading to Aina's rescue by Zeon forces. Shiro watches as once more she flies away.
The 08th MS Team Episode 07 "Reunion"
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We've been seeing a lot of requests about for Unicorn in comments, emails, and the chatbox, and we decided it needed to be addressed. So, here is, once again, the answer as to whether we'll be doing Gundam Unicorn.
NO, OZC Anime will
NOT release Gundam Unicorn. As we have repeatedly stated, our release policies are VERY clear on this point. If a show is available in Region 1 on Blu-ray, it is NOT a candidate for release. For one thing, I'm not in the business of spending MY money on something only to give it away for free to countless people.
This site has always been and will always be about offering shows that are available in Region 1 on DVD in the best quality possible until they become available in R1 at that same quality.
So, don't bother asking if we'll release Unicorn. It won't happen. Requests in the chatbox will be deleted and directed to this post. Comments in episode releases will be deleted. Emails will be responded to with a link to this post. So save yourself some time and save the rest of the staff some aggravation and just don't ask.
Episode 12: Guerrillas in the JungleTakenaka begins interrogating Rock, revealing that he was formerly a member of the Japanese Red Army. When Rock questions him as to why he continues to fight for a lost cause, he comments that he fights in order to give meaning to the sacrifices he made in the past for his beliefs. Due to Takenaka's jovial method of conducting the interrogation, Ibraha, Takenaka's comrade, asks Takenaka if he can torture Rock, but Takenaka refuses. Revy and Shenhua raid the camp and escape with Rock, and are followed by a fleet of vehicles under Ibraha's command. Revy and Shenhua dispatch the majority of the vehicles, and Ibraha orders the remainder of his men to continue the pursuit. When Ibraha refuses to order a retreat, Takenaka shoots him and makes the order. Revy delivers the documents to the CIA agents, and admonishes Rock not to be captured again.
Episode 12 - "Guerrillas in the Jungle"
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Download TorrentDownload 720p ver.This finishes off season 1. A season batch will go up in a few weeks most likely. Additionally, the cover gallery for Black Lagoon has been updated with the R2 artwork for volumes 3 and 4. A complete season cover will be up in the near future.
