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GARO Episode 02 - 10bit h.264

2011-10-14T16:08:00.000-07:00

Get over here!

Episode 02

There were apparently a number of hilariously poorly handled lines in the original release, and having looked up the T-N next episode preview from a streaming site, it seems they utterly blew that as well. We're talking embarrassingly so. No idea if the new DVD rip release of theirs fixes them, or if they were just so threatened by the existence of our rips that they did essentially the same thing. If somebody wants to update any lines that they actually did seriously fix, go ahead, but we don't really have the patience to full on scrub the same show twice.

This will be the last warning for this: if you do not have the OP1 and ED1 from the previous post, you will see no opening or ending.

GARO Episode 01 - 10bit h.264

2011-10-13T20:53:00.000-07:00

Well... we bought these damn DVDs so long ago that almost the entire series was encoded just in time for a demoralizing hard drive crash. When recovery tools failed to grab the encoded videos, it seemed like hope was lost, and it was hard to muster the effort to start over.

And then MakaiSenki was announced.

Back when the first releases of this series happened, we were up front about not being particularly happy with the the quality of the DVD raws, so this time we've gone all out. The old releases are pretty tolerable if you're not big on the bleeding edge, but for those who are, we have a release for you of 10bit h.264 video (a show this dark bands like a motherfucker) with ordered chapters to cut down on redundant downloading of the OPs and at least first ED. This release has been in the pipeline for honestly too long, seeing as the first episode of the sequel is already out and the second has aired, but as comments and tweets to Over-Time suggest, there's still plenty of people who are not yet on board the great Golden Knight GARO bandwagon. So let's get them on, shall we?

OP1: http://www.multiupload.com/KL22G016OV
ED1: http://www.multiupload.com/D8PAIJ52ED
Episode 01: http://www.multiupload.com/SSMAFNCX8W

You'll need a fairly modern player to deal with this, the easiest is to use CCCP on windows, or mplayer2 (or a gui program that is backed by it). The opening and ending play at the correct time automatically in a correctly configured system, no playlists or trickery required.

The upside of a rerelease like this is simple: the subs are done. Just need to slide them back around the now missing 2:30 and presto release-o. Also this gives a good opportunity to fix a few lingering errors (at least one instance of Guren Forest made it through QC of the DVD releases, for instance) at the same time.

Have fun.

Masked Rider Agito - 26-28

2011-08-14T13:35:00.000-07:00

Okay. So as you all know, this is a scrub (a term that someone else came up with for this sort of release after we started, but we like) of the Cruel Angel Productions episodes that were ripped and encoded by BrownRanger. For the most part, we have avoided direct potshots at this release. If you've downloaded them yourself, you understand what these releases are saving you from, both in terms of video and the subtitles. But perhaps some of you are unfamiliar with the issues. Odds are very good that most of you don't even realize the issue with episode 28, which was so mind bogglingly stupid that we felt it necessary to point this out.

First off, episode 27. This is a typical episode, any would do, but 1-26 have already been sacrificed to the pits of BitHell.

And here is its counterpart from our release.

The difference is probably fairly obvious. The DVDs are interlaced anamorphic widescreen, so 720x480 is set to expand to 852x480 (give or take) by the player. This is exactly what is encoded here. To be clear, that one episode that people were complaining about was just improperly flagged, not improperly encoded. A player override would have fixed it trivially, unlike the CAP up here that needs cropping and AR correction.

The trouble is Cruel Angel apparently couldn't figure out how to handle anamorphic DVDs, so the pieces of shit they sold (yes, they asked for money for this, these were not free fansubs) apparently reencoded the video letterboxed. In this case, the 720x480 video is converted by your player to 640x480, and has the black bars built in for you. It's good for the ten people on the planet who bought extremely early (and therefore expensive) DVD players and never, ever upgraded when they became like $20, but for everyone else it just means lower quality. Worse still, BrownRanger didn't do the sane thing with such a garbage source (resize to 640x480, crop off 60 pixels of matting from the top and bottom), leaving you with encodes that are wider than they should be and black bars all over the place. This is Bad.

But now let's get to episode 28, the target of our rage. It is worse. We'll start with a couple shots of the OP.

versus

So, you must be thinking, "weren't you picky assholes just complaining about matted letterboxing?" You'd be right, though you can probably tell just by looking that once again the CAP version is wider than it should be. Moreover, this time the black bars are taking up even more of the screen. Why is that? Well let's compare two shots from the bulk of the episode.

Have you figured it out? Do you understand what happened here? Let us spell it out for those of you that have not: Cruel Angel resized this episode to fit as matted 16:9 widescreen, despite the fact that the original source is primarily 4:3 with only a couple flashbacks (and a flash forward in the very beginning) and the OP in 16:9. Then BrownRanger compounded the issue by failing to correct for the AR issues in a sane way, though to be fair even crop/resize to 640x360 like the rest should have been would have been weird looking here, and a proper expansion to 4:3 would be losing a lot of detail due to the initial incompetence.

This is inexcusably stupid for a paid product, so in this sense we must tip our hats to BrownRanger for pirating the shit out of the original pirate goods, and making it so that nobody should ever really consider paying these assholes money. We only wish BrownRanger had a clue what he was doing himself as he did it, but seriously shame on you Cruel Angel.

With that bit of tl;dr out of the way, have some links:

26
27
28

Enjoy.

Masked Rider Agito - 1-25 Batch

2011-07-19T16:57:00.000-07:00

1-25 Batch Torrent

It's been quite a while. In the time since we've ridden together, apologetically, others have joined the cause of scrubbing the cruft from bad fansubs. We salute you all. But this leaves us feeling somewhat foolish, what with our incomplete job. So here we are, roughly at the half way point. After so many months, it did not seem right to merely release a couple episodes, so eight it is.

Incidentally, we at Gomen Rider Fansubs would like to bless some good people from the land of Brazil, for drastically cutting down the effort that goes into these. Scrubbing is actually ahead of raw encoding from the (admittedly ugly, but better than the alternative) DVD5s.

Enjoy.

Masked Rider Agito - 15-17v2

2011-07-19T16:48:00.000-07:00

There were some minor aspect ratio related issues with these files. The irony is not lost on any of us. As they are minor, however, the fix is also quite small and simple.

Here is a zip full of patches and a batch to run them. We're seriously just talking a flag to one file, and a couple 100s become 83s in sub streams. No big.

Don't go anywhere though, we didn't begin to ride again just for this.

Masked Rider Agito 1-17 Batch

2011-01-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

And here it is, slightly after the new year because welp combing artifacts make our encoder's blood boil so the three that were not uploaded to MU previously have been reencoded.

1-17 batch

Same directory structure as the last one, so you should be able to just hop on as-is (and help seed whatever you already have for people who are late to the game). Enjoy.

Update:

Yeah, that means there's combing bullshit on 11-14. There shouldn't be, they were run through my FieldHints with NNEDI2 for post processing, but apparently it thought everything was a-ok. They'll get v2s when 1-10 get encoded. 15-17 don't suffer the same problems (and are actually less complicated avs scripts) so 18-end won't either. God dammit.

Masked Rider Agito 13-14

2010-12-25T12:37:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas y'all!

13
14

15-17 encoded, need to do the final tweaks on the subs and a new batch will be swapped in, which is good since apparently 1-10 isn't actually seeded at the moment.

Masked Rider Agito 11-12 (no batch yet)

2010-12-14T14:31:00.000-08:00

Since the last post, the team has received legit R2s of GARO TV and the GARO: Beast of the White Midnight movies. (Actually, they've even since been encoded, but they're not ready for distro yet). After seeing the quality increase, on a lark, one of our members checked PD for Agito DVD raws. A disturbing discovery was made.

The fucking things are anamorphic, not matted.

That's right, the pubraws that have been used up to this point are 640x360 not out of necessity, but because somebody wanted to keep the filesize down or something I guess. This is dumb. As such, these files right here are 720x480 anamorphic h.264 encodes from the DVD directly (crf 18, so file sizes will fluctuate).

11
12

Up through 17 (there's a three episode arc, not leaving you hanging in the middle of a monster arc again) are more or less ready in script form, though they need some minor timing tweaking against the not quite yet encoded raws from all of V4 and the first ep of V5. The AVS scripts are ready to go, for v4, just need to run the thing overnight. Will update torrent for 1-17 when they're all done.

Yes, there will be a v3 for 1-5 and v2 for 6-10 with the new video, but we figured at the rate this shit is actually happening, nobody wants those before more new episodes are out. The timed Portuguese scripts for the rest of the series should help take the tedium out of the process too (and allow me to murder at least one team member).

Enjoy.

Garo Special: Beast of the Midnight Sun DTV version

2010-08-08T17:32:00.000-07:00

Garo Special: Beast of the Midnight Sun

Look what's out just in time for the something awful members to slot it in to after 25.

ADTRW people, you have about 72 hours from this posting to get the first episode if you want to be cool and pretend there are 27 episodes of Garo (Ignoring the Gaiden) during the simulwatch. If you can't manage that, tough shit, you can watch on your own time. It won't hurt you, I promise.

Why the DTV version? There aren't any readily available raws for the Director's Cut... at least until my copies of it (and the TV series) arrive in late October. That's right, Japan is rereleasing the whole thing for about $400 less than the current MSRP in time for Red Requiem, and because I was never happy with the video quality of the raws that are floating around online (not that they're not a huge fucking improvement over the T-N TV rips) I'm grabbing them. I paid more for Evangelion in the US, and I don't even like that show.

Fortunately, encoding can be done mostly offline, which is good because the primary reason Agito is going so slow is the amount of tedium in cranking out a single episode, whereas doing a v2 with better video (and minor corrections) doesn't actually require a whole lot of personal interaction. These subs were not originally ripped by kind anonymous, they were ripped by me with a different tool, which may help out that whole thing if I can get it to not choke on Agito's ugly ass subs. That will speed up the process tremendously.

That's enough words, enjoy the wolves grunting and cutting things!

Masked Rider Agito 1-10

2010-06-11T15:03:00.001-07:00

As I was saying a minute ago...

Masked Rider Agito 1-10

Please, IF YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL VERSIONS OF 1-5, SEE THE PREVIOUS POST. It will save you some time downloading.

GARO may have been less work, but it was non-trivial, so going over those 25 episodes was a bit of a learning process. Picking up a person to do a QC pass means I have to view each of these episodes only three times instead of four, which cuts down on burn out and speeds things up considerably. It shouldn't take forever to get the next batch out the way it has between the release of 5 and now.

Oh, also, every release from here on out will be a complete series (thus far) batch torrent, with the same directory name, so don't rename it until it's all over. This means that as long as anybody is seeding, they're seeding the whole thing, so there's no accidentally finding the files after a long period but unable to access them like with sendspace. There are probably downsides to this release method, but frankly I don't really care that much.

Thanks and enjoy!

Masked Rider Agito 1-5v2

2010-06-11T14:47:00.000-07:00

Well a promise is a promise.

Patch for [GRF] Masked Rider Agito 01-05 to v2

If you have the original files unzip this, put all the files in the same directory, and double click the .bat. When it finishes, feel free to wipe out the old files. Oh, you should probably rename the directory that's holding the v2s to [GomenRider]_Masked_Rider_Agito. It might be helpful in a little bit.

If you DON'T have the original files this will not help you in the least. Stay tuned for a bit, you aren't SOL.

A New Release at Last! (But not Agito)

2010-06-07T16:56:00.000-07:00

I'm not sure if anybody still reads this. I'm sure everybody has long since given up on seeing Agito from us. Well, you shouldn't, because 6-10 are awaiting a QC pass before getting them into your hot little hands, along with some v2s of 1-5 (with patches for those of you who have had the originals, no need to redownload). Many things have been promised about rate of release in the past, so it's easy to not believe this. So here's a peace offering: all of GARO, cleaned up and ready for consumption.

At some point, some anonymous OCR ripped the subtitles from T-N's GARO release. These were kind of dogshit, what with the chans, samas, and the fact the timing was way off. That said, it was a much better starting point than the Agito project.

Similarly, some other anonymous posted DVD raws of the series. These aren't really encoded to our standards, but they're head and shoulders above the T-N tv rips, so it's definitely a worthwhile upgrade if not a perfect one.

Thanks to our friends at Gattai for their help in this release. Enjoy!

Kamen Rider Double 01

2009-09-13T23:55:00.000-07:00

It... uh... isn't the weekend anymore. However, we have a special treat anyway:

Kamen Rider Double - 01

Yes, it says Kamen. Why does it say Kamen in a Gomen Rider release? Because the official romanization in the title screen of this 11th Heisei era Rider show is Kamen and not Masked. There's still no honorifics, tl notes, henshin, or any of that sort of thing, but the Kamen is being treated as a proper noun for the hell of it.

Masked Rider Agito - Episode 5

2009-08-14T15:29:00.000-07:00

And after some sort of hiatus, episode 5 is here. This is not a particularly fitting episode name as you'll have to wait until the preview to see what it's on about, but there you have it. Episode six should be cranked out over the weekend to round out the current monster battle.

Shouichi and Taiichi have good taste, it cannot be argued.

Masked Rider Agito - Episode 4

2009-08-02T13:10:00.001-07:00

Episode 4 already out? Yeah really, grab it here.

There are people in the world who accept the word "henshin" in their subtitles due to its exposure in US media (primarily Viewtiful Joe, a relatively niche game) and some of the other Rider things before they were 90% kisama yatsu tachi. This episode gives a good reason not to accept it though: Mana asks Shouichi about how he transformed. If the subs were using Henshin, the options at this point would be for her to ask about how he "henshined" or to be inconsistent, neither of which is a good idea.

This episode also has much more of Shouichi's stupid sense of humor, and it sadly doesn't translate very well. They're pretty much invented from whole cloth here to get the basic idea of what was happening without relying on spelling out the Japanese language gags he was using. Because, after all, the only Japanese you should see is in the release is the group name, and we're sorry about that.

Masked Rider Agito - Episode 3

2009-08-01T13:54:00.000-07:00

This took longer than we were hoping due to some personal issues. You'd think ripping and editing subs for a long done series would be faster than a release per week right? Okay, so this isn't a full seven days later but still. The timing team is getting a whip put to them to speed up the more tedious bits for the editors.

Masked Rider Agito - Episode 3 - My Transformation

Wherein the other word the brainwashed masses have acquiesced to appears. Remember, the only Japanese you'll see is the group name, and we're sorry for that.

Masked Rider Agito - Episodes 1-2

2009-07-27T15:20:00.000-07:00

At Gomen Rider Fansubs, we realize there are all kinds of people in this world. There are people who:

Enjoy the sight of random bits of Japanese left in their English translations.
Honestly believe that watching fansubs that leave Japanese in will help them learn the language.
Are comfortable with hardsubbed xvid, despite having desktop resolutions over 640x480.
Are more interested in flashy text effects than what the words actually say.
Molest children.

We, however, are none of these things, and we believe that there are plenty of people out there who aren't those things either. Perhaps they would like fansubs to go with their tastes! Well we're all too happy to deliver.

And thus, Gomen Rider Fansubs presents Masked Rider Agito Episodes 1 and 2:

Episode 1

Episode 2

If by some chance you've seen the Cruel-Angel Productions subs for this series and think these subs seem slightly familiar, there's a reason: yes, these are basically ripped from that asshole (charging for piracy is pretty low) release, with the softsubs attached to R2 DVD rips. If the subs don't seem that familiar it's because they've been edited pretty heavily for punctuation, consistency, and readability. There wasn't a hell of a lot of reason to just dump them exactly as is, frankly.

Remember, at Gomen Rider Fansubs, the only Japanese you'll see is in the group name, and we're sorry about that.