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Kuroshitsuji: Episode 8 - His Butler, Training Animals @BleachExile

Did I get the title right? Oh, I hope I did. I have a very short attention span, see...

Anyway, I've been meaning to post something about this for weeks. I just couldn't get around to doing so... but here it is! I've been following this even before the anime release. Translated, Kuroshitsuji means The Black Butler, and it's about this one demon of a butler serving Her Majesty The Queen of England's cute Guard Dog. :D

Anyway, it's a fairly young series. The translated manga had only reached up to the 18th chapter, I think. And the latest subbed episode is the one posted above. Shinsen-Subs is doing it, which is good. They're fast and reliable. BleachExile is hosting direct downloads, but to get to them you'd have to be a member. It's for free, so no worries.

I didn't download, though. I watch it through Crunchyroll [or Veoh, whichever I find first].


Naruto: Chapter 426 @ NarutoChuushin

Naruto, don't give up!

It seems like I was wrong with my predictions! XD Filler-ish chapter this week, but we do see some progress [really?]... Ebisu is facing Pain to protect Konohamaru, but what does Konohamaru do? Oh dear, oh dear.. Naruto, the village really needs you back..

Main focus of this chapter, I think, was to illustrate how the adult ninjas have started to think of Naruto more as a ninja and less as the jinchuuriki. It warms me to see that, really, but I wasn't quite expecting it yet. I was thinking it would go nice in the latter chapters when we finally see the ending or something...

Anyway, what I was really looking forward to was Kakashi's "bonding time" with White Fang. :D Ah, well.. I guess we'll all just have to wait for it. Hopefully it comes soon. [Assuming that the Ino segment doesn't go right after the Ebisu one.. Oh wait, I'm forgetting about Ibiki! Damn.]


Bleach: Chapter 336 @ Bleach7

This week's chapter is entitled El Verdugo... [Spanish, meaning The Tyrant or The Executioner.. something like that, yeah.. :D]

I'M SO FRIGGIN HAPPY FOR NO REASON.


XDDDDDDDDDDD


Actually, I should be mad or annoyed. This week's chapter has some anti-feminist themes to it, pertaining to how Matsumoto and Hinamori are portrayed as just too weak to fight the super powerful Arancar. But then again, Hinamori's really weak, and Matsumoto's boobs got in the way, I think..

XDDDDD

Seriously though, it kind of seems like there's this notion that since they are both women, they should be beatne up like hell and be thrown to sidelines while letting the male characters do their parts [still, Kira and Shuuhei are back, so I'm not really all that upset]... But then, come to think of it, the opponents are women --- girl power after all? Ahahahahah, I'm not sure. I just hope that the Shinigami-tachi do win.



Lost and Found: LOST ISHIDA. PLEASE RETURN HIM TO GALEAYA WHEN FOUND. THANKS.


Eyeshield21: 307th DOWN!



Katekyou Hitman Reborn: Target 220 by INPMangaz

More Squalo! XDDDDDD


Actually, I had already written something about this - and in fact, I've already posted it. Or so I thought. I came back a few hours later just to find out that my damn draft wasn't posted successfully! Argh.. And it was a pretty lengthy post, too..

Anyway, a recap for this week's release: Focus shifts from Tsuna-Irie to the Varia ---- and OMG, it has been confirmed that XANXUS IS FIGHTING ALONG WITH HIS SUBORDINATES FUCKFUCKFUCK

AHEM.


KYYYYAAAAAAAAHHH!!! I can't wait to see Xanxus in action! But of course, we'd have to first witness Squalo beat the hell out of his opponents~ :D Aaaaaahhhnnn, Squalo~ We just got more proof of your sharky-ness~ Squalo has the same ring type as Yamamoto, right? Somehow the rain attribute doesn't seem to fit him, though... I keep thinking of Squalo as a storm type. :D

Why oh why couldn't Yamamoto get a cool box animal as Squalo..? Why? XD




I just wanted to repeat that D.Gray-Man is in hiatus. The mangaka has fallen sick, so he/she [I DON'T KNOW THE MANGAKA, FUCK.] will be taking a break from making manga. No one's sure when the series will be continued, if ever.

Some Gintama related stuff: I found some raws for Episode 134... Of course, it's Gintama, that's why I'm posting about it. But there's something really special about this episode... What's so special about it? >D We hear Gin-chan singing. YES, you heard [read?] it right, GIN-CHAN SINGING. :D

Omg, the end has come.



Again, I want to repeat that I've already written something, but somehow it didn't get posted. Damn. Annoying. Piece. Of. Fecal. Matter. Gr.

Anyway, what I typed before was basically about Dattebayo dropping Naruto and Rumbel-Subs dropping Soul Eater, Katekyoushi Hitman Reborn and D.Gray-Man. First, let's talk about DB.

So Viz Media, TV Tokyo and Crunchyroll have decided to gang up on us and release their brand of English-subbed online streams of some anime [which includes Naruto and Gintama. :D]. The deal is, you have to pay a subscription fee to get the streams asap, else you'll have to wait a week after the first release to see the free streams.

While this is cretainly great [I mean, not only will it be free, it will certainly be legal in all aspects], a lot of fans have become very wary of the quality of the releases. From what I've heard [which is totally unreliable and has not been counterchecked at all], they're planning on having the paid releases up only a day after the actual release in Japan --- which is extremely fast, considering that releasing subs is a very tasking job to do. [The free releases will be available a week or so after the paid releases, but at least they're free. :D] One just has to wonder what kind of releases this fast production will give us, and one just can't shake off the fear that the releases would be crappy as hell.

But then again, if they are just planning to release soft subs, I guessa a day would suffice [especially since these are BIG companies and not unpaid, small subbing groups]. No worries, too, for people not living in the US since it's supposed to be a worldwide thing. :D

Dattebayo, subber of Naruto [and other anime which are not really of our concern right now], has decided to drop Naruto from their active projects because of the deal I described above. A lot of fans are reacting [try outraged], but I don't really see the point. Personally, I'd prefer the LEGAL subs since it's all LEGAL, and the group has certainly made its decision. Yes, there have been [a lot of times] before when DB announced that they would be dropping Naruto [aaah, the fun times.. DB screwing with our heads.. :D], but it's serious this time, I think [unless they're planning on making an underground channel of some sort]. Fans should just shut up and deal, really. We wouldn't be able to do anything about it, anyway, seeing as the group has already set their minds to it. We can't force them not to. End of story.

And besides, there would still be free subs. Just a little late, but still there. Although I'd prefer the DB releases because of the quality, but then again, we haven't really seen the quality of the crunchyroll releases, so we can't really give judgements right away.


On the other hand, Rumbel-Subs has received three Cease and Desist letters from FUNimation for the subbed releases of the following anime: Soul Eater, Katekyoushi Hitman Reborn and D.Gray-Man. Of the three, D.Gray-Man seems to be least of the fans' concerns, seeing as the series had stopped airing a while back [I posted something about it before, go check it out through the right side bar]. While I personally don't really care about Soul Eater [I don't watch it, sue me], I find it a little funny and annoying that a lot of people are saying that dropping these three projects was for the best --- because there'd be more time to work on the Gintama releases. Funny because I agree. Annoying because it kind of ruins the image of Gintama fans - it makes us seem too uncaring for the fans of other series.

While it's true that I couldn't care less about SE and KHR [the anime version, anyway], I don't think people should rejoice because they got dropped. Not only is it mean and inconsiderate, it's downright scary. Ever heard of [bad] KARMA, people? Gintama just might get dropped because of this. Divine Retribution doesn't spare anyone.

Which brings me to this: If Rumbel-Subs didn't think twice before dropping their projects because of the legalities [FIGURATIVELY. I'm not saying they didn't try to find a way around it], then isn't it logical that they'd also drop Gintama if and when Viz Media asks them to? Remember that Gintama's included in the list of anime in the Crunchyroll ordeal [Or it's supposed to. I remember reading it somewhere, but I've forgotten exactly where]. Does that mean that Rumbel would drop EVEN Gintama? D:

It's possible. Or not. I don't really know. I wish they wouldn't. I don't think any other subber could make such fitting subs as they could, considering that Gintama is full of cultural jargons. Naruto's actually easier to sub, I think, since it's an AU world where the references are mostly made up just for that universe. Gintama's set in an AU world, too, but the references have to be researched and explained in order for foreign fans to understand them. I hope the new subbers would realize that and use that knowledge to their advantage. Gintama just CAN'T be funny if the audience doesn't understand the "inside" jokes.