Furusato

Time for another release right before Easter!
We finally were able to pull of our 399th release and I'm very pleased with the outcome. The performance from Kusumi Koharu-chan's Graduation is also the very song that she sang when she auditioned for Morning Musume. Fans and Friend were pretty sure that this song was going to be her last one and they proved right.
It's a soothing song about a mother and was actually one of the first singles of Morning Musume ever released back in 1999.

Kusumi Koharu - Furusato (MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~)

Have fun!

A Treat For Myself

I wanted to treat myself to something yummy today so I went shopping and found these delicious looking strawberries which I topped of with a really yummi vanilla flavoured yogurt.

Oishiii!!! And I so adore both strawberry and vanilla flavour.

Gibbs

Hello again!

Time for a new "old" release.
I don't know when I actually finished this song - probably in January or so -  but it finally was released. This song is quite old. It was first released as a single ten years ago, in 2000. Amazingly this song is still one of my favourites together with the song "Apple Song" (Ringo no Uta). I'm talking about this amazing song: Shiina Ringo - GIBBS (gibusu).

Links can be found at the HaroRanger Blog Page. Have fun and see you later!

Movies

I'm going to the movies, I'm going to the movies *singsong*

yaaaaay! It's been a while since I last went to see a movie with friends so I'm really excited to do just that in a few hours.
That's the movie it's going to be. I'll tell you more about how I thought this movie was as soon as I saw it.

mou yamete! もうヤメテ！

Lately, I've seen an increasing number of groups starting to fansub - which is fine - if not for them doing the projects I've already started on.

It's really frustrating to see other groups releasing the projects I've been painstakingly working on for days if not weeks, even though they know that H!F is still working on a lot of PVs and that we normally do most of them, even if we take a little longer to wrap them up.

I mean H!F is also looking out for other groups and try not to start or do projects that have already been done. It's so frustrating, demoralizing and I lose the interest in working on said projects.

I don't mind other groups working on the same projects in general. We already had a few of those, but at least those groups knew we were not going to release the close-up or dance versions and they used those for their own release and we still could work on the normal version.

I don't know if I even want to work on more stuff right now. We've (SC and me) been trying to pull off a few releases still even though we are considering closing H!F for good. The lack of staff and the popping up of new groups working on the same projects we work on makes that decision even more plausible.

We'll see. Maybe I'm going to do a few more vids before we close up. I don't know yet. *sigh*

addendum:
It's not like I (we) want to monopolize the H!P fansub scene, but everyone knows that fansubbing is a lot of work and that you need to put a lot of time and thought into a finished piece of work. It just stinks to have all that effort be a waste of your time if someone else puts out the same video just before yours is going online.
It's not like people don't know that we (H!F) work on most H!P releases - we definitly do all the Morning Musume, Buono! and Guardians 4 stuff and we've been telling that in a lot of posts and release notes lately - and that we've been planning on doing most Berryz stuff, too.

Oh well. I can't tell people what they should do or not do. I just want to mention that it's frustrating for everyone else and especially for me.

Sorry for the rant-post. I just had to get this off my mind.

Only You

wah. Late again. Nvm.

Here's another release we pushed out last week.
It's definitly one of my fav song of this concert.
This one is Zoku v-u-den (the new Biyuuden group with Risako, JunJun and Sayumi). This song is just awesome as as Risako rocks the deep voice and JunJun looks freaking great while rocking out with her air guitar. You just have to check this masterpiece out.
The song ONLY YOU is a Cover by the really awesome rock group BOØWY, one of my favourite bands, which makes this even better. Enjoy!

Addendum: Triple Release Spree

following those releases here are the youtube links.

Thanks to shyangel133 for uploading them!

Triple Release Spree

I'm happy to announce that we finally pulled off the 3-day Release spree we planned on short notice.

SC described it as:
Takahashi + Tanaka = ReinAi (Duet)
or
Slow + Slow = Fast
which fits perfectly!!!

We started off with the release of the H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~ solo performance of Takahashi Ai's Cosmos, a very nice and slow ballad followed by Tanaka Reina's Heya to Y Shirt to Watashi, also a very nice ballad about how you should not cheat on your girlfriend or else you'll regret it.

The last song to be released was todays duet by both Tanaka and Takahashi. The song's called Kioku no Meiro and is actually a song by High-King, where both girls were the lead singers in. The performance was from the MM Concert Tour '09 Aki ~Nine Smile~, a very awesome concert!I hope everyone enjoyed this - and we'll see you again soon I hope. Leave a comment when you liked the releases!

Youtube links will follow as soon as they are up.

PS: Thanks to everyone who helped on these releases!

dinner for 2

Yummy. I was thinking along getting some "salad" for dinner so I had myself mozzarella salad with sliced tomatoes, a few slices of italian prosciutto and garlic bread, together with some black oil (as we call it). It's pumpkin seed oil.
Wow, that was awesomely good.

scary structure

this house is kinda scary! when I was visiting my aunt at the hospital
I walked by and thought that this thing has to collapse soon. funny
thing though, that house has been around for as long as I can remember
and it still looks exactly the same. guess it's just stubborn enough
to remain

snow again

seems like the weather can't decide if it wants to be warm or cold. 2
days ago at the same place we had sun and blue sky. Jesus

Concert Releases!

It's been a while since we (H!F) released new Concert performances.

Don't be mad at us for being late with all these releases, but what can we do. We're pretty much working alone and I'm the only karaoker, again. Haaaaaa, work's just piling up and I don't know what and when to do them. It's prett y bad right now.
But we'll get through it.

SC seemed to have ants in his pants as he was frantically timing new performances as soon as he saw that I had some more free time or will to work on new stuff! Anyway.
There are a lot of new performances coming out soon and we hope you'll all enjoy them. The first ones to go around are these two:

1.) Petitmoni V - Pira!Otome no Negai (H!P '09 Summer Kakumei Gannen ~Hello! Champloo~)
This song is just sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo awesome. When I first saw it on YouTube I just knew I had to do it. Unfortunately SC didn't want to time it as those parapiraparappo where too much for him. Luckily I had my timer Lailu jumping in - thanks again for your help, Lailu - and thanks to him we were able to release it only 3 days after considering working on it. The colors are just great and I worked on one of my custom fonts again to make those dots in a half circle.
I'm still watching that song twice a day because I so adore it. I hope you guys will too!?
Let us know how you liked it!2.) Matsuura Aya - Watashi no Sugoi Houhou (FC Event '08)
The second song to be released was from a Fan Club Event back from 2008. Asagi, one of H!Fs timers had this project timed and lying around but he couldn't work on the effects for some time and in the end asked H!F if we were interested in doing it. Since I am a huge Matsuura Fan we agreed and released it a few weeks later. Thanks again Asagi for letting me work on it. I really enjoyed it!

Other Concert releases coming soon, so check back here in a few days!

Bye and good night for tonight!

The Only Winter Love

A while ago there have been a two new Mognet releases.
I'm very happy about those as Mognet was basically the group which inspired me to work on karaoke in the first place some 5 years ago. Later I then joined the team and we became fast friends. They also provided me with a platform to work on PVs with German subtitled videos, which I greatly appreciated. Today Mognet is unfortunately pretty much inactive as members left and the initial group members grew up and started a working life.

Oh well. In January we released two winter-themed PVs.

The first one was Yoshii Kazuya's bakka. The title of the song itself is quite funny as Ba(k)ka can actually be read as "Idiot", but in this song it's considered meaning "only". The song is simple in its sound but the meanings of the lyrics are very deep, so please make sure to read them thoroughly. We decided to keep the karaoke effects very simple and we played around with the blinking lights of the night to go with the flow of the city. This PV also featured artists of the very famous band KREVA!

Kumama loves this song and so I was very pleased to hear that she enjoyed this! I hope you will too.

The other we released was a song I insisted on doing because I really loved it. We had it lying around for over 2 years until I finally had the time to work on it. We're talking about BoA's Winter Love, a quite ballad where BoA is encased in ice cubicles singing about leaving the love of her life if it's better for it.
Still quite lovely!Please enjoy those two releases and I hope we're soon going to release the other songs we already finished!

Lots of new releases!

There've been lots of new videos out from my karaoke studio, but I was too lazy to update my blog and then I forgot (yes, that's my line of the day) and now there are a lot of them and I don't remember the timeline.

I'm just going to do it with the flow and update in the couple of next entries what was released. Sorry if it's not in the right order!

First thing out I remember was a release for Hello!Fansubs. I'm not really a fan of this particular song but SC and I are trying to get all of them out so I had to do it. What I'm talking about is °C-ute's latest single "Shock", which we correctly labeled "Suzuki Airi feat C-ute - Shock", as that song was purely Airi with some "Uh, Ah, Chu" sounds from the other C-ute members plus 4 or 5 lines of chorus, repeated twice. The song itself was boring but I had fun working the lightning into the Shock word. SC enjoyed the effect, which was what I was aiming at! YAY!Following this release I finally was able to work on Buono! - Take it Easy! I'm sorry guys, that it took us sooooooo long to finish it but I really had other stuff on mind and sometimes a good work just need some time to stew. After taking my break I finally regain some of my creative ideas and I was able to finish this off in only 2 days of work!
We played with the background colors of these gorgeous shots as well as parts of their "costumes". I loved the outcome and I especially love the colors!
Colorful Karaoke Are the Best!! (o^_^)b

That's it from this front. Following up are Mognet and H!F Concert Releases! Stay tuned!!!!!

Updating Mediafire Anime Account!

Just so you guys know I'm currently updating my mediafire Anime Clip Account.
There were a few new vids done in the last couple of weeks.

The last time I remembered updating my account mediafire has been off and I forgot again.

So this time I'm doing it!!

HA!

my yummy package arrived!!!!!

Finally, it arrived! I've been waiting for it! I ordered some goods from a japanese supermarket via my friend Kumama. A month ago I asked her if it's possible for her to send me a package with a few things. I still had 4 manga I wanted to get but I was unable to optain in Europe and I also wanted some Hi-Chew! She promised me she'd send those goodies over whenever I was ready for it and a little over a week ago she said she's sending it over! Today first thing in the morning it arrived and as you can probably see I already had a Hi-Chew gum in Dragon Fruit flavour!!!!!!!!

THANKS AGAIN, KUMAMA!
So yummy!

I also had some instant curry for the "hard" times when I'm broke or too lazy to get money from my bank account and starve myself for half a week. ;-)

YAY~ *chews on a cherry flavour Hi-Chew* yumm, though I still like the blood orange ones best!

good morning everyone

time for breakfast!!! Yeah, I know weird breakfast!
I've been up since around 2am, but have been lying around in the dark in bed till around 6am listening to some audio books. Then I took a bath and made myself presentable again.
Since my stomach was really making aweful noises I decided to make breakfast. I decided on some salted rice and I still had fish with cheese crust left over which I also made for breakfast.
It was really great!

Hey everyone!

Just wanted to let you all know that I'm still alive. Also, there've been a few new videos released. I'll update this blog as soon as I have more spare time.

freezing Cold

Happy Valentine's Day!

Yep, so true!
I still wish everyone a very pleasant day with your friends and family and your loved ones!

cold

seems like i've catched a cold, again. that also means that I have
time to update my blog again!!!

Last week was really busy as I had friends over the whole week. It was
fun!!! We drank a kot (Pictures following in the next entry). I was
able to finish some long forgotten translations and I backup-ped my
karaoke folders, which basically was a good idea because my external
hd seems to hate me right now.

more following soon!!!
As I'm going to take some rest now - good night everybody!!

itadakimasu!!!

i'm currently with a friend at an all you can eat japanese Restaurant.
this was my last dish. God, I'm stuffed!!!

yummY

I had something really yummy today. Looks good right?
Marinated steak, some left over pasta from yesterday in a slightly steemed teriyaki sauce and white rice. I was trying to work all the left over ingredients into it. Looks like I made it! And it was so good. *is still drooling over how good it was*

Cut my hair

I've had long-ish hair for a while now and finally shortly after
Christmas I cut it really short!!!
that's the shortest since my High School days!

Latest 2 releases

Oh, sorry for being late on this post.

Yesterday I heard that I was not going to take part in the exam which would have been tomorrow. Oh, well....

Here's what we released last week:
The first one was the last single this girl released under UFA, before leaving the whole Hello!Project thing. This video was released under H!F somewhen Saturday before last? Or so. I don't really remember and it's not like it's important.
I really loved this song when it came out and was happy to work on effects. I tried to make them a little billowy and cloudy as it fit with the background. It's actually not one of her best song by far, but oh well! Here's Abe Natsumi's - The Screen.


The other video we released is a really "old" one. At least, it's old-ish. The song is called bakka by Yoshii Kazuya; With a cameo from KREVA who's posing as a retailer here, a really popular japanese artist. I can't say that the song is terribly exciting. We used subdued effects with sparkling lights, as the main character of the mini-drama is running around at night in the entertainment circles, or whatever it's called.
As unexciting as the song might be as exciting are the lyrics, which are really great. I also liked that it's a christmas themed song, so please enjoy this Mognet release way after christmas. It still actually fits a little as it's snowing like crazy around here!

Releases are available through the torrent trackers at Mognet and Hello!Online, respectively.

Exams!

Hey everyone!
Sorry for being lazy with my posts but I'm currently in the middle of my exams.

2 down and 3 to go.

Unfortunately I'll probably have to redo one of the exams, so far. I was stupid enough to change perfectly fine answers and change them the wrong way around. *sigh*
I could still bash my brain against the next hard surface, but it wouldn't change the outcome anyway.

Today I had my final English CLT exam. It's actually half of the IELTS exam for students to take with only the writing and readings tasks being done. It's kinda strange that they don't let us do the listening and speaking parts too, but maybe that comes at a later stage? I'm not sure yet.
I kinda have a good feeling about this whole exam thing so far. Hopefully it'll go well.

Next exam coming up is on Tuesday. The last for this semester will be on Feb 1st and the first exam of the next semester will be in March.

I hope to do well on them too.
Again. Let's wait and see!

Latersssssss~~~~

Oh, and two releases are out, but I'll write about them at a later opportunity.

Snow on campus

Keep the love coming!

One never can have enough releases, right?
Well, that's why there is another one coming along in a few hours. SC just informed me, that our newest (well, actually it's been hanging around for a long time but I totally forgot about it after some time and it surfaced in my christmas holidays) release will be our first-since-a-long-time concert performance.

and it's quite old too.... H!P '08 Winter ~Wonderful Hearts Nenjuu Mu Kyuu~. Takahashi Ai & Tanaka Reina will spread the love. ;) please enjoy!

Mano Erina #2

There we go again!

Here is another of our new releases (H!F) for you to enjoy. We decided to release the second Mano Erina song we had prepared. We're sure to be doing a few others of her songs, so just be patient with us.

For now there is this one: Mano Erina - Hajimete no Keiken!
Please enjoy.

As always, Torrents are available through Hello!Online.

Love & Peace = Paradise

Hello everybody!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve Party and everything?

I'm going to keep this simple.
There's a new release out and here it is:
Mano Erina - Love & Peace = Paradise

I had lot of fun doing this.
Thanks to Bambus and OutlawJonas for helping me with the angel wings. Without their help it wouldn't have been possible to do this.
Only comment I got from SC: "the wings are freaking amazing". Well, yeah, they are.
Have fun watching this.
I hope you'll enjoy the upcoming releases too!

Yours,

Tomo

Happy New Year!

Since it's late and I'm partying with my family I thought I leave a note for you here.

Happy New Year!

May it be better for you than this year and may you keep the promises you take!!

I'll see you all around next year...

Merry Christmas!

Although I'm not here, I'm thinking of you guys.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to all of us!
May you all have a wonderful day with your families today and tomorrow.

Yours sincerly,
Jasmin

Message From Santa Claus

If it were in my powers,
I would bring peace and love,
To this world of ours,
But I don't have magic enough,
I can cross the sky,
and pass by the stars,
But I can't seem to stop,
Any of hatred's wars,
I see children on the street,
With no hope left,
in the eyes.
So many homeless people
with no where to sleep.
And my heart cries.
I can't give the things they need,
Oh But God I would try.
I'm only a fantasy,
that once took wings to fly,
Some are deceived,
by the gifts that money can buy,
But those who truly believe,
see the gift with the heart,
not with the eye,
I sometime stop and go to my knees,
and pause,
and I too always pray,
That we will find a end to wars,
and live in peace one day.
For all those who believe in me,
I will continue my cause,
Across the stars,
over the wars,
On Christmas Eve,
For the hearts that still believe,
In Santa Claus

©Judy Arline Puckett

Mognet Christmas Present

I just saw that there were new releases over at Mognet! I actually thought we'd release them after Christmas, but obviously we didn't.

These two are releases we had done for some time, but kept till christmas, because they fit.
Unfortunately I should have done more than those two videos, but as you can guess, I didn't have the time to work on more of them. Hopefully I'll have some inspiration while being at my grandparent's. Though I do not know if it will change anything, as it's awefully hard to work with my laptop on any videos, while not having a decent mouse but a touchpad instead. *sigh*
I'll try to figure something out eventually. Maybe I can use the mouce my granny has on her computer. We'll see.

Anyway, here are the pic to the releases!
I hope you'll enjoy them.

L'arc~en~Ciel - Hurry X'mas & RSP - Lifetime Respect -onna hen-


Merry Christmas from all of us at Mognet!

May a light guide you...

...through the darkness into light.

Still snowing

Yesterday I arrived savely and today I started bright and early. It's
still snowing outside. It looks like it's supposed to in the dead of
Winter. We're all going to take a nap now.

Our Birthday Boy!

Hello guys!

Yes, actually I'm not here. I went on my deserved vacation yesterday and probably won't be back till January 6th. But that doesn't mean I can't post you something.
Here's the latest video release we did for Hello!Fansubs.
Can you believe it! It's actually the last for this year! (At least from my point. There's going to be another one either on Christmas or New Year, so please be sure to check out our groups' website)

This year's been great. A lot has happend and I got a L-O-T of work done, but honestly it never ends. I'm still on a hundred - yes 100, one-zero-zero - running projects and it just keeps getting more and more. *sigh* I hope we'll be able to get them all done sooner or later. I'm just very sad for some pretty old projects that get delayed and delayed and delayed some more....

Oh well.

Todays release is: Buono! - My Boy
We specifically released this today because it has a birthday cake in it AND! our very adoreable and hard-working leader is having his birthday today.

Happy Birthday, SacredCultivator!!!

I really had a lot of fun with this vid. It was actually pretty much finished back in August, but I had some trouble with one of the effects and after that I forgot about it and it totally slipped my mind until a few weeks ago.

I hope you'll have as much fun with this awesome song as we did.
See ya soon!

First snow in Vienna

Oh noes!!!!!

The Princess and the Frog

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawesome movie!

Really Cold

Today is definitly one of the first really cold days here in Vienna. I
can see my breath as white little puffs in front of me. It's nice and
finally feels like Winter weather, but it's also fricking cooooooold.

I see meteors coming down!

Can you believe it?!

There's another video released for you. I'm actually a little behind with my blog post, but here it is anyway.
Hello!Fansubs released another very nice Hello!Project video. I hope you'll all enjoy. Main effect idea was - how can it be anything else - a meteor. The song is called "Ryuusei Boy" (Meteor Boy) and it is by BerryZ Koubou! It's the A-Single of their latest release.We actually try to keep up, but we fail - miserably at that. I'm very sorry, but we can't help it right now. Hopefully it'll all be better soon. *sigh*

Christmas present

Christmas present for my grandparents!!!!!! A digital photoframe

Old tram

Amazing how old Trams look if you really look. I kinda like this "old"
feeling they have. Imagine a few scraps, chips and scribblings on
their Backs and it gets a whole new charm.

New Moon - twilight 2

Finally went to watch it at the cinema tuesday night. After that we
went to the Christmas Market I already posted a picture of. And boy,
do I hate the German name they gave the series. Biss means bite. The
whole title says "bite at noon"... >O< ~~~ ewwwwwww

Christmas market in front of our town hall

Shugo Shugo

Hello there!

Just a short note. Another of my H!F PVs was releaed today. This time it is the second and also last single release for the group in that constillation. Shortly after this was released the gruop as it was broke up and was reformed later with new members. Most of the old members switched to s/mileage.

We tried to make it fit the last Shugo Chara release in from of color and style and I think we succeded in it.
I hope you'll enjoy this cheerful video as much as we did and do.

Nanchatte Renai!

Time for some new releases! Well, actually it's one release~ in four diffrent versions!

We're finally able to present you with our latest release in a string of a couple of releases following in the next few weeks. I know, this one was taking a lot of time, but I had some trouble with the effects and then my test weeks interfered, but at last we were able to bring you the 40th Morning Musume Single - Nanchatte Renai!

We decided to release it today because 7th gen MoMosu member Koharu Kusumi is graduating today to persue a career in modelling (well, just a few weeks earlier Umeda Erika also left for the same reasons, funny, right?) or whatever. And yes, if you didn't catch on, I really don't like Kusumi. Nevertheless, this was a really good single and Koha had some very decent parts in it. It has a catchy dance tune with small rap parts in it and easily makes you feel happy.

Well then, I hope you'll enjoy this release.

We provided all 4 versions (dance, close-up white, close-up black, and the normal ver.) in a Batch torrent in both Xvid and H264 on Hello!Online.

Be sure to leave some comments in the Torrent comment section.

(My opinion of Koharu doesn't reflect on the groups opinion of her.)

St. Nicholas Day

Happy Saint Nicholas Day!

Did you all put your boots outside and Saint Nicholas left you some chocolate, nuts and tangerines and/or oranges? Yes! Well, then you're very lucky!

I'm not even sure all of you know what St. Nicholas Day is, so you might want to check it out online. Personally I didn't get anything this year, but don't worry, Servant Ruprecht or Bellzebub (or however you want to call him - we call him Grampus here in Austria) didn't visit me either.

Oh, well.
Time for some updates....

Hey Guys!

Right, I'm back!
Sorry for the lack of news, but I had a few (actually a lot of) tests in the last 3 weeks and had to prepare and revise for most of them. Since my test time is now officially over for this year it's time for some new sub releases~~~~!

Since having finished the last of my exams on Wednesday I've been quite busy finishing new and old projects for various groups. There's going to be quite the release spree when I'm done with everything, but for now, let’s focus!

I've been neglecting most of my work adding up at Hello!Fansubs because I really didn't want to work on any squeaky girl songs for the last few weeks, then me having a I-must-play-WOW-or-I-am-going-to-parish-moment followed by an do-I-really-need-to-study-I-can-just-ready-5-books-in-3-days-issue. Anyway, since I've done all those things (and god, the books were so awesome) I'm now back to working non-stop on karaoke stuff (which can't be healthy either, but who cares?) and it's getting along quite well!
But what we're actually going to release I'll have to keep it a secret and tell you about it just before it gets released ;) so bear with me. Let's just say, that I kept SacredCultivator in a near-constant state of encoding.

Today I started finishing some of my nearly-done karaoke MVs for Mognet. We're actually going to get some Christmas songs out this year; I'm so happy! I hope it's going to be 4 MVs but I'm not sure, yet. We'll see when the time comes.

Okay, I'm off to get some more playing done, because I'm behind a few days now and I want to see if my friends are on to go on some mischief.

Bye, bye!