Grass and Sakura?

Wow, has it been 3 days already? And can you believe another 2 of my works were released? No? Me neither.
Anyway, it's true. My two videos have been released and again I'm too late to comment on them. Shame on me but I was quite busy with another of my projects so bear with me please.
I'll make this a short entry since I don't have to say much about both videos.
The first one was a DVD-re-release of a PV I did for mognet almost 3 years ago and it hasn't changed that much. It's called Kaera Kimura - Real Life Real Heart. We slighly worked on the effects (because now I actually know how to do random moves which I didn't when I did that video first) but it basically remains the same. The font of the translation changed and we added kanji to it. This video was only released in h264 as we already did the Xvid version in 2005.The other video was a special request by Kumama. Kumama and Stiltzkin (both are my boss' at Mognet) are big lovers of a series called "Sakura Taisen", which had many diffrent releases for diffrent genres. I actually know about an anime, a live-action, shows on theaters, games and probably a lot more. Another thing there is in the Sakura Taisen theme is a cafe which will be closing its doors at the end of this month after over 10 years of business (if I remember right). And guess what? Yes! It closes right before she's able to get there. She's quite devasteted about it. So to celebrate the spring with it's Sakura event and in memory of the Sakura Taisen cafe we releaed the live-action dance instruction PV called Yokoyama Chisa - Geki! Teikoku Kagekidan.
Note the platform shoes Ogami's wearing (the guy in trousers) to fit the high of Yokoyama Chisa.
The effect itself is fairly simple. Which cost a lot of time was the drawing of the sakura flower pedals and the strange ornament on Chisa's Kimono jacket, which are both used in the background of the effect.
Well please enjoy both videos.As always the torrent are available for a short time on Mognet's Torrent Page. If you have some time please leave us some comments via the feedback from on the left bottom side of our page.

okay... this entry got bigger than I thought. Anyway. Have fun! Bye~

Happy Easter!

Well yeah, today it's sunday which means: HAPPY EASTER to you all!
Did you get lots of eggs and chocolate? Maybe something else? I'd really love to have easter with lots of cookies, chocolate, maybe some candy and maybe a book too. But unfortunately I don't get an easter nest this year.
I kinda woke up a little late which is basically due to me being out till the early morning hours with friends. We had lots of fun, but I'm really really REALLY tired now.
Going to clean up the kitchen and making something to eat. Hopefully I can finish some stuff after that.


:D bubye~

Chatmonchy

This month seems to be a really busy one. Again one of my works is going to be releaed, and this time I'm ahead of the release! HA!!!!
This time it's going to be CHATMONCHY - joshi tachi ni asu wa nai (女子たちに明日はない) and is the bands 4th single. The genre of this band is definitly pop-rock while probably having been influenced by Whiteberry or Judy and Mary. Anyway.... The effects are fairly simple but fitting nontheless. A friend said this one was "a really fitting effect for an awesome song. And even though it seems like an easy effect it's matching the beat and style of the concept." Well, thanks pal! Haha!

This one was done on a request by my timer Lailu, who really loved the song and so we did it. :) I hope you'll like it as much as Lailu and me!
You can find the torrent links on Mognets torrent page!
See ya again!

PS: I finished this fu**ing other pv yesterday... god, I really hated it!

three-some!

After yesterdays aweful day -- goooosh I was down in a blaaaaaaaaaaaaaack hole -- I was able to finish some stuff today.
First thing in the morning I had to go to the hospital with my granny since she had to be there at 9am and we didn't want her to go alone.
Since I only had to sit around and wait I brought a book with me and finished awesome 42 pages in less than 1 1/2 hours. I only had trouble standing and sitting after those really really uncomfortable chairs in the ambulance... *sigh*
Anyway. Since I only had about 3 hours worth of sleep we both took a nap after we came back home. Later that afternoon, when my granny was finally going home, I started the comp and began to work on some videos which were lying around.

After about 8 hours later and 3 karaoke effects it's now nearly 1am and I'm really tired again. I'll probably go and read a little but then go to slep to wake up early tomorrow morning.
so :) that's it for today.

Have a nice sleep!

Happy Birthday, Mom!

Oh... This day of the year again. I actually thought about posting earlier but then a friend came over and later that evening my granny and aunt. When my aunt was fed and happy again she asked me what day today is and I kinda was like ... "uh, well, wednesday?" but actually today is my late mothers birthday. I didn't forget about it. I just wasn't comfortable to talk about it. Yes... Today would have been her 47th birthday (née 1961, † 2003). She died 5 years ago... and it still seems like it was yesterday. I remember the day itself but nothing of the 1 1/2 years afterwards. Amazing how your brain can just shut down to prevent further pain.

Looking back I can savely say: This was the hardest time I ever had in my life (...till now).


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Well... but today isn't her obit but her birthday.
Happy Birthday, Mom. Whereever you are now and whatever you do. Thanks for everything. I love you.

I say: "FIRE!"

"Fire!!!!" that's the operative word for this little piece of art! HA!.
Well at least, that's what I think. I finally had the chance to work with an effect that simulates a burning fire. I've been working on this for over half a year now and just recently was able to complete the effect. And now i've found a PV to use it with. HA! We're talking about one of my favourite Morning Musume Songs "Iroppoi Jirettai". It was the first Video to feature new Member Koharu Kusumi (which I can't stand at all, by the way). I really love how they play with the spanish fire of passion *LOL*

Hello!Fansubs released this video a few hours ago, and why the hell am I always behind my releases! DANGIT!
Anyway...
I really want to share this with you so I'm going to post screenshots AND a video cut from the video, oh ... and here are the links to the video torrent. Again... you probably have to register on the website to use the torrents :P sorry!
PV link (Xvid)
PV link (h264)

FLOW and the End of Momobin

Hey there!
Again, one of my works was relaesed and here's the update info.
Mognet releases the next FLOW vid in our collection, this time with a surprisingly awesome song which some of you might recognise as the opening to the anime "Eureka Seven". Since Kumama is such a big fan of the series we certainly had to do it... no question in that! And I really loved to work on it. This was one of the works were we actually had an already finished effect which Kumama loved so much that she asked me to copy it as best as I can - which I did. But since I don't like to just copy something without some creation of my own I slightly altered the effects to fit our purposes, to claim it as my creation and to satisfy Kumama.So this is the screencap of the finished video we released this morning (american time :P): FLOW's DAYS.
Hopefully you'll enjoy this video as much as we do... and to conclude this post I'll just post the release comment from kumama! Thanks for reading, watching and your interest of course!

Oh, before I forget it... here's the link to the Dual-Audio Torrent! PV link

Have you ever had a song you just couldn't get out of your head for like, months? Well that happens to us a lot, and that's how we end up with so many PV releases! Karaoke is the best medicine. Today we bring you Flow's "Days", which is not only an awesome song and video but also served as the opening theme to the anime "Eureka Seven"! This is also a dual audio release, so you can challenge yourself and sing along in an attempt to get this song out of your head! It hasn't worked for us, but maybe it will for you! Enjoy!

Oh, and check out our finished Momobin anime series. We're happy to finally conclude the show with it's 24th episode. It certainly took us really long to finish it up!

Double-Releases are a Bitch!

Hey folks!

Tell you what? Releasing a video twice with diffrent effects for diffrent groups is a bitch!!!!
I've been working all day on this PV for H!F, which I already did onces for my german PV group. But since H!F wants diffrent effects I'm doing it all over again - which isn't that bad actually. The thing is I'm re-doing effects I already did onces and really liked back then. And now I'm doing totally diffrent effects and it just doesn't really work out. It's now 30 minuts after midnight and I'm working on this shit since I woke up this morning which was around midday. I did 4 diffrent versions while 3 of them were total failures and I started anew every time.
Finally I've got it nearly as I had envisoned it... well okay. No, scratch that. they are completely diffrent but they still look fine and SC seems to be okay with them! GOD, YES!
Well, anyway. I hope to finish them soon.

But I also have good news! I finally found an editor to work on the translation for the german releases! YES! I had a really good Editor a few weeks ago but since about a month I'm always running behind him and trying to catch his attention to finish the stuff I've been waiting for. I'm nearly out of releases - well okay, I AM out of releases - and desperatly need new stuff! I finally got ahold of cYcLoNe (a friend of mine who already worked with me in anime fansubs) and he finished all the pending edits in less than 4 hours!! YOOOOOOOOSHHA! Finally new edits which results in new stuff to encode!! HAHA.... skarloc will hate me for the work he's getting now... but XD HA! I'm so happy!
Thanks again cYcLoNe!!!

Today I also grabbed my new package from the post office in which I finally received my copy of Christine Feehan's Dark Hunger Manga (which looks nice, but isn't quite my style - had to have it anyway, since I'm a huuuuuuuuge fan!!!!) and my copy of "Shifters", an anthology with Angela Knight, Lora Leigh, Virginia Kantra and Alyssa Day. Can't wait to read it... which I will start in a few minutes ^^ HA!

Well.. that's it for today! oh wait! just a quick thought about yesterday! Was watching "horton hears a who!" at the cinema! AWEsome fun! XD byeee~

The Ring and White Day!

We have a lot of PVs on our site that are funny, or cute, or just plain cool. But we sure don't have many that are creepy! Well, we decided to fix that and today we bring you Hayashibara Megumi's "asai wa hi". It was filmed at a photo shoot for the voice actress/idol, but to us it just looks like something out of "The Ring"!! See for yourself!

This was the comment provided by Kumama when we released my work on Megumi Hayashibara's "asai wa hi" on Mognet like two days ago. Funny thing is, she said the same when I first proposed the project to her and she was like really creeped out and loved it at the same time. The effect in itself is just a lot of movement in a small space around the original position in the time of the sung syllable.
Here's the link to the Torrent release. I can't quarantee that it'll be active for a long time to come, so hurry up if you want it: PV link

And just yesterday another one of my works was released. This one in celebration of White Day, a japanese holiday celebrated on march 14th. It's basically the counter part to valentine's day where the girls gives a present to boys. On White's Day the boys give back presents to the girls either in chocolate or other goodies.Anyway. We decided on releasing the candy-shock video "Candy Babe" by Kawabe Chieco, which I wanted to do for quite some time now. It's actually a request by one of my best friends Stefan who really adores Chieco, after he saw her in several diffrent acting roles and heared some of her songs. It's kind of my present to him, though if we'd be politically correct it should have been released on valentines day. ma~ ii jan. I think it's nice for White's Day and I really adore this video so who cares when it actually gets released. Might as well be... yesterday? ^^ okay. I'm late again on writing about my stuff being released. Sorry about that.
The effect for this one was fairly easy. It's just some rocking up and down again. The interessting part are the 3 diffrent colors in it and the flowwers flying off them. I think it fits pretty well and I used the colors of her dress which are light green, yellow and pink, complemented with white, black and grey to fith the video.

Kumama's comment on the release:

Today is White Day! And in honor of that, we're bringing you Kawabe Chieco's infectious "Candy Baby"! Watch as Chieco tries her very best to be cute! I don't think she pulls it off, but that's my opinion. Either way the song is quite cute and is bound to get stuck in your head today! Enjoy!
(...)I hope you guys are remembering to give back what you received last month! Our poor staff member squarebox says he'll be broke from all the chocolate he has to give! Hang in there buddy!

Here's the link to Candy Babe. Again I don't know how long it'll be active: PV link

Prinny berichtet: Der »Keller«

This is for my german readers:

^^ Nach rumstöbern auf Youtube bin auf diesen Beitrag gestoßen und dachte mir echt nur "WTF". Prinny berichtet aus dem "Keller", von Kellerkindern und der verzweifelten Natur von Emos.

Natürlich distanziere ich mich vom Inhalt, allerdings dachte ich, dass es super lustig ist und möchte es hier posten.
XD viel Spaß!

Manga Maniac AMV

Browsing YouTube a few days back a found this and thought it was hilarious. :)

The BLINK!

Yesterday was pretty weird. To make a long story short... I made a looooooooooong blink - like 8 hours long.

I slept through the night, was in bed and waited to go to my classes at university the same evening and was reading a book in my bed. It was around 12am when I last looked at the clock and class should start around 5pm so I still had some time left to do something. The book was really interesting so I never thought I'd fall asleep while reading. But when I next looked at the alarm the clock showed 8pm!!! O_O which means: I did a veeeeeeeeeeery long blink and slept for some hours. I never thought I'd fall asleep while reading (I never did that before) and when I woke up my aunt was at the door, coming in from a long day to sleep here. The funny thing is, after a short chat I went back to sleep and slept through the whole night again. In total I slept like 16 hours and I missed classes yesterday which isn't a big problem but kinda troubles me.

Now I'm up and around since 5am and did some work on my comp but while I'm a little tired again I'm going to do some more reading and go to bed early again. Tomorrow I have classes again and I don't want to miss them!
Well, see ya again~

New Release! Abe Natsumi

So here I am again. Yesterday one of my projects was released and I know, I'm a day late but I didn't have time to write something yesterday, as I've been busy working on a new karaoke for H!F. (which won't be out before march 23th! fire effects rockz)

Anyway. I'm not in the mood to really talk a lot about this song as it's not one of my favourites. I tried to take the feeling of the song into consideration and used colors already in the video (blue-ish and gold-ish colors). It's kinda creepy to see Nacchi with the handy around her face. It always reminds me of someone stalking her and laying hands on her face... but actually those are her hands. I'm not sure who came up with the idea of her running her hands all over her face. How stupid is that?
Oh well. I'm also still wondering who those background dancers are... They slightly remind me of Melon Kinenbi members and they were used in a Maki Goto video before, so probably true.
This song actually is the opening for the drama "Koinu no Waltz" starring Abe Natsumi as a blind pianist and a cute little dog - or so. Haven't checked out the drama yet. At least it looks interesting, so if you like... take a look at the description below and the torrent links.

Note: You probably have to register with Hello!Online to use the torrent!!!
Also added the PV Torrents just for good measure.
PV (Xvid)
PV (h264)

Synopsis (From DramaWiki):
‘Brought up in an orphanage, Haoto (Abe Natsumi), a young blind girl, was teased and discriminated against, and the only things she enjoyed were playing with a puppy at the pet shop, and playing the piano. Eve though she is blind, Haoto had an amazing talent that even she didn’t realize. A talent called ‘perfect pitch’. She could play any song on the piano after hearing it only once. Finally, someone noticed her talent. His name was Shinya Minazuki (Nishijima Hidetoshi), and he was also a lonely pianist who was brought up in an orphanage. Haoto about to start a new life in a world unknown to her, comes to be entangled in an intense dispute between the siblings of the rich Minazuki family over who will inherit their prestigious music school. What will happen to the gifted Haoto? This drama which evolves around beautiful piano music, is full of love, suspense, and mystery.
NTV’

Koinu no Waltz (Xvid)
Koinu no Waltz (h264)

Okay, that's it again! See ya soon.

Home Made Kazoku

We know your long, cold winter days just aren't complete without some good music! So today we decided to bring you a great song from Home Made Kazoku as our newest PV release. Check out "nagareboshi ~shooting star~", which also served as the first ending theme to Naruto shippuuden!

Yes, finally. This is one of my favourit HMK songs ever. I first did this song as an anime ending for a german fansub group but decided early on that I had to release this video as a PV too. And finally it's out. Thanks as always to the people who helped me with this song.

Now to the effect:
It's basically the same effect just with slight tweakings. I changed colors for every person and at one point I added glittering stars falling down. ^^ Well that's basically it. Even though I had a lot of lines for it... haha!
Anyway. Have fun!

You can find the torrent at www.mognet.net

Busy working hours...

well, sorry for being late, again!
I really had a lot to do in the past week, basically doing fansubbing work, having friends over and preparing for classes.
Yes, it's actually that time again - the summer semester officially started on monday, though I first have to report in on monday next week, which still leaves me with some spare time - YES!
Well, guess what I'm going to do - more fansubbing.
Sometimes I think my life is pretty dull, compared to others, but I'm actually happy with how things are going. Funny thing is... after next week (which will be hell on earth) I have another 2 week holiday. This is soooooooooooooo stupid. Imagine: We already get the whole february off and then we have holidays again 2 weeks after the semester started? DUH!!!!!! Easter Holidays that is. Gotta looooooooove summer semesters *grin*

I finished a few new PVS for Mognet, which we are going to release in the next few weeks. And I also was able to finish up some stuff for H!F, though I still have a lot to do for both groups. Something which really makes me happy is - most of H!F allowed me to re-use their works for my german PV group, which effectively means I'm going to have a lot of H!P videos coming up in the next months for Kizuna. I'm still trying to keep up the 1-week schedule and so far it worked fine. Right now I'm a bit low (with only one more release on hold for upcoming sunday) but I already sent new stuff into encode and editing. Hopefully it'll come back soon o^-^o!

Funny thing is: I'm working on like 5 to 8 things every week and my work-queue is still pretty stuffed. Guess I should stop adding new stuff weekly, huh?
Well, duh. Probably should, but there are just a lot of great things out there, so I can't help it.

I actually decided against releasing german PV news here, since..err...this blog is in english anyway, which leads me to this: I'm going to post an entry every time one of my works (english ones) gets released, which also means, I'm going to be back tomorrow. HAHA!!
Well, I still haven't re-written my research - which will probably get me into trouble - but I did my essay (again, not on time). I hope the teacher will still count it since I handed it in a day after the actual day. My computer crashed on me again and I had to re-write the whole essay. Anyway, I somehow made it and that's that.

Now, it's pretty early and I actually should go to bed, but since I only woke up like 10 hours ago I'm pretty much awake. I consider going to do some grocery as soon as the shops open - which is in about 3 minutes. *laugh*
Well, I'll actually give them one or two hours more to get out the new products so I won't buy stuff from yesterday. YUCK!

Anyway. That's it for today. Coming back soon!

bye~

headaches suxx shit!

uh, it's been a while and I've been very busy, but I'm actually too hungry, too tired and have to big a headache to tell you everything that happend, so I make it a short list:

1. new releases both in Mognet and Kizuna.
1,5. new typesetter welcomed in Mognet and finally released his first video (YUI - Rolling Star)
2. me joining another PV group - H!F (Hello!Fansubs), which basically are doing a lot of H!P releases and concert cuts.
2,5. me releasing 2 videos under H!F 2 days after I joined, but 3 more coming soon.
3. get e-mailed by my teacher, that I have to redo my research - suxx shit *sob*.
4. having Jules over and doing lots of funny stuff, basically sitting and watching concert DVDs from Johnny's Asso. YAAAAAAY *Jules_fluffel* but I still don't really like Kanjani8 :O sorry
5. getting new books by MaryJanice Davidson and being enraptured by her writing style. GOD - you should read these stories. I basically laughed my ass off - both with her "Fred, the mermaid" tales and "Betsy, the Vampire Queen" stories.
6. getting my hands on a copy of the latest album by "Wise Guys", a german a-cappella group. XD They are so greeeeeeeeeeat!!! *fangirlie*

okay... I think that's it for now.
add "did another 5 pvs, 2 commercials, 2 jtv clips, lyrics and stuff" to that list and you actually get the feeling for what I've been doing.
well, I'll keep in touch and come back soon, I promise!
bu-bye

Sunday again!

Now, can you believe it? It's sunday again and I'm officially on semester break now. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!!!!
Though... I still have a shitload of work to do and no time to relax *sigh*
Well, can't be helped. I finished my last course today and what can I say? It was great. The course basically consists of presentations from diffrent people out of the media system Austria. We had a lot of diffrent types of people presenting us diffrent aspects of our future working situation. Now, the only thing I have to do is - write a short essay about how I think will the austrian media system look like in 2015. I hope I'll be able to formulate all my thoughts into this work and be done with it.

Anyway... as the headline already says: It's sunday, and sunday is the day for a new pv release; so here it is!

I decided to do this song from Mai Kuraki, which was actually released in 2006. What you can't see is, that the "snow flakes" actually are pixels and those pixels actually are real sylables which desolve into dots and move to the left. The thing is you can't see it since it's placed in a layer behind the actual effect.
I still like this effect though I really had problems with it. As you will probably see there are some syllables that don't finish the filling. I'm not sure why the problem occurs but I can't help it. I tried a lot of things but couldn't fix it.
The song is a cute ballad and considering Kuraki's style - nothing new. Why is it, that she always sounds pretty much the same?
Well, never mind.

Hope you'll enjoy.
Catch you later - still have a lot of work to do!!!!!!!

Andy McKee - Drifting

Okay, here's the one I told you in my last entry about. I had some trouble finding it on youtube, but... like always, I just had to open my eyes really WIIIIIIDE to see it. *gosh* sometimes I really wonder why I keep not seeing stuff even though it's there. Anyway. That's Andy McKee's Song called Drifting which is actually already 2 years old. THAT's the song which gave him such a huge sucess as you can see at the ratings this song got and the comments and the total Views. It's really awesome. Please, check it out.

See ya Around!

Andy McKee - Africa (original by Toto)

Well, if that isn't a masterpiece I don't know what is. Andy McKee, born in Topega, Kansas, is an US-American fingerstyle guitarist currently signed to the US-American record label Candyrat Records. His style of playing and his compositions have earned him a considerable fanbase; in late 2006, a live performance of his flagship song "Drifting" became a Featured Video on YouTube and MySpace, achieving over 10,000,000 views on the former to date and remaining one of its highest rated music clips. [partly copied from wikipedia]
McKnee startet playing guitar when he was only 13 years old, when his father bought him an acoustic guitar. Since 2001 he released 5 albums, the first still independetly, the others under the lable of CANdYRAT Records, which along with about 100 to 200 sold out shows annualy are highly recommended and a piece of art. He has also performed with other famous performers such as Don Ross, Antoine Dufour, Michael Manring and others.

Check out his music at youtube.com under the username of rpoland. You can also find other artists which are currently under the Candyrat Records.
Please buy his music to support him! (I'm currently still looking for CD's to buy too *gg*

oh... by the way - another highly recommended song is Drifting! Such a great piece!

New Video Release for Kizuna

I never once before wrote much about my german subtitling group Kizuna. So let me introduce you to them.
Kizuna is a group of people which really love asian music video, called PV (Promotional Video). Basically those are videos you could watch on broadcasting TV shows like MTV or so, they are just from someplace called "Asia". :) Anyway, this group mostly consists of me, the girl who does the effects for the videos, someone who times the lyric lines to the audio of the video and someone who does the encoding to acutally put the subtitles into the video to shine in full glory... *sparkle*
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Naw, that was melodramatic, but you get what I mean. Anyway. I want to keep track on my thoughts and everything I think about the videos I'm working on and YES, I know it's not nice to do fansubs and yes, I'm aware that it's actually not really legal, but I really like people who can't understand the language in which the song is, to understand what is sung in the lyric so basically we take the Kanji/Hangul/whatever, romanize them so we unholy mortals can read them properly and translate them into a language which we can understand - german and english for us then. Since nearly all my video are also released in english under the groups Mognet or BoAjjang,I also startet to release the videos in my german group to do them same for fans in Germany/Austria or whereever someone lives who actually want's german translations. I never intended or intend to get in the way of the big companies who hold the legal rights to this stuff, so sorry if you don't like it. I like the music and I like to do creative things to the letters and well... combine that and you get video fansubs, and it's not like those videos are going to ever be released or licenced in any of the European countries - and if they are, well I just stop the distribution on my part.

*sigh* Anyway, here's the new video for this Sunday.I decided to do a song by popular alternative/pop-rock band Nakanomori BAND (中ノ森BAND), which is a four-member girl band from Japan. The song is from their 7th single which was actually a double-single release called "イソブラボー/雪; Isobravo / Yuki". Nakanomori BAND debuted in 2005 formerly as a five-member band but soon after the first two singles Tomoe (guitar) decided that she would leave the band so she could focus on entering university. Which leaves us the four other members of the Band: Ayako (guitar/vocals), Shinamon (keyboard), Yucco (bass), Cheeta (drums).
Unfortunately their first singles didn't sell that well (only #22 for them in the Oricon Charts) but suprisingly, despite the low sales for the band's singles, their first album "OH MY DARLIN' ~Girls having Fun~" reached a position of #9 on Oricon charts.
This january (2008) they released their 8th single "風になりたい; kaze ni nartai" which will be followed with the third album in march. Hopefully the sales grow by then...

That's it from me and the new update. Coming up is another youtube video I really like to share. See ya!