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Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

drat you Chris for getting my hopes up. :argh: I thought the new episode was finally here. What's taking Central Anime so long, anyway? They’re probably spending a few weeks getting the rainbow Karaoke for the OP *just* right...


:smith:

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PegasusOh!
Mar 7, 2006

by Fistgrrl
I've heard that their translator or somesuch went to Iraq, and therefore can't continue.

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.
I think I might just go and learn japanese. By the time I'm fluent with it, this series still won't be done.

This makes me sad.

pyo
Nov 18, 2003

... !

Residue posted:

I think I might just go and learn japanese. By the time I'm fluent with it, this series still won't be done.

This makes me sad.

No one will ever be good enough at Japanese to understand LOGH, I'm telling you.

Jeffholio
Mar 7, 2004

coffee?
Episode 85 hazzah!

http://a.scarywater.net/ca/logh%20eps%2085%20-%20Central%20Anime%20(9d5dc6ff)%20.avi.torrent

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.
Holy motherfucking yes.

Bout damned time.

fez2
Jan 24, 2002

Any sign of life has to be a good thing. It was awesome watching it again after so long.

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

Nebakenezzer posted:

drat you Chris for getting my hopes up. :argh: I thought the new episode was finally here.
Funny how it ended up working out though. :)

Logue
Nov 16, 2005

patricius posted:

And a special thanks if anyone reading this thread was the one who seeded the theme collection torrent the other day. I decided I had to have the Imperial Anthem waaay back from watching the part in ep 2. where it's played while the Thor Hammer is fired, but given the relative obscurity of this series and my inability to read Japanese I didn't think I'd ever find it.

hey, do you mind seeding this for me? i've been trying to get it forever.

Logue
Nov 16, 2005
http://a.scarywater.net/ca/logh%20eps%2086%20-%20Central%20Anime%20(5dbf3364)%20.avi.torrent

they're comin' fast now!

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

Oh its just like this show to pull out the young love (aka anyone less than 30 haha) card to keep me interested.

Wait, this show is always awesome.

Penitent
Jul 8, 2005

The Lemonade Man Can
I've just finished episode 28 after first viewing episode 01 late last week and I simply can't stop watching.

Although there was enough foreshadowing for me to guess it would happen, I nearly cried when Kircheis was killed.

TomatoActivator
Jun 11, 2003
Cheesy Bread
Still haven't watched a single episode after yang died, is it still good stuff? I was seriously pissed off and saddened, I really have no desire to watch anymore. None, absolutely 0. gently caress the writers, gently caress'EM hardcore prison rape style!!!!!

edit: still cant watch it, everytime i see the filename 'logh', I just feel too sad to play it.

TomatoActivator fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Sep 1, 2006

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
Hell yeah, there's a whole solar system of characters! Sure, I was pissed, but think about how the writers have treated both sides throughout the series.

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.

TomatoActivator posted:

Still haven't watched a single episode after yang died, is it still good stuff? I was seriously pissed off and saddened, I really have no desire to watch anymore. None, absolutely 0. gently caress the writers, gently caress'EM hardcore prison rape style!!!!!

Honestly, I think it just adds more to the characters that are already there. Yeah, it was a huge loving blow, but it was the awesomest blow ever.

Though right now, I'm just downloading the shows and waiting. I hate this blues ball I get with this show more than any other. I think I'll just stock pile a bunch of episodes (maybe to 90) and then start watching it after episode 84.

This is my third favoritist show ever. I don't know if that's a real word or not, but whatever, you know what I mean.

And I agree with the poster above me, keep loving watching.

VVVV I think I love you, for putting into words that I could not.

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

TomatoActivator posted:

Still haven't watched a single episode after yang died, is it still good stuff? I was seriously pissed off and saddened, I really have no desire to watch anymore. None, absolutely 0. gently caress the writers, gently caress'EM hardcore prison rape style!!!!!
Suck it up and keep watching man. If you quit now the terraists (sp) win.

PS: The show loses none of its quality because the writers are loving bad-rear end. That and the show is just so huge there is always something to like. I myself am stuck on a pair of hot redheads and how their role is going to play in this saga. I just cannot stop watching.

Raskolnikov fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Sep 2, 2006

Henry Winklers balls
Aug 2, 2006
Slightly Agravic
I just saw the firts four episodes, awesome stuff indeed!

Dowloading the next 4 atm.

patricius
Apr 17, 2006

sicut patribus sit deus nobis
Watching eps 79 & 80 (so much for pacing myself, only 6 released eps left):

Generally, I've found that when the show is focusing on internal Imperial matters I'm rooting for Reinhard, but when the show is focusing on Reinhard vs. Yang, I'm 100% in Yang's camp, even while acknowledging that Reinhard really isn't a bad guy at all. These episodes, though, really tug at the heartstrings with the admiral death scenes. Yeesh. Fahrenheit's, especially.

I really wish it had been Bittenfeld that died, especially since in a way it was his fault. I had been wondering how long it was going to be before one of Reinhard's elite cadre finally kicked the bucket... I just wish it had been one of the less likable ones. Heh.


Also, unrelated to the above, I've been wondering: I know that Yang's VA died and they had to use a different actor for him in the other LoGH productions. For anyone who's seen those, how does the replacement stand up to the original? Kei Tomiyama's performance as Yang in the series is pretty perfect; it's hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it as well.

Penitent
Jul 8, 2005

The Lemonade Man Can
I've just finished episode 86 and I can't wait for episode 87! Also I'd like to say a huge thank you to whomever has put in all the work to fansub these, great stuff!

Cheers to the Iserlohn Republic! Die Kaiser Rienhard!

Nebakenezzer
Sep 13, 2005

The Mote in God's Eye

I've introduced a friend to LOGH. At first he was like "Oh look they have a Deathstar" :rolleyes: but then I leave him alone for a bit, and discover that in the space of a week he's watched something like 45 episodes, while working a full time job! It is a happy story.

Anyway, my friend has finally watched up to ep 86, and we were discussing the latest developments and what's going to eventually happen. And he had an insight into something that I had totally missed; why Reinhard seems to be hesitating and temporalizing on this issue of an heir. Honestly, I thought he was just shy toward women :shobon: but it's not that. It's because there's no way he can solve this issue. Either he says "my heir and the person who gets power is whoever my genetic decedent is" which makes him into an aristocrat, the thing he most hates. Or he appoints somebody as his heir, which causes huge politcal strife among his staff and possibly gives someone a good excuse to have him assassinated.

It's a microcosm of the problem that the Empire faces...it may not be today, it may not be tomorrow. But if Reinhard doesn’t want to create an aristocratic empire that he's hated since day one, democratic reforms will be necessary.

SCF
Nov 8, 2000

I always had an interest in LoGH, and on multiple occasions I said "I would like to watch it some day", but the fact that it was 110 episodes and still being subbed was holding me back. This finally ended two months ago, when some new episodes came out and I figured I'd just download the first few batches and give it a try.

A month and a half later, I reached the end of what CA had subbed. Apparently I carry a curse with me, because during that entire time, only 85 and 86 came out.

But, I was going to persevere. I was going to wait for high-quality subs.


Well, I waited two weeks. Then I got the HK subs, which I all watched in the span of a week. I didn't want to wait a year to see the rest and having forgotten most of what happened before. :(

All I'll say is, this is one hell of a show. I'll probably collect the CA subs when they come out and watch them all again, but I don't think I missed anything vital from the (grammatically pretty bad) HKs.

Everything that follows are END OF SHOW SPOILERS:

I honestly don't even know where to start. So much just happened.

I will say though, I was really getting worried towards the end. Things really slowed down after the Reuental arc. That was expected for the whole part with the marriage, but as the series crept towards the 110, things seemed awfully stagnant. Where was the unavoidable final showdown? Where was the ultimate climax? Things seemed to happen and get resolved within the same episode (the prison outbreak, the fire at the palace on Phezzan), Julian set off towards Heinessen but immediately turned back, the tension between Oberstein and Bittenfelt that turned real dangerous at some point faded away again, and Rubinsky was captured easily. Finally, I only had three episodes left. The battle had begun at last, but it didn't ease my worries at all. Only three episodes? And at that point, it seemed awfully much like Julian was going to win the battle just because Reinhard fell ill.

Well, somehow those three episodes managed to resolve everything I was asking for. Even though the earth cult's end seemed rushed, it still ended instead of being left up in the air. It was a satisfying end, I thought.

What I didn't like was that the show focused more and more on the empire by the end. After Julian took over in Iserlohn and order was established, they pretty much stayed there until the end. It's not that I didn't like the empire -quite the opposite. My issue with the last season was exactly that the empire had much more interesting character interaction than the republican side. At that point the people at Iserlohn seemed to be pretty much in complete harmony, so all we got was friendly banter between Attenborough/Poplan/Schennkopf.

But, I'm just being negative now. The great parts vastly outweighed the bad ones. The whole Reuental rebellion arc was probably my favourite part, and definitely placed him as one of my favourite characters. I also found my view towards Oberstein shifting gradually over the course of the series. For a long time I just disliked him greatly, but in the end I think he was one of the most interesting characters; despite his lack of morals, he was probably the most loyal person to the empire there was.


By the way, was the fourth ED just designed specifically to throw you off? The whole imagery couldn't be any less subtle of a foreshadowing that everyone except Julian and Katerin dies. I think that's partly what had me expect a huge 10 episode dramatic finale.

adante
Sep 18, 2003
hi guys, I am thinking of getting in to this - could somebody quickly tell me though, is this a series which has a lot of padding, or scenes with generally a whole lot of nothing going on?

LoGH has some rave reviews but this sort of thing is annoyingly common in anime, so I have to ask.

reason being is I have the attention span of a gnat. So unfortunately I can't be bothered putting up with anime like this anymore. Does LoGH have this sort of thing?

sorry if this has been answered, I scanned the first 3 pages but didn't go any further than that.

Hokuto
Jul 21, 2002


Soiled Meat

adante posted:

hi guys, I am thinking of getting in to this - could somebody quickly tell me though, is this a series which has a lot of padding, or scenes with generally a whole lot of nothing going on?

LoGH has some rave reviews but this sort of thing is annoyingly common in anime, so I have to ask.

reason being is I have the attention span of a gnat. So unfortunately I can't be bothered putting up with anime like this anymore. Does LoGH have this sort of thing?

sorry if this has been answered, I scanned the first 3 pages but didn't go any further than that.

This is generally not a show for people with short attention spans, but no, there isn't a lot of unnecessary padding. The only stock footage they use is during major fleet battles. There are also next to zero flashbacks, and absolutely no recaps. Even in the episodes where they go over past events, they manage to make it interesting and unique, showing you a new component of the story instead of just rehashing things you already know.

Robot Bastard
Jul 14, 2004

by Ozma
...suddenly CA's fansub operation is deader than Yang Wenli

edit: I figured I'd upset people but I also figured that we didn't want the threat to die...

Robot Bastard fucked around with this message at 06:13 on Oct 2, 2006

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

Robot Bastard posted:

...suddenly CA's fansub operation is deader than Yang Wenli

SWEET THE THR.ead... is bumped and I want to kill Robo Bastard.

The Therminador
Mar 31, 2004

Robot Bastard posted:

...suddenly CA's fansub operation is dead
any news as to why ?
are they just taking a break ?

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.
This is why I said I'll just learn japanese, and in 15 years, when I'm fluent enough to maybe get an idea as to what's going on in this show, they might be up to episode 90.

Man of Wax
May 20, 2003

Uberfrog posted:

any news as to why ?
are they just taking a break ?

Yeah, I think so. They just finished the third season.

CheeseSpawn
Sep 15, 2004
Doctor Rope
Wow, you really need patience to watch this series, holy poo poo.

Think I'll finish up some of the other stuff I'm watching before I take LOGH on.

Lontan
Jan 18, 2005
Fan ta isbjörnsjävlarna!
Found this at their forum:

quote:

To quell all you rabid fans of LOGH here is a quick status report for 4th Season. 87-90 are now on timing bar status(i.e. on a video tape with a running clock below the titles so I can fix the script).

Leper Residue
Sep 28, 2003

To where no dog has gone before.

CheeseSpawn posted:

Wow, you really need patience to watch this series, holy poo poo.

Think I'll finish up some of the other stuff I'm watching before I take LOGH on.

I'm almost done Monster, which is 74 episodes I think? And that's after about two or three months of waiting for another episode of LOGH to come out.

Needless to say, I'm finishing off all sorts of other anime. (Read Or Die is apparently much more awesome than I thought it was gonna be).

krunaldo
Jul 24, 2005
In case I get banned: Pipiru piru piru pipiriu pi!

Residue posted:

I'm almost done Monster, which is 74 episodes I think? And that's after about two or three months of waiting for another episode of LOGH to come out.

Needless to say, I'm finishing off all sorts of other anime. (Read Or Die is apparently much more awesome than I thought it was gonna be).



I HATE YOU, I LOATHE YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.


Do not post an unnecessary post, that makes me think there is more LoGH by CA.

krunaldo fucked around with this message at 17:07 on Oct 3, 2006

Hokuto
Jul 21, 2002


Soiled Meat
Sorry for the non-update bump, but this cosplay was too awesome to ignore:

http://www.cospa.com/comunity/cf_wf06win/nkm/15-1.html

One Legged Cat
Aug 31, 2004

DAY I GOT COOKIE

Robot Bastard posted:

...suddenly CA's fansub operation is deader than Yang Wenli

gently caress! Why did I scroll over this? I'm only up to episode 45! Oh gently caress it all

Robot Bastard
Jul 14, 2004

by Ozma

One Legged Cat posted:

gently caress! Why did I scroll over this? I'm only up to episode 45! Oh gently caress it all
Sorry. Although I have little sympathy because I got spoiled at episode SIXTEEN...

Hokuto posted:

Sorry for the non-update bump, but this cosplay was too awesome to ignore:

http://www.cospa.com/comunity/cf_wf06win/nkm/15-1.html
Good job on the costumes, but I dunno...Oberstein is the only one that looks "right". Reinhardt's been hitting the :ham: pretty hard, and how the hell is Mittermeyer taller than Reuental?

Robot Bastard fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Oct 14, 2006

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe
Glad I didn't bump this time :) though here's the latest poop: http://www.centralanime.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=356

quote:

Got 87-88 onto the PC last night and encoded them for the final edit pass.

ilifinicus
Mar 7, 2004

Holy gently caress this came earlier than I expected: LoGH 87

:dance: :dance:

Raskolnikov
Nov 25, 2003

ilifin posted:

Holy gently caress this came earlier than I expected: LoGH 87
Yeah man they better slow down or we're going to run out of episodes in a week.

Robot Bastard
Jul 14, 2004

by Ozma

ilifin posted:

Holy gently caress this came earlier than I expected: LoGH 87

:dance: :dance:
I got so excited that I forgot to check where the file was saving, and it ended up in my tentacle-porn directory! LOL!

...What, you don't have a tentacle-porn directory?

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PuppyD
Apr 2, 2003

On your base path, stealing your bases

Residue posted:

This is why I said I'll just learn japanese, and in 15 years, when I'm fluent enough to maybe get an idea as to what's going on in this show, they might be up to episode 90.

There are subbed versions of all LOGH episodes out there already.

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