Ais

It's star-studded with known actors / actresses outside of Hello!Project Talk about hype

By the way, we haven't fully finalized the team division yet, but we at SkewedS Translations will fansub this upcoming JDrama weekly Currently working on the two HaroSte streams We will formalize the announcement in our blog once the first one is ready for release X3b You ready @fukuhimespider? X)

PS: Right. Have to finish & release Week End Survivor during the upcoming holidays
 
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Edit: YOSSHAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Responded a comment, regarding the title if we will work on it. Whoever is behind the team - thank you so much! X3b

No need to apologise, TotallyUncool. And option is still open even if it takes 1 or 10 years as long as the titles haven't been started yet. Besides, even if it has started, it's still too daunting to actually be the only one working on all of them ;; But let's see how it goes Looking forward for your uploads of the raws

Ah...ZONE Forever Subs....Such a nostalgic name....
Always amazing quality work too.  I never knew you were a member of them, Ais....
Or, maybe I did and just forgot.  It's been a long time....

Were you staff too? I had a different abandoned? alias then - zeldAIS I think this subbed MARIA release was what I was mostly involved in. It's been like ZONE Forever Subs, huh? ;;
 

And Ais -- subbed Potajyu episodes would be so much fun! I have some of the Utaban episodes, and maybe all, but I think they're mostly low-res. The Matthew's Best Hits ZONE episodes look like they were a lot of fun as well.

Subbed Potajyuu...Fans were always asking for those back in the day....It would be awesome to see them one day. The Utaban episodes were really good, and of course the Matthew's ones were awesome.  I'm pretty sure I had some clips, but I don't if I still have them.  I'll try looking.

Can you guys share what you all have? Especially those of Utaban, BHTV, etc? Even though I have all of the episodes, just to be sure, also the Potajyu episodes too? Maybe upload them to Mega.nz or something. If it's also alright, just to be sure, kindly add CRC32 in the files (if you're using Windows, RapidCRC is, I think, is the mostly known application. I'm using GNU/Linux next to all the time now so I'm using cksfv). And ah, if it's not too much - also all the commercials of them (like Frushe was it?). And all other ZONE related CMs that existed that you have, like MARIA, etc etc, since I have a different plan for the release of Potajyuu & their other variety show guestings. Kindly just PM me the links

 

We have no choice for the Utaban eps, Mathew's BHTV, and especially the Potajyuu episode raws that exists to be in low resolution. I plan to just upscale them into 640x480, clean them up & try to remove the noises (pixelations, artifacts, etc), re-encode to h264/aac/mkv & all the technical aspects of encoding videos.

 

Anyway, if you have watched the whole candid interview of myself I linked above which to this day, I still feel uncomfortable that I was being filmed & now uploaded in the net, since the defunct of ZFS, I have been hopping here and there to other fan translating groups, and gained quite a lot of experience in the hobby. The main fan translating group I mostly coordinate in projects is SkewedS Translations.
 
Since ZFS, I more or less can be a one-man team in fan translating now (which I always avoid because being burnt out in the hobby is destructive & I might again be fed up & disappear again LOL).
 
What I'm saying is - if either or both of you, TotallyUncool & Soul of Zone, and anyone who is reading here is interested, would you like to team up with me in fan translating (not just fansubbing) such ZONE related medias? I could really use more reliable staff, technical staff mostly, if you can't translate Japanese to English, especially pre-timers that are interested in ZONE related medias.

 

But yeah, since I would be involved too much, it would be a SkewedS Translations title. If you checked our more recent releases in the tracker, they're rather not just high quality, but very high quality. That is the standard more or less I personally try to implement in SkewedS Translations just like how Tsunku produces his craft haha

 

Since it would be a SkewedS Translations title, it's our policy to not force anyone to not be tasked in titles they are not interested in. Or else, it would be a chore. (Kindly read my signature picture regarding my personal ideals about fan translating.) If you don't know how to pre-time or other technical parts in fan translating, I can more or less give you guides how to do it. But can't do one-on-one like I used to. Too many other things I have to be productive. I can still give links & guides and answer simple questions though
 

I was kinda interested in that Rock Band - Yume no Densetsu ZONE book back then, but I heard it was an unofficial​ release.  So, unfortunately, I never got around to getting it.  Please tell us how it is if you get your hands on it!

Will definitely will once I got my hands on the book I plan to post it in one of my translation blogs, probably the Shizen Wika Learning to be more formal or something (empty for now, but will eventually have many things to post regarding my adventures for one of my interested areas of research for my career - Human-Computer Interaction's Natural Language Processing (mostly for Speech Recognition & Sound Signal Analyses), along with learning other natural languages & dialects (partly for philology & linguistics research). I'm currently quadrilingual so far). Yakujutsu is more or less a scratchpad of things only for Japanese-English translations, but I'll probably abandon it once I'm done with one of my friend's request of their cosplay wedding article translation.

 

Getting back to the current topic - hopefully, somebody would record Maiko's guesting It would be really brilliant if it would be English translated for people like us that are long time fans

 

PS: Sorry if I randomly blurted out tl;dr stuff of some geeky nerdy stuff regarding my career ;;

A "Magician Geinin" by the name of YOSHI visited Hokkaido in September.  I don't know much about YOSHI, but it seems he hosts a talk & game battle show here. 
Apparently, while in Hokkaido, he met with Maiko....Yes, THE Maiko from ZONE....!!
 
He posted this picture to Twitter back in September, and this one the other day.

..........Is it just me or YOSHI looks like ANGERME's Take-chan ;;

According to him, Maiko isn't currently doing anything related to music right now.  She also isn't signed with any type of management office at the moment.  So...it seems that after Jack&Queen disbanded, Maiko has just been living a quiet, private life back in Sapporo.

I'm just happy that she's happy

However, the most important piece of information YOSHI revealed was that Maiko is currently scheduled to appear in a future installment of his web program....!!
There's no scheduled date for the show yet, so we'll just have to stay tuned....

NIIIIIIIICE~! Kindly keep us posted ;;

And oh, I've said this eons ago when we tried to un-defunct Zone Forever Subs, but still back to the grave, I still have plans to eventually work on Potajyu~ episodes. ZFS only released music videos (that are not seeded in the tracker anymore)

And ah - anybody got ALL the files of Utaban episodes where ZONE were guests? Utaban was always fun so I really REALLY also want to sub those.

PS: Getting that 2nd book of ZONE book, 『ロック・バンドの夢伝説 ZONE』, published February 2005, ISBN 481137925X, hopefully by early next year... hopefully. Will probably go crazy as always again and translate the whole book... maybe... got too much things in my hands orz;;

^ Not entirely. Maybe if the video is around 18 constant quality with x264 baseline (also keeping the 720x480 resolution with 16:9 AR) and audio will be around 320 variable, just maybe around that size. There are not much noise there anyway to compensate to make it bigger size. The audio is also in untapped AC3, so it's really big. Well, not that I'm complaining anyway