Funimation has acquired the rights to Karin and Saiunkoku (Along with many other series) from the smouldering ruins of Geneon, so if you were worried about the R1 releases of those series not finishing, you can relax.

For those who were waiting for the final script pack for Karin, that's now available. Remember that we have takedown pending the release of the first R1 disc, so get them if you need them.

Apparently Karin is now licensed by Geneon. If you already bought the R2s, don't worry--you're still getting a DVDSubber script pack for disc 12. (Let's say, when I get back from Portugal.) For everybody else, it looks like you only have to wait until May.

'Twas 3 nights before Christmas in arcImpulse's house.
Karin 23 - 24 are now down, with a click of a mouse.
With the final Japanese DVD seeing release,
Loyal fans of our dear unvampire may buy as they please.
Afterwards, We Suck shall take a small winter break,
But rest assured; we shall soon resume your Saiunkoku fix.
I hereby wish Torgen and lavalyn a comfortable flight;
And to every one else: a Merry Christmas, and to all a good night!

...wow... not only am I a bad translator, I'm an even worse poet... ._.;;;

Big holiday update just before vacation time! Tale of Saiunkoku, episode 22, for all you fans of that, but also updates with the script packs: now supporting 4 DVDs of Tale of Saiunkoku, and 11 DVDs of Karin! As usual, script packs are drop and replace. DVDs are available from the right sidebar.

The scripts for Karin DVD 9 are available, and simultaneously Karin DVD 10 is now on sale in Japan, so episode 19 and 20 are no longer available for download.

Scripts for Karin disc 8 are now available as part of the usual script pack here. The Cyberlink decoder workaround is in there as promised; as mentioned, if you have that sync problem with the other script packs let me know.

Karin disc 8 is out, so karin episodes 15 and 16 are down.

Another Karin DVD script set is available, and has been integrated into the scriptpack, as usual. So if you're a buyer of the Karin DVDs from Japan, here's the next installment of scripts. If you're not currently a buyer, well, I doubt I'm convincing you now. But buy it anyway :)

Remember that Tale of Saiunkoku disc 1 is out as well, so if you like that series, buy those discs as they come out too.

Preorder links for Karin discs 8 and 9 are up, episodes 13 and 14 are down, and blame the recent heat wave for Saiunkoku 9 not being done yet. I can certainly think of ways I'd rather spend my weekend than hiding in the one room in my apartment that's less than 90°F and not having any kind of comfortable workstation in there.

We make our usual scriptpack update for Karin today, so now the package includes scripts for Disc 6. So if you liked the series, you can still enjoy the DVDs with our subtitles overlaid. Just another reason to take a look at the right sidebar and do some shopping :)

It's that time of the month for another Karin DVD to come out. If you've been getting the limited editions and need someone in Japan to escrow you the Boogie-kun puppet, let me know if you find someone--I'm still looking. Also, scripts for disc 4 were horribly late, and disc 5 was pretty early. 6 will be somewhere in between, what with Anime Expo being right around when I expect the disc to arrive.

YesAsia added preorder links for every disc in the series (that's 39 episodes split evenly across 13 discs at a rate of one per month), so we've linked them from the sidebar. Once there's non-placeholder art for a disc I'll put it in; it didn't seem helpful to put 13 copies of the same image over there, especially since it wasn't going to be the final art anyways. This does mean that the Karin goods get scrolled down a page, but there's only so much we can do and still have things organized.

Karin, disk 5 zds is now available. As usual, download from the right, and drop it right in.

Apparently we are also releasing our script pack for Karin, discs 1-4 while at these cons. Continuing our tradition of providing you your anime fix even while at these conventions, so you can enjoy too. As usual, just drop and replace.

Karin, episode 24, final episode of series.

Thank you to all producers, artists, sponsors, and everybody else that has worked on the show. And to the viewers too. Remember, buy the DVDs!

mraow~

Back from vacation and what do I do? More encoding. Karin episode 23, pplz.

Karin 22 is released.
Important note: Karin 24 will air two weeks after episode 23. Since the intervening week is Golden Week (three national holidays in a row) in Japan, WOWOW is showing movies that night instead of the season finale.

Script pack for Karin disc 3 is now available. As usual, just drop them in... and support the Japanese anime industry by buying discs!

Karin, episode 21.

30k frames to encode * 2 passes / 2 frames per second encoding == time to get a new laptop.