User:8thSin

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A little about me: I was born in China and went to Japan for elementary school. I was fluent in Japanese by the time I left Japan, and continued listening to Japanese music and watching Japanese movies. After discovering D-addicts in 2004, I started watching a lot of Japanese TV programs again and started fansubbing in 2005. Even though I'm a college student now in the US, fansubbing is still a serious hobby of mine.
I hope to help more people appreciate Japanese entertainment while maintaining and improving my proficiency in Japanese.

My translation style: Although I try to make it sound as smooth as possible in English, accuracy precedes over all else for me. As long as I'm a fansubber, I would rather have the viewers pause than leaving out something or making up a whole different line as some professional translators do. I also tend to use Wāpuro Romanization and leave out long vowels such as "Juudou" rather than "Judo" as it is commonly spelled out in the West for maximum accuracy. I would rather use Hepburn and write "Jūdō", but input is too difficult and some subtitle viewers do not support unicode.
Names are also always kept in (Family Name)_(Given Name) order, as it is pronounced in Asian countries.


Contents

Jmovie/Dorama Reviews

DramaWiki user page: My personal reviews of Japanese movies and dorama series.

Eiga Seikatsu: Recommended Japanese movie review site, user rating distribution graph, trailers.

Yahoo! Japan Movies: Large database of user reviews.

Places to get my fansubs

Movie thread @ JPM: Maintained by me, direct downloads on rotation, direct links to all my past movie fansubs available here.

D-addicts: Duh...

kloofy.net: Asian movie SRT/SSA database.

Bittersweet-bun's OurHour LiveJournal community: Direct downloads, merge megaupload/divShare with HJSplit.

FSC - Fantastic Super Club: FTP/Torrent.

FSS - FS Seeders: Torrent tracker. PM me for invitation: 500+ post in a forum I participate OR if we worked on a fansub project before.

ADC - Asian DVD Club: DVD tracker

MiniNova, IsoHunt: From public trackers

Current/Completed Projects

As Translator:

JDrama: All downloadable from d-addicts


Movies: All downloadable from JPM movie thread, FSC, FSS, OurHour, subs from kLOOFy

  • Kisaragi: Starring Oguri Shun, Yuusuke Santa Maria. Winner of Blue Ribbon Award '07 (Best Picture).
  • How to Become Myself (2007): Starring Narumi Riko. Winner of Sponichi Grand Prize '07 (Best Newcomer)
  • Dororo (2007): Starring Tsumabuki Satoshi, Shibasaki Kou



Music:

  • (NEW!) Enomoto Kurumi - Mirai Kinenbi PV [ENG SUB] Download Link
  • (NEW!) Okamura offer #11 - 2 Hour SP with EXILE [Mechaike 071006], Hardsub with EXsub, in progress: Translation 60%
  • ShonanNoKaze - Junrenka (Music Station Super Live 2006)[ENG SUB] Download Link


As Encoder: All downloadable from MiniNova, IsoHunt

  • (NEW!) Laundry: Laundry.2002.DVDRip.x264.AC3-8thSin.mkv
  • Megane (2007): Megane.2007.DVDrip.x264.AC3-8thSin.mkv
  • HERO (2007): HERO.2007.DVDrip.x264.AC3-8thSin.mkv, movie adaptation of the 2001 FujiTV series HERO, starring Kimura Takuya, Matsu Takako.
  • Kisaragi (2007): Kisaragi.2007.DVDrip.x264.AC3-8thSin.mkv
  • Tennen Kokekko (2007): Tennen.Kokekko.2007.DVDrip.x264.AAC-8thSin.mp4
  • DRIVE (2002): Drive.2002.DVDrip.x264.AAC-8thSin.mp4, SABU film, Starring Tsutsumi Shinichi
  • Ima, Ai ni Yukimasu (2004): Ima.Ai.ni.Yukimasu.2007.Be.With.You.DVDrip.x264.AC3-8thSin.mkv, 1st movie adaptation of Ichikawa Takuji's novel, Starring Takeuchi Yuuko, Nakamura Shidou TRAILER (DivX Hardsub)

Misc. Projects

Future Projects

In descending priority:


  • [DROPPED]Possible festival translations Tenten (2007): Starring Odagiri Joe, Miura Tomokazu.
  • Bizan (2007): Starring Matsushima Nanako, Oosawa Takao. No timing available yet
  • Koda Kumi - Wish Your Happiness & Love Karaoke: Planned, consists of You, Feel, Lies, Someday PVs
  • Koda Kumi - 4 hot wave Karaoke: Planned, consists of Juicy, With your smile, I'll be there, Ningyohime PVs
  • Utada Decade Fansub Project: UTADA UNITED 2006 (Concert): Hardsub, karaoke planned, projected release date: Dec. 9, 2008


  • Ai to Shi wo Mitsumete (SP): Planned (as editor)


Highly anticipated releases: If and only if no ENG subs in DVD, may be canceled if it doesn't live up to my expectations (I would estimate 50% drop rate). Will be moved to highest or lowest priority upon DVD release.


  • (NEW!) Onpu to Konbu: DVD release: Winter 2008 (?). Starring Ikewaki Chizuru, Ichikawa Yui.
  • Dororo 2: Release date: 2008(?), DVD release Spring 2009(?)
  • Dororo 3: Release date: 2009(?), DVD release Spring 2010(?)


Other highly anticipated films: ENG subtitle expected with DVD or extremely likely fansub by other groups.

  • Zenzen Daijoubu: DVD release: Fall 2008 (?). Starring Arakawa Yoshiyoshi, Kimura Yoshino
  • L change the WorLd: DVD release: Winter 2008 (?). Starring Matsuyama Kenichi. Spinoff of Death Note series.
  • (NEW!) ICHI: DVD release: Spring 2009 (?). Starring Ayase Haruka. Female spinoff of Zatoichi (2003).