It’s more than half way through the month, but we haven’t even got half the needed donation goals.

As you know, most of our anime is now hosted on our own servers, which means more money being spent to maintain everything, while we have less money coming in (because our only adverts were linkbucks on external links to filehosts, which we don’t really have any these days… so yeah), pretty much every bit of the money coming in to support the site now days is donations.

If we don’t meet our goals, the only options we have is to do away with the site and xdcc bots as there is no way I could afford the entire bill every month out of my own pocket. I’m a big anime fan and I like being able to help out fellow anime fans and make it to where everyone has a chance to see some great shows they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to see.

I’d like to think that those who live in areas that can buy Anime and can actually afford it, actually go out and do so to support the industry when they find a show they like and want to support. But I know a big portion of our visitors cannot afford to do so and/or live in other countries where import fees are ridiculous. So I understand this is a great anime site for fans and one of the best in a time where sites like these are vanishing frequently.

So please, if anyone can afford to help out, please donate so we can be sure to reach our goal.

Also, as a reminder, those who donate be sure to contact me either by email or on the forum so I can change your status to donator. I’ll also give out accounts to my bot server where you’ll be able to direct download if you’d rather from the bots I own myself (note that is only 3 out of the 10 bots on our channel). Though it’ll be a good way for those who can’t figure out IRC to still be able to download what I offer.

On another note, our encode group has finished another series and it’s been added to our bot:

• RideBack

Hope you enjoy the show! I’ll make a page for it on the site when I get the chance later.

I’ve been constantly adding stuff to our bot, just haven’t had the time to create a page for everything on the site. Which is one reason why I recommend lurking on our IRC channel as well as why you should take a look at the packlists from time to time. Here are some of the more recent additions:

• Queen’s Blade – Season 01
• Queen’s Blade – Season 02

Hope you enjoy. I’ll be making pages for these when I get the chance.
I’ll also be uploading more stuff.

I’ve been constantly adding stuff to our bot, just haven’t had the time to create a page for everything on the site. Which is one reason why I recommend lurking on our IRC channel as well as why you should take a look at the packlists from time to time. Here are some of the more recent additions:

• Demon King Daimao
• Devil May Cry
• Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood
• HighSchool of the Dead.

Hope you enjoy. I’ll be making pages for these when I get the chance.
I’ll also be uploading more stuff.

Also a 1080p version of Kametsu’s encode of the Origin ~ Spirits of the Past has been added.

I’ve been constantly adding stuff to our bot, just haven’t had the time to create a page for everything on the site. Which is one reason why I recommend lurking on our IRC channel as well as why you should take a look at the packlists from time to time. Here are some of the more recent additions:

• Code Geass
• Code Geass R2
• Gungrave
• Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~

Hope you enjoy. I’ll be making pages for these when I get the chance.
I’ll also be uploading more stuff.

I’ve been constantly adding stuff to our bot, just haven’t had the time to create a page for everything on the site. Which is one reason why I recommend lurking on our IRC channel as well as why you should take a look at the packlists from time to time. Here are some of the more recent additions:

• Air Gear
• Chrono Crusade (+ Extra Class specials)
• Okami-san & Her Seven Companions
• Origin ~ Spirits of the Past (a Kametsu encode by TheChaosLegion)
• Rover Dangerfield (Cartoon Movie)
• Swat Kats (Cartoon)

Hope you enjoy. I’ll be making pages for these when I get the chance.
I’ll also be uploading more stuff.

On another note, the bot server is almost full. We have under 100GB free with about 200GB of files still queued at this time to be uploaded. What this means is we’ll either have to cut back on what we currently offer or look into purchasing another bot (which is $20 a month). If we went that route, it’d mean we’d need your support to fund it and well Donations have been lacking as is. So please if you’d like us to continue offering more and more series, please support us by donating so we can get an additional bot server.

Sorry that I’ve been neglecting the weekly updates of currently airing series (although very little seems to ‘air’ on TV anymore).

Anyhow:

Bleach 246-249
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZeXal 001-016

We didn’t have 248 in 720p of Bleach yet (so added a 480p), and the uploader is missing episode 04 of ZeXal, but I’ll get those up when I can. Hope you enjoy!

We’ve got three more series back online and on our XDCC Bot.

• Shakugan no Shana
• Spice and Wolf
• Spice and Wolf II + OVA

Hope you enjoy.

I’ve added some other stuff to the bots lately that I forgot to mention. You can always search the parser. I’m sure there is a lot of stuff on there that isn’t listed here.

I’ve been working on perfecting my avisynth setup and getting it to work multithreaded with the filters I wanted/needed to use. You may have heard that the ef ~ a tale of memories blu-ray by Sentai Filmworks was amateurishly mastered and as a result had some major banding issues (way more than I’ve ever seen before). So yeah, I attempted to correct this issue as best I could. Some banding will still exist, but it’s nothing like it was. I tried to find a nice place in-between banding and not screwing up everything else, lol.

Anyhow, currently still encoding the 720p version and have a little bit of work left on the subtitles such as k-timing the karaoke, but other then that you should see at least a couple episodes up within the coming days.

I have a few things I’d like user input on though. Such as what the demand is for 1080p and/or DTS-HD audio packs? Depending on demand I may do 1080p as well as release DTS-HD audio packs for those audiophiles out there. Keep in mind the Blu-ray only has 2ch audio to start with though. So let me know if you want either of these. Otherwise I’ll stick to 720p and 480p with AAC audio.

Also recommend me some hosts to use. I’m not as picky anymore as I have our IRC XDCC Bot these days, which the files will be located on as well. Only thing I require of the file hosts recommended is that they must have is the ability to ftp / remote upload and be available for me to do so as a free user. If the host doesn’t offer that then do not recommend them.

I’ll also be posting some screen shot comparisons from the blu-ray, samurai-lords encode, and my own encode so you all can judge for yourself the quality of my work. I’ve been experimenting with several filters and I think I’ve did a rather nice job of fixing the banding issues of the Blu-ray the best I could without adversely messing up the rest of the video. Hope you’ll enjoy the series as much as I initially did years ago when I originally saw the show via fansubs.

I should hopefully be doing a lot more encoding projects after this as I want to put my new PC to good use and I have quite a few dvd/blu-ray releases that no one else has seemed to do, or at least not up to the standards I’d like. So I hope you’ll be looking forward to more of my projects.

UPDATE: Seasons 2 and 3 are up. All that is left is the movie.

This time it’s an encode of my own. So far only season 1 is complete and added to one of our IRC bots. I’ll be doing seasons 2 and 3 as well as the movie soon. However before I get to that I want to finish up my own encodes of ef ~ a tale of memories Blu-ray.

Anyhow I hope you enjoy. I’ll likely be adding Tripping the Rift to some file hosts later on, although at this time I’m not sure with which to go with.

We’re getting close to filling up the hard drive of the server our XDCC bots are hosted on and will soon be needing to purchase another server. I’m thinking about getting rid of all the servers we currently have and switching to one bigger one that has 4x as much space to be sure we have some growing room as we still have quite a bit of back log queued to upload much less newer stuff.

Hopefully you’ll be seeing more of my own encodes as time goes on seeing as how my new encode PC arrived Friday and I’ve been experimenting with it. For those curious:

My new PC Specs
CPU: AMD FX-8150 CPU (8x 3.60GHz/8MB L2 Cache)
Liquid CPU Cooling System [AMD]
RAM: 16 GB [4 GB x4] DDR3-1600 Memory Module – G.Skill Ripjaws X
GFX Card: AMD Radeon HD 6670 – 1GB
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-D3 — AMD 970
Power Supply: 1000 Watt
Primary Hard Drive: 120 GB ADATA S510 SSD

Case: Xion Echo Gaming Case – Red
Case Lighting: Liquid Neon Thunder Pattern Light – Red

I still need to get some more hard drives to have room for ripping and encoding projects. If I plan to do much gaming in the future I’ll want to upgrade the GFX card, but over all I’m pretty happy with it. My old PC would take 40 hours to encode a 20 minute video. This PC encodes that video using multithreading technology in about 1 minute. The Tripping the Rift episodes 1-13 only took like 12 minutes to encode all 13 episodes. I was amazed. It took much longer uploading the episodes to my bot on my max upload speed of 120KB/s though.

You probably know by now that all the English Dubbed Digimon series are edited and cut (cleavage removed, scenes cut for more advertisements, etc) and most were never released on dvd either.

Luckily an awesome guy by the name of chillock has spent the last 6 months or so working on syncing the English Dub audio to the Japanese DVD rips so we have the first ever release of dual-audio and uncut Digimon. He had to splice in audio from other scenes and episodes to repair cut scenes, etc.. so a few places might be a little awkward, but over all this is an awesome release and it’s now available on our IRC bot.

Now that chillock has completed Digimon Data Squad, he has began working on the original Digimon series and has stated he’ll work on Tamers once that is completed.

Hope you enjoy.

I’ve went through the pages of series that I have added to our bot and added the link to the parser to them. Thus the following series pages are back in working order:

1. Angel Beats!
2. Broken Blade
3. Claymore
4. Cowboy Bebop
5. Darker than Black
6. Darker than Black S2
7. Death Note
8. Dragon Ball Kai
9. Eden of the East
10. Elfen Lied
11. Fairy Tail
12. Fate/Stay Night
13. Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
14. Ga-Rei Zero
15. Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory
16. Gundam Wing
17. Gurren Lagann
18. Hunter x Hunter
19. Kanon [2006]
20. Last Exile
21. Monster
22. Moribito
23. Outlaw Star
24. R.O.D. the TV
25. Rosario + Vampire
26. Rosario + Vampire Capu2
27. Samurai Champloo
28. Shikabane Hime: Aka (also known as Corpse Princess Part 1)
29. Shikabane Hime: Kuro (also known as Corpse Princess Part 2)
30. Soul Eater
31. Tenjou Tenge
32. Witchblade
33. Xam’d Lost Memories
34. Yamada’s First Time (also known as B Gata H Kei)

Hope you enjoy!

Long story short, our host screwed up and deleted our entire server account by accident due to a mess up with their automated service. I lacked proper back ups of everything and as such the last backup I had for EDK just so happened to be in January from right before the file host fiasco incident… so yeah everything from like Early January – March 24th is lost.

I’ve got a ton of work ahead of me to get everything back in working order and restore what I can of what has been lost.

In case anyone missed the last update before everything was lost. Our IRC bots are back online. I’ve also setup direct downloads to our bot server, that only donators will have access to (because I want to keep this access private, and well donators help fund the server so it’s only right to allow them), for those who for some reason are just completely unable or unwilling to learn how to use IRC. So if you want access to it, contact me. For everyone else, you can download through IRC as normal for completely free.

UPDATE:
For the record, everything available on our IRC bot is still there.
The commands can be found here: http://xdcc.kametsu.com/?nick=[Kametsu]Xide
I’ll try to update all the pages to reflect that soon.

X-MEN 9-12
Dragon Ball Kai 95-97

MediaFire deleted all the Dragon Ball Kai tv rips, so I re-uploaded them to FileServe. However I only did the episodes we didn’t have in dvd rips (which suprisingly weren’t deleted). So episodes 78-97 of the Nicktoons TV rips are now hosted on FileServe.

Hope you enjoy. Both series are now complete. More updates to follow.

*UPDATE*

Bleach 235-237

Sorry everyone forgot about Bleach earlier.

Just a heads up about the slow process of things around here.

After the last update, the site is now only being staffed by myself. Well I’ve been sick for several days and thats why there hasn’t been any updates. Once I feel better I’ll be cleaning up the site, removing some of the series the other staff members had been maintaining and then trying to repair the broken links to the main series as well as update the ongoing series and such. So you can expect that.. I hope sometime this coming week if I’m feeling better.