i prefer the xvid format. ^_^
i only prefer h264 format for the DVD or HQ release.

xvid on hold until later than usual. this took me 4 times as much time to type.
i'm at animecentral until sunday afternoon to clarify.

talking right now because of liquor....
anyway, i'll be back sunday afternoon so xvid release will probably be sunday or monday.

if this post didnt make any sense, i apologize and i'll correct it later.

>> 21

ok thx. so if u r bak on sunday afternoon, which make it TODAY!!!! so we will be getting the xvid either today or tomorrow. thx JJS ^_^

JJS your typing is too easy to read. From this I conclude you hadn't drank enough. If you're gonna delay our release at least do it in style =P

All right now that I'm back we can get back to releasing things :P

COME AND GET YOUR XVID!
http://damagedgoodz.net/torrents/mglns05-xvid.torrent

sorry lame question but what are the advantages/disadvantages between h264 and xvid? if it's visual, maybe i'm just blind or something. ^^;;

The xvid releases are for the folks that have standalone divx players as well as xbox media center which doesn't have the balls to play h264.

If your computer has no problems playing back h264, go with that one because it's ~50mb smaller than the xvid and should look about the same as far as image quality is concerned. Also, it comes out first usually :P As an added bonus you don't have to look at the OP/ED lyrics and can instead enjoy the music that I'm reasonably sure you're not singing along with anyway...

LOL

I see. I just went with h264 at first and stuck with it for consistency's sake. And like you said, it usually comes out first =D

I guess I made the right guess this time! ^^

i love erio and caro.. they look cute together

>>28
...

You made the right choice.

that you did i have the one on order.

Lucky you. I have no one to blame except myself for killing my wallet with this model.

i wish i could buy that >_>

Got this from the Geneon panel. It's a sort of see-through plastic card the size of a DVD case.

Someone asked a question about them registering nanohadvd.com and the guy's response was (paraphrased) "we'd really, really like to but don't have it yet" so it sounds to me like Geneon is in negotiations for it, but probably only the first two seasons for now.

how much did it cost?

The Fate you show costs $70 at ACEN, where a smaller one was $60 (almost got them, but passed because I had to resort to Credit Cards on Saturday). I got the (I think only) Nanoha doing her Divine Buster move (something like $70?).

Weee! That was cool. I bought out alot of ARIA stuff, too.

GOAL!!!!!!!

>>11
T_T i've been wanting to get that figure, i even saw it in front of my face while i was in japan, but i decided not to shell out the money for it.... now i kind of regret that...

DMP parody = Better than any 'right' can possibly be! All things are finally clearly put into their places. "Better" means Better, Stronger, Faster then...
A little problem is in audio quality, if you care.

well, yesy release faster then DGz for esp5. esp5 is up from yesy.

@ ren:

Like...who cares?

On DMP they gave link to .ass script of their parody-subs, so if audio bothers you, just use it with DGz or yesy's.
http://dmp.ilvantus.net/timings/Magical%20Girl%20Lyrical%20Nanoha%20StrikerS%20-%2005%20(Mie%20TV%20704x396%20x264).ass

>>10
Actually the most pathetic thing about this is the there isn't any :/ We don't hate yesy, and judging by the fact some of their members lurk and occasionally talk in our channel, they don't hate us (at least, I don't think they do). And we're not striving to release faster than them for the sake of it, for getting download numbers or whatever - if we were we'd have shoved it on a raw and put it out already, the x264 Mie TV ones sort of work. But nope, we're going to wait and probably use a Saitama or Tokyo again, just so anyone considering getting the current release knows. Any and all 'drama' is anonymous whining because he has nothing better to do. I dunno why JJS reads them or takes them even slightly seriously.

Anyway, have a Tiana.

I have all the episodes from : Nanoha-DGz
so I'm waiting for EP 5 ...
it's ok to wait..cuz I always watch from the same group, no change :)also I already have the 2 first seasons fro DGz..I love to get the third one from u also...so please keep going..

thank u :)

>>20 Yup, I'll stick with Nanoha-DGz too. There is no sense having a complete series of multi fansubs. At least I prefer have a complete series made by one or a joined fansub. Regarding complete torrent batches, I'm not the only one

>>19
So damn tru var. As it is, I'll read the threads on 4chan and respond to anything that needs responding to, but other than that it's mainly bullshit and anony being the usual dickhead he is.

Also, I'd have to agree with JJS's first response too (>>3). As it is anyway, the only reason why we released before Yesy on those two days was because Yesy's translator/encoder was out of town.

Download raws, learn nihongo
=P

Hayate is a higher rank because she is a leader. If you remember hayate took control of that entire space port operation at the begining of the series. She's also in charge of the whole MD06. and as far as the magical ranking. the ranking is based not on actual magical abilities but on the test you take to become that rank. What if nanoha and fate simply havent takin the test to raise to the next rank?

As far as this whole limiter thing goes, who really cares. just sit back and enjoy the show or just stop watching it.

>>In A's sound stage 3 they said that she had sequentially broken several devices they offered her in TSAB

i don't think Hayate broke the device because she is SS Rank. If the ranking goes up to SSS they should have device able to support that.. Also there must be someone somewhere who is or have be ranked SSS

> i don't think Hayate broke the device because she is SS Rank

Well, the talk there (A's Soundstage 03,track 19)
goes like this: some maintenance guys ask Hayate to
come and test two new devices they prepared for her.
Seems that Hayate has troubles with control at high
output (see strikers ep2 ;) and already broken 6 devices.
Also she's able to use both midchildian and velka-type magic
and that supposedly requires more complex device.

As for leadership, i don't sure if that's exactly the case.
At least it seems that Nanoha is leader among the trio and
its really funny how she goes instructor mode on them in the
same soundstage. So Hayate's army rank more likely has
something to do with her information processing abilities
or the like (seeing how in spaceport operation she had 4x more
info screens than Nakajima and Rein used together ;).

Now I haven't read all the posts, so I'm sorry if I repeat something. I agree with a previous statement that Hayate went to a lower mage rank b/c she's in a command position, but there is also one other thing. She's got so much bloody power on her own, that even while reduced, she still is very impressive. Also, she does have Rein to fuse with, thus improving her skills. Then there are her knights, which will almost definitely drop anything in order to save her. As or Nanoha and Fate, the power limitation would have the added benefit of forcing them to fight smarter, since they have less power to force behind their attacks.

Also, Nanoha mentioned that it would be difficult to get permission to remove the limiters, I imagine that most circumstances where any of them would need to remove them would probably lead to nothing worse than a minor reprimand if any of them did so without proper clearance.

Hayate probably took a greater limiter to allow Nanoha, Fate, Signum, and Vita to maintain a high enough magical power to fight effectively; remember, they're frontline, and she's the commander in the back.

>>Then there are her knights, which will almost definitely drop anything in order to save her.

If she's in the field, the knights will allready be there.

>>As or Nanoha and Fate, the power limitation would have the added benefit of forcing them to fight smarter, since they have less power to force behind their attacks.

They're some of the best the TSAB has, I'm pretty sure they allready fight pretty smart. The limiters dont seem to be effecting them that much in episode 5 >_>

>>Hayate probably took a greater limiter to allow Nanoha, Fate, Signum, and Vita to maintain a high enough magical power to fight effectively; remember, they're frontline, and she's the commander in the back.

Seems about right. Hayate, as the commanding officer, probably won't engage in battles as often as Fate/Nanoha, so doesn't require as high a power level.

>> i don't think Hayate broke the device because she is SS Rank

>>Hayate has troubles with control at high
>>output (see strikers ep2 ;) and already broken 6 devices.
>>Also she's able to use both midchildian and velka-type magic
>>and that supposedly requires more complex device.

So she broke the device because she use a complex type of magic and she cant control it properly.
Not because she is SS rank.
I don't deny the fack she is SS it's just, i doubt it's the reason why she broke the device

Well, it probably takes some power to burn out a device.
At least, Nanoha didn't have that kind of problems and
I don't think that RH is that unique.

The limits could also be in place to prevent lets say other members of different units from rebelling against one another which could result from jealousy.

If you note the end of the 3rd part is says to being continued in StrikerS

-Gabe

I finally got a chance to read them, so if anyone else is wondering what I was wondering since the question was only partially answered, all of the manga chapters on the bookofdarkness.com site are side-stories that take place in and around the episodes of the series.

Nanoha A's 0-5: Before and during Nanoha A's
Nanoha A's 6-7: Right after Nanoha A's, but before the time jump.
Nanoha StrikerS: Right after the time jump at the end of Nanoha A's and before the 4 year jump to StrikerS

Actually, the StrikerS manga continues after chapter 3. The fourth chapter is set (if i remember correctly) just a month before the start of the anime and introduces Subaru, Tiana and the others. I have seen untranslated chapter up to the sixth floating around, and someone at 4chan has translated chapter 4.

Mmm, sorry i have written the wrong times: 4-6 are set a year after 1-3, and 7 just before the anime. The mission carried on chapter 1-3 finishes at the end of april year 71, just when subaru arrives at the airport when the accident portraied in the anime occours. 4-6 starts with Subaru and Tiana encounter : june, year 72. Dont know exact date for 7, but it should a month before april 75.

Began the fansub wars have
LOL

manga update have only till chapter 4 of StrikerS ~.~

>> 21, did some1 use the same name as me??? o.o

>>22, only 4 chapters of StrikerS manga has been translated anyways

>> 23,

oh thx =D

Thx for letting me know.

i dont think they wuld kick uot these two characters...
since they major charackters in the other two series...

Yuuno works at that library...so I bet he will come when they start 2 search for Lost logia or what the now was...

where arf is I have no clue...but I bet she will come soon same as Yuuno when the search starts

well that is atleast what I think

Arf, Chrono(Amy), and Yuuno, don't appear in the opening at all.

Makes me wonder if it will be awhile before we see them again

-Gabe

IIRC Arf usually helps Yuuno around in the library, or hangs around with Lindy.

She now sports a smaller human form "since it drains the least mana from Fate". Also, she isn't with Fate 'cause "Even though I'm Fate's guardian beast Fate is plenty strong and she's not alone either."

In A's to StrikerS manga 01 page 10.

Dark Az is sort of right, but that was 4 years ago. Sound Stage M tells us what happened to Arf.

Arf is no longer with Fate as she doesn't need to protect her, Fate can look after herself now. Instead, she's protecting a home for her to return to. She's also protecting her extended family, Amy's children.

Fate also states in Sound Stage M that we probably wont see her (in division 6 that is), but I'd say that all the characters that seem to be written out will get a cameo appearance sometime in the series.

Good to know. Arigatou!

hmm her extended Family, Amy's Children...who has she been playing with I wounder ^^

er.... the StrikerS manga chapter 1 made that really obvious. Seeing as Arf says "Chrono and Amy are getting married next year too... It'll be really hectic when they have their kids."

ahh never read manga...get bored 2 easy only watch anime...So that is very new info for me ;)

More Chibi dog Arf please!