Just a quick post, found this online so thought I'd share it if it's not already been posted



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//unrelated: (Though I've not had the time to start watching the new one) Anyone else notice how in the old Ai no Kusabi OVA we had Luva as Riki, Clavis as Iason and Julious as Raoul (With current Clavis as Katze); and now in the remake we have Oscar, Lumiale and Olivie as Blondies? I think we can see where they're going with this.

A while back both the Kiniro no Corda 2f encore ~graduation~ and Neoromance Friends CDs were posted. Would anyone be able to reupload those please to Mediafire or a similar site as both the other links now lead to the defunct megaupload?

It would be greatly appreciated.

Just two things:

- To help put out everyday fires on the comm, panjapanja has kindly (unwisely?) granted me Assistant Deputy Mod powers, so if there's something 'round these parts that needs fixin', you have one more option.

- LLT uploaded a few bunches of voice samples a couple days ago, which isn't normally of great importance, but I think Olivie's clips are significant. He's lost his HAIHAAAAAAI and now sounds more "masculine." While the characters' voices are naturally going to change as the seiyuu age, this seems a deliberate directorial decision.

There're also full-length shots of most of the characters up now. The bottom halves are mostly afterthoughts, and there're a lot of flowy robes and coats for present-day. Sei-Lan is quite obviously wearing a qipao.

ETA 5/11: I should note that you can now hear what Masaki Sakuragawa sounds like now at the site.

We'll miss the crack from the LoveLove Tenshi announcements, but they just filled out their roster. (Well, unless they expand into Neo Ange characters.)

Lumiale, who apparently goes by a stage name like Arios, is a 24-year-old "pacifist pianist" from Paris. He apparently doesn't perform much, and he's also wearing some sort of thing tragically based on Randy's KST beer-gut shirt.

OK, sit down for this one: Leonard bin Rashid al Said Sayyid is a 27-year-old diplomat from "Arabia," with no country specified. No one wants to own up to giving Leonard diplomatic authority. (It's worth noting, however, that the real-world al Saids are apparently the ruling family of Oman.) Leonard is the cousin of NotOman's ruling sheik, and he's busying himself with his country's modernization. (Y'know, I *could* see Leonard in Dubai.) He got his hair and eyes from his mother, apparently.
(Note: I'm getting conflicting information on whether the "al" is capitalized and whether or not there's a hyphen between "al" and "Said"; if anyone can clear this up, I'd appreciate it.)

Sei-Lan, who is also using a stage name, is a 23-year-old illusionist from China. I guess that meshes with his talent for disappearing and reappearing at will in the main Angeverse. He is dressed as if Isaac from Castlevania: Curse of Darkness were forced to attend a formal dinner party. He also might have ESP.

Timka Siem Dupaku is the 19-year-old crown prince of the fictional kingdom of Dupak Dupaku, which could be anywhere from India to Laos.

And finally, Olivie von Sydow - no, I don't know either - is a 24-year-old New York costume designer - and actor! And fashion model. We were worried about him, but I think he actually looks pretty good.

Everyone has their usual voice actors. Voice samples for Randy, Zephel, and Luva are up as well. ETA: And now for Clavis, Charlie, and Vic, too.

i was wondering whether anyone still have the deluxe edition of neo angelique anime
the  alternate endings i mean.
can someone reupload those on media fire perhaps? cause the old links were expired.
a lot of thanks

Hey guys!

I bet you're thinking, "WHAT?! A non-Angelique post from Randy?!" Haha. Yes, it's true. I do enjoy other neo romance series besides Angelique.

This time I'm here to share some fan art I just got finished doing. As an animator I've always been attracted to the dying art of cel painting. So, when I can't think of a gift to give someone, I usually make them a handpainted animation cel replica (Sailor Moon or something most of the time). But I never made one for myself...until now!

Here's a scan of the cel I drew and painted of Chihiro and Futsuhiko from Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 4. It took FOREVER, and unfortunately my scanner doesn't give the same experience as seeing it in person; it's a lot cleaner-looking in the frame in my room. I gave it a fancy holographic foil background. :-D

In case anyone's interested in my technique: first I do the line art in Flash, make it nice and crisp. Then, I print it to the cel using my home printer and special inkjet printer acetate sheets. I also create a color palette in Photoshop and print that out to help as I mix my paint colors to match it to the image. Lastly, I just color match as best as I can using gouache paints and go about painting it (painted on the reverse side so that you don't mess up your ink lines). This one was super difficult because some of the areas were so tiny I had to paint them in using a stick pin.

( (Art below the cut) )

All right, get ready for crack.

Per LoveLove Tenshi: Julious Radford is a 28-year-old politician from...Boston? OK, I think we all called the politician thing, but..."Radford"? Not something ultra-French? And he's from Dunkin Donuts Land? Wait, they say he's from a family of politicians; what does that have to do with...

...wait a minute. A Massachusetts family of politicians. ...Julious is supposed to be a Kennedy, isn't he?!

I... I... I don't have the commentary. Someone else please try.

In further news: Julious is still voiced by Shou Hayami. Also, there's one new piece of group artwork at the LoveLove Tenshi site and a couple new pics of Mel and Ernst, along with some voice clips. (Mel sounds a little different; is it just me?) Also, that drama CD is scheduled for release on the 29th and seems to be actually happening this time, as the track names have been released and everything.

Anyhow: Julious has a "pahk the cah" accent in the LoveLove Tenshi universe. That is something that happened.

Other news in Angeland: because the three certainties of life are death, taxes, and Koei neoroma merchandising, Leviath and his Knight Captains now have cell phone straps and clear files, with the color saturation on the latter turned up to 23,000,000. But it makes Giovanni's jacket a resplendent magenta, so I guess it's worth it. (In regards to that Hobby Search link, though: Magic Six Love Knight Angelique dearly needs to be the official English name of the gaiden.)

(But, really, start the Chappaquiddick jokes.)

Hey, gang!!

Sooooooo I have some exciting news. :) I got my hands on the Angelique Gemme Stories official guidebook thanks to ebay, and upon inspecting it I found that it most certainly has the ENTIRE SCRIPT to Angelique OVA 2: From the Sanctuary with Love as fandramon(maybe?) pointed out many moons ago.

Therefore, as you can guess, I'm currently translating it all to make up for that not-so-perfect version someone else did previously which I found on veoh *cough* calling Catis "Clavis" and referring to the Jet Aiguillon as Jet Legion *cough*
I'm about halfway through part 1 since starting yesterday, so it'll be no time at all before I'm actually subtitling the video.

I'm at a problem point, though, and wanted to reach out to my fellow fans. Currently I only have unsubbed videos that came from at least 8-10 years ago (super low-quality, small video size), and I'd hate to release such a pitiful quality video. The version someone else did on Veoh was great quality, but I only have the version they did with subtitles embedded.
It pains me to think about buying them as the entire 3-DVD set would cost a ton (but will seriously consider it should my plea go unanswered). Would anyone happen to be gracious enough to provide me with some high quality raw avi files, preferably at least 640x480 in size? Or know of someone else who might?

I really want to get these off the table since OVA 2 and OVA 3 are the only ones without proper translations out there.

~Randy

From LoveLove Tenshi: Clavis al-Sharqawi is an...itinerant doctor? from Egypt. Dr. Clavis? In fact, the blurb says he specializes in treating "external brain injuries" (meaning, injuries on the outer layer of the brain, I'm guessing? Am I mistranslating something here?). I'm not exactly sure how you can be a wandering brain surgeon. That doesn't seem to me a profession whose services you pick up ad hoc.

Further information: "Outside of his work, he is listless, apathetic, and emotionally deadened - a decadent man. He thinks he himself has no particular worth outside of his ability to treat patients." Er...Clavis, decadent? Sounds more like Julious than Clavis. Speaking of whom, Clavis looks like he got his fashion style a little from Julious, and that hairstyle and expression isn't a million miles removed from the man.

(Also, since Clavis is from Egypt here, would it have killed them to make his skin just a little darker?)

Clavis is still voiced by Tanaka, BTW.

ETA: Important artwork!

Yeah I might as well start in with the multiple ETAs again: I've just started Nine Hours Nine Persons Nine Doors, and man, Silver/Santa really looks and acts like Zephel, doesn't he? I will feel extra-bad when he is inevitably splattered against the wall mid-game.

Hey, Ange fans! I hope you're all having a wonderful new year so far. :D I just thought I'd pop in to say that my new year's resolution for 2012 is to keep up more with my translations of things. 2011 saw some great progress with me finally figuring out how to hack and begin translating Sweet Ange for Gameboy Color. Though many people (myself included) agree that it would be even better to translate the original Angelique game, it's at least a start. Considering I know next to nothing about programming, it's astonishing I've managed to get this far.

And, to showcase/tease some of the stuff you can expect to see sometime this year, I've prepared some screenshots to show the progress of Sweet Ange thus far. There are SO MANY recipes, ingredients, and recipe cards to translate, so that's what I've been focusing on mostly. Ugh.

Anyway...Enjoy!


( Translated screens under cut )