Bleach

It seems it is crazy antics time again, as instead of a normal release of Bleach Episode 109 they’ve released “Bleach Episode 109 FINAL” as a “co-production” between themselves and YHBT (You Have Been Trolled), the name under which Dattebayo usually releases their trolls and fakesubs.

If you’re curious about just what the joke is this time, don’t bother downloading it. Despite being 170 MB, it’s roughly two minutes long, and pretty much just consists of screenshots of their feedback Inbox filled with whining about the release of episode 109 being late, followed by the announcement that because of this there will be no release of Bleach 109.

Past experience suggests that the episode nonetheless will be out before Bleach 110 airs, quite likely sometime tomorrow.

UPDATE: The more I think of it, the more likely it seems that the puzzling actual release of Pokemon Diamond and Pearl Episode 1 was intended, in combination with a known-in-advance delay in getting out Bleach 109, precisely to prompt all the “why are you wasting time subbing Pokemon when BLEACH IS LATE?” whines so they could do this.

Of course, it’s always possible that they are for once serious and won’t release Bleach 109 and that they will continue to release episodes of Pokemon, making me look like an idiot, but I’m used to that.

UPDATE 2: That was faster than I expected. Only four hours after posting the troll, Bleach 109 has appeared on Dattebayo’s tracker. Of course, knowing Dattebayo it could be part of an even more elaborate troll, but I won’t know about that until tomorrow.

So, Bleach’s first filler arc has come to a close. There’s not going to be a whole ton of screencaps or a detailed episode summary here. Even if I wasn’t too lazy to do that and if I was doing this post immediately after watching the episode, Random Curiosity would have already done it first and better. Instead, you get random nitpicking and commentary. Oh, and a fanfic idea!

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So it turns out that writing blog posts and writing fanfiction both come from the same pool of time and energy and that therefore starting a blog while you’re pushing to try and get a chapter of a story finished by an arbitrary deadline isn’t too hot an idea. Who’d have known?

In any case, relatively recently I picked up this:

I’d already seen the episodes in question, but I do try to buy the things that I watch on fansubs when they come out, and it is always interesting to see what’s different with the official version. One sentence review: it’s a good release, with nothing noticeably wrong about it.

That’s not what this post is for, though, but it is instead just to discuss a translation issue I found interesting.

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