The reason why Mendoi-Conclave is awesome!
Disclaimer: I work for Mendoi-Conclave. In fact, I translated episode 2 of Gundam 00 due to circumstances (although I won’t be doing main translation for future episodes). Anyway, here are two screenshots.
The top on is from episode 2′s raw while the bottom one is from our awesomerific (I’m using this word a lot recently) 1280×720 release. (It’s worth the extra 170MB!) Can’t see the difference? Click on them to see the bigger version.
And that is why we were slower than the other groups for episode 2. We’ll be faster next time. :P
October 16th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
LOL heavy typeset. I would be too lazy to do that level of typeset.
October 16th, 2007 at 7:57 pm
and,
*since I haven’t watched it yet*
I assume the scene is static? (except that video player)
October 16th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Holy shit I didnt notice that. Just switched over to Mendoi when I remembered they did Fafner.
October 16th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Wow, that is impressive and very appreciated : )
Their OS also seems smexy x3
October 16th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Hohoho. The ‘official’ (Sunrise) translation is at the bottom… compare and contrast.
“Material that can get know him is only a thesis of engineering theory and the physics theory”
Babelfished?
October 16th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Haha, prepare for the letter.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:08 am
I see what you did there, which is cool, but both links are to the same pic. There isn’t a blow up of the RAW screenshot.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Ok, that is a nice piece of work there, DM. Good job!
Haven’t went to watch the M-C version yet though.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:28 am
Maybe we should hint to odex to catch the subbers instead of the downloaders. =/
Pimping subbing groups on your blog is against the creed!
October 17th, 2007 at 1:24 am
incredible attention to detail. far more than what a commercial release might provide.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:11 am
I like the patch idea used with ep1 to update the translation.
October 17th, 2007 at 6:37 am
When I saw the title of this post the first thing that came to mind was, it’s because Mendoi-Conclave is subbing ef
October 17th, 2007 at 7:07 am
ef sucks.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:02 am
usually, i don’t donate to fan sub groups. But I checked Mendoi’s site and there’s no paypal….
October 17th, 2007 at 11:19 am
@Zer0: there’s one on the top in right navigation bar.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
You will make me watch mecha I have to fallen :D
btw congrats on Liking a FanSub group :)
btw is there are dash (-) or and comma (,) as grammatical symbol in the Japaneses Language?
as far as I know there isn’t but who know there are people that think there are ?
October 17th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
There are.
October 17th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
Heh, thanks for your feedback its always nice that people appreciate the little things that take a lot of time to do. To be honest I was really reluctant to do that sign since it lasts for less than 5 secs and the who actually notices stuff like that to pause their media player and read what it says. But in the end the group wanted it done to be l33t since they knew no other group would bother doing it, so the encoder was waiting a good amount of time for that sign to be done causing delays. Anyways it’s always nice to be appreciated.
October 17th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Didn’t realize this…switching to Mendoi subs of Gundam from now on. Thanks in advance for all the hard work!
October 18th, 2007 at 12:43 am
@Tsubaki :Maybe we should hint to odex to catch the subbers instead of the downloaders. =/
Pimping subbing groups on your blog is against the creed!
They shouldn’t catch the subbers. They Should Hire the subber to help subbing the anime….They even just copy and paste from a.f.k sub….(ops…more aggresive comments ….)
October 18th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Impressive! It’s the minute details that separate the best from the rest. I’ll definitely check out Mendoi-Conclave’s G00 releases next time.
October 18th, 2007 at 7:34 am
I haven’t watched Gundam 00 yet. But I’m just wondering why people in some forums keep calling that cheong-sam girl “Wong”. According to the main gundam 00 site, the katakana pronunciation of her name is “Wan Ryu-min”. I mean, Chinese like us would just laugh at that and attribute it to the typical Japanese crap ability of creating foreign names.
But still, why “Wong” and not “Wang” according to the surname?? Even in Cantonese, the whole name is wrong.
Japanese pronunciation = Wan Ryuumin
Chinese pronunciation = Wang Liu Mei
Cantonese pronunciation = Wong Lau Mei
And I’m pretty sure her name is just a bastardized way of pronouncing the Japanese name “Rumi” in Chinese. Sunrise should just shoot their character naming advisor.
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October 25th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Could we see an AVI format please? I know mkv is better, yada yada, but only one or two players can consistently and properly render MKV video with subtitles and all of them are on on Windows. Mac people are screwed.
October 28th, 2007 at 9:02 pm
@Daniel Beckham:
I play MKV files with softsubs fine using the mplayer version posted on this thread at animesuki’s forums: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31445
October 31st, 2007 at 7:49 am
Conclave torrents are too dam slow and u cant even preview the file to see if it even works….wen i download it the icon isnt a media file icon…
cant even preview it with Divx
other torrents are like 120 kb/s fast for me and i can at least preview em on Divx
conclave torrents are 12kb/s average…..
since i cant even play it on Divx that gives me amazing quality…..conclave sucks xD
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:27 am
Still it doesn’t explains the matter of Mendoi-concleave doing not that of a good job on the Opening karaoke. I’m a big fan of op/ed songs, and as of that, I have to say, that as a big fan of larc an’ ciel it hurt me deep to see that you had mistakes in your translations for Daybreak bell. The first one and the most obvious one and the only one I’ll mention (as all the others are arguable things while this isn’t) is the next line in the end of the song:
“Mirai ha dare ni mo ochiotosenai”, listening to the line you can hear the “mirai” so clearily that a person who doesn’t understand Japanese can notice it too (I asked a friend of mine who agreed). You on the other hand went with “Negai ha dare ni mo ochiotosenai”, and translated it to something like “No one can ever take you down” :X Well, why not “No one can take the future down” or, to be consistent with your mistake “No one can ever take this wish down”.
Before you go criticize others or emphasize on how much of gods you are, do a little home check. Not that I don’t agree with the criticizm against Nyoro~n, just made me laugh :X
Now, if you think you are so good and all (And I see you are), I would be glad if you can do a TL check for the opening song already. Because the original translator for it did not that of a good job :X
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:40 am
Hmm… I didn’t notice this until now because I don’t like L’Arc~en~Ciel so I don’t watch the OP. LOL.
The truth is, L’Arc~en~Ciel simply can’t sing. :) It’s not Mendoi-Conclave’s fault. We followed the official lyrics.
Don’t believe me? Go check the official lyrics scan. It says “negai wa dare ni mo uchiotosenai”.
So yeah, I am 100% sure that we are correct and it is indeed “negai”. If it sounds like “mirai” to you, blame it on L’Arc~en~Ciel’s pronunciation.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I’ve always been watching Menclave’s releases of Gundam 00 since the first episode. Anybody could see that it’s really quite a level above the others. The trick, of course, is keeping that levele up…
And that’s why I’m still waiting for what might as well be a month for Episode 14.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I’ve been watching Mendoi-Conclave’s subs of G00 since the start because, they’re really good.
And DarkMirage, what are you talking about? L’Arc~en~Ciel can damn right sing otherwise they wouldn’t be this popular and wouldn’t have been around for these last 8 years since they started out. I’d be amazed if you could sing half as good as them.
February 22nd, 2008 at 7:12 pm
I apologise for my mistake (above). I meant to type 17 years not 8 years, but either way it doesn’t matter much as long as you get my point.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Mendoi-Conclave sucks, it seems like it has been months since they last released an episode of gundam 00. I was better off going with Shinsen-subs.
September 17th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
hi
November 30th, 2008 at 12:40 am
well wateva happpens i can say dat menclave does take thr work pretty seriously [am sayin this due to the translation job done in ep2 of Season1 :P]
November 30th, 2008 at 1:10 am
well thrs just ine problem its pretty hard to download the torrent files since i want MKV of gundam muahahaahahaa :P
December 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
I just added you to my feed because I believe you’re some kind of awesome. :) No wonder your screen name was mighty familiar.
Damn, I really envy what happened at the AFA. We had a con here too but it was a huge disappointment. I mean, the venue was even bad. I guess we really need more sponsors for events like these.
Regarding the camera, if you don’t like it anymore, you can just ship it to me. -smile-
I’ll go back stalking you now.