Comments on: Library War Episode 3 - “The defence of Odawara’s Archival Center”

By: Q

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:54:48 +0000

One of the most enjoyable animes this season.
Thanks for the quality subs!

By: Anonymous Anime Addict

Anonymous Anime Addict — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:57:39 +0000

I was waiting for such a long time for someone to give attention to this anime. Everyone was praising and raving about it, and yet there were no resources being put into it. Thank-you for subbing and blogging this anime. Before I hopelessly watched the RAW episodes. I truly appreciate the efforts of those, like you, who give us non-Japanese speakers the opportunity to enjoy anime by expanding the available repertoire.

By: 7nmelz

7nmelz — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:33:39 +0000

I just watched the three episodes. They’re brilliant, and I’m dying for the next episode! Do you know when the episodes are released? And work hard at your subbing! Good luck! We’re all counting on you!

By: Impz

Impz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:51:24 +0000

@Tiny: I won’t give them the name photojournalist. It’s an insult to that joke. They are merely tabloid reporters without any sense of ethics.

@Vsky: Ya, I know that we will be trying our best. The speed that we are getting the sub out is a bit slow. However, i can promise quality will be assured. ^^

By: VSky

VSky — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:30:57 +0000

You will be releasing Tenshou too, Impz?! That’s absolutely brilliant news!! This has made me one HYPER, happy bunny ^_^
I am definately going to rewatch all the episodes again. I KNOW for a fact that not all dialogues were translated, especially parts of episode 2 *cries*

Looking forward to the subs! Good luck

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By: TinyRedLeaf

TinyRedLeaf — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:00:21 +0000

@Impz:
Oh, the photos were definitely newsworthy. The journalist did say they were “good” photos and that she regrets having to delete them. Having ethics doesn’t automatically mean self-censorship. However, it does mean that you recognise a difference between personal discretion and censorship.

Take the papparazi that hounded Princess Diana to death, for example, just for the sake of a few newsworthy pictures. There are a variety of reasons why those photojournalists think their actions were justified. It takes a fair amount of reflection to determine which reasons are “right” and which are “wrong”.

My thanks to all the fansubbers. Regardless of the current quality, the availability of translations has finally generated the attention this show needed. ^^b

By: Jess

Jess — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:15:23 +0000

I do hope the subs will be in Xvid format….the ones out now are all so large and my poor 2004 CPU cannot take it…. T____T

By: Impz

Impz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:45:50 +0000

@Tiny: LOL, I wasn’t thinking about that. Sorry. Well, media ethics. That makes me wonder if I am too quick to judge it. Is it really self-censorship or having media ethics. Does creating media ethics mean that you have already self-censored, or that it is just not newsworthy. Questions. X_X

@Totali: Do you?

@Vsky: Heh, my fansub group is still working on it. Translation for all 3 episodes are done though. ^^ You might want to wait a bit. I mean, my translation really can’t go wrong, and the quality of the other 3 fansub groups are …less than stellar.

Support orange-subs ^^

By: VSky

VSky — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:00:30 +0000

Just finished seeing back to back the 3 (not very well done) subbed episodes for this series. I defo know now that I am jumping on the DojoxKasahara ship as well. Let’s hope Tezuka is just a side character to advance the plot or something ^^;;

Am on the lookout for episode 4 now - I am hoping to see Kasahara in live action ^_^ Impz, thanks once again for blogging this series. Will await Thursday’s summary

By: totali

totali — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:51:22 +0000

Kitties are cute

By: TinyRedLeaf

TinyRedLeaf — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:39:40 +0000

Barring spoilers from the novel, my personal guess is that Dojo is not entirely certain what he feels about Kasahara. As in, he’s not sure if he is romantically attracted to her, or if he’s attracted to her romantic idealism. He mentioned from Ep1 that it takes more than physical strength to become a Task Force member. In other words, he was also looking for strength of character, which he felt Kasahara lacked - she was treating her training like a game, which irritated him.

I suspect the clincher came when Kasahara blurted out her desire to follow in her Prince Charming’s footsteps. I think Dojo admired her determination and possibly wanted to help her achieve her goal, even though it seemed like a foolish idea.

Extrapolating from there, it becomes easier to understand why he prevented Kasahara from joining the Odawara defence operation. Dojo may have acknowledged her dream, but Kasahara has yet to prove her strength of character to him. Hence, he felt she was not ready for real combat.

A soldier’s first battle is always traumatic. Even the star rookie, Tezuka, froze during the Odawara battle, and had to be jolted back into action by his combat buddy. Kasahara would probably have crumbled under the pressure.

@Impz
Good points about self-censorship, but you’ve missed what I was getting at. The picture of Kasahara stumbling over Shibasaki puts her in very bad light, and would have been very bad PR for the Task Force, especially since they would prefer to put Kasahara in the spotlight for being the first female member of their special unit.

Yes, it’s self-censorship on the journalist’s part. But is it necessarily a bad thing? The journalist had to make a judgement call on the spot. It’s not so much a fear of stepping over out-of-bound markers here, but more a personal decision over what was the right thing to do.

So you see, I was actually trying to delve a bit deeper into media ethics.

By: Impz

Impz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:44:02 +0000

@Faye: It is more like he is trying to protect her. She clearly lacks the ability to think critically, depending more on her gut feeling than working like a soldier. She will definitely be a liability. However, as we all know, Dojo is pretty much a dumbass when it comes to informing people of things. However, he might be right in using a harsh method. Kasahara seems to be the type of person that has to be scolded of sorts to understand.

Shibasaki is sitting on a wheelchair to simulate Inamine. Remember that Kasahara ask her to help in security teaching. So, Shibasaki is emulating Inamine. In addition, Tezuka’s attempt to appeal to Dojo is so sweet. I didn’t expect him to go all the way. It’s bloody impressive!

Ya, I am doing the translation. It’s a bit meh @_@ for me. I never knew Translating is so hard work. I pray for the poor editors ^^.

@Setsuna: Support Orange subs then. We will release Episode 1 and 2 in the next few days hopefully. We do take some time ^^

@Setsuna-san

By: usagijen

usagijen — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:40:25 +0000

I am sooo having lightbulb moments as I read the novel while watching this episode… and Impz, I think you’ll be happy to know that there are information-related stuff was omitted in this episode, one of which is spreading false information, as media people reported about how the Library is protecting the criminal and all that, by refusing to disclose any information to the police.

By: Setsuna-san

Setsuna-san — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:17:21 +0000

despite the lateness of the subs. my faith in this anime has been justified by its overall greatness. my heart goes out to the subbers who picked this up.