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@ 4 Jan
Earl and Fairy 12 (plus DVD 01 and 02)

The twelfth and final episode of Earl and Fairy (or Hakushaku to Yousei in Japanese). This final episode took a while to do since people were a little busy over the Christmas/New Year break. I’m quite happy with the work we’d done on this project. It was quite decently done, in my opinion. The show itself too was pretty enjoyable for me. There is still much story to be told with Earl and Fairy, so perhaps, there’s some hope for a second season. Unfortunately, I don’t think the show is popular enough to warrant that.

Also, the first volume of the DVD is out, which includes the first two episode. We’re releasing that too. The DVD encodes will only be in h.264 in the matroska container. The OP and ED themes are in separate files, in a system we refer to as ordered chapters. It may not work well with all players other there, but it does save a lot of diskspace and bandwidth for us. To get it to run right, we recommend using a player like Media Player Classic and along with a codec pack like CCCP or K-lite. Those have everything you need to play those files. If the h.264 performance isn’t up to scratch, download CoreAVC h.264 decoder. It’s efficient enough to run 720p files smoothly on low end systems (albeit one with a decent graphics card). Earl and Fairy DVDs aren’t in 720p, though, so don’t worry about that.

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@17 Dec

there was a bit of Engrish in there. You’ll see it when you get there, but we actually translated what Edgar said, as opposed to what was actually written.

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@14 Dec

Fairy 10 - should be out tomorrow or the day after.
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@10 Dec

Fairy 10 - Transport stream hasn’t shown up yet, so no work has been done on it so far.
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@ 5 Dec

i know you fanboys have been waiting for this one. We somehow got everything completed earlier this week. Now, we didn’t cut corners or anything to make this come out faster. We put in the same number of man hours as we had in previous episodes. People just happen to be more free this week for some reason.

Either way, I was asked to talk about some of the phrases we use in the episode. Are you all familiar with the phrase “steal a march”? I was fairly certain that this was quite common, but others told me otherwise. Anyway, one of our staff, Clephas, gave a very good description of its meaning.

“Usually is referring to a general who realizes an enemy’s advantage before that enemy does and eliminates it before the enemy can use it. Or when two people seek the same thing and one pushes himself to get ahead of the other.”

The second one is Blue Knight Countess. Why Countess? That’s because there’s no feminine form for Earl. There’s no such thing as an Earless or whatever, so the Count version is used for women.

Enjoy the episode.
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@ 3 Dec

Here is Fairy 08, enjoy.
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@ 27 Nov

Hope you guys are having a good Thanksgiving. Here’s a little romantic pick me up for all of you ronery people out there on this holiday evening.
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@ 24 Nov

Edit - we will be taking a break for Thanksgiving.
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@ 21 Nov
Earl and Fairy - 06
know you fangirls have been waiting for this one. Pardon our general slowness. There’s not much we can do about it.
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@ 13 Nov
Earl and Fairy - 05
Not sure what else to say, except, it’s finally here. It’s starting to become quite a bad habit.

Episode 05 kinda starts a new arc. Something about the moon and such.
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@ 4 Nov
Earl and Fairy - 04

today is an important day in history. I hope those of you who can vote have done so already. ( (Hakushaku to Yousei Group Mod note: US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION for non US citzens and people living under rocks lolz)

Anyway, here is Earl and Fairy 04. Most of the delay was because we didn’t get the transport stream for this show until a few days ago. We don’t anticipate the same problem for next week though. We’ll update you guys if it happens again.
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AS @ 25 Oct

And another episode of Lydia goodness.

Please note that the spelling of ’spunkie’ has been updated in this episode. I should have known better than to follow that Engrish piece of paper in episode 02.

Whatever it is, if you want to know more about fairy folklore or whatever, you can always search up stuff like pixie, sprite, merrow, Unseelie Court, Green Man(though Lydia said leaf man, but whatever), etc. We’re providing subs, not an encyclopaedia, so we won’t put TL notes of such stuff.
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AS @ 23 Oct

Earl and Fairy 03 - This one is at editing. I’m also hoping for a weekend release.
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AS @ 18 Oct

More lovely reverse harem goodness here. Episode 02 was pretty amazing. A must watch.

Also, even though the piece of paper in the episode says ‘mellow’, we are pretty confident that the correct English spelling is merrow. It’s a bit hard to trust them when they have words like ‘rabyrinth’ in there. And the cheque was written for ‘five pounds’ instead of ‘five hundred’. I suppose five pounds is a pretty good sum over a century ago, but still… Anyway, I’m sure the cheque will bounce.

Oh, and there are apparently some differences between the way British and American punctuation styles. But, at the same time, this distinction isn’t very true because major British media like BBC use both. To me, it’s still simply personal preference.
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14 OCT
Earl and Fairy

Sorry for those two little mistakes with “Miord” and an unnecessary “the” in the Milady line a few lines afterward. Those were my fault (there will not be a v2 though). Anyway, episode 2 aired just recently so we’ll get started on that as soon as we get our hands on the raw. And like I said earlier, if you have the h264 with a CRC code of [038C3386], you have the wrong file. Delete it. [1EA2A396] is the correct CRC code for the h264 release. The [038C3386] was a RC (release candidate) that failed and wasn’t removed from the bot in a timely fashion, which lead to its accidental distribution.
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As @ 12th OCT
What’s m33w without a shoujo anime project? This is more of the traditional romance drama that we normally do. I’m sure you fangirls will love this one because Midorikawa Hikaru will be voicing the Earl. And of course, our favouritest seiyuu Mizuki Nana will be playing the fairy doctor. She’s also Kotoko and Moka if you can’t recognise her voice.

British English
We’ll be using British spellings for this series because it’s set in Britain. Please don’t complain about spellings like favourite, recognise, enrol, etc. because they’re correct. Also, British putting punctuation outside quotes is some kinda American urban legend. There’s no such thing. Just go to bbc.co.uk for examples. But, there’s no official body to govern the usage of English or whatever, so people are free to do whatever they want.

Hakushaku to Yousei
Note that Hakushaku to Yousei is the Japanese title. We’ll be naming the files Earl and Fairy, the English equivalent. Please also note that it’s not ‘Count,’ as that’s not a British title. The official pictures on the website also have Earl and Fairy used as the logo.
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AS @ 4 October 2008

Earl and Fairy

Looks like we’re gonna go with the English name for this one, based on the categories that xess made. I think the script is pretty much finalized. We’re just waiting on the raws. TS should also be quickly finalized after we pick a raw. I don’t know if this was mentioned already, but we will be using British English for this anime since it takes place in Victorian England.