As you may or may not already know, Moyashimon is getting a Blu-ray Box Set released and as you can imagine we are very excited about this news. Even though the cost to import Japanese anime is quite substantial, I plan on buying and then releasing HD quality versions of the 11 episodes and the 4 specials when the Blu-ray is released in October. While there is no indication that English subs will be included, some of you may wish to buy this instead of downloading our releases. You can pre-order the Blu-ray from here.

Update (08/11/10):
Good news. I received the Blu-ray for Unicorn 2 a few days early so expect a release tomorrow!

So there have been some questions lately about a number of things so I figured I would post an update about what’s going on.

— Yes we are still planning on releasing Unicorn episode 2 in HD resolution when released on
November 12th.
— Yes we are still planning on releasing the Nanoha movie in HD resolution when released on
November 26th.

This time around I can actually pay for both of those myself so donations aren’t needed.

You may have noticed we never got past the first few episodes of Darker than Black S2 Blu-ray releases, and that is because the encoder working on those vanished from IRC. While CoalGirls has completed 1080p and 720p encodes, the files are bloated (bitrate and FLAC) and the people behind the scenes are a bunch of idiots so I’ll probably eventually go ahead and redo all of the show from the beginning similar to how I did season 1 (CEB).

Tokyo M8 Blu-ray encodes aren’t being continued simply because no one in Japan has uploaded all the volumes.

As for the live tv streaming, I don’t see it coming back at all. Good capping equipment and a computer powerful enough to encode streams to any sort of decent quality is expensive and I can’t pay for it. What was previously used has become unavailable and sadly won’t be coming back.

First – the Nanoha the MOVIE 1st BD & DVD are coming out on November 26th. Expect a BD release sometime thereafter.

Second – A little side project:

There was a Chinese patch for the Nanoha PSP game released and the team that did it were courteous enough to give us all their tools/source code/documents to use to make an English translation.

While we have no actual translator for this, I have translations for Nanoha & Fate’s routes courtesy of Password on the AnimeSuki forums. Someone is potentially doing a third route (he hasn’t decided which one). If anyone wants to translate any of this stuff, PM me on Rizon (aers) and I’ll give you the script. If no one wants to do any more I’ll just release a partial patch.

I think.

It really sucks being a dead group, you know.

Don’t expect a release for at least another 2 days.

If you have any complaints send your email to jakachan@hotmail.com

Best news in months. No one was going to sub this. <333333333 We’ll take it as a late birthday present.

tl;dr DVDISO PLEASE

Edit: Gurren problem should be solved. Still need a DTB ISO/decent raw, if anyone happens to have it.

We’re looking for translators, translation checkers, editors, quality checkers, distro, basically everything but encoders and timers. What we’d also like are people from the other side of the world or maybe europeans since most of us are based in North America. This would allow us to be more flexible so that if some people are sleeping, then it’s more likely the others are awake and ready to help.

We’re a pretty loose bunch, so I’m sure that if anyone joins, they’ll be sure to have fun. We also play mahjong quite often together, so consider that a plus if you know how to play.

So, if you’re interested, hop on into #bss-recruits@irc.rizon.net and tell us what position you’d be interested in.