Nodame Cantabile

I'll contribute to making it a memory :)

Makes you wonder what the TV stations in Japan are thinking, when they hound Youtube to remove all their content, but do nothing about fansubbers, D-Addicts and Silent Regrets etc? If they bothered making their products available English subtitled on DVD, they might find the DVD sales increasing :crazy:

Anime Dad wrote:Makes you wonder what the TV stations in Japan are thinking, when they hound Youtube to remove all their content, but do nothing about fansubbers, D-Addicts and Silent Regrets etc? If they bothered making their products available English subtitled on DVD, they might find the DVD sales increasing :crazy:

My thoughts exactly.

Hopefully in our lifetime, someone in Japan will wise up to this and end up making tons of money for such a simple idea...

Unless there's much more red tape involved than us outsiders know about. :sweat:


Back to the outtakes:

Hot food... Really hot. :hehe:

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How hard can it be?

Especially when they have people like you and thtl, who are willing to part with what is really too much cash for something that's not even subbed in English?

And you are able to get it, too.

Great outtakes BTW.

I like how they get the text on the right part of the screen :)

Anime Dad wrote:Great outtakes BTW.

I should post little clips of some of them... They're quite funny...

Don't know why, but I just love outtakes. :D

I like how they get the text on the right part of the screen :)

When you have the right equipment, you can do just about anything... :)

Back to the hot food... Nabe, to be exact. :hehe:

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bmwracer wrote:Back to the hot food... Nabe, to be exact. :hehe:

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OK...obviosly, this food was way too hot to handle, but didn't he also have exagerrated reactions when he was tasting the food on Smap Bistro...

runpup wrote:OK...obviosly, this food was way too hot to handle, but didn't he also have exagerrated reactions when he was tasting the food on Smap Bistro...

Possibly.

But I don't think in this case it was an exaggeration: whatever he stuck in his mouth from the nabe pot was boiling hot... :hehe:

Trying to keep a straight face. :hehe:

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Anime Dad wrote:How hard can it be?

Especially when they have people like you and thtl, who are willing to part with what is really too much cash for something that's not even subbed in English?

That's 'cause we're insane.

thtl wrote:I'm no saint when it comes to download dramas. I justify it by thinking that this is a trial, and that I'll buy the real thing if I liked it enough. However promoting counterfeit box-sets seems to me a little too criminal-friendly. :sweat:

I'm not really promoting the fact that people should buy the bootlegs. I myself have bought the original $200+ dollar set of Nodame. :sweat: But since someone had posted here earlier about the other knock-off, they might as well get the other version that I posted.

Asian drama fans have always faced this dilemma anyways... buy the originals? Download? Or buy the bootlegs? It's a sad fact, but it's all in the nature of the Asian Drama world. Half of the Asian dramas on Yesasia is bootleg by the way and this is a supposedly reputable (legit) company.

If you think stuff like this shouldn't be posted... I guess Jdorama should remove all Asian Drama/Movie download links from the site as well. :beaten:
So... don't get me started on criminal activity and the like... :bleh:

amrayu wrote:
Half of the Asian dramas on Yesasia is bootleg by the way and this is a supposedly reputable (legit) company.

Really??? Which one(s)? I've bought mainland China , HK, and Japanese drama/movies from them and they're all legit. The Japanese drama/movies are licensed legit R3 HK/Taiwan versions, and so they're much less expensive than the original Japanese R2 ones. I bought the R3 HK version of Swing Girls and it is 16:9, has DTS ES and English/Chinese subtitles, trailer, making-of, etc. all for $14 shipped (it's about $11.5 if you actually buy it in HK). Of course the packaging is not as nice...

amrayu wrote:

I'm not really promoting the fact that people should buy the bootlegs. I myself have bought the original $200+ dollar set of Nodame. :sweat: But since someone had posted here earlier about the other knock-off, they might as well get the other version that I posted.

Asian drama fans have always faced this dilemma anyways... buy the originals? Download? Or buy the bootlegs? It's a sad fact, but it's all in the nature of the Asian Drama world. Half of the Asian dramas on Yesasia is bootleg by the way and this is a supposedly reputable (legit) company.

If you think stuff like this shouldn't be posted... I guess Jdorama should remove all Asian Drama/Movie download links from the site as well. :beaten:
So... don't get me started on criminal activity and the like... :bleh:

I know I walk a fine line here. While it is certainly not legal to download the dramas, in fact it is illegal to even sub them, it doesn't necessarily translate to loss of sales as the downloader may not have the intent to purchase. In the case of bootlegs the purchaser has, obviously, the intent to pay for the DVD box-set, which means one less sales to the legal distributor.

My comment did not imply you are in any way involved in the sale of counterfeits/bootlegs. I'm merely saying that a lot of us, me included, is already guilty of robbing the publisher/distributor in some way through downloading. Let's not make it ever worse by making bootlegs more readily available.

Back to the outtakes. :sweat:

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Ooops. :hehe:

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Funny girl. :hehe:

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Funny girl. :hehe:

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Forgotten line. :hehe:

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Chipmunk face. :hehe:

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