Live Viewing event reports + Friend Rice reminder

I am having a massively busy day today (how I wish I could devote the entire Sunday for Tiger & Bunny), but I thought I’d toss some links up before the other stuff consumes my time.

The reports say that final episode had over 100,000 viewers. 77,000 on Ustream, 22,000 in theaters plus everyone who watched it on MBS. Tiger & Bunny was also trending on Twitter in Japan all through the night.

Event report in English
Hiroaki Hirata’s blog entry of the event (in Japanese)
Subculture blog event report (in Japanese)
Gigazine event report – with pictures! (in Japanese)

Translated event tidbits from Subculture blog, courtesy of /a/:

  • Hi! I’m Kotetsu, the member of T&B who gets all sleepy after 12 o’clock!
  • Hi! I’m Kotetsu, the member of T&B who has short eyelashes!
  • Hirata had a pink bunny plush with him the whole time.
  • During the work on T&B people within the company kept telling the staff to give it up.
  • Katsura had the most fun drawing Ivan.
  • A character song album will be released on December 7, details to follow.
  • The other considered titles of the show were “Seekers” and B.B. (Busty and Bunny).
  • Rock Bison got a bit more spotlight because of his unexpected popularity after the first episode aired.
  • Compared to the planning stage, Ivan’s development got slightly expanded (at first they were planning to jump into the Jake’s arc straightaway).
  • Katsura grumbled about how the anime version of Kotetsu looks too young.
  • Barnaby was at first meant to have teleportation powers (quick and nimble like a bunny) but these powers however seemed utterly broken, so at first they added the restriction that he can’t phase through iron plates.
  • The Lunatic vs. Barnaby fight in ep7 took ten months to complete.
  • Lots of flags for the second season from the VA’s.
  • At the end there was a small play between Kotetsu and Barnaby talking over the phone with somebody and solving the idiocy of Karina and Antonio.
    K: Huh? Karina’s throwing a fit in the supermarket because they don’t have cucumbers?
    B: And Rock Bison-san ate too much burned meat and now collapsed?
    K: Right. Anyway, you take care of Bison and I’m going to check on Karina.
    B: I am on it.

Future Plans

NEXT PROJECT (Japanese)
ANN article of NEXT PROJECT

2nd season didn’t get confirmed yet, but I’ve no doubt it’ll happen soon. Maybe at the event? The series is practically printing money, so there’ll be something. It might be S2, it might be a movie or an OVA series, but not making a continuation at this point would be financial insanity.

Friend Rice Reminder

Deadline for Sternbild Friend Rice Event submissions is 12:00 CET
(Central European Time) on Monday, September 19.

You can submit photos through email and on Twitter, check out detailed event info here. We’ve already received over 20 times the amount of photos we expected, keep them coming! Please remember that cosplay photos aren’t accepted. Check the instructions in the event post!

Sternbild Friend Rice Event

↓↓↓ 日本人のタイバニファンも参加できます! ↓↓↓
英語を喋ることができなくてもいいですよ。

So, Aki and I were talking about making fried rice next week (I think she’s never eaten fried rice before, the horror!) and I said I would put pictures of Kotetsu and Barnaby on my screens and set the table and offer them my fried rice. And I’d take a picture of it and post it because I’m a derp like that.

And then we thought that why not get more people to join?

To join the Sternbild Friend Rice Event for the final episode, go and be a true Hero in the kitchen and cook your own fried rice (you can practise first if needed), bake Samantha’s cake, make some tea the way Yuri likes it, get some Pepsi (Nex if you can, whatever they sell where you live if you can’t – I’m stuck with Pepsi Max), or cook up whatever other creative Tiger & Bunny related food you can think of. And then just take a photo of your meal with your favourite T&B character(s)! (In this style.)

You can send us pictures any time during the next week, but because I know some people won’t cook until for the final episode you have until Monday September 19th 12:00 CET (noon) to email us the photos to ThisIsSternbild[at]gmail.com. You can also take part via Twitter, event hashtag is #friendrice and you can tweet your pictures to @ThisIsSternbild. Feel free to include a short comment or description if you want.

We hope we’ll get a lot of pictures! We can’t friend rice the staff & cast of Tiger & Bunny in person, so this is our way of telling all of them how much we love the show. We’re collecting all the pictures into a post here at This is Sternbild and we’ll pass the link to it to executive producer Ozaki.

Next week, on This is Sternbild: The Friend Rice Event. See ya!

Don’t have a picture to use? Don’t worry, we have some here! If a character is missing, leave a comment below and we will try to add him/her!

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日本人のタイバニファンも参加できます!
英語を喋ることができなくてもいいですよ。

この例のように写真を撮って下さい。

ルールは簡単です:タイバニと関係がある食べ物を作って(チャーハン、サマンサーの作ったケーキ、何でもいいですよ)、その食べ物を好きなキャラクターと一緒に食べながら写真を撮って、ツイッター@ThisIsSternbildへ(タグは#friendrice)か以下のメールアドレスに送ってください!写真と一緒にコメントを送ってもいいですよ。

ThisIsSternbild★gmail.com
(★ → @)

締め切りは9月19日(月)。  皆さんからいただいた写真をこのブログに載せて、月曜日に尾崎さんにリンクを送る予定です。
何か質問があったら、コメントで尋ねてください(ツイッターでもいいですよ)。
あきというThisIsSternbildのメンバーが出来るだけ早く日本語で答えます。

Thank You Edition: Nathan’s Fiery Room 01

Hi guys! It’s Aki, the member of Sternbild who has something special for you today!

But first – huge thank you to everyone reading our blog! Today, we hit 100,000 pageviews thanks to you all! Thank you, and again, thank you! We didn’t believe so many people would be reading our blog!

To celebrate this, we prepared something for you – with extra help from Zwill, who timed our little surprise.

Without further ado – enjoy the translated version of the first Nathan’s Fiery Room!

(With special love to this one Anon who’s been sadfacing since forever that there is no translation available. <3!)

DDL | Torrent

Derpchan’s upload is a little slow, so it’d be lovely if you could take the ddl first and then helped seed this fiery show~ Seeding should be ok now, thanks everyone! -derpchan