Animation comparison charts

Animation comparison charts rom both cours, pilot, and TV to BD/DVD comparisons (via Otanews). Most of the BD/DVD fixes may look weird at first but they actually look way better once you see the animation in movement. Click for full sizes, and more under the cut.

(I was going to post these earlier but I had already been pretty bloggy the day I found them so I forgot… Derp.)

1st cour comparisons

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Interview with Inoue Gou from the Roman Album

Hi guys, long time no see! Today we have for you an interview with Inoue Gou from the Roman Album.

Inoue-style moe ahead, be warned.

Scans for translating were provided by a kind anon. Thank you! And thank you again! Photos added now that our own copy arrived.

Disclaimer: not a professional translator, doing this for fun, etc. Standard fantranslation rules apply.

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So you want to buy merchandise…

It's all mine.

We got some questions on Twitter about buying merchandise from Japan, and I figured I’d be able to answer them better here. This is all based on my experiences so your mileage may vary. Note also that I live in Europe. It is cheaper and faster for me to order directly from Japan than wait for American sellers to stock these items – and eventually some of the merchandise will get a release in the States for the fans there, it has been confirmed by Viz.

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Translations of relationship charts from Gossips

I’m still suffering the feeling of our books sitting in the postal service logistics center in this town for all weekend because they didn’t get here early enough to be delivered on Friday.

In the meantime, thanks to translatorbros who have been luckier with the mail.

Kotetsu and Barnaby do not have relationship chart pages, although they are mentioned in other people’s charts.

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Review: Official Anthologies

I’m a bit reluctant to title this post “review” because it’s pretty hard to actually review these – the variation in art and stories is so great in each book. In the case of these anthologies, the word “official” just means that the stories were approved by Sunrise. These books don’t count as canon because the stories aren’t written by Nishida, but if you want more cute superheroes doing cute stuff, then there should be something for you in them…

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