I've just been catching up on what was released of this series before it was licensed by Geneon. The DVDs are supposed to start coming out in June, though there have been no official announcements that I know of.

Kamichu is the story of Yurie, a middle-school girl who discovers one day that she is a god (kami-sama). The stories are very simple, focusing on various developments and difficulties in Yurie's adaptation to divinity while still trying to keep her family and school life somewhat normal.

One of the charming things about the series is that this is not a secret. Everyone knows that Yurie is a god, and treats it entirely matter-of-factly. But apart from the story itself, what makes the show special is the character design, artwork, and animation. It's not quite Miyazaki, but if you like his work, you'll love Kamichu.

The opening is already available in my torrent directory; I'll put the ending up as a separate file now. This particular clip was a cow to produce because it is encoded at a different frame rate to the rest of the video file. In fact, the encoders of the various Kamichu! fansubs seem to be rather erratic; I've yet to find a program that will play back all the files correctly. I just spent an hour fussing with VLC so that I could watch episode 6 in the proper (16:9) aspect ratio. BSPlayer crashes. WinAmp won't even open the file. VLC plays it, but screws up the subtitles. WMP gets the subtitles right, but squashes everything. Sigh.

By the way, I'd appreciate it if you'd give the torrents a try and let me know how they go. The current version of the software doesn't give me a lot of feedback, but it looks as though someone has been downloading the fils but very slowly. Either they have a dial-up connection, or something is wrong on my end.

Feel free to play with the comment editor as well. I think it needs a bit more hacking before it's ready for prime time, and your, um, comments, would be useful.

Ack. And because there's a bug in the layout of Broadcast Machine if you have 3n-1 files in a channel (for n>1), I've uploaded the closing credits for Ichigo 100% as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 10:46 PM | Comments (23) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)

1 I just downloaded three of the smaller torrents at speeds of 20 to 40 K/s -- not super-fast, perhaps, but reasonable.



Concerning the comments: they don't work in Safari (I'm on a Mac
running OS X 10.3.9). I can edit the name, email and url fields, but
the comments field remains inactive and I can't enter text there. It doesn't matter whether I click inside the box or try to get there by cycling through the tabs. (They do work in Firefox, fortunately.)

Posted by: Don at March 24, 2006 03:32 AM (Flqth)

2 Thanks. I'll add some Javascript to disable the edior except on known-good borwsers (IE and Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox).

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 08:16 AM (VZZ5N)

3 And that sounds about right for the torrent speed. With only me seeding them, they're not going to be all that fast.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 08:17 AM (VZZ5N)

4 Have you rolled your own editor widget Pixy ?

There are a number available but are quite heavy. Wordpress 2 uses MCE (I think) which is a neat editor but its got the footprint of an elephant.

Played with it for awhile but the performance was driving me nuts. Especially when editing an existing entry, it displays the pure text and then rerenders in html. V-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.

Ended up turning it off.

Posted by: Andrew at March 24, 2006 09:14 AM (RWEVY)

5 No, I actually went out and bought one. It's Innova Editor, and it's about the same size as MCE but has lots more features (I disabled most of them for the comments box). Unfortunately, it only works perfectly in IE; it has a really nasty layout-breaking bug in Firefox.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 10:14 AM (7X4Bl)

6 Okay. The bug just stopped happening. I don't know what it's doing, but if it keeps it up I'm gonna kill it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 10:14 AM (7X4Bl)

7 Although "everyone" seems to be aware, it appears that Yurie's parents are entirely clueless about their daughter's divinity. As a result, she has to sneak out of house to perform god's work. I find it really strange, to say the least. Inconsistent, even.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at March 24, 2006 10:31 AM (6uek6)

8 I'm getting a total of 70k/s over the two kamichu torrents. They're so small, I might as well leave a seed up for each indefinitely.

Posted by: Chris C. at March 24, 2006 10:54 AM (HaLuG)

9 Chris - cool.



I have everything seeded from home - I have about 900kbps upstream, so
this is no hardship. I also have server seeds running, limited to
20kBps each, but each one requres its own Python script, so I'm not
going to do that once I have all the individual clips up.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:00 AM (RbYVY)

10 Pete - weeeeelll...



Her parents do know she's a
god; they can't not know. Particularly once you see, say, episode
7. But she's still their little girl, and she can't just go out
by herself late at night (episode 6) even if it's to attend her divine
inauguration.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:02 AM (RbYVY)

11 Hmm. The editor is fine if you only have one line of text.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:03 AM (RbYVY)

12 No? Not even then?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:04 AM (RbYVY)

13 Well, let's see how it goes in IE.

mada mada: not yet

zen-zen: not at all

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:06 AM (RbYVY)

14 Yeesh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 24, 2006 11:07 AM (RbYVY)

15 As far as a player for them all: Try MPlayer for windows. MPlayer really is a swiss army knife for file formats. I've got this work computer that I can't install anything on due to no admin rights (And why is it that a codec has to be treated like a device driver?) but MPlayer works just fine. I haven't found anything yet that it can't play.

The fun thing is that there doesn't seem to be a GUI for it, so you have to run MPlayer for Windows in the command line...

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