Tales of the Abyss 24: “I’m not some part of you, or your substitute!”

Peony and his awkward love of his favorite rappig named......Jade.

Miken: Just to clear it up, since I was asked on my last post — I know that since gg is taking a break, many people are out of a sub provider for this series. However, just to remind you, Abyssal Chronicles is still working on ToA, and Yuurisan still isn’t out — they just released 17. Keep in mind that Abyssal Chronicles does not speed-sub, and the script goes through at least three editing processes (once before and twice after timing). I have subs in my posts because I time for Abyssal Chronicles for somewhere around half the episodes. Also, just because I have posted here dosn’t mean the episode will be released by AC the very next day. [[I hope this didn't sound like too much of a shameless plug...]] PS – Don’t go trolling there for faster releases or I might start ripping heads off.

Other than that…I should have episode 25 done by next weekend or something like that. I have a rather hectic week, and I have to time it on top of that. Oh yeah~ Angel will be returning WITH A BANG for the final episode of this series, so watch out for her! -wink-

Tales of the Abyss 23: “Farewell, Meryl”

Finally, a confrontation!

Episode 23: Sorrowful Parting
Miken: I’m very very sorry for being late, Firefox decided to hate wordpress and then I kept messing up the coding. On the upside, I have a raw already downloaded for episode 24. However, I probably won’t be able to get to it for another couple days, since I’ll probably wait until I get a translation so I can start timing.

Tales of the Abyss 22: “I don’t want to die”

Lesson Learned: Next time, take the elevator

Miken: Hopefully, Angel will return soon, she’ll definitely want to cover the final stretch of this anime. Anyways, since I’ve finished my first playthrough of Ar Tonelico II, I was much less distracted while writing this up…Still, with a 292 or so lines of dialogue, this was hell to time. Still, I consider myself lucky if the line count is 250-270…and that hasn’t happened in a while. But I digress…

Tales of the Abyss 21: “You have no say in this, understood?”

Wait...No. That was a rhetorical question. Don't answer it.

Episode 21: Ancient Tower

Miken: Still here. Wish I was gone yet? It seems that I’ll still be covering this series until Angel’s computer problems have been resolved. Also, I have to admit that listening to only the audio of Luke and Asch’s argument this week has some unfortunate implications…*cough* Anyways, episode 22 should be up in a couple days unless Angel returns to claim it, since I have a raw and a translation from AC ready. (Though I’m still not sure if I’m timing 22 too…)

Tales of the Abyss 20: Showing pity for your enemy is insulting

However, showing pity for this guy is insulting to the world.

Episode 20: Forest Grave Markers

Miken: I’m here once again to cover for Angel, who has computer problems. I hope you all can deal with more me while we wait for her situation to be solved. Still, posting while I time the episode…feels really wierd. I actually don’t “watch” the episode until I finish the timing when check to see if all the lines flow well with the animation, so I had to go back and check if I got the locations right afterwards.  It was pretty good luck getting the translation at this time too…I kinda resolved myself to not use the gg subs of Tales of the Abyss, and using raws might have been confusing. (I also found out that Aegisub has a screenshot function now too)

Tales of the Abyss Episode 19: “Thank you for everything…My most cherished…”

It's all my fault...and now...

Miken: Filling in for Angel this week as per Minnie’s suggestion. It’s my turn to have fun with the favorite child of the group~ I hope you all excuse my long-windedness. This episode was really fun to watch and just as fun to write~ I can’t believe we only have 7 episodes left!