The reason why Mendoi-Conclave is awesome!

Disclaimer: I work for Mendoi-Conclave. In fact, I translated episode 2 of Gundam 00 due to circumstances (although I won’t be doing main translation for future episodes). Anyway, here are two screenshots.

Gundam 00
Gundam 00

The top on is from episode 2’s raw while the bottom one is from our awesomerific (I’m using this word a lot recently) 1280×720 release. (It’s worth the extra 170MB!) Can’t see the difference? Click on them to see the bigger version.

And that is why we were slower than the other groups for episode 2. We’ll be faster next time. :P

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37 Responses to The reason why Mendoi-Conclave is awesome!

  1. edogawaconan says:

    LOL heavy typeset. I would be too lazy to do that level of typeset.

  2. edogawaconan says:

    and,
    *since I haven’t watched it yet*
    I assume the scene is static? (except that video player)

  3. Forceflow says:

    Holy shit I didnt notice that. Just switched over to Mendoi when I remembered they did Fafner.

  4. TehShien says:

    Wow, that is impressive and very appreciated : )
    Their OS also seems smexy x3

  5. Soulshift says:

    Hohoho. The ‘official’ (Sunrise) translation is at the bottom… compare and contrast.

    “Material that can get know him is only a thesis of engineering theory and the physics theory”

    Babelfished?

  6. tj han says:

    Haha, prepare for the letter.

  7. quigonkenny says:

    I see what you did there, which is cool, but both links are to the same pic. There isn’t a blow up of the RAW screenshot.

  8. Kurogane says:

    Ok, that is a nice piece of work there, DM. Good job!

    Haven’t went to watch the M-C version yet though.

  9. Tsubaki says:

    Maybe we should hint to odex to catch the subbers instead of the downloaders. =/

    Pimping subbing groups on your blog is against the creed!

  10. quitacet says:

    incredible attention to detail. far more than what a commercial release might provide.

  11. Tanaka says:

    I like the patch idea used with ep1 to update the translation.

  12. Chumara says:

    When I saw the title of this post the first thing that came to mind was, it’s because Mendoi-Conclave is subbing ef

  13. Zer0 says:

    usually, i don’t donate to fan sub groups. But I checked Mendoi’s site and there’s no paypal….

  14. edogawaconan says:

    @Zer0: there’s one on the top in right navigation bar.

  15. PCgamer says:

    You will make me watch mecha I have to fallen :D
    btw congrats on Liking a FanSub group :)
    btw is there are dash (-) or and comma (,) as grammatical symbol in the Japaneses Language?
    as far as I know there isn’t but who know there are people that think there are ?

  16. b0nk says:

    Heh, thanks for your feedback its always nice that people appreciate the little things that take a lot of time to do. To be honest I was really reluctant to do that sign since it lasts for less than 5 secs and the who actually notices stuff like that to pause their media player and read what it says. But in the end the group wanted it done to be l33t since they knew no other group would bother doing it, so the encoder was waiting a good amount of time for that sign to be done causing delays. Anyways it’s always nice to be appreciated.

  17. Ashram says:

    Didn’t realize this…switching to Mendoi subs of Gundam from now on. Thanks in advance for all the hard work!

  18. KesenaiTsumi says:

    @Tsubaki :Maybe we should hint to odex to catch the subbers instead of the downloaders. =/

    Pimping subbing groups on your blog is against the creed!

    They shouldn’t catch the subbers. They Should Hire the subber to help subbing the anime….They even just copy and paste from a.f.k sub….(ops…more aggresive comments ….)

  19. Model_X says:

    Impressive! It’s the minute details that separate the best from the rest. I’ll definitely check out Mendoi-Conclave’s G00 releases next time.

  20. miyamiya says:

    I haven’t watched Gundam 00 yet. But I’m just wondering why people in some forums keep calling that cheong-sam girl “Wong”. According to the main gundam 00 site, the katakana pronunciation of her name is “Wan Ryu-min”. I mean, Chinese like us would just laugh at that and attribute it to the typical Japanese crap ability of creating foreign names.
    But still, why “Wong” and not “Wang” according to the surname?? Even in Cantonese, the whole name is wrong.

    Japanese pronunciation = Wan Ryuumin
    Chinese pronunciation = Wang Liu Mei
    Cantonese pronunciation = Wong Lau Mei

    And I’m pretty sure her name is just a bastardized way of pronouncing the Japanese name “Rumi” in Chinese. Sunrise should just shoot their character naming advisor.

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  22. Daniel Beckham says:

    Could we see an AVI format please? I know mkv is better, yada yada, but only one or two players can consistently and properly render MKV video with subtitles and all of them are on on Windows. Mac people are screwed.

  23. clicq says:

    @Daniel Beckham:
    I play MKV files with softsubs fine using the mplayer version posted on this thread at animesuki’s forums: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31445

  24. Izzy says:

    Conclave torrents are too dam slow and u cant even preview the file to see if it even works….wen i download it the icon isnt a media file icon…
    cant even preview it with Divx
    other torrents are like 120 kb/s fast for me and i can at least preview em on Divx
    conclave torrents are 12kb/s average…..
    since i cant even play it on Divx that gives me amazing quality…..conclave sucks xD

  25. ThE WoRm says:

    Still it doesn’t explains the matter of Mendoi-concleave doing not that of a good job on the Opening karaoke. I’m a big fan of op/ed songs, and as of that, I have to say, that as a big fan of larc an’ ciel it hurt me deep to see that you had mistakes in your translations for Daybreak bell. The first one and the most obvious one and the only one I’ll mention (as all the others are arguable things while this isn’t) is the next line in the end of the song:

    “Mirai ha dare ni mo ochiotosenai”, listening to the line you can hear the “mirai” so clearily that a person who doesn’t understand Japanese can notice it too (I asked a friend of mine who agreed). You on the other hand went with “Negai ha dare ni mo ochiotosenai”, and translated it to something like “No one can ever take you down” :X Well, why not “No one can take the future down” or, to be consistent with your mistake “No one can ever take this wish down”.

    Before you go criticize others or emphasize on how much of gods you are, do a little home check. Not that I don’t agree with the criticizm against Nyoro~n, just made me laugh :X

    Now, if you think you are so good and all (And I see you are), I would be glad if you can do a TL check for the opening song already. Because the original translator for it did not that of a good job :X

  26. DarkMirage says:

    Hmm… I didn’t notice this until now because I don’t like L’Arc~en~Ciel so I don’t watch the OP. LOL.

    The truth is, L’Arc~en~Ciel simply can’t sing. :) It’s not Mendoi-Conclave’s fault. We followed the official lyrics.

    Don’t believe me? Go check the official lyrics scan. It says “negai wa dare ni mo uchiotosenai”.

    So yeah, I am 100% sure that we are correct and it is indeed “negai”. If it sounds like “mirai” to you, blame it on L’Arc~en~Ciel’s pronunciation.

  27. ritchan says:

    I’ve always been watching Menclave’s releases of Gundam 00 since the first episode. Anybody could see that it’s really quite a level above the others. The trick, of course, is keeping that levele up…

    And that’s why I’m still waiting for what might as well be a month for Episode 14.

  28. Alb says:

    I’ve been watching Mendoi-Conclave’s subs of G00 since the start because, they’re really good.

    And DarkMirage, what are you talking about? L’Arc~en~Ciel can damn right sing otherwise they wouldn’t be this popular and wouldn’t have been around for these last 8 years since they started out. I’d be amazed if you could sing half as good as them.

  29. Alb says:

    I apologise for my mistake (above). I meant to type 17 years not 8 years, but either way it doesn’t matter much as long as you get my point.

  30. FTB says:

    Mendoi-Conclave sucks, it seems like it has been months since they last released an episode of gundam 00. I was better off going with Shinsen-subs.

  31. xyym says:

    well wateva happpens i can say dat menclave does take thr work pretty seriously [am sayin this due to the translation job done in ep2 of Season1 :P]

  32. athurukshia says:

    well thrs just ine problem its pretty hard to download the torrent files since i want MKV of gundam muahahaahahaa :P

  33. Aki says:

    I just added you to my feed because I believe you’re some kind of awesome. :) No wonder your screen name was mighty familiar.

    Damn, I really envy what happened at the AFA. We had a con here too but it was a huge disappointment. I mean, the venue was even bad. I guess we really need more sponsors for events like these.

    Regarding the camera, if you don’t like it anymore, you can just ship it to me. -smile-

    I’ll go back stalking you now.

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