MERRY HAPPY DAY HOLLY CHRIST MASS

Psst, there’s an Aggressive Retsuko/Aggretsuko Christmas special on Netflix. I don’t know when it will be made unavailable but since Christmas is over you should probably go watch it.

Aggressive Retsuko batch

It’s here.

At last, we have a batch. Sorry for the delay, it was caused by my unfortunate whim of optimism and also storms putting out a certain person’s power for days. Again. Don’t live in the mountains of New Jersey, people, unless you’re really into never having power every time a gentle breeze comes through.

Nearly every episode has been changed, though most changes are minor. A few of the episodes had their songs and dialogue changed a bit, and they all had changes to the text and effects and whatnot to match the skill and swank level you got in the later episodes. All episode names have been changed as well, because if we didn’t add that extra zero episode 100 might have ended up in a really stupid place depending on how your computer sorts files. Thanks for watching this silly show, and I hope you all enjoyed it and appreciated our work on it. We’ll have more projects in the future, but I don’t know what they are or when they are.

Aggressive Retsuko Netflix series!

I have already turned in my resignation letter about 50 episodes ago, but I am here with Retsuko and my TV to let you know that the Netflix series for Aggressive Retsuko (Aggretsuko in English) has been available for a few days now. I definitely recommend fans to check it out, because it is primarily new content, and the 15 minute episode format allows for different sorts of stories.

I’m not fond of all the English dub voices, but I think you should check that out if you’re not a dub-hater, because its dialogue has some silliness to its lines that the English subs lack (for example, “This tea doesn’t have any tea in it!” instead of “This is basically just hot water”). The song lyrics are done pretty well in English too (though this doesn’t seem to vary between the dub and the subtitles so don’t worry about missing it if you choose to watch with Japanese voices). If you’ve been relying on our subs you might feel weird about the fact that they didn’t translate any of the name puns though.

Now get out of here and watch it if you have access to it. Looking at your face just makes me sick how can any person be such a diiiick. (P.S. if you wanted to know the Japanese voice cast, now’s your chance because it has a real ending credits sequence. I might write those up myself later though)

Aggressive Retsuko 100 AND BEYOOOOOND

You’re telling me this is the last episode?

It’s over! And what better way to send off the final episode, than being a week and a half late?

Technically it’s not “over”, since the netflix series is like…in ten days or something, but this marks the end of the eternal cycle of whyhaven’tIfinishedsubbingthisthingyetit’sbeenaweekandit’sonlyoneminutelongwhatgives.

…That sort of broke wordpress’s editor. Anyway, the weekly episodes are over forever(probably), and Netflix seems like competent people, so hopefully I won’t have to do anything to their full-length episodes. I’m not going to leave y’all high and dry though. I’ll be putting together a batch of all of the episodes at some point, with hookers, blackjack, animated intros/outros, and maybe even a Horse Stamp of Approval. You know, since horses are always stomping on things. Expect it within the next month or two maybe eventually.

In other news, I’m now out of excuses to not work on other stuff free to work on things unrelated to Retsuko entirely~ Hooray for me. I don’t have a lot of stuff planned, but for now I’m working on translating an old mediocre porn game for Windows, because that’s been my dream for years. I would have started with some obscure, neglected GBA game, but I don’t think any of those exist anymore, and I have no idea how to ‘hack’ those anyway. On the other hand, porn games come in nice easily modifiable formats. Progress should be pretty smooth, since I’ve already started replacing the Japanese text with English, and the internal game coding is really easy to understand(and horribly written).

Aside from that, if anyone reading this would like to see some unloved short anime series get some love, or would like to see a brief manga about cute sea lions or something translated, or has a suggestion for terrible porn games I should drag into the realm of Englishonly speaking porngameplayers, feel free to do so in the comments. I’ll read them, and then tell you your fetishes are bad and you should feel bad. Hopefully being insulted isn’t one of them.

Right, well, thanks to all of you for reading my nonsense posts for the past year and providing spiritual support to our miserable pandafriend. Let’s hope she hits it big. Or, I dunno, gets a raise or something.

Aggressive Retsuko 99

This is absolutely not the kind of weather I am experiencing at the moment. Download here.

We got a real song for once, which meant coming up with ways to say fairly complicated things that can be written in just 3-4 words in Japanese. Which meant that I just straight up changed some of them because there’s no good way to sing about something turning brown. Also fuck, I was looking at karaage and now I NEED to cook some. Never look at food on the internet past 10pm. Seriously.

Also, the netflix series is happening in a monthish. Get your excitement pants ready.

Aggressive Retsuko 97+98

DEAR GOD NO THESE EPISODES ARE LATE but you can download them here and here.

My power came back the day after 97 aired but it took me forever to decide on lines I liked for that episode, since she said so much in such a short window nearly every time she spoke, so they’re only coming out now. Sorry. 99 should be up tomorrow at the latest.

 

Aggressive Retsuko 96

GET IT.

Super special horse edition because apparently living in log cabins with incompetent electricity companies is a month-long disaster every time a blizzard or hurricane happen. The best part about all of this is that I did not watch this episode, this screenshot was just the first thing I saw when I clicked randomly once in the file.

Aggressive Retsuko 95

Don’t stare at his eyes for too long, or they’ll stare back. Download here.

Few notes to be made about this episode. One: I have never worked at an office, so I have no idea what the standards for answering phone calls are. I just went with whatever google seemed to think was acceptable phone reception etiquette. Two: do people actually call them outside calls? Or is it external? Google had more results for outside, but that might have been skewed by the physical state of being outside while making a call.

Three: this is a big one I guess, but the name of the company Retsuko works at is “chararyman(+some Japanese company identifying words)”, which is a portmanteau of “character” and “salaryman”. ‘Salaryman’ is the name Japan has for their workforce made up of middle-aged men with no future. Sanrio has some ongoing popularity contest between stupid characters they thought up that fit the role of salarymen, so they just combined the two words and pretended it was okay. Except it’s not. Stop doing that, Japan. *takes sip of grapple juice*

Anyway, since I’ve spat in the face of everything else they tried to name(sans Retsuko herself, because that would probably be too confusing to people trying to watch, and nobody would care about Rageina or whatever fucking girl names that start with R), I’m calling it The Working Company instead. Because company has like five meanings, and working has at least two. And most of them are appropriate. But mostly I just don’t like how “chararyman” sounds.

NUMBER FOUR: fuck the sliding Dougsongs. The dude’s great, but subtitles that move that much kill everything. I tried tracking the motion so it wasn’t out of sync, but that blew up my media player(I think this happened last time I tried, too…), so I changed it to the stupid move function, and that still blew it up but only during the last few seconds and it sort of corrected itself in the end. So that’s what you get.

I guess there’s a five but it’s pointless enough to not be numbered. The blinking phone thing followed a weird pattern, alternating between 8 frames on, 5 off, and 7 on, 5 off. It did that three times, then the hand came in and the numbers for both states changed while it was there. Really weird. Second pickup it only repeated twice, with the hand coming in on the second 7, and then again, the off state was extended several frames for no good reason. Unless picking the phone up is supposed to matter, but then why did it still blink again both times? The second phonescreen was also shifted a bit from the first, but then the third time it was back in the original location. AND THEN DURING THE THIRD CALL IT STARTED ON THE SEVEN AND ALTERNATED WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS DESPITE THE HAND COMING IN, EXCEPT THE LAST OFF STATE LASTED AN EXTRA FEW FRAMES BEFORE TRANSITIONING TO THE SHOT OF HIS FACE. WHAT KINDS OF INCONSIDERATE NEANDERTHALS DO THEY EMPLOY DOWN THERE AT SANRIO FOR THEM TO ALLOW THESE INCONSISTENCIES?!!?!?!???

Aggressive Retsuko 94

Never listen to your friends. Especially your vegan friends. Download here.

…I can’t think of anything to write about. Bye.

Aggressive Retsuko 93

H-h-here you go Senpai, I g-g-got this for you! *blushes deeply and runs down the hall screaming*

Hah, you didn’t think I would be on time for THIS holiday, did you? Well you were kind of right. Especially if you live anywhere east of the east coast. Which is a lot of the planet, actually…

Well, hope you at least got Senpai to notice you, or got a sweet blowjob or whatever it is people do for valentine’s day. Some of the timings in this ep are a bit short, since I never know what to do when people cut each other off constantly to gasp about pointless things. Or cut themselves off. I also can’t tell if I should be subbing all the actual gasps, and hmmmms, and ahhhs. They’re already making the same sound I’d type in English and hopefully whoever watches this is capable of understanding that.