
This episode did have an important development - Miharu’s bargain with Yoite to abandon his mastery of his Apathy no Jutsu and use the Shinrabanshou to violate the Temporal Prime Directive. But, as Aroduc pointed out, the pacing was snooze inducing and even totali’s love power was dented by the surfeit of emo.
Continue reading ‘Nabari no Ou 6′

This has got to my favourite ‘Character reveals his harem fantasy’ moment since SHUFFLE!’s Itsuki Midoriba’s declaration. At least the Shinrabanshou doesn’t have the activiation requirements of the Kuihuabaodian (葵花宝典 i.e. you have become a eunuch)!
Continue reading ‘Nabari no Ou 4′

I’m liking how things are shaping up very much. The action, animation, art, ninja stuff is fine but what really intrigued me are the personal histories and relationships between the characters e.g. Thobari and Miharu, Miharu and Yoite, Raimei and the pink-haired katana user etc.
Continue reading ‘Nabari no Ou 3′

Just a short note on replacing sub-titles, the inimically named .ass file, in a fansub. I’m enjoying Nabari no Ou, courtesy of Rumi’s hard work. Tried to replace the second episode’s sub-titles and faithfully followed the instructions but I got the above NO U CAN’T HAZ A MKV message:
Error: The name of the output file ‘F:\anime\partial\Nabari no Ou\[Rumi]_Nabari_no_Ou_02_[1280x720][H264]_[85945779].mkv’ and of one of the input files is the same. This would cause mkvmerge to overwrite one of your input files. This is most likely not what you want.
Finally figured out that all I needed to do was to go to ‘File’, then ‘Set Output File’ and designate a new file name (just added ‘v3′ after the episode number) and huzzah. Doh!