Subber's Diary entry#10: Hagane ep5

24 May 2011

Just finished the subs for HnO 2's Ep 5 "Where is the ideal school?". It's about the quiet boy, Tsubasa, who is forced to attend a private/boarding cram school or juku run by a formidable strict teacher, Takamura, played by guest veteran actor, Emoto Akira.  
It is always at the start of subbing a new drama that the subber has a hard time since one has to yet familiarize herself/himself with the story and the characters.  I thought I was getting pretty fast when subbing Hagane since I know the characters so well by now - their manner of speech, nuances, etc. But then, when I was subbing the part when Haga was conversing with Takamura-sensei, it practically took me hours to 'decode' it. As expected from his role as a teacher who wants nothing less than excellence, he talks in a refined manner, using some formal words which I haven't encountered before. I actually liked it though since it's my first time to write lines consisting of formal speech that would best fit an intimidating character such as his.

New school vs. old school: Haga-sensei faces off against Takamura-san


Hagane is having a nightmare...


Kaname Jun as Shioda makes a surprise appearance


Another character that we get to see again is Tao doing well in Ceravina...


Can't resist adding a pic of my bad boy, Mizushima-sensei
(played by the sexy Takumi Saito), finally cracking a rare happy smile

Even if HnO is not garnering as many downloads as my other project Asuko, I'm still happy that I'm subbing it. I wouldn't exchange if for anything... :)

Plans....

A number of thoughts are running through my head as of now. First and foremost is about my future projects. Of course nobody knows what will happen for sure but definitely, I will keep on subbing. But regarding the frequency of my outputs.... hmm, not so much.  I am seriously giving it a thought about NOT subbing any new dramas for the rest of the year, and just maybe concentrate on older unsubbed dramas.  Hmm... but then again, the new upcoming drama of Matsuda Shota sounds very tempting. I don't really know right now....

Anyway, here are some stuff I've been deciding or have decided on:

• For next season, I plan to sub "Don Quixote," starring Matsuda Shota. But it is still tentative.
• I plan to concentrate on subbing older and not-so old dramas, including subbing unfinished dramas from the past 2 years.  One of which is "Freeter..." which I am already starting on during rare moments of free time.
• I am thinking of removing the dll links of the raws from my subbing statuses. There's really no particular reason except that I feel uncomfortable with having them here. So I'm giving it a week, and then I'll remove them. Don't worry... If I can find raws using google, then you can do it, too.

That's all for now....
:)