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Talking to ヘロー天気

This conversation is possible thanks to the help of all of my patrons.  

Context

I had an exchange with Hero Tenki, looking a bit at both his works and the climate of syosetu pre-2012. Though I would argue Sword Art Online is not isekai itself, it’s effect and influence on isekai – at least in terms of its promulgation – seems inescapable. Tenki is an author in a particularly unique position: they were writing isekai before the SAO boom, and ...

November 07 2019 Cut

In the home stretch, almost everything is there, sent to Sandra for her approval before modifying the audio levels and then publishing it.

October 25 2019 Editing Log

Sorry about the delay everyone, I've been working on some non-channel stuff and it's been eating up some of my time. Anyhow, here's where I am right now.

This is the general rough, I'll be adding a few more things and smoothing some out, but this is mainly to keep everyone up to date!

September 12 2019 Progress

Hi everyone, sorry about the delay, but here's the current progress on the upcoming video. Sorry about the delay on Isekai, Part 4, I'm still in the conversations with authors, will upload translations of the conversations once it's finished,

September 4 2019 Editing Progress

Hi everyone, sorry about the delay, but I just got back to editing it. My aim is for the 9th of September, cause then I can smoothly progress to the next one right away.

NONE of the audio has been properly levelled, there's a bunch of black space and there's a lot of footage that has been to properly scaled and positioned, so please don't see this as any meaningful master cut of anything, it's just for me to get things organized and placed down where I want them first. 

Patreon Podcast: Mothman Prophecies Commentary Track

Listen to our terrible podcast as we discuss the mothman prophecies, based off America's own homegrown kaiju. I didn't realise how quiet I was until I listened to the audio, and if you know about this film, you'll realise that we didn't want to rerecord.

Editing Log 1: Sandra Annett's Anime Fan Communities

While I'm working on the next isekai video in little bits and pieces, I'll be working on two video projects: a video with Sandra Annett about her book on Anime's Fan Communities, with an emphasis on her earlier chapters, and a video on Ichigo 100% through the lens of Lacan's petit objet A.

I haven't gotten all the middle figured out yet, but I'll figure something out. Been making use of the camera stuff from the other videos, it's still a little rough and not colour corrected yet, but i...

Patreon Podcast Episode 6: E3, A Land of Contrasts

This is possibly the most up-to-date, quickest podcast we've ever done.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2018/jun/04/travel-japan-land-contrasts/

A veritable god-king of an article.

Upcoming Perk: Uploaded (and requestable) Assets!

Hi y'all,

As another feature for patrons, I'll be uploading all of the manga assets I've cut up. They're free to use and distribute, no attribution is required (though I would appreciate it). I'll start from the next video, but if you have a request already in mind, let me know and if I still have the files, I'll upload all the images I used.

Patreon Podcast Episode 5: One-Punch Man Season 2

Listen along here:  https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-456 

Yo just respond to this with an audio clip of you or something and we'll play it on the next podcast episode.

This is the first Patron-only private episode - if you guys want this public, I'm more than happy to keep it public, but this'll be a patron private thing.

Editing Log 8: Isekai Part 3

The master cut is finished! 

• The audio just has to be levelled a bit more evenly
• I have to add in more sound effects
• I'll be adding a few more things at the end for the last little bit for the fourth piece.

This is prior to Damien's thoughts, so there may be changes, but it should roughly look like this. 

Adding a 1 Hour Editing Help Session

Hi everyone,

Just to let you know, I'm almost done the master cut for the next video, I'll upload it (minus a bit of cleaning and adjustment here and there) when it's finished.

To notify, I am adding an additional perk for all patrons, which is a 1 hour editing help session. What I mean by this is that for all patrons, I will provide, per patron, per month, one hour of video editing advice and thoughts. There are, of course, limitations:

• It'll be to programs I already ...
  2019-05-06 17:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Editing Log 7: Isekai, Part 3

Sorry about the radio silence everybody, I recently finished up (and passed!) my field examination. What that means is that I'm at least competent when it comes to my area of interest (Game Studies, Ideology, & Disasters). I'm now a PhD candidate instead of a student, which frees up a bit more time.

Here's the ongoing project, it's longer than before, I've got about 4 or so minutes left to edit. I don't have a lot of notes here, but mainly there's probably a few animations I'm going...

Editing Log 6: Isekai, Part 3

Gonna clean up some of the background, but man this is a pain.

Editing Log 5: Isekai, Part 3

Hi y'all,

As always, if you don't want to be spoiled on the final product, you might not want to watch the actual video. These logs are to keep patrons updated and in-the-know as to what I'm working on, what kind of progress I've made, etc.

Sorry about the radio silence for the past few days. Here's the current updates:

• So we're almost at a quarter of the way through. My aim is to hit  20 minutes, but of course it could be longer or shorter depend...
  2019-03-29 11:16:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Editing Log 4: Isekai, Part 3

Hi everyone, here's the current edit. Only three minutes so far, but it's mainly because I had to sketch some of the assets. No comments at the moment.

Editing Log 3: Isekai, Part 3

Hi y'all,

Got to some Kumo desu ga, nani ka assets, I will probably edit out the blood splatter, I don't like it because it's not really that organic in the context of the video.

The displacement map was a bit wonky on the hand for Kumo desu ga, so I transitioned from -5 vertical displacement to +5 only, so it's not noticeable for the most part, but it is there if you find it. I might add a woosh foley, but I don't know if it'd be a bit too cheesy for what seems to be a pretty ser...

Editing Log 2: Isekai, Part 3

Here's the skeleton for the first minute. Considering we are going into a discussion on devouration and dealing with control, I might re-record my word devouration to something broader. However, if the audio doesn't sync up properly, I might not and just leave it as it is.

I haven't edited the slide sound effect nor put in footage for game dialogue. That was supposed to be Tate no Yuusha, but I downloaded the dubbed footage by accident, so I have to redownload and handbrake the subbed f...

Editing Log 1: Isekai, Part 3

Hello, I've attached the skeleton audio of mine and damien's sections for the upcoming video. 

Current notes:

• I like Damien's notes, I think I'm a little too soft for Damien's tone, audience members can get lulled into boredom really fast, I will probably re-record with a more upbeat tempo so there's a bit more chemistry
• Haven't cleaned yet, a lot of extraneous noises in the background

Disclaimer: As part of the editing log, if you listen to or watc...

Editing Carnival

Hi y'all,

I'm going to start doing what I call an editing carnival. It's not a festive thing. What I'm going to do is that when I start editing, I'll render and upload every part I have finished. That way, everyone has an idea of where I'm at, what the process is like, and see what's changed, not changed, etc. Consider it sorta like a loading assets page.

When it starts, it can get pretty annoying (since Patreon emails patrons by default every time a creator posts), so if you'd li...

Custom Tracks 12-23

Second track is now available for download for all Patrons. This track contains custom tracks made by Skrullz in the following videos:

• Heteroglossic Space in the Please! Series
• Princess Mononoke: Style and Substance

 All soundtracks are available for remix and use according CC BY-SA 4.0.If you use the tracks, please at least attribute Skrullz. Please do not hesitate to...

Patreon Podcast Episode 4: Pause and Select Anime of 2018 Awards

Starts at 27:37. Everything beforehand is just shop talk

A brief exchange with Kanekiru Kogitsune

I got in touch with Kanekiru Kogitsune in preparation for the next isekai video. Here is the exchange between him and I. Thanks to Kei for double checking my translation. If there are any mistakes or corrections, please don't hesitate to let me know. 

I am uploading this so people know that I'm not just sitting on my ass this whole time. It's just been taking a little while.

I am marked by PS, he is marked by KK.

PS: 

Sensei, good evening...