Entertainer Rating Check - 2021 Autumn Special
I think this is another show that most people might not be aware we have. There are only three that have been translated. I won't go over too many spoilers because the whole thing is kind of an elimination journey, but I'll see if I can intrigue you by describing the format.
This is a ~2.5h special that comes out a few tim...
That's another year down. These numbers are a bit loose, but the main New Episodes count should be pretty close. 111 compared against last year's 134 (and 2021's ~74), very pleasing. That's like two new episodes a week.
Back in September we lost MEGA. The tsl.chikichiki.tube solution seems to be working well and getting smoother all the time, so I'm looking forward to continuing that i...
2024-01-02 07:11:27 +0000 UTC View PostWDT (2021-09-08) - Music Theory Special
Nothing to do with anything, except that it's one of my favorite episodes. This is a compilation of a bunch of musical theories, apparently inspired by a thing TBS does.
The first theory is It's possible to create feel-good lyrics just by using the names of comedians. Names of groups like "Panther" "Gorgeous" "High He...
2023-12-02 14:13:17 +0000 UTC View PostWDT (2016-07-06)
I said I was going to try for a holiday-themed recommendation, and I think you'll agree that by a certain twisted logic, I certainly almost might have managed.
I got to thinking about a Wednesday Downtown episode to suggest, because I haven't done one yet and it's certainly the show I've seen the most of at this point (it's the only one I watch(ed) raws f...
2023-11-28 00:12:34 +0000 UTC View PostOK, I have like three HEYx3 clips and that Matsumoto/sasuke thing to put in, but then as far as I know I'm caught up (even on raws, nearly)!
October was crazy but it took a lot of November to catch my breath. I'll dig around and get a holiday-themed recommendation post together this weekend and then we can all pretend this works like a normal website and not some kind of fragmented interdependent service swarm.
There's been some movement in the ChikiChiki annex recently, and now y...
2023-11-23 00:44:27 +0000 UTC View PostI don't know if there's anything more annoying than an "I'm just really busy irl guys" message, but I'm just really busy irl, guys.
I know I'm behind on current releases, but those are actually all queued up and ready to go. I've been crunching and crunching with work, but I'll be done at the end of October and then I swear on my NAS that normal service will resume!
2023-10-26 11:36:26 +0000 UTC View PostGnT (2011-08-14) #1067 - Heipo's Sleepover & GnT (2011-09-11) #1071 - Heipo's Camping Trip
So, historically, I couldn't stand Heipo. I didn't care for his character—which to me felt very one-dimensional. "Oh gee I sure like women and oh gosh I sure am afraidof things!" was pretty much his range, as far as what I knew from the stuff that had been translated.
However...
2023-10-08 21:15:13 +0000 UTC View PostOUGON DENSETSU - Michishige Sayumi & Akiyama of Robert
This is another long multi-parter (five), so I think I'll switch back to individual episodes for a while after this. This is nearly four hours of entertainment, so it is great value for money. It's also the only Ougon Densetsu we have in the library. All I know about the show is that it does this frugal living ...
2023-09-20 20:08:10 +0000 UTC View PostOK everyone, here we go! chikichiki.tube has been hard at work overhauling their own behind-the-scenes stuff, and also found the time to set up what we think could be a working file hosting solution. This is possible in no small part due to the people who donated to their SSD fund! Thanks folks, you're making a difference!
Now at the moment there is only one instance, and while we want to spread it around to a few different machines at some stage, we don't even know what the bandwidht r...
2023-09-19 10:24:51 +0000 UTC View PostThanks everyone for your patience while the public files are inaccessible! We're still working on a setup (basically we have to do some amount of rolling it ourselves, there's not really anything turnkey), and I don't have a date for you yet, but it is happening. ヽ(´ー｀)ノ
For the moment I'm holding back on the weekly recommendations here on Patreon, it feels weird to do it without an obvious way to link to it (chikichiki.tube is also in the middle of reworking things). If this g...
2023-09-03 16:16:07 +0000 UTC View PostDENPA SHOUNEN (1998) - Nasubi Prize Life Contest - Part 1
DENPA SHOUNEN (1999) - Nasubi Prize Life Contest - Part 2
Sorry, I stopped paying attention and missed Sunday. This is an extremely interesting example not just of Japanese television, but of Japanese television of this era (late '90s - early '00s).
I'm not necessarily qualified to s...
2023-08-21 18:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostHAJIMETE NO OTSUKAI - 2018 Cute Overload Special
This is a long one, but I have so much time for Hajimete no Otsukai. I'll say it now: this is a fantastic choice if you're looking for something to show a person who doesn't usually watch Japanese TV.
This show has been going since 1991, and even if you haven't seen it directly, you've probably learned about it through cult...
2023-08-12 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostKnight Scoop (1998-07-31) - #1 A Beast in the Attic
Right—anyone who knows me could've seen a Knight Scoop recommendation coming from a mile away. Here it is: the Knight Scoop recommendation.
Knight Scoop (full title Tantei Knight Scoop 探偵!ナイトスクープ) is an Asahi Broadcasting Corp show that's been airing since 1988. Epi...
2023-08-06 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, there we go! Someone dropped the full €600 on me, so we've already got enough to get both drives, still have the €300 banked for a rainy day/spare, and after one day the Patreon is pulling in €15/mo.
I don't really know what to say! It's really incredible to be supported like this; it really makes the library feel like a worthy cause! I'm glad you're all as passionate about this stuff as I am, and I hope the library continues to grow into what you ...
Soko ga Shiritai - Heavenly Bath Houses of Tokyo
With this first recommendation, I want to try and show you something you won't have seen before. Soko ga Shiritai (which I guess translates to something like "I want to know") was aired on TBS from '82 to '97; it's billed as "docu-tainment/info-logue" which I guess is about right. It's definitely a really cool window int...
2023-07-31 02:19:09 +0000 UTC View PostAs of now, we have €306.00 in the pot! Since a donor is taking care of the €20.00 MEGA subscription fee every month, that means any money earned can get saved and put towards other things, which I am incredibly thankful for.
The master copy of the library lives on a TrueNAS machine in my living room. The storage pool consists of four 4TB drives in RAIDZ1 (one drive can fail without data l...