Kaze no Stigma

[animus]

Episode 22 - Shinsen
Episode 23 - Shinsen

Double release eh

[Yukimura]

All though episode 23 I felt like things were going to fall apart when Ayano confronted Kazuma and brought him down, but then they pulled it all together and made the confrontation actually work out extremely well. Kazuma retains his badassness and Ayano gets to think she's better than him for about 5 seconds.

[Shadowflame]

Kazuma retains his badassness and Ayano gets to think she's better than him for about 5 seconds.

And that's the most important thing there is!

I also thought they pulled this part off pretty well. Ayano was priceless. And Kazuma's ready to rock it. I have good hopes for this episode, and I'll check it out after work.

[Kraco]

A pretty good ending. The greater story really didn't end up being that remarkable, in fact it was quite light and flimsy, even with the whole history and dead ex-girlfriend element. They were, after all, only details while the main plot should have been Burnhart and his plots. Even with the uber demon prince summoning (what was the point of that anyway?) the main plot remained next to nonexistent. So, in retrospect it's now safe to say this show was all about Kazuma kicking ass and nothing else. And in that it certainly succeeded.

The main story ending left the gate wide open for a sequal. I wouldn't mind seeing one.


Kicking is fortunately not the only thing Kazuma can do to an ass...

[Yukimura]

Kaze no Stigma - 24 - [AniYoshi]

[animus]

I have to say I'm really disappointed they never introduced Suijutshi's (?) into the mix.

But yeah, I wouldn't mind a second season, and it leaves a lot of room for one. And that asspat was a good one.

[Yukimura]

@Kraco: The best part of that scene, he really doesn't even push her hard, she actually jumps into the water for him because he's just that awesome.

Anyway, plot? what plot? I was a litle miffed about the complete lack of closure with the Burnheart (I usually watch the Shinsen releases so seeing the names translated different was a bit weird) situation and Kazuma's past, but I guess the comment he made about accepting his past and focusing on the present was supposed to imply he just doesn't care anymore. That's the Kazuma we know and love, just dropping random things on a whim because they bore him. Second Season would be welcome, but even without one it was a fun show to watch.

[Shadow Skill]

I don't understand the ending. I expected more than that...

[KrayZ33]

hmmm episodes 15-21 are broken for some reason... i downloaded them twice from aniyoshi but they still "lag"

and shinsen-sub stopped uploading them..
can anyone help me?

[Kraco]

Hmm... I didn't notice any lag. Are you sure you had enough free CPU time when trying to play them?

[KrayZ33]

yes every anime-episode and every game went fine excpet 15-21....

however i just found every episode from shinsen sub but for some reason there is no episode 15 8[

at the moment i try to download it again but from a different tracker.... maybe that works.

edit: nope aniyoshi ones are broken if i watch the timer from my vlc player it goes like

00:02/24:44 -> 00:04/24:44 -> 00:03/24:44 -> 00:06/24:44 its annoying

but well if someone googles long enough he can find everything!... just found episode 15 xD

[Yukimura]

Did you try the aniyoshi releases in other media players besides VLC?

[AbstractTheorem]

Use something other then VLC Media player. VLC is a great concept, but its very... picky about how the video file is put together when it reads it (by put together I mean the container format)

Media Player Classic and FFDShow are my personal favorite to use.. but mostly because I am just used to using them.

If I were you I would download the Combined Community Codec Pack from here http://www.cccp-project.net/

It includes Media Player Classic and everything else you need to watch stuff on your computer.

[KrayZ33]

well actually it was the first time this happened and i allrdy downloaded that codec pack :P but its no problem as i said before ive got them from shinsen subs now, so everything is allright..

oh, wait a sec... im so stupid... it works perfectly fine on media player classic

doh'
it was all in vain, noooooooooooooooo.....

[Buffalobiian]

So which group is better after watching the entire series? Yoshi or Shinsen? I had always thought Shinsen were a decent quality group.

[Kraco]

That's a tough question for this show, I suppose. I watched multiple episodes from Shinsen when they were released sometimes earlier than the AniYoshi ones, and generally speaking there's not that much quality difference one way or another. However, two things that differ are: AniYoshi uses modern encoding while Shinsen still has xvid only for this show. This is essentially why I picked AniYoshi for archiving. The other thing is that some of the names were translated/transliterated better in the Shinsen version (minor characters, though), which is why the Shinsen names were oft used more in this thread.

[Buffalobiian]

Well, thanks for that Kraco. I just powered through this series, and seeing Kazuma kick ass on a daily basis is indeed awesome. I'll just second everybody else's opinions and hope for a second season.

[Archangel]

An enjoyable series, not the best in terms of plot but the main character was awesome enough to make up for it

I mean seriously, even in the final episode when any other hero would go for the kiss, he goes for the ass grab, that's like the pinnacle of awesome

I'm adding this guy to my GAR list with Kamina and Archer

A shame we probably won't ever get a second season with the novel author dying last July