Hey gurl, you wanna stay up all night to get lucky?
Flip Flap Bois, with more testosterone than ever before (I’m looking at you, O’Neill). Also, Happy Walpurgis.
NyaaTorrents has permanently shut down so here’s a magnet link. You can also download all the episodes via IRC (XDCC).
I’m so fucked up…
I was going to be really fancy with the terms this episode since we presumably go to Finland, but I got overwritten. Just know that the harvest festival is called Kekri, and the evil-warding ceremony a.k.a. Walpurgis Night is Vappu.
Oh yeah, and this episode had 11 people “in charge” of the animation this episode. Not keyframers, but ADs and such.
not good with computers
I made several bad calls in editing in a previous episodes, one of which was corrected for this one. The spells will remain unchanged for the sake of consistency until we get an authoritative source on their spelling. I’m sick of them to be honest, but sometimes you have to go through hardships to the stars.
I came here to laugh at you
This episode was too real and/or Orwellian for me. Plus, the bully bullying is neverending. But fair warning; if you’re the kind of loser who didn’t like the dragon episode, just stop watching now. It’s only going to get more painful for you and your proletariat brain.
pifitufl sacrifieces
I’d like to apologize for the additional delay. Our initial 12+12-hour release window for this episode was a tad bit too optimistic, which is entirely my fault. Direct your sticks and stones at me. This was our first bad weekend out of 13 so far, and I hope it will be the last. At least the Wixoss crowd knows the pain of >waiting for Asenshi.
This was a neat mid-season finale to the first cours of Little Witch Academia. Some bits reminded me of Umakoshi’s mushi animation in Mushishi Zoku-Shou, which is a cool thing to be reminded of. They say the fun times are over now that we are entering the second cours, but we’ll see if our girl Akko will let that happen.
Due to staff unavailability and additional staffing, episode 13 of Little Witch Academia will be delayed by approximately 12 hours.
We thank you for your understanding and patience.
Pick two as your roommates
Couple of notes this episode. The Samhain Festival is actually called the Magic Festival in Japanese, but it’s written Samhain everywhere in English. It really has little to do with magic and more to do with the origins of Halloween, so I have no idea what Trigger is thinking.
As for the Grand Triskelion revealed last episode, we have more information now. In Japanese, the kanji given for it are 究極魔法, meaning ultimate magic. That should give us a bit more to work off of if they didn’t already say it in the Witchpedia.
excuse me, ma’am, do you have a moment to talk about my lord and savior shiny chariot?
Sometimes, editing is an exercise in failing. Ever try, ever fail. We assume there is a pattern to the spell names, most likely based on some Gaelic or Anglic language, only that we couldn’t confirm it yet; some spells sound dangerously close to having Latin or Ancient Greek stems. And whatever they’re derived from or mixed and matched with, they’re converted from Latin script to kana and filtered through Japanese scriptwriters and seiyuu before they reach our ears (and CCs). Well, fuck.
This episode is introducing a trope from Gaelic folktales. That is good news, since it gives us a solid hint. It is also bad news, since it means I can study phonology charts and keep combining and recombining morphemes for hours on end, but I still can’t not fuck editing this up; I wish I were a savant, but I’m of middling intellect and mediocre skill. No matter, try again: Until we get a definitive source, we have to do something. So we’ll fail again, but maybe we’ll fail better as we keep working towards it, until we find it in our hands.
God I love chihuahuas
Three guesses about what fairy tale the party episode is based on. But I bet you’ll never be able to guess what the twist will bee.
Old meme or zen koan? You decide
A reminder of our mortality, side characters you thought you’d never see again, and background on the story. What more could you want?