Note: I went ahead and locked further comments on this post. Please continue the comments on the next post; it was simply getting more and more difficult to go through that many comments.
Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow (Minami no Niji no Lucy)
In this episode, the family has arrived in Australia. They get their first taste in setting up camp, dealing with pompous men, and all the unique wildlife in the region.
Porphy's Long Journey (Porphy no Nagai Tabi)
In this episode, we are introduced to Porphy, Mina, and their mother. Porphy obviously has a passion for automobiles, sometimes to the exclusion to everything else.
The Alps Story - My Annette (Alps Monogatari - Watashi no Annette)
In this episode, we introduce Annette and Lucien. They're completely different in personality (and their families are completely different), but they somehow manage to get along really nicely...
To be honest guys, I want to see all 3 animes. I hope that eventually you will sub all three shows. Thank you for your great work and effort to bring to the community such classics
ReplyDeleteWhat a cruel question to answer as the 3 show are true WMT classic that highly deserve to be subbed with your magnificent translation! I can hardly pick one! I only wish the 3 series gonna be subbed eventually!
ReplyDeleteYou guys are amazing.
ReplyDeleteI think we're all going to say yeah, we hope to see these all eventually subbed, heh. But indeed if I have to make a choice here, I have been very interested in Porphy myself especially since it's another one of the more rare newer installments int he franchise. It seems so under the radar elsewhere, so yeah. I believe Porphy gets my vote!
I'd love to see all of them, but especially Lucy, as that one has had virtually no interest from other fan sub groups. Its setting is unique too, being set in Australia. Most are either Europe or North America. Seiki Subs has done the first few episodes of Porphy, but it has been almost a year since they've released any, so suspect they may have abandoned it.
ReplyDeleteNOOoooooooooo!!!! Why only 1???? Nooooooo!!!!!!!! I want ALL 3 too,I cross my finger that at least this just means in which order they will be subbed, yes? pretty please!!! PLEASE, all 3.
ReplyDeleteWell he probobly do all but only one at a time :P
ReplyDeleteMy pick is Porphy no Nagai Tabi
Porphy's Long Journey IMO. Story lines between the 3 are all unique but porphy has the art style.
ReplyDeleteAll three of them look great. Those classical anime that does not need to rely on violence and 'fanservice' to be fun.
ReplyDeleteI would love for all three to be subbed eventually, the sequence doesn't matter to me. I would like to know which raws you use for porfy. There are hdtv raws from [RAWS-4U] on nyaa, have you checked them or are you using them? If the torrent on nyaa is unseeded I can seed it for you if you want to check it out, I have all the files.
ReplyDeleteMeh. Not that I disliked Porphy, it was nice. But seeing as what the comments say people are mostly only picking it due the 'art looking better.' Which is kinda unfair as it's been released recently compared to the other two. I suppose the answer was obvious from the start the moment Porphy was included in the pick, as people care too much about visuals =/
ReplyDeleteI personally voted for Annette anyway, as I loved the feeling the first episode gave me ;)
well, I would love all 3 too (and I hope you do it eventually), but since I love old anime + European feel more I voted for Annette too..
ReplyDeleteI voted for Anette too.
ReplyDeletePorfy... 1080p raws are available, I had them thou if needed but guess 720p is fine too.
BTW I have watched all 3 series entirely, Japanese is easy so...anyway, all 3 series are great so we end up winning in any case, seems like Lucy is less known as has the lest votes, not of the top best WMT series but fantastic undoubtedly, I picked Anne because I love old anime too plus I love the Anne's (Akage no Anne) seiyuu and she does Lucien, plus I love Annette's personality a lot.
ReplyDeleteEverything has been said.
ReplyDeleteF1 Anette <3
I'd love to see Alps Story subbed *o* It's one of my biggest wishes when it comes to WMT series
ReplyDeleteIt is one of my childhood memories and I always wished to see it in the japanese dub
I like Annette, she's cute (and Lucien too)
Personally, I'd love to see both Annette and Porfy, but since I've wanted to finish Porfy for the longest time, I'm gonna take a gamble and vote for Porfy.
ReplyDeletedon't forget to vote, on the right side of the website :)
ReplyDeleteLicca: thank you!!
Remember, the voting is supposed to last the week. It's just the first day!
ReplyDeleteFor those of you who mentioned 1080p raws for Porphy, those raws are upscaled versions of the broadcast raws. There's a good reason why I try not to use upscales; I may even have a blog entry on that sometime in the near future.
My vote is for Lucy! (sadly it seems to be the least popular). I am so pleased the series made it this far!
ReplyDeleteIf I had a second choice I would vote for Porphy... but I feel being a more modern series it has the advantage for getting picked.
However, whichever series you do I am pretty much bound to love it!
Yay! Looks like Porphy is winning and I can finally watch it. I've always loved the background art. So, many thanks.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, you need to increase the font size. It's extremely small. Font size 30, which it looks like isn't enough. It should be double or more. Recommended (minimum) is 50, while maximum I've encountered is 70. But, of course, this depends on the individual font itself, whether it's stout (closer to the maximum size) or long (around the minimum size).
Although getfresh has mentioned in an Funimation panel (a year or two ago / Aegisub dev and a DB member was there too) that subtitles should appear to be "not there," you are almost going to the extreme by making it too small to pay attention to both the anime and subtitles at the same time. I've noticed this issue with all of your projects. The rule of thumb that I go by is that subtitles should be or around half the quarter of the width of the video; so 720/4 = 180/2 = 90. If you add a vertical margin (which you should do as well for 720p or above videos) of 20 or more, you can meet that "90" easily; e.g. 25-30 vertical margin with font size 60-65 = 90.
I want family Robinson, flone. This anime contains values that we nowadays forget.
ReplyDeleteHi, Licca! ^^
ReplyDeleteAll these World Masterpiece Theater anime series are great choices! I like all, especially Annette (she looks as a "grown up" Heidi^^).
"Minami no Niji no Lucy" is good too, but i see as a "sequence" of "Kazoku Robinson Hyouryuuki: Fushigi na shima no Flone".
Anyway, all these WMT are good to be subbed.^^
Good luck!^^
Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow or The Alps Story - My Annette for me, but The Alps Story - My Annette is the one get my vote for the next series which hopfully would be Licca sub are doing, the other series is good but I already have this series in other translation so I am in no hurry to watch it again!
ReplyDeleteHope I'm not repeating other people's questions, but I'm really curious if you intend to pick Little Women the first season after finishing the second. I really want to watch it, but I want to start with the original one and only after that see Little Women II. Thank you and sorry if I'm being annoying! >.<
ReplyDeleteHaha I was ready to vote for Annette until you guys chose to fansub Porfy as well. So I voted for that instead!
ReplyDeleteSo it's Porfy No Nagai Tabi or Bust!
@Tessa:
Licca Fansubs cannot work on Little Women because the anime is currently licensed in the US or something. Your best bet is to watch the English dubs on SmiIe of a ChiId every Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays at 10 pm Eastern, 7 pm Pacific. It also airs in Saturday at 9:30 pm Eastern.
Here's the link: http://www.smileofachildtv.org/watchOnline.htm
(C'mon, I won't judge you if you rather watch a children's anime show on a Friday night instead of doing something else. I mean, I've been watching this show for the last several months, including Fridays.)
While you're at it, the Swiss Family Robinson anime airs every Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same time as Little Women!
@JefRuizu Little woman 1st season is licensed and was already discussed in one of Licca's posts
ReplyDeleteI love you guys so so much! To have a group releasing WMT-serien with constant quality and pace is just amazing beyond words!
ReplyDeleteThat's a really difficult choice. I would rather have one of the classic WMT series, so my vote goes to Annette (2. would be Lucy). But I will definitely watch every WMT-series, so (again) thank you very much ^O^
Porphy no Nagai Tabi
ReplyDeleteI vote for all three! :D
ReplyDeleteNo?
Hrm ... well, in that case I vote for "My Annette"....
Hey everybody! NEW PLAN!
ReplyDeleteLet's all work together to force a tie between Porfy and Annette >_>
Maybe now Licca Fansubs will have to work and release both at the same time :P
Wooooohhhh!!!! Anette goo!!! 2 votes and its a tie with Porphy!!!
ReplyDeleteWell, if there is a tie, then we'll try our best to do both at the same time. Certain things have come up that may make this possible...
ReplyDeletethis is such great news!!! was oscillating between the 2 too
ReplyDeleteeternal gratitude Licca team
For me Porphy really does seem the most fun :D
ReplyDeleteYou guys are amazing for doing this btw <3
Why do you present us such difficult choices!? They all look so full of cute and magic... umm... I can't think of any deep reasons so I'll say the first one because of... the hats and the boats. Porphy does look pretty cool but the title seems more well known so I don't think it will be forgotten, whereas I feel less familiar with Lucy and want to learn more about it. The third 'alps' makes me think of Heidi and be all "well I'll just remember there are 2 alps stories..."
ReplyDeletePorfy was already subbed till episode 6. Perhaps you could cooperate with Seiki subs since she has some translations of the initial episodes ready and catch on after that.
ReplyDeleteSame did occur with WMT series Katri where two groups worked together. 52 episodes are a lot after all.
Porphy is certainly the most adventurous of the 3. Annette and Lucy take place at the same place. But regarding character development Annette is much better in that regard.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI wanted to point about a problem with the fact that we can see the current status of the vote. Due to this I now know that there is no point to vote for Lucy, so I'll vote to one of the other two. I assume that other people may act like me, and as a result it may seem like Lucy is a very unpopular series. Please consider hidding the results until the end of the vote next time. Any way the whole three series are interesting, so any winner is a good chioce :-)
Three great choices, definitely a win-win-win situation as far as I'm concerned! Have to agree that the results being visible is a shame though; personally if I wanted to vote for Lucy then I wouldn't let anything put me off, especially since there's the best part of a week left to go, but I fear the current totals might make up some other people's minds for them.
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ReplyDeleteI went ahead and set the poll to end on Friday instead of Sunday as I previously set up. If anyone doesn't like it that way, I can put it back to Sunday.
ReplyDeletePart of the reason is that I'm really excited and I can't wait to get translating again. I just need to know what I'll be working on.
My vote is for Lucy! but looking forward to anything :D
ReplyDeletesame here, my vote for Porphy, but looking fwd 4 what's next on the list :)
ReplyDeleteTrue, all 3 WMTs look great...
hallo
ReplyDeleteposted previously at 12.52 pm
Lucy of the Southern Rainbow is next to Katri perhaps the most down-to-earth WMT series.
I too am kinda tied between this and Treasures of the Snow. It also may be easier for you to translate Lucy, since there is not really much happening when compared to the psychological tension between Annette and Lucien or the epic adventure of Porphy. Just the daily difficulties and adventures the Poppel family face with some touching or funny moments inbetween, though later the arc where Lucy has a short lapse is a little sub-par when compared to the rest of the series.
I wish I could vote for both but that would not make sense. I can wait a couple of years for a sub. For the impatient, the series is available online and on DVD on many languages anyway.
In any case, thanks for translating the Openings and Endings of those series, something I was eager to watch for years
I vote for Lucy :) Even if you don't sub it right away, I'd love to see it subbed one day~
ReplyDeletePorphy no Nagai Tabi for me too. I ve been waiting for this anime for a long time and I would really like to wath it properly.
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter which series does liccafansubs will get subbed. They are all beautiful masterpieces. But hopefully, in the future, they will consider subbing "Boku No Patrasche/Furandasu no Inu" (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1306)
ReplyDelete@bry
ReplyDelete"Boku no Patrasche: Furandaasu no Inu" is a wonderful anime. I'd like to see it subbed one day.^^
My Annette.
ReplyDeleteBoku no Patrasche: Furandaasu no Inu, has already been subbed! You can find it on Baka BT
ReplyDelete@Bry: Me too.
ReplyDelete@Jsca: WHAT?! Where can I find it?! Show me the link!!
Porphy really does the best out of the three...more votes for porphy
ReplyDeleteAnnette! Yes. NO problem over here with the poll ending early, I think the winner is set now, I think it would be wonderful for Porphy to be subbed after Little Women 2 is subbed.
ReplyDeleteLike mentioned there are a good number of the WMT series now translated and or in process, Flander no Inu has been out for a while subbed, indeed its on Bakabt, you can get Marco there too and other subbed by C1. Currently Akage no Anne is also being "properly" subbed and Heidi is being subbed by the same group doing Akage no Anne, dunno if some of you knew about Heidi and Akage no Anne, the group doe snot torrent after all only DDL links for their releases on its site.
It would be a dream come tru to have almost all WMT series subbed, hopefully Licca can sub these 2 wonderful series eventually. And after that I am hoping Cedie is in the plans too for the future of course. Bush baby hopefully in the future as well.
@ above post, I meant to sub the other 2 series that wont win the poll, I think most of us can wait for them after a current project(s) if finished.
ReplyDeleteWords cannot express the gratitude all of us surely feel, thank you very much Licca.
For what it's worth, I voted for Lucy. I was lucky enough recently to find a complete rip of the series and watched the first few episodes, which were really lovely. I must admit that I was initially drawn to the show for superficial reasons (i.e. the kangaroos, koalas and hamster), but it was Kate that kept me watching. She's adorable. Whichever show wins though, keep up the great work. I'm looking forward to it.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with Porphy.
ReplyDeleteFor what it's worth, the guy who helmed Porphy did the first Licca OVA and wrote for the movie.
@Anonimous (November 9, 2011 5:28 PM):
ReplyDelete...or anyone else who may know... Which group is subbing Heidi? I have seen it dubbed many years ago, but would like to watch it subbed, and hopefully get the complete series for my collection.
To be honest, I was initially interested in Porphy, but, after watching the first episode, I did not like it as much as I thought I would (though I am sure it gets better.) Therefore, my vote went to Annette.
Regardless, I'll be happy with any series that wins the poll! It's a great gift to be able to watch any of them. Thanks, Licca!
@DeX
ReplyDeleteThe group that is subbing Heidi is the Silver Zero Subs (http://silverzerosubs.blogspot.com).
This group is subbing "Akage no Anne" and "Flanders no Inu" too.
Thank you so much!
ReplyDeletehow about Tom Sawyer no Bouken or Aoi Blink? i love both story too! It has become part of my childhood. :D
ReplyDeletespeaking of which, does anyone know about groups subbing Lady Lynn, Lady lady or Hello! Lady Lin and alternatives :)
ReplyDeletethank you in advance
Lets not go much off topic. Anidb.net is your best friend if you want to know if a series is being subbedby anyone out there in the world, serach for your series there and check group status.
ReplyDeleteBack on topic, cant wait for Alps Monogatari Watashi no Annette. Thank you Licca, infinite thanks.
Anonymous said... November 10, 2011 1:47 PM
ReplyDeleteThanks! It'll do with spanish :)
Please do My Annette. I remember watching it a while back and loved it. I would say it is the darkest WMT, the drama between Annette and Lucien is so intense.
ReplyDeleteAnyway thanks a lot for doing all these classics, you're probably the only group who does WMT perfectly, keep up the good work.
- Nowadays people only read bad things about Greece and i wanted to finally see "Porphy", but well ... This is a democracy :p .
ReplyDelete- Honestly ... I watched Annette when i was little and it wasn't my favourite anime at all, but i have a vinil disc with the Spanish op. song ^^; ahaha ...
- Thank you for your work ^__^ .
Campaigning for Porphy's Nagai Tabi in various fan forums.. lets hope it works!
ReplyDeleteWHOA! Porphy's making an epic comeback!!
ReplyDeletewell porphy might really be the one needing subs, objectively speaking. the wmt reboot did not work out as well (no new wmt title in sight since 2009). it might be forgotten though it was dubbed into Italian too.
ReplyDeleteAnnette and Lucy remain classics after so many years and were dubbed in many languages, plus some people might prefer their respective dub instead of the japanese original.
but I think the older series are the best introduction to the wmt series, hence the vote for treasures of the snow.
inb4 someone is faking the poll for Long Journey.
ReplyDelete50+ in around 4 minutes
Poor people.
intense fight between the top 2 in the polls, with little time remain on hand.. can't wait to see who wins
ReplyDelete"intense fight" = the new word for faking.
ReplyDelete..=/ It's really sad people cheat their way out on the poll. *Sigh*.. I was pleased to see Annette winning, but it's ESPECIALLY sore to lose to a bunch of cheaters ~_~..
ReplyDeletewhat happening !! i thought Annetee won?!!:(
ReplyDeleteI wish licca fanubs consider sub old shojo
anime non WMT like attack no.1 /Mahou Shoujo Lalabel / Idol Tenshi Youkoso Youko /Maruko-chan
Or even Watashi To Watashi Futari No Lotte/
Jewelpet ...
any thing cute and innocent
or fit licca fanubs image
and i want to say thank you very much 4 the
english sub (anime Super Doll Licca-chan) i enjoy
watching him so much
and good luck :)
wow! what a comeback! :)
ReplyDeleteLicca have the final say in this no matter the results. they decide after all.
ReplyDeleteSo either Annette or Porphy since they are so close in popularity.
Or were both rigged and we will see Lucy subbed?
I'm dying to see Porfy so my vote goes for that one though I wish they could do all three. I guess if they finish the winning series then they'll still do the other two as well. I really hope~
ReplyDelete@Anonymous'
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's easy to cheat because blogspot caches both the cookies and IP address (I know, I tried xD)
So if the cheaters used proxy to add more votes it would only be a few votes.. and I don't think it's possible to hack Google's voting system.
The possible explanation is that someone posted the site in their site/blog/twitter and asked people to vote even if they had nothing to do with Porphy or Annette.
Regardless of that, I think their vote should be counted. Because it's impossible to know who was trolling from those who became interested in either series.
ReplyDelete50+ in a couple of minutes???
ReplyDeleteBotnet CHEATING Detected...
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteHow could you know that?
It could be someone in 4chan posted to support the series, these guys are uncountable. And it is not unlikely because they have done it before. All I am saying is that on the last hours of every vote something UNEXPECTED happen, and that didn't please you.
For all we know,you support Annette so your claim is biased and could be all false.
Well, from the beginning till #400 Annette had a slight lead.
ReplyDeleteI thought initially that voting would be for registered users and would not be recalled
since it is not, such results are to be expected
Licca should go with whichever series they want, after all all three are underrated today.
IMO most of those who voted for Annette had watched/seen it before but want to see it AGAIN in the the Japanese dub. While those who voted for Porphy DID NOT see all the series.
ReplyDeleteSo Licca should pick Porphy because it is one of the newer one and we most likely won't see a local dub for it for a long time.
I guess I chose the wrong time to have a bad power adaptor for my MacBook, eh?
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't think there's vote fixing going on, and I don't think it's the 4chan folks doing the sudden inrush of votes for Porphy. (Typically, the 4chan folks ignore this group for the most part.)
I know there's still a few hours left before the voting ends, but I hope that the plans I've got will make as many people here happy as possible.