Hi-Speed Jecy - 1989 - Episodes 1-3
Hi-Speed Jecy is a 12 part OVA series from 1989. Although it's quite well known in old anime circles, it's never been fansubbed, even in the VHS days. It's probaly most famous for being character designed by the famous Haruhiko Mikimoto. He was one of the most revered designers of the period, some of his most famous works include Macross, Macross DYRl, Gunbuster and the design of Eve through the Megazone 23 triology.
ACR is proud to announce it's intentions to sub and release the whole series for the first time ever. We are using high quality laserdiscs for our raws, while mustering the best and most accurate fansub translations we can do. We hope to produce something quite special. All episodes will be torrented but in the meantime use our direct links.
Good News! Episode 1-3 are subtitled by us to deliver perfect translations that you would only usually find by professional companies. Episodes 4 and onwards are being released by another group.
Episode 1 - Download Here
Episode 2 - Download Here
Episode 3 - Download Here
Overall Grade/Rating: A-
Commercial Availability: VHS (Japan), Laserdisc (Japan)
39 comments:
OH MY GOD!! This is AMAZING News!! I have always wanted to see the Hi-Speed Jecy series, a million thank you's!! I can't wait to watch this!! You are the best!! OLDSKOOL ANIME for the WIN!!
I seem to vaguely remember this from when I lived in Japan, but it apparently didn't impact me like other titles ("Ranma 1/2" and "Dirty Pair" to name a couple).
OMG, like Jafari i wanted to see the Hi-Speed Jecy series XD
Wow! I never thought I would be ever see the day when this would be subbed :D
Hey. I have the RAW manga of this. It was only a one volume if I remember correctly ... You wanna have a look?
WOW. I have been wanting to watch this one since ages ago.
Excellent! I wished to watch this for a long - long time!
I first watched this as a dodgy nth gen copy on VHS 15 years ago. I have wanted to know what the characters are saying ever since. You have made my month!
Great that you have dedicated to the old series like this. Especially I love the 80s hand-drawn anime style. Never have heard about this series but I will definetely be following it. Thank you for the first episode and using Megaupload!
"Site updates every week from now on!" was a little short promise though (till next week).
It would be interesting to the see results if you used x264 and encoded the raw digitized video (not an MPEG-2 stream). Laserdisc don't have the typical DVD encoding issues inherent to MPEG-2 like blocking and banding. Since H.264 is much more powerful and efficient than MPEG-2, you could preserve much more of the original analog quality. Most H.264 videos today are actually transcoded from MPEG-2 inherenting all its lossage and artifacts. SD content encoded with H.264 isn't even an issue for low-end systems, so its rather unfortunate to stick to an outdated codec.
trivia: other than the title songs, the Jecy music soundtrack was all recycled music from L-Gaim, which was also recycled for the Outlanders OAV and again for the Moldiver OAV series.
I am not aware of any other anime music that got reused as much as this soundtrack did. Must've been cheap to license.
I'm in a state of shock!!! I watched this back in 1994 raw and was blown away because no one had fan subbed this show. As digital-subbing became more and more common I kept trying to find a subbed copy....ACR you guys rock. I mean this you guys just totally rock! The anime fan community owes you a big debt of gratitude for subbing Hi-Speed Jecy!!
Great series! Thanks and keep up the good work!
OMG, OMG, OMG! Thank you very much! I wanted it for years! *_*
@Anonymous: I do believe they just used the RAWs that were already available as the transfer looks very much the same.
It would be very awesome if you could do it in MKV format and with sof-subs (optional) not hardsubs. Nonetheless awesome job mate.
Keep up the good work!
Don't forget about bakabt, pal:
http://forums.bakabt.com/index.php?topic=25685.0
Wow, glad to see a site dedicated to old school anime! Really appreciate the work you guys have put so here's my Thanks! Keep it up guys!
WOW, thank you for doing this!!! I hadn't been to the site in awhile because of the lack of updates. Last time I was on was when you wrote about California Crisis! I am so pleased to see you are back to writing reviews for the classics AND subbing Hi-Speed Jecy??? I am in heaven, you made my day. :)
Well, thankyou guys for coming back. It's you other fans that make it all worthwile. Your comments help keep me moving forward with more releases.
Been reading your website since Summer 2008 and absolutely love it. The look, the reviews and your releases of awesome oldies like Hi-Speed Jecy, which I had never heard of!
Thanks for your effort guys!
new serise are planning ?
is the blog already dead? :(
Please come back to life ACR!!!
Valuable info. Lucky me I found your site by accident, I bookmarked it.
great anime !!!!
thanks from North Japanisthan.
ANY CHANCE OF A UPDATE HERE, COME ON!!
Are you dead? Come on, I want to see what happens next!
hmph. It appears this blog is dead.
i just found this site, and wanted to say thanks for doing this.
A few of these shows I know, others I don't.
Just glad to finally see more folks interested in these pre-90s animes. I really dig this stuff, and it reminds me of the days when all i could get were terrible VHS bootlegs for $20+ -- like my copy of Akira that was missing the last 4 minutes ): but we all treasured what little we could find and afford. Times change, and so has anime itself.
so i hope you aren't dead after i just found you
too sad if true...
Are these espisodes in megaupload already subbed? Thank you.
the MU links are subbed
since it looks dropped from ACR, it has been picked up with new encoder. you can dl ep 4 here:
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=213743
many thanks for the link djmasturbeat! Finaly i can watch ep 4
ACR... come back... come back... COOOOOOOOMMMMMEEEE BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!
To supplement what DJ-posted, PPP's work is being tracked here: http://www.animesuki.com/series.php/1857.html I would like to add ACR's to the tracker as soon as torrents are up for them.
Since DJ posted, episodes 5 and 6 have also been done:
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=221819
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=download&tid=229628
Episode 7 is out now. http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=236824
You can view all #4-7 here: http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=search&cats=1_37&filter=0&term=jecy
Eventually I think it would be good to create a batch of ACR and PPP's work, perhaps we should wait until PPP finishes what they intend to do though?
I will fund the subbing of the remaining episodes.
PM me on BakaBT - farmerjonbmx
can anyone help seed the raw batch torrent of 1-12 for a bit please? I'm a little late in discovering this but would like to watch it if possible.
http://www.nyaa.eu/?page=torrentinfo&tid=190063
Thanks in advance if you choose to help :)
Creating a batch appears critical at this point because Megaupload went down earler in 2012 so there's no means of circulating the series. I had luckily gotten all 7 episodes before then.
Farmer Jon, I know ARR takes commissions and does older series. I can't exactly speak on the level of quality they present as it tends to vary a lot though.
Were someone to get 8-12 done, a full batch would be great.
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