About the LEAKED episode

[drug-holic.livejournal.com]

EDIT AGAIN Cx
So its official that the distribution of episode 3 on the internet was a MISTAKE, and not a crime done by a staff member (from Code Geass site -and many thanks for aoi_rein and akeno_yuki for mentioning it >w<)>

Episode 3 will be aired as planned, with no revision done.

For the Japanese: HERE
For the English: HERE



Edit:
-From Code Geass FIRST SITE-
It's in the "What's New"> box towards the left bottom corner... quite small

2008.4.16
『コードギアス 反逆のルルーシュR2』第3話の映像の誤操作による漏出について を掲載

-TRANS-
2008.4.16
The Announcement of "Code Geass -Lelouche of the Rebellion- R2" Episode 3's leakage from a mistake in the operation/management/processing.



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Mods, please delete if not permitted.
Also, I wasn't sure about the tag so I left it as information.

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Okay, from isxelle

829 名前：風の谷の名無しさん＠実況は実況板で[sage] 投稿日：2008/04/15(火) 20:37:49 ID:8mnOgjX6
つい先ほど、スタッフ一名逮捕されました。

明日の緊急会議で３話の放送中止が決まります。
今後の対応は４話を繰り上げて放送するか、２週間放送中止して流出した３
話を一部作り直して放送するかを決める。
監督を含め全キャスト・スタッフに通達されました

(source: 4ch)

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Trans:
Just a few minutes ago, one of the staff members was arrested.

At the emergency meeting tomorrow, the stopping of the airing of episode 3 will be determined and announced.
From here, we may air the story planned for episode 4 earlier (skip episode 3), or not air anything for 2 weeks and then air a revised version of the leaked episode 3; we will decide that tomorrow.
This has been informed to all cast and staff, including the director.

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HERE is my translation of the whole clip (excluding the ED of course, but preview included).
AGAIN, this may not become official show, so don't take whatever you see there and write about it as if thats the story for Code Geass.
If you want a brief summary, comment... but the translations I just posted at my dA journal (link up above) should be enough. C:

Ask questions, if any ^^
I'm willing to still do brief explanation translations (since it is my native language...) if you need any, but it wont be for actual subbing cuz I hate people who take my translations from my site and just use it for their fansub D:


ALSO
They're not really punishing us... its just that because it was leaked, they feel like (MAY BE) changing it ... not direct punishment for us. It's just that we take it as some punishment so don't talk too much crap about Sunrise please TwT;; it's not their fault. I mean, even if it was some other company, I'm sure they would consider such actions TwT
Sunrise has all rights to take its actions.

Comments

[victoripenguin.livejournal.com]

Could I have a summary of the leaked segment as well, please? Spoilers only make me want to see the whole thing more, the pique my interest and then I want to know everything...two weeks... *sob*

[drug-holic.livejournal.com]

this spoiler just got me interested even more. XDDD

I meam, I need to know what happened before the shop, ya know? XD

[drug-holic.livejournal.com]

Do you have your e-mailed comments on? If so, tell me. I'll reply to your comment and delete my reply.
FYI, I was in a rush so my grammar's not the best TwT;

[zerorevenge.livejournal.com]

If you don't mind, could you reply the spoilers as well? I didn't even know any were leaked, but now my mind's going crazy trying to figure out what was that importance to cause Sunrise to pull this...

[zerorevenge.livejournal.com]

And yes, I have Emailed Comments on.

[xtine06.livejournal.com]

yeah! i need the before the "date" scene..there must be something that we do not in that part..

i wanna watch that thing tooooo..

[realms-of-life.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[kadekmoment.livejournal.com]

. . . oh, no, I'm more irritated at Sunrise right now. XD; I'm not pissed at you at all! [cuddles? ♥] I just know that they have a gigantic ego about their surprises and. . . am not entirely surprised they took action.

I too can wait two weeks. It just means I have to actually concentrate on my studying this Sunday, sob.

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

It's bizarre that they're freaking out so much. Spoilers and leaks happen all the time, in my experience. They should just be glad that it's the last 6 minutes of Turn 3 instead of the last 6 minutes of Turn 25.

Crazy. Well. I don't care about leaks, so long as they don't butcher the flow of the plot in order to counteract it.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I don't know why fans are so upset about this. The ratings aren't even a significant fraction of what they should be! Leaking and streaming are at all-time highs, so far as I know, and I think Sunrise has every right to blame this sort of activity for the ratings drop (though, really, I think the time slot is the main issue).

No doubt they take this very seriously. They no doubt see two culprits here - the employee for leaking it, and the fans for distributing it and keeping it alive online instead of letting it disappear after the employee leaked it. They seek to punish both - the employee by firing, and the fans by editting or delaying the show. I think it's somewhat fitting - if people can't wait half a week for something, perhaps they'll learn the lesson about distributing leaked files by having to wait several.

I doubt fans will change, seeing as everyone seems to think Sunrise is completely unjustified in this, but it makes sense to me where they're coming from.

[rainbow-cnxn.livejournal.com]

P.S. Just watched it. It's more like 4 minutes of spoilers. The ED totally doesn't count. It's...pretty much what I expected of this episode. Chill the fuck out, Sunrise.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, it seems a little weird that Sunrise is freaking out about a leak for an episode that was supposed to air in less than 1 week unless they decided they were going to re-edit this episode pre-leak.

Also considering how late in the evening in Japan are we 100% sure the leak and the possible arrest/postponement are all real? ^^;

[sapphynashi.livejournal.com]

If we're going to be picky about leaks and piracy, then all the fansubbers should be shut down too while we wait for the official U.S. releases.

I kind of doubt they're intentionally punishing fans this way. That would be an unbelievably petty move, and it wouldn't work because, as you say, fans won't change.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I think there is a ratings drop because the 1 year wait sort of hurt momentum for the series and because I don't think these last two episodes are as good as previous ones. 01+02 both had times where they really felt like a rehash of r01 episodes 1+2 to me, and I am sure I am not the only one.

While if the leak is real I could definitely see firing the employee, it's also an episode being aired in under 1 week. I think it's only a big deal with Sunrise was contemplating changing the episode already. ^^;

[stop-blushing.livejournal.com]

i hope they still air ep 3 the way it is. i really don't want to wait for an edit...that could possibly be an inferior ending and throw off the next couple of episodes

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Well, the sunday 5 timeslot is a new one, and unfortunately, is a time that a lot of japanese teenagers are out of the house. They're trying it out to see if it works, and I've seen a lot of suspicion that it's the problem.

I got the impression that they were purposefully putting parallels in? I rather liked the effect - it gave a good impression of how things had changed since the first season. It was corny and a little forced, perhaps, but compared to, say, the Euphinator, I didn't think it compared in terms of corny or forced. xD

It just seems like even if they planned on doing it in the first place, the fact that they're tying it to this incident has to be on purpose. If they weren't concerned about the fans distributing the leak, why mention it in connection with it, as though it's an effect of the leak?

[victoripenguin.livejournal.com]

Yes I do. Thanks!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I liked the parallels between the first and second series in these last few episodes too.

Without getting into which side is right or wrong, I have to say that from living in Japan it's become quite clear to me that the anime industry in Japan really hates and fears fan(subber)s quite a lot. Companies here profit off anime in very traditional ways, which have recently started to not work so well, and their response so far has been to try to suppress alternative methods of anime propagation. So I guess I'm saying, Sunrise is being typical here, sadly.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

I don't know how much japan cares about non-japanese piracy. I'm sure it's an issue to them, but they don't directly lose money from it. Sure, if it shuts down or disables the american liscencing companies, it will eventually hurt the japanese studios, but compared to japanese piracy, it's not as big of an issue.

The japanese piracy, on the other hand, is kind of a big deal right now. Studios wouldn't be looking at online streaming of episodes if they weren't trying as hard as they could to counter the piracy in their own country.

I'm sure, as other people have said, that there's more behind it. They probably were already considering this move. But in connecting it with this incident, I can't help but think that they must mean for fans to connect the two. There's no reason to make it look like it's a reaction to the leak if they aren't trying to get the attention of the fans.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Piracy has become a pretty big deal lately. =/ I suppose it's wrong for me to say things about it, since I'm a pirate myself, but I can see why the studios would be so afraid of it. It lowers ratings and sales, but with the internet's culture of availability, people come to expect the ability to watch something as many times as they like, whenever they want, so it's hard for tv as it's always been to be to work like it used to.

I'm really hoping that online streaming begins to work for japanese shows, and continues to work for american ones. I have to admit, if you make something officially available online, most of the lazy people or those who feel guilty will stop pirating.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

And I preferred the Euphinator since it was such a break from what I expected Sunrise to do. I expected Euphie to die tragically, but I never expected her to commit genocide as well.

That's fine if Code Geass is going for the parallels on purpose, but it's still not working for me personally and just reminds me too much of how I felt when I read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I find I personally am not enjoying Geass as much as I did the last time around.

Gundam Seed and FMA both found relatively strong audiences in Japan on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. or was it Sunday, now I can't remember.

Personally, I think it's more the break than anything else.

Again, how sure are we that any of this, from the leak to the possible postponement is actually true? I'd really like to see something published on the official site.

[powercorrupts.livejournal.com]

Chamber of Secrets was my favourite, actually. But uh, I digress. xD

Saturday 6 and Sunday 5 are pretty different when your primary market are students in japan. Seed was... also kind of obscenely popular. It doesn't help Geass that people were expecting Geass R2 to get the same ratings Seed did with a better timeslot, and the Gundam name.

I'm not sure. 4chan's /a/ probably isn't even a secondary source at this point, I'd think, since god only knows where 2ch got it from before they did. If it's not half hearsay after being copypasta'd over nine thousand times and being translated by an anonymous, it'd probably be remarkable.

[drug-holic.livejournal.com]

hopefully they stick along C:
The story got real interesting ne? XD

[drug-holic.livejournal.com]

Oh TwT;; For some reason, I thought you were totally pissed at me for making such a post xDDD [huggle (*´∀｀*)]

Oh... studying... totally forgot that was on my schedule as well. xDDD;;
As long as they don't mess up Code Geass, I don't mind waiting 8D

[xtine06.livejournal.com]

sou desu:D really interesting..i wish they would stick with the orig. i like that already..

i dont wnt to mess the story just because of this leak..