Chojin VA 1 OVA: The Clearest Sky - Episode 01 (Links Fixed)

[Gaijinder]

http://img26.photobucket.com/albums/v78/VA555/va1fullcover.jpg
Cover art by Kara Dennison

Part 1 (http://www.fighting-dreamer.com/va555/Chojin%20VA%201%20OVA%20-%20The%20Clearest%20Sky%20-%20Episode%2001%20(Pt.%201).mp3) - MP3, 16:33
Part 2 (http://www.fighting-dreamer.com/va555/Chojin%20VA%201%20OVA%20-%20The%20Clearest%20Sky%20-%20Episode%2001%20(Pt.%202).mp3) - MP3, 8:31

OP THEME - GATES OF HEAVEN
Music, Lyrics and Vocals: D-A-I (Do as Infinity)

ED THEME - Mizerable
Music, Lyrics and Vocals: Gackt

Cast
Narrator: Jeishii
Mike: As himself
Priss: As herself
VA 1: Blue
Avias: Lucien Dodge
Kara: As Herself
Saban: Hiperu (Host)/Masahiko (True)
NetExec: Haruka
Otakiller: ASW

THIS WEEK'S MONSTERS (In order of Appearance):
Voice-seijin Asassain VOICE HUNTER: Mike
Mirror Chojin VA DARK: Lucien Dodge

Legionaires: Kara Dennison, Rikka, Mike, Midori no Zenpuu
Waitress: Rika

FLASHBACK FROM EPISODE 1
Maria: As Herself
Steve/Sailor Star Fighter: As Himself

Music:
"Henshin "- Kamen Rider Ryuuki Episode Final OST
"Sharivan Drama" - Uchuu Keiji Sharivan OST
"Saiai" - Mitsuko Horie (Godannar Second Season OST)
"Owari naki kyoui" - Gravion Zwei OST
"Victory Mars" - Go Go V THE SCORE 3
"Time Shadow BGM" - Mirai Sentai Timeranger OST
"Turning Japanese" - The Vapors
-“Meloncholy” – GTO DRAMA OST 2
-“Everlasting Blue” - GTO Drama OST
"Sleep My Dear" - The Big O OST
"Jaaku no Taido" - Megaranger Music Collection 3
"Speilvan Interlude 2" - Spielvan OST
-Daaku Kingdom 4 no Joushi – PGSM OST DJ MOON 2
-BELIEVE YOURSELF – Shigemori Takayama (Kamen Rider AGITO ED 1)
-Kouji Futatabi - Shinkon Gattai Godannar!! Second Season OST
-Uranus and Neptune – Sailormoon Memorial Disc
-“DEEP BREATH” – ROLLY (Kamen Rider AGITO ED 2)
-“Theme of Mimi 2” – Uchuu Keiji Gavan OST
-“Shaider Justice” – Uchuu Keiji Shaider OST
-“Justifi’s” – ISSA (Kamen Rider 555 OP)

SFX:
Rider 5 Archives (aka Multiple episode rips)
Legend of the Saints (Saint Seiya RPG Maker Game)
Blue and Masahiko
Findsounds.com
Sounddogs.com

Written and Mixed by Mike

SPECIAL THANKS
The cast - for being patient and dependable when I need you guys ^^
The fans - Are there any? XD
All the random people I asked to be extras ^^
Priss - Without you, I doubt there would have been an OVA Finale ^_~

Next time - Episode 2: “Duel” - Coming Mid-July

Enjoy and lemme knwo whatcha think folks ^^

[TamTu]

Tam Tu : my compliments to Kara if you talk to her ^^. Can't wait to hear more of her in the next two eps
Mike: ^_^
Mike: Next ep, she kicks ass
Tam Tu : i know. I read her lines :P
Mike: I mean like performance wise
Tam Tu : yeah, I expected her to do great o.o
Mike: lol
Mike: what did you think of Masahiko as True Saban?
Tam Tu : lol. Well. I didn't really notice any difference with Hiperu because of the massive filters :P
Tam Tu : at least with me, you can still hear it's me.
Tam Tu : >D
Mike: Well I had to because of thr accent
Mike: his performance I mean
Tam Tu : good ^^
Tam Tu : but again, the massive filters kinda made his acting hard to hear
Tam Tu : If I didn't have the script with me, I wouldn't have known what he was saying
Tam Tu : same goes for the legionaires
Mike: that was dpone so you couldn't tell it was me and Kara ^_^
Tam Tu : *shrug* still.
Tam Tu : NetExec was awesome.
Tam Tu : Fexy was good.
Tam Tu : .............yeah, I just said that.
Mike: keep going ^^
Tam Tu : Hiperu's quality was kinda disappointing during his host body form.
Tam Tu : Lucien is awesome, period.
Tam Tu : BGM flowing from scene to scene was a bit choppy at times, but not that bad
Tam Tu : oh. and you did well too.
Tam Tu : :-P
Mike: Yeah, when I moved Scene 8 up front, it suffered
Mike: psssh
Mike: lol
Mike: now comment with all of the following
Tam Tu : ?
Mike: lol I mean comment
Tam Tu : oh yeah. of course.

[Gaijinder]

Behold my typoese -_-

[Lucien]

I find the whole concept of this rp hilarious; set up as a serious action-adventure series, with voice actors being the protagonists. Add in some jabs at the voice acting world, and you've got a quirky little series.
The voice actors all had high energy, and it felt like everyone (producer included) was having a lot of fun with this. Which is what I think this series is; a lot of fun. Hope to hear more soon.

[TamTu]

The voice actors all had high energy.

The damn Chojin VA1 role demands high energy x_x *shakes fist at episodes 2 and 3 lines*

[Gaijinder]

Ehehehehehehe ^_^;;

[Matt Cruea]

I find the whole concept of this rp hilarious; set up as a serious action-adventure series, with voice actors being the protagonists. Add in some jabs at the voice acting world, and you've got a quirky little series.
The voice actors all had high energy, and it felt like everyone (producer included) was having a lot of fun with this. Which is what I think this series is; a lot of fun. Hope to hear more soon.

Exactly what I would've said.

It's a really fun series, which is something the community desperately needs: fun.

[Matt Cruea]

And, uh, series too, I guess. The community needs fun and series.

[StNick79]

dloading now, the fact that there was cover art was reason enough to dload. IT BETTER BE GOOD....lol

nah, from the looks of the cast list, i expect great things....great things, comments later

[Gaijinder]

dloading now, the fact that there was cover art was reason enough to dload. IT BETTER BE GOOD....lol

nah, from the looks of the cast list, i expect great things....great things, comments later

*drumrolls as he waits and braces himself for the worst*

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Oh yeah guys, if you want to see more of Kara's artwork go here http://art.conscrew.com ^^
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[U-1]

That's some groovy stuff.

[Brenzie]

Since you asked for it, I'll respond the way you wanted it :P



Technical-wise:
There seems to be lots of distorded sound signals. There's occasionally hiss in the audio, but it ain't so bad. When that "incident" takes place in the clip it is very loud, and sound's way too distorted and loud, like most of the clip (regarding sound volumes, etc. of course).
I find that the "robotic-sounding" voice that's applied with the heavy adjusting on it is a bit too soft. Maybe it's because you edited it too heavily...?
It's very cool how you -- after the song -- apply that radio. Sounds very convincing. The other sound effect -- the constant beeping-like thing -- is kind of vague to me. Maybe you can enlighten me on that...? Soon after you hear this constant ambient sound of water or something but that's way too hissy. The villain that comes into play is mixed in too softly, unless he had to be heard from a distance. Looks as if the sound quality of some lines are not so good. The music in here is too soft, in my opinion. I think this part of the play is the worst part mixing-wise. It sounds nice but this part could've sounded way better, especially with your kind of mixing skills that's to be heard. Nice quick change of scene, though.
Could be me, but it sounds as if overall generally the main level of volume goes lower constantly. I think sometimes the balance between some SFX -- like an explosion or something like that -- and the rest is off, not too often though. Also, I believe the general balance between SFX and voices and music could be better.


All in all it's a good piece. It has a very quick pace to it, too. I enjoyed listening to it, too :)

[Sadsiren]

Haven't listened to this yet (Sorry Mike ^^;; ), but am posting on Nick's behalf.

StNick79 Says:


[*drumrolls as he waits and braces himself for the worst*

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yoooo, since when did ppl start fearing my comments and critiques, lol. i'm not that bad

anyway, fear not, for it is not your turn to die yet

so like any rp, there's good and bad points: lets start with that bad....they're not many, which is good

1) i had to listen to it a few times just to understand what some of the characters were saying. this was mainly due to all of the distortion and filtering in some of the lines (mainly Saban and the Legionnaires). a script prolly woulda helped in this situation, and maybe if i had listened to Ep1. but thats nobody's fault but mine. reading other ppl's comments, i realized why the filtering was done. just make sure not to overdo to the point where it decreases the quality of the lines themselves.

2)well this gripe isnt that huge of a deal, but just something to think about maybe in future episodes. while i enjoyed the choice of bgm, i thought maybe the amount of tracks could be decreased some. i'm a big believer in the importance of bgm and how it is able to create the mood and atmosphere of each scene to the point where the scene is a character itself. i think with a less amount of tracks, the personality of the scenes can develop more, instead of hearing the bgm for like 5 secs (exaggerating) before switching to the next. that one scene in part one where the song Turning Japanese, just seems out of place. i didnt really know what was going on there and again it only lasted like 5-10secs and boom it was over.the flow of the ep seemed choppy because of the number tracks being used. again, thats just something to think about.

and thats the end of the bad, see i told u not to fear

now the good,

1)VAs and acting, like i mentioned before, just from the cast list, i knew i would have no problems out of them. almost your whole cast are veteran VAs,and it showed. while the filtering and distorting did seem strange at points. it did add personality to the likes of Saban and his Legionnaires, which i think u was shooting for. so it worked in that sense, just remember not to sacrifice the quality of the lines. and u mentioned u were trying to hide the fact that some of the cast were doing multiple roles. so yeh that worked. i do think Priss coulda shown more emotion and energy in the scene where she and Mike are transforming/linking up before fighting Saban. ehhh, thats not too big of a deal either i guess...ugh i'm rambling, on to sound fx

2) i now understand why theres not many Mecha rp's out there. the distinct and crazy fx of the weapons and attacks are not hard to come by, i'm sure. but somehow u had'em and u worked them in perfectly to create the whole Mecha battle atmosphere that many of us anime fans have grown used to. so that was a huge plus and u succeeded in bringing that to rp form, which had to be hard as hell to mix. at times, i did get lost in who was actually winning during the battle, but of course, in the end it was obvious as poor Masahiko got his ass kick. another bonus was the fact that u split the episode in 2 and the lil interval theme at the end of part one. another thing us anime fans love...(heh the smallest thing can satisfy us sometimes)

now on to part2, well strange...when i downloaded it, i only got 2 mins of part2 when there should be more. has anyone else experienced this? til the prob get solved, i'll save my comments...

[Gaijinder]

Yep, most likely doing a remaster -_-

[Masahiko]

dango, everyone should download this, this is one of my favorite rp series, i hope it can go forever. ill be glad to be true saban until im 40. lol

[SandsO]

I'd love to hear this.

[Gaijinder]

I'd love to hear this.

Holy Shite, talk about back from the dead o_o

I'll see what I can do >_>

[SandsO]

:) Yeah I spent so much time on this site I end up posting stuff in older posts just out of interesting if it's recieved great reviews.