User blog comment:LilyLacreag/Akage no An - My Review and the Summary/@comment-4934571-20140821193520

It's kind of relief and satisfaction. And I was burnt out 2 days ago when I finally finished voice cast summary. I checked every episode page, added names I found on Chinese Wikipedia and counted to final numbers (I could not use numbers from IMDb because I had to change some names that turned out to be wrong or add new names. Also, IMDb counts also archive footage as proper appearance so I had to count them carefully.) I needed some rest.

I mean, when you just watch it, it's great. You watch 2 or 3 episodes (or more if you have time) in one day and you only enjoy the series. However, this involved uploading info to IMDb, looking for images, creating character lists and voice cast lists... A lot of work that was needed to be done. When my best friend asked me: "What are you watching?" I said: "Well, Reign and Japanese Anne - but that's more like work." Literally.

So you did all those titlecards! I've been wondering too - I thought you had found them somewhere. You have my big respect, that must have been a lot of work. When I thought about adding Akage no An pages a half a year ago, I assumed I would take screencaps as I couldn't find more than 4 pictures from every episode. I didn't want to - it takes a lot of time, the quality of video is not very good and you can't take every screencap you want because there are subtitles (at least I didn't find episodes without them). Fortunately, I found many pictures at aogg.egloos.com (they have one or two articles for every episode but the last two - I think one is missing as well but I don't remember which one) and maker.so.

Links:

aogg.egloos.com - articles can be found in their archive - first two episodes were posted in April 2004 and the others from May to July. You can find them easily - there is always a number of episode in the title of article. Looks like this: 빨강머리 앤 사진 39화

maker.so - all the links to articles are in this post - there are episode numbers (you just have to look for them). There are not as much pictures as on aogg.egloos.com, but they are in much better quality.

By the way, those subtitles are often crazy. You know, I'm not native speaker, but even I noticed there were some grammar mistakes. But the real problem - names! You can HEAR they are talking about Miss Stacy and there's Miss Shirley instead. Or Diana instead of Ruby. Anyway, at least they exist so we can understand what they are talking about.

I'm planning to watch Kon'nichiwa Anne and maybe I'll start the next week. We'll see. I wanna have some rest before. :D I finished the book two weeks ago and it was really great (also the first non-abridged book I've ever read in English). Wilson's style is different, but it's still Anne - just in modern language. I've read that the series starts when Anne is with Thomases whereas in the book, you observe the beginning of Bertha's pregnancy, then there's Anne's birth and the deaths of her parents.

I will definitely add more pictures from Akage no An and complete the galleries. You could write those plot summaries, as you said - that would be really great.