Silly Ichigo, that’s not how you read.

I hope you all weren’t hoping that there would only be two insert songs, because spoiler alert, this week we finally get a new song, spurred on by the finally appearing third member of the idol group.  Enjoy this week’s dose of idols.

Unnecessary note: Towards the end of the episode, a certain character has “-tarou” added to the end of her name.  If you didn’t fully understand from context, “tarou” used to be a common part of boy’s names, such as the famous “Momotarou” and “Urashima Tarou”. “Rantarou” itself sounds old-fashioned, prompting the samurai comment. (The ninja comment may be a reference to Nintama Rantarou.)

Episode 05: Torrent | DDL

Go break all your legs, Wota-kun!

And now for the long awaited fourth episode of Aikatsu! As you could probably tell by the wonderful title of Oh! My! Fan!, this episode is all about Ichigo’s first fan.  I guess they aren’t scared of introducing new male characters every episode; let’s just hope they stay as awesome as Raichi and Johnny Bepp.

This week’s note: Takoyaki is a traditional Japanese food, otherwise known as “octopus balls”.  Originating in Osaka, these balls of batter filled with bits of octopus are cooked in a special pan, and young people in Japan often have takoyaki parties where they make all sorts of creations, a lot not even including the vital ingredient of octopus.

Episode 04: Torrent | DDL

Why are you so moe, Ichigo?

Alright, and on to episode 3! Aoi gets to be Mizuki-chan’s temp manager; what sort of work awaits her? Starting this episode we’ve got a new team member, and another week of experience helping us to get you the best quality episode we can. Of course, you just can’t sub without issues, so despite the fact that we’re finished Monday night, this’ll most likely be posted sometime on Tuesday. Sorry for the delay, and from now on depending on outside circumstances you may be seeing early releases some weeks.

This weeks translator note: At about 10 minutes in you’ll see a person saying “persu tecu”. This comes from バイヤー　イイカワ　(baiya iikawa), in other words ヤバイかわいい (yabai kawaii), which you might recognize as what we had as “super cute”.  It’s a bit easier to do this in Japanese, due to how the syllabary works.

Episode 03: Torrent | DDL

Alright, we made it to episode 2! Ichigo and Aoi finally make it to Starlight Academy, but they face a new challenge already?! And what, there’s going to be more males than just Ichigo’s little brother? Well, you’ll just have to watch and find out for yourself. And as promised, here’s version two of episode 1 as well.

Edit: Haha, you know what’s funny? As a new group, I’d say that we’re expected to make some mistakes, but our most recent one in regards to muxing was rather embarrassing. If you were seeing ugly fonts or having issues, then get the newest versions of each.  If not, then there were no changes to the script, so don’t worry. Also, the patch for episode 01v2 only works if you have all the fonts already, so we suggest downloading v3 if they didn’t work originally.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Episode 02 v2: Torrent | DDL

Episode 01 v3: Torrent | Patch v2 | DDL

Alright, we made it to episode 2! Ichigo and Aoi finally make it to Starlight Academy, but they face a new challenge already?! And what, there’s going to be more males than just Ichigo’s little brother? Well, you’ll just have to watch and find out for yourself. And as promised, here’s version two of episode 1 as well.

Edit: Haha, you know what’s funny? As a new group, I’d say that we’re expected to make some mistakes, but our most recent one in regards to muxing was rather embarrassing. If you were seeing ugly fonts or having issues, then get the newest versions of each.  If not, then there were no changes to the script, so don’t worry. Also, the patch for episode 01v2 only works if you have all the fonts already, so we suggest downloading v3 if they didn’t work originally.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

Episode 02 v2: Torrent | DDL

Episode 01 v3: Torrent | Patch v2 | DDL

We at Mezashite! subs are proud to present you with our first release, episode 1 of Aikatsu!  Based on a brand new collectible card game by Bandai, this follows the story of Hoshimiya Ichigo, a first year middle school girl who’s not sure what she wants to do when she grows up.  That is, until she goes to see her first live idol concert and gets inspired by the wonderful Kanzaki Mitsuki.

As a note, the title of this show comes from “アイドル活動” (aidoru katsudou)
, which literally means “Idol Activities”.  We’ve decided to leave it as-is, due to how often it’s used and the dissonance that usually comes with reading and hearing different things.

As a second note, there’s a line that goes “We’ll take that ladle and turn it into a mic!”  This line isn’t some sort of proverb or metaphor; even the Japanese are amused by it.  Hopefully you are too.

Episode 01 v3: Torrent | DDL

Edit: As it stands, we’ll be keeping to just 720p releases for now. Also, there are currently no plans to make available DDL or XDCC right now, so we apologize for any inconvenience.