Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 25

 
During her search for Memole, Marielle crosses paths with Jimmy, a little boy who ran away from home for fun and is being chased down by the police. Upon discovering Memole's tiny parasol inside of his bag, she agrees to hide Jimmy temporarily since she believes that he could hold the key towards finding Memole once and for all. Memole, on the other hand, continues to search for Marielle with no luck...

Semi-trivia(?):
After this show finished airing, a short theatrical movie based off this show was released as part of some yearly film festival that Toei would hold. That movie was mainly a re-cap of this very episode, with bits from episode 24 thrown in. I actually happened to sub said special years ago, before this show's fansub got started... oh, how time flies.

Inka's write-up:
https://www.inka-subs.net/2026/10/lonelychaser-inka-tongari-boushi-no-memoru-25/

 

An Update on Tantei Monogatari

TL;DR — The show is going on an infinite hiatus. No, I do not know when I'll come back to resume working on it.

The long version:
Those of you who had been following both my blog and my previous Twitter account will likely already know about this—well, some of it, maybe. This is mostly meant for the people who do not browse Twitter and just strictly follow this blog only.

I've been enjoying whatever I've finished so far of Tantei Monogatari, but truthfully speaking, tackling this show for subbing was way overwhelming than I would have ever imagined. The longer episode run-times, the shitty optical audio, the dialogue, there being no JP subtitles to work off of... consequently, this was a project that I quite frequently stalled on and also took a long time to work on since I wanted everything to be perfect. This isn't something I really mention often but I really did struggle trying to get the first few episodes out.

A couple episodes later into the project, I got in touch with some translators who said that they were interested in translating the rest of the show for free—OLDB1BA and rudluff, respectively. Considering 99% of my solo projects consist purely of commissioned translations, I didn't want to let this opportunity slip, so I happily accepted them into the project. With their help, plus with the help of a native JP user, I was convinced that the rest of the project would go smoothly.

I think this occurred, what, last year? Somewhere around there. Fast forward sometime later into the future...

rudluff started becoming offline more frequently due to IRL priorities. (I don't blame him for this.) I could no longer rely on the native JP user for TLC'ing the harder lines in this show for reasons I would rather not disclose here since mentioning them publicly on this blog won't fix or change anything. This left just OLDB1BA, who went on to do the rest of the show by himself, surprisingly enough.

I'm not sure if this had happened after he finished the show, but AvistaZ had begun offering a large bounty for anyone who could submit an upload of the entire show, subbed. OLDB1BA & I had talked about this and the conversation can be summed down to exactly this:

He felt it was unfair that I was taking such a long time to release each episode, considering he had gone and done the whole show for free. Additionally, he wanted to be the one to fulfill that site's bounty request for the show, but he wasn't sure if that would have been possible due to how frequently I was putting out these episodes. Ultimately, we compromised—since he did do the whole show for free, I agreed to let him release the rest of the episodes that I hadn't yet put out under the "LonelyChaser" label.

Now, here's the thing... OLDB1BA wrote on the description for that upload (on AvistaZ) that the subs for these "unreleased episodes" (we'll call them "beta" subs, since that's how they're referred to on there) were to remain exclusive on there and couldn't be uploaded anywhere else. Some torrent sites out there do actually have rules regarding exclusivity and all, so I genuinely thought those subs really were exclusive to the site.

Well, as it turns out, some user on Twitter decided to download these beta subs and release them publicly on a now-deleted tweet that got a shit ton of reposts, all in the name of "preservation". It gets better—when I discussed this incident with some other users, they explained to me that AvistaZ does not, and never had, any such "exclusivity" rules on their site, so the "Do not share elsewhere" warning that's on that upload really doesn't mean jackshit.

All things considered, this greatly upset me. Not only was I pissed that the beta subs made their way into the public this way, but I also got frustrated over the so-called "exclusivity" of those subs. I don't know, it just irked me that I was assured that they couldn't be re-posted elsewhere when that was totally moot from the start. All of this happened a few months ago, but after that entire fiasco, whatever motivation I had left to continue working on the show just kept shrinking day by day until it got to where we currently are now.  

So, what happens next?

Despite everything, I'm not dropping the show. I do want to resume this at some point and see it through the end. I'm happy that OLDB1BA was able to finish it on his own, but contrary to what the torrent page's comments for those beta subs says, the project could still benefit from extra QC'ing and it absolutely still needs lots of TLC'ing IMHO. Nevertheless, considering what recently happened (and the fact that I'm juggling way too many projects right now), I just simply have no interest in working on it at this moment. Maybe I'll resume once I have less stuff to work on or once JP subs for this show pop up, if the latter ever happens.

Note to self: if a translator offers to translate an entire show for you, do not accept it. 

I apologize to anybody who had been keeping up with this project from the start and was looking forward to any future releases.

Studio Bebow Documentary (v2)

 
Tomonori Kogawa's Cool Cool Bye OVA originally came included with a short little extra—a small documentary centered around his animation studio, Studio Bebow (also the same studio that animated the OVA). Within this documentary are short interviews from various staff members, as well as a short introduction from Kogawa himself at the beginning.

I had subbed this myself many years ago, but it was in need of a huge update. Aside from the fact that it could have benefited from a better video source, the translation was handled by someone whom I stopped working with ages ago for two reasons. One, their translation work was awful (which I didn't realize until later), and two, this person in general was just not very professional to work with.

(Fun fact: after a long time had passed since we both last spoke to each other, he randomly DM'ed me out of the blue asking me for money so that he could purchase a new cell phone with it. WTF?)

I had been wanting to revise this documentary as a result, but I just never got around to it due to a boatload of reasons. That changed when Collectr from Orphan Fansubs expressed interest in wanting to release a new version of the documentary several years ago. Once again, this sort of stalled for a bit since I couldn't find a suitable translator for it, but I was able to get the ball rolling on this re-translation project after I was introduced to user "justj22". He helped translate the documentary while Collectr edited/typeset it afterwards, and it was finished off with extra QC'ing from imatu and myself.

A final note:
This documentary can be found at the usual spot, but it is not a standalone release. This was actually bundled alongside a new version of Orphan's Cool Cool Bye fansubbed release. I can't post a direct link to it but you'll easily find it on that site under the "Orphan" tag.

Click here to be re-directed to Collectr's blog post on this release.

Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 24

Marielle begins her first day at school in Saint-Loine, but things go awry for her when she discovers that Grace is in the same class as her and will stop at nothing to ensure that Marielle's time spent at school is nothing short of a living hell. Memole, unable to cope with the fact that she won't be seeing Marielle for a while (and plagued with nightmares of Marielle being bullied relentlessly at school), does the unthinkable and goes on a journey to Saint-Loine if it means being able to see her once again.

Inka's write-up:
https://www.inka-subs.net/2026/09/lonelychaser-inka-tongari-boushi-no-memoru-24/

Tongari Boushi no Memole - Episode 23

  

Memole notices one day that Marielle begins to act very erratic to the point of being "selfish". Wanting the best for her as a friend, Memole attempts to confront her about it one afternoon. To Memole's surprise, Marielle reveals that her father intends on enrolling her for school in the city, and must move away as a result. Memole is unfazed by this and consistently expresses her desire to join her, though Marielle has different plans for her...

Inka's write-up:
https://www.inka-subs.net/2026/08/lonelychaser-inka-tongari-boushi-no-memoru-23/