Yes, you read that right! This set of releases is dedicated to all those Mitsuhiko lovers out there! (If there are any of those) XD

Also, this is a celebration of our 1-year anniversary of Kienai’s first Conan release that wasn’t Movie 11! Everyone get out your party hats and confetti

When I look back at our year as a team here at Kienai, comparing our older releases to our more recent ones, I can see how much we’ve grown as a team. Thanks to Kaitoukidsama’s improved encoding skills, our video quality has increased significantly, and as I hope you can see from my opening karaoke in these releases, I’m always striving to improve my typesetting skills as well.

We’ve also had many others who’ve helped us this past year. From having our editor, Jing, come and go, to the timers and QCers, I can tell we are just as dedicated to putting out high quality Conan releases as we were a year ago, and we plan to bring out many more releases in the year to come.

Anyway, as with last year’s release (421-422,433), we bring you another triplet of episodes: 289-290, and 303!

(which, unfortunately contain no references to red pandas)

Detective Conan 289 – 290

I think I can safely say that the whole team enjoyed working on these episodes. Personally, since these were mostly set outdoors meant that there was little ts’ing involved for me, so we could ultimately get these done a lot faster. (Always a plus!)

There’s a funny story about these, though. 290 would have been done in only two encodes, but somehow *points to Parkur* the following line made it into what would have been the release encode…

You can thank (or hate me) for this not being in the release...

Note: the first picture isn’t in the release either XD

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Detective Conan 303

This episode was good for what it is, although I could tell it was an AO right off the bat before I even looked up the episode information. Apparently, Mitsuhiko is so smart, he can even outmatch Conan in this ep!

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In the spirit of teamwork, we also have some staff comments on our first year anniversary:

Kaitoukidsama: It’s been a rough year for me here at Kienai. Things were finally getting on track. Then I decided to move 3000 miles away from everything I knew. Ended up being a more painful experience than I bargained for. First love, First heartbreak, Homelessness, High Unemployment, Bad Roommates… But I feel the experiences I’ve had here in Oregon made it all worthwhile. Towards the end of ’09, I got back into the saddle and made some things happen.
We got stuff rolling and before we knew it were back in a system… Here’s to a Conan Filled 2010!!!!

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We’re planning to put out a Valentine’s Day release, and maybe some others before that, so look forward to those!