Finally I got around to filling in the missing files and episodes on the video library, added in 2 whole series and lots of other missing and updated episodes (DVD or v2 of releases). Every series on the site that has finished airing is now fully complete.

I have also joined up with Ryuumaru Fansubs to bring Ladies Vs Butlers and Omamori Himari to the site as soon as its released, MATV will be the DDL provider to Ryuumaru for all their releases for both shows. All past releases are already up, and all new episodes will be available as soon as they are released. This now makes us DDL for 2 fansub groups, as MATV also provides the DDL for FTV-Subs.

New items added:
Ladies Vs Butlers – (1-6 on-going) – Ryuumaru MKV and MP4
Omamori Himari – (1-5 on-going) – Ryuumaru MKV
To Aru Kagaku no Railgun – (1-18 Ayako h264 MKV, Mazui 12-15,17 MKV, SubSmith MKV for special 01)
Valkyria Chronicles – MKV h264 – (1-10 AnY-Conclave, 11-26 gleam)
Rosario to Vampire Capu2 – MKV DVD – (1-7 Ayako + m.3.3.w, 8-9 Ayako + eKissSub, 10-13 Seto Otaku)
Da Capo II – AVI (Shinsen-Subs)
Da Capo II SS – Xvid (Chihiro)
Kamen no Maid Guy * – (Yakuza&T-K h264 MKV 1-12, Xvid 2,4-6,8 and Ayako DVD MP4 1-4, SukiPawa OVA MKV)

There were some earlier updates which were not mentioned on the blog, these also added:
Amaenaideyo Katsu DVD – AVI 1-13 Mendoi
Maid Deka (J Drama) episodes 1-11 in Xvid 704×396
Moekan OAV 1-3 Anime-Empire AVI

Various pictures and descriptions were also updated.
* Kamen no Maid Guy still has some files downloading, a version of every episode is now present but it may not be in the desired format. The remaining Y&T-K MKV’s (2,4,5,6v2,8) and Ayako’s MP4 DVDs 2-4 are on their way.

All of the above are available for download on this page (click).

(DDL for Eps 1 -5 is Here)

I only started watching this about a week and a half ago, but I’m already totally addicted to it. Its ecchi, so dam funny and Saikyou Tomomi is just awesome, cheaky, maybe a little evil, definatly my favourite character and shes not even in a maid uniform (shock). Theres tons of maids, a couple of butlers and lots of upper class girls all in sort of mixed school where the servant class practice being servants to the upper class students by working in the restaurant at the weekends.

Heres a streaming player for Episode 1 (see the DDL links above for the rest or if this dosnt work) Double click the video for fullscreen. When in fullscreen click once for controls or right click for a menu. You can save the video from the player as well. This uses the latest DivX web player, and can be configured to auto save each video as you watch it, meaning you can watch as it downloads. Enjoy :)

[Sorry, new Wordpress now removes all HTML in a post. Even with visual editor turned off. So no embeded video anymore.]

As this is one of my current favourite shows I’m hosting releases by Ryuumaru and Doki in both MKV 720p and some 480p versions.

Lots of anime has been added over the last week, lots from the FTV-Subs group and some entire new series including Amaenaideyo Katsu, Da Capo I, Dapo SS and Valkyria Chronicles. Check out the Full A-Z Listing for all the new additions. Also take a look at the high quality subs from FTV-Subs group which we are hosting for direct download in the FTV-Subs Section.

There have been some problems over the last couple of months with the site which have now been resolved, and the links and lists are now up to date. I have also been adding more info, descriptions and pictures for many of the existing animes, there are still some missing but more will come soon.

Maid in Akihabara (Meido in Akihabara) is a 6 episode series that was produced in Japan on 2005 and released on February 24, 2006. Each episode ran about 15 minutes, and took place in Akihabara, Tokyo – the cyber city of Japan. The story begins when a woman named Saki, an ex-bar girl, tries to find a job to hide from a group of yakuza. She ends up getting a job at a Maid cafe called Meido no miyage (Maid’s gift). She is the third maid to be joining the cafe. She was homeless and starts living in a 24-hour internet cafe. (From Wikipedia).

All 6 episodes are available to watch or download here…

Hayate Ayasaki is an unlucky teenager who worked since childhood to make ends meet due to his parents’ irresponsible behavior. One day he finds out that his parents ran away from home, leaving behind a massive gambling debt on his shoulders. While running away from the debt collectors, he ends up meeting Nagi Sanzen’in, a young girl who is the sole heir of the wealthy Sanzen’in estate, and due to a misunderstanding, Nagi ends up falling in love with Hayate. After he rescues Nagi from some kidnappers, she hires Hayate as her new butler (from Wikipedia).

As this is currently not listed on FTV, you can download all the episodes as the Fansubs are released in the MATV Video Library here.

The video library and Maikuando.tv will be moved to a new server today, and this should finally end the download and bandwidth problems. This means more anime can be added as well!

For parts of today the site will be off line while it is moved to the new server.

Upgrades are compelte, and the site is fully back up and running.

Its been a while since I did an update, so heres some brief news.

My video library now supports encryption with https, to use it simply change the http to https and it will work with a nice secure connection, eg:   https://www.maikuando.tv

Why? Well some people have been worried about ISPs seeing what there doing, and in particular about them seeing people downloading anime, ie think Odex etc. Now with https, all the ISP will see is an SSL connection, and wont be able to see what your browser is requesting. All they know is the IP of the website, so they know your accessing the site, but cant see what your doing there or what your downloading.

If your using Stupid Fox 3, it will go crazy and tell you the world will end because theres been a security exception, this is because the people at Mozilla are idiots, and likely being paid by VeriSign et-al to make you think a non-signed, ie non-paid for SSL cert is not secure – this is rubbish, its still encrypted just as good as anyone else’s site, the only difference is there’s no proof who the company is, or who the site is etc. Enough on that before this becomes a rant :) But it will work, you just have to add an exception and install the cert into the browser. IE7 will give you a warning that its not signed and you just have to click continue (and this is how it should be done Mozilla!).

The library site has been very heavily loaded the past couple of months, and we had some serious memory issues – so if you were accessing the site and had the connection dropped, slow speed or couldn’t see the page that was why. I believe it is resolved for the moment after I did some tuning of the Apache config, however the server will still need upgrading soon. For those interested, we transferred over 60GB in January, and generally the traffic transfer has leveled out quite a bit compared to the 400GB a day previously. This is partly due to the memory issues preventing as many connections getting served, hopefully now the memory issue has been addressed you will be able to get a better connection. The server runs on a dedicated 100MB unmetered line, so we no longer have to worry about bandwidth overages and site suspension like back on the servage cluster days. Unfortunately the down side is that we have nowhere near the server power we had on the cluster. There are big plans in the future however, so please bear with it, and feel free to download and stream as much as you want.

Please please help us by clicking on the adverts when you visit, server rental and colocation for this kind of line is expensive and the cost comes from my pocket, I cant afford to upgrade it at the moment so it has to stay with its limited memory. This blog is hosted by Fansub.tv, but the video library is not, and thats where the cost is.

Another year has past and we’re now in the year of the Ox.

Wishing everyone a happy and prosperious 2009!

For those Fruits Basket Fans heres your image…(stolen from animeyume.com).

Wishing that everyone on FTV…

Have a Very Merry Anime Christmas!

 Maiku Ando

I have now added a small section on the blog devoted to J-Zine, it has some info on the first issue, the webzine team and some info on how to write an article for inclusion in the magazine.

If your interested in writing something, maybe a review of an Anime or a Manga or maybe a special article on something totally different, have a look through the Contribute page to see a brief guide on how much to write and how to do it, what the format is etc.

You dont need to have any prior experience in writing to contribute, and all you need to do is write the text in a word document and then its passed to the proof readers to help check grammer and spelling etc.

For more details see the page here.