2 years ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20070101232949/http://www.asosbrigade.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20070604120310/myspace.com/asosbrigade

Something worth documenting. The ASOS Brigade videos were uploaded to asosbrigade.com and also made available to torrent on various anime-associated sites in an attempt to encourage the people who'd normally torrent fansubbed anime to consider purchasing licensed dubs/subs – appeals were made along a variety of lines to encourage "downloaders/bootleggers who never buy the official DVDs" to become "fansub lovers who [also] buy the official DVDs and help support more creative works."

This video series and/or individual episodes gets reuploaded by someone to YouTube every few years and so far they've all been taken down (whether due to copyright strikes or otherwise, I don't know, but the bookmarks stop working). This is an edited reupload of a so-far successful reupload of the entire series, which I've done for a few reasons;
· Redundancy in reuploads hopefully means one or the other sticks around longer.
· The other reupload has included the "second series" of ASOS Brigade videos, which I have deliberately removed here. Not only does this have the benefit of making this reupload less likely to be taken down as the copyright holders seem far more aggressively protective of that series, the second series is rather awful. While it's informative in many ways – the 2007 series, as weird as it is, seems to represent _successfully_ expanding a fan/audience base while doing so in a controlled manner (i.e. successful gatekeeping), whereas the 2010 series seems completely uninterested in any sort of organization, serving merely as a platform for less clued-in newer fans to be catered to (i.e. systemic failure in gatekeeping) – this channel is not in the habit of preserving art and decadent trash in the same bucket.
· I have messed with audio levels a bit. The live action sequences have been normalized to 0 dB max peak, and the pseudo-OP/EDs have been normalized to a -10 dB max peak. I don't know much about sound mastering, and cannot justify this change on a technical level – this has been done to suit my personal preferences. I am aware of the drawbacks but don't particularly care, and those bothered are invited to do their own uploads/reuploads that undo this.
· Note that I have elected against uploading these episodes separately – in the case of what we might call a "hostile" copyright strike against this being reuploaded, copyright strikes are processed by number of uploads vs being processed as instances with a video – i.e. if I were to upload the episodes individually, each video could end up having having its own copyright strike and this channel would be taken down. Uploading them as an entire uniform video file means a maximum of 1 (one) copyright strike would be processed, which on its own does not jeopardize the channel.

Timestamps:
Episode 00: 00:00
Episode 001: 06:08
Episode 002: 12:44
Episode 005: 21:46
Episode 003: 33:15
Episode 013: 44:12
Episode 009.0: 49:02
-Episode 009.1- (except it isn't): 57:20
Episode 004.1: 01:02:50
Episode 004.2: 01:06:12
Episode 0010: 01:10:53
Episode 0011: 01:16:20
Episode 0012: 01:23:33