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It's been two-three weeks since the new spring anime season has started and I finally completed the list of what I'm going to watch and by whom it's going to be subbed. There seems to be a lot of oversubbing going on this season which I haven't experienced in any other season and for some reason I find it counter-productive to the whole fansubbing circle. If you want to know that reason simply look at tokyotosho.com, under the comments that the fansubbers leave for their torrents they leave very saddening comments. Fansubbers are pouncing on one another telling each other they suck or to to stop subbing or to stop copying or to give something or other credit. It's very saddening as an old fan of good fansubbing and fandom ethics to see this happening when people are doing this out of the goodness of their heart. Who cares if one fansubber sucks at distro or encoding or translation or is not giving someone else credit, what you have to realize is that they are doing this for free for the fans or for themselves and usually they will tell you which. Another important point is that what all of them are doing is illegal anyways so who cares if someone is giving credit to someone else who's doing it illegally as well.
My brother just brought home a set of three katana's so I just forgot what I was ranting about. Oh right, fansubbing drama.
Yeah, so everybody should just chill out. The advantage of over-fansubbing for the anime viewer is that we have a lot of fansub groups to choose from so stop dissing on each other and just do your own thing, who cares what anybody else says. People now a days seem to have forgotten the good naturedness of fansubbing for the sake of providing something understandable to the non-Japanese speaker and that's not how things should be. I personally blame it on the childish and selfish young American anime audience that wants everthing as fast and as HD as possible without caring about anything else. I applaud the anime fans that stick to one fansub group and wait for their releases patiently without whining or asking when the next episode is comming out, that's what we all should do (as well as support the company making it by buying the DVDs if we like it of course).
Setting that aside, here is my anime list for the spring 2009 season. These are the shows which in my opinion are the best this season has to offer with a couple of self-indulgent ones (*) along with the fansub group that I'm watching them from. The fansub groups that I chose are the best ones in terms of translation with relatively fast speed, most of them come with both HD and SD releases but some have SD first and then HD a few weeks later because the raws come out in that order. Not having HD right away doesn't bother me as long as the translation is good and the video is viewable, unlike others. So, without further ado:
*07-Ghost: DB (who cares if its not in HD DB is a good group that has good translations & the fastest release)
Basquash!: umai
Cross Game: MJN
Eden of the East: gg
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Eclipse (no need to worry about C&D from Funimation b/c this group never discontinues their projects)
Guin Saga: whoever comes out with the episode first (all of the fansub groups doing this one are good, the raw itself is in SD so don't expect HD for awhile)
*Hatsukoi Limited: m.3.3.w
*Pandora Hearts: PHT
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~: Ayako (this one will be changed if groups drop it b/c of the C&D letter from Funimation)
Sengoku Basara: Tadashi
Shangri-La: Shinji
Valkyria Chronicles: Ayako
*Ristorante Paradiso: Shinji (Shinji pretty much is HorribleSubs for the new season)
If you are wondering why I didn't chose Desire for any of these anime even though they are pretty much subbing every show this season (along with Jade and Darksoul), its because they don't have good translations. The show is understandable with their subs but they are not the most accurate, it may not bug others but it bugs me so that's why. Jade and Darksoul do a better job than Desire in my opinion but take a bit longer so that's why they are not up there either.
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My brother just brought home a set of three katana's so I just forgot what I was ranting about. Oh right, fansubbing drama.
Yeah, so everybody should just chill out. The advantage of over-fansubbing for the anime viewer is that we have a lot of fansub groups to choose from so stop dissing on each other and just do your own thing, who cares what anybody else says. People now a days seem to have forgotten the good naturedness of fansubbing for the sake of providing something understandable to the non-Japanese speaker and that's not how things should be. I personally blame it on the childish and selfish young American anime audience that wants everthing as fast and as HD as possible without caring about anything else. I applaud the anime fans that stick to one fansub group and wait for their releases patiently without whining or asking when the next episode is comming out, that's what we all should do (as well as support the company making it by buying the DVDs if we like it of course).
Setting that aside, here is my anime list for the spring 2009 season. These are the shows which in my opinion are the best this season has to offer with a couple of self-indulgent ones (*) along with the fansub group that I'm watching them from. The fansub groups that I chose are the best ones in terms of translation with relatively fast speed, most of them come with both HD and SD releases but some have SD first and then HD a few weeks later because the raws come out in that order. Not having HD right away doesn't bother me as long as the translation is good and the video is viewable, unlike others. So, without further ado:
*07-Ghost: DB (who cares if its not in HD DB is a good group that has good translations & the fastest release)
Basquash!: umai
Cross Game: MJN
Eden of the East: gg
Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood: Eclipse (no need to worry about C&D from Funimation b/c this group never discontinues their projects)
Guin Saga: whoever comes out with the episode first (all of the fansub groups doing this one are good, the raw itself is in SD so don't expect HD for awhile)
*Hatsukoi Limited: m.3.3.w
*Pandora Hearts: PHT
Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom~: Ayako (this one will be changed if groups drop it b/c of the C&D letter from Funimation)
Sengoku Basara: Tadashi
Shangri-La: Shinji
Valkyria Chronicles: Ayako
*Ristorante Paradiso: Shinji (Shinji pretty much is HorribleSubs for the new season)
If you are wondering why I didn't chose Desire for any of these anime even though they are pretty much subbing every show this season (along with Jade and Darksoul), its because they don't have good translations. The show is understandable with their subs but they are not the most accurate, it may not bug others but it bugs me so that's why. Jade and Darksoul do a better job than Desire in my opinion but take a bit longer so that's why they are not up there either.
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