Anime Fansub Documentary PART 1

Part one of the THE RISE AND FALL OF ANIME FANSUBS - a documentary I compiled over half a year. Enjoy it, agree with it, or be enraged by it... but you cannot deny the academic points it makes!

...INCIDENTALLY... that opening sequence took bloody ages to make, so do watch it at least fifty times if you can. Thanks. Lol
I think it shows the beautiful things you can do with parallax scrolling (anyone remember the sea in the background of the original Sonic the Hedgehog game?).

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Anime
• fansubs
• fan
• subtitles
• dub
• dubbing
• japanese
• animation
• naruto
• one
• piece
• manga
• Jonathan
• Clements
• Fred
• Schodt

[Zheidentified]

違法ダウンロード者は国内・ファンサブ野郎問わず死ね。日本国内­でも放送局ネットの関係で週遅れで視聴をするほかない人間がいる­のに、DVDすら買わない・CMをカットする外国人がなぜ堂々と­大手を振って違法ダウンロードしているんだ？

Fuck you FANSUB-er.

[OtaKing77077]

@Zheidentified そうだなぁ。

今、たくさんの日本のアニメDVDは欧米ですぐに商業的供給源か­ら容易に調達できるが、外人のおたくの大多数は違法ダウンロード­する。あいつらは恩知らずのがき共だから。

90年代の古き良き時代には、イギリス人も米国人は日本のアニメ­を買うことが出来なかった。

今でさえ銀河英雄伝説とか、マクロス7は日本国外の人々の手の届­かない。

その当時、Fansubber達の中でお互いの了解があった。ア­ニメは公式契約の下で欧米に発売されと、そのアニメのファンサブ­の配布をすぐにやめる、って。でも、あの時代のFansubbe­r達はほとんど30歳の熱心なファン。目的はただアニメの素晴ら­しさを無知な人々に伝えること。現代のFansubberは逆に­幼稚で間抜けな野郎ども。目的はアニメについて良い評判を広める­ではなく、自己宣伝と勝手な自己満足だ。

現代の社会風潮の反映かもしれない...

[trulgn]

whats the anime at 1:53 on the right hand side of the screen please it looks really good

[OtaKing77077]

@trulgn

Combustible Campus Guardress. By the same guy who did BASTARD.

[tokiwotomare]

I do a little amateur TL every now and again, and since I base my methods off what I learned here, I though I'd ask:

When a character refers to themselves in the third person, should that be carried over to the translation, or changed to "I", "Me", etc?

[OtaKing77077]

@tokiwotomare

I would go with "I" every time as a rule.

Just say it out loud in your head and imagine the sentence being spoken in a (good) dub. If it sounds stupid, something's gone wrong!

[OtaKing77077]

@Taoku

Dominion Tank Police. A masterpiece!!

[GigawingsVideo]

@MisterHeroman Yeah, that's why Knights of the Zodiac and robot series are popular. I still love Zodiac Knights and even going to get the new PS3 game.

[MisterHeroman]

@GigawingsVideo Luckily for those in Spain, Italy, France, or Arabic speaking companies, they still got more anime aired and dubbed overall back then, like Mazinger, Grendizer, and Knights of the Zodiac.

[dingumfCallofDuty]

I like tl notes because if they're putting them in, that means the references/jokes should be translated correctly like when shows borrow an English phrase from some book.

[Nicky131Popstar]

Are you Jonathon Clements?

[slyther2]

I respect Otaking's work on this video though I get a heavy and strong impression that he's something of a close minded purist who doesn't like new anime even though there's been some absolute masterworks and thinks old dubs by streamline e.t..c were actually good even though old anime dubs back in the day were god awful and they're actually superior now than back in small little world

[TheNeozoid]

someone get the fansub people working on the new fma brotherhood movie naow for gods sake imma cry if its not done soon!

[GigawingsVideo]

@NemaN101 That's another problem with trusting a company sub and dub it, some of them are in for the money, and it shows with their quality.

The worst part? spending so much money and waiting for 2 weeks to a month for a DVD to arrive (shipping from US to Asia is damn long, especially with sea line) and when we finally put it in the DVD player and find out that the sub and dub quality are bad, that is just disheartening to us.

[NemaN101]

@GigawingsVideo That's not true, the part where you said those DVDs are well subbed anime. There are a lot of DVDs with a bad work made in em, starting for translation, bad synch and bad video quality. At least that's frequent with old animes. Other cases are DVDs with dubtitles (using Eng-dub dialogues as subtitles), they don't match with the original version. A good example of bad DVDs could be "Blood +", the fansub version is better in TL. I'd prefer to spend in J-DVDs than those with subs.

[RyuuKouOu]

@YamiNogun

Judging from the footage, it's from the Vampire Hunter OVA (known as Night Warriors: Darkstalker's Revenge in the U.S.)

[Rawksyousocks]

@datFloyd I LOVE how the video condemns weaboo-ism and ye