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Fairy Tale Licensed

That's the news, here's the quote:

The North American anime distributor Funimation announced at its Sakura-Con panel on Friday that it licensed the first 48 episodes of the Fairy Tail fantasy adventure television anime series and The Treasure Hunter (Ci Ling) live-action film.

As is the case every time a great Japanese series is licensed by an American corporation, I don't see good things lying ahead. I haven't even started watching this series and already it's about to be deformed close to unrecognizability. On the bright side, at least it took 111 episodes. I miss the days when series had to stop airing and collect dust a few years before being licensed was even a possibility. Both legal and moral dilemmas are brought forth when foreign media is secured for distribution on official channels all around the globe. Oh well, so far it's only 48 episodes, hope they outrun Funimation. :P

The Insane Fansubbing Frenzy

I've been watching anime fansubs for almost a decade now. I've been watchin since there weren't very many of them, since I could actually have downloaded all fansubs ever released in English within a month if I really tried to (though maybe not with the Internet connection I had back then), and since then things have escalated rapidly. Back then there was no YouTube, there were no other video streaming sites, and nobody wanted to waste bandwidth hosting their own videos so watching the episode online was simply not an alternative.

Now all fansubs are streamed online on a multitude of platforms. There are sites dedicated solely to streaming anime and countless groups or fans uploading video files to the available video communities, from which they often get deleted quickly. The FLV format allows files to be drastically reduced in size and hosted on private servers, and there are services to upload files to multiple video-hosting services at the same time, making the effort it takes to delete files larger than it takes to upload them. I should point out though that licensed anime is what the distributing companies put an effort in deleting, the Japanese have never seemed to be very bothered with their series being fansubbed. Until the series is licensed in another country it only increases their potential market, making the series available to a larger selection of the world populace. And who doesn't want fans anyway?

Apart from streaming there have been countless other changes (improvements most people say). There are file-hosting sites used to upload and download fansubs as well as the traditional torrents, FTP servers or IRC bots. Maybe not so much public FTP any longer. The amount of fansubbers has increased too, scaling to catch up with the amount of shows available. All new popular anime shows are subbed, all of them, and the only thing that bothers me is that so many fansubbing groups sub the same series. The big shows, like Naruto, Bleach & One Piece, are currently subbed in English by at least ten groups each. The differences between the releases aren't so big.

Some use MP4, some MKV. Some don't have Karaoke, some do. Some manage to translate foreign jokes, others don't. Some fall behind on their releases, but keep going anyway. Some of them should just focus on something else and let the ones that are doing the job well have all the work. Or they could collaborate, combine their efforts and make the best subs out there. Why does everybody want a group of their own? I remember way back when when everybody subbing something actually did a good job. It wasn't about having their own fansubbing group, it was about making the shows available to the masses, by the fans for the fans. It was an honorable occupation.

But if you're reading this you probably knew all this already. :)

The Death Of Dattebayo

Dattebayo

It's official since way back, Dattebayo is gone.

Their site was down before summer and it's still down, and it won't ever be up again. No last message, nothing, so what happened? No answer. Intense searches all over cyberspace give no answer, they just backed out. Speculations are countless, but the probable is that they just stopped. They didn't feel like subbing anymore. Both Bleach and Naruto were dropped a while back and I can't say I've been visiting the site for their other newer projects, but it's still a shame seeing one of the first fansubbing groups disappear.

Not to mention the one group who managed to always release subs for new episodes within one or two days after their release date. They quicksubbed hundreds of episodes with staggering speed until Naruto got licensed and Bleach started getting streamed all over the Internet. New groups took their place quickly but I'll remember the days. RIP.

UPD: If you're looking for the site check the Wayback Machine. Still there.

One Piece Direct Downloads

ADC will now be uploading all One Piece episodes for direct download! So look here all anime fans. Click here for more info.

Why this is good great amazing incredible revolutionary news :
- No more waiting for torrents to be completed
- Fast FTP downloads
- Updated Daily

UPD: Link gone. Why? ACD fansubs are gone.

Bleach Licensed

Bleach has been licensed! This is incredibly bad news, as it means we will soon be seeing a dubbed version of Bleach... and usually dubbed animes are bad. However there are exceptions and I hope this will be one of them. Also, many fan-subbing groups will probably stop subbing it to not get in any legal trouble. The great people from Dattebayo, seeing as they still sub Naruto even though it is licensed, will probably keep going.

Viz Media has informed us that they have "secured from worldwide licensees, TV Tokyo Corporation and Shueisha Inc., the television, home video and merchandising rights to Shonen Jump's Bleach in the Americas, Europe and Oceania."

Viz is the Bleach master licensor and expects to announce television broadcast and other licensing partners "shortly." John Easum, executive vice president of Viz Media, stated, "Working together with Viz Media B.V. in Europe, we look forward to making Bleach a global success.

No specifics about the home video release are available yet.

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