Comments on: In Defence of Bandai

By: defendamericansubwatcher

defendamericansubwatcher — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:03:14 +0000

I am a pirate V

By: The P-Meister

The P-Meister — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:53:40 +0000

Well, if not for fansubs, i wouldn’t have spent money on gundam models and anime goods as much. Call it advertisement. Its supposed to be free on TV but cost a bomb on DVD. i’ll pay for anime goods but not the episodes, its just too costly.

By: Holden Caulfield

Holden Caulfield — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:30:58 +0000

I agree that they don’t need fansubs, but they still are useful for things like Solid State Society that aren’t in proper English yet. I’ll download the movie, but as soon as it comes out, I’m buying the English DVD because Solid State society is such a good movie. =D

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By: barbarian_brother

barbarian_brother — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:09:12 +0000

Hi, i’m french and here anime DVDs are very expensive, too expensive: a Stand Alone Complex DVD contains only 4 episodes, few bonuses (trailers aren’t bonuses, they’re ads) and cost about 20€ (about 26 US$). Often french anime DVD only offers the french voices (with ugly dub) ands no subs. When you find a DVD with japanese AND french voices you can pay twice the price of a single track edition. That’s not a problem for me cos’ i prefer the original voices with subs.

About subs: some fansubs team do a great work: try to download a Zeu$ team fansubbed episode of ‘Saint Seya Hades sanctuary episodes’ and you will see a great sub-art: karaoke songs sub, animated subs on the attacks scenes, a color and typo per character. When you taste luxury, it’s hard to get (when it’s edited : the Hades episodes are still not edited in france, but they are licensied for a while) a poor white pixelized sub.

So i’m pirate cos i download and watch animed series witch are licensied, but not edited in my country. I agree, i can buy DVD, but i do so only when a season don’t cost 140€ as stand alone complex (7DVD 20€ each)

By: DarkMirage

DarkMirage — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:53:17 +0000

Well, I’m not saying that fansubbing serves no purpose, but it just that it’s up to the copyright holders to decide if that purpose still exists and if it is significant enough. The companies don’t owe fansubbers.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 20:19:52 +0000

I agree with you in the most part, but since not all anime will be licensed the fansubs are sometimes the only way we would be able to watch a show, in my case, most of the Leiji Matsumoto old school shows, GE999, Captain Harlock, etc, none of the american anime companies would touch those shows with a ten foot stick, because they are old, very long and I’m sure quite expensive to license, so fansubs becomes my only chance to watch them in their original languange ;_;

btw, I just got here, and it rocks ! \m/>.

By: Dbin

Dbin — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:42:07 +0000

I think that Bandai has made a huge mistake in not providing quality subs on the GITS:SAC DVDs. I shouldn’t use it as an excuse I understand that, but I really did lose inerest in and then stop buying the DVDs after I saw the first few and realized the quality of the subs was not up to the standard of the fansubs. I think that if they were to hire some of the better fansub creators and begin distributing via itunes or some similar service they would expand their market greatly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:20:05 +0000

I’m not hiding, really…

I just don’t see a point to posting with the normal nick I use, other than making it seem like “LOL, LOOK AT ME I AM A KNOWN FANSUBBER AND THUS MY WORDS HAVE MORE IMPORTANCE. LOOK AT MY E-PENIS… IT’S BIG, ISN’T IT!? :P~~~~~”

Besides, I’ve been hanging out at too many anonymous sites, so I’m just used to it. Hell, I’ve used random/no nicknames on about 5 of the last 8 or so fansub projects I’ve worked on. And I was anonymous for every manga I’ve ever translated. Since I’m doing it for fun/because I’m a fan, I don’t really see a need for credit. It just makes it more likely that my original intent will get diluted.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 02:13:06 +0000

What a brave, brave man you are, hiding behind the ‘Anonymous’ tag, Anon. :D

Now this, boys and girls, is called ‘trolling’ – DM’s next blog entry, however, is called ranting. Slight difference.