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NEWS: Funimation to Offer 2009 Fullmetal Alchemist on April 9

I wonder why they have to wait so long? 4 days is cool once the series is done with and your options for getting it are waiting forever to download it or just start streaming it, but for the FMA fan, fansubs will probably be out within 24 hours of the japanese broadcast.

Just searching on a torrent site, you've got stuff that's been up since the 5th, 4 days before Funi will be showing this. If Crunchyroll can get Naruto, Gintama, Hayate etc, like 4 hours after the jpn broadcast, why does it take Funi 4 days?

Dictated by Aniplex. Beside the premiere at the convention in Australia, no other country can air it before 00:01 4/10 JST.

Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore perfection should not be considered a goal.
Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore the audio/video quality of a fansub should not attempt to match or better the quality of a professional DVD.

bayoab wrote:

Dictated by Aniplex. Beside the premiere at the convention in Australia, no other country can air it before 00:01 4/10 JST.

Pretty much, the concept of contracts seem to be lost on some.

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Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore perfection should not be considered a goal. Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore the audio/video quality of a fansub should not attempt to match or better the quality of a professional DVD.

Then why are HD fansubs coming out, this clearly breaks fansubber ethics. But then again I don't put much stock in them to begin with.

Found here. animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2003-06-08/2

bayoab wrote:

Dictated by Aniplex. Beside the premiere at the convention in Australia, no other country can air it before 00:01 4/10 JST.

Pretty much, the concept of contracts seem to be lost on some.

Quote:

Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore perfection should not be considered a goal. Fansubs are not meant to compete with a professional product, therefore the audio/video quality of a fansub should not attempt to match or better the quality of a professional DVD.

Then why are HD fansubs coming out, this clearly breaks fansubber ethics. But then again I don't put much stock in them to begin with.

Found here. animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2003-06-08/2

Well, either the contract restricts how early they can release it and/or they don't get the scripts early enough to get the subtitles done before then (particularly since they're not likely to stay up all night translating and subbing as fast as they can like various fansub groups do). I can understand why Aniplex would want the streams to show after the initial broadcast, but I would have thought that a day or so would be enough of a delay. It seems likely, however, that they don't agree - though it would be interesting to know what their reasons for a larger delay are.

I thought it was obvious that I was referring to english subs. Guess not.

To anyone who is pissed about the anime not being region locked to not their region:
Google proxy websites and find a proxy that is located inside one of the locked websites. This way you can easily stream it from outside the country, I've done this many times for region locked Nico Nico Douga videos from japan. It is very easy to do and I don't think it breaks any laws.

I did some quick math on the various trackers, bots, that I have access to. In the <4 days since the fansubs have started appearing (and still before the legal streams start), there have been at least 250,000 downloads of the English subtitled files. This does not include p2p networks, direct downloads, usenet, or video stream site views.

Many more downloads for untranslated Japanese and other languages, of course.

Even if you was, where did I write that I watch Italian fansubs? I only watch English ones (I've my reasons).