Project Imas Fansub!

[Magenta Galaxy]

I don't really know if that's true. Certainly im@s is ~big in Japan~ and all, but as much as we delude ourselves otherwise the western im@s fanbase is actually surprisingly small. While we have a very active and tight-knit community here, if you compare the amount of traffic im@s tends to get on more 'general' sites about anime/gaming/whatever it's nearly non-existant.

Don't get me wrong - there's certainly a good chance it'd get picked up by some random group out there because it's good, but I don't think the western im@s fanbase is anywhere near copious enough for it to be something people would do just because it's 'popular'.

[Scotty]

Look at how many new anime shows pop up each season. Now look at how they almost never fail to get subbed.

Surely iM@S will get subbed.

[Magenta Galaxy]

Probably. Perhaps I'm slightly pessimistic because I tend to dabble more in the sort of "yet more robots beating each other up (for 8 year olds)" style of anime that doesn't tend to get the same kind of tenacious subbing as "yet another goddamn moe show" - which is probably the demographic the im@s anime will fall into.

Still, time will tell, I suppose. Me being pessimistic isn't going to make a bit of difference in the long run. :V

[RoninatorMarx]

This whole thing is so unorganized. I have yet to see anyone be certain and serious about this.

This whole topic is full of 'coulds' 'maybes' and 'ifs'. Could someone just start making a list of people that will be in it for sure?

Well, sorry to be unorganized. We are just starting out, and you're obviously looking at a bunch of greenhorns. For now, I'd let people keep on listing who could help out so later we can rule out everyone except who can and will take part in it. There's no given time for the anime's airing, and if we're to believe that the airing's next summer, then we have all the time we could possibly need to put at team up. Don't see this as optimism, because if it was, I should've said "We will make a team." "If we do make a team, we'll try our hands out on it," that's just my realism.

Of course, if you do want to see a leader figure working on this, I suppose I can wear a wooden fist (because I went to the tyranny shop, and they were out of iron ones), but I like the team (when assembled) to assign its own head staff. Just being democratic, as I see it's the fair choice.

@MG: Well, you're probably too late, as I'll admit your convo with Scotty just now has a way of draining morale outta people interested in this (Sorry. Just being honest). Your fansub group or anyone else's may try to sub it if you like, but I still say we, members of the site, should do this, just because we're fans, hence the planned fansubbing group. I don't know how well we'll work, but it's way too early for us to jump to conclusions and draw our own progress.

[Picup]

It's great you guys are doing this, truly.  I enjoy subs from fans of the series because they can understand some things from the series that outside groups might not be able to (because it's a "joke" in the game? Did this make any sense at all?).

Anyways, I think what the topic needs is maybe a list of the "jobs" in subbing, and an explanation of each.

(Translator, script-checker, Timer/Typesetter/"subber", Quality Checker, Encoder I think)

It's good to get a pool of people who are willing to help, but it probably helps to know what people are needed or what needs to be done.

I can also give you guys a hand (with everything but translating and encoding, I think if I tried to encode on my laptops they would just blow up...) dependent as well when the anime comes out.

haha, my first thought when I heard about the anime is that "Magenta's group is going to sub this for sure".

[Sev]

Baby steps people baby steps. At this point fan-subbing is still just an idea. Hence the question mark in the threads tittle. When we have people who have said for sure "THIS IS WHAT I'LL DO"  then we can get to making official list and stuff. We still don't have a definitive release date as of now.

Scotty has a point some larger group may come along and sub this for us but that's not what we're here discussing we're here to see if WE, the few English speaking iM@S fans would like to take on the task of subbing something that represents all of us.

[Magenta Galaxy]

@MG: Well, you're probably too late, as I'll admit your convo with Scotty just now has a way of draining morale outta people interested in this (Sorry. Just being honest). Your fansub group or anyone else's may try to sub it if you like, but I still say we, members of the site, should do this, just because we're fans, hence the planned fansubbing group. I don't know how well we'll work, but it's way too early for us to jump to conclusions and draw our own progress.

That was actually what I said originally! If you want to do it, do it! Fansubbing is an awesome hobby and very satisfying and yes, definitely give it a shot. I was just making the point that you're not gonna be stuck without subs if this falls through, which if anything should make it easier by taking some pressure off, right?

My conversation with Scotty wasn't meant to dissuade you and I don't see how I said anything that would have. o.O; All I meant is that im@s isn't that popular OUTSIDE of this place, so I felt it quite unlikely people OUTSIDE this forum would sub it - I wasn't trying to put you off at all.

Competition is not a bad thing in fansubbing - if anything it encourages people to do better work. So don't let it put you off, if anything let it inspire you. <3

[TweenDoriru]

Oh, Scotty, I love how you're always supportive of what we do as a forum. What an inspiring moderator.

Baby steps people baby steps. At this point fan-subbing is still just an idea. Hence the question mark in the threads tittle. When we have people who have said for sure "THIS IS WHAT I'LL DO" they'll do then we can get to making official list and stuff. We still don't have a definitive release date as of now.

Scotty has a point some larger group may come along and sub this for us but that's not what we're here discussing we're here to see if WE, the few English speaking iM@S fans would like to take on the task of subbing something that represents all of us.

I think this is pretty well said. Even with other sub groups, it's a nice project for our English-speaking iM@S community XD

[Scotty]

I'm actually a janitor.

[TweenDoriru]

I'm actually a janitor.

That might explain all the sh--oh, wait, I'm here for the fansub, not to talk about your profession. My, we're getting off-topic.

[Scotty]

Yeah. You were.

PS: I request that you guys only do HD content. I love HD stuff.

[Benpc91]

I don't really care so much if another group is doing it.  If Project Im@s does a translation, we will be listed as a sub group, and future iM@S fans will know where to gather.  I mainly had this idea as another way to advertise.  I never really thought of multiple fansubs on this one as a competition at all.  After all, this is probably the only anime project Project Im@s will do.

As for me, I'd also volunteer to be an editor, and will DEFINITELY be around before and through the anime's air time.  My last experience as a sub editor was with Domelola's subs.  However, quite a few people have also volunteered for that as well.  But I'll definitely be an editor if one is needed.

[Katsuyuki-P]

Oh, this looks interesting. I'm willing to help out if you want me to!

I can't read Japanese all that well (at least the kanji anyway), but I can understand a good deal of it. Of course, not as good as natives or anything like that, but I can assist in some translations as an assistant of sorts. I don't have any particular experience with subbings, but I can give a crack at it too if you really need the help. Just need to learn the ropes and such.

Of course, I'd really like to try Editing as well.

[Sev]

Ok so the main component this team is missing is a Lead Translator without that we can't do anything else so if you or someone you know would be willing to translate post it up. Once we have that we can divide up all the other task.

[Maiku_Ando]

A Project-IMAS sub group... interesting. I did give a few comments already on subbing this anime back here so I wont repeat all it here but...

I'm happy to help in any/many ways (if wanted/needed), I am part of like 6 sub groups doing various things but my main area is DDL hosting and fine timing in Aegissub. I will be hosting the DDLs for this anime anyway, and I'm happy to provide my 'ddl for sub groups' to any/all groups who are going to sub it, including this forum. I do have a very large amount of bandwidth dedicated to these DDLs so it will be good/speedy hosting. The links/download area is customisable to the groups name as well (it can look just like part of this site if that was wanted / approved). I can also help seed it. I also do follow the fansub 'morals' in that all region 1/US licensed stuff is removed at once.

I will say however please do not attempt to host full anime episodes on cheap or 'unlimited' webhosting accounts, it will get shutdown in a matter of days due to 'over use' so please do pick someone (if you don't want mine) that knows how to do it / has a proper dedicated server or colo.

Also I know of atleast 2 well-known sub groups who have already said they are going to do it, not to put you off or anything, I personally think quality over speed, so it would be awesome to do a really good job of this and be proud of it.