Yay, I’m finally back! Looks like the site is here, so that’s always a good sign.
I guess at this point, we should probably take you our of the dark on a few things, and also look for some feedback from you. Over the past season, we’ve been doing some experiments with things. We tried quality, but that was a failure. We tried TLC, and that has actually worked very well. We tried muxing on servers, and that also worked really well. We’ve also tried working with multiple translators, and I have to say, I think we are all much less stressed with that.
So, I guess I should announce our plans. Right now, we’re working on the projects that we’ve released, and will continue to so long as we have the staff to do so, until the end of the season. That is World Destruction, Sekirei, To Love Ru, Penguin Musume, and Ikkitousen.
For the fall, our plans right now are EF, and Vampire Knight. We may be looking with a joint with ASF on something else too.
But, anyways, now that we’ve answered a few of your questions, I’d like for you to answer a few of ours. Namely, what are your thoughts on Chihiro? Are we a benefit to you, or a detriment?
Some possible things we’re looking at and would like your opinion on are:
1. OP/ED. Presently, we don’t add kara to them, and I doubt we ever will. However, would you be interested in a 90s style sub, where we sub it just like normal lines? Or would you rather have a clean OP/ED?
2. QC. We are NEVER adding QC to our speedsubs. However, there is a step called “Fining” which is checking over the episode before releasing to ensure that there are no major mess ups. Delays us 30 minutes to an hour, usually, but we’ll stop having to do things like the Sekirei v2s. Would you like to add in Fining, or no?
3. Anything else?
This is your chance to talk back to us about series you like, what you think we should sub, how we should sub, etc. Don’t miss your chance. XD
I like Chihiro subs, i like how fast you can bring episodes out.
I honestly think you should add the Fining process or something similar because there is nothing more annoying than seeing subs overlapping each other so you cant read them, this happens alot unfortunately 🙁
As for OP/ED, i dont know what they are as i am not good with shorthand, sorry 🙁
I highly recommend the Fining process tho, you bring out the subs fast and this is what we want! 😀 its just the overlapping of subs which bothers me hehe
I like Chihiro subs a lot. I love the Ikkitousen and I am so glad you guys sub this. I’m sad it’s almost over though. Keep up the good work
I hope you release Ikktousen ep 09 soon..It’s very hard to wait.^^by the way you are great subber…^^
Kaori from germany….
Hi thx for all your efforts, i like World Destruction, but the probelm is the tracker Anirena is banned in my country (UAE) so if possiple can u add a Direct download link or at least chng the tracker 🙂
First of all sorry for my poor English, I am from Russia 🙂
I want to say you in Chihiro group doing a great work. Your subs is almost perfect. I think no need in karaoke at all, a few people will singing with japanese actress when watching opening or ending.
Also, the subs must be plain in my taste. No need in additiional styles and different colors in each line.
One thing I want to ask you. Please, try to provide the .mkv of SD version of each title, it will be very useful for us bloggers to doing screenshots from anime with subtitles turning off 🙂 (it is impossible with xvid versions)
Thank you!
I dont mind to w8 a day longer for better quality,
OP/ED definetly has to come
well if you are going to add fining, you also have to keep doing V2
I see you are still adamant about not adding a QC step to your releases, so I recommend that you add in the “fining” step you mentioned. It can be fairly irritating to have to download a version 2 when one has limited bandwidth. In any case, your effort is appreciated. Thanks.
I like your releases i think you guys are good and basically it is what it is a speed sub and i rather have that than wait for weeks for a release. Also there is gonna be alot of new good show in the fall i hope you guys sub some of them. One last thing if there is a show now that is taking long for releases and is good is wagaya oinari sama i hope u guys can pick it up if u can if not u guys are doing a good job on all your shows.
I’ve discovered your team just recently, and am very please with your subbing!
1. I couldn’t care less about karaoke or text during the opening, since I’m usually not attentive at that part, or I just skip it.
2. As for “Fining”, I’m not a picky person, but I’m not impatient either. I wouldn’t mind an extra hour before publication for better quality (even if I haven’t seen any big mistakes in your subbing).
3. Thank you very much at Chihiro for the time your spend on subbing animé! Your work is truly appreciated!
Hope my comment helps 😉
I’m glad you guys are around because it brings consistency to a lot of anime shows that no one is really subbing (WD, Sekirei, Ikki). I would definitely add the fining process just because nothing sucks more than the v1 of a couple Ikki’s and Sekirei’s that were pretty bad timing/styling wise. Is there anyway you can gank someone’s OP/ED and just ask for that group’s permission if you cred them? Alternatively maybe work on it on downtime? Sometime’s there are some really good OP/EDs and it sucks not to have the TL/karaoke. Now if we can only get someone to sub Bounen no Xamdou.
You are one of the three sub groups that I’m coming back to everyday to see if you’ve released something.
1. I don’t need karaoke… sometimes I’m even annoyed (at other groups of course ;)) that they add too much to the OP/ED since it steals some of the feeling… if you want the text google it or wait for another group
2. As I’ve been working in the Quality Assurance at my working place for some time I definitly say yes to fining. I also do understand that you’re not going to do perfect quality, since speed is one of your features.
3. Keep it up ^^
hmm, The opening and ending of TLR would look nice with kara but is not a necessity.
The fining could be done, to make the “finishing product” less mediocre, and a little more pro ^.^
However, my computer sucks a bit, so if TLR (mkv version) was to be upgraded a bit, I would have some big playback issues (sound falls behind, or the subs wont come) so….. whatever ^.^
Either way, I am sure you guys would do a great job, even without changes.
But I can’t help but to wonder, will you guys be subing for quality when EF comes out or is it going to be speed? I’ve been wondering since, (according to me) EF has a really high quality, and I would prefer quality when it comes to EF, but I guess it’s just me ^.^
Anyways, Thanks for the hard (and mediocre 🙂 ) work, it is really appreciated!
I also would like to suggest though that you add the minimal Finning process. One more hour doesn’t outweight the disappointment if there really is a bad mistake, and its in the nature of things that it will happen sooner or later. Karaoke, while it would be nice to have, ain’t worth delays for me, although I do look for a sub with karaoke if I decide to archive a series.
Apart from that, keep up the good work, you make this season much more enjoyable!
First off, great job on everything – I’m honestly impressed with the speed and quality of what you do, even through occasional mistakes. I have to say that I support the fining thing as well – half an hour to an hour to watch over the ep is a small price to pay to make sure there are no glaring mistakes and no need to spend time making a V2.
1) Op/Ed Text wouldn’t be a bad idea specially on the series that you started from the beginning.
2) The fining process we be so awesome.. it wouldn’t hurt to spend a couple of hours for fining instead of doing V2 for minimal errors which i think more time consuming.. i really wouldnt mind waiting extra hour before the release.. (specially on Sekirei) ^_^
3) Keep up the good work.. Thanks for all you’re Hardwork on Chihiro Group.. We really appreciate it.. THANK YOU ^_^
I definitely think you should add “Fining”, its almost a MUST. There’s nothing worse than having misplaced text or overlapping text.
Chihiro, i rly like the fast subs that you provide :P!
changes are Not rly needed but mayb other would love it :D!
and Btw You guys have a IRC channel?
mayb im too stupid for not noticing xD
you guys are probably one of the best groups out there at the moment imo and so far in enjoying the subs on your stuff more than every other groups this season. as for the op/ed stuff tbh im not really that fussed about those things since half the time the lyrics make less than 0 sense when translated into english anyway lol but yeh as has been said by others definitely add the fining process if only for your own sanity 🙂
also someone mentioned you guys subbing wagaya no oiynari sama and i gotta say if u decided to do this you’d have a loyal subber for life! (and if u added monochrome factor into the mix aswell that’d also be awesome)
keep up the awesome subbing guys.
Okay well,
First off, I really like Chihiro, you do a lot of nice series that I like, and you do them quick and with good quality except for the occasional mishaps.
As for the karaoke, we don’t really need it, as I’m fine without it. However adding the simple subtitles for it might be nice sometimes as well, lol. Really whatever you choose is fine.
What I currently watch from here is: Sekirei, Ikkitousen, and To Love-Ru. I will be watching Vampire Knight Guilty when you start subbing it this October as well, and possibly EF.
Some projects I’d like to see done, and I hope you will do them, is some that haven’t been done by other groups. Shinsen subbed Zombie Loan 1 through 11, but no one ever subbed episode 12 and 13 (which are also considered OVA).. and I know a lot of people who are waiting for it to be subbed. So if you could do it, that would be great!
Good Job Chihiro and welcome back Kristen!
-Koby.
signs, txt from cellphones, etc
noticed u dont translate that sometimes. that my only qualm
I think you are great subbers.
I must say you, datte bayo and M3.3.w. are the greatest subsites I ever saw.
I think you make great subs. and you make Xvid aswell. some groups only make mkv with 1280xXXX etc. you are thinking at the people with lowpc aswell.
you are great. nothing more to say.
I have to be honest with you guys, you guys are an awesome fan sub group and i would not like you guys to change in anyway that would give bad name to you guys and i know for fact that would not happen. Also, let’s face it, most of the releases i look from you guys are always here when i check here after 1 week later and i appreciate the hard work you guys are doing and hope you continue to do so
Karaoke: i don’t really think we need karaoke, i think most of the time it wastes time, and usually i just skip it, but some times i do like listening to the ending for to love-ru (well the new ending) and i wouldn’t minds subs on that =P
Fining: i think you guys should do that, it’s some times annyoing when the subs overlap each other and disappear and you never get know what that person was saying until u rewind, and that gets annyoing, but it’s something i can get over ahaha
JUST KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!
>that would give bad name to you guys
you do realize, Chihiro is one of the most “worst” & “hated” fansub groups?
1.if its not a problem then do clean op/ed if it is a problem then a 90s opening wont be so bad
2.QC ?? whats that? what dose it stands for?
3.fining would be great thank you
4.what is EF ? you menchened it earlier in the post.
over all i am pleased with your performance as long as you dont over sub(i am talking about few good subing teams sub the same anime like it was with ZNT and CG) you are the best ^^.
as for series you should try the flowing : Tetsuwan Birdy Decode,Bounen no Xamdou,kamen no maid guy these releases are not subed by any good team.
also it would be great if from now on when you release SD and HD you will post them in the same time even if one of them versions is ready before the other, thanks
I definitely agree with Fining.
I’m so Very happy CHIHIRO for subs allways
Fining sounds like a good idea. The wait doesn’t really matter since most people have the patience to wait for better quality and v2’s are a bit of a pain. Your subs are excellent and you should keep up the good work.
As for OP/ED the translation/karaoke is always a good thing. If you are worried about the effect of the OP/ED then you could always leave it’s first run clean and translate for the rest of the episodes or even alternate.
Welcome back. Hope you had a nice vaca.
1. I don’t care about karaoke and usually skip over the intro and ending themes anyway.
2. If you’re going to add any more quality control (QC) then fining is the way to go. I think it’s a good idea even if it adds an hour to release times.
3. Don’t really have anything else to add except to say “keep up the good work.”
First off let me say you are all doing a wonderfull job.
1) op/end I could really care less about. I will usually skip over those anyways
2) If “Fining” is your tem for quality check, so be it. Watching anime with as few mistakes as possible makes for a much more enjoyable expirience.
3) Thrill thousands and be the first to put out Penguin Museum in avi format. Conversions are done for almost every other show, why not this one?
I am glad to see you keeping Vamp knight and picking up efs2
@perimiter
4.what is EF ?
EF ~ a tale of Melodies
– look it up at wikipedia or MAL.
What i think about u guys is that your jsut plain awesome and im glad that you guys are speed subbers.
1. I’ve never seen a “90’s style sub” so idk if you guys should put it or not. But I’d like for you guys to put the clean OP/ED (but if it’s too much trouble and you guys won’t be able to release in time then fck it).
2. If wastes too much time then no. BTW, sometimes the mistakes you guys do aren’t that bad so it dosent really matter.
3. Uhmm.. na not really. Just keep doing your work.
Peice !
plz do fining. nothing more annoying then reading sentences which miss a word or are gramatically shuffled
Welcome Back Kristen ^_^ ….I think you guys all do a great job.
The OP/ED I could honestly couldn’t care less about I usually skip them after the first time.
Fining would be good, but TBH I haven’t seen any huge mistakes. Mostly a few grammatical errors and a couple of missed lines, but no big deal. I could usually guess what the missed line was anyway.
BTW Are You guys still gonna sub Zettai Karen Children? Since You didn’t include it in the list of animes you’re subbing.
Anyways Thank You to everyone in Chihiro ^_^ and Keep up the Good Work
My current staple anime diet is ToLoveRu and Sekirei … Chihiro! 🙂
A simple QC (fining) – well if you got the time and since a lot seem to not mind an extra 1 hour wait – sounds good to me.
I don’t check here every hour of the day – so another hour to avoid a v2 sounds good.
OP/ED would be nice with just standard on/off mkv subs – I have other releases of ToLoveRu just for the OP sub … and it’s always fun to see the OP/ED translation change over time as someone changes their mind about the meaning …
As for me i know many ppl hwo don’t like kara in OP/ED so am i ^^
“Fining” <– i’m goin to say “yes” for it ^^ always better 😛
Chihiro don’t change 🙂 u (guys/girls) 😛 are makin great job and that’s somethin to be proud about so i’m very greatful for u always awaitin realeses :*
My english it’s not to good but just stand it, i’ll try to change :]
I guess summer is the time to take surveys and inventory huh? Everyone seems to be doing it.
Anyway, I have been turned on to many anime from just seeing what you guys sub, and see who else subs it and what else they sub etc… So you guys are the bar of which I measure other groups. Let me say what I want to see to get that bar up. I do not expect these but I would love to see it.
1. OP/ED are nice. I watch them once most of the time unless the song is awesome than I listen to it everytime (World Destruction). I think they are nice to have but I will find another group subbing the anime and watch just their OP/ED.
2. Speed vs Quality is a fine line to walk. I like both but I can’t have my cake and eat it too. the extra fining is nice but don’t kill yourselves over it. I say put out the MKV and do fining before the AVI encodes. Yes they will be different, but I get my anime and others get their quality on their VLC media player.
3. I would suggest shows for the fall…but I don’t know where to look so give me a heads up where to look or what is scheduled and I’ll check them out.
So to recap 1) OP/ED are nice but just extras, 2) Speed for MKV, Quality with AVI, and 3) What’s on this fall?
Thanks guys, you are truly awesome.
Chihiro’s a lifesaver to me.
You guys are speedsubbers, and the thing is sometimes you guys sub a random episode of something you’re not working on, and releases it even faster than the normal subbing groups do.
Don’t bother with the kara, it’s not really worth it I think. I’d rather you guys release faster than give me a minute or so of kara subs.
And lastly, adding fining would be great, I don’t mind the delay of an hour or so, but if it will refrain from any v2’s, then so be it. Quality is something that can’t be neglected, even for speedsub groups.
So there ya have it. Keep up the good work, I’m looking forward to EF. =]
1. prefer clean opening. saves you time. allows us to enjoy original animation
2. fining is better then spending so much time releasing a v2. You’re wasting encoder’s time again and also cloggin tokyotosho with your torrents ^^ hehe… also stops people linking “tsukuimi is cute” “kuu-chan is cute too” LOL
@ Some Random Guy
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@ Chihiro
1. I perfer the op/ed to be soft subbed for at least 1 episode. I like to know what the song is. I don’t care for kara though. It’s not back but not good either imo.
2. I think the fining process is a good idea. I have not been upset with what you put out but I can’t see the fining process hurting you. I agree that the line for speed/quality is a fine one. I don’t mind episodes being a week or two apart but delays longer than that are annoying.
3. I don’t feel the need to suggest more work for you guys. I like your selections.
I watch Sekirei, WD, and Ikki. Also watching a few of your older works.
Thx.
i like reading and sometimes even singing along with the begginings and endings whitch is posible at Sub groups like ”Ayako” although it takes more time to sub the beginnings and endings i prefer to have them subbed , but furthermore there releases are Great almost always on time whitch is great and ofc great Shows 🙂
Thanks for all the things you guys have done so far
Greetings,
Datrin
First and Foremost, Thank you guys each and every week for taking the time out of your lives to give us anime fans the fix on our drug, especially you guys who give me…pretty much every project you’re working on every week as fast as you do. Now, as for kara, i could care less for it, i’m the type who likes to make AMV’s on his spare time so having OP/ED’s with no kara benefits me sine i’m able to use clips from OP/ED’s without it being filled with subs. As for fining, again i dont mind either way, i have no trouble watching any epiosdes you guys release so in my opinion, it’s not needed. Lastly, I do have some suggestions on anime you can sub, i would actually greatly appreciate it if you guys managed to as only a good half of these anime’s were subbed and then just “poof” fell off the face of the earth, those would be
Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchou Tou Dai Ni Mak – 13/14 eps
Engage Planet Kiss Dum – 26 eps
and this last anime i’ve managed to find all subbed torrents for, however none of the torrents i seem to find ever work…
Seirei no Moribito – 26ish eps
i know that you all have your hands full with your cuurrent projects, even if this is something that you take on after finishing your current work, I and i’m sure many other people who have gotten into these great series but have gotten cut off from them would appreciate it greatly. Again thank you for the great work you guys do and keep up the good job…and in the case that you pick up any of my request, I thank you in advance /bow =)
Seij
What are your plans for Zettai Karen Children? Deculture is dead Im assuming and you have pretty awesome subs. thanks for listening
Imo you guys are doing gr8. I could never ask for anything more! The shows you are subbing and the subs themselves are great!
I hope this just goes to more projects and more experiments 🙂
A true fan.
Saku.
Actually, I was curious about Zettai as well, since after you released 12, there was indication that you were going to pickup the series since Deculture lost their subber.
As for;
OP/ED, personally, I never bother to watch them more than once, so I really couldn’t care less if you don’t sub them. Not exactly sure why people are so in favor of it…..
Fining; well, in the long run, it’s probably going to take more time to do that then is it to release a v2 once in a while, but personally, I’m all for it 🙂 As long as you guys don’t mind taking the time, it would make *our* lives easier but since you are the ones putting effort into this so…. :p
I don’t think you should bother with the op/ed subs, I will never sing out loud the lyrics and even if I try I’m not able to catch up with the lyrics on my own language (Spanish, that is why this post is so poorly written), but on a more serious side I would say that the op/ed are only needed to be subbed in one or two episodes just to take a look at them and see if the lyrics are interesting. Keep up the good work guys and girls (if there are any, I suppose I read there was one or two, but I’m not sure)
See ya next post.
OP/ED?…for me, i dont care much. usually skip it. but QC i think is important.
*anyway, any news on Zettai Karen Children?
1. OP/ED: Personally I skip through the Op/Ed so it doesn’t really affect me what you do with these, but I do like what several other groups do with them with the Karaoke and all that.
2. Fining: I’ve noticed rare typos in a few of your subs, but nothing that really distracts from the episode, but I think this would be a good thing to do, who cares if it’s an hour late? I personally prefer something that someone took their time on even if it’s the last one released to something someone just threw together to be the first to release it.
3. Anything else? It’d be nice if you could find higher quality raws for some of your projects, but I’m sure you’re using the best you can find =|
Personally i don’t care about the OP/ED, it’s very rare that i’ll watch them for more than one episode. Though the plain sub for them would be nice.
Fining, even in speed subs is a bonus. If it delays you an hour then take the hour. Better to spend an hour for fining that having to release a load of v2’s, thats a lot of wasted bandwidth 🙂
For me though, i love the fact that you have both .avi and .mkv. My computer strugles to play h264 since it’s fairly old. I have no intention of upgrading just to watch fansubs (cant afford it!!). I DL both, one for archiving for when i can finally upgrade the PC, and one which i can watch now. So you get a double thumbs up on that score from me 🙂
For Seijeroth:
Anime-Kraze has done all 26 epis of Seirei no Moribito
Please sub season 3 of Jigouku Shoujo and Shikabane Hime for the Fall Season. Thank You.