The Old School Otaku Lounge

usamimi wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:38 pmI'm honestly mentally exhausted after all of this because I spent a ton of time on both the podcast & the article, only to have people complain that the audio quality was garbage (my recording program reset to its defaults somehow & I didn't notice til after the fact), or that there's no transcript they can just read through (I'm a 1-person show and have never been asked to have transcripts ever, and as far as I know most fan run podcasts don't). My twitter got bombarded hundreds of new followers and now I feel like I need a vacation from podcasting, to be honest.

Kyrant wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:03 pm For some reason, I didn't realize that the podcast was available on Google Play (for some reason it's the only thing that will work on my cheap garbage phone). As someone with a deep fascination about This Sort of Thing, thanks for helping to keep stories like these alive. The interview struck a great combination of history lesson and friendly conversation, both down-to-earth and almost mythical at the same time. I really hope you keep covering material like this, 'cause I can't get enough of it.

mbanu wrote: ↑Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:36 pm
This is one thing that bugs me about the current fansub scene; a complete failure of imagination. There is as much or more stuff out there that isn't licensed and has a non-high chance of ever getting licensed, but hardly anybody is hunting it down. I was so surprised when I found out that Kōji Yamamura's "A Country Doctor" had been both subtitled and licensed; hardly any of the fine art animators seem to get that treatment, even when their pieces win awards. This also seems to be true for animated commercials and animated music videos, if they were made by a group of people who never do anything outside those areas. Usually the animators have to have been famous for something else, like Hiroyasu Ishida's "Fastening Days" commercials for YKK Zippers, which only received any attention at all because of the buzz over his final project back in college, "Fumiko's Confession". Or final projects back in college; a lot of animation colleges will just post these to YouTube on their channels, but nobody ever bothers to translate them... and that's just YouTube, once you go into NicoNico shorts the pool is even wider.

And here are fansubbers re-doing the typesetting on a Crunchyroll rip and calling it a day. (-_-)

Drew_Sutton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:33 am I also liked the one bit about the call out on "the games store in NY or NJ I went to a couple of times": That was Games and James; they not only sold their own copies of Ctennosaur and Anime Labs (as I recall but I think Mike "VegettoEX" LaBrie corrected me once upon a time) but they put their own title cards at the front of the tapes, supposedly "taking credit" for the others' work.

Daniel wrote: ↑Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:47 am

Drew_Sutton wrote: ↑Tue Mar 13, 2018 9:33 am I also liked the one bit about the call out on "the games store in NY or NJ I went to a couple of times": That was Games and James; they not only sold their own copies of Ctennosaur and Anime Labs (as I recall but I think Mike "VegettoEX" LaBrie corrected me once upon a time) but they put their own title cards at the front of the tapes, supposedly "taking credit" for the others' work.

It has been a long time since I was working on chronicling the history of these fansubs so I'm a bit rusty now,
but I seem to recall seeing tapes from them that took episodes done by other fansubbers and lopped off the opening and ending credits,
replacing them with versions with own name printed on them.

mbanu wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 10:05 pm Interesting podcast on Legend of the Galactic Heroes; thanks! The mention of 4chan being an incubator for it was a little illuminating for me, as I wasn't quite sure where the old-school fans of the show were meeting new fans; usually it's a struggle to bridge that age gap. (^_^;)