Pokemon Exec Producer Talks Fansubs, Suggests…Nothing
Okay, ANN’s headline is “Tokyo Anime Center’s Kubo Offers Proposal on Fansubs,” but I don’t actually see a proposal in there anywhere. I see mention that fansubs have played a role in the decline of anime sales, and a single suggestion that someone deal with the “10 fans” (?!) who put subbed videos on YouTube, BitTorrent, etc (preferably by “officially making use of their abilities”), but uh…wait, did he count right? Ten fans?
I mean, first off, a lot of fansubs get put up on YouTube by people OTHER than the subbers, and probably by people whose “abilities” are…uh…to upload videos to YouTube. And the number of subbers– or even just the number of fansub translators –has got to be bigger than ten.
Not to mention, does that even count as a proposal? They DO say they want to find a way to make some content on NicoNico and YouTube and the like legal, but there’s no actual “how” in here. I even went and checked the original article…nothing.
I’m so confused.
Original source: MyCom
Secondary source: AnimeNewsNetwork
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I liked the part about subbers doing a more professional job than the in-house people. I guess that is the difference between people who do it for the love, and folks who do it as part of their job. Next they’ll issue a statement saying that they are dropping the Betamax standard in favor of VHS. Nothing gets past Japanese bureaucracy (bure-bure-bure-bure).