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After months of work, chanelqueen17 has created a gorgeous scene of Alice and Oz from Pandora Hearts, using scans that didn't even feature both characters together. Even after spending so much time on matching the details of the characters to their new looks, chanelqueen17 didn't stop there and went all out on the background too! This wallpaper definitely needs to be seen!
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~Loleta
19 minutes ago
Nah. It's okey Thewarangel.
$thewarangel
21 minutes ago
Back sorry i wuz buzy trin to get twitter on meh new phone
~Loleta
24 minutes ago
......Good night Rabbitking. You won't be lonely once you chat with Masta (Kittylove) (and maybe even me).
$rabbitking
32 minutes ago
I'm going to my lonely bed, i hope to have lonely dreams, and i will surely wake up the next morning lonely. night
~Loleta
33 minutes ago
Ah, loneliness. It's when the sole inside us all becomes weak without contact with others. Don't worry, Masta (Kittylove) and I are there for you. But we can be there for you as much as we can. But that doesn't mean we'll vanish.
$rabbitking
39 minutes ago
Some people think I have a lot of issues. But the truth is that I only have one, and it is loneliness.
~Loleta
42 minutes ago
*Hugs Rabbitking*. Don't worry, I'm sure there is a girl who can love you and accept you for who you really are in the inside.
$rabbitking
47 minutes ago
People tell me to stop looking for attractive women because they know it will never happen.
~Loleta
48 minutes ago
Hello there, Jeremierocks. Umm... I don't think you want to know what they've been talking about. I just got back on this site just now as well.
$jeremierocks
57 minutes ago
This is my first time doing this so what are you guys taking about?
Do fansubs help or hurt anime?
4 months 3 weeks ago
"It's a sticky issue, but overall, and in the way they are done it does hurt the industry. However if fansubbers were to say, only sub the first couple of episodes and force the watcher into a cliffhanger situation, then it, would surely help rather than hinder, however that's not the case. Fansubs are the continutation of a habit from the 1980s when the only way to obtain anime was underground VHS and laserdisc trading of translated Japanese titles, but that is no longer the case.Secondly they are technically illegal under international copyright law, but just like music piracy, there are just too many participants to actively enforce it. In fact, last year Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a formal request to the United States to "help stop the unauthorized reproduction and distribution of Japanese animation online". However what the studios are doing to alleviate the "need" for fansubbing to those fans who want to see animes when they come out in Japan is to start running concurrent releases. Funimation and ADV have started to do this for a couple of their series. In the case of a certain series they were actually able to air the episode at the same exact time as it was being aired in Japan.
On the issue of having fansubs be more "accurate" that's definitely a "sometimes" issue. Sure some of the time the fansub may be more accurate, but most the time you are dealing with fluent Japanese speakers that are putting food on their table by accurately translating. Another note is that sometimes the "change" in the series is actually requested by the Japanese creators themselves. Of course there is also that one company that does some anime due to it's mission being to make cartoon that are suitable "for kids", you know which one I'm talking about, which does tend to go a little overboard with changing things, but for the most part the American studios try their hardest at accurately recreating a series to be understandable by a non-Japanese speaker.
Another one of the reasons people watch fansubs is due to the ease of access. I mean you just plop down at your keyboard and search for that series you're in the mood for right. No money down, no need to get cleaned up and drive somewhere, just you and your computer. One of the ways the American industry is also working at to alleviate this problem is to utilize streaming sites in a legal way. This is usually ad supported in one way or another, either being a banner on the site somewhere, or a commercial interruption, it lets you do it just like watching fansubs, while still allowing for money to find it's way back to the proper people. Netflix even allows for the renting and occasionally the streaming of certain anime series. Hulu has a number of anime titles available for streaming. Also the company website for Funimation, Anime Network (ADV), as well as a few others have streaming of certain series. In the case of manga, VIZ has manga reader applications for their manga as well.
Another argument I hear ocassionally is that manga artists are rich and famous and don't need any more money to pad their egos. However this argument couldn't be further from the truth. In fact any single person that holds a job in America is actually paid more than a Japanese mangaka or an animator. In fact if you convert the average pay rate, which is usually in the form of a monthly stipend for their work, and take into account the amount of hours spent on that work in that month, they are paid barely more than half of what the minimum wage was 2 years ago (back when it was $5.15)
In summation, fansubs are a net loss to the industry, and that is why the industry is so active in preventing them, and in getting Japanese series into the American market as quickly as possible.
Please fell free to private message me if you'd like to ask more in depth question, I'd love to answer them. I run a panel at many conventions about the effects that fansubs have on the industry and methods to watch your animes legally without breaking the budget, as well as methods on spotting bootlegs before it's too late.
Link to the news topic mentioned earlier: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-10-23/japan-asks-america-to-stop-illegal-net-releases-of-anime"
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Longer than usual
2 years 8 months ago
" Yep I received it, thx, forgive me, i'm horrible when it comes to waiting :P"View
Longer than usual
2 years 8 months ago
"The above quote was from a previous thread, and I submitted a wallpaper through Session Zero, and I've waited just under 40 hours or so (I submitted it on March 12th, in mid-morning Central Standard Time), and usually I get the rejection PM or notice it approved within a few hours.
Now usually I would look at my papers to see if I am down by any, but I have so many (I float in and out of the top 50 near the bottom) that It's hard for me to really keep track of my papers.
So if a gallery mod has come across a Firecracker Is Melancholy wall and rejected it, can you resend your PM (if that's the case) because I never received one, and if no one has then I'll assume it's still waiting."
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Firecracker Is Melancholy Wall - Happy B-day Arina
2 years 8 months ago
" This has been sent into the approval queue, so it can't be seen at the moment."View
Arina Tanemura Birthday Thread
2 years 8 months ago
" Today is March 12, 2007, and Arina Tanemura was born March 12th, 1978, thus making her 29 today. Happy Birthday Arina-sensei!Post your birthday things for Arina-sensei here!, there will also be a thread in the Arina Tanemura Fans Club group that is identical to this one."
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Firecracker Is Melancholy Wall - Happy B-day Arina
2 years 8 months ago
" Since I know not everyone looks at the new Session Zero yet, i'll post this topic and link the the wall in Session ZeroHappy Birthday Arina-sensei wallpaper
Please view and comment and note, and what not, i'm attempting to get it out by March 12th or as soon after that as possible"
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[bug] these people aren't really my friends!
2 years 8 months ago
" I can't seem to reproduce the error, But I don't use Firefox, I use Lolifox (though they are virtually the same). Perhaps the bug isn't that page, perhaps for some reason users with ~ ranking are having higher ranked members mysteriously added to the friends list, have you checked your friends list to make sure that these members aren't being mysteriously added?"View
How do you watch Japanese anime ?
2 years 9 months ago
" There's a Chinese company that I buy the DVD's from that use a Chinese law for fansubbing or something like that to reproduce the anime for English translation purposes that I buy from, OH, and as a side note, I NEVER watch english voiced animes, I only watch japanese version. English voice-actors CANNOT portray a Japanese voice properly, either they're monotone or they sound russian."View
How long does it take to read manga?
2 years 9 months ago
" I like to take it all in, take in details, look back for references when I forget something, so I take about five hours, for a regular sized tankoubon"View
Migration complete
2 years 9 months ago
"For some reason I can't get stylesheets to stay set"View
I'm new here..
2 years 9 months ago
"Wouldn't have noticed if you didn't mention it, actually I still don't notice.
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CSS Style Feedback Request
2 years 9 months ago
"Can you tell me how to link to the style, I was going to do that, but I couldn't quite figure out how. I'll turn down that red a little X-'"View
CSS Style Feedback Request
2 years 9 months ago
" I made a CSS Style called Divine Wind Thief, and would appreciate any feedback on it.Sorry if this topic doesn't belong here, I could decide whether or not the AnimePaper forum would be appropriate"
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More updates
2 years 9 months ago
"Well, I noticed you changed the group price down to "only" yes I said only 50 papers. Keeping up a group, even if it is just a small AP group takes a lot of time and effort and shouldn't be entered into lightly, yes the ol' 2k papers was hefty, but maybe just half of that? I mean, 50? thats like 2 scans, sometimes 1."View