BIG NEWS!!!

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea plus the biggest news is that they stopped subbing becuase people have been putting there work on youtube and veoh
hopefully they will start again
this is what they said
DB Halting Fansubbing Production Indefinitely, Effective Immediately
2007/12/27

Dear leechers,

We have warned everyone repeatedly on the issue of streaming our subs.

We sincerely appreciate everyone's efforts to spread the Naruto/Bleach love, but were growing increasingly frustrated, not to mention worried, over our repeatedly ignored requests not to upload our material to Veoh, Youtube and other streaming sites.

Perhaps you guys aren't aware, but the flagrant disregard for our requests puts us in an increasingly vulnerable position as a fansubbing group. We don't want to be shut down (which is something we are in constant threat of) and if our rules are not honored, we may well be.

Therefore we once again make this request:

Please do NOT upload any of our released episodes to streaming sites.
Since it's hard to get people to comply just by writing in these news, we need to get your attention. So effective immediately, we are forced to stop releasing our subtitled episodes for ALL our current projects until the request is met, full stop. This includes Naruto, Bleach, Pitagora Switch and Pokemon.

We regret that we have to take such a drastic stance, but our requests have gone ignored for years. There's not much more we can do to protect ourselves and to continue bringing these episodes to fans, but we believe that taking these precautions now will keep us operational for the long run. And we hope to keep bringing these episodes to English-speaking fans for a long time. Please help us by abiding by our rules.

Here’s the issue: Dattebayo translates and subtitles anime, and released the episodes for public download on our website. Lots of well-meaning fans then take these Dattebayo episodes, re-encode / cut them into parts and upload them onto streaming sites like Youtube or Veoh. THIS IS BAD. The reason is not because Dattebayo is stupid or annoying or mean.

It's disrespectful to the subbers’ wishes, but more importantly,
Fansubbing is not legal, and with the popularity of Naruto/Bleach growing, legitimate companies have licensed them for DVD releases outside of Japan.
That makes fansubbers a target - although Dattebayo makes no money, legally the companies have all the right to shut us down. Because Dattebayo is a prominent fansubbing group, it's at constant risk and legal threat. When you put videos on Veoh/Youtube, that exposes the group and makes it a big target.

To this end, Dattebayo has politely and repeatedly asked uploaders on many streaming sites to STOP UPLOADING our files. Many people assume that the uploaders have Dattebayo's permission, but that's not true. The uploaders have basically ignored all polite requests to stop. With recent changes to Youtube "copyright enforcement" policy, it's nearly impossible to get Dattebayo material removed once it's been uploaded, therefore leaving our work in horrible quality for everyone to view.

Which is why Dattebayo has decided that we will put a hold on all our subtitled episode releases until the uploaders comply. We've been way too nice so far by letting this issue slide, but this is the end. Here's our (repeated) request to everyone who butchers our work by uploading it to streaming sites. STOP. If you're an uploader, please DO NOT UPLOAD DATTEBAYO SUBS to any more streaming sites. If you're guilty of doing this in the past, and your streaming site account is still valid, GO AND DELETE ALL THE DATTEBAYO VIDEOS WHICH BELONG TO YOUR ACCOUNT. We NEVER gave ANYONE permission to upload our work to ANY STREAMING SITE. If you're not an uploader and want to help, flag our work you find on streaming sites as copyright infringement, send private message to uploader asking to remove content, etc. This is probably futile due to immense amount of idiots who are unable to read yet are able to figure out how to click "upload" button, but it doesn't hurt to try.

It might be annoying to have to figure out how to watch anime without Youtube or Veoh, but trust me, it's really not that hard. And some fans complain, "I don't know how to do it! It’s too hard! I need Veoh!" Well, if we fansubbers can figure out how to download Naruto, translate it, time it, edit it, encode it, release it - surely you can learn how to watch it. Or you can always (and should) buy the DVDs when they're released officially.

Dattebayo is providing a SERVICE - a free, fast, reliable service. Fansubbers would like to keep providing the service, so we hope everyone can understand why this decision has been made. Dattebayo's wish is NOT to shut down anime-sharing - it’s to keep it alive for the long run. Please help by considering the bigger picture.

Without streaming sites, anime-watching may become less convenient, that is unfortunately true. But it's better than shutting down fansubbing entirely - because then you'll have no anime at all.

Dattebayo Fansubs, LLC. Taking internet seriously for the last 3.22 years

P.S. This is NOT a troll. Also, NO ACCOUNT on Youtube is operated, given permission to upload, or approved by us. So stop asking.

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Your Teacher is an OTAKU......

7 months 2 weeks ago

"If i was still in high school i would talk about anime with that teacher

but i would make fun of that teacher for dressing like an anime charator"
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other peoples grammar

7 months 2 weeks ago

"It doesnt bother becuase as long as you understand the meaning behind the passage then i am fine with it
i dont want to be like my english teacher that actually cares about writing proper english and not using short phrases
also if you get used to it you will find it actually easier to understand shorter phrases since they get the point across much faster"
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can dreams hold answers for us?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"I saw this article about dreams
Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung identify dreams as an interaction between the unconscious and the conscious. They also assert together that the unconscious is the dominant force of the dream, and in dreams it conveys its own mental activity to the perceptive faculty. While Freud felt that there was an active censorship against the unconscious even during sleep, Jung argued that the dream's bizarre quality is an efficient language, comparable to poetry and uniquely capable of revealing the underlying meaning.

Fritz Perls presented his theory of dreams as part of the holistic nature of Gestalt therapy. Dreams are seen as projections of parts of the self that have been ignored, rejected, or suppressed.[33] Jung argued that one could consider every person in the dream to represent an aspect of the dreamer, which he called the subjective approach to dreams. Perls expanded this point of view to say that even inanimate objects in the dream may represent aspects of the dreamer. The dreamer may therefore be asked to imagine being an object in the dream and to describe it, in order to bring into awareness the characteristics of the object that correspond with the dreamer's personality.
Freud
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It was in his book The Interpretation of Dreams ('Die Traumdeutung'; literally 'dream-reading'), first published in 1899 (but dated 1900) that Sigmund Freud first argued that the foundation of all dream content is wish-fulfilment, and that the instigation of a dream is always to be found in the events of the day preceding the dream. In the case of very young children, Freud claimed, this can be easily seen, as small children dream quite straightforwardly of the fulfilment of wishes that were aroused in them the previous day (the 'dream day'). In adults, however, the situation is more complicated -- since in Freud's submissison, the dreams of adults have been subjected to distortion, with the dream's so-called 'manifest content' being a heavily disguised derivative of the 'latent' dream-thoughts present in the unconscious. As a result of this distortion and disguise, the dream's real significance is concealed: the dreamer is no more capable of recognising the actual meaning of their dream than the hysteric is able to understand the connection and significance of their neurotic symptoms.

In Freud's original formulation the latent dream-thought was described as having been subject to an intra-psychic force referred to as 'the censor'; in the more refined terminology of his later years, however, discussion was in terms of the super-ego and 'the work of the ego's forces of defence'. In waking life, he asserted, these so-called 'resistances' altogether prevented the repressed wishes of the unconscious from entering consciousness; and though these wishes were to some extent able to emerge during the lowered state of sleep, the resistances were still strong enough to produce 'a veil of disguise' sufficient to hide their true nature. Freud's view was that dreams are compromises which ensure that sleep is not interrupted: as 'a disguised fulfilment of repressed wishes', they succeed in representing wishes as fulfilled which might otherwise disturb and waken the dreamer.

Freud's 'classic' early dream analysis is that of 'Irma's injection':

Freud described the actual technique of psychoanalytic dream-analysis in the following terms:

“ You entirely disregard the apparent connections between the elements in the manifest dream and collect the ideas that occur to you in connection with each separate element of the dream by free association according to the psychoanalytic rule of procedure. From this material you arrive at the latent dream-thoughts, just as you arrived at the patient's hidden complexes from his associations to his symptoms and memories...The true meaning of the dream, which has now replaced the manifest content, is always clearly intelligible. ”

Freud listed the distorting operations that he claimed were applied to repressed wishes in forming the dream as recollected: it is because of these distortions (the so-called 'dream-work') that the manifest content of the dream differs so greatly from the latent dream thought reached through analysis -- and it is by reversing these distortions that the latent content is approached.

The operations included:

Condensation — one dream object stands for several associations and ideas; thus "dreams are brief, meagre and laconic in comparison with the range and wealth of the dream-thoughts".
Displacement — a dream object's emotional significance is separated from its real object or content and attached to an entirely different one that does not raise the censor's suspicions.
Representation — a thought is translated to visual images.
Symbolism — a symbol replaces an action, person, or idea.
To these might be added 'secondary elaboration' -- the outcome of the dreamer's natural tendency to make some sort of 'sense' or 'story' out of the various elements of the manifest content as recollected. (Freud, in fact, was wont to stress that it was not merely futile but actually misleading to attempt to 'explain' one part of the manifest content with reference to another part as if the manifest dream somehow constituted some unified or coherent conception).

Freud considered that the experience of anxiety dreams and nightmares was the result of failures in the dream-work: rather than contradicting the 'wish-fulfilment' theory, such phenomena demonstrated how the ego reacted to the awareness of repressed wishes that were too powerful and insufficiently disguised. Traumatic dreams (where the dream merely repeats the traumatic experience) were eventually admitted as exceptions to the theory.

Freud famously described psychoanalytic dream-interpretation as "the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious"; he was, however, capable of expressing regret and dissatisfaction at the way his ideas on the subject were misrepresented or simply not understood:

“ The assertion that all dreams require a sexual interpretation, against which critics rage so incessantly, occurs nowhere in my Interpretation of Dreams...and is in obvious contradiction to other views expressed in it. ”

On another occasion, he suggested that the individual capable of recognising the distinction between latent and manifest content "will probably have gone further in understanding dreams than most readers of my Interpretation of Dreams".


[edit] Jung
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Dream analysis is central to Jungian analytical psychology, and forms a critical part of the therapeutic process in classical Jungian analysis. Although not dismissing Freud's model of dream interpretation wholesale, he believed that Freud's notion of dreams as representations of unfulfilled wishes, to be simplistic and naive. Jung was convinced that the scope of dream interpretation was larger, reflecting the richness and complexity of the entire unconscious, both personal and collective. Jung believed the psyche to be a self-regulating organism in which conscious attitudes were likely to be compensated for unconsciously (within the dream) by their opposites.[2]

Jung believed that archetypes such as the animus, the anima, the shadow and others manifested themselves in dreams, as dream symbols or figures. Such figures could take the form of an old man, a young maiden or a giant spider as the case may be. Each represents an unconscious attitude that is largely hidden to the conscious mind. Although an integral part of the dreamers psyche, these manifestations were largely autonomous and were perceived by the dreamer to be external personages. Acquaintance with the archetypes as manifested by these symbols serve to increase one's awareness of unconscious attitudes, integrating seemingly disparate parts of the psyche and contributing to the process of holistic self understanding he considered paramount.[3]

Jung believed that material repressed by the conscious mind, postulated by Freud to comprise the unconscious, was similar to his own concept of the shadow, which in itself is only a small part of the unconscious.

He cautioned against blindly ascribing meaning to dream symbols without a clear understanding of the client's personal situation. Although he acknowledged the universality of archetypal symbols, he contrasted this with the concept of a sign — images having a one to one connotation with their meaning. His approach was to recognise the dynamism and fluidity that existed between symbols and their ascribed meaning. Symbols must be explored for their personal significance to the patient, instead of having the dream conform to some predetermined idea. This prevents dream analysis from devolving into a theoretical and dogmatic exercise that is far removed from the patient's own psychological state. In the service of this idea, he stressed the importance of "sticking to the image" — exploring in depth a client's association with a particular image. This may be contrasted with Freud's free associating which he believed was a deviation, from the salience of the image. He describes for example the image "deal table". One would expect the dreamer to have some associations with this image, and the professed lack of any perceived significance or familiarity whatsoever should make one suspicious. Jung would ask a patient to imagine the image as vividly as possible and to explain it to him as if he had no idea as to what a "deal table" was. Jung stressed the importance of context in dream analysis.

Jung stressed that the dream was not merely a devious puzzle invented by the unconscious to be deciphered, so that the 'true' causal factors behind it may be elicited. Dreams were not to serve as lie detectors, with which to reveal the insincerity behind conscious thought processes. Dreams, like the unconscious, had their own language. As representations of the unconscious, dream images have their own primacy and logic.

Jung believed that dreams may contain ineluctable truths, philosophical pronouncements, illusions, wild fantasies, memories, plans, irrational experiences and even telepathic visions. Just as the psyche has a diurnal side which we experience as conscious life, it has an unconscious nocturnal side which we apprehend as dreamlike fantasy. Jung would argue that just as we do not doubt the importance of our conscious experience, then we ought not to second guess the value of our unconscious lives.


[edit] Hall
In 1954, Calvin S. Hall developed a theory of dreams in which dreaming is considered to be a cognitive process.[4] Hall argued that a dream was simply a thought or sequence of thoughts that occurred during sleep, and that dream images are visual representations of personal conceptions. For example, if one dreams of being attacked by friends, this may be a manifestation of fear of friendship; a more complicated example, which requires a cultural metaphor, is that a cat within a dream symbolizes a need to use one's intuition. For English speakers, it may suggest that the dreamer must recognise that there is "more than one way to skin a cat", or in other words, more than one way to do something.


[edit] Faraday et al
In the 1970s, Ann Faraday and others helped bring dream interpretation into the mainstream by publishing books on do-it-yourself dream interpretation and forming groups to share and analyze dreams. Faraday focused on the application of dreams to situations occurring in one's life. For instance, some dreams are warnings of something about to happen – e.g. a dream of failing an examination, if one is a student, may be a literal warning of unpreparedness. Outside of such context, it could relate to failing some other kind of test. Or it could even have a "punny" nature, e.g. that one has failed to examine some aspect of his life adequately.

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Do you tell other people, that you like Animes ?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"I usually tell only my friends and other people that i dont know if they show interest in anime or manga. this is becuase where i am from and the people around me usually classify people who watch hrs. of anime are losers and should get something else better to do in life.

that fact is that i agree with them but still i dont think i would like to hear the truth from someone else but is still watch anime on my long breaks becuase i dont have anything better to do except to work in the morning tat 6 till noon"
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Will you change yourself for just ONE person?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Well if that person who like me for who i am then when i am deep into the relationshop and if there are some things that needs to be changed to make a strong and better relationship with our significan other i will do it
but then i will not change myself to impress someone i like becuase i only have a crush on or just becuase i am physically attracted to them"
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how old are you?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea it is not common to hear the name wesley where i am
Im in the United States in State California, San Marino
u?"
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how old are you?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Dont really expect this to go anywhere but i am curious what the age group is on this website and make sure i dont say anything offensive, insulting, or out of line

plus that is cool my name is wesley too dont know anybody that has the same name as i do :)"
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First day at School/Work

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea i dont start school till the 7th in janurary since i am in college but i have been working through my entire chirstmas vaction execept for chrstmas day and new years day
2007 went by for me fast and my new college life is pretty fun
actually i havent watched anime since summer of 2007
kinda feels good to start watching again (i watched for 12-14 hrs. straight one day started and finished DN Angel anime in one day) call me a loser if you want but its the only thing i can really do since i got cuaght by the cops driving on the freeways going 111 mph
dont really want to go back to school but it is coming up and i have to cope with it"
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how old are you?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Im new in this website and i just want to know how old you guys are
im a 18 years old male freshman in college"
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small suggestion

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Well this is a small suggestion that will make it easier to move around in this website but this website is great overall
i dont know if it is my computer but this website is really so everytime i try to bring it up
i think that there are too many animations and complicated graphics
also everytime i want to see the scan or wallpaper gallery, my internet explorer gets frozen, i think it is becuase the list is too long and should be scattered around
what i mean is to be categorized in different webpages such as this website http://www.theotaku.com/ (but your website is still waaay better, just there website has less graphics and the way they categorized and split up there list anime makes that website more efficent)
it also may be my internet but i have cable with i think a 4 mb bandwith or something like that but it is the best and one of the fastest ones in united states (im not really a computer person)
plus my computer is a core 2 duo and 2gb of ram so i dont think it is my computer
This is just a suggestion still you guys have one of the best wallpaper and scan website out there"
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Sponsors "glitch"

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea i have the same issue too
i have to back track to previous pages till the banners are gone and then i can have full access to all the menus
it not a big problem but it is kinda annoying
Thanks please take this into consideration"
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Will you ever stop watching anime? Even when your old?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"I will definitly stop watching anime
this many sound weird but everytime i watch an anime i get really into it and have a reflection of my own life compared to it
that is why i only watch anime only my long breaks becuase it gets me thinking about myself which affects my school and work
kinda depresses me that i am stuck in school and work while there is a world to see, that is what i always think to myself everytime i see those adventure animes
that is why when i get older like after 21 im 18 right now, i know im kinda old already, i WILL stop watching anime all together
i get wayyyy to addicted to it and wayyyyyy to into anime which basically completely affects my daily life"
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Orochimara is Micheal Jackson

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Hahah now that is funny maybe the author did it on purpose to make fun of jackson and show the true side of him"
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Has technology making us lazy?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Humm it depends,

in some ways it is making things easier and people are able to do more with the time that they would have spent doing the other task.

eg you used to have to get up at 6 am and milk the cow yourself if you wanted milk with your breakfast, now all you need to do is go to the fringe and you get more time to spend with your family or sleep more.

One way in which it is not good would be , Students and there homework :P ( no dig intended), for instance we get ALOT of people just cutting and pasting there homework on to the site and expect us to do there home work. ( Not accusing you of this). While just ten years ago you might have to go and read a book to steal someone work, now all you need to do is hit the return key and a few key words and bam you have your assignment. ( I don't do this and neither should you)

Another example would be Americans aged 45 plus, i was watching TV the other day and saw a news program on CNN about Old people how PIMP there Golf carts, things like ones that look like branded cars ( BMW, Mersadies, Jaugare, Farrei) or have ones shaped like castles etc etc

One guy was interviewed and said this when he was asked why he spent so much money to PIMP his golf cart, he said

"All i want to do is Sleep, eat, and ride my golf cart around with my wife".
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math=hard or easy??

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Math is easy all you got to do is understand what the question is asking you
then you treat ALL math questions as a puzzle becuase there is nothing wierd or exceptions in math unless your are taking a high college level course that deals with
abstract math and 3d geometrical calculus
just move all the pieces around till they all fit together
use equations or any rules that apply to that question then the answer will come to you
just think like that and you will pass math EASILY"
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perfection

7 months 2 weeks ago

"I am a perfectionist i have to be perfect on everything it a compulsive disorder for me"
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do you think that the 4th is naruto father?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"No way
cant believe that"
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Season 2!

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea it would be crazy cant wait to watch it"
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How do you will react if you see ur fav. character in the real life?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Omg if it saw ichigo and hitsugaya, both my most absolute fav. charactors in bleach i would be like OMG"
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Gundam 00 = Represent the world...??

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Wow it seems like this is a very political anime
from reading your posts this seems pretty interesting and different from other anime"
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candidate for goddess

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Yea this is one of my top favorite anime out of all the ones ive seen ONLY is they finish this anime
i almost want to pay them to continue and finish anime it has alot of potential"
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what do you think about bleach?

7 months 2 weeks ago

"I like bleach but they have the worst fillers
plus that bounto arc was just horrible
but the beginning was just absolulty great"
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another gundam

7 months 2 weeks ago

"Cant believe they are still making new gundam series
i like the original first gundam and gundam wing but alot of them suck
is this one going to be good?
opinions?
havent watched it yet but i dont want to waste my time if it is just another bad gundam series"
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