Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 7
February 12 - 18, 2020
Welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet, hope you all got through the Valentine's Day season in one piece. This week I picked up Mahou no Idol Pastel Yumi, I'm absolutely adoring its picture-book-like backgrounds and comfy low-stakes stories.
I've decided to discontinue the Featured Fansubs section, I do not think it served any purpose that is not already covered adequately by the other sections of this blog. If you think this is a mistake or if you have another idea about what to put here, please feel free to leave a comment!
Contemporary Anime- Unlicensed
Fansubbers gave a lot of attention to newer anime this week. First, let's go over the regular releases: BuriBuri released episode 18 of Super Shiro, Some-Stuffs released episode 13 of Pokemon 2019 and episode 2 of Pokemon: Twilight Wings, Impatience released episode 6 of Breakers, an anon released subs for episode 6 of Dorohedoro, another anon released subs for episode 3 of Healin' Good♡Precure, MoyaiSubs released episodes 80 and 81 of Kiratto Pri-chan, Mezashite released episodes 18 and 19 of Aikatsu on Parade, Hoshi-no-Yume FS released episode 45 of Beyblade Burst GT, Mutsurini-Translations released episode 7 of Natsunagu!, tenshisubs released episode 18 of Nanatsu no Taizai- Kamigami no Gekirin and Chyuu released episode 15. SpecterSubs continued their work on the Youkai Watch franchise, releasing episode 37 of Youkai Watch Shadowside and the first episode of the newest show, Youkai Gakuen N to nu Souguu. Finally, Mushin released fansubs for BanG Dream! Film Live, but please be aware that Mushin's releases are notoriously awful so this release should only be watched by the most content-starved person.
Contemporary Anime- Licensed
Fansubs for Kaijuu no Kodomo have started to surface, but as of yet I have not been able to find any that are not awkwardly-phrased or full of errors. Hopefully this situation improves last week, the movie looks gorgeous and I am quite excited to watch it.
For many fansub groups, things progressed as usual. Commie Subs released Chihayafuru Season 3 episode 18, Ace of the Diamond Act II episode 46, and Haikyuu! To The Top episode 6. Asenshi released Heya Camp episode 6, MapleClub released episode 3 of Bofuri, Kaleido-subs and μtw released episode 5 of Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia, Inu released episode 5 of Kyokou Suiri, Asakura released episode 5 of Isekai Quartet season 2, and Doki Fansubs released episodes 6 and 7 of Madoka Magica: Magia Record. Judas again collaborated with with Cannongerbil of CGTranslations to release episode 6 of Ishuzoku Reviewers.
Unfortunately this marks the second week without a release from GoodJobMedia. This is not out of the ordinary, however- this group is well-known for putting a lot of effort into their typesetting, and this often leads to their projects progressing at a much slower rate than other groups'. I personally am happy to wait for their future releases of Eizouken, and I still hope they get back to Senryuu Shoujo and Virtual-san wa Miteiru eventually.
Classic Anime
This week, OldCastle completed their fansubs for Paris no Isabelle, ParadiseHamsubs finished Jewelpet Sunshine, and Kiteseekers and Licca Fansubs completed their work on Idol Densetsu Eriko. Long-running fansub projects require hundreds of cumulative hours of effort from many people and months (sometimes even years) of commitment to see through, it's always good to see a project like this be completed. Thank you so much to the teams involved in making these three anime available to English-speaking audiences, it will be exciting to see what they do next.
In terms of ongoing projects, NoraInuG released Moeru! Oniisan episode 16, ToranSubs released episodes 39 and 40 of Deltora Quest, and Kindaichi Lovers released episode 140 of Kindaichi Case Files, GutsySubs released episode 18 of The Gutsy Frog, MaruChanSubs released episode 66 of Chibi Maruko-chan, and GANGO and South Wind Subs released episode 5 of Wandering Girl Nell. Inka-Subs released revised versions of the first 10 episodes of Chou Kousoku Galvion. SubsDeLaRosa released episode 24 of Red Baron and AnimeShinigami released episodes 41 and 42 of Saikyo Robo Daioja, but please be aware that these two groups' fansubs are grammatically poor and seem to be full of errors.
Wisperer released episodes 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Princess Sara this week. This is an edited version of Licca Fansubs' subtitles using a higher-quality video source. YZS Softsubs released their improved fansubs for Detective Conan episodes 166, 167 and 168, and ParadiseHamsubs released revamped subs for Hamtaro episode 296. LCE released subs for the Ashita no Joe Movie 1, based on the Diskotek release.
Other
In terms of hentai releases, SakuraCircle released Overflow episode 7 and Hime-sama Love Life! episode 3, and lamonae released episode 32 of the classic 80s series Cream Lemon.
My understanding of donghua fansubs has improved a little, now I know enough to thank AnimeXim for releasing episode 91 of Douluo Dalu (Soul Land), episode 8 of Xian Wang de Richang Shenghuo (The Daily Life of the Immortal King), and episode 6 of Yao Jing Zhong Zhi Shou Ce (Demon Spirit Seed Manual). Meanwhile, MellowJunky continued working on Qiang Sheng Ji (Age of Gunslingers) season 3, releasing the first 2 episodes. Finally, VersusSubs released episode 1 of Wu Liuqi Zhi Zui Qiang Fa Xing Shi (Scissor Seven)- this is the sequel series to one of my favourite donghua ever, please give this one a look! All 10 episodes were subbed earlier in the week by Reddit user runwwwww, their work is super appreciated but these subs are hardsubbed and I prefer to wait for VersusSubs to release their softsubbed version.
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Next week I would like to add a section to this blog called "Fansub Classifieds", this will be a place to list out the fansub groups who are currently looking for new members and hopefully direct some traffic to them. If you know any fansubbers who are looking for people to work with, please leave me a link to them here and I will see about adding them! Anyway, I'm excited to see how this idea pans out next week, in the meantime all the best and keep enjoying fansubs :)
