Are there any websites that archive fansubs?

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deg said:
IRC/XDCC is your best bet like you go to the fansubbers IRC channel and download their anime releases from there, you can find the fansubbers IRC channel on AniDB for example
this is some group that fansubbed gurren lagann https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=group&gid=3686&aid=4575
and here is there fansub page which have the IRC channel listed https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=group&gid=3686
tutorial for XDCC downloading https://horriblesubs.info/irc-guide/

Do I have to download entire releases instead of only subtitle files? For example I'm watching Samurai Champloo right now. I've found a release with good video but retail subs and I wanna watch, let's say AnimeForever sub for that show. Now do I have to download their entire release and manually rip subs from it? I'm still not convinced this is how people do this. There much be someone archiving only subs.

Oct 27, 2018 10:26 PM

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iBzOtaku said:

deg said:
IRC/XDCC is your best bet like you go to the fansubbers IRC channel and download their anime releases from there, you can find the fansubbers IRC channel on AniDB for example
this is some group that fansubbed gurren lagann https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=group&gid=3686&aid=4575
and here is there fansub page which have the IRC channel listed https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=group&gid=3686
tutorial for XDCC downloading https://horriblesubs.info/irc-guide/

Do I have to download entire releases instead of only subtitle files? For example I'm watching Samurai Champloo right now. I've found a release with good video but retail subs and I wanna watch, let's say AnimeForever sub for that show. Now do I have to download their entire release and manually rip subs from it? I'm still not convinced this is how people do this. There much be someone archiving only subs.

yes you have to download the entire videos, there is no website i know that collects only subtitles which will have different timings from each fansub group releases, especially on old fansub releases

but there is AnimeTosho that provides subtitles download only for newer anime releases only though so you might want to check that out

Oct 27, 2018 10:32 PM

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deg said:
yes you have to download the entire videos, there is no website i know that collects only subtitles which will have different timings from each fansub group releases, especially on old fansub releases

but there is AnimeTosho that provides subtitles download only for newer anime releases only though so you might want to check that out

I've use AnimeTosho sometimes but I never saw that they had subs. Thanks, I'll check these out. As for your comment about different groups/different timings, I'm sure the archiver can mention which subs a specific release belongs to (like most western subs do). An AnimeTosho link to the respective release would be enough, no?

Oct 27, 2018 10:35 PM

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iBzOtaku said:

deg said:
yes you have to download the entire videos, there is no website i know that collects only subtitles which will have different timings from each fansub group releases, especially on old fansub releases

but there is AnimeTosho that provides subtitles download only for newer anime releases only though so you might want to check that out

I've use AnimeTosho sometimes but I never saw that they had subs. Thanks, I'll check these out. As for your comment about different groups/different timings, I'm sure the archiver can mention which subs a specific release belongs to (like most western subs do). An AnimeTosho link to the respective release would be enough, no?

in AnimeTosho look for the "Attachments" part under a anime release page that is where the fonts and subtitles can be downloaded

ye that can be done but i do not know any websites that do that

Oct 27, 2018 10:58 PM

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deg said:
in AnimeTosho look for the "Attachments" part under a anime release page that is where the fonts and subtitles can be downloaded

ye that can be done but i do not know any websites that do that

There's a "Subtitles" part that contains an 'All Attachments' link. That's what I used earlier. I'm surprised there's no popular site that archives fansubs but still not convinced that no one has done this. So much effort goes into fansubbing. It's reasonable to assume that someone must be archiving it all.

Oct 28, 2018 6:13 AM

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well, there's an idea for website =p

put on your web dev jumpsuit and start an anime subtitle emporium

Oct 28, 2018 8:36 AM

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romagia said:
well, there's an idea for website =p

put on your web dev jumpsuit and start an anime subtitle emporium

I've been thinking about it for the past few hours but primarily, I would be downloading and ripping subs from IRC releases, right? That's gonna be hard for someone that lives on a 6Mbps connection.

I'd welcome any suggestions though. I'm slowly moving towards watching classics from my watchlist and if I need to hunt down subs a few times again, I'll probably start something, even if its small. If people need something like that, a community will grow around it and the collection will continue to grow.

Oct 28, 2018 8:43 AM

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romagia said:
well, there's an idea for website =p

put on your web dev jumpsuit and start an anime subtitle emporium

i think that kind of website is never done before because its useless considering you have to download the videos with the exact timings too so most raw anime videos cannot use those subtitles anyway and different anime videos cannot use the subtitles not intended for their timings too

in anime fansubs the subs and videos are usually fused especially for older anime fansubs that have hard subtitles

Oct 28, 2018 10:28 PM

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deg said:
different anime videos cannot use the subtitles not intended for their timings too

in anime fansubs the subs and videos are usually fused especially for older anime fansubs that have hard subtitles

Why wouldn't different releases have the same timing? Don't most groups use the same raws? Do fansub groups edit video lengths?

Oct 28, 2018 10:32 PM

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iBzOtaku said:

deg said:
different anime videos cannot use the subtitles not intended for their timings too

in anime fansubs the subs and videos are usually fused especially for older anime fansubs that have hard subtitles

Why wouldn't different releases have the same timing? Don't most groups use the same raws? Do fansub groups edit video lengths?

yes fansub groups have different cappers https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capper so they edit the raw timings differently compared to other fansub groups

they may use the same TV station for the raw but the way they are recorded and edited like cut out the TV commercials adds to the difference in overall timings of the fansub video

Oct 29, 2018 8:58 AM

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deg said:
yes fansub groups have different cappers https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capper so they edit the raw timings differently compared to other fansub groups

they may use the same TV station for the raw but the way they are recorded and edited like cut out the TV commercials adds to the difference in overall timings of the fansub video

Huh. I didn't know that. What about modern anime? Are they still capped from TV or is crunchyroll used for that?

Oct 29, 2018 9:03 AM

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iBzOtaku said:

deg said:
yes fansub groups have different cappers https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Capper so they edit the raw timings differently compared to other fansub groups

they may use the same TV station for the raw but the way they are recorded and edited like cut out the TV commercials adds to the difference in overall timings of the fansub video

Huh. I didn't know that. What about modern anime? Are they still capped from TV or is crunchyroll used for that?

only HorribleSubs (and other webrippers) get webrip from CrunchyRoll or any legal streaming sites while the rest of the traditional fansubbers still uses cappers

Aug 7, 10:48 PM

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I know this is an old thread, but does anyone know if there's a way to find specific fansub releases if I'm unable to find a torrent and I can't find it on any irc channels?

Aug 7, 10:52 PM

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I know this is an old thread, but does anyone know if there's a way to find specific fansub releases if I'm unable to find a torrent and I can't find it on any irc channels?

@Perrywinkle3 did you try searching on nibl? here https://nibl.co.uk/

Aug 7, 11:46 PM

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@Perrywinkle3 did you try searching on nibl? here https://nibl.co.uk/

@deg I have but it doesn't seem to have the ones I'm looking for

Aug 8, 12:05 AM

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I know this is an old thread, but does anyone know if there's a way to find specific fansub releases if I'm unable to find a torrent and I can't find it on any irc channels?

@Perrywinkle3
There are sites that host just the sub files that you can play with the video. See if you can find anything there.
https://subdl.org/
https://www.opensubtitles.org/

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Aug 8, 12:14 AM

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I know this is an old thread, but does anyone know if there's a way to find specific fansub releases if I'm unable to find a torrent and I can't find it on any irc channels?

@Perrywinkle3 kitsunekko, but be aware the quality varies.

Aug 8, 12:14 AM

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@Perrywinkle3
There are sites that host just the sub files that you can play with the video. See if you can find anything there.
https://subdl.org/
https://www.opensubtitles.org/

@traed thank you for the suggestion but the ones I'm looking for are mostly hardsubbed

Aug 8, 12:20 AM

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@traed thank you for the suggestion but the ones I'm looking for are mostly hardsubbed

@Perrywinkle3
I mean if you can find the raws or a soft sub in any language you could play the external sub file with it.

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Aug 8, 12:31 AM

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@traed thank you for the suggestion but the ones I'm looking for are mostly hardsubbed

@Perrywinkle3 wait so you have soft subs versions of the fansubs then? you can just use handbrake to reencode the fansubs to hardsubs if you want

Aug 8, 2:12 AM

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