1. Personality
a. Describe about yourself
An old fansubber from ancient times.
b. Do tell what you disgusted the most in fansubbing?
Unhelpful fansubbers who hate how others do it and think that hard subs suck, and won't even make a chronicle on how others could improve their encodes but claim to want to change everyone's way of fansubbing.
c.Do tell any attributes you like about fansubbing?
Groups that care about what they release and try to help out others. Hard Subs.
d.What are your aliases or nicknames you've used in fansubbing?
Never used a nickname. My name was always spelled out in the group credits.
2.Mission
a.Why do you fansub in the first place?
I enjoy it.
b.Why do you continue fansubbing?
Because I love anime and showing to others.
c.When are you into fansubbing?
Always.
d.When do you start fansubbing?
1992
c.Define fansub or state the mission of the fansub
A fansub is an accurate well timed presentation meant to let non-Japanese-speaking fans understand what is being said and what the story is about.
3. Groups
a.List your current group(s) and your position/job in that group(s)
Central Anime - Supreme ruler, timer, editor, type-setter
b.List the Group(s) you're working with now
Central Anime
c.List the Group(s) you've worked with in the past
Central Anime, R.A.A.D.O.R.S.(Re-Doing Arctic Animation's Disgusting Orange Road Scripts), Anime West, Orange-Side, NT-Anime, and a few others my memory can't come up with(Sorry, other groups)
d.Do you freelance?
Not really
4. Projects
a.What kind of series (genre) do you enjoy working on?
We work on any series we like. We've done comedy, romance, sci-fi, yaoi
, fantasy, etc...
b.Do you work on any series that you don't like? If so, why working on them?
Nope
5. Founder: Only if you start at least one group
a. Do tell why do you start a group?
Started Central Anime at first as a watching group and then got into fansubbing from there.
d. If the group is functioning very well, do tell about why it is successful and what did you do to make it successful.
We're all friends who love anime. Even if we argue(like friends do) we carry on as friends and continue to fansub and watch anime.
6. Jobs
a.What are your current fansubbing jobs
Timing, editing, type-setting, encoding, capturing.
b.Which fansubbing jobs can you do
See above
c.What are your favorite fansubbing jobs
Timing(Get to watch it- I time on the fly), and final edit pass(You're nearly done)
d.Make a definition of the job you can do or your current fansubbing job briefly.
See bove, they don't need a definition
7. Other Plans
a.When are you planning to retire/quit from fansubbing?
No plans currently. But when I'm not needed anymore I'll know when to quit.
b.Are you planning to train other novice fansubbers so that they'll be just as good as you are?
I try to. We have editors and suggestors. One other knows how to do the type-setting.
c.Are you going to document everything what you did so that other people can get to know how to fansub better?
I haven't thought about it. I'd like to get pointers from other fansubbers if I do so. I'm from the video tape era and still have more to learn.
