SBK Fansubs | Shibukai Fansub Group

Remember that drama we did? You know, that first project we did that we stopped doing because we lost our entire sub team?

Well, we’re completing it! We just agreed to do a collaboration with CHLOE Project to finish the rest of this drama. Because we’re currently busy with Yasuko to Kenji and Hachi One Diver (as well as real world), it’s not going to be released anytime soon — But by the end of this year, expect some Beauty Boys.

Episode 5 is here! You can grab it here!

This is just a friendly remember to not upload our releases on to stream sites.. We put this all over our videos, our posts, etc, etc. Please comply.

Recently, I have (and others) found our releases on stream sites such as Veoh, Yahoo, etc. This is no laughing matter — If we do not want our releases on stream sites, we do not want them on stream sites. There is reasons to this that we, as fansubbers (as well as industry members) are against streaming sites. The two big reasons being that these sites make money off of our work and that it gets fansubbers like us in trouble.

In the end, its not the uploader or viewer that gets the C+D/Lawyer knocking on their door. It’s us, the fansubbers.

We work extremely hard on these titles for your enjoyment and all we ask of you, the viewers, is to acknowledge our request to not upload our titles on stream sites. We have already begun to go through and tell these users to take down our fansubs. If they do not comply we will go directly to the streaming sites and have them taken down, which will result in accounts being shut down. We are serious about this and we mean business.

So please, if you find our titles on stream sites, please tell them to take them down. Do not be rude, but mature and nice — you are representing us by doing so.

When we mean streamsites, we mean: Youtube, Veoh, Ragtube, Crunchyroll, Mysoju, Yahoo Video, Google Video, Megavideo, Nico Nico Douga, dailymotion, aznV, etc etc etc. Do not upload!

Thank you,
SBK Staff

It’s here guys~! Episode 4.

You can get it here

For you avid LJ users, we finally got ourselves a Livejournal community.

Yay!

To check it out, click here.
To join it, click here.

Thanks, guys, for your continued support!

It’s here guys~! Episode 3.

You can get it here

This is also our group’s 10th release! Congratulations, SBK! We’ve hit the big 10!

SORRY FOR THE WAIT GUYS. We really wanted to give you a quality release and that real life kicked us in the ass. I promise you, the wait was worth it. Enjoy!

You can grab it here

Sorry for the delay! We will be having this episode out shortly. Some of our staff members have RL obligations that has put a wrench in getting this episode out on time. But don’t worry, we’ll have this episode out by tomorrow, Monday if the latest! Thanks for your patience everyone!

Here’s some smiling Tacchon for you fangirls.

After discussing this issue for a few days, we’ve decided not to release softsubs of our hardsub releases. This is decision has been influenced by a few things, one of them the input of you guys, the viewers of our fansubs.

1. Altering of Our Work
Fansubs is a double edge sword. In one way its illegal and we do not own the footage, but in another way its legal in the sense that we OWN the translations. The translations are our own intellectual property and thus we own them. After reading some suggestions of people saying that they’re editable it makes us worry. Our fansubs are made just for viewing pleasure, not for altering or editing. Someone going in and altering our hard work bothers us and brings us to our next reason as to why we will not release softsubs

2. Uploading to Stream Sites and Crediting
Since we do not want our hardsubs uploaded, we do not want our softsubs uploaded. This is due to many reasons, mainly because we do not own the footage and by uploading the footage to stream sites, attention is brought to us who mass distro the footage via hardsubs.

By uploading softsubs to stream sites as if we hardsubbed that episode an attracts attention to us. Not only that, people who alter or edit subs may take our sub groups names out of the file and claim it as their own work.

This is what worries us the most. Someone taking our work and claiming it as our own. This especially goes for sites like Crunchyroll and Veoh, in which this goes on all the time and we have no power in stopping them or taking them down. We have to bite the bullet, but we can avoid it by not uploading them.

And so this is the two main reasons why we will not upload our softsubs. We are not doing this to punish you guys but because we value our work and do not want to see our work butchered or stolen. We know there are many of you who mean well, but there is just a few that don’t and spoil it for the rest of you. Trust me, as a drama watcher I enjoy softsubs too because I can turn them off, the quality isn’t affected due to re compression, and I tend to screencap… but since this is our group’s intellectual work, we want to protect it.

So we will not offer softsubs, we are sorry to those who had hopped for a softsub release from us, but if you be patient, we usually will have Yasuko to Kenji out by Thursday before the next episode. We may not be fast like an anime subber, but we work hard to get it out as fast as possible.

Thanks for your consideration and continued support

- SBK Staff

To take part in the community discussion, click here

We’re are discussing the issue of softsubs, you can vote your opinion it here. Thanks, your opinion appreciated!