And So They Return!

For those of you who have come here from the old Hyakupa site, you already heard the news, but for those of you coming to visit from H!O, from Gekiyasui/Kai_guy’s translations (http://gekiyasui.blogspot.com/), or from…somewhere else I don’t know about, then this will be good news for you guys.

Hyakupa fansubs (http://hyakupa.net/), my friends and former hosts of the Sayu blog have decided that they don’t really like getting burned for providing people with content and have closed their subbing doors (maybe possibly forever).

But hope is not lost, Hyakupa doors may have closed but from it we can welcome Takamaruyo, http://www.takamaruyo.net/, a site designed to go where Hyakupa was preparing to go, expanding what information to cover and how you get that information. I will also be occasionally providing my input there as a way to go beyond just translating and trying to give you guys some heads up on things that get released and things that you may have seen or heard. So if you are a fan of more than just Sayu’s blog (and her kind but unofficial translator), check it out.

At this time I would like to tip my hands off to Hyakupa subs for all the work they had done in the past. While you guys may have your own opinions on the matter (and I’m not trying to start an argument), Hyakupa fansubs was one of the most balanced subs groups I have seen in terms of speed and quality. Quality is a finicky thing in this day and age, since speed is often the victor in the war for understanding, especially in the Idol world, but I have seen far worse from groups that have had far more “Quality Control” specialists under their belt (but defining Quality Control might be another article in it’s entirety) and encodes were balanced in size and quality (also another discussion for another day). So my hats off to all content they had provided in subs, in 2stars, and with their future path.