Stumbled onto a 15 year old fansub group that's still active

Last weekend I was hunting for an old OVA from 2008 that never got an official English release. I figured I'd have to dig through a dead torrent or something, but I found a tiny forum where a fansub group still maintains a proper encode. They actually updated their release in 2022 with better subtitles and a cleaned up video source. It took me about 2 hours of scrolling through old threads to verify they were legit, but the quality blew me away. Has anyone else run into a group that's been keeping the flame alive that long?

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betty_shah1mo ago

Wait, did you check if they had a torrent tracker or if they're still using IRC? I ran into a similar situation with a group called Anime-Keepers last year for a 2005 series that never got a western release. They had their own private tracker and a Discord server for requesting older encodes, which made the whole process way smoother. The trick is to look for a sticky thread with a direct download link or a magnet file, since a lot of these groups keep their stuff on MEGA or Google Drive now to avoid takedowns. Hope that helps you dig up whatever else you're hunting for!

jakerivera1mo ago

cleaned up video source" - man, I gotta be real with you, I don't get why people still care about this stuff. Fansubs back then were a mess, and even if they updated it in 2022, the source they started from was probably some DVD rip that looked okay on a CRT monitor. Official releases exist now for most stuff, and if it never got one, maybe it's not that good. I'd rather spend that 2 hours finding something that actually got a real HD release, not a 15 year old group's pet project.