Yabai-Fansubs

Wheeeeeee~~

Torrent: [Yabai]_Himawari!!_-_09_[DVD][49C66648].mkv

IRC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

Yeah, this is for real. We skipped 16 episodes of To LOVE-Ru and a good part of the storyline, just to work on this. Of course, the anime series is not dropped, we’re just working separately on the OVA too.

Will you do the same with Seto?
Well, no. You see, this here is a joint project with AniYoshi. AniYabai is neither a new group nor did both groups merge together, it’s just how we call the joint (AnimeYoshi + Yabai). AniYoshi worked on To LOVE-Ru before, but had to drop it. Furthermore, our TLR releases contain AniYoshi’s scripts, though we always do an additional TLC and re-edit them. So this is kind of a special situation.

The DVD is out for almost 50 days now. What took you guys so long?
All the stuff that’s supposed to be hardsubbed (Karaoke, TS, Logo) was ready 1 week after the DVD got released. The only thing we were lacking was a translated script. Both the translator who was supposed to work on this and his backup disappeared. Two weeks ago we finally found a new translator. And here we are now, releasing the first episode of the To LOVE-Ru OVA series.

We suggest you to only watch this if you’ve read the manga and/or seen all episodes of the anime series, since the OVA continues the plot right from where the story in the series left off.

Now, what is this episode about, anyway? I won’t say too much, just that Rito is turning into a girl as you can see below in the pic. Now, if this isn’t an awesome trap… I won’t say any more than that, just watch the episode! (Lots of ecchi is awaiting you!)

On a side note, at around 00:36 we translated the line as “Love began when I first started loving you”. You might wonder why we did that:
<Ulrezaj> 故恋の始まるは私から好きになり
<Ulrezaj> so it literally say “the start of love is my falling in love”
<Ulrezaj> so it’s like
<Ulrezaj> the beginning (of my love life) was my first love (you)
<Ulrezaj> but it isn’t that long a line so I turned it into what you saw
<Ulrezaj> in the end, it’s a messed up song; don’t put too much thought into it

Click here to get a higher resolution of this picture (we all know you want it)

Torrent: [AniYabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_OVA_-_01_[DVD][2DB2FB93].mkv (our tracker)
[AniYabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_OVA_-_01_[DVD] (scarywater)
(We’re having some troubles with our own tracker at the moment, so for now, use scarywater.)

XDCC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

[ This is a joint project with AnimeYoshi which worked on the anime series To LOVE-Ru (TV rips). Unfortunately they had to drop it after having released episode 11 due to the lack of a translator. We (Yabai) and AnimeYoshi decided to do a joint project to deliver you guys high quality DVD rips. ]

Well, I promised that we’d release something soon, and here it is: To LOVE-Ru 09 for your viewing pleasure.

I’d like to note that at 15:13 in the script (without OP) Zastin says “centimes”. That is indeed not a typo. We believe Zastin is using some kind of alien measurement, see comments in the script: {TLC/Edit/Something thats not a word is it? Alien measurement? :/} {Shin thinks its cm but it sounds a little off — so I think a special measurement would be safe}

Just think about it. “Turn right, then left after five centimeters” doesn’t make much sense, does it?

Torrent: [Yabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_-_09_[DVD][CE91E587].mkv

XDCC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

It’s been a year since we had our first release. Actually, it’s been 1 year and 3 days, I’m kinda late doing this post.

So I am going to talk a bit about the group’s past as well as how and why it was founded. For those of you who don’t find interest in this kind of thing, scroll down to the “Statistics” and “Future of Yabai” part.

I think it was in  November 2007 when I joined a group called “LostTreasure-Fansubs”. They hadn’t released anything up till then, but they were working on three projects at that time: Saiunkoku Monogatari 2nd Series, Himawari!! and Saint October. Yes, they actually worked on the 2nd season of Himawari, before even ray=out released their first episode. It was the beginning for me as a fansubber too (I got into fansubbing about 1 month before that), I only knew how to time back then. I kinda learned in that group how to ktime and TS, as the group leader — MuderousAngel — didn’t have any actual TSers. I put a lot of effort into the first 2 eps of both Himawari!! and Saint October, but we never got anywhere, staff constantly left and in mid December we only had 1 translator left and no encoders at all.

So MurderousAngel decided to kill that group. She took all members that were still active (Futamaru was one of them) and formed a new group: Nisemono-Fansubs (”Fake-Fansubs” ^^). At around New Year’s Day we formed a new IRC channel, website and ftp. I became the co-leader and started looking for fresh meat, mainly encoders. Both Saiunkoku and Saint October were dropped since we lacked translators and motivation for those series. Only Futamaru remained to work on Himawari. We somehow managed to get all positions covered again and decided to take up a new project which was one of the winter shows: Aria The Origination. One of the new staff members was coreym who wasn’t really doing anything except slacking. Actually, everyone but Lonyo (an editor) and me was slacking. (MurderousAngel was “slacking” too, well, she actually was just the leader of the group, she didn’t fansub at all.) So not much happened in February and March except some staff issues, people quit and I had to look for new staff again. In the first two weeks of March I recruited TGEN, Skyward and Ulrezaj. We were uber-slow and still hadn’t released anything by the end of March. About when episode 4 or 5 of Aria The Origination aired we dropped it. Coreym stole our scripts for ep 1 and 2 and released them with his group, Orange-Subs. I think we’re mentioned as “Nisemono-Fansubs” in the credits or something. Anyways, they totally butchered the quality of that script! (Timing was off, shitty video quality, shitty main styling, etc.) At the end of March, we picked up the Sumomomo DVD specials (ep 23 and 24) too, as a side project. (Yay for even more work when we couldn’t even release an episode of the other projects!)

So then spring season started and we decided to pick up two new shows: Nabari no Ou and Kure-nai. I enjoyed timing and TSing Kure-nai, even though every script had like 500 lines to time (comparison: Himawari only has about 250 lines) and lots of signs. Nabari no Ou was okay to work on too. On my request we picked up the Manabi Straight OVA, since Eclipse didn’t do that and there was only some low-quality anon version out there. By then, drama had already built up. For the last few months I had always been arguing with MurderousAngel about the group. She wanted to see releases, I wanted to make sure the releases have the highest quality possible (which they didn’t have then). It escalated on April 22 when MurderousAngel made Skyward leave the group. (She hated him for no real reason. :/) Ulrezaj quit right after that occurrence and I decided that it was time to leave too. MurderousAngel had already given up on the group too and so had everyone else, I guess.

But it wasn’t the end of Himawari, Manabi and Sumomomo. Right after I quit, I decided to found our own group. Actually, I’ve already had that thought for a few weeks. So I asked the staff that worked on these three projects if they wanted to finish the projects in a new group, since at least I wanted to finish them no matter what. Thus, Yabai was born. The founding members were me, Juggen, Osaka-tan, Skyward, TGEN, and Ulrezaj.

We took all the Himawari- and Manabi-related stuff (and later Sumomomo-related stuff too) and moved it to our new ftp. I put up a wordpress blog, which is hosted on Ulrezaj’s site, and we concluded that all the public (anime) trackers available at that time weren’t living up to our expectations — so we got our own tracker thanks to TGEN. We decided that we wanted to sub animes which either hadn’t been subbed at all (like Himawari) or animes which hadn’t been done by quality groups (like Seto no Hanayome, which we decided to pick up back then). You can see the first post on April 27. Heh, that was pretty awesome. So we continued working on the animes and we finally released something on 5 May, 2008! It was so epic! We were so motivated that we released episode 2 nine days later. Work on Manabi was progressing somehow too. Soon after the release of Himawari!! episode 2, we were able to release that OVA episode.

After that we became slow. Really slow. ^^ TGEN was lazy/busy/whatever and so it took him nearly 2 months to edit episode 3 of Himawari. Eventually, we got there. On 16 July, 2008, it was time to release it. A month later, episode 4 followed. I started recruiting a few more people, mainly to get the Seto no Hanayome project moving. It was standing still for quite some time. When Himawari 4 was released, I felt relieved. During our days in Nisemono, we had translations for Himawari up till episode 4. Everything beyond that was done solely by Yabai, without involvement of Nisemono. It felt like I had finally closed a chapter in my fansubbing life. ^^

One day after episode 4 got released, I put some more effort into making the site look better. The result was a new theme which was simple and slick.

September was an epic month because we released an episode every week, which was pretty awesome. Starting with Himawari 5 on 6 September, 2008; continued by Seto no Hanayome 1 (I have to apologize for this release, we should’ve taken our time making it perfect instead of releasing something that doesn’t live up to our usual level of quality); then there was the big surprise, To LOVE-Ru 1 on 22 September, 2008 (which we started working on at the end of August, about 1 week after AniYoshi dropped it); and even a 2nd episode of To LOVE-Ru on 29 September, 2008. Skyward suggested to pick up TLR, since both he and I were working on it in AniYoshi. One month later, To LOVE-Ru 3 got released. At the same time, we were struggling to find a new encoder for Seto no Hanayome. We wanted to do a version 2 of episode 1 too. On 4 November, 2008, we were finally able to release the fixed version. By the end of October, Skyward vanished from IRC and the whole internet. We waited for him to show up again for several weeks, but he didn’t. As he was our only encoder at that time (we had skystrife to encode Seto no Hanayome, but he had to quit due to RL reasons), we were in a really unfavorable situation back there. He left 3 projects behind. Looking for a new encoder was what we were left with, which took a month.

Then Yumi joined and took over To LOVE-Ru. We also recruited limpakos, who’s doing a great job in QCing our projects. After about 2 months of nothing, we finally were releasing something again thanks to Yumi. To LOVE-ru 4 was out on 29 December, 2008. I found another good QCer on the internet, arcturo, who picked out some errors we hadn’t noticed in episode 4. So I offered him a position in Yabai and he took it. We released a v2 of episode 4 together with episode 5 a week later. Around this time we found an encoder for Himawari, Mandarink. Thanks to him, we were able to release Himawari 6 on 30 January, 2009. A month later To LOVE-Ru 6 followed, followed by Himawari 7 on 28 February, 2009. Things were looking good again. An encoder for Seto no Hanayome in mid February was found and one month later, episode 2 was released. I had to redo the TS for episode 2, which was a major pain in the ass. Just take a look at the amount of signs I had to do: http://pastebin.com/f458501ed, hence the stressed news post. ^^ To LOVE-Ru 07 & 08 on 3 April, 2009 and Himawari 8 on 10 April, 2009 are our latest releases as of now.

We’ve gone through much in this one year, but it was still awesome. Thanks to all the people I was able to work with and am still working with! Running a fansub group sure was stressful. On the upside, all the user comments in the IRC channel, on this site, on anidb, and all other sites kept us motivated. The fact that there were no other decent subs contributed a great deal to our fervor. If not us, then who? Someone has to do it! ^^

Here are some statistics that might interest you:

We released 8 episodes of Himawari since 5 May 2008, that’s an average of 45.625 days/release.
We released 2 episodes of Seto no Hanayome since 14 September 2008, that’s an average of 116.5 days/release (gotta speed this up ).
We released 8 episodes of To LOVE-Ru 22 September 2008, that’s an average of 28.125 days/release.
And of course we released Manabi Straight.
And we’re still working on Sumomomo, even after over a year. ^^

We released 19 episodes in our first year, 21 if we count the v2s.

This post counts 2,082 words.

I installed a stats plugin in late August which since then tracked a lot of stuff, among other things how many people visit this site a day. When there is no release we usually have about 100-150 visitors a day.

And as you can see in this chart, we had about 5,000 visitors  in September. It then dropped to about 3,500 visitors/month  till December. After we’ve somehow filled the hole that Skyward left behind again, we were able to release more often from then on. The amount of visitors per month rose again and peaked at  about 7,674 in April. Of course, since it’s only 8 days in May and we didn’t release anything for a month, visitor count for May is down. But we’ll change that soon with more releases! ^^

Another interesting thing is the new function in Google which displays the amount of results for a term. So got “yabai fansubs” 9,440 results for example (as shown in the picture).

Future of Yabai

So with all that said, what’s the future of Yabai? Our policy is to never drop a project. So we’re gonna work on Himawari!!, To LOVE-Ru and Seto no Hanayome in this year too of course. At some point we’ll release Sumomomo too. We’re definitely not going to pick up another show until we at least finished one of the three current main projects.

What we’re definitely going to work on at some point is Death Note. It’s been oversubbed, but no decent group finished it. Plus: it’s my favorite anime, so there’s really no way around this.

Status report (It’s been a long time since I last did this):

Himawari 09: sQC apply
Himawari 10: Edit

To LOVE-Ru 09: RC2 apply
To LOVE-Ru 10: sQC

Seto no Hanayome 03: RC1
Seto no Hanayome 04: TS

Sumomomo 23: done, will be released with 24 in a batch
Sumomomo 24: WR

Not related to Yabai directly, but you can find the torrents of my little side project on our tracker: I am working with arcturo on subtitles for The Leet World (click here for my forum post). If you don’t know this series, then you’re really missing out on something. It’s an awesome machinima: excellent setting, plot, voice acting, directing and music. I just released episode 3 and 4 of season 2 today. ^^

If you want to join our group (no matter what position(s)), pay a visit to our IRC-Channel and talk to me (jama). If I’m not around drop me a PM and I’ll respond to you as soon as possible.

Now, I hope you found this post interesting. Well, if you didn’t I guess you wouldn’t be reading this line down here anyway. There’s not much left to say now, except, of course: Long live Yabai!!

Today’s Himawari features lots of Tsukiyohime-san~

(She seems she doesn’t like it that much…)

Torrent: [Yabai]_Himawari!!_-_08_[DVD][954B2467].mkv

IRC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

There was some really annoying flicker text moving at the bottom in episode 7. And what the hell is up with Yuki wearing that board for like the half of episode 08? Not gonna TS all of those approximately 20 different angles of that sign, no way in hell. :p

At around 10:45 (time stamp includes the OP) in episode 7 this scene appears. This sign is using Kanji (instead of Hiragana) for “Yo Ro Shi Ku” (”Night hail death pain”) which means “Pleased to meet you”. We decided to not include this note as it’s lame to explain jokes. For the guys who want to know anyway we told you now.

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In episode 7 a new girl gets introduced: Run.
I can’t tell you much more about her without spoiling the episode.

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And of course there’s some ,Tenjouin Saki fanservice too~

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Finally, in episode 8, the tsundere gets introduced. Oh, I’ve longed for this day, really. You just have to love Yui Kotegawa. =)

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On a side note:

At around 19:00 (incl. OP) in episode 7, a sumo wrestler says “dosukoi”. “Dosukoi” is what sumo wrestlers call to encourage themselves.

Torrents:

[Yabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_-_07_[DVD][A56FE6B2].mkv

[Yabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_-_08_[DVD][A0A7A470].mkv

IRC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

You folks didn’t expect that, huh? You might have read this and thought: Those guys are slow and now it’s been licensed too, looks like they dropped Seto. But  hell, Seto’s not dropped. Just took us a damn long time cause we couldn’t find a new encoder for months, and then there’s this issue with all those sign needing typesetting too… Anyway, I sure spend more than 30 hours working on this episode, so you better damn enjoy it. Have fun.

I love this anime.

Torrent: [Yabai]_Seto_no_Hanayome_-_02_[DVD][h264_Vorbis][0C95E439].mkv

IRC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

It’s almost been a month since we released Himawari!! 06, so we, the friendly staff, figured you want to know what’s happening next to Himawari and her friends. And I am assuming you haven’t betrayed us by watching the release(s) of our competitors. But that’s impossible, you guys wouldn’t do that, would you?! I bet you’ve longed for this episode like a hungry… hungry… ehmm… Momota.

Torrent: [Yabai]_Himawari!!_-_07_[DVD][005E3DBA].mkv

XDCC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

This episode features ecchi scenes from Haruna-chan. Darn you, censorship!!

Torrent:  [Yabai]_To_LOVE-Ru_-_06_[DVD][51E8042E].mkv

XDCC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net

So… You’ve waited 211,680 minutes or 3,528 hours or 147 days or nearly 5 months for episode. Should we feel guilty for taking so long? You know, they say “better late than never”. I’ll just use this as an excuse for our extreme slowness. ^^

For those who want to know the reason: Himawari!! was always going at a slow pace, usually 1 release every month or every second. Now, we released episode 5 on Sept. 5, our encoder being slow as usual took his time. Fact is, he disappeared in the beginning of October. Since then we had trouble finding a new one. There were several people who were supposed to replace their missing forerunner, but either they didn’t deliver the expected quality or they never really did any work. Things were looking grim – until about two weeks ago. We found someone promising and asked him if he wanted to help us. He did his work, and he did it great. So here you have it finally released, Himawari!! 06.

tl;dr: We have a new encoder working on this who actually does what he’s supposed to.

On a side note: We’re looking for a JPN->ENG translator who can provide us translations of To LOVE-Ru episodes 12+. Contact jama in #yabai@irc.rizon.net or send us an e-mail if you want to do something useful. ^^

You heard her.

Torrent: [Yabai]_Himawari!!_-_06_[DVD][1823D88F].mkv

XDCC: #yabai@irc.rizon.net