I'm not big on covering up english subtitles and I've found that some people have uploaded some videos without english subtitles in raw format, or even maybe german, or spanish subtitles, as long as you can't see any english.

Anyway what do you guys think of this? do you know of any anime in particular that have the Japanese version uploaded?


If this is in a bad place I apologize.

If you download good quality fan-sub releases by torrent instead of streaming, you can just deactivate the subs in the media player. Any decent subbing group should know not to burn the actual subtitle track into the video track.

You could also search for [whatever you want] + 無料 + 動画 on google. It works for me, its usually japanese only.

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:If you download good quality fan-sub releases by torrent instead of streaming, you can just deactivate the subs in the media player. Any decent subbing group should know not to burn the actual subtitle track into the video track.

You can take it one step further and download the Japanese subtitles from kitsunekko.net if they are available for your show. If you watch with subtitles, it makes things easier which you may not want.

I have Suite Precure 01-06 jp subtitles which I'll be uploading to Kitsunekko soon, probably tonight. This is an easy anime suitable for Nukemarine "beginner" level.

Thanks for all the replies. My only problem is I hate torrents and soft sub seems extremely difficult to find. all of my is hardsubbed

What's wrong with torrents =( Much better quality and you don't have those pesky English subs =D

If for some reason you can't use torrents, then I'm sure a lot of fansub groups have IRC channels where you can download their releases. (just make sure you download the mkv version). Others might put rapidshare links or similar down too.

From my understanding torrents have a high risk of viruses right?

Tolerence91 Wrote:From my understanding torrents have a high risk of viruses right?

Actually I never have gotten one which I have recognized.

Torrents are problematic in the US -- especially if you're watching anime -- because the channels airing anime are always sueing downloaders through their ip adress. The guys on the horriblesubs board often have problems. Old and raw anime should be safe though.
But direct downloading, on sites like filestube, is probably the safest method.

Also, I've never had any virus problem with torrents (over a To exchanged), plus there is around 3 million users at all times on the torrent net (so any alive torrent can be downloaded fairly quickly).

I'm not familiar with what a "To exchanged" is. that's a lot of users though. All of my downloads have been via megaupload et cetera so its been pretty safe. Its scarey but I'll give it a shot.

I thought the Anime industry wasn't cracking down nearly as hard as the manga industry. Onemanga took the plunge. Is this scanlator still around?

EratiK Wrote:Torrents are problematic in the US -- especially if you're watching anime -- because the channels airing anime are always sueing downloaders through their ip adress. The guys on the horriblesubs board often have problems. Old and raw anime should be safe though.
But direct downloading, on sites like filestube, is probably the safest method.
Also, I've never had any virus problem with torrents (over a To exchanged).

Really? I always thought of downloading anime with torrents as pretty safe. I've never heard of anyone having any trouble. Though most stuff I download is raw and isn't licensed, so maybe that's why =/ What is "To exchanged" by the way?

Tolerence91 Wrote:I'm not familiar with what a "To exchanged" is. that's a lot of users though. All of my downloads have been via megaupload et cetera so its been pretty safe. Its scarey but I'll give it a shot.

I thought the Anime industry wasn't cracking down nearly as hard as the manga industry. Onemanga took the plunge. Is this scanlator still around?

http://www.nyaa.eu/ is pretty good for anime torrents. You can even change the search terms for just raws. All the shows airing now come out pretty quickly (usually more quick than fansubs) and have plenty of seeds.

I meant I've given and received (exchanged) over a Tera octet (To) of data without encountering any problems.
Torrents are safe, but certain torrents aren't safe in the US (due to FBI monitoring certain copyrighted content).

there's plenty of unsubbed anime on http://www.veoh.com

Talking about raw anime streams the idea of a spreadsheet of available raws/japanese subtitles for animes comes up to my mind.
Anyone who's interested in participating and collecting? I mean on the forum the topic with "700+ Japanese Subtitles" was posted and the attached doc, listing the contents, has doubles in it and looks quite messy, I must say.. Currently I'm searching for japanese subtitles for the anime "Arakawa under the bridge" (slapstick), anyone??

Edit/Note
Getting RAWs is rather easy.. if you are not into torrent take danime (they have everything old/new): http://ftp.ftp.downloadanime.org/new/raws/
(delete the link please if it is not allowed!!)

Tori-kun Wrote:Talking about raw anime streams the idea of a spreadsheet of available raws/japanese subtitles for animes comes up to my mind.
Anyone who's interested in participating and collecting? I mean on the forum the topic with "700+ Japanese Subtitles" was posted and the attached doc, listing the contents, has doubles in it and looks quite messy, I must say.. Currently I'm searching for japanese subtitles for the anime "Arakawa under the bridge" (slapstick), anyone??

Edit/Note
Getting RAWs is rather easy.. if you are not into torrent take danime (they have everything old/new): http://ftp.ftp.downloadanime.org/new/raws/
(delete the link please if it is not allowed!!)

Wow that site is amazing! 0.o Thanks for that link! Unfortunately I can't seem to get anything to work =/ Maybe it's just chrome not liking ftp?

What's wrong with Kitsunekko? Though, admittedly it is a bit unorganized =/

Kitsunekko HAS a lot, don't misunderstand me -- but it has not everything My plan was actually to make a list (plus links) to japanese/english/other subtitles (soft/hard/.sub/.srt or .ass format) and corresponding raws. But doing this completely alone takes a hell of a time o.0 the ftp works fine for me at least with FileZilla (ftp client) and Firefox.

@tori kun I can't get that site to work either. looks amazing
@ icecream I've seen a lot of fansubbed anime on veoh so I havent look that hard but I'll check it out. thanks
@EratiK thanks for the advice. that makes a lot of sense. I'll be careful

Kitsunekko was a great find too.

EratiK Wrote:Also, I've never had any virus problem with torrents (over a To exchanged), plus there is around 3 million users at all times on the torrent net (so any alive torrent can be downloaded fairly quickly).

I want to correct this as I feel that people that don't understand how torrents work will get some kind of wrong idea. You say "there are around 3 million users at all times." You may be referring to the DHT (Distributed Hash Table) which is for caching and maintaining torrents in the absence of a tracker. Even though there are millions of users seen on the DHT (decentralized tracker), this does not mean that all 3 million (for example) have the files you want. You still must have seeds (people have 100% copies) and peers to get a full file. Sometimes you can have enough peers to have someone complete a full copy and become a seed. If you are looking for an obscure anime you will still need to find a torrent file and then hope people are still uploading to hope to get it.

That said. You still have just as good of a chance to get a virus from a torrent as a direct download. Multimedia files will not have viruses as long as they come as mpg/mkv/avi/etc. or in a rar/zip. Beware of self-extracting exe files though as those can have viruses.

If you use Filestube to find downloads on sites like megaupload, rapidshare, etc. I recommend getting JDownloader as it will make downloading from these sites somewhat more automated (I think there is a memory leak in the program though).

Torrent sites like: http://www.animesuki.com http://www.nyaa.eu are also good as fansubed anime might have soft-subs (ie: the subs are in a seperate file (.sub/.srt/.ass) and can be disabled in your player). If you have no problem actually maintaining a proper share ratio (ie: if you download 3GBs you need to upload 3GBs), I also recommend http://www.bakabt.com which has lots of super crazy fast torrents and always has people sharing. Plus they are quality-snobs and only want the best rips and subs around. You might be able to find a lot of the torrents on bakabt on Nyaa as well, but you won't necessarily be getting the crazy speed.

Finally, does anyone actually know if Japanese DVDs usually have JP subs for hearing impaired?

No, not all Japanese DVD have subtitles in Japanese if you meant that. Example: Arakawa under the Bridge
Huh.. what a pitty, the ports of my router are blocked by my router and I cannot get access to that vast pool of media in share/pd What's about clubbox? Does it need open ports (UDP/TCP), too? Getting raws by torrent is super slow.

Just enter your router settings, forward a port to your computer's local IP address, and tell PD/share to use it. Use different ports for each if you want to run them simultaneously.

Torrents shouldn't be that slow, really, unless you're looking for some rare/obscure stuff. If anything, I often find nyaa faster than PD. The latter has way more stuff available, though.

So if we're allowed to post links to torrent sites I think http://tokyotosho.info/ should be brought up.

Also it might be too immoral to mention this, but you can download from bakabt.com without being signed up by just putting in something like "title site:bakabt.com" into google. What they do over there is that they block non-members from using the search function to find the download links, but basically you can bypass that with google.

TwoMoreCharacters Wrote:So if we're allowed to post links to torrent sites I think http://tokyotosho.info/ should be brought up.

O_O, We meet again Tokyotoshokan (and wow I actually know what it means now ), after I forgot to save my bookmarks before formatting windows. It's been a long 3 years.

My two cents:

http://www.baka-updates.com/ (They don't have 'direct links' to some funimation content, but they have everything else. Most things have subs, but it's no biggy to slip the bottom of the video pane below the limit of the bottom part of the screen.)

http://www.mangaupdates.com/ (A bit redundant as it's all translated manga, but, heck, if you wanna read something and can't find it in Japanese, why not?) <--- this site has a pretty good series stats function and you can get some reasonably detailed information about most manga in the information sections of each series.

Also, don't forget:

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=main (an information site.)

The calendar is by far the coolest research tool for new anime that is just coming out (stay on the bleeding edge of what's new) available.

http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=calendar

Otherwise, everything is available with enough looking. Direct download, torrent download or just you tube, it's not hard to find what you want.

I recognised that a LOTS of raws f.e. from d-addicts are constantly.. down, unseeded. If you encounter this problem as well, don't mind writing a reseed request, just register on the biggest russian tracker on the internet. You will find everything there concerning RAWs and corresponding japanese subtitles. [Seems like a lot of russian japanese learners are using SRS, huh?]

not sure if I'm allowed to post this :x But for raws/stuff checkout: http://pastebin.com/KHJd0Z72... (@mod: please delete it if it's against the rules! thanks!)