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Wrapping It Up: Dattebayo Shutdown Of Naruto Subtitling

January 13, 2009 at 4:27 pm (GEN)
Tags: Dattebayo, Naruto, Shippuuden

Dattebayo interactii says, I just wanted to post a PR with a couple housekeeping notes as we continue our shutdown of Naruto subtitling. First, thank you to everyone who sent us Christmas cards and letters: thank you, thank you, thank you. They were totally awesome. I read every one, and the other staff are working though them. We received about 400 cards from all over the planet, from 30 miles away to South Korea to South Africa. And people sent some awesome works of art, thank you so much for those, too. We’ll continue to have this PO box for a while, so if you feel compelled to write us again, please don’t hesitate to.Read more.

Show DB the Love

December 5, 2008 at 6:16 am (GEN)
Tags: Dattebayo

Dattebayo says, hello, all! Moiraine here. How are you doing? That’s great. Glad to hear it. Oh, what’s that? You’re wondering what the title means? I’d be glad to explain. You see, we here at DB have been floored by your recent outpouring of love and thanks after we announced we would be dropping Naruto. Your response has been absolutely overwhelming, and we are grateful to have such wonderful fans. But you know, all those bits and bytes of data as so cold and ephemeral. We thought it would be a nifty idea if we could get something a bit more tangible. So we got to thinking and decided to ask our fans for something. Read more.

Dattebayo to Drop Naruto Effective 1/15/2009

November 22, 2008 at 7:28 am (GEN)
Tags: Dattebayo, Naruto, Shippuuden

Photobucket Interactii says, welcome my friends, my enemies, and those whom I do not yet know. Let’s sit and talk for a while, you and me. We haven’t talked in some time. Let’s explore the past a little, and chat about the present and future. Naruto has been around for a very long time now. When I started downloading fansubs in early 2003, Naruto was already past its 20th episode. I used to watch TW’s releases. At that time, TW’s releases got about 8,000 downloads per episode in a week, and TW released 5 weeks after airing in Japan. By May 2004, with TW languishing, AONE had primarily taken over Naruto. Naruto’s popularity had soared. AONE was releasing a week after airing in Japan, a schedule they would keep for a long time. They were averaging 60,000 downloads per episode after a week by episode 85. When Anime-Heaven (the precursor to Dattebayo) started 6 weeks later, it got 60,000 downloads on its first release, a low-quality speed sub. At that time, because AONE was releasing a week after airing, there was room for other people to try to do it faster. Read more.

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