10 Nov 2006
Dattebayo delays Naruto Ep 209
News release found http://yhbt.mine.nu/pr/13, in which Dattebayo( DB ) is refusing to release their latest subtitled episode of the hugely popular Naruto anime series unless another anime they sub reached 50,000 unique downloads, citing the need to improve end of quarter earnings. So…they make money on downloading of their subtitled episodes…interesting fact a whole lot of people just learned about them.
I find it amusing though, that they would present their ultimatum in the fashion in which they did, because that’s just what it is..a damn ultimatum! The anime series they want people to download, has only once reached a total of just over 33,000 downloads..adding in all the other episodes released by them will give you a number barely over 60,000!
How does DB believe 50K unique downloads are going to happen on an anime that sucks? The only information I could find on it was in japanese of course, so why would any non-reading / speaking japanese person have any incentive to download it when they don’t even know what it is about? And then, why would they want to download an episode of an anime they haven’t seen before, with said episode not the first?
I don’t know what DB thinks they are doing, but a lot of people are going to be upset about this( like myself ) and will just find alternate sources. There use to be other groups that would sub Naruto when it came out, but DB was the best so the other groups kinda caved and just gave in…maybe some will start returning now.
I hope so anyways, cause I don’t want to have to wait a week to watch the latest Naruto episode, but I will…am not going to be forced into wasting my bandwidth downloading something I have no interest in, especially when my one unique download isn’t going to help at all their goal of reaching 50k!!!
If I could learn how to subtitle the available RAW episode of Naruto, I would do just that…but it would take me months to understand and learn japanese and by then groups who have done this in the past will have already started doing it again, hopefully!