“I’m working with TV TOKYO to bring you the best anime titles immediately after broadcast! Starting January 8th, we’ll have the newest eps of Naruto Shippuden, Shugo Chara, Skip Beat!, and many other titles on CR with english subs for ppl everywhere possible (with some exceptions like Japan)”
- Crunchyroll
In other words, Skip Beat is licensed. Back in Chihiro v1, we did sub Geass, I know. However, our staff as compared to then is completely different, our subs are completely different, and we have a different outlook on things.
On the other hand, there is no indication as of yet whether crunchyroll will be subbing the episodes that air until January 8th. As such, unless the situation changes, we will sub until episode 13, and then drop the show.
Also, no complaints of “Oh, their TL sucks! Oh, their timing sucks! Oh, you suck for dropping it!”, etc. We exist to provide subs to shows, not to out-do anyone.
November 20th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
zOMG.. Nooooooo!!!!
November 20th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
plz dont dropped Skip beat
November 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
My, my… Guess it happens frequently in the subbing world ^^
November 20th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
oh crap.
there is not more to say..
but, oh crap…
what does there service cost? if its more then 10$ per year then i won’t join…
November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I’d rather watch Anime when I feel like it, in high quality, than stream from a website. Oh well, Hearing about licences is a good thing. Means I can buy the DVD’s sooner
November 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
well… R.I.P. FREE Fansubs! Sooner or later it will be over I guess.
November 20th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Just who the hell is Crunchyroll?
And why does the Things he/they said mean it is licensed?
Im from Germany so I dont know anything connecting USA and Animes so please explain it to me.
But this is shit. Hopefully he/them make good subs
November 20th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
nonononononoNOOOO!!!!!
*sob*
post some YHBT please, I can’t believe it….
Anyway, thanks for your great work, hope other projects will be done to the end ^_^
November 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
http://www.crunchyroll.com is a streaming site, that provides subs to their anime.
If they start cooperating with anime studio’s it means they’ll get higher quality raws + subs… and it’ll be streamed…
I just took a look at it myself (and watched skip beat 7 *cough*)… It’s not a bad site.
Not as good quality as fansubbing services provide, but perhaps with this change that’ll improve as well.
Anyways, I’m glad you guys will stick to it till episode 13 at least. I do like to get HQ anime from here
November 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
ARE u kidding me omg noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
plz dont drop i came to chihiro for skipbeat i never miss an episode seens i heard about chihiro
omg nooooo
November 20th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
oh and why do u wana sub naruto sucks and ist there a subing group subing naruto {dattabayo}
November 20th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Well, Chrunchyroll is some sort of page like youtube- or google-video but in the difference that Chrunchyroll, in a few months, will be made special for streaming animes in original lanugage with sub. The subs should be out one hour after the relase in the TV. To make a long story short, ,we can`t call it no more FANSUB but PROSUB.
Anyway. I thought that something like that will happend and the consequences will be that in a few of years not many people will use theirs free time for subbing animes for other peoples like us.
Thats means, for example the page animesuki, that every season less fansubs will be relased to donwload. I think in a few years FANSUB-GROUPS won`t exist anymore.
Sure, it`s cool for people because you don`t make any crime watching the episodes from web but you need internet and watching eveytime with publicity it`s not really funny. Well, let`s donwload so much as we can.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
OUT OF JOB TRANSLATOR LFJOB
November 20th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
MV, chihiro are not subbing naruto, that;s the quote from crunchyroll, not chihiro themselves which states why they cannot continue with skip beat
November 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Just continue subbing skip beat, you’ll make lots of fans happy (me included) =D
Hail chihiro for subbing skip beat xD
Destroy them for dropping it (Just Kidding … or not???)
November 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
the catch is…
members get to see it 1 hour after it’s out…
non-members have to wait 1 week
November 20th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
oh well, sad but… what can we do, still great job on what you’ve already done and will still be doing!
November 20th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
ah well, it was great while it lasted
(but i still hope for a miracle for Skip Beat)
Looks like i gotta find another sub for Skip Beat or watch it 1 week late :\
Your team did (and is still DOING) a great job with the subs. Keep up the great work
November 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
my bad sorry i got confuced well chihiro i dont like what your thinking oh well
November 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
meh if strike witches is anything to go on i’d give it a day tops after the downloads are added on crunchyroll before someone uploads em to mininova or some other download site so its not so bad really if u dont wanna watch em on a streaming site.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I don’t mean to hassle, out of curiosity, when is Zettai Karen Children episode 32 coming out subbed? Is it just delayed with circumstances that are beyond chihiro’s control? Or are you just falling behind with it?
(both ZKC 32 and 33 raws are out on nyaa torrents, i’m just curious.)
November 20th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
ok wtf i went to Crunchyroll and it looks gay my ass how the fuc do people go to that site
its my opinion dont get mad peace
November 20th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
This could be a big step forward. For me, the greatest appeal of fansubs is the two-year wait between an episode’s air time and the time it’s officially released in the U.S.. I doubt they’ll air everything this way, so there will still be a need for fansubs. And, of course, there’s the chance the industry will screw things up horribly…
November 20th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
question, if per say they start to sub ef – a tale of melodies then would you stop that even tho the show is your “signature show”
November 20th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
i think they are goin to screw up bad just wait paying to watch anime wtf
there goin to charge just watch
November 20th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Crunchyroll does a good thing for anime, in that it releases recent anime instead of waiting years to release an English version.
The problem, however (and it’s a really big problem) is that they don’t allow non-Americans to watch anything. I’m an Englishman, and if Chihiro stops subbing this series then I simply won’t be able to watch it, which is an awful thing to happen.
I also prefer to download my anime, and have never streamed any yet, so Crunchyroll doesn’t help in that respect either.
Please do reconsider subbing Skip Beat. You’ll make everyone happy.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I think the best option to the future of non jap otakus is to start learning jap and start seeing RAWs,prob is learning jap is very expensive >_>
November 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
lol crunchyroll bunch of fat fags earning cash on ilegall fansubs
November 20th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
doesn’t matter for me as long as the raws are still distributed in toshokan
if the raws were stopped, that would make a big trouble. But if it’s just the sub, well, you can either watch it online in crunchy or get the raws from toshokan..
try to learn japanese. it’s not as hard as you thought ^_^
November 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
oh well if chihiro drops skip beat, another anonomiss fansubber will pick it up and continue it, dunno when though.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
What a shame. For anyone that’s actually checked out there site, and comparing there anime to the ones created here at Chihiro there is a Drastic quality difference. Crunchy’s anime quality being appalling.
While the quote of “higher quality raws” is all good and well, the sites streaming transfer quality will never keep up with a 200-300m mkv rip. Simply put the quality loss makes this site an eyesore.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Well, we still have to wait and see how they do it. Even if the shows are subbed on CR. Doesn’t mean a US company has licensed it. But then again, the show was announced licensed on CR right before the fall season started. We jsutdon’t know who yet. LOL But this also goes for any other shows.
November 20th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Also, people saying fan subbing will die out… I seriously doubt that. Some one will always sub a series. Your also forgetting about the groups that do the very old series too. So fan subbing probably never gonna die.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
@Maruno, I am from Europe aswell but I don’t seem to have trouble with crunchyroll videos at all?
Furthermore up to now there have been a few anime released on streaming sites before and all of them were converted to a downloadable files. I wouldn’t worry about that
Well, lets hope this is for the best for anime althoghether. If the animeproducers make money out of this, it’s only for the best and might help keeping anime alive.
Anyway, THANK YOU for all your work, Chihiro!
November 20th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
@Lilith, yeah, I had a check since I wrote that, and only some videos appear to be American-only. Does anyone know why?
I’m concerned about the apparently worse quality of videos on CR. Not to mention the poor subs.
November 20th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
The whole Chrunchyroll idea sounds I little naughty illegal don’t you think.
Lets have a look They don’t offer licensed products they just distribute things that are not licensed until someone tells them to stop.
I wonder do the donation really goes the the anime producers as it says. in the donation window before download. the other problem is that when I download episode form their site and that anime get really licensed (by adv anime or Viz media whatever) will this copy on my computer be legal ? and stuff I will look deeper in that problem and may be wrote a longer statement for now I will be happy if we formed some kind of discussion here
November 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
it is unfortunate but oh well, not like its the first series to ever be licensed
November 20th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
lol, i actually read some of the the stupid comments on crunch~*- whatever… its unbeliveable, this idiots
are even gratfull for that crap…. seriously.. WTF. Why would i love lame Streaming,
lame quality, (crap subs), …. ???
November 20th, 2008 at 7:07 pm
oh not to mention, content limited to certain Areas /countries
Well however, im very gratfull for all the hard work ALL the countless Subbing-Groups are
doing to bring Anime to the non Jap ppl. Thank u very much!
November 20th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
well i dont think its a bad thing, do we really need alot of people subbung one series???
this will just allow then to work on newer shows, but if crunchyroll screws up im sure they will stay on it, and as for the delay, we all are human, we get sick, things happen. dont stress out obout it. if they dont want to wait for the sub then let then go els were, i for one can and will wait for your quality subbing
thanks and keep up the good work, and your health
November 20th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Heil Chihiro! Quality over quantity!
November 20th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
i personally havent watched Skip Beat (yet), but it sucks that chihiro (just about the only fansub group i really count on, especially for R+V, as well as a few others) will no longer be subbing one of their shows…
and as for crunchyroll, i’ve visited their site before, its horrible… i cant stand streaming… but if worst comes to worst, then I can just rip their videos straight from their website >_>… and if needed convert them to avi, or w/e format i want…
Technically, what I’m trying to say, is you can always get it one way or another. although crunchyroll has crappy quality and subbing -.-, its better than nothing if there are no other ways of getting it =/…
November 20th, 2008 at 7:45 pm
I hate that “it’s better than nothing” excuse. Sometimes it’s just not true.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Is Skip Beat even going to have more than 13 episodes?
Ureshii & Yoroshiku are still subbing it I believe even though they are taking longer to do it.
If the series is popular there will always be someone who’ll take the plunge.
Crunchyroll has crappy youtube video quality, it isn’t better than nothing, it is nothing.
As for licensing, I’m in the who cares camp, just because it’s licensed doesn’t mean I’ll ever see it and when the North American dubbers and editors get finished with it, it likely won’t be worth watching.
I can handle Japanese culture, I hate to see what happens to anime after some xenophobe in a suit gets finished with it, I prefer the media in it’s original context, which is why I watch fansubs to begin with.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Just went to CrunchyRoll. Watched opening of Saiyuki. There is no way I will ever consider Crunchyroll as a replacement for fansubs or DVDs.
1. Video Framerate/Quality sucks
2. Audio Quality Sucks, and due to it being flash, doesn’t play out of my 5.1 system.
3. Cant play it on my tv, can’t play it without internet, can’t play it outside of browser.
4. Ads popup over the video during gameplay.
5. Ads before video.
6. Can’t skip to any part in the episode easy due to buffering.
7. No kareoke, no pretty subtitles.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
yes! very true, its just crap. For ppl to actually “Praise” that kind of “Service” its unbeliveable…
November 20th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Why don’t someone sub skip beat anonymous like “Teki” with shikabane hime. Even though funimation licensed it people still sub it.
Aside from that I don’t understand how people can watch any kind of video on stream sites. The audio and quality is just horrible. Even the fmt=18 option for MP4 format on youtube still sucks. O yea about naruto, please don’t sub that. It will fail hard and honestly it sucks.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Please dont do this! Cant you overlook this licence? Just this one!
There is to many people who wants this anime, think about how sad we will be
Well thanx for the show and all the other subs too. I hope you and your team will continue or atleast think about continue the show Skip Beat.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
God damn morons they say they will sub it untill 13 read it
as for show nope crunchyroll dont have any license for it they maybe have agreement
for subbing but nothing else
November 20th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
I’ve been a crunchyroll user for some time. The only reason i use it is to preview 1st episodes before actually picking up a series, and Skip Beat was one of them. Internet in my country is really crappy and i don’t have the luxury of waiting for a streamed video to fully download. Its really thanks to fansubbers that i get my anime quota filled for the week :\
If Skip Beat were to be dropped…that is one title out of my list if a good replacement sub is not found :\
-Please reconsider your decision-
think of the little kittens that survive on Chihiro’s Skip Beat
November 20th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Cruncyroll or Boost are just the beginning. They often give away poor quality “pro-sub” for free and make you pay better versions for download.
I myself bought Strike Witches for 25€.
I know anime are still quite expensive like that, but the prices will drop sometimes in the near future. We will gain better subs at better prices. That’s how really should be.
Fansub did its job well. Now it’s the time for 100% legal internet anime distribution.
November 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Solaris
Cruncyroll or Boost are just the beginning. They often give away poor quality “pro-sub” for free and make you pay better versions for download.
I myself bought Strike Witches for 25€.
I know anime are still quite expensive like that, but the prices will drop sometimes in the near future. We will gain better subs at better prices. That’s how really should be.
Fansub did its job well. Now it’s the time for 100% legal internet anime distribution.
dude wtf u talking about cmon man u think everyone is rich and has money to buy anime
are u out of you mind
November 20th, 2008 at 9:58 pm
are any other fansub groups subbing skip beat? please, i can’t bear crunchyroll..
November 20th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
ureshi still does skip beat i hope
November 20th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
first I’d like to say I agree with MV re counter-reply on Solaris’ comment…
and just want to say PLEASEEEEEEEE don’t stop subbing Skip Beat! ~begs~
November 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
it really makes me sad. that’s all there is to say
November 20th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
[...] Original post by Chihiro [...]
November 20th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
that really sucks i love skip beat
it’s the only show i watched subbed by you guys
i’m glad there are other groups subbing but they’re a little slow
November 20th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
how many episodes does skipbeat has? if it has only 13 than is just fine lol
i hope that chihiro wont drop skipbeat, watching anime streaming really sucks.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
i think this is a troll
nice try chihiro.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
Crunchyroll is alright, I watched most of Densha Otoko from them and they even had an H.264 encoded stream, the quality was pretty good. It was also free (just needed to register an email address.) If anime does start coming down the pipe on that, legally, it might not be so bad (as long as it’s still free and in hq.)
Thanks Chihiro, people should understand that “you gotta do what you gotta do.”
November 20th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
And the thing chihiro is gotta do is keep subbing skip beat!!! =)
thanks for subbing it
November 21st, 2008 at 1:46 am
there’s more than 13 episodes
that’s just the last number this site is subbing
i don’t know the total number, it’s not listed anywhere, but there’s over 132 chapters and it still ongoing and so far the anime has been following the manga so they’ll probabaly be over 50 episodes
November 21st, 2008 at 1:50 am
ohhh nooooo
anyway thank you very much for your dedicationand hard work 
love this site
November 21st, 2008 at 1:57 am
very sad to be told you only subbing up to ep13 and its been a very entertaining series,
and if you are going to sub naruto……don’t!!!!! its a piece of crap
November 21st, 2008 at 3:23 am
if your going to sub something do bleach instead of naruto!
November 21st, 2008 at 5:43 am
O come on Skip Beat is awsome….why would you do that i mean come one SKip beat!
November 21st, 2008 at 5:48 am
Skip Beat isn’t licensed. It’s TV Tokyo that’s subbing the series, not an American company. It’s not even coming out on DVD. Streaming sites, suck period. They are low quality. I knew the announcement regarding this was going to cause problems for the fansubbing community. We’ll just have to hope that some other group puts out the sub then, so people can actually watch it in highquality, not crappy streaming. It’s really sad when people who watch fansubs would rather watch it streaming than see the actual show in good quality, the way it was meant to be seen. People like that, have ruined everything. If every fansub group drops their projects just b/c it’s subbed on some crappy quality streaming site, that’s really sad. I guess nobody thinks about the fans anymore. Great job caving to the pressure of TV Tokyo.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:59 am
just release the .ass can ? the video can be downloaded from other site anyway.
November 21st, 2008 at 6:27 am
Don’t worry ppl. I don’t mean badmouthing fansub. Fansub had its role, that’s advertising anime for the world crowd. Now even japanese firm became aware of the real potential of Internet as a distribution media and they’re spending money on it. This is quite right and I would like to praise it.
It’s not that fansub will die if streaming/internet anime will be extablished as a new distribution media. There’s always a place for it. Think about non english speaking countries i.e. or old shows. If your “guren lagan” was to be officially prosubbed, than the fansoub group could spend its resources to sub something else worth it.
Of course nobody is rich enough to buy all the media produced, but there’s still some way to manage it, right? You will always have your piratebay.com
November 21st, 2008 at 7:54 am
I do hope you reconsider your decision to drop Skip Beat! I agree with many fans here that downloading HQ videos are way better than streaming the anime. I’m not saying that crunchyroll sucks or anything; in fact, I watched some series there, but it just can’t compare to the wonder that is HQ fansubs. 8D Skip Beat! also happens to be one of my favorite manga series so I want to watch it in HQ, naturally.
Whatever happens though, thanks for subbing it this far. You guys rock! (Please please please don’t drop?
)
November 21st, 2008 at 7:57 am
Waiting for Crunchyroll to disclose the detail of the deals.
VOD ? Pay TV ?….
November 21st, 2008 at 9:05 am
noooooooooo skippppppp beaaaaaatttttttttttt T_T
November 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
[...] no, I guess that’s just way too much to ask. At least Chihiro’s going on until episode 14 or so, so there’s something to look forward to. Some might say that their subtitles [...]
November 21st, 2008 at 10:05 am
Boycott Crunchroll!! (JK)…
I’m gonna miss Chihiro’s fansubs of skip beat after episode 13. You guys are way more better, and translate much better. *pouts* couldn’t crunchyroll wait until the series was over!! >_<
November 21st, 2008 at 11:13 am
Even know I am kinda mad/sad that you are going to be dropping it I won’t flame but will put in my two cents (even know I doubt you care.) Well then this is just to ask, since you are dropping Skip Beat does that mean if EF were to be lisenced then would you be dropping it also or no I mean I can understand it but still would you?
November 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
You realize even though crunchyroll said this they actually make you pay if you want to dl them. It pissed me off so much. Just Saying
November 21st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
So… this is sad news… I don’t know if crunchyroll will be doing a good job handling so many different anime… who is really doing all the work? Ugh!! This is going to suck… and I looked at their site and read all the legal jargon… eeeesh… what a load of crap… it will still end up on torrents, I know that, You know that… and probably THEY know that… come on!! P2P stuff will go on forever…
As for me… as long as I can download it somewhere… and the quality is pretty high… I will consider looking into crunchyroll in order to purchase episodes in the future… but that will be only after scouring the internet for “free” high quality copies…
…and there still may be some rogue subbing groups who keep the fans happy!!
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 am
Now that Crunchyroll has said they’ve gotten Skip Beat, who’s now allowed to upload subtitles on CR for its episodes? Just anyone?
In that case, it’s perfectly feasible for you to crease an .ass file “for that purpose” and put it up here, along with a link to bittorrent the raw. Of course, you you would then not recommend programs like “mkvtoolnix”, just in case someone tried to combine the two and create a subbed episode for themselves.
I’m just saying…
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:58 am
CR was a good site, till they started to have all those whatnot services and cooperations with anime companies. Now it’s almost like they’re making money out of subbing.
November 22nd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOES my sweeeeeeeeeet!!!!!! my dreams T_T waaaaaaaaaah T_T
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I haven’t watched Skip Beat, but somehow I don’t like this kind of development. Sure, finally watching anime in a legal way for free would be great, but I can’t stand the audio/video quality of all those streaming sites. I would rather stop watching anime than watch those eye-hurting-streams.
You can RIP most video streams out there and many media players can handle .flv files, but quality will still suck!
Sure, other groups will continue most shows dropped because of streaming and you can still grab those RAW files (and maybe even some .ass scripts), but I’m afraid that all this will make fansubbing and watching them even more illegal than it is now.
I’m fine with watching RAWs (Finally learning Japanese all those years will pay off, I guess), but I think it will get really crowded in some IRC-RAW channels.
If they can provide high quality streams worldwide all this would be great – but I doubt that this will happen…
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Maybe I should say something about this matter. Well, I don’t know how many servers Crunchroll got. But if there are many people (I mean hundreds or even maybe thousands people) who want to watch a particular anime show via streaming, would be problematic.
Why? Because if the Crunchroll’s servers can not cope with such amount request by people who want to watch a particular anime show (also don’t forget that other people want to watch other shows than you), means that the streaming can become very slow (unwatchable due to constant buffering) or even only a limited group people can watch their anime show at a particular time; the worst situation may be that Crunchroll will ask for a high price for watching an episode of the most popular anime show if it becomes a succes. Also who currently want to download an episode of an anime from Crunchroll have to donate. Well, if you have to pay, then it’s not a donation, right? Don’t get me wrong, paying for an download is allright, but the word “donation” here is too misleading.
So if you want to watch a new episode of Skip Beat!, you can’t since the streaming is very slow due to the great demand by many people who also want to watch Skip Beat or an other show. So, I think Crunchroll is not a real solution (at least not now). Also I think many people and Crunchroll itself under-estimate the situation and Crunchroll’s capacity (the servers). The anime series (Skip Beat!, Shugo Chara!! Doki, Naruto etc.) which will be broadcast via Crunchroll are very popular (and certainly if the service is for free), so it is very likely that the servers couldn’t cope with the big demand, which will lead to very slow streaming, or even causing the servers to become down/overload, i.e. in the end no one can watch their favorite anime show – that’s even more true if there’re no other alternatives.
November 23rd, 2008 at 1:14 am
WELL i got an idea lets sub skip beat our self if you wana make a fansubing group add a comment bellow
November 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Ureshii is doing Skip Beat too, at much slower pace. They only finish episode 4 so far. If you don’t mind Chinese sub, dymy is doing it. I have access to watch legal copy of Skip Beat, but the subber is notorious for crappy subs I dun want to waste money and hurt my eyes on crappy sub.
Streaming might cause a problem for people living outside US and Canada. There are cases where these people could not gain access to the video simply because of their IP does not belong to these two country.
November 24th, 2008 at 4:21 am
this really sucks ; ;
November 26th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Guess what Dattebayo is dropping Naruto due to crunchyroll
November 28th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
hope that Chihiro does not stop subbing Skip Beat. I prefer to get an anime and watch it at my leisure, not hope to watch it when someone else wants to play it.
November 29th, 2008 at 12:04 am
[...] Originally Posted by Man0warr Says who? Chihiro still subbing it. Hi Skip Beat is dropped… kind of at Chihiro [...]
November 29th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
ANN is only listing up to 13 episodes though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it ended at ep13 and had a second season, considering the trend of anime this season. Then y’all wouldn’t have anything to complain about =P
November 30th, 2008 at 2:05 am
one word for CR SHINE (die)
December 3rd, 2008 at 4:08 am
See, if this were licensed in the sense that we were getting real, physical R1 DVDs I’d be happy, and I would buy it. I buy shitloads of R1 DVDs.
But Crunchyroll? That shit is no substitution. Whatever complaints people make about Chihiro, they’re way better than CR quality.
This is a shame. Not because I’m a broke-ass whiny leech screaming “zomg license bawwww” like a lot of the people commenting above me seem to be, but because the better viewing option for Skip Beat is going to end, and it’s not even for a *real* license in the sense of a DVD release Just this digital bullshit.
Lame. I’d rather pay higher prices for a legit DVD release than pay anything at all for Crunchyroll.
December 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Chihiro, I think you’re doing the right thing. Ignore all these commenters. There will always be lazy people who complain about anything just so they have an excuse not to pay for something. Crunchyroll has HQ videos and I’ve watched series on them and was perfectly happy. Now they’re entering a partnership with the legal owners to bring us legitimate new episodes within a week or two of their showing in Japan. That’s fantastic news! I really don’t see what there is to whine about, except by people who feel they’re entitled to be spoonfed subbed anime while sitting in their highchairs.
Thank you for all your hard work in bringing us this series, and thank you for being ethical about stopping the subs.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:29 am
This sucks!!..The news of you guys dropping the series has probably hit me the worst.Mainly because I am from India and we really dont get all the awesome anime titles on DVD,most of you guys get in the US…Yeah sure I could probably consider streaming the series,but strangely besides you tube no other video streaming sites stream as well…in other words streaming cant be considered an option for me(downloading is the only option).It would still be good if you guys reconsider the decision of dropping Skip beat…..But,then again maybe I shouldn’t have watched the series in the first place….well,anyway Thank you subbing this awesome series and for bringing it to fans who would have never dreamt of watching the series ever.
Thank you so much ,Chihiro-subs!
[please, forgive my messed up english]
December 7th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
eh… you at least get some animes on dvd in your country. i dont get any….
internet is the onely anime sorse i have… + i was sooo happy when i favorite manga was made into an anime.
this site became one of my farotites the minut i saw skip beat hear…
what to do next? eh….. *cry*
December 7th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
Hmmz… i tried out Crunchyroll website and watched the video posted there… i must say its kinda pixelated… not as good quality as one DLed … so like .. wtf
ow well i guess high quality anime is going to an end … shitty , but hey thats life for ya…
ow and also i saw that the TLs were marked as “Chichiro” does it mean your going to TL it for Crunchyroll ? im confused :S
December 8th, 2008 at 5:52 am
@Pupsia
What to do next??
well we could just forget that the anime ever existed and just continue or messed up lives as before..
December 11th, 2008 at 12:12 am
Well, I didn’t read this thread yet, and I imagine the shock this announcement made. But what of all the people who understand english and downloads fansubs like Chihiro’s because the anime isn’t licensed yet in their country so their downloading it is LEGAL.
I have an even more interesting question : what if Chihiro’s downloading raws from and to a server heberged in a country where the anime isn’t licensed, they sub it, and distribute it the same way. The people downloading it have a PC in the same country. There isn’t still any license. My point is : doing all this isn’t illegal. Heck ! I download anime because they aren’t licensed where I live. I’m not a pirate, am I ?
December 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
[...] this blog, let’s get down to baka-bizness. And that group that I was talking about was Chihiro-Sub. They plan to subbed up to Episode 13 and then they’re dropping the series. Not gonna [...]
January 1st, 2009 at 2:43 am
Nooooooo, Please don’t stop skip beat. I just found out this amazing anime and suddently they told that its been drop, it just no fair. I want to see more of skip beat. please don’t drop this anime.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm
Please don’t drop Skip Beat! Some people can’t watch it can’t watch it on crunchyroll because of their region (like europe, australia, south east asia,)
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Please don’t drop Skip Beat! A lot of us can’t watch it in CrunchyRoll since its not available! It’s totally unfair!! ><
January 8th, 2009 at 9:10 am
think about other people who can’t pay to watch and it is really expensive if you think about it.. if you become patient to much people will give out spoilers and i bet some fansubbers have already quit this series.. its unfair…
January 10th, 2009 at 10:05 am
crap.. i go to crunchyroll to browse anime..
watch it and if i really liked it i would download the fansubs to get better quality.. at first i was “oh well, at least i get to watch it..” or so i thought..
then crunchyroll’s skip beat is not available at my country, then news i read saying people would stop subbing it because its already in crunchyroll?! aww.. c’mon. what am i supposed to do now?
(well the thought of me learning Japanese and downloading raws did cross my mind.. but then again.. ehh?!)
January 11th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
the region thing is really shitted up.
anyway horriblesubs are uploading em up the the internet..so find them there guys =/
they are having sorta war with crunchyroll fanboys which is really full of lols
January 16th, 2009 at 1:10 am
miniova has ep 14 released with a few different subers but there all mkv files, is still better then crunchyroll
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
[...] streamed in crunchyroll. here is the statement of the fansub group that used to sub skip beat: http://www.chihiro-subs.com/2008/11/20/s... ANSWER: i guess its got to do with it being like pirating stuff i dont recall what anime it was [...]
February 15th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
You know, all you guys are doing is complaining. If Chihiro or any fansub group decides to drop a sub, then thank them for the work they -have- done, and leave it at that – it isn’t like they’re professionals who have a commitment to meet. Instead, they’re just people doing something on their own time and of their own accord. They owe nothing to anyone out there, regardless of how “happy” it’ll make people.
Thanks for the hard work, Chihiro, and I, personally, hope that you and all other fansubbers continue to put forth excellent quality.
January 1st, 2010 at 6:27 am
ooooooooh, that sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!