Fan Subbed Atime

The first time I ever watched anime was when I accidentally rented a wrong DVD from a rental store. When I realized my mistake rather than returning the CD, I decided to keep it. The show was called Naruto when I first watched Naruto it was dubbed in English. So it was a big surprise finding out when I went to watch the rest of the episodes online they were in Japanese. Since I had never heard or spoke Japanese the first few video I saw I had to guess what was going on plot wise and what the characters were saying through expression and their gaze. After, spending considerable time online watching Naruto I found some sites that had subtitle in the episode, fan-subs. Fan-subs have allowed me to understand and enjoy the new art form I was introduced to. By having easy access to thousands of online fan-subbed anime I have never needed to …show more content…
I wanted to find out what the anime industry thought about fan-sub. I found a book called Mechademia in which an article called “Dark Energy: What Fan-subs Reveal about the Copyright Wars” the author Ian Condry talked to some prominent figure in anime industry to get their insight on the anime fan-sub culture. In an interview regarding fan-subs Kubo Masakazu said “[they] think they are supporting anime but not a penny goes to the creators. It’s stealing,” (Mechademia). Kubo Masakazu “is a producer of the Pokémon movie series” (Mechademia). Another anime industry producer refused to comment Condry believe he did not comment because he did not wanted to anger the fans (Mechademia). After further research I found an article in the anime news network about an organization called Tokyo Anime Center posted a notice in an international fair to “ Stop Fan-subtitles” (Tokyo Anime Center) . The reasons they give are that it piracy and that “Data has shown that in the United States, there have been over 6 million downloads in any given week.” (Tokyo Anime