I just haven't been sleeping well lately. I wish I was because I'm kind of sick of waking up in the middle of the night.
On the other hand this has let me exercise my p2p skills. I've been downloading a very impressive amount of digisubbed anime in a short amount of time. The anime fansub community is pretty interesting. There are two big things that are nonos. The first is charging for fansubs. Every interview I've read with a show creator has had the question "what do you think of fansubs and bootlegs showing up in the US?" In every single case they don't mind at all. In fact they think it's cool that people are taking the time to subtitle them and get the shows out to people. They insist that it be free though. The moment someone charges money for it they don't like it anymore
.The second part is pretty cool too. Once a show has been licensed or is being distributed most fansubbers in the US will stop subtitling a show. The US distributers tend to not care about fansubs as long they aren't in direct competition. This one I have somewhat mixed feelings about. A lot of times a show is licensed then sits around being produced for a year or more. So my own rule of thumb is to continue downloading stuff till it is actually released.
Lately I've been making my way through Hikaru no Go. It's a show about Go. Yes, the game where people are placing little stones on a wooden board. Amazingly enough I'm finding myself very drawn into this show. It's one I doubt will ever be released over here, but you never know these days. So far I'm only about ten episodes in, and kind of curious where the story is going.
