ADDENDUM. April 4th, 2010:

This post will resurface to the top of the announcement posts whenever I feel that the annoyance level of “where is project xyz” is reaching its peak; for the last time, we don’t stall projects on purpose, real life happens — we don’t live to serve you, and we sure as hell don’t sub for your enjoyment, so deal with it.

Original Announcement

I’ve tried the whole bureaucratic approach and I’ve tried being nice, but apparently being nice doesn’t help in this sea of festering shit-pinions sometimes referred to as the internet, so I’ll try to be as blunt as possible.

We at ANBU sub for personal enjoyment. We don’t sub to serve the greater purpose that is the fansubbing community, nor do we sub for personal gain, such as internet fame or the fabled “e-penis”. Accordingly, we fansub at a pace and in a way that we find to be enjoyable and not too taxing to our every day lives/lifestyle, hence the many delays and inconsistent release speeds.

Whereas we are perfectly aware that our speed and quality may not be up to par of those other groups who seem to be able to constantly maintain a weekly 24-48hr release, and although we would like to attain such speeds to get all the naysayers off our backs, doing so requires that we abandon our 9-5 jobs and sit in front of the computer for extended periods of the day in order to do so. (if you haven’t caught the sarcasm in my speech, no, we’re not quitting our day jobs just to get these eps out to you faster)

Which brings me to my second albeit related point: what we sub and when we sub is our own choice, and if you don’t like it, no one is holding a gun to your head and making you download our releases.

Whether we decide to sub project x ahead of project y should really be none of your concern; since our translators in most part all only work on one project with different core groups except for asunder, who’s an edit/qc whore, as iterated in another angry post sometime back, us subbing one project does not necessarily negate progress on another or mean that we’re not working on another project.

So to recap:
1. Stop asking about progress on project xyz; we’re not some licensing company who holds back distribution of episodes for increased profit margins — we’ll get the eps out to you when we CAN
2. Stop asking if projects are dropped; we will announce if we’re no longer working on a project
3. If you don’t like the speed or the effort we’re putting into our fansubs, then just don’t download them; yeah, nothing witty to add here.

Note: No, asunder, I will not move this post to the forum.