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Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by hatsunearu on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:26PM (#25907552)
The few groups that used to do that have stopped making fansubs. Mostly because HorribleSubs took a lot of the market share by just ripping CruncyRoll subs and re-packaging with RAWs.

But now that HS is gone, I'm not sure what's happening to the scene. There is a power vacuum and I'm not sure if anyone took up the space.

Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by ihuman on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:34PM (#25907649)
I don't want to name them here, but a new group has popped up that does the exactly same thing HorribleSubs did.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by jowsie on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:33PM (#25908403)
Erai-raws has been at it for a while now.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by ihuman on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:44PM (#25908563)
They rip the subs too? I assumed they just ripped the raw video because of their name.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by jowsie on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:16PM (#25909016)
The few anime I've watched from their releases all had subtitles.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by teraflop on Monday January 25, 2021 @03:52PM (#25908686)
There are definitely still anime fansub groups active, although not nearly as many as there used to be.

Mostly they seem to work on shows that haven't been licensed by official simulcast sources, or that are licensed but aren't being released on a timely schedule (ahem Netflix), or projects that for whatever reason they think the official releases haven't done justice to.

Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by throwaway314158 on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:53PM (#25907887)
Aside from HorribleSubs, these days you can hardly throw a rock without hitting a major streaming service that offers anime. Setting aside whatever free episodes you can get from Crunchyroll et al., Netflix, Amazon, Hulu... the list goes on. And for the majority of people, the services are convenient enough to outweigh whatever video quality advantage that HS or subtitle quality advantage (some) fansub groups offered.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by jsheard on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:54PM (#25907904)
The show I watched was a recent release, but it went through Netflix jail so I guess that's why it got the high-quality fansub treatment. There weren't any official subtitles for groups like HorribleSubs to yoink day of release which bought time for a high-effort group to do their thing.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by kuroguro on Monday January 25, 2021 @04:13PM (#25908970)
Subsplease seem to have replaced them.
Re:Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle... by novok on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:54PM (#25907896)
Isn't that basically crunchyroll taking most of the market by doing sub translations in the first place? Kind of like the netflix / spotify effect on piracy.