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Originally Posted by sangofe
Alright, so with active I mean releasing at least one episode per month in average.
The groups I know of that fit this description, and still are active, are:
1. Central Anime (??.??.1992)
2. ANBU (25.10.2001)
3. Live-Evil (24.11.2001)
4. AnimeOne (17.07.2002)
5. Kaizoku-Fansubs (15.11.2002)
6. TV-Nihon (05.04.2003)
7. Static Subs (08.07.2003)
8. SD Project (21.10.2003)
9. Saizen (09.07.2004)
10. Dattebayo (22.10.2004)
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bump for current status:
Central-Anime
yep,
still doing their thing (you'd think they'd hate anime by now like any sane person would)
ANBU
dead (no releases in their own name since february 2012, last release with another group in november 2012)
Live-Evil
alive, but only subs shit nobody cares about
AonE
basically dead since like 2011, last spasms in november 2012 (together with ANBU)
Kaizoku-Fansubs
alive, I guess? isn't one piece simulcast though?
TV-Nihon
ikiteiru (tl note: ikiteiru means "alive" but everyone wishes they would just fucking die already and take their terrible subs with them to the grave)
Static-Subs
dead since august 2012 (officially "on hiatus" but I consider it extremely unlikely for Kunio to suddenly revive)
SD Project
dead since may 2012, website domain expired
Saizen
alive, but seriously guys, sports anime from
1984? really scraping the bottom of the barrel, there.
Dattebayo
dead since september 2011
A-Destiny
alive?
addendum:
Doremi (august 8th, 2005)
still alive, still run by ladholyman & maceart
gg (october 11th, 2005)
still alive, still retains founding staff members (I only joined in january 2006 though)
Eclipse (october 2005)
dead since august 2012
tl;dr: Simulcasting killed fansubbing and the few groups left are either digging deep in the mines of the 70's and 80's for ancient shit to sub for some kind of misdirected nostalgia reasons, or they're mostly in it for the ad money you get from the few shows that are latecast.
I do wonder what made everyone die off at the same time in fall 2012 though.
looking back at all the debates I had circa 2004 with the people who claimed unethical fansubbing would kill the industry, I'm really not sure who came out more right in the end, but I'm still here for some bizarre reason and they're not, so I guess that means I get to gloat and claim moral superiority