Frostii

Just like pretty much every fansub group in the world, Frostii are looking for translators.

Currently the only dedicated translator we have is Sylf, who is looking to ease himself out of fansubbing somewhat and doesn’t want to translate any more shows that air weekly. This means that to take advantage of the mass dropping of projects (see below) and to pick up new series, we’ll need new translators.

Translators will be required to translate Japanese into English. You’d think this would be a fairly obvious statement, but some people apparently don’t realise it. We don’t need perfect native fluency in English (that’s what editors are supposedly for) but we do need something better than we’d manage with Google translate (and we don’t want it in Spanish either). We’d also prefer people who have the free time to do something like this, and aren’t going to vanish or announce they don’t want to do it any more when we’re five episodes into a series.

We don’t know what shows any new translator will be needed for, because we’ve not decided what we’re doing next season yet, and that decision is usually heavily influenced by what shows the translator wants to do anyway.

Anyone who is interested, apply in #frostii-recruits on Rizon

Ever since April, we have resisted dropping a few troubled projects.  We’ve made our efforts, made attempts to save these projects, but by now, we all know it’s futile.  So we are officially dropping these three projects:

• Durarara!!
• Eden of the East movies
• Ookami Kakushi

The Project List page has been updated, so check that page before you ask status about any other projects.

In short:

Dropped project(s):

• Katanagatari

Projects not dropped:

• K-On!!
• RAINBOW
• Winter Sonata
• Kimi ni Todoke
• Omamori Himari
• Durarara!!
• Ookami Kakushi
• Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto
• Musashi – Souken ni Haseru Yume
• Lupin the 3rd – The Last Job
• Eden of the East movie – The King of Eden
• Boku Otaryman

Future joint projects – old ones that are resumed:

• Yawara! (with Live-eviL)
• Daa! Daa! Daa! (with AnimeONE)

And the details (after the jump)

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As some of you found out, frostii.com was unavailable for about past 10 days.  But ain’t this a good news!  We’re back!

For those of you who knew, thanks for sticking around with us and showing your support.  And for those of you who weren’t aware, welcome back.  We’re not going anywhere.  We are here to stay.  And in just a few minutes after this post, we will be making another release.

Cheers!

Welcome, but don’t get comfortable yet.  We’re still trying to recover frostii.com domain after the domain was hijacked.  I’ve only set this up as a backup, just in case the recovery doesn’t work out.  The site should be mostly operational.  The tracker itself is probably working, but none of the torrents have been converted to use it.  If we happen to recover the .com domain, we will move back to that, and I’m going to NOT transfer all new comments between now and recovery.  Unless we make a new release on this .net domain, which is likely…  Stay tuned.

Update 1: I just remembered that I didn’t copy the tracker, so it won’t be working.  And none of the torrents would be available too, but none of them would be working, so that’s not much of a loss.

Update 2 (May 1): Now I was told that it may take another 5 days to recover the domain.  Pain in the ass.

Update 3 (May 7): As you can see, the site has been restored! Yay us!  And big thanks to Arabianswan for getting everything straight.

Once in a while, I get a question “how do you change your avatar on this blog?  Like when I leave comments and such?”  The answer is very trivial – Gravatar.  You go to gravatar web site, register your avatar along with your email.  And whatever email address you use in the comment will be the key to use your avatar.  Your email address is still not revealed to the public.

I know many of your already have gravatar.  But it’s time to see more of it!  Show your fandom! Register your gravatar today!

Earlier today, we released a promo video for one of the shows we liked.  Of course, that isn’t the only show.  Some of the shows we are thinking for January 2010 include:

• Ookami Kakushi – as you saw in the last post.  Pending the full compatibility between the translator and the show confirmed—we’re on
• Nodame Cantabile Finale – I will continue working on this show personally
• Lupin III the Last Job – slated to be aired on Feb 12.  I’ll work on this too
• Boku Otariiman – 40 minute OVA.  Also my project.
• Musashi the movie – this might be oversubbed… but we like it enough that we want our own version
• Omamori Himari – not sure at all yet, just like Ookami confirmed—we’re on
  
• Dyurarara!! – not sure on this either, just like Ookami confirmed—we’re on
  

Does that sound like we’re stretching ourselves too thin?  We should have ourselves covered pretty good.  There are some very excited members for each and all shows I just listed.

What do you think?

updated 1/12: all shows are now confirmed – we’re doing ‘em all.