Ctenosaur Video
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Ctenosaur Video was an amateur fansub group fronted by Corey Chapman in New York in the late 1990s.[1] Alongside other anime series and general Asian cinema, Ctenosaur was widely known for their Dragon Ball franchise VHS fansubs, particularly those of the Dragon Ball Z television series.
Biography
Ctenosaur Video grew out of Chapman's enjoyment of science fiction and Asian cinema and the 1995 purchase of an Amiga computer with the JacoSub software. While trading tapes and meeting other fansub groups such as Henshin Video and Anime Labs, Chapman teamed with and breezed through a series of translators, eventually pairing with a friend-of-a-friend named "Yuko"; it was this individual would go on to provide the translations for the vast majority of Ctenosaur tapes.[2]
Chapman took the name "Ctenosaur" from Ctenosaura, the Latin name for his spiny tailed iguana pet.[2]
Ctenosaur Video eventually morphed into "Kurotokagi Gumi", an Asian cinema-specific fansubbing group, in 2005.[3]
Subtitled Works
TBD
Feud With "Miami Mike"
Fansubbers often used eyecatches and bumpers to share messages with their audience, which would often contain references to or jabs at other fansub groups or bootleg distributors. In 2010, the fansite AnimePast.net (later renamed as OldSchoolOtaku.com) brought one of these fansub jabs to the spotlight: Ctenosaur's "NO Thanks to: Miami Mike - I remember what you did to me at DragonCon" written over top the first Dragon Ball Z ending theme.[4] By a chance encounter with an old business card in 2018, Dawn ("Usamimi") of the Anime Nostalgia Podcast tracked down a former business associate of "Miami Mike" — Pat Pungpee of Anime Hurricane[5] — and attempted to learn what this DragonCon encounter may have been.[6] Pungpee's assumption was that, in all likelihood, "Miami Mike" had been copying and/or reselling Ctenosaur tapes, and perhaps had even done so at a vendor table at DragonCon during a same year that Ctenosaur may have attended.
Web Addresses
References
- ↑ "Ctenosaur Video" (06 August 1999). Ctenosaur Video. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Humble Beginnings" (08 April 2006). Ctenosaur Blog. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
- ↑ "Kurotogaki". Kurotogaki. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
- ↑ "Legends of VHS Fansubs: Tracking Down Miami Mike" (11 March 2018). Anime News Network. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
- ↑ @patamon829 (11 March 2018). Twitter. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
- ↑ "The Anime Nostaliga Podcast - Ep 61" (11 March 2018). The Anime Nostalgia Podcast. Retrieved: 14 February 2019.
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