End of year report 2021 (Patreon)

Happy New Year everyone! Hopefully 2022 gives us a respite, although we can't really complain about our work during 2021!

This past year has been really, really special for us, truly a milestone and we aim 2022 to be a step towards more and more exciting things!

Let's start with a summary of last year's work:

-18 Hamtaro episodes, completing the series.
-7 Hamtaro revamped episodes.
-1 Hamtaro movie revamped and 1 Hamtaro OVA revamped.
-25 Hi! Hamtaro Indonesian Dub episodes thanks to our anonymous translator.
-3 episodes of the first season of Jewelpet, in collaboration with Stardust Fansubs.
-The first season of Sugar Bunnies (27 episodes of 9 minutes each), completing the season.

This year has been the year. We started our work in 2009, just for the kicks, and look where we are now, 12 years later. We have completely subbed Hamtaro from episode 104 to 296!

It's such a milestone... that we don't have words to express how we feel. It is certainly a strange feeling knowing that there are no more Hamtaro episodes to translate. 

This year has been quite busy for everyone at staff, with moving into their new homes, getting new jobs, getting more workload on their jobs... But even so, we were able to keep our schedule of three episodes per month, and thanks to that we were able to complete this with leisure.

So much so, that we decided to pick a completely new series out of the blue, and translated it in quite a short amount of time. Thanks to our new staff member Reboot and his amazing timing skills, it's been quite easy to finish this season of Sugar Bunnies.

Thanks to HHP's discord "spotlight ham" community event, we decided to participate by making revamp episodes of the month's spotlight character; and so we resumed making revamps, but even so we failed the proposed milestone by one. 

The only thing we missed was working on the Hiragana and Shape and Numbers Hamtaro specials, this year's excuse was that our efforts were on finishing the series. Let's see what we can come up with next year...

The number of Jewelpet episodes released is also short, but that sadly is not on our end. We could sneak peek how far we have got into Jewelpet episodes but Stardust Fansubs is more perfectionist than us and they take quite a lot of work and effort to provide the best releases possible. So this project will be slower than Sunshine, that's for sure!

Now then, let's move on and discuss next year's objectives:
-Sub the remaining two seasons of Sugar Bunnies: Chocolat and Fleur.
-Sub the japanese version of Hamtaro Hi! episodes.
-Sub the Hiragana and Shape and Numbers Hamtaro specials as well as the train specials.
-Sub the original Jewelpet season, following up the collaboration with Stardust Fansubs.
-Revamp 24 previously translated Hamtaro episodes, two monthly.
-Revamp the two remaining Hamtaro movies and OVAs.
-Study the possibility of subbing other series related to the “kodomo” group, candidates being: Mirmo Zibang, Maple Town, Tamagotchi, Calimero and Valeriano, Master Hamsters, Kyoro, Kogimyun.
-If a new Hamtaro series shows up, translate it in the shortest time possible as a full-fledged sub team would do.
-Try to create a “stream event” where we subtitle live.
-Promote Patreon and Ko-Fi more to increase our patrons.
-Create a specific website, outside of Ham-Ham Paradise, for Paradise Hamsubs.

Lots of plans ahead!

Some are self-explanatory: Sugar Bunnies Chocolat and Fleur are the two next seasons of our Sugar Bunnies project, we will just be focusing on them as our main project, but we won't be working too much ahead of timing, so they should be released sparsely!

Even though we already have a lot of Hi! episodes subbed due the Indonesian dub, we will work on the japanese versions because that's what we do!

We added the train specials to our "specials" list, it's going to be a very low priority, but it's there! Main focus regarding "specials" will be on the revamp of the remaining movies and OVAs.

Our next main objective is to continue making revamps of the old episodes, we have noticed that most of the very old episodes are translated quite poorly, and we believe it is time we make them justice. Since the spotlight ham event at discord is going to continue through the years, our plan is to do two revamps monthly: one tied to the spotlight ham, and another one of our own volition. Patrons are welcome to suggest any!

Worth mentioning too, is that for the first time we have named a bunch of animes that we would like to work on next year, but are tied to a lot of conditions.

Mirmo Zibang would be another collaboration with Stardust, so we would need to discuss it with them first.

Kyoro and Master Hamsters are projects that Kristopher wants to work on, so their releases will be tied up to his timing availability.

Maple Town and Tamagotchi are very niche animes that require a lot of time to work in (Tamagotchi has 271 episodes!), so they're very low priorities unless we find someone that is willing to take over timing and, even if only a bit of, translation. 

Calimero and Valeriano is unique as in... we don't have japanese raws, only spanish. So we might consider doing the subs anyways, and it will be frankly quite fast since André's native language is spanish. This is a very treasured anime from André's childhood, and Kristopher is also excited about it, so there's a huge chance that we will pick it up.

Kogimyun is not quite an anime, but a series of one minute shorts aired on Youtube that André wants to work on in his free time, these should be fairly easy to do and we will most likely release them in batches.

We want to make a request from anyone that reads this: if you are from a country that had DVD releases of the above mentioned animes and they have subtitles, even if they're on your language (for example, italian subtitles on Mirmo's italian dub DVDs), PLEASE contact us! We will be able to extract those subtitles and use their timing as a base for our own subtitles, which will make our work considerably faster.

The remaining goals are just seeded from previous years, and we intend to keep them just for the sake of it.

We can't really talk too much about it for now, but we expect 2022 to finally be the year we have a proper website and all our episodes available in an easy to access way!

As you can tell, 2022 is quite an ambitious year. Now that we have finished Hamtaro, we have a lot of energy to burn, and since we have get used to the routine of working on three episodes monthly, we can't stop now!

Once more, we wish you a Happy New Year from everyone at Paradise Hamsubs, and we want to thank you for your continuous support last year. We hope you keep enjoying our work this year too!