Half-Year Report 2023 (Patreon)

Hi guys, it's that time of the year again, and we're ready to make our mid-year report!

The current work we have released so far this year is as follows:
-21 episodes of Pururun! Shizuku-chan.
-1 episode of Sugar Bunnies Fleur.
-The Beatcats Q&A.
-5 episodes of Jewelpet, in collaboration with Stardust Fansubs.

Well... it's been a very focused half of the year. Shizuku has been such a fun project, that André has focused almost all of his time onto it. We have reached the mid point of the series way before scheduled, and there's a huge chance the season will be over before the year ends.

Sugarbunnies Fleur has been on some kind of hiatus becuase of the team busy lives, but the second episode is ready to be QC'd and it will be released in a matter of weeks! After that, all you need is for André to glue himself off the Shizuku project and continue working on translations.

Jewelpet episodes have been released steadily (almost one a month!) but that's because of Stardust's staff diligence. From our part, the translations are on schedule... or, well, they were; the next few episodes are actually stalled but we will catch up soon!

The team workload for this first six months have been quite heavy, but we have still managed to get some stuff done. Summer is a bad time to be productive because it's so hot and there's a bunch of social meetings, but we will do our best!

There's also a whole bunch of Hamtaro Haai! episodes ready to be released, we will be releasing those in the short future too. The plan was to release them before this report, but... whoops.

We want to appreciate your continuous support, thank you very much!

Let's discuss the plans for the second half of the year:
-Continue working on Pururun! Shizuku-chan, with no set releases plan.
-Sub the remaining episodes of Sugar Bunnies 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.
-Sub the new Jewelpet Movie, "Attack Travel".
-Revamp 6 previously translated Hamtaro episodes, sparcely around the year.
-Revamp the two remaining Hamtaro movies and the fourth OVA.
-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, Ringo no Mori and other Sanrio OVAs.
-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.

Same as planned during 2022's end of the year report, we don't want to leave any project behind.

We will compromise and try to slow down a little on Shizuku, although André's plan was to finish the whole season by Christmas, so we can work on other projects.

As mentioned before, we will release the translated Haai! episodes soon, and the next Sugar Bunnies Fleur episode too. For Sugar Bunnies, we will aim to at least translate all episodes, but timing might not be possible.

With a quick spurt, we will probably be able to translate three or so Jewelpet episodes, and that will "free" us from that project for quite a long time (probably around this time next year!).

The team has promised the Discord server that we would be releasing at least one of the Hamtaro specials for Hamtaro's birthday, so we will probably work on that too. The revamps, however, are going to be tough to fit in, so they may be left untouched for this year.

We are quite excited to work on the third movie, but we won't be able to release it by Bijou's birthday so it is looking more like a Christmas project.

The biggest issue for all of this will be time. André is once again going to hang out with his fiancée until mid October, so he won't be able to work on releases as much as he wants.

But time will tell! For now, this is the end of our report, we hope you are excited from what is to come and, if Shizuku is not your cup of tea, we still appreciate all the effort you have given us so far and we promise to try to spread our releases in this second half of the year.

Have a great summer!