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Before Anime became a billion dollar industry with easy access on major platforms like Crunchyroll, Adult Swim, and Toonami, North America had William Chow. This is the untold story of how a fan revolutionized subtitling so that he could share his passion for anime with others.

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Found in Translation is a documentary short about William Chow, one of the Godfathers of Anime Fansubbing.

In the 1980’s, anime outside of Japan was a niche interest. Although it was flourishing locally, there were few commercial ways to get it to North America. As a young William Chow became more immersed with this artform; he wanted a way to share it with others who didn’t understand Japanese. With rudimentary technology, William and his peers developed their way

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Found in Translation is a documentary short about William Chow, one of the Godfathers of Anime Fansubbing.

In the 1980’s, anime outside of Japan was a niche interest. Although it was flourishing locally, there were few commercial ways to get it to North America. As a young William Chow became more immersed with this artform; he wanted a way to share it with others who didn’t understand Japanese. With rudimentary technology, William and his peers developed their way of fan subtitling anime. These bootleg subbed tapes would create a growing community of soon-to-be anime lovers.

The film covers William starting his legendary fansub group Arctic Animation, the Vancouver Japanese Animation Society, anime store Anime Jyanai, and the convention Anime Evolution. Our characters recount the golden age of anime and how this community came together and created a bond as strong as family, even when their own families may have ostracized their love of the medium.

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