Madeline Ashby (having defended her Master’s thesis on anime fandom and cyborg theory, and pursuing a second Master’s in strategic foresight and innovation in between writing stories about killer robots) and Lisa Drummond (a specialist in urban studies at York University in Toronto, and a huge K-dorama and manga fan) are at work on a survey about fansubbers. We’d like to hear your input on what makes fansubbing worthwhile to you, and how your team works. We’re not trying to pigeonhole you, or tell everyone you’re weird, or anything like that. We’re regular consumers of fansubs. (How else would we watch My Too Perfect Sons or the second season of Haruhi?) So we already love you guys. But, because we love you, we’d like to know more about you, and we’d like to share what we learn with the rest of the world — in the form of an academic essay that a teeny tiny sliver of the global population might someday read.

In the link below, you’ll find an informed consent form, as well as some questions like this:

How long have you personally been involved in fansubbing?

How did you get involved?

What motivated you to get involved?

If those questions sound interesting to you (and we hope they do!) please consider taking our survey by February 15!