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Live-evIL

Era Founded June 13, 2001
Medium Fansub
Status Ongoing Strictly Honored
First release 2003
Last release 2007
Series 4
Episodes 27

Profile

Founded June 13, 2001 by "sol," an offshoot of the influential early group BakaMX. Live-eviL maintained a strict drop-on-license policy from day one, confirmed directly on the group's own history page, dropping eX-Driver after four episodes once it was licensed, and abandoning a planned Hikaru no Go release after realizing they couldn't compete with larger groups already covering it. The group's defining moment came in 2003 with Wolf's Rain, where a Tokyo raw provider and a German-based translator working on dial-up internet achieved 18-to-26-hour turnaround from Japanese broadcast to English release, effectively inventing the "speedsub" as a competitive category.

Signature style

Founded by "sol," a member of BakaMX's IRC channel, who split off to start his own group. First release was eX-Driver episode 1 in September 2001, an admittedly rough 320x240 divx4 encode the group's own history page calls "laughable." Went on to define the speedsub era with 18-to-26-hour turnarounds on Wolf's Rain in 2003, powered by a Tokyo-based raw provider and a translator working off a 44k dial-up connection in Germany.

Anime Releases 4

Blood+
5 / 50 eps · TV / broadcast · AnimeSuki's early Blood+ page shows Live-eviL releases from episode 1 through at least episode 5.
5 / 50
Partial
2005–2006
Death Note
12 / 37 eps · TV / broadcast
12 / 37
Dropped
2006–2007
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
? / 13 eps · TV / broadcast
? / 13
Unknown
2005
Wolf's Rain
10 / 30 eps · TV / broadcast · AnimeSuki preserves Live-eviL Wolf's Rain releases from episode 1 on 2003-01-09 through at least episode 10.
10 / 30
Partial
2003

Lore Mentions 6

Timeline Blood+
Blood+ Had Multiple English Releases From Episode One
2005–2006: MBS/TBS Saturday Broadcast & High-Bitrate Softsubs
Timeline Death Note
Live-eviL Took Death Note to Episode 12
2006–2007: NTV Broadcast, Digital Fansubs & Group Rivalries
Everybody Wanted to Sub Death Note
2006–2007: NTV Broadcast, 720p MKV Softsubs & Group Rivalries
Lore Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid
Live-evIL Ran a Parallel Release
2005: WOWOW Satellite Broadcast, Confirmed July-October
Stat Block Hellsing
Live-evIL [L-E] & The 6-Year Hellsing Ultimate OVA Run
2001–2012: From Fuji TV Captures to HD OVA Softsubs
Timeline Wolf's Rain
L-E Dropped the Same Day the License Was Confirmed
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