End of year report 2024

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you enjoyed the festivities, got a lot of presents and overall had a wonderful year!

The current work we have released this year is as follows:

-6 Hamtaro japanese dubbed episodes.

-34 Hi! Hamtaro japanese dubbed episodes.

-The fourth Hamtaro OVA revamp.

-16 episodes of our new main show, Pururun! Shizuku-chan, finishing the season.

-3 episodes of Pururun! Shizuku-chan Aha.

-2 Sugarbunnies Fleur episodes.

-2 Sugarbunnies Felt specials in french.

-8 batch episodes of Bosanimal, finishing the season.

-1 episode of Bosanimal Drama.

-46 episodes of I.Cinnamoroll.

-80 Cinnamon shorts and the Halloween special, "Cinnamon Rangers".

-The revamp of Cinnamoroll: The Movie.

-All of the remaining episodes of the first season of Jewelpet, in collaboration with Stardust Fansubs.

-Jewelpet Attack Travel! movie.

-1 episode of Hamster Club.

-12 episodes of Kyoro-chan.

-The Wish Me Mell: Working Hard Diary short series.

-Little Forest Fellow's short series.

As you can tell, this year has been a year of completion and new starts. We are quite happy with what we have accomplished, but we also think that we could have done more.

As usual, let's start discussing our failures:

Since there was a big hiatus of two months during summer, and then the projects we took were relatively intensive on the typesetting department, the releases for the second half of the year have been more scarce and sporadic. Since we charge our patrons monthly, we have the duty of releasing steady content, and not just releasing a few minutes long video weekly (I.Cinnamon) and think it's enough.

Naturally, given the size of the team and the complexity of real life events, we can't release multiple subs weekly, but it is true that we took our time for each release. We may try to improve that.

And then, let's talk about our achievements:

We have diversified our subs plenty, taking a bite of this and that project, instead of solely focusing on one or two big projects. We believe this offers more to the community and widens our visibility. Even with that, we have completed big projects, like Shizuku Season 1 and Jewelpet Season 1, which were goals that we originall expected to be done by 2025 at the earliest.

We proposed this year as a time to finish projects, and we did so-so on that regard. We took a lot of tiny, one-time projects, so our "complete" projects list has grown a lot though.

Now, let's review our goals for next year:

-Sub as many episodes of Pururun! Shizuku-chan Aha! as possible.

-Sub the remaining episodes of Sugar Bunnies: Fleur.

-Sub the remaining episodes of Bosanimal's live action drama.

-Continue subbing Hamtaro 1-105, roughly with one episode a month in mind, but possibly more.

-Continue subbing I.Cinnamoroll and sub the remaining Cinnamoroll shorts.

-Continue subbing Kyoro-chan episodes.

-Sub the remaining episodes of Hamster Club.

-Sub three to four Sanrio Puroland stage show DVDs.

-Sub the Hiragana Hamtaro specials as well as the train specials.

-Revamp some previously translated Hamtaro episodes, sparcely around the year.

-Revamp the last remaining Hamtaro movie.

-Study the possibility of subbing other series related to the “kodomo” group, candidates being: Mirmo Zibang, Maple Town, Tamagotchi, Calimero and Valeriano, Master Hamsters, 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.

As you can see, the main objective of next year is to finish as many projects as possible, while keep focus on our two main projects: Hamtaro and Shizuku. If everything goes as planned, André's life is going to take a big turn next year, as he plans to move to the US. That will affect his ability to sub for a while, while he acclimates to the new place, much like this year's summer break.

So, instead of keeping five or six big projects open, the idea is to complete them one by one. For instance, our main focus starting next year will be to finish Sugar Bunnies Fleur during January, which will be fairly easy as all episodes are already translated and they just need timing.

2025 is probably going to be a very strange year, for many reasons. But we will make sure that you all enjoy our subs as usual. Look forward to it!

The whole Paradise Hamsubs team wants to wish you a happy new year, just as we want to do, we hope that you reach all your goals this year!