It was around before CS right? But either way I'm not too fond of CS hehe.

About Bakasan: His encodes have been getting better. His release of 77 looked really good while 78 dropped back to his usual quality. Like people say there's the odd grammar error here and there, but usually it's isolated to one word or so and I just correct that when taking the information in.

About Shin-Otaku: Very good quality encoding. I'm wondering if that's due to getting a higher quality raw than Bakasan or just being better at encoding. Then again one person is doing encoding instead of doing everything else in addition. They released it fairly quick too but no karaoke (maybe they'll start sometime soon). The thing I don't like about Shin-Otaku is the translation. After watching both it seems like there's some things you'll miss in Shin-Otaku's compared to Bakasan's. I'd have to watch ANBU-AonE's when its released though to have a 3rd thing to compare the two to.

What I usually do is get Bakasan's immediately and watch it. Then when ANBU-AonE's comes out I get that too, watch it, then archive it. I like watching it again because sometimes I might catch something I missed.