Do ExciteSub's anidex batches for Blade no longer work? They're my first recommendation over TV-Nihon. I don't know at all who Turn Up Scrubs is but, I mean, they've got 'scrubs' in their name which already makes me question their quality!

I don't know what "anidex" is, unfortunately. The two sites I definitely don't use because infringement on intellectual property is something only a real crumbum would do are TV-Nihon and Nyaa. (Just say no to IP theft, kids!) They don't have anything for Excite, which was what most people suggested.

Me dealing with finding the Right Subs for 16-year old Japanese superhero programs created to make children ask for toys:
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Oooh I see. This is their website: https://excitesubs.wordpress.com Scroll a bit down and links for their Blade batches should be there. Mind you, I havent checked if the links still work...

Links seem good! Thanks! +2 Rider Points, and Takumi Inui respects your ability to reduce the aggravation others suffer from existing in a world of omnipresent annoyances. Please adjust your TokuNation scorecard accordingly.

No, they're still there, I downloaded them a week or so back.

Turn Up was a scrub of the old TV-Nihon subs with the DVD rips. They're what I used the last time I watched Blade and they were pretty decent, as I remember. They may also be the best way to get Missing Ace and the New Rider mini-episodes, because I don't think Excite did those.

I actually watched the TUS version for my recent rewatch of Blade, and yeah, they're much better than the infamous TVN subs. Granted, they're by no means perfect(expect a good handful of typos) but they'll serve you fine.

I can't remember what I used for the movie, but I do remember there being an annoying amount of honorifics left in the dialogue that I only understand because I suffered through TVN's Den-O subs.

Man, ya'll are pretty hard on Tv-Nihon. I mean call my crazy but I'm ...grateful to them? You know, for providing free subs for all these great Toku shows, for years. At a certain point in time Tv-Nihon and actual trash Hong Kong subs were the only names in the Rider Subbing game. I dare say if it weren't for TVN a large portion of us probably would never had gotten into Kamen Rider.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying people don't have the right to their opinion or preference or anything -- I just don't get the vitriol at what is essentially a free service for fans by fans.

I mean, that's a fair point! For a while they seem to have been the only game in town, and they're still pretty exhaustive as to the series they've subbed. So many fun web videos and sausage commercials!

But, at the same time, you could make the argument that poorly-done subs, to the degree that fans warn you off from them 12 years later, might do more harm than good? If your first exposure to a series is one that grates on you so much that you quit the franchise and never look back.... is that really better than no subs at all?

It's complicated emotions, I guess.

I think you can be both at the same. Time. I am indeed grateful to them for provide fansubs at a time when no one else did. If it weren't for them my journey into Toku as an English speaker would never have happened. There are still several lesser known series that no one else has done yet.

But that doesn't mean I can't also criticize some of their bizarrely bad discisions and the stuborness with which they insist on make those discisions in spite of it make no sense to do so.