Kaleido

Kaleido (Kaleido-subs, Kaleido-raws, Kaleido-tunes) is a fansub group for Japanese anime, formed in 2018. The group was created by LightArrowsEXE and bthen13. They fansub a variety of anime, ranging from fantasy slice of life comedies to urban fantasies.

Kaleido first gained notoriety in 2019 with their fansub release of Kimetsu no Yaiba.

Origin
The name Kaleido comes from Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya.

2018
Kaleido-subs was founded on May 8th, 2018 by LightArrowsEXE and bthen13 in order to create a fansub of the show Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya.

In late 2018, blaze077, kageru, Lúthien, Ralon17, Shuuka, and Lethal would all join Kaleido to help out with fansubbing Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari, slated to air in 2019.

2019-2021
In 2019, Ringo would join Kaleido as its third owner and main translator. bthen13 would also begin going inactive. Shinon joined to handle the website development. petzku joined as typesetter and quality control. reed would also later join as typesetter.

Current members

 * LightArrowsEXE — founder (2018), project leader, editing, encoding, song styling (2018-present)
 * bthen13 — founder (2018), encoding, typesetting (2018-2019)
 * Ringo — leader, translation (2019-present)
 * Shinon — web development (2020-present)
 * kageru — server hosting (2018-present)
 * petzku — typesetting, quality control (2019-present)
 * Aria — translation (2021-present)
 * LafferStyle — timing (2022-present)

Former members

 * Lethal — translation (2018-2019)
 * Ralon17 — editing (2018-2019)


 * Shuuka — typesetting (2019)
 * Lúthien — translation (2018-2019)
 * blaze077 — encoding, quality control (2018-2019)
 * reed — typesetting (2019-2021)