Commie

About
Commie is a fansub group for Japanese anime that began at the start of 2009, subbing episodes of Akikan!. Commie was originally founded by cryptwizard.

Origin
Cryptwizard, Commie's founder, recounts his experience with fansubbing in a blog post dated March 27th, 2009. Cryptwizard first discovered fansubbing while his internet was down. At a friends house, he stumbled upon a DVD with episodes of Kannagi and Toaru Majutsu no Index that had been subtitled by fansub groups Eclipse and Ayako. Cryptwizard was impressed by the quality of the subtitles and the integration of karaoke and typesetting.

As cryptwizard continued watching more anime, he eventually came across a series titled Akikan! that was subtitled by CoalGuys at the time. However, when the expected release date for episode 8 of Akikan! came around, it went without any subtitles from CoalGuys. Cryptwizard decided to take matters into his own hands and sought help from the friend that originally provided him with the DVD of Kannagi and Toaru Majutsu no Index. Cryptwizard's friend acted as a translator, and they created their own subtitles for the series using a Chinese script cryptwizard had obtained. They both struggled to keep up at first, but ultimately enjoyed subtitling it.

History
Commie was originally founded by cryptwizard, but the group has gone through several ownership changes. On July 20th, 2010 cryptwizard passed commies ownership over to RHE.