Hyouka / 氷菓 BDRip
10-bit 1080p HEVC + FLAC + AAC, MKV format. ~ 1.2 GB / EP.
Thanks to T.H.X for providing Chinese subtitles for main episodes, and Eupho for providing Event02 subtitles.
This is a rework of our previous Hyouka release. Four years have passed, and now we could re-encode everything with HEVC, with improved pre-processing and targeting higher quality standards. The Blu-ray source of Hyouka is decent, with clear line art and rich texture, but also has various small issues: some scenes have very heavy banding, grain blocking due to insufficient bit-rate, and slight aliasing/ringing in the line art. We applied masked anti-aliasing, debanding, deringing and texture enhancement to fix those issues, and kept most of the grains. Pre-processing is relatively conservative overall, and we used high quality HEVC parameters aiming for transparency.
Hyouka rework has been a long time wish of mine ever since I started as a ripper. Actually there has never been a very satisfying version of Hyouka BDrip, including the old version from VCB-Studio, considering all kinds of new techniques we have now. Due to the time contraints of mine, it has been three years until the KyouAni arson attack in July, I finally decided to put everything else aside and focus on this project. As a memorial project, all participating members of VCB-S are KyoAni fans, and everyone tried their best. A remaining banded scene was found after we almost finished everything, and we had to re-encode all main episodes with scene-specific filtering. The project took two months to finish, and this dream of mine has finally come true. However, even there is now enough stories to make up for a whole new season, director Yasuhiro Takemoto, chief animation director Futoshi Nishiya, along with many others from KyoAni won’t be able to participate making the next season. May they rest in peace.
by Shizuru’s Dakimakura
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Comments - 9
SomaHeir
Great work!!
Didn’t know this was one of your first projects. Great work and appreciate for redoing it after been so long.
RIP those who passed away from the KyoAni arson attack. Their works will forever live on and we will never forget them.
I know you’re busy with a lot of projects. May I ask if you can consider do Persona 5 TV Anime BD’s and OVAs (The Day Breakers, Dark Sun, Stars and Ours) in the future :)
No one has uploaded it for now.
Thanks again for the amazing shares as always!!
tonikaku
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/372584790337257473/625945789247651867/T.H.XVCB-Studio_Hyouka_11.5Ma10p_1080px265_flac_aac.mkv_20190924_164445.442.png
chrnodroid
Thank you!
I would appreciate also the same H265 encoding for K-ON series. :)
NoAvalon
Thank you so much for doing this!
@VCB-Studio Any plans for Kaguya-sama or Hanebado?
VCB-Studio (uploader)
Kindly please check our plan at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mEqjCEHe0D_8bPkpcuuECxGZva-jSg3Z3Sc0u3tpZns.
Any show we propose to encode will be immediately reflected in it.
SomaHeir
Thanks for providing that google spreadsheet link. Will save this so I can check any of your current projects :)
Good work!
zMega
I would love a Hanebado BD encode too!
DarkSwordsman
Odd question. Does anyone know a source for ASS English subs for this?
All the other files for Hyouka on here seem to only have SUP or PGS (as far as I’ve found that are seeded well enough).
I tried downloading an OCR converter to extract the subtitles to ASS, but it’s proving to be insanely difficult as I’ve never done subtitling before.
If ASS English doesn’t exist, I wouldn’t mind doing it, I just never have seen this show besides the first episode, and I’d prefer to watch it in the highest quality first.
elpinohd
i found subtitles here: http://kitsunekko.net/dirlist.php?dir=subtitles%2FHyouka%2F