FAIRY TAIL / フェアリーテイル S1 BDRip
10-bit 1080p HEVC + FLAC, MKV format. ~ 850 MB / EP.
Fairy Tail Season 1 episodes have two image quality levels: EP 1-108 are alright, and EP 109-175 are sub par:
EP 1-108: These episodes are probably the better-looking ones in the entire season, with a native resolution of around 720p. The lines look like twisted noodles, messed up further by jitters among frames. There wasn’t much we could do to tackle this type of jitter, so PP focused on spatial anti-aliasing, using the reserse-upscale method and an anti-aliasing filter. On the side, these lines on the chroma plane are broken almost all the time, and there’s a bit of chroma shift. Together they make the lines look very uneven on the scenes with many reds. I’ve tried quite a few ways to solve this on the UV plane, but with limited success. We ended up constraining the chroma channels to avoid the “bleeding effect”, combined with de-ringing and the LineDarken filter which automatically detects and fills the broken parts in lines. As expected, the result of this first ever try of the LineDarken filter, was just passible. Moving on to the flat area, because heavy banding exists at very low, very high brightness, and everywhere in between. Designing a protective mask was rather difficult - especially at the bright areas. There seems to be no way to get a clear cut between bandings to fix and details to protect. So I designed two separate masks, one for the normal scenes and the other for the high-brightness scenes. The banding on the bright scenes are also very stubburn. To avoid damaging the lines, the strength of de-banding wasn’t set too high. A few eposides later in the season have some grain deliberately added, to visually couteract the banding with increased severity.
EP 109-175: Line aliasing and temporal jitters are worse. Chroma lines are as bad as the previous. The native resolution is around 576p or even lower. Haloing is rather significant around the lines. As for the PP, the strength of de-ringing was increased by a lot. A high-quality upscaling algorithm was used to maintain line sharpness and to control the ringing. De-ringing was much slighter though, and there was no more added grain to further reduce the file size. Everything else was pretty much the same as that in the script for EP 1-108.
Finally, the SPs folder of this torrent contains only the NCOP/ED and the Menus, as it is already too large. All other SPs that have been abandoned, are not important and too ugly-looking anyway. EN tracks (including EN commentary tracks) were excluded, too. With all these efforts, the final file sizes are reduced to ~ 850 MB, which admittedly is still a lot.
Thanks to our participating members:
Script: 北上
Encode: 北上
Collate: icefires
QC: Enola, 北上
Upload: Tom
Seed: Seeding members of VCB-Studio CDN (refer to our website for full list)
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Part 1 (EP1 ~ EP108):
Comparison (right click on the image and open it in a new tab to see the full-size one)
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Part 2 (EP109 ~ EP175):
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Comments - 19
Simplistic
Moozzi2 v2 bois lets go
Ingenioussubs
I fucking believe in Moozzi2. It’s possible to make something ten times worse, without even trying
RoxReaper
Bloody hell! You guys should’ve fixed what you could and left it at that.
naiyas
oh yeah this is good
Mysticus
@Ingenioussubs
I always thought Moozzi2 is a bad uploader because of its habit the make filters.
But this is way too worse.
I mean look at THESE filters!
Ingenioussubs
Yeah, I know. You can even notice this on mobile. That’s how bad it is. Don’t know if SOCFJ or someone else has this on their list, but I’ll gladly wait for someone else. No matter how long it takes.
StazCherryBlood
@simplistic it needs your “handbrake” settings amaryt?
ShikiS
I feel like you’ve done more harm then good with these filters going off the screenshot comparisons
Draconiano
Moozzi2 = eye cancer
ONIX
Thanks was waiting for this, what about Nakitai Watashi wa Neko o Kaburu (2020) ? i can’t wait for your release.
SAIO
@StazCherryBlood
It’s not. Is “StaxRip” but I think it is not as good as ffmpeg
SAIO
StazCherryBlood
I don’t think they will write AVS scripts and x265 parameters
moi15moi
Hi, is this based on the US BD or the German BD?
Thank you very much
ChaoXide
fairy tail 1-175 is an sd upscale. encoding at 1080p seems dumb.
downscaling fixes most of the issues… but damn your filtering is really bad.
line art is ruined, smudged, darkened, warped, or erased randomly.
background details (something the show already is very lacking in) is lost.
chroma was somehow made worse. halos were emphasized instead of removed.
may as well just stick to tlacatlc6’s 576p handbrake encode at this rate. It may suffer from banding, but it doesn’t have all the bad filtering this does.
futagen
Why the Japanese names are in the correct order for the ending but use the “fuck Japanese, be American, bitch” order for the opening are a mystery to me. I respect Japanese too much and it’s puzzling why so many don’t. Even some Japanese people don’t give a shit. All hail the almighty West, I guess.
The TV versions are really good. Leopard-Raws did a good job. Until the real studio can be bothered to make a BD version, those are just fine. And no cowtowing to US bullshit.
ShuOuma
Any news on if there’ll be JP-Blurays coming out for this anime?
I don’t really get why Japan takes years to release their version of Bluray for long animes, smh!
shadowlink29
@ShuOuma, Japanese blurays are already out.
SomaHeir
So big!!
shadowlink29
https://www.amazon.co.jp/FAIRY-Ultimate-collection-Vol-1-Blu-ray/dp/B07L8541LH