##Sora no Woto
Description largely carried over from https://nyaa.si/view/193154 and https://nyaa.si/view/1189992
Well this is a heck of a time to find out that this happened. Someone went through, moved the subs to a better video/audio source, added signs, and fixed a translation error in the original Elysium I missed.
The nerve.
I would recommend swapping from this release to theirs, either https://nyaa.si/view/1413603 or https://nyaa.si/view/1468174. At some point I want to go through and take a diff between my script and theirs, just to really see what’s different.
##Technical Info:
##Video:
x264 1920x1080 ~2.5Mbps
##Audio:
Track 1 - 2.0Ch FLAC Japanese 48.0 KHz
##Raw Source:
[DECAY]
##Subtitles:
English ASS w/Karaoke OP&ED
##Subtitle Sources:
Dialouge - [YuS-m.3.3.w]
OP&ED - [Elysium]
Once again, this is just the Elysium release that was made available back in 2011, but with a few changes to the subs to fix some nagging issues. The same changes from before are here, but I changed a few other things after comparing it against the PWQ release, which is better for some lines. Off the top of my head, the following changes were made:
* Noel now gets an umlaut in her name (I think I was against this first but figured I should do it if I'm changing names based off how they're written in the show)
* Vingt is changed to Binnenland (it was already Binnenland in Ep 7.5, and the pronunciation is the same everywhere)
* Arcadia is now Arkadia
* Ilya is now Iliya
* the subs for Servante de Feu were changed to match the transcription and translation in the wiki
* subs for Servante de Feu were added to episode 12
* Every spoken instance of ラッパ is now correctly translated as Bugle and not Trumpet
* Millivet got changed to mille-pattes (french for millipede)
* Nomansland used throughout
* I fixed the smnpai typo
* And some other lines which were a bit awkward when you put them under a microscope got changed
Again, I appreciate the patience in waiting for this.
- Someone mentioned "Grim Reaper" might sound more natural compared to the current "Death Reaper".
- Someone also said Kraus should be Klaus but I disagree.
- The German lines in episodes 11 and 12 didn't have any subs in the Japanese BD or the original TV airing, so some people asked for an alternate sub track where they are left untranslated, since the point is for Yumina to convey all the dialogue.
- In episode 13, ~21:43, Kanata looks down from the hot-air balloon and says "Takemikazuchi look so tiny from up here!". The Elysium subs wrongly translate her line as "The ruins look so tiny from up here!"
I'm only posting this here because you asked for feedback, it's honestly an amazing release and I'm not sure any of these """"mistakes"""" warrant a v3. Also you released it just in time for this year's rewatch.
Thanks so much!
Sorry for delayed response. I did think about 1 at the time, but decided against changing too much. I'm sticking to my guns on 2, since that's what his name appears as in Ep 13. My german is pretty bad, so if I were to do 3 then I'd need a reference for the specific lines; either that or to just blank out those lines of dialogue. 4 is something I actually should have changed, but missed.
And I'm still sorry about being so late this year. Work, plus my general difficulty in working from home, kept me from getting to this until I could clear up a few days for it, regretfully only near the end of the year. If I did do a V3, I think I might wait another year for more criticism to roll in. I think if I were to do it, I would want to also think about using a different video source, like the recent GERMini release (but I also don't really know much about video encoding or what makes that release superior).
Well this is a heck of a time to find out that this happened. Someone went through, moved the subs to a better video/audio source, added signs, and fixed a translation error in the original Elysium I missed.
The nerve.
I would recommend swapping from this release to theirs, either https://nyaa.si/view/1413603 or https://nyaa.si/view/1468174. At some point I want to go through and take a diff between my script and theirs, just to really see what's different.
FYI, if you're planning on swapping to the Holomux/Senjou releases, don't.
They might have fixed the line on EP 13 and supposedly some signs (wasn't able to find any) but the audio/video source on the NotElysium release is better in every way.
No idea how they managed to get their release up to 22 GB, but it definitely wasn't by using a better video source.
https://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/30384/picture:0
Oh goodness. Well, first of all congratulations on predicting my cycles of hibernation.
Second, I'll still probably watch them now that I'm off work for a full week, to try and make an evaluation. The scripts themselves can probably be compared in about 10 minutes in something like bcompare (I hope). Maybe I can be obtuse and use git to show me the differences.
Third, for the actual video quality, I'm willing to bet this is an ancient issue. More than likely, the Senjou release is actually closer to the original BD contents (sadly, while I have a physical copy, it's only DVD quality). But the original Elysium release was possibly an upscale of some sort. Somewhere, sometime years ago, this idea was planted in my brain. Probably in one of the watch-along threads on /a/. Honestly I can't prove it, I barely know japanese (and honestly I barely watch anime, thanks to my annoying cat that won't let me sit alone for more than an hour).
I think you are correct, Sora no Woto was originally produced in 720p (at least according to anibin, but that was standard back then and largely still is, so there's no reason to believe otherwise) therefore the Japanese BD release is an upscale and so is Elysium's release, only they did a better job than the people actually getting paid to do it, heh.
Still, I'm curious to see how the script has been changed as the new subs can be used with Elysium's superior video.
So, I'm sorry. I did mean to do this, but a few things popped up that kept me from getting to it on time. I will still try to get to this, but I do apologize for being unreliable here.
I hope you guys enjoyed the yearly watch along though. I had a fever knock me on my ass, so I'm going to have to do my yearly rewatch away from the rest of the group :(
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