I fought the banding and the banding won.
Video: HEVC Main10 dehardsubbed + filtered wakanim, vapoursynth sources available here
Audio: Amazon E-AC3
Subs: Commie (with mechanical corrections)
Special thanks to bingo, light, varde, and zastin for helping me out with some of this
If I still like this show by the end of it I’ll find people to do a proper job of BD subs but I don’t have the skills or patience to edit Nisio on an airing schedule
Video comparison vs Commie’s release here: https://slow.pics/c/MIgWYUdA
Mostly boils down to higher bitrate, wakanim preserving the grain during the flashback scenes far better than funi’s old encode (comparison 8/10), and more conservative antialiasing leading to a bit more sharpness
A) yes, blame the couple minutes of grainy flashback that caused even wakanim’s video to peak at 100mbps+
Comments - 11
LightArrowsEXE
This is bloat
louis
but its shaft bloat so its ok
anor4k
thanks for saving anime from herkz
matheousse
Tomato saving Shaft
bless
herkz
did people forget the remake rules? putting someone else’s subs on a “better” encode of the same kind of source is a remake.
also i really doubt amazon’s audio is better since it has less bitrate and is a worse codec than funi’s.
louis
Not a re-encode, totally original encode
Not a remux, because it has a new encode
Not a reupload
Not a reupload
SCY does the same thing, fwiw
herkz
uh, “remux” can definitely mean same subs + different video. what. the rule exists to stop people from making tons of pointless releases with some aspect that’s slightly “better” in their opinion. it doesn’t apply to different kinds of sources so people can use existing subs from a web/TV release for BDs since that’s an actual improvement almost every time.
and other people getting away with it isn’t really an excuse.
fuee
continue with bds i’ll wait for it also i hope you guys will try and tl this show because commie’s script is not nearly perfect also no karaoke i wamt to sing this banger OP and alsosince the jokes are sometimes hard to translate it wont get translated at all i hope you guys will find some way to bridge it like the pun i episode 3 with “beautiful legs” and “messenger” and prob some other stuffs too that i didn’t notice
Interruptor
It doesn’t seem slightly better based on an opinion but on a fact. Although funi audio might be worse.
herkz
it’s obviously better for episode 1, but there’s no comparison for episode 2 strangely. maybe just a coincidence. ?
yuna232
video is stuttering and jerky