The complete guide to Yozakura Quartet descale bullshit:
Hana no Uta 01: bilinear and sharp bicubic
Hana no Uta 02-13: catrom and sharp bicubic
Hoshi no Umi 01-03: b=-0.5 c=0.75 horizontally, bilinear vertically (no, I can’t believe it either)
Yoza-Quar! 01-04: catrom
Yoza-Quar! 05: undescaleable
Yoza-Quar! 06: bilinear
These are my own encodes of Yozakura Quartet: Hana no Uta, Yozakura Quartet: Hoshi no Umi, and the Yoza-Quar! specials, with opus audio, and Cthuko subs on the main episodes and Kuro subs on the specials.
General filtering consists of edgefixing, descaling, luma and chroma antialiasing, dehaloing, denoising, debanding, and graining. Edgefixing and chroma aa differ depending on which descale is used for the scene in question. Hana no Uta’s OP has some extra edgefixing in one scene and special denoising/debanding/graining in two others that are very grainy. The eyecatches are filtered differently, usually with luma and chroma dehaloing, freezeframing (to fix some mild gunk on several frames), denoising, debanding, and graining. Several scenes are scenefiltered for special cases like no descaling, letterboxing, a shit ton of grain, strong aliasing, etc.
Audio is 192kbps Opus because a high quality lossy codec provides maximum quality for minimum size, same as x264/x265 video.
Subs are from Cthuko for everything but the Yoza-Quar! specials, which use Kuro subs. Both the “normal” and “youkai” Cthuko tracks are included. The latter leaves the word youkai untranslated (hence the name), while the former translates to “daemon”. Chapters are also from Cthuko.
I hope you enjoy. Yozakura Quartet: Tsuki ni Naku is currently in progress, so keep an eye out for that.
Screenshot comparison: https://slow.pics/c/kuebPreC | All shots are from Hana no Uta except the last, which is from Hoshi no Umi.
Finally, here’s some blu-ray art: https://files.catbox.moe/krex0t.zip | https://files.catbox.moe/h98lja.zip
Scans are untouched from the original upload on U2, so thanks to Fleppensteyn for those. The non-scan artworks are menus or something, I pulled those from the .m2ts containers myself.
The watch order is Hana no Uta 1-8, Hoshi no Umi 1-3, Hana no Uta 9-13, Tsuki ni Naku 1-3.
Comments - 17
CYMA
Nice thx!
torn
sick
StazCherryBlood
obligatory opus comment
Lamp333333
sweet release
seth001
supO
Interruptor
Based OPUS gang
wave
descale me uwu
Kulot99
Opus will be 10 years old this September 11. No longer shall 9/11 be known for such tragedy. Look forward to a beautiful magnum Opus.
@Quetzal Thanks.
Tsukudakobashi
highly based
Ken-Sama
Daily reminder that it’s “Opus” and not “OPUS”
Interruptor
While this is true, I like capitalizing to underline its importance.
ts92
why 1080p tho
Quetzal
Usually you only want to descale lines, so descaling then reupscaling lets you mask the descale to leave textures and grain/noise unaffected. This also lets you avoid downscaling 1080p elements such as credits. It’s also a little better for people with 1080p+ screens since in-player upscaling isn’t usually as good as what you can do in vapoursynth.
BTW, the watch order for this is Hana no uta 1-8, Hoshi no Umi 1-3, Hana no Uta 9-13 (and then Tsuki ni Naku 1-3).
Tsukudakobashi
not rescaling is just plain worse. rescaling and further adjusting gives you way more control. There’s a thing to be said about diminishing returns (like, say, you’re descaling and rescaling from SD res), but those instances should just be looked at more thoroughly than usual. Keeping this at 1080 is sound.
Bakugo
Thank you
jenga_tower
Thanks for this. I still had the old blurays from Cthuko subs that never quite got completed on my hard drive. They’ve been there since 2015!
Mal_lu_zen
Thanks