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Koukaku Kidoutai Arise: Ghost in the Shell - Border:5 Pyrophoric Cult | Alternative Architecture (EP:9-10) - MyAnimeList.net

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Information:

Dialogue lines are slighty restyled.
Those OP/ED’s which have been translated, got their subtitle tracks.

Border 5 / Pyrophoric Cult is doesn’t have english audio.

• and yes, its literally EP9,10 from Alternative Architecture with only one OP/ED.

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For requests, questions or ddl, join my (small) discord here: https://discord.gg/8n7H3ArdCW

I highly suggest you to use mpv for playback.

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Changelog:

• edited subtitle styling
• added a few signs
• audio tracks 1 and 2 were encoded to OPUS (libopus)
• video was encoded to HEVC (libx265, crf 20, yuv420p10le)
• naming scheme matches TheTVDB.com (for plex/radarr/emby/jellyfin/kodi compatibility)

Track-Type	Title	Attributes
video	[BDMV] Japanese	x265 HEVC 10bit 23.976FPS 1920x1080
audio	[BDMV] Japanese	48.0kHz 5.1 OPUS
audio	[BDMV] English	48.0kHz 5.1 OPUS (default)
subtitles	[Commie] English	ass
subtitles	[Commie] Sign&Songs	ass (default)
chapters

Note: Border 2 has a mislabeled third audio track which is isn’t commentary, but just a stereo english-audio track.

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Source:

BDMV - Border (1-4) - video, audio (US)
BDMV - Border 5 - video, audio, chapters
Commie - subtitles, chapters (Border 1-4)

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Screenshots:

Screenshot 1	Screenshot 2	Screenshot 3	Screenshot 4

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FFprobe:

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Many thanks to NekoBDMV and Commie for keeping this amazing show alive!

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If you find anything that seems out of the ordinary, just post a comment or in my discord and I’ll take a look at it.