Shinmai Maou no Testament + BURST + DEPARTURES + Extras, AV1 by ScarletNeko

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Quick Info

—	Source	This Encode
Video Codec	H265	AV1
Video Format	YUV420P10LE	YUV420P10LE
Framesize	1920x1080	1920x1080
Framerate	23.976fps	23.976fps
Audio Codec	FLAC	WavPack
Audio Profile	Lossless	Hybrid Lossy
Audio Bitrate	—	220kbps
Audio CDs	FLAC+CUE	FLAC
Images Codec	WEBP + JPEG	WEBP + JPEG XL
Images Profile	Lossy	Lossy

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Encoders Used

Video: aomenc 3.5.0-575-g32ed2d8ac
Audio: WavPack 5.6.0 x64
Images: JPEG XL encoder v0.8.0 6a891d6
Audio CDs: flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version git-9b7ca112 20221202

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Links

Source: Main Source
MediaInfo: Season 01, Season 02, Movie
Subtitles: Season 01 and Season 02, Season 01 Specials, Season 02 Specials and Movie
AniDB: Season 01, Season 01 OVA, Season 02, Season 02 OVA, Movie

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Subtitles

Season 01: iAHD
Season 01 Specials: SCY-Kuromii
Season 02: iAHD
Season 02 Specials: Tenrai-Sensei
Movie: Tenrai-Sensei
Notes

• I couldn’t find subtitles for the Special Video of the movie, so it doesn’t have any. If you know where it can be found, please mention it in the comments.
• The first episode of Season 02 has a small issue, where during the intro, opening and first scene (the castle scene), the subtitles are a bit out of sync. It does get fixed after that scene ends around 4m40s. I don’t know why, it is like this from the source. I tried fixing it and resyncing but nothing I tried worked. This is the only issue I’m aware of.

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Some Words

You can save about 6.35gb if you don’t get any of the extras!

After a longer amount of time than I was expecting, finally it is done, what I believe is the entirety of Shinmai Maou no Testament!
I didn’t wanted to skimp on the quality for this one, so I went with a fairly high quality target, resulting in files a bit on the larger side, but it was absolutely worth it. I had that iAHD release for a long time already and also the SCY-Kuromii subtitles for the S01 specials, that’s why I chose them, and also because I’m totally out of storage space! It was pretty hard to get that Tenrai-Sensei release to get the subtitles for the movie and the S02 specials, but I managed it in the end. About that problem with the first episode of the second season, though I could probably had downloaded that episode from somewhere else to get the subtitles, I didn’t wanted to break the consistency, so I chose to keep the original BD PGS one even knowing it is a bit broken, but I will totally take the hit if someone complains about it, hopefully it is not a deal breaker.

The images, why are WEBP files there? Well unfortunately, the WEBP files from the source are lossy, this means, any operation I try to do with them will either reduce their quality even more or increase the file size, so I decided to just copy them over. There were a few JPEG files though which I did encoded to JPEG XL using the lossless transcode mode.

For the audio CDs, I split the FLAC+CUE into individual FLAC files, tagged a few of them accordingly and scanned their RG data. The original .CUE files are still present though.
This reminds me of something: What do you guys think about using WavPack for the audio CDs as well, making them lossy + correction files? This basically means that for people who want the audio CDs but don’t want them lossless, they can grab the lossy .WV and listen to them as usual, while people who want the lossless audio CDs can get both the lossy .WV and the correction file for it, and either assemble it back to play on other devices or just play them straight away (Foobar2000 for example does assemble WV+WVC files on the go and play the lossless reconstructed result). That would give people 3 options for the audio CDs: download it completely, download it lossy or not download them at all.

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As usual, my releases are meant to be watched using mpv, preferably on a PC. It probably works on other players as well, but that is beyond me.
I’m always open to suggestions of what to encode next, particularly of older media such as DVDs or LDs, controversial media and/or loli content! If I can find a source, I can encode!
So, Highschool DxD now?

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Looking for Urotsukidoji (超神伝説うろつき童子) Raws, Remuxes or Good Encodes! High Priority. The older the medium it was sourced from, the better.