Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen (Ascendance of a Bookworm) Complete + OVA MK.II

Updates: This release is now obsolete. Get the latest and greatest here instead.

It has better video, more subtitles, and fixed OVA non-English subtitles.

Updates: A few episodes had issues which caused audio and subtitles to not longer be synchronized when a video corruption occurred. Amazingly, the entirety of S01E01-S01E14 had the wrong English dub. These errors are inexcusable and we have removed the Mk.I in favor of replacing it with Mk.II. In addition to fixing the aforementioned issues, we also added subtitles for several languages. This was our first project and since then many improvements have been made to workflow as well as creating and using custom software for automation and validation. You may notice future releases contain metadata that would be otherwise too cumbersome to add by hand; namely, Episode Titles in the title of every file.

Series

Sav1or	Episodes	MyAnimeList	TVDB	Source
OVA	1 (S00E01-S00E02)	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen OVA	Ascendance of a Bookworm	MTBB, sam, Erai-Raws
Season 1	14 (01-14)	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen	Ascendance of a Bookworm	MTBB, sam, Erai-Raws
Season 2	12 (15-26)	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 2nd Season	Ascendance of a Bookworm	MTBB, sam, Erai-Raws
Season 3	10 (27-36)	Honzuki no Gekokujou: Shisho ni Naru Tame ni wa Shudan wo Erandeiraremasen 3rd Season	Ascendance of a Bookworm	MTBB, sam, Erai-Raws

Release

A complete Dual Audio release encoded in AV1 and OPUS for optimum size and quality. Files are named to support media servers like Plex using TVDB metadata.

Encoding Details:

AOM-AV1 with Av1an (--photon-noise 2)

--end-usage=q --cpu-used=5 --cq-level=35 --disable-kf --kf-min-dist=12 --kf-max-dist=240 --enable-dnl-denoising=0 --denoise-noise-level=0 --color-primaries=bt709 --transfer-characteristics=bt709 --matrix-coefficients=bt709 --threads=1 --tile-rows=0 --tile-columns=1 --enable-keyframe-filtering=1 --aq-mode=0 --tune-content=psy --tune=ssim --enable-qm=1 --lag-in-frames=72

This is an early project experimenting with producing the smallest video size without noticeable loss in quality (ie. artifacts, banding, loss of grain/detail, etc.). This is not the hallmark of AV1 - but close enough. - Sav1or

Thanks to the helpful people on the AV1 Anime Discord. Join us there!

Source

Thanks to the following sources:

• sam - Video, Audio, Subtitle
• MTBB - Subtitle
• GJM - Subtitle

Media Info