[Source-Encode Comparison](https://slow.pics/c/BNEc9ISc) --- Working on the Urusei Yatsura reboot gave me an itch to revisit this show, as it is somewhat of a favourite of mine. However, I found myself shocked by just how abyssmal all currently available options are. The only existing subs seem to be official subs available in either the tiniest most unreadable PGS variety that I have seen to date, or in the form of a terribly botched OCR attempt of the same script. In either case, both are full of shit timing, shit editing, spelling mistakes, random punctuation mid-sentence that doesn't belong, and the list goes on. And as if that weren't enough, the only existing encodes are utterly starved or strongly denoised. And, while I do think that Kagura did a good job at the latter considering how the source looks, their encode is still full of ghosting (especially in any scene featuring rain) and nukes a lot of textures. It's also not entirely clean, so residual noise is quite distracting. Any other encodes are really so terrible they don't deserve to be mentioned. And just watching the untouched JPBD video did not work for me either, since the chroma noise is so aggressive and intrusive that it just distracts me the entire way through (those of you who feel the same about grain may choose to watch Kagura instead). Also no encodes cropped correctly because nobody knew about shifting, apparently. Now, keeping the grain without totally starving would definitely mean filesizes above 4GB per episode... and I know that you don't want to download 400GB, and that I don't want to seed 400GB to people who won't do the same. As the scan is quite blurry, there is only minimal loss associated with a downscale, so that is what I did. It blurs basically nothing and only removes the finest high frequency grain and some of the ringing, as it essentially serves as a lowpass filter. It allows me to almost halve the bitrate while still producing *acceptable* results—ones that I personally don't mind watching. As far as I am concerned, they are the most watchable version currently existing in motion (the screenshots really do not do the oppressive chroma noise of the source justice). Should someone come forth who would be willing to seed a 1080p version that's almost guaranteed to wind up bigger than 400GB on a fast connection long-term (so, several years), then I may make one such batch towards the end of this project. That said, since the show has been out for decades, as have some existing versions of these subtitles, it seems nobody else but me is ever going to tackle such a huge project. So that's what I am doing. **Releasing two episodes per week, one on Sundays, and another on Wednesdays.** --- PP: crop, downscale, chroma denoise **Staff** Edit: Moelancholy Encode: Moelancholy Timing: Moelancholy Title TS: witchymary Songs: bad official tl (TL), Angrevol (Styling), Moelancholy (Edit) QC: Moelancholy Video: HEVC 958x720 Audio: Opus 192kbps Japanese Subtitles: English Chapters: Yes --- As this is a mostly solo project, I have no doubts there are errors in the source I missed and potentially even more that I introduced. So please report any errors in my [Public QC Discord server](https://discord.gg/YwpJf2fHDe). **I am also looking for additional timers to split the workload with. Even contributing just a few episodes would be appreciated**. No prior fansubbing experience required, so long as you've timed something before. Use mpv for playback.