Thank you for downloading our encode. We spent a lot of effort into filtering and encoding, and we fixed some issues with official subtitles. Hope you enjoy this sad but beautiful story. Also, we've prepared the filtering script for encoding BD as well. Once the BD for season 1 is out, we'll make an encode for it. --- !L-O---E --- This is a high effort filtering and encoding for *Shibō Yūgi de Meshi wo Kū.*. **slow.pics compare:** For the WebRip encode of the movie, we first `vsdenoise.frequency_merge` all the available sources together to recover as many information as we can. Specifically in low frequencies, we discard the NF source and only perform an arithmetic mean between the two CR sources. In high frequencies, we perform a custom power mean with a 2:2:1 merge between the two CR sources and one NF source. Unlike season 01, the WEB sources for the movie doesn't appear to have any chroma problems, which is very nice. This anime has medium amount of halo, but it is impossible to dehalo safely due to there being many scenes where there is a reflective lustre on the hair right next to lineart or some light beams overlaying lineart. Dark halo especially in cuts without lineart are also impossible to process. However, this anime is borderline on being possible for descale, so we chose descale instead. We perform a faux descale on the merged source. Using `vsrgtools.fast_line_darken` and other tools, we adjust the descale so that the resulting sharpness as well as brightness is about the same as the original, and then we're able to create a complex custom expr to clamp the result to the source. With this process, the lineart after descale is very faithful to the original, but with most halo removed. We don't perform any deband because light beams is the No. 1 item vulnerable to be damaged by deband, and also in general anime like this with complex details don't really have banding as a start. However, the source contains heavy mosquito noise and sometimes heavy blocking in difficult to encode sections. Without tackling these, the resulting encode would look a little bit ugly and requires a lot of regrain to cover. Instead, we opt to use a `vscdef.cdef` + `MVTools` method to denoise the source. After denoising, we apply a light regrain via `vsdeband.Grainer.SIMPLEX`. At last, we apply `vsletterbox.clean_letterbox` to clean the noise in the letterbox before encoding. For encoding, we use x265 4.2+36+62 mod by Patman via `vsmuxtools`. We use `--crf 11.20` at `--aq-mode 5 --aq-strength 0.60` for rate control, and we apply a custom scaling list with slightly trimmed lower frequency and better handling at the rightmost and bottommost row to limit potential artefacts. In addition to previous regrain via `vsdeband.Grainer.SIMPLEX`, we also add another layer of Simplex inspired noise on top using `--aom-film-grain`. Thanks to especially LightArrowsEXE for hinting me various ideas. Thanks to many people on the JET server, including LightArrowsEXE, moe, Vardë and Vodes other people for giving me advice. Thanks to all the people creating the tools, plugins and vsfunc’s that make this possible, and thanks to everyone in the community for teaching me, pointing out issues, and giving me advice. You are welcome to do anything with this encode, including remuxing and republishing it. --- * **Video**: [Himejoshi] Filtered and reencoded, sourced from Erai-raws and Yameii for CR, and ToonsHub for NF. * **Audio**: Japanese Untouched audio from Erai-raws. * **Subtitles**: 日本語 / English / العربية / español (Latinoamérica) / español (España) / français / Deutsch / bahasa Indonesia / italiano / 한국어 / bahasa Malaysia / polski / português (Brasil) / русский / ไทย / Türkçe / Tiếng Việt / 中文（繁體） [Himejoshi] restyled subtitles with additional fixes, originally sourced from NF, ToonsHub, and Erai-raws. --- Thanks to Nazuna@U2 for the official guide book, original soundtrack and ending theme included in this release. --- Join our server at We recommend using MPV to playback our releases. Thank you for seeding after download.