Will we ever get BD's for this masterpiece? >29.970fps

Robert Woodhead and AnimEigo just wrapped up a kickstarter for the American release of the Riding Bean BDs. He's teased that he has more from Sonoda on the way. May just be Gunsmith Cats BDs finally.

>>154834648
Great news, thanks.

>>154833563
This image looks fine to me.

There are raws out there but I don't know about seeders.

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Speaking of encodes and all that junk. I busted out my Rurouni Kenshin DVD's that I had stored for a long time and compared it to the on that I downloaded from BakaBT.

Was there a different released after the Media Blaster/Anime Works DVD's? Are these probably an attempt to clean them up from the uploader?

I've searched the Googles and can't find information about other releases. I know there is a Sony/Animax and Media Blaster dub, but not much about other releases.


Left is DVD
Right is the Downloaded one.

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>>154835899

No idea. I'm still busy jizzing over Tsuiokuhen's BD release

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>>154835937
>>154835899

>>154834648
FUCK. YES.
>>154833563
Oh my god. A Gunsmith Cats thread I didn't have to start. I love you, bro.

Also, I bought the DVD like 10 years ago. Favorite part of my collection.

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>>154835202
Try this them.
Blocky, blurry blended smudged. All grain lost.

Seriously, Even in early 2000's people that didn't knew about doing basic detelecine where already bad encoders.

ALso:
>he-aac
My ears are bleeding.
Who was the genious that decided to put an "H" in front of a low bitrate low quality encoding format just because it is "higher efficiency" should be shot in the eye. This sbr cancer still plagues releases from less informed people every now and then.

>>154835899
>>154835937
Right looks too good to be simply filtered. Probably a newer release.

Trust me, I'm an encoder.

BAKA-BT usually reports what the source is.

>>154836261
Yes I always loved this show. It had so much potential for a full series, a shame nothing more was animated.

>Also, I bought the DVD like 10 years ago. Favorite part of my collection.

You are not willing to share them so I can make a proper encode for the anons are you? :^)

>>154836332
It's like 4-8 dollars at any FYE or online. Also, no.

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>>154836295
This is the torrent I used to download the one on the left. Unless I'm retarded I can't seem to find a source or where it came from. Even after searching the group name.

https://bakabt.me/details.php?id=160718

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>>154835899
A lot of American releases look like ass because they have this idiotic idea that there should be zero grain possible.
They also tend to work on relatively low budgets, and are forced to cram as many episodes as possible on each disc. This means a lot of them get compressed horribly and often interlaced instead of progressive scan.

Also, a lot of old DVDs, both American and Jap, were made from Nth-generation DigiBeta tapes, rather than proper remasters.
DigiBeta and BetaMax tend to decay over time and their discoloration is why remastering started to be a thing on DVD and carried over with much more demand on BD.

Your right side looks like it was a newer, remastered DVD, while the left was digitized for DVD from an old Beta/DigiBeta tape.

I don't have any DVD rips to compare to, but this is from my old Lodoss DVDs from 2002.

>>154836419
>FYE
I'm from South America, so importing DVD's ends up almost 4 fold the actual price.

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>>154836472
And this is from the recent BD remastering.

>>154836478
Well fuck. I'd help, but when it comes to making torrents from DVD's I'm fucking useless.

>>154836453
>This is the torrent I used to download the one on the left
I meant right

>>154836511
well now I know what I'm downloading tonight

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>>154836261
>>154835156
Do keep in mind that the AnimEigo kickstarters for BubbleGum Crisis, Otaku no Video and Riding Bean were just for getting the BDs that already existed in Japan released in the US.
I've heard nothing about their BEING any GSC BDs to bring over.
Woodhead has been in contact with Sonoda who has drawn up new art for each release, like this one, as well as the Jap studios who made the content. So he may have a line in to whatever studio has the negatives, but I wouldn't put any money on it.
Still, the possibility is exciting.

>>154836696
Now if we could just get Bullet the Wizard in English.

>>154836610
I'd recommend the Iznjie Biznjie release.
ReinForce is the best video quality around, but it's just a raw. I keep it for screencaps and such.
IB has subs, and dub if you want.
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=529711

I actually did really like the Lodoss OP and ED in English
https://a.pomf.cat/zkfnlh.webm
https://a.pomf.cat/vggedv.webm

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>>154836538
Use DVD fab for decrypting the dvd. Then you can just ditch the video ts folder in a new folder and upload anonymously on Nyaa if you have a good enough internet.

>>154836472
Yeah, Japan intentionaly reduce the quality of western releases intentionaly to avoid reverse importantion. I suspect the more episodes per DVD is not only for reduced cost but intentionally to reduce bitrate and quality too. It is a known issue.

A proper encode should always prioritize a Japanese R2 DVD if one is available, but importing one such DVD now would be too difficult. Anything I can get my hands on I could do a better encode then what already exists.

>>154836696
I'd really like A BGC and ONV BD too if that ever comes to light.
But I don't remember, was BGC still cell animation? If it was, it would be epic.

Boogiepop Phantom DVD's are also awful and could benefit a lot from a new transfer since it was an analog Anime.

>>154836860
>Reinforce best video quality around

That is not exactly good news... Well, at least is not Ohys...

>>154836472
>>154836894

So I'm guessing the most likely scenario that these were taken from a newer Japanese released (Possibly even the original ones) and merged in the dub on to this one?

I can dig it. Though I'm pretty sure if demands were met or whatever there could be a BD release of RK

>>154836472
What's up with that horrible piss filter?

>>154836894
I'll give it a shot when I get home.

>>154836894
>I'd really like A BGC and ONV BD too if that ever comes to light.
Both are available for purchase on AnimEigo's website. For about 100 bucks each.
There is a BGC rip on Nyaa, but has no seeders. Looks to just be the Jap release.
This appears to be a rip of AnimEigo's ONV BD. But it shows only one seeder. Better than nothing I suppose.
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=842966

Both have BD rips on Baka, but both are in 720pleb.

>>154837006
Late-generation, highly degraded analog video source that was scanned for the DVD. Then compressed further by Central Park Media when they were pressing their discs.
>>154836894
>Yeah, Japan intentionaly reduce the quality of western releases intentionaly to avoid reverse importantio
Wasn't a problem with DVDs since Japan and American were separate regions. It's only recently that both share a region with BD that it's become an issue.

>>154833563
>All this quality-fagging in one thread

It's like I'm on /m/

>>154837020
Thanks a lot, anon, if you do, you'd be a savior!

>>154837083
I did look for BGC BD last year and couldn't find anything. I'd mind the raws tough, but that seems impossible to download. I'll check the ONV, thanks.

720p is defitely better than the ancient haloed divx version I have.

>>154833563
They are on AB. I was thinking about encoding them but only the r4 (pal) had seeds - the r1 had none.

>>154837140
>Wasn't a problem with DVDs since Japan and American were separate regions.
I've read somewhere before that it actually was a real concern for licensers. DVDs with multi-region or even people watching DVD's on PC were a significant enough portion of customers that Japan was afraid of hurting their sales. Specially when both countries use NTSC. It could be just speculation tough.

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This widescreen shit on old shows and anime are just "Just" tier.

>>154837231
R4 Pal? Never heard of that before. What country is that from, Argentina?

I've lost my AB account due to inactivity for the second time last year.

>>154837406
Australia

>>154837375
That is pure cancer. On a separate note, those film borders on the left are lewd. Pretty low quality film stock they had there...

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>>154837375

>>154837375
Faux widescreen is cancer and anyone who does that should be lined up and shot.
Those faggots at Funimation will be first in line for what they did to the DBZ BDs.

>>154834648
Or Bubblegum Crisis.

>>154837491
that is a HUGE color shift going on...

>>154837571
They already did BubbleGum Crisis.
Unless you mean Crash. Or AD Police. Or 2040.

>>154837455
Content made in Australia is 25fps? Tvs and camera being sold are 50hz? That really sucks.

>>154837640
I've been listening to Konya Wa Hurricane almost nonstop lately.

>>154837642
Well, for analog stuff, yeah.
Anyway, I might download the r4 PAL dvds if there are no r1 seeds and see what they're like. I'm guessing the telecine will be fucked if it's a ntsc->pal conversion.

>>154838211
I've worked with Eva DVD's in PAL and they were just regular NTSC sped up. nothing animebob and srestore can't handle.

If there were Gunsmith Cats Blu-Rays, I would buy 10 copies.

>>154836332
Ｍａｎｇａ’ｓ　ｐｒｅｔｔｙ　ｇｏｏｄ，　ｉｆ　ｙｏｕ　ｈａｖｅｎ’ｔ　ｃｈｅｃｋｅｄ　ｉｔ　ｏｕｔ．

>>154838985
How many volumes are there? I only found a couple.

>>154838985
Everything except the ending to Burst is gold. We don't talk about that shit here.

>>154837212
Home now. Working on it.

>>154839023
8 or so of the original, and about the same of GSC Burst

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>>154838911

Same.

>TFW a throwaway villain that's a mixture of every antagonist shown in the manga is better than all of them

>>154839057
Dude, Gray was fucking intense.

>>154835964

Oh shit really?

>AniPlex

Oh shit it better not be 300 bucks

>>154839042 here. Do you guys want the making of documentary that's on the DVD, too?

>>154839042
Thanks! I'll be waiting for that!
>>154839042
If it is not a hassle to you may be a nice addition.

>>154838985
I did 10 years ago, about time do to a re-read.

>>154834648

is it 720p like the Japanese release? I cant find the details.

>>154839363
Well, it's ripping right now.

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HxH 1999's dvds are a blight upon humanity

>BDs never ever

>>154839373
Why would the Jap release be in 720? That doesn't make sense since they clearly remastered it.
But from the Kickstarter page:
>This limited-edition Blu-Ray release is a "High Octane Edition" for a reason. We will be using the same uncompressed HD transfer as the recent Japanese release, but using a BD50 instead of BD25 for a higher bitrate. It will contain both the original Japanese soundtrack and the English dub, plus English subtitles in multicolor, greyscale and SDH variants (or you can watch with no subtitles if you prefer). The disc will not be region-coded, and we can ship it anywhere in the world except for Japan, China and Taiwan.

They wouldn't have reason to go up to a BD50 for a mere 720p. Even if they have several commentary tracks, including one where they got the director, Sonoda and one of the producers completely wasted while talking about the movie.

>>154839116
I bought it for like $70 when it came out. Should be cheaper now

>>154839773
As long as it doesn't go out of print. I bought these sets over 10 years ago for $35.
https://www.amazon.com/Neon-Genesis-Evangelion-Platinum-Collection/dp/B000VLL0O8/
https://www.amazon.com/Nadia-Secret-Blue-Water-Collection/dp/B000VLL0OI/

Bad example, I know, but strange things happen with prices sometimes.

>>154839379
Thanks, you will upload on nyaa anonimously? If you put there I'll leave a comment on the torrent when the encode is ready. Even if you do have the original DVD's would be nice to have a compact copy cleaned up on your HD!

>>154839870
That's because the Platinum version of Eva is shit.

>>154839966
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=909994


Ladies and gentlemen, please have yourselves a Gunsmith Cats OVA DVD rip.

>>154840003
That is true. ADV used shitty filters to try to scrub the grain visible from the Renewal remaster out and loaded it onto the discs in interlaced scan.

>>154840094
WAIT you reencoded? But did you IVTC, dehaloed, deblocked and debanded it? If not there was no point in doing it as it won't be significantly better than the cor release! The DVD quality is bad and need to be proper filtered and encoded.

>>154840170
>>154840094
I wanted the vobs so I could do some proper filtering myself, I appreciate the effort, tough...

>>154840170
>>154840202

I don't know what any of that shit means.

I just ripped it off the dvd and uploaded the folder.

>>154840240
Anime DVD video usually has lots of picture artifacts and needs treated with special filters to clean all that shit up and "improve" the quality.

What I wanted you to have done was just upload the untouched video from the DVD (tough to do that you needed to decrypt by using DVDfab like I suggested above).

Your encode will probably not be better than the one we already have available.

I'm sorry If I wasn't clear enough.

>>154840313
Really? cause it came out pretty clean for me. I mean, there's a fuckin dumbass DVDFab watermark thingy for a few seconds at the start of the vids, but it all came out ok.

If this guy doesn't figure out how to post the VOBs, I will just the ISO from AB. If you can wait like a week I'll encode it, OCR the subs and time them.

>>154840362
Ow the new version of DVDfab now has a built in rip feature and is a payware. What the fuck. I'm sorry I recommended you a software that became shit in the later version.

if you are still willing to help this is all what you need:

https://my.mixtape.moe/ccejhk.7z

It'll decrypt the video and save all the original untouched DVD files in a newer folder. All you need to do is upload that folder. It should take 30 seconds.

Sorry again for making things more confusing.

>>154840468
You might wanna do that. I got like no ripping and decrypting skills.

>>154840468
What filter chain will you use? If it is a nice one than I may just leave it to you. Just hope that R4 does not use some weird NTSC-PAL conversion.

>>154840504
Dude is just literally one button click with the application I posted here:

>>154840494

Takes less than 30 seconds. you just need to upload the resulting VIDEO TS folder containing the vob files.

>>154840571
Doing that.

Captcha I swear to god. In a trunk, off a cliff.

>>154840633
Thanks.

>>154839771

I remember keeping a eye on it when it was released in Japan and all the info I could find showed it was 720p. The only rip i could find of it was also 720p.

I;m all in for a 1080p release, but why wouldn't they just come out and say what resolution it is in?

>>154839717
As long as it is not clipping that is not necessary bad, better than having crushed blacks.

>>154840732
Making the new torrent right now

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>>154838985
I had no idea why Burst was so poorly regarded until I actually read it.
>that ending
w e w

>>154841194
Thanks for the spoiler, faggot.

>>154840537
Hard to say without seeing the source but probably something like:

>tcomb (set to source)
>animeivtc (depending on how it's telecined)
>crop
>xaa (mode = drv nnedi3) if there is combing
>fine_dehalo
>hqderingmod (if the mosquito noise is bad)
>smdegrain
>dither to 16 bit
>smdegrain
>xaa (mode depending on what's required - nnedi or eedi)
>f3kdb
>dither out

I'm at work at the moment, but I'll post what the r4 source is like when I am home.

>>154841194
Man FUCK that ending.

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>>154841221
Its 9 years old, hombre.
>>154841247
I know.
The worst part is that Burst was actually quite decent up until the very last chapter.
It wasn't as good as the original GSC run, but it wasn't bad.

>>154841243
oops, didn't mean to add that smdegrain before the dither

>>154841291

Sonoda's guns are practically perfect.

>>154841291
The thing is, Sonada did that on purpose. He was getting so many demands and requests for more GSC that he decided to make an ending nobody would like just to get them to fuck off.

At least, that's what I heard.

>>154841243
HQdring for secondary halo artifacts?
Do you like xaa better than mcDAA3?

That seems a good filter chain, just hope you are conservative with the SMdegrain settings. I think I'll leave to you after all.

>>154840732
https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=909996

Here's the VIDEO TS folder.

>>154841375
That xaa mode I posted is literally the same as daa3 I'm pretty sure.

And yes, I take it easy with the denoising and scene check to make sure I haven't ruined the detail in some scenes.

>>154841399
>https://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=909996
Thanks!

>>154841443
Godspeed, anon, looking forward for your encode.

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>>154841333
GSC motivated me to get my firearms license.
Thanks Sonoda!

>>154841399
Noice. Is this r1 or r4?

>>154841530
Should be done pretty quicky. Could probably do 1 ep a day.

Also, I'm guessing you're seph hey?

>>154841639
The comment was an obvious giveaway.

>>154841530
Is that what you were looking for?

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>>154841865
Yes, that was perfect, once again, thanks a lot!

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>>154839042
>>154838985
The manga is a real porn for gun nuts.
>dat WA 2000

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>>154842011
Better version I made a while back.

Gunsmith is getting BDs? Shit, had no idea. Please don't fuck it up.

>>154842105
I wish there were more chapters about her actually doing gunsmithing things.
That one bit in Burst about Becky having her BHP customized and the chapter about the dude who assassinated people with large caliber revolvers are the only parts I can think of.

>>154842217
There's a whole chapter about her losing her shit over the CZ75. SHe's not actually doing any work on one, just demonstrating, but it's basically a big ol dose of gunporn. Kinda like the letter to Penthouse Forum, but with more bullets.

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I haven't read the thread yet, but the R1 DVD9s are seeded if someone wants them.

>>154836295
>complaining about bad encoding etc in the early 2000's
mate people had shit for dial-up internet back then and divx encoding was in it's early days. what do you expect? around those days most people were sharing anime around on burnt CDs and DVDs they traded with friends.

I remember getting the first 4 episodes of Naruto within 6months of them coming out and feeling like a fucking boss at getting my hands on this "awesome new anime", simply because there was no way to get it at the time.

If you want a better encode, get the DVDs and encode em yourself.

>>154835937
I prefer the left, who wants to come at me?

>>154842358
I suspect the one posted here is R1 too.

>>154842468

Oh good. Yeah, if anyone wants DVD or BD rips, I can try to grab them. Not like I'm using that tracker for anything else.

>>154834648
I was debating donating so I could get it. To be fair I really like riding bean but enough to just own a Blu Ray and not watch it I don't think so

>>154841579
>tfw nogunstralian

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>>154842623
Thankfully Canadian politicians are a bit more lax about the whole gun thing.

>>154842589
I got Bubblegum Crisis and Otaku no Video and they're great. Riding Bean is kind of expensive compared to those two, but I might still get it.

He runs some of the best Kickstarters I've ever seen and really cares about the stuff though.

>>154841865
Please keep seeding when you wake up.

As I thought, the R1 DVD on AB isn't seeded, and it looks like the anon who uploaded theirs onto NT stopped seeding at 22%.

Oh well, hopefully he comes back and seeds soon.

>>154836332
Last time an anon promised a better encode it was worse than cor at twice the size. That was less than half a year ago.

ISOs are also easily available on ADC and AB.

>>154836511
Too bad the Lodoss BDs are overcropped. Comparing to US DVDs is not fair, R2J is usually where it's at.