[MTBB] Zoku Owarimonogatari (BD 1080p)

[Zoku Owarimonogatari](https://myanimelist.net/anime/36999/Zoku_Owarimonogatari) [TL notes](https://gist.github.com/motbob/f5776f074aeaf956b12c9a149737e50b) **TL (dialogue/songs)**: Unbased **Everything else**: motbob There are alternate honorifics tracks in this release. Set your media player to play “enm” language tracks by default to automatically play honorifics tracks. Please leave feedback in the comments, good or bad. Please read this short [playback guide](https://gist.githubusercontent.com/motbob/754c24d5cd381334bb64b93581781a81/raw/dbda47515b9655db03a86c9ae281ba8290e08966/playback_guide) if you want to know how to make the video and subtitles of this release look better. **Anyone wanting to do their own release is free to use any part of this torrent without permission or credit.** __________________________________ You should probably delete the old 720p release if you have it. The typesetting color was consistently way off due to a boneheaded mistake by me (experienced fansubbers might be able to guess what I did), and the encodes weren't great. They were very filesize-efficient, but they didn't look very good in high-motion scenes, and they used gradfun debanding (so there was some detail loss). So let's take this opportunity to talk about the encodes for Monogatari. Broadly speaking, there are three sets of great encodes that have come out for this series: Commie, Kawaiika-Raws, and mawen. But the quality of the first two varies significantly over the course of the series. For example, Commie's Owari 1080p encodes have noticeable detail loss. And Commie's Neko Black encodes [generally beat](https://slow.pics/c/cR1bbYX7) Kawaiika due to more aggressive debanding. I've done tests of most of the series at this point, and I've come to the following conclusion on which raws are best, based solely on filtering quality: Bake-Nise: mawen (ties with Kawaiika/Beatrice, wins the tie due to filesize) Neko Black-Otori: Commie (better debanding, no resulting detail loss that I can see. The only advantage Kawaiika has is its sharper lineart due to rescale) Oni-Koi: Kawaiika (wins by default, VCB is unusable due to [crushed blacks](https://slow.pics/c/SGAAzKOh)) Hana-Zoku: Kawaiika For Hana, Kawaiika wins just because of the deshimmering they did in a few scenes. That's such a noticeable change that it dwarfs any other differences in the encode. For Tsuki and Kizu, Commie and Kawaiika are tied except for the sharper lineart in Kawaiika due to rescaling, which I personally prefer and I think most viewers do too. For Owari 1 and Zoku, Commie's and my encodes are unusable. So Kawaiika is the best option for some shows, filtering-wise. Problem is, they're huge. Kawaiika used x265, crf 14.8 (equivalent of crf 13.8 in x264), qcomp 0.72, no cutree, aq 3:0.85. If you want transparency on every frame, those are *great* encoding options to use. But if you're not watching Monogatari by going frame-by-frame, they might be a little much. I did reencodes of Kawaiika (crf 15.5, qcomp 0.70) and made [screenshot comparisons](https://slow.pics/c/9TjciOTx). Kawaiika ended up being 1.8-2.5x the size of the reencodes. You can judge for yourself whether that extra filesize is worth it, but for me, it's not even close. Hell, in the frame comparison linked above, the banding in the shot (in the middle of the face) somehow looks *better* in the reencode! As a result of my tests, I'm going to be releasing Kizu, Hana, Tsuki, Owari1, and Zoku on Kawaiika reencodes, along with Koi/Oni unless there are Commie encodes sitting on an FTP server somewhere. If you're dissatisfied with the artifacts caused by a freaking crf 15.5, qcomp 0.70 encode, then don't worry, I'm sure someone will remux my subs to Kawaiika for you. Though, for the people who're remuxing the entire series onto Kawaiika: please do some research. There may be better alternatives for pre-Hana arcs.