[Kuraze] Plastic Little (DVD 706x480 H264 Hi10p AC3 v2)

#### **v2 Notice:** Overhauled encode which fixes the prior version's slight overcropping alongside improved dot-crawl, aliasing, chroma noise, and rainbowing elimination as well as compression artifacts treatment. See comparison screenshots. Significant further subtitle QC was also applied to to correct and add numerous missing lines, adjust flow, preserve honorifics, script retiming to eliminate residual scene bleeds, among other fixes. Also adds several additional language subtitle options and the original DVD subs for those that prefer them  ___ #### [**OVA Information**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Little) ### **Video** Source | Resolution | DAR | Format | Bitrate | Framerate | MediaInfo :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | R1 DVD | 706 ✖ 480 | 4:3 *(Anamorphic)* | H.264 10-Bit | ~4300 kbps | VFR | [**Link**](https://pastebin.com/mEDMZGg8) ### **Audio** Language | Channels | Format | Bitrate | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | Japanese | 2ch | AC3 | 448 kbps English | 6ch | AC3 | 448 kbps ### **Subtitles** Language | Style | Format | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | :---: | English | Styled Modified R1 Dialogue *(Modified **_Tsundere_**)* | ASS | English | Styled Modified R1 Signs/Songs *(Modified **_Tsundere_**)* | ASS | English | Unstyled Modified R1 Dialogue *(Modified **_Tsundere_**)* | SRT | English | Unstyled Modified R1 Signs/Songs *(Modified **_Tsundere_**)* | SRT | English | Unstyled Dialogue Retail Image Subs | Vobsub | English | Unstyled Signs/Songs Retail Image Subs | Vobsub | Spanish | Unstyled Dialogue | SRT | German | Unstyled Dialogue | SRT | Russian | Unstyled Dialogue | SRT | Russian | Styled Dialogue | ASS | #### **Filters used:** WhiteBalance, DeCross, DDComb, KNLMeansCL *(separate strength calls for isolated chroma and luma plane noise removal)*, SMDegrain, amDCT, LSFmod, FineDehalo, xaa, aWarpSharp2 *(chroma sharpening only)*, Hysteria, f3kgrain, BalanceBorders #### [**Source Comparison**](https://slow.pics/c/2hq2FO2R) #### [**Encode Comparison vs. Source & v1 Release**](https://slow.pics/c/ps09MC7x) **Updated Notes:** An updated release based on the 90s Sci-Fi OVA by Satoshi Urushihara. The R2J Source has higher quality audio, but worse video than the R1 release therefore the original Japanese track was synced to the R1 encoded video. The quality of the R1 video itself, while better, was still poor displaying a significant amount of blended frames to contend with that have been mostly removed. VFR was employed to preserve smooth motion in the scrolling ED English credits. Superior filtering to reduce dot-crawl, haloing, and aliasing were applied. The source exhibited pernicious rainbowing which was eliminated via a mixture of derainbowing filters and UV sharpening and noise removal. A combination of very-weak luma denoising was also employed to eliminate mosquito noise to the extent possible without harming detail and adaptive grain-matching was implemented to treat macroblocking. Finally, when comparing the source footage and measuring known white-points by sampling their component RGB values highlighted a consistent slight-green chroma cast throughout the R1 source that gives the film a dingy/sickly appearance which has been reverse-equalized to a neutral white balance to alleviate said bias. See comparison screenshots. Styled subs were originally taken from **Tsundere**'s release and heavily modified by me to further correct several inaccurate or overly liberalized translations from ADV's old script, add several missing lines, split and combine others to improve readability, preserve honorifics, retime the script to eliminate scene bleeds, etc. among other fixes. R1 & R2J DVD extras included.