A Whisker Away

| A Whisker Away | |:--:| | Nakitai Watashi wa Neko wo Kaburu | | 泣きたい私は猫をかぶる | |  | | [](https://anilist.co/anime/114963) [](https://myanimelist.net/anime/41168) [](https://anidb.net/anime/15373) [](https://kitsu.app/anime/nakitai-watashi-wa-neko-wo-kaburu) [](https://www.anime-planet.com/anime/a-whisker-away) [](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=23007) | | [](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11958344) [](https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/667520) [](https://www.thetvdb.com/movies/nakitai-watashi-wa-neko-wo-kaburu) [](https://letterboxd.com/film/a-whisker-away) | >Sasaki "Muge" Miyo is a peculiar second-year junior high student who has fallen in love with her classmate Hinode Kento. Muge resolutely pursues Kento every day, but he takes no notice of her. Nevertheless, while carrying a secret she can tell no one, Muge continues to pursue Kento. Muge discovers a magic mask that allows her to transform into a cat named Tarou. The magic lets Muge get close to Kento, but eventually it may also make her unable to transform back to a human. ## Contents | | Movie | | :-- | :-- | | **Video** | 1080p AV1 10-bit | | **Audio** #1 | **Japanese** Opus 5.1 256 kbps | | **Audio** #2 | **Japanese** Opus 2.0 128 kbps | | **Audio** #3 | **English** Opus 5.1 256 kbps | || | **Subtitles** (42) | | || | **English** | ```ASS``` **Full** [[Kulot]](https://nyaa.si/view/1630510) _(Modified - see notes below)_ | | | ```ASS``` **Signs & Songs** [[Kulot]](https://nyaa.si/view/1630510) _(Modified - see notes below)_ | | **Arabic** | ```ASS``` [[Athbul-Khayal]](https://subdl.com/s/info/8MV3ZaWDlZ/a-whisker-away) | | **Bengali** | ```ASS``` [[ANIME FREAKS]](https://subdl.com/s/info/A08eibJA0N/a-whisker-away) _(Converted to ASS from SRT)_ | | **Chinese** (Simplified & Traditional) | ```ASS``` [[Nekomoe kissaten]](https://nyaa.si/view/1850711) | | **French** | ```ASS``` [[Punisher694]](https://nyaa.si/view/1403632) | | **Japanese** _(Dialogue)_ | ```ASS``` [[Nekomoe kissaten]](https://nyaa.si/view/1850711) _(Extracted by me)_ | | **Persian** | ```ASS``` [[AnimWorld]](https://subdl.com/s/info/ivFI76isGj/a-whisker-away) | | **Russian** | ```ASS``` [[AniFilm]](https://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6556526) | | **Spanish** (Spain) | ```ASS``` [[Anarchy]](https://nyaa.si/view/1775453) | | **Thai** | ```ASS``` [[PugKung]](https://subdl.com/s/info/IKjH04wXqz/a-whisker-away) | | **Ukrainian** | ```ASS``` [[Вояка Schweik & Gwean&Maslinka]](https://nyaa.si/view/1266543) | | _**Netflix's subtitles**_ | ```SRT``` [**English, Arabic, Chinese** (Simplified & Traditional), **Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese** (SDH), **Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese** (Brazil), **Portuguese** (Portugal), **Romanian, Russian, Spanish** (Spain), **Spanish** (Latin America), **Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese**](https://nyaa.si/view/1630510) | | | | **Chapters** | ✅ | | **Covers** | ✅ | **Notes on subtitles:** - Modifications done to the **English [Kulot]** subtitles: - Improved and added missing signs. A few made by me. Half of the signs taken from [Anarchy](https://nyaa.si/view/1775453). - Dialogue timings copied over from [Anarchy](https://nyaa.si/view/1775453). - Dialogue ASS tags (italics, alignment, fades, etc.) also taken from [Anarchy](https://nyaa.si/view/1775453) with small corrections. - Small modifications like: replaced two consecutive hyphens with em dashes; minor timing adjustments. - All subtitles have been checked, and, if necessary, timed to make sure at least the dialogue is in sync with the audio. For languages other than English, I don’t guarantee frame-perfect sign sync, though. - All ASS subtitles have been resampled, if necessary. - All of the fonts (except those for English subtitles) are [subset](https://github.com/wyzdwdz/assfonts) in order to save space, meaning they contain only the necessary glyphs for their respective subtitles. ## Sources **Video, Japanese 5.1 audio, and English audio:** [CUMiSYUM's BD remux](https://nyaa.si/view/1631859) (JPBD video) **Japanese 2.0 audio:** [VCB-Studio](https://nyaa.si/view/1850711) **Chapters:** [LYS1TH3A](https://nyaa.si/view/1630510) **Subtitles:** See Contents above **Covers:** [DM-C](https://www.dm-c.co.jp/topics/entry-95.html), TheTVDB & a still from the movie ## Encoding | Type | Tool | Settings | | :-- | :-- | :-- | | **Video** - Filtering | **[VapourSynth](https://www.vapoursynth.com)** | [denoise, deband](https://bin.disroot.org/?0d9d8600298098d5#52bKmnPaZ9u2gcBbbt1Nj4MhxCt1CE8DMhYgZ1smdCzK) | | | | **Heavier grain scenes:** deband only | | **Video** - AV1 | [**SVT-AV1-PSY** v2.3.0-C-622fb012](https://github.com/Akatmks/svt-av1-psy-quality/releases) + **[Av1an](https://github.com/rust-av/Av1an)** + [**Progression Boost** Max-Character-Boost-Butteraugli](https://github.com/Akatmks/Akatsumekusa-Encoding-Scripts/blob/e66a05d01dfdcbf0a9178b5d8ddb313e0072417f/Progression-Boost/Progression-Boost.py) + **[Grav1synth](https://github.com/rust-av/grav1synth)** | ```--crf 10-30 --preset 2 --tune 3 --psy-rd 2 --spy-rd 2 --complex-hvs 1 --enable-dlf 2 --tf-strength 1 --luminance-qp-bias 80 --qp-scale-compress-strength 2 --enable-variance-boost 1 --variance-boost-strength 2 --variance-octile 4 --enable-qm 1 --qm-min 8 --chroma-qm-min 10``` w/ metric target = ```0.700``` + FGS: ```--iso 200``` | | | | **Frames 1011-1588:** _Same settings except:_ ```--crf 8``` | | **Audio** - Opus | [**opusenc** 0.2-35-gbb045db-dirty](https://github.com/Chocobo1/opus-tools_win32-build) (**libopus** v1.5.2) | ```--bitrate 256``` / ```--bitrate 128``` | ## Playback It is highly recommended to watch any AV1 release with an up-to-date media player. I personally recommend the **[mpv media player](https://thewiki.moe/tutorials/mpv)**, but [MPC-HC](https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/releases) or [VLC](https://www.videolan.org/vlc) also support AV1 playback. _Note that some newer versions of VLC have issues with Opus surround sound playback. If you must use it, [v3.0.20](https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/3.0.20) apparently doesn't have this problem._ ___ | Comparisons / Screenshots | MediaInfo | Direct Download | | :--: | :--: | :--: | | [JPBD (20.0 Mb/s) (source) vs. RigAV1 (5 413 kb/s) (encode) vs. Kawaiika-Raws (5 768 kb/s) vs. VCB-Studio (4 208 kb/s)](https://slow.pics/c/wMZuW2XU) | [Movie](https://bin.disroot.org/?794db4bb2525614a#7SxiL8Nw3vpf9cexNw3BUnko8SoWmzkgRWj2pzbfJjeM) | [Anime Tosho](https://animetosho.org/search?q=rigav1) w/ attachments | ___