Requested encode. One of the best BDMVs I've seen (at least in regards to the NCs). The NCs on the JP BDMV have very little in the way of flaws. There are quantisation artifacts, but due to the very strong and very fine grain overlaid on almost every single scene, it is hidden very well. Compared to the US BD, a scene or two seem to have very slight detail loss, but not the kind your average viewer would be likely to notice even with a comparison (and it's not worth splicing or merging the US BD, as it's overall worse even in scenes where some backgrounds preserve slightly better detail in certain parts of the frame). I think the sheets should unironically be updated with a remuxed JP BD remux (or in sneedex terms, store win). I had heavily considered simply remuxing both, but even with how good they were, there were still some benefits to filtering and re-encoding. Filterchain includes very mild denoising (mainly to shave off some bitrate so we don't end up with bigger-than-source encodes), followed by a rescale. The OP is 809.6p, whereas the show itself and the ED is 720p. Very weak AA was also applied to round off any remaining lineart issues. Finally, this was followed with weak debanding. This debanding was still strong enough to slightly blur very blurry backgrounds a bit further, but the detail loss is overall minimal (as the "detail" is already so blurred anyway). The only artifacting that remains is very weak haloing (so faint I didn't consider it worthwhile to filter out), and a zoom at the end of the OP, which is difficult to fix and honestly just a studio skill issue anyway. Should anyone wish to encode this in the future, just rescale properly and use non-starving settings (tuned for fine grain, so lower your aq-strength and crf), and you should be good to go. My only complaint about the BD quality is that it's attached to a mid show and not any of the shows I like and want to encode. Thanks I guess, Studio Shuka. EDIT: accidentally messed up the edges on the NCED (damn variable names). It's nothing too major, so I won't v2 for it. Requests are welcome, but don't count on me to follow through with yours from the get-go. I may be a bit more active under this tag again going forward.