Thank you for downloading our encode. This is the main encode at 24.1 GiB. For the mini encode at 6.7 GiB, head to [https://nyaa.iss.one/view/2117029](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/2117029). Thanks to **Cyan** for their wonderful **English** fansubs, and thanks to **绿茶字幕组** for their carefully crafted **简繁日双语** fansubs. Please enjoy! ---   --- This is a high effort filtering and encoding for *Champignon no Majo*. **slow.pics compare:** [https://slow.pics/c/15vrEyFa](https://slow.pics/c/15vrEyFa) The BD is very nice. There are very few cases where the WEB contain more information than BD. We perform a MinMax merge of WEB and BD on luma in the episode. Essentially, if the BD has more information than WEB, we do nothing. If the WEB has more information than BD, we allow WED in. The WEB is decheckerboarded before joining with merge. In the OP, as usual, we perform a Lehmer merge of multiple episodes of BD. The OP merge is nice, but contains quite heavy blocking. It also demands way more bitrate than the main episode, so instead we perform an additional light `vsdenoise.deblock_qed` on the OP to reduce the blocking and control the filesize. The main episode is descalable. We descale the main episode using `vsscale.Rescale`, and then we write a custom `akarin.Expr` to carefully dampen the sharpness of the descaled image. Thanks to many people in the JET server such moe teaching me the method, we fully recover the layer of 1080p texture on top of the image after descale. The OP and ED of this anime is not descalable. Instead we use a stronger `vsTAAmbk.TAAmbk` to deal with the OP, protected by a custom `akarin.Expr` taper. And we use `vsaa.based_aa` to perform aa on the ED. This anime has a static layer of texture on top of the image, which is really hard to encode. This layer of static texture also makes it impossible to denoise protectively due to this layer of texture having different motion vectors than the underlying content. Without denoise, we resort to tuning the encoder to try to control the filesize at or around 2.0 GiB. Specifically to control filesize in a source that's very static as this, we emphasise inheritance by boosting P frames and dampening B frames. Based on `vsmuxtools.settings_builder_x265`, we set `bframe_bias=75`, `ipratio=1.3`, and `pbratio=1.4` for the encode. To alleviate blocking in the case of intra mode being used on noise in B frames, where there isn't enough quantisation to support encoding the noise from scratch, we slightly increase `psy_rdoq` to `3.0`. And to overall take care of blocking both from the source and from encode, we set `deblock=[0,0]`. At last, we add a basic layer of dithering noise via `aom_film_grain` (not included in the slow.pics compare above). Thanks to all the people creating the tools, plugins and vsfunc's that make this possible, and thanks to everyone in the community for teaching me, pointing out issues, and giving me advice. You are welcome to do anything with this encode, including remuxing and republishing it. However, we would ask you to leave a credit to Kekkan if you can. --- * **Video**: [Kekkan] Filtered and encoded. JPBD sourced from Bikko@U2. WEB sourced from SubsPlease. * **Audio**: Japanese [Kekkan] Sourced from JPBD from Bikko@U2, downsampled to 16-bit / 48000 Hz, and losslessly encoded. * **Subtitles**: English [Cyan] subtitles. Including both a [Kekkan] restyled version and an untouched version. 中文（简体） / 中文（繁體） [绿茶字幕组] subtitles; Untouched. العربية / français / Deutsch / italiano / português (Brasil) / русский / español (Latinoamérica) / español (España) [Kekkan] restyled subtitles, originally sourced from ToonsHub. Deutsch subtitles are not available in some episodes. * **Chapters**: [Kekkan] Renamed chapters sourced JPBD from from Bikko@U2 with fixes. --- We recommend using MPV to playback our releases. Thank you for seeding after download.