A complete restoration of the Elite-Fansubs (E-F)/Real Fansubbers (R-F) fansubs for Blu-Ray. All dialogue, styling, notes, signs, karaoke and yes even the ending igo signs have been restored. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Hikaru no Go anime so thought I would do something special.
I highly recommend visiting the github and reading some of the 90+ page Full changelog for how this restoration was achieved and the painstaking detail that went into it. The github can be found here: https://github.com/gameinn1/HikaruNoGoSSA
A big thanks to llbx who was instrumental in helping restore this fansub. Everything they did can be read about on the github but the main things are the Fantasy karaoke, Music is my Thing karaoke and the ending karaoke in episode 75.
Raws: [Moozzi2] (fixed green frame glitch in ep 49 and 55)
Subs: [E-F] (01-39) & [R-F] (40-75) (restored to softsubs)
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Thanks! I discovered the series much later so I've never watched with the fan subs.
I know many dislike dubs but Hikaru no Go really needs a proper dual audio release. These subs should be included also so everyone could watch it as they like!
Amazing. I know there have been a few attempts at getting a higher quality release of this series off the ground over the years, mainly by Mr_Kimiko and also a short-lived attempt by Soldado (dropped after two episodes). Great work!! This series definitely deserved it.
Interested in how the translation/subtitles compare to the official ViZ release and those shared in the past with the raw Blu Ray releases?
So that just leaves a bunch of the specials without HQ releases, I think? I don't think all were included on BluRay either, let alone with English subtitles
Answering my own question, upon comparison it seems the subtitle files I already had a copy of and had seen shared around on BakaBT were the OCR'd official VIZ subs from S-A release for episodes 1-47 (with re-timing and some minor fixes by der richter) and RF-subs for the rest (although without the a lot of the timing, signs and other fixes etc. included in this release).
So for episodes 1-47, you can just mux in the those as an additional subtitle track if you want that (timing all lines up), with this the definitive release for episodes 48-75.
Had issues with the softsubs being misaligned when I tried playing it back. Looks like the scripts are 640x480 resolution and my player wasn't able to adjust it to the 1440x1080 video. Resampling the script to that resolution fixed it though
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