Release Specs: Video - ~1650kbps X.264 Audio - ~400kbps AAC 5.1 Subtitle - ASS (mystery translation from THORA) Notes - Lots of banding here. Was always there, but x264 can only make it worse due to failed psyops. Don't feel like graining the whole thing up THORA-style. Screenshots (a.k.a huhu thora is better): Encode: http://www.imagebam.com/image/d2dbbc37303813 http://www.imagebam.com/image/ff97e137303827 http://www.imagebam.com/image/df3dc337303838 Thora: http://www.imagebam.com/image/d2d04437303816 http://www.imagebam.com/image/74c8e737303830 http://www.imagebam.com/image/af2f8837303842 Source: http://www.imagebam.com/image/65603637303819 http://www.imagebam.com/image/e1901937303833 http://www.imagebam.com/image/a4715b37303844 About The Place Promised in Our Early Days: In an alternate history of the aftermath of World War II, Japan has been cleaved in half, with the south—Honshu and the other islands—allied with the United States and the northern island Hokkaido annexed by the enigmatic Union. It was on Hokkaido that a mysterious tower had been built, a strand of metal reaching up out of the atmosphere, visible from the northern tip of Honshu. In 1996, three teenagers, Hiroki, Takuya and Sayuri, make a pact—they will build an experimental aircraft, almost invisible to surveillance, cross over to Hokkaido and unlock the secrets of the tower. Their dream was never realized, because Sayuri was sent to Tokyo for treatment after she fell into a coma. It is now three years later. The rosy illusions of youth have fallen away, but not the unbreakable strength of the trio’s promise. The truth of the tower will be uncovered, and with it, the link between it and Sayuri’s mysterious, carefully tended condition. About EnterTheBlog: Yes, we know we suck. We are recruiting for timers, translators, editors, encoders, raw providers, distro, and fags that can make x264 not suck so much.