Torrents:

• Batch: Nyaa.si | Anidex | Anirena
• Episode 3: Nyaa.si | Anidex

Would you look at that. I did something good for the world to justify my existence as a “fansubber”. There’s a lot of simple logic to “fake it till you make it”, I think.

Not much to say because, figuratively speaking, absolutely no one visits here or will read this. I’ll probably think of some platitudes to spin up later. If anyone does want to come on over and join the team (there are two of us now!) it would be sick, honestly. You can stop by my, our discord and drop a word, if you like.

No one in the world expected this.

Torrents: Nyaa.si | Anidex

A lot to say about this so I’ll try to keep it brief.
Detonator Orgun was released from 1991-1992 as a total of three OVAs, originally – and exclusively! – for Laserdisc. Ignoring the fact that it was somehow released in america hardsubbed on LD from 1995-1996, it was only really available outside of Japan with the DVD releases in the UK (1997) and the US (2001). These releases were not good. They destroyed and compressed detail, horribly messed up the colors, and just generally looked like someone covered the series in vaseline. This is unfortunate because, well, the LDs don’t look that great to begin with.

To start, there’s horrid color bleed – look at the opening credits and you’ll see what I mean. That’s not a result of faulty encoding, or a poor rip, that’s baked into the source. So are the rainbows. So many fucking rainbows. Not only was the image above chosen to demonstrate how good this series looks now, it was also chosen to show how apparent the rainbows are (if you can’t see them, I’m not going to point them out, for your sake). There’s some crazy overexposure in a lot of scenes, an absurd pulsating light effect whenever the “camera” points at an in-universe screen, and more.

Now – how and why? Well, I would guess the bleed is the result of faulty deinterlacing – I assume someone, while this was being mastered, switched chroma sub-samples from 4:2:2 to whatever else before deinterlacing and royally screwed the colors. As for the rainbows, your guess is as good as mine – I’ve heard something about faulty cables or some such, but in this specific case, who really knows, as nothing can remove them. Derainbow. Dedot. Bifrost. CC and a 14-line anti-rainbow nuclear ball of code a VERY experienced encoder gave me, NOTHING removes it. I don’t claim to be an expert, I just claim to be someone who used every tool at my disposal and the best everyone I knew had to offer, and nothing made a bit of difference. Seriously, if anyone has any ideas, hit me up, I’ll try to implement it before the batch. Anyway, for every thing else, I think I might have to just put it down to technical novice. It seems weird to call the people who made this beautiful art novices, but I am entirely unsure they knew how to actually master for the Laserdisc format. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. Really, who knows.

That being said, I was really happy to do this. Orgun is great and I really thinkt it deserves better than us exclusively having releases based on the R1 DVDs. For anyone that actually comes here (LOL), and hasn’t seen it before, I really urge you to give it a shot.