[T.H.X&VCB-Studio] Hyouka / 氷菓 10-bit 1080p HEVC BDRip [Rev Fin]

Hyouka / 氷菓 BDRip
10-bit 1080p HEVC + FLAC + AAC, MKV format. ~ 1.2 GB / EP.

Thanks to T.H.X for providing Chinese subtitles for main episodes, and Eupho for providing Event02 subtitles.

This is a rework of our previous Hyouka release. Four years have passed, and now we could re-encode everything with HEVC, with improved pre-processing and targeting higher quality standards. The Blu-ray source of Hyouka is decent, with clear line art and rich texture, but also has various small issues: some scenes have very heavy banding, grain blocking due to insufficient bit-rate, and slight aliasing/ringing in the line art. We applied masked anti-aliasing, debanding, deringing and texture enhancement to fix those issues, and kept most of the grains. Pre-processing is relatively conservative overall, and we used high quality HEVC parameters aiming for transparency.

Hyouka rework has been a long time wish of mine ever since I started as a ripper. Actually there has never been a very satisfying version of Hyouka BDrip, including the old version from VCB-Studio, considering all kinds of new techniques we have now. Due to the time contraints of mine, it has been three years until the KyouAni arson attack in July, I finally decided to put everything else aside and focus on this project. As a memorial project, all participating members of VCB-S are KyoAni fans, and everyone tried their best. A remaining banded scene was found after we almost finished everything, and we had to re-encode all main episodes with scene-specific filtering. The project took two months to finish, and this dream of mine has finally come true. However, even there is now enough stories to make up for a whole new season, director Yasuhiro Takemoto, chief animation director Futoshi Nishiya, along with many others from KyoAni won't be able to participate making the next season. May they rest in peace.
by Shizuru's Dakimakura

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