v2 for the remaining episodes will be released once FLE finishes their English subtitle. After that, a season batch will be compiled, likely in mid October, after FLE, 北宇治字幕组, and, hopefully, NVN finish their subtitles. Thank everyone for staying with HanaEncode for this wholesome anime of *Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku*. ### Subtitles * Thanks to **SubVision** for their wonderful **português brasileiro** subtitle. It has a very lovely karaoke for OP and ED. You would not want to skip them if you're watching with their subtitle. * Thanks to **KHFR** for their **français** subtitle. KHFR has a bustling Discord server specifically for this anime. You are welcome to join everyone here at [https://discord.com/invite/wGTmFarxNY](https://discord.com/invite/wGTmFarxNY)! * Thanks to **拨雪寻春** for their **简繁日双语** subtitle. They put great effort into show, even meticulously recreated the title of the show in Chinese in ASS. * Thanks to **DantalianSubs** for their awesome **español** subtitle. You'll know this subtitle comes from DantalianSubs when you see carefully crafted dialogue text with a unique selection of fonts and colour, as well as fadein, fadeout when it's suitable. You are welcome to join their server at [https://discord.com/invite/yg7kk6cSwK](https://discord.com/invite/yg7kk6cSwK). ### Filtering and Encoding This is a high effort filtering and encoding for *Kaoru Hana wa Rin to Saku*. **slow.pics compare:** [https://slow.pics/c/ftAw3VxA](https://slow.pics/c/ftAw3VxA) For filtering, we first use `vs-mlrt`'s anime-segmentation model to separate characters from background. For characters, the Netflix source is pretty unbearable with terrible encoing artefacts. To hopefully remove the artefacts and return the character lines to what it should be, we use very strong `vsdenoise.bm3d` to denoise, followed by a medium strength AA. After that, we apply `vsdehalo.edge_cleaner` and `vsdehalo.dehalo_sigma` to remove as much halo as we can without damaging the white lustre in some cuts. For background, we use `vsdenoise.mc_degrain` followed by a very conservative `vsdenoise.bm3d` to remove temporal noise. Then, we join with the character for the same AA. After that, we use strong `vsdehalo.fine_dehalo` for dehalo. For encoding, we use Progression Boost Preset-Character-Boost-Butteraugli-Max to achieve a good quality across the whole episode. We use 5fish's SVT-AV1-PSY v2.3.0-C `--tune 3` for the encode. Specifically for characters, we use Progression Boost's Character Boost feature to specifically boost the characters using ROI maps and `--crf`, and we use `--complex-hvs 1 --psy-rd 1.5 --spy-rd 2` to hopefully retain all the fine lines. For high motion scenes, we use `--filtering-noise-detection 4` to avoid artefacts. For background details, we use `--variance-boost-strength 3 --variance-octile 3` and we use strong `--qp-scale-compress-strength 5.5` for better interframe consistency. With Character Boost and various optimisations in Progression Boost, metric result is not very representative of the actually quality. However, as a reference, this is the SSIMU2 score of episode 01 encode with `--photon-noise` removed compared against the filtered source: * SSIMU2 Mean: 90.405 * SSIMU2 5th Percentile: 86.806 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 join AV1 weeb edition at [https://discord.gg/83dRFDFDp7](https://discord.gg/83dRFDFDp7). You are welcome to do anything with this encode, including remuxing and republishing it. However, we would ask you to leave a credit to HanaEncode if you can. Feedback is welcome via Marshmallow: [https://marshmallow-qa.com/s8bbyicls38av1j](https://marshmallow-qa.com/s8bbyicls38av1j). ### MediaInfo | Track | Language | Source | Codec | Remark | | :-- | :-- | :-- | :-- | :-- | | **Video** | Japanese | HanaEncode / Erai-raws NF | AV1 | Filtered and Reencoded | | **Audio** | Japanese | Erai-raws NF | AAC | Untouched | | **Subtitle** | Português brasileiro | SubVision | ASS | 〃 | | **Subtitle** | Français | KHFR | 〃 | 〃 | | **Subtitle** | 简日双语 | 拨雪寻春 | 〃 | 〃 | | **Subtitle** | 繁日雙語 | 撥雪尋春 | 〃 | 〃 | | **Subtitle** | Español | DantalianSubs | 〃 | 〃 | | **Subtitle** | 日本語 | HanaEncode / Erai-raws NF | 〃 | Restyled | | **Subtitle** | 日本語 (CC) | HanaEncode / Erai-raws NF | 〃 | 〃 | English chapters recreated and included. We recommend using MPV to playback our releases. Thank you for seeding after download.