Repost of https://nekobt.to/torrents/12441768569614
This is a reasonably decent release of the original Bleach series. Video is from the R2J DVDs. The BDs would have been a much easier source to work with, but the IVTC and decimation on those is a mess, so I went with the DVDs instead.
Video is VFR 23.976/59.94. The bobbed parts are mostly OP/EDs and scenes with CGI effects, and show up a bit more often in the 16:9 episodes. Orphan fields right next to those parts were rolled into the 59.94 sections.
Filtering consists in: crop/resize to match the BD aspect ratio, deblock, denoise, dehalo, very light line thinning and black line darkening, then masked sharpening and regrain. It does touch the line art for better or worse. This is more obvious in the 16:9 episodes, which have quite a lot of dark haloing that can be troublesome to fix without having side effects on the line art.
Comparisons:
Ep <= 167: https://slow.pics/c/R16Quz8c
Ep > 167: https://slow.pics/c/xgTYUsOG
Japanese audio is from the R2J DVDs throughout the series. English and Italian audio are from the respective BDs and were retimed to match the DVD video.
For episodes 001-167, English ASS subtitles are by ParanDark. The Italian PGS tracks are from the ITBD. Since the BD is pillarboxed, I recanvassed the bitmaps and rescaled the subtitle coordinates and display windows to the active video area, with clamping where needed to keep everything inside the new canvas.
From episode 168 onward the subtitle setup changes: English and Italian PGS tracks are from the respective BDs, while the English ASS track is from CR.
P.S. There is a minor issue with the English audio on a few of the 16:9 episodes. Sync is fine during the episode and the ED, then it slips in the few seconds left after the ending. It doesn't affect the actual episode and that last bit normally gets skipped anyway, so I didn't think it was worth patching every affected file just for that.
Thanks to: ParanDark, Shiro
### Episodes 001-167
| Type | Name | Source | Format | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Main video | R2J DVD | HEVC 10-bit 4:4:4, 774x576, VFR | |
| Audio 1 | English 2.0 | USBD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | English |
| Audio 2 | Japanese 2.0 | R2J DVD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | Japanese |
| Audio 3 | Italian 2.0 | ITBD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | Italian |
| Subtitle 1 | Signs & Songs | ParanDark | ASS | English |
| Subtitle 2 | Full | ParanDark | ASS | English |
| Subtitle 3 | Full | ITBD | PGS | Italian |
| Subtitle 4 | Signs & Songs | ITBD | PGS | Italian |
| Chapters | Chapters | R2J DVD | | |
### Episodes 168-366
| Type | Name | Source | Format | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Video | Main video | R2J DVD | HEVC 10-bit 4:4:4, 1034x576, VFR | |
| Audio 1 | Japanese 2.0 | R2J DVD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | Japanese |
| Audio 2 | English 2.0 | USBD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | English |
| Audio 3 | Italian 2.0 | ITBD | FLAC 16-bit/48 kHz | Italian |
| Subtitle 1 | Full | CR | ASS | English |
| Subtitle 2 | Full | USBD | PGS | English |
| Subtitle 3 | Signs & Songs | USBD | PGS | English |
| Subtitle 4 | Full | ITBD | PGS | Italian |
| Subtitle 5 | Signs & Songs | ITBD | PGS | Italian |
| Chapters | Chapters | R2J DVD | | |
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