The NF subs are better in literally every single example... It takes *real* talent to mess up every single line. Congrats, "LX".

Thank you!

I do arbitrarily target toxic comments. If it bothers post, at least act like a half-decent person and don't post shit.

I removed your other comments to disincentivise you from continuing your behavior.

Making something out of nothing... Even his so-called filters can't do that while matching pitch, timber and amplitude of said missing frequencies.

Considering the filtering is unwarranted, I agree, although for a different reason.

IMHO it's not worth the bloated file size.

Exporting a lossy edited audio file as losslesss is indeed the best way to prevent further compression issues, I'm not debating that. I'm asking whether his "filtering" is truly necessary.

Before anyone starts yapping, read this: https://jaded-encoding-thaumaturgy.git...ng/theory/

I'll be pedantic but I hope this clears the doubts of anyone reading this: Anime4k isn't an upscaler but Waifu2x is a neural network based resolution doubling model (hence the 2x in the name), so it's an upscaler. It is also widely used by *good* encoders (not NeoLX) for rescaling.

I can't believe you typed out all of that nonsense and came to this conclusion. The lack of critical thinking and evidence to back up your claims is astounding.

You have this romanticist idea on how AI works and fixes things. It doesn't work like that.



Those are not AI. Those are not even upscalers, they are shitty shaders which people deulude themseleves into thinking it makes their anime look better. It doesn't.. They damage footage by being overly sharp and smear colours and destroy fine lines.  



VHS has an average of 0.08 Megapixels a frame, the average 35mm film stock can range from 25 to 54 megapixels a frame. I am sure you can do the math and work out why old film looks better when "remastered" compared to a VHS copy.  deny it all you want but it is fact.

It's officially released on Mainland China Tencent Video. They've released 4 episodes early + theatrical release.

https://x.com/LOTM_WORLD/status/195602...0339705064
https://v.qq.com/x/cover/mzc00200x6fq63h.html

But I'd be aware with subtitle quality, haven't catch up so I can't tell for sure.

How can you already publish this episode? It's legit. I think official sources are at least 2 weeks late.

I can confirm this episode has good quality. It's 4 days earlier than other sources, but subtitles are good.

I fucking love Dolby Vision.

I get your point — data lost to lossy compression is gone, nobody can deny that. But that doesn’t mean remastering or filtering is "bad" or pointless. Anime remasters prove this every year. Take old shows from the 80s/90s: even when the original cels are lost, studios and fans still manage to clean, upscale, and color-correct the video to look far better than the VHS or early TV rips. If "bad source = doomed forever", those Blu-ray restorations wouldn’t exist — yet they do, and they sell because the improvement is obvious.

Also, anime is unique because of its art style. It’s mostly flat colors, strong outlines, and repeating patterns — exactly the kind of material that can be enhanced by filters and AI. Line sharpening, debanding, color stabilization, and AI upscaling don’t "recover" the lost pixels, but they reconstruct them in a way that looks authentic. That’s why things like Anime4K or Waifu2x are widely used: they work specifically because anime isn’t natural footage.

Yeah, exactly — AAC does throw away frequencies permanently, no argument there. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do with it after the fact. Restoration isn’t about magically pulling the lost frequencies back, it’s about making what’s left sound better. Tools can smooth out the artifacts AAC introduces, balance the mids and lows, and even mask the holes so the track feels cleaner and less compressed.

That’s why studios still remaster older anime audio even when the original masters aren’t available — because even from lossy sources, you can make a version that’s more listenable. The missing data doesn’t come back, but the experience can be improved, and that’s ultimately what matters to viewers.

So yeah, mathematically "gone is gone", but practically speaking, remastering works. If what you’re saying were 100% true, there’d be no difference between a VHS fansub and a Blu-ray remaster — but everyone can see and hear the difference immediately. That’s why dismissing all restoration as "bad" doesn’t hold up.

If anyone cares: this has well stylized subs, but they're hardsubs.

The Reason
"Stupid People Become Popular"

Because you keep treating him

Just keep quiet?
Ignore every single one of his releases.

He already knows the source is lossy, what he doesn't know is that he thinks he can recover these generational loss from lossy format using AI. It's futile because the data/information is already lost/missing. These "attempted" recovery of said data is artificial and pointless even using lossless format like FLAC as the output.

Nope, even video remaster is bad. Sure there's people that willing to add filters like debanding and grain, but that's it. If the video file is already bad from the source, you can not restore it at all, unless you're willing to edit from highest possible source available and accessible, which is impossible at the moment unless you're "blackmailing" the studio staff or become part of.

Yes, that's loosy by nature, the details will lost and can not be recovered. Whatever you do, those frequencies will gone forever. Even if you're using AI to do the task, it only do "great" once, and start hallucinating hard after.

Related articles, which applies on all media:
* Tom Scott - Why some "remastered" music videos look awful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkysCJBdGtw
* HydrogrenAudio - Transcoding: https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.p...ranscoding
* Kirkville - Don’t Convert Existing Audio Files to Lossless; They Don’t Sound Better: https://kirkville.com/dont-convert-exi...nd-better/
* How-To Geek - What Lossless File Formats Are & Why You Shouldn't Convert Lossy to Lossless: https://www.howtogeek.com/142174/what-...-lossless/
* lcamtuf - The untimely demise of an image upscaler: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/random-...e-collapse

BD remux don't get fetched here.

Hi, can you fetch this one?

They said they're trying to correct the audio artifacts, and since they don't wanna lose details after that they encode it to FLAC. It sounds "better" according to them.

Purple Green Screen Strikes Again...

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I think you're being punished man, lmao. I think that's what "punitive" means.

I believe the admin/mods there simply didn't like you, maybe they think you're pretending to be multiple people.

You just mention them in your description.
For example - Subs : MTBB . that's it

Hey admin!
Looks like got missorted because of the file naming and should go over here: ~/anime-gataris.13114

Thanks for everything you do keeping this site up and running! You are a legend.
Also, thanks for putting up with us immature man babies!

What the hell was "punitive" and "offensive" about these comments, admin? Genuine question. And how are the other comments in this thread not? Seems very arbitrary to me. Did they offend YOU in some way?

So how do you give credit to someone else's work?
Opening credits?
Closing credits?
Shout out on social media?

Reddit sucks... I got shadow banned instantly for no reason when I made my first ever account.

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i can't seem to find the filter scripts in your github repo...