It’s baaaaaack~
1. We are using ordered chapters again for this series. The sizes will be variable, however, based off of crf18, unlike S1.
2. There are going to be a few changes from S1, such as a bit more padding for the subs and a few minor script changes. Mostly you shouldn’t notice.
3. As with S1, we are going to do karaoke for all songs. Episode 1 was softsubbed \kf however because it’s not a song, it’s a school anthem.
4. We will be doing a 1080p version because this aired in native 1080p. There will be no XviD. This is a comparison of 1080p vs. 1080p->720p->1080p. Anything in white are details lost from downscaling.
5. Mio is still mine. I didn’t defect to Azusa like most Mio shippers.
6. This, according to BDs, is a 27 episode long series.
7. We fucked up. Hence why there’s a v2. They can be downloaded below.
1080p – Mio
720p – is
480p – mine.
DDLs – OK
yay 1080p tyty
cool thanks XD♥Chihiro
27 episode long series as in… 27 episodes in just season 2 alone or 27 episodes of season 1 and 2 combined?
And of course you’ll be doing BD? 🙂
>1080p
Loling.
I’m pretty sure that 1440×1080 is a 4:3 resolution, unless you did anamorphic or something. Also, I’m pretty sure no show airs in 1920×1080 (a 16:9 resolution), because Japanese television only airs in two resolutions: 704×480 for SD, and 1440×1080 for HD (of course, resizing is needed in order to get correct 16:9 widescreen AR).
It’s anamorphic. And BS-J and BS-11 are both 1920×1080 channels.
What is this i don’t even….
thx a lot man, really appreciate it. finally, it’s back. with superb hd quality even! Whooooo!!!
There will be 28 episodes spanning to 7 months. The last episode will air either end of October or beginning of November. According to the official K-ON TBS site, the staff mentioned in their blog that this will most likely be the last season (28 eps) which arcs over too all of the manga chapter covered to date. Then the project will probably go to suspension. When new content of the manga is release, they might reconsider to continue the show.
yes!!
whoa so nice!!!! Thank you Chihiro!!!
9 BDs of equal price with about half of them claiming to have 3 episodes indicates 27 episodes. This makes sense as the broadcasting slots are sold in chunks of 13 I believe. Thus two slots of 13 + 1 dvd episode for 27 total episodes. If you could point out where on the blog it says 28 episodes, I’d appreciate that.
As for how much it’s going to cover, S1 covered 2 volumes of manga in 13 episodes. That was all that had been released at the time. Since then, there has only been one volume released with a 4th coming while the show is airing. The 4th also looks like it could potentially be the last seeing as the 4 older girls are getting ready to graduate. Odds are KyoAni is either going to have to create filler, or move at a much slower pace.
Mugi is my love. Mugi will always be there for me. Mugi forever~!
Hmm, I’m not sure what to think about the new OP. 🙂
Speaking of music, the first line of the anthem should probably be written as “aozora” (青空) rather than “ao sora” when the v2 rolls around.
Thanks for the release!
dang, the OP is soo fast but i love it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! NO!!! NO NO NO NO no no….
MIO IS MINE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HEAR ME!!! MINE!!! YOU LITTLE BITCH!!!!
The new OP reminds me so much of Maria+Holic’s OP.
yay! I waited for this one 🙂
great job as always
What does it mean when you say something like “1080p–>720p–>1080p”? Does that mean you downscale 1080p to 720p then you re-upscale it back to 1080p?
epic stuff, keep up the good work ^^
well if Kristen takes Mio, then nobody minds if I take Azusa 😀
guest, yes. That’s the easiest way of checking whether or not a video is an upscale. If there are details lost during the downscaling, then it’s true HD, otherwise, it’s an upscale.
I’m glad my 1080p DDLs weren’t almost done, since now I have to start all over. FUUUUUUUUUU!!!!! Just kidding, it’s only going to take a little longer now.
Edit: Raging at fucking hotfile now. Every time a file finishes I get an error and the shit doesn’t go through. Switching to MU now. Sorry for the delay.
nice ^.^ finally…
Let’s put MIo and Azusa together… mmmmm…. big sister and little sister….Yeah!!
Thanks for the episode and future releases in 1080p =:)
Great work as always!
Any chance of sharing her? ^^
@guest: They mean they took the original 1080-vertical-pixel image, downscaled it to 720 vertical pixels, then upscaled back to 1080 vertical pixels. They then took the difference of the resultant image from the original image to show what details would have been “lost” had they simply upscaled a 720p source to 1080p.
Why in 4:3?
So, I saw on AniDB that the only two people to rate your release so far gave it 1s. That must mean it sucked, right?
@Xiong
We attract trolls. Personally, I would never trust those ratings because different groups attract different types of people who will rate them higher or lower then they deserve. My opinion is that people should try to sample as many groups as possible and make a choice based on their own opinion of each release.
Edit by mod: Also, AniDB is just generally terrible because it’s easy enough for a group to get together and say, “Hey, let’s all vote 10s on our release and vote all 1s on Group X’s release.”
Source: Trolls
Whoo!
I appreciate your continuation of this cute series ^_^
We’ll share Mio. I’ll compromise no other way. It’s a war I’ll win if you decline. :3<3
Well, I hate to repost, but I’m still having a bit of a problem
When I play 1080p files in MPC, they go through this weird cycle of perfect -> audio unsync (they always have FLAC, so I can’t tell if it makes a difference) -> freeze and mute -> video speed-up -> perfect -> repeat
This doesn’t happen in WMP, but the subtitles stopped appearing after I re-installed CCCP with MPC. The Playback Help article said to uninstall all codec packs before installing CCCP. Is there a separate one for WMP subtitles I may have gotten rid of?
Can anyone please tell me how to fix either or both of these issues?
P.S. I’ve already got the CoreAVC filter enabled and disabled FLAC decoding.
P.P.S. I’m a quality whore, so getting the 720p version is an absolute last resource for me, even if it would instantly fix everything (which I’m assuming it would).
im a Mio fan too and i didnt defect to Azusa….my love for em is just the same ^^ Azusa is cute and Mio is Moe
Aw, no Xvid. Well, back to the fansub list.
RoadSign: It’s anamorphic. That’s just the resolution that it aired at. It would be a waste of bitrate to encode at 1920×1080 when the broadcast was 1440×1080.
MSOSB: It may be that your computer is too slow to play 1080p, which is the case on some older systems. Even my system, which is a 4 year old dual core, has had occasional problems playing back 1080p before. Anyway, the filter that handles the subtitles is Haali’s Media Splitter, which should be part of the CCCP. Make sure that’s enabled, because that’s likely what’s making your subtitles disappear.
Weird, there’s something wrong with the download, it repeats.
@Soichiro
Thanks. It IS too slow, but everything is in an external HD , so I get the 1080p versions for the day I get a better one. Anyway, the Haali was enabled, but its Autoload VSFilter wasn’t. That fixed it.
MSOSB: I had this issue on my acer revo which I use for a htpc. I too have coreAVC installed but there was one step that seemed to make a world of difference for me. You will want to go to your VSFilter Configuration (start->programs->combined community codec pack->filters). From there, go to the “Misc” tab and check “Pre-buffer subpictures”. Once I did that, the out of sync issue I was having went away. Hope that helps!
Thanks for posting. The new ending is nice 🙂
Yoko Hikasa FTW!
Unfortunately, I seem to face an infinite loop at about 2 minutes into the show. I use the latest VLC Media Player and have tried with v1 and v2 of 1280×720 and v2 of 848×480.
I guess I will try the highest definition later if no one has any alternative
“I use the latest VLC Media Player”
There’s your problem. VLC can’t handle ordered chapters much less do anything without SUCKING. Go check out the playback help page for your fix.
i understand your feelings about mio…
thank you for continuation of this very popular title 😀
OK
SRSLY
If you Cant even play a 480p mkv you need to get rid of that dinosaur of a PC. Xvid is so 90’s.
Oh Domo! Domo! Domo! for the release + 1080p W00t!!
Are you sure this is 1440 by 1080 resolution? It plays in 1920 by 1080 (16 by 9) on my computer. It’s definitely not 4:3. Is this some kind of bug on my end? The image doesn’t seem to be stretched.
Chihiro thanks for another quality release. Oh for the record this 1440X1080 encode is impressive, you are the only subbing group doing a 1080 release ( to my knowledge ). Not as impressive as your K-ON! BD rips but very good, it blows the other 720p versions away. So thanks for your time and efforts, Chhiro BANZAI!!!!!!
Gars: It’s supposed to be like that. It’s anamorphic. That means the video is encoded in a narrow resolution and stretches out on playback. That’s actually how DVDs and most TV stations do it.
I’ve always wondered if there is a quality/fizesize trade off happening when doing anamporhic encodes. There’s less pixels to encode, so logically smaller filesizes (300mb/file for this vs 1GB/file for season one, although other factors are at play too), but doesn’t this also mean there’s less detail when it is stretched out to the full 16:9 resolution?
hey, thanks chihiro!!! i already feared you wouldnt do it and got frostiis version, but now i can watch my favorite team! thanks
@ DragonRanger:
anamorphic is of course less detailed than the true resolution, but some TV or DVD formats are defined with a certain resolution (PAL: 768 x 576 is 4:3, NTSC: 720 x 480 is 3:2 but always stretched to 4:3).