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Source is full of heavy dynamic noise, which actually helps it a lot. This show is filled with heavy fx that would probably die if dithered as per usual (so a thin layer of static noise overlaid), so I'm glad they decided to add thick dynamic noise instead.
Every clip saw the exact same chain as part of an experiment I was playing around with. Filterchain includes adaptive denoising, with fairly strong denoising performed on brighter areas, and medium denoising performed on darker areas. This is followed by a weak dehalo to get rid of haloing. The lineart was also AA'd, and edgecleaner was used to get rid of dirty noise around the lineart. Finally, a fairly strong deband call helped deal with most of the banding denoising uncovered. A rather strong layer of static grain was added as the cherry on top.
I'll also start including FLAC audio from now on. I usually hate doing it because a good AAC encode is typically good enough for your average viewer, but as I only release OP/EDs under this tag, and obviously they're entirely music-based, I decided to swap over. This should be beneficial for those that want to keep OPMan releases for long-term storage, as you can do with the audio as you please. Just don't come crying to me about filesize increases, it's only 18MB over like, 4 with qaac. :^)))
Also wow, this season is so much better than S1 and S2. Too bad it still has a lot of ass moments that have detracted from the few hype times so far.