Futakoi Alternative 13/13

The final episode is done, as well as some extras. Creditless version of the fourth ending (as used in episode 13) is not present on my DVDISOs, so it won't be released. I guess it was present on the non-box version of the last volume, which I do not have.

Futakoi Alternative 12/13

One more episode to go.

Futakoi Alternative 11/13

Ikakakakakaka...

Futakoi Alternative 10/13

The squid is back!

Futakoi Alternative 09/13

Episode 09 is done.

Futakoi Alternative 08/13

Sa is for Sayonara... A very dark episode. Literally.

Futakoi Alternative 07/13

And now, the weirdly letterboxed episode (for most of its length).

Futakoi Alternative 06/13 and 01-05v2

OK, here they are finally. See the previous post for more information about the v2s.

Futakoi Alternative update

I'm not quite dead yet! Though a bit busy lately. Anyway ->

Short story:
Futakoi Alternative will soon be continued using a new encode from DVDISO source. There'll be v2 for episodes 1-5.

Long story:
The reason for the new encode is the framerate. The video quality of the raws I used was good, the only problem was that they had 29.97 fps and the frames went like "12344567889" (every 5th frame is a duplicate). This caused a little strobe effect during movement, most noticeable in scenes with moving signs.

The purpose of the new rip is to fix this. Most episodes can be completely decimated to 23.976 fps; some episodes have progressive sequences and so they will be done as VFR. Otherwise, the new rip should have similar video quality as the old one (screen comparison to make sure). The video is unfiltered.

I also bumped the video resolution to 712x476 (screw mod16), removed some interlacing artifacts in episode 1, included the untouched AC3 audio, used x264 crf 13 which gave an average video bitrate of 1464 kb/s, and included k-timing from Zalis starting from the first episode.

Big thanks to uboa for providing the DVDISOs.

New specs:
Video: x264 712x476 4:3 23.976 fps 1218-1859 kb/s (crf 13)
Audio: AC3 2.0 192kb/s
Subtitles: English styled softsubs (translation by AnimeYuki)

Screen comparison with AnimeYuki TV rip

Changing the frame rate destroyed my scenetiming, and Aegisub resolution resampling damaged sign positioning, so I now need some time to fix the subs for episodes 1-5. Episode 6 is already done. Expect the new release before the end of this week.

And yeah... sorry for v2s. I don't like them too. But this show deserves it.

Futakoi Alternative 05/13

Emerald Mountain High, episode 5 in the DVD order (or episode 3 in the broadcast order).

Episode 05: [pulled; get the v2 instead]

Futakoi Alternative 04/13

"7 Dayz and Happy Dayz", episode 4 in the DVD order (episode 5 in the broadcast order).

Episode 04: [pulled; get the v2 instead]

Futakoi Alternative 03/13

Gothiloli Twins! Beware!

This is Nikopaku Rhapsody, episode number 3 in the DVD order. It is episode number 4 in the broadcast order, but I'm releasing the DVD version of the show in the DVD order, otherwise the next episode previews won't match.

As always, thank Zalis / ReDone Subs for the OP/ED karaoke that is featured starting from this episode.

Episode 03: [pulled; get the v2 instead]

Futakoi Alternative 02/13

The twins are here again!

Episode 02: [pulled; get the v2 instead]

Futakoi Alternative 01/13

So, another hardsubbed show is becoming softsubbed. I decided that I'll do two shows in parallel from now on, the releases will be rotated. It's more interesting for me this way.

The order of episodes was slightly changed on DVDs comparing to the broadcast order: episode 3 was shifted down to become episode 5, and episodes 4 and 5 were consequently shifted up to 3 and 4. I'll release the show in the DVD order.

[EDIT: the following text describes the v1 release. It is left here for historical reasons.
See this post for the description of the v2 release.]

This release is based on existing raws created from DVDISOs by uboa. (Not to be confused with old DivX raws that've been floating around.)

Video: x264 640x480 29.97 fps 1724 kbps (encode by uboa)
Audio: Ogg Vorbis 192kbps (2.0)
Subtitles: English styled softsubs (translation by AnimeYuki)

Screen comparison with AnimeYuki TV rip

(Static screens might not do justice because this show has a lot of action and complex scenes. So look at it and leave your opinion.)

 

Episode 01: [pulled; get v2 instead]