Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou Web Special

Long story short, a LOT of effort and voodoo magic was put in to make this work, so you’d better appreciate it or else!

(Ads at the start were left in so that you can get the authentic web streaming experience. If you don’t wait it, wait for the Blu-Rays/DVDs)

Big thanks to waffo and his team for the translation, no thanks to them for the dodgy timing. I editted the script to fit the terminology that we used for the rest of the series.

Encoding technobabble:

Basically, since the source (150MB .wmv) was so shit anyway, I decided to not encode it, but to mux it straight into .mkv. However, mkvmerge doesn’t support the container, so I had to use GDSMux to mux it to .avi, then use mkvmerge to put that into mkv, but then the mkv didn’t load into Aegisub properly, so I had to use mkv2vfr to mux it into avi (yet again) and then load it in Aegisub with the timecodes file. At the end I muxed the 2nd avi along with the timecodes file and the .ass into the final .mkv.

What a mess, but in the end, well worth it to be able to keep the source video and audio without re-encoding.

.ass technobabble:

The video had black bars with some informational (read advertising) text at the top and bottom of the screen. If you demux the script, you will see that I used AssDraw to cover up that shit then display the subs on the bars. Additionally, for the standard bottom of the screen text, I use “8” alignment with a massive vertical margin, so that the text would “hug” the edge of the actual video and extend downwards when there were two lines.

Also, if you decide to seek, the black AssDraw covering would disappear, so I wrote a Python script that does a loop and the black covering is refreshed every second. (Once again, demux the script and look at it).

Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou ED

DDL: http://purl.net/cryptw/commie/mahoued-ddl

Thanks again to fnord for the awesomeness.

We will also be doing a lolwebrip quality release of the web special: cruncha cruncha cruncha.

Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou OP

DDL: http://purl.net/cryptw/commie/mahouop-ddl

Big thanks to fnord from Nekomimi for doing everything.

Yoku Wakaru Gendai Mahou TV Batch

Includes previously un-released 11v2, which is just a minor improvement in video quality and file size (not really worth downloading if you already have v1).

As stated before, we are doing the Blu-Rays.

Can someone please offer this on BakaBT so I can see what happens?
We’ll seed.

Also, please drop by our IRC which is #commie on irc.rizon.net

Thanks for your support these 12 episodes! See you next season (and for Kanamemo and Saki).