Haikyuu!! OADs
So it turns out these 3 OADs were licensed and streamed by an obscure Asian simulcasting company (Ani-One) a few months ago. Unfortunately, this company streams on Youtube, so the video quality isn’t amazing, but it is HD, so it still looks a lot better than the previous DVD releases. I left the video untouched since the filesizes were already pretty small. I did, however, use the audio from the DVDs since it’s much better quality.
The first and second OAD’s subs are entirely unchanged except tweaking the typesetting to look correct at 1080p. The third OAD is being released for the first time since the “simulcast” also had English subs. They weren’t great, but if you watch the episode, you’ll understand why until this point I hadn’t really bothered a translator with working on the episode. It’s pretty boring/pointless since it’s basically a recap of the second half of season 2 and all of season 3.
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i miss the first OP already
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Episode 1 has a new encode to match the rest of the episodes, and episode 7 has improved audio, so patches for those episodes aren’t possible. The other 4 v2s are for minor script changes for consistency since it doesn’t appear this show is going to get a BD release anytime soon. Also, one sort of TL mistake was also fixed in episode 1, which is the only real change to the subs.
I was going to include the dub, but sadly no one has ripped it. Maybe some eventual BD release I do of the show will include it.
And no, there’s no news on when season 2 will air. I imagine it got delayed quite a bit by the whole virus thing.
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sadly, subbing this has not really gotten any easier. that said, a decent amount of the delay was because i had to deal with IRL stuff, but that IRL stuff is no longer a problem, so i should be able to finish the rest of the show at a decent pace.
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as you may know, i am contractually obligated by the cartel to sub every baseball anime that’s ever been made. for real though, i watched this ~10 years ago not long after it aired and loved it, so when the BD box came out 2 and half years ago, i wanted to sub it. it just took me this long to get around to it.
now, for some details about the release. the video is unsurprisingly of SD quality since season 1 aired in 2007. however, it seems like the BD master at least was a simple bilinear upscale from 540p, so i could reverse that and make it look slightly better than a simple downscale. this also has the added benefit of being able to copy over the chroma exactly for a 4:4:4 encode.
the subs are based on the official subs from funi, which are actually kind of bad, so this took longer than i thought it would. the alternative is (hardsubbed) fansubs from some of the worst fansub groups ever, so i guess i have no choice. weirdly enough most of the baseball terminology is fine. the rest is just really sloppy and weird and needs a lot of editing.
as for typesetting, since the video is so small, it can be hard to make it look decent. thankfully, there isn’t much typesetting to go around so far.
why 7 episodes? because that’s how many you can fit on a BD50 at the standard quality. volume 2 and 3 also have 7 episodes for this reason, with all the extras (NCOPs/NCEDs) on the 4th BD.
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