Binbou Shimai Monogatari (DVD) [drawn-reality]  

Some DVDs actually do have LPCM audio, especially Japanese anime DVDs that only have 2 episodes per disc. So it's not necessarily a "silly" lossy -> lossless conversion at work here.

You can't believe that anime with action, fanservice, magic, giant robots, and ninjas/samurai/pirates gets imported instead of low-key, slow-paced, slice-of-life dramas? Don't get me wrong, Poor Sisters' Story is an all right show (though maybe sometimes too saccharine-sweet, with a side dish of "Child Protection Services Does Not Exist"), but it's just not the kind of thing that has much appeal to Western audiences.

Unlike Seikon no Qwaser and Queen's Blade .

Sigh... I really shouldn't be doing this, but the sheer ignorant arrogance in your comment really frustrates me. While I realize that as a BakaBT denizen, you are accustomed to spending your time adrift a large ocean of idiocy, it'd really behoove you to verify your facts before you start running your mouth off about the stupidity of others.

As Zalis mentioned, some Japanese DVDs have LPCM audio (which is, amazingly, "lossless"). My personal ballpark estimate is more like "a fair amount" of Japanese DVDs have LPCM audio. So why do you almost never see releases with FLAC from DVDs? Well, for one, the majority of DVDrips in common circulation are from a US source, and LPCM on DVDs is pretty much nonexistent in the US. A good reason for this is that US DVDs tend to be much easier to acquire due to them being cheaper, more easily available to fansubbers/rippers (who are quite frequently located in the US), and, when ISOs are uploaded, they tend to stay seeded much longer because people don't seem care about a DVD without English subtitles. Many people don't care enough to take the extra effort to acquire Japanese DVDs, even though they are often a better source.

The other reason that you don't tend to see FLAC on DVD releases is that many people consider lossless audio to be worthless bloat and transcode it to AC3 or AAC. Whether or not you feel lossless is bloat, when you transcode audio to a lossy format, you are losing data. You can get into a big, ugly argument about psychoacoustics and the fact that lossy should be perceptually indistinguishable from lossless when done right, but that argument has been rehashed enough times that there's not any point in bringing it back up.

From my point of view, all that really matters is the impact on the overall filesize of the files. Could they be smaller if they didn't have FLAC audio? Yes, they could. Would that size difference matter as much as irreversibly tossing out a bunch of audio data? In my opinion, no.

At an average of ~340MB/episode, I don't feel like these are terribly bloated. We aren't in the 90s any more (or even the 00s). The internet is fast, hard drives are huge, and you're welcome to delete stuff after you download it if you can't be bothered to store it. There's no real reason for you to be bitching about the "Flac fad" in this day and age.

But if you really can't deal with it, I'll be more than happy to provide you with direct links to Melody's old TV rips. You'll be delighted to know that they have mp3 audio and are only 170MB/episode. I'm sure that's the sort of quality you can really get behind.

I've been looking for this show in high quality and you present it.

Thank you very much, I appreciate it.

i was downloading it then it stopped at 89%, now its updated to high quality; i dont know if i should be happy or not but now im 100% happy for the new high quality look Very much appreciated for the re-upload

I stand corrected.  My comment was born from the ignorant belief that the source was AC3.



While I hold a slightly different oppinion on my preference, I agree 100% that it's not worth bitching about.  (Despite my petulant comment.).  I'm too lazy to look up what involvment you, personally, have had with this release, (or others,), but I do thank everyone involved for making this available, and I appologize for having been rude.

For those using the CCCP, you could try tick VSFilter Subpicture Pre-Buffering on the second page of the CCCP Settings application to prevent VSFilter from lagging the video when it can't keep up. However, subtitles will flicker or disappear at these times. Look to xy-VSfilter. It's not hard at all to install.

The grace with which you have accepted my chastising remarks speaks highly of you. This probably isn't the right place for it, but I'd like to submit my apologies for the overly abrasive response I gave to your initial comment. That, and I hope you enjoy the show, should you choose to watch it. Have a good day.

If people resolved their squabbles this peacefully we'd all be better off. I salute the both of you, Kalhid and Rashkae. That was internet conflict-resolution par excellence. Bravo.

many thanks.

And similarly, I didn't mean to imply that this might have been an AC3 -> FLAC conversion. Though I have seen people do that before, specifically with an Ikki Tousen Blu-Ray rip that took the English AC3 audio from the DVDs and converted it to FLAC.

Personally, I'm in the "willing to take small sacrifices in irrelevant video details and/or audio fidelity for major savings in filesize" camp, as I don't hear a difference between FLAC and 320 kbps+ AAC/Vorbis. But I won't refuse to DL an SD release simply because it has FLAC, since as you say, Internet speeds and HDDs are sufficient to accommodate it. Oddly enough, both shows I'm working on now had LPCM audio on DVD, though one is being released with FLAC (Iriya no Sora, UFO no Natsu) and the other is transcoded AAC (Rizelmine).

I just wonder why people generally embrace/accept the size increases from FLAC, but when a dual-audio release with an 80 kbps lossy English track comes around, suddenly it's 2003 again and everybody's using CD-Rs and 160 GB hard drives.

i like to pretend these two grow up to be the kaichou wa maid sama sisters

This is a very cute, innocent, sweet, melodramatic, slice of life show about the bond between two sisters. While it may not be everyone's cup of tea I find the trolling during Episode 5 at the 10:49 mark to be absolutely pathetic.  

Perhaps there were no other decent sources for this anime than this trolled sub from Drawn-Reality? If that is the case then I suppose such distasteful tripe is accceptable only because such a good natured beautiful (yet low budget) show such as this deserves to be seen.

Am i the only one who got sounds issues?
After some time my sound seems to fast-forwarding. I noticed it after episode 5 or 6.

Hi there. You're certainly welcome to your opinion. I am the main guy who worked on the subs for this show for 8 months, and the error you're seeing there is caused by a fairly embarrassing oversight rather than anything involving malicious intent.

I'm perfectly willing to admit that I am not the biggest fan of this show, and working on it for so long didn't particularly help. Our subtitle scripts are littered with little comments like these. I don't apologize for their content, as I believe that taking anime seriously, especially while working on subtitles, is a very terrible thing to do. There are few ways to burn yourself out faster than not having fun doing something you're doing for, well, fun.

I've fixed these errors in our scripts (there are a few more lines in episode 5 and 6 that have the same problem), and I've made patches for episode 5 and episode 6. If the uploader wants to swap the torrent to include the v3's, that'd be nice as well.

I'm actually surprised that nobody else pointed these out before now. I'm not in the habit of crowdsourcing my quality checks (well, after releasing the show, that is), but this is the sort of obvious mistake that I'd have thought would be pointed out by any person who watched the show. Or maybe nobody else has watched it?

(I'm sorry for not knowing the technical vocabulary to describe this)

I have downloaded this anime and it's manga, however both share the same folder name (Binbou Shimai Monogatari) so I soon found the manga and the anime in the same folder. I later organize my anime and manga into different folders, but I think it's a good idea to change the folder name of one or both of the torrents so no later confusion occurs.

Your torrent client probably has a "Set Download Location" option for this sort of thing.

It does! Thank You