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Ao no Exorcist: Kyouto Fujouou-hen Vol. 1-6 @ Batch (Period)
Blend S Vol 2-5 @ retiming (Owningmatt93)
Dimension W Vol. 2-6 @ QC (begna112), OVA @ Edit (begna112)
Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya 3rei!! Vol. 2 @ TM,TS,QC, TM (SP2) (all Period)
Gakkou Gurashi Vol. 1-6 @ All (begna112)
Keijo!!!!!!!! Vol. 1 @ edit (skiddiks)
Kekkai Sensen and Beyond Vol 1-6 @ TL/Edit (Sei), Vol. 6 @ encode (begna112)
Kekkai Sensen and Beyond OAV OAV @ TL (Sei)
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon Vol. 1-6 @ QC (Nazaki)
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S Vol. 1-6 @ QC (Nazaki)
Koi wa Ameagari no You ni Vol. 1 @ encode (Saeval)
Kono Bijutsubu Vol. 1-6 @ All (Period)
Koukaku no Pandora Specials @ TL
Love Lab Vol. 7 @ TS (begna112)
Masamune-kun no Revenge Vol. 1-4 @ retiming (begna112), Vol 5-6 @ edit (Period), TLC (shinchan)
NGNL Vol. 6 @ QC (Stein)
ReZero Re:Petit All @ edit (Nazaki)
Soushin Shoujo Matoi OVA @ TL (Areki)
Wotaku ni Koi wa Muzukashii Vol 1-6 @ encode (begna112)

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Koe no Katachi – A Silent Voice

Nazaki is not feeling well, so I’ve been given the task of making the release post. Oh boy.

First, I want to thank the staff who worked on this over the years.

  • TL: Areki
  • Edit: Nazaki
  • Timing: Hybrid21
  • QC: begna112
  • Encode: Saeval (though we aged out of the original AVS encode), LightArrowsEXE
  • TS: Asakura, iFanz

I wish I could say that this was a ton of fun to work on despite the literal years of delay in getting it over the finish line. But I can’t. I think everyone felt it was a slog and the more the community absolutely hounded the staff working on it, the worse it became.

Most of you are probably already aware that a version of this was released early a few days ago on another account. That version wasn’t even the final version. I don’t know exactly how much “didn’t make it”, but I can say for sure that at least some since 04/02/23 wasn’t final.

Not going to make promises that this version is perfect or above reproach, there’s probably still errors or fuck-ups in it. But I took some of the items that were sent to us from that early release and implemented them here. Did not have the time or willpower to do anything extensive.

Regardless, this is our final release of this and unless something has gone catastrophically wrong, we will not be releasing another version.

Finally, I want to address a few items that are likely to be “controversial”:

  • “It’s letterboxed!” – There’s 44 rows of pixels of black lines making it 1920×1036 + black bars. That’s a non-standard aspect ratio anyway, and fuck you if you think it’s important to have those removed. A decent chunk of the typesetting was done by an outside contributor who did it on a full 1080p video, so we stuck with it. It was just easier and we had no interest in making this project even more work than it already was. Unlike some people, we aren’t used to hijacking other people’s scripts and then adjusting tens of thousands of lines of typesetting.
  • “It’s a weird audio format! DTS-HP:X? What’s that!?” – The stereo track included with the movie is a proprietary format intended to provide a “surround sound” experience on headphones. There was no standard stereo track. Unfortunately, you can’t reencode or trim DTS-HD formats without some kind of loss in at least quality, you also can’t transfer the virtual surround sound to any other format. We decided it would be ideal to leave this as-is. Clearly, the studio wanted you to hear this in surround. Any player such as mpv, plex, etc should be able to decode the standard stereo from it, without the surround options. On Windows, you can purchase an extension for your PC to enable it.
  • “Ew! Flac!?” – Yeah, fuck off. We have always done flac and that’s not gonna change.
  • “Which audio source did you use? Other releases said to use some other source.” – Other releases can make their own decisions, but ultimately I believe they are making the wrong assumptions and drawing false conclusions. ITA and US blurays have significant post-processing errors, causing additional noise at all frequencies, but also smearing and detail loss at both the high and low end. The US blurays take that a step further, knowing that the added noise from whatever source first added it is bad, and tried to run a silencing filter on it. Silencing filters are a scourge to audio. They always result in major alterations to the original audio. It’s easy to see that ITA and US are based on the same post-processed source because of the same patterns of degradation at the high end. Take a look for yourself at the comparisons from Hyde, which are generally being referenced across all releases. The sub track, being mostly empty, makes the post-processing extremely obvious (the blurred orange bands at the top and the easing of noise in the middle frequencies) and you can see this overlaid across all the other channels as well, while the JP sub track has an evenly distributed grain. The other major difference between the JP and ITA/US blurays is the gain level (volume). The JP blurays are slightly quieter in peak volume and have a slightly smaller range between the quietest and loudest sounds. ITA = 23.5/23.7 DR, -0.51/-0.86 Peak, -30.9/-31.4 RMS; JP = 21.1/21.2 DR, -2.22/-2.07 Peak, -29.9/-30.2 RMS; The only number which will actually translate to a difference in your brain is RMS and these numbers are so similar that you are going to perceive the same “loudness” in both. That said, adding noise and dithering audio are well-known tricks in the industry to fake Dynamic Range measurements. Regardless, people who don’t know what they’re talking about will automatically assume “higher Dynamic Range means it’s better and Dynamic Range Compression must be bad.” This is flatly false. The only thing that matters for our purposes is being as similar as possible to the original master. And, in this case, there’s no way for us to know what was intended or what the mastered audio looked like before it was sent to partners… But we do know that ITA and US blurays were processed for other purposes and have hallmarks of audio manipulation, while the JP blurays do not, other than, perhaps, some clipping, which may be an intentional mastering decision to optimize for RMS instead of peak. Our conclusion must be that the JP blurays are likely closer to the original mastered audio because it’s the least processed.
  • “So there was a leak…? Tell me more.” – No. Fuck off. Go farm your drama somewhere else.

WWW.Working!! Vol. 1-7

My only excuse for why this took so long.

I won’t call this a batch in case there’s some need to make fixes, but unless major issues are reported, you can consider it one.

Thank you to the people who made these BDs possible.

  • Extra TLs: kokujin-kun 1-3&7, DubstepKazoo 4-6
  • Encode: Majin3
  • Everything else: begna112

Patches are included in the DDL folder.

The family restaurant is hiring. We’re in need of skilled fansubbers. If this sounds like you, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon S 13 OVA

Kobayashi: A Space Odyssey

We’re doing some rework on season 1 to get it up to par with season 2. So season 2 BDs will probably manifest sooner.

Thank you again to all the staff.

  • TL: ld
  • TLC: Aria
  • Edit: Nazaki
  • Timing: Sarrink
  • QC: begna112, Yura
  • Kfx: logarithm(OP), begna112(ED)
  • Encode: LightArrowsEXE
  • TS: itsP, Zahuczky

Reminder that we only support mpv + libass. MPC-HC + vsfilter/xysubfilter results are not guaranteed.

We’re hiring skilled fansubbers. Must be able to cook omurice. If this sounds like you, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Shingeki no Kyojin (The Final Season) Part 1

Never change, Lobby.

So, here’s the thing. These BDs kinda sucked. Or at least didn’t meet expectations. Typical anime BDs are ~7GB/episode… The first part of the Final Season got 4-5GB/episode. This was despite each disc having >20GB free on each one. So despite being a super action heavy show and a quite detailed season, they dropped the bitrate. To preserve more of what was there, I bloated it a bit until I was happy with it.

Additionally, I decided that we’re going to try out x265 for these BDs as well as our normal x264. My goal was to essentially mirror the quality of the x264 as closely as possible for this project. That said, in basically every comparison I did, x265 was slightly better. In particular in motion, where x264 blocks, x265 blurs, which was much preferable to me. But also in detail retention and lines in dark scenes. Overall, this is still my first foray into x265. I’m pretty happy with it, but I hope you won’t judge it too harshly if I fucked it up somehow.

Due to the size of this release, we will not be supporting a DDL option.

Once again, a big thanks to the staff for all their work this season:

  • TL: DubstepKazoo
  • TLC: skookie44
  • Edit: UndefinedSnail
  • Timing: Hybrid21
  • QC: Nazaki
  • Kfx: tsuku
  • Encode: begna112
  • TS: begna112

We’re hiring skilled fansubbers. Must be able to balance in 3D Maneuver Gear. If this sounds like you, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Garo: Vanishing Line BD BOX 2

Gina knows.

Note from Sei, the TLC on Garo:

This was my first project with DDY, and revisiting it while getting this release ready was a really fun trip. I’m proud to have been a part of the project, and I hope you’ll give it a watch and discover for yourself why Sword is best girl (and join us in waiting for the movie).

Mega files coming later.

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Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory BDBOX 03

Tessa is just as surprised as you are.

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Full Metal Panic: Invisible Victory BDBOX 01-02

Working through the BD backlog. BDBOX 03 next Saturday hopefully. Uploading to DDL now. Will be at the links below later.

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Soushin Shoujo Matoi Vol. 6

Going for low-hanging fruit. OVA eventually if I can get a translator to finish it.

DDL link will be updated later.

The DDY shrine is looking for shrine maidens. Failing that, we’re in need of skilled fansubbers. If you’re interested, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Cop Craft Vol. 3

Such a fun show. In the vol 3 shorts, we get to learn falburni and just how much Tilarna likes food.

Thanks to kbaraka for timing this for us.

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Cop Craft Vol. 2

So many shorts… Enjoy ’em.

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ReZero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu – Memory Snow OVA

When people kept asking about Memory Snow.

Thanks to everyone who worked on this.

Translator – Haleth, Soul (ED)
TLC – Melancholy
Editor – Nazaki
Timer – Hybrid21, Period (Insert)
Typesetter – begna112
QC – begna112, Period
Encoder – begna112
KFX– tsuku, begna112

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Shingeki no Kyojin (Season 3) BD Batch

me: “Season 4 hasn’t been announced yet. I wonder what Snail is doing.”
snail: “That is how I spend my freetime, yes.”

See you for Season 4. There’s also a chance we go back and do Season 1 for completeness sake. But don’t bet on it being anytime soon.

We’re hiring skilled fansubbers. Must be able to balance in 3D Maneuver Gear. If this sounds like you, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Shingeki no Kyojin (Season 3 Part 2) BD

When people say DDY can’t finish things.

Part 1 and 2 will be batched together at a later date as just “(Season 3)”.

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Soushin Shoujo Matoi Vol. 5

Enjoy the special ED included with this volume.

The DDY shrine is looking for shrine maidens. Failing that, we’re in need of skilled fansubbers. If you’re interested, head over to our recruitment page to get started.

Blend S Vol. 1

This goes out to my good friend Owningmatt93, who unstalled this by retiming the episodes for me. Hopefully we’ll have another volume soon.

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Cop Craft Vol. 1

Time for more Bop Craft.

Unfortunately, this show is a blurry 720p native. That’s not to say the BDs aren’t a huge improvement over TV, but 720p is still recommended.

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