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Good evening anime fans. Welcome to the best release of *Nomad: Megalo Box 2* the Earth has ever seen.
This edition is a 1080p release with extra love, for those who value reasonable file sizes with excellent detail retention.
Video sourced from JP BDs, subtitles from Foxtrot, audio from JP/US BDs.
Using a purpose-trained neural network based on the fabulous RealPLKSR architecture in conjunction with additional denoising and debanding through vapoursynth, I have increased the quality over my last release by a severe measure. Almost all instances of halos and halo-like artifacts are gone, aliasing gone, banding and noise are greatly reduced, and the impact of low-res assets are also almost gone. Here are a few examples of the visual difference between the raw BD and my release.
You can look at the full image for these examples and a few more at this link: https://slow.pics/s/odZAUIJL
For reference, the main issue with Megalo Box is that ALL releases are upscaled from a 720x405 base, with other post-processing degenerators. It is a digital native anime produced in a higher resolution, and then descaled for "nostalgia". I disagree with this choice.
This is almost as peak as it can get, aside from getting the original higher-res digital cut. The only improvements from here would be with a network that incorporates temporal features rather than being single-image. You can see that there is some degree of shimmering on thin edges that are horizontal to the camera movement, as well as general shimmering in very fine details. This is due to the variable noise in the source material. Unfortunately, the field of temporal video upscaling vs single-image superresolution is much more immature and difficult to implement as a random guy. In either case, I'm much more satisfied with this release. There is only so much information that you can extrapolate from a given degraded image before you get into hallucination territory. Maintaining a balance between image clarity and oversharpening was a challenge while training my model, but I believe that I have achieved the best possible outcome given my constraints in hardware.
If you have anything to say about it, the comments are open below, or you can email me at [email protected].
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FILE LIST
Filename
Size
Ep01 - Apparitions hum the requiem.mkv
473.7 MB
Ep02 - Despair brings courage to the cowardly.mkv
484.7 MB
Ep03 - If you desire the illness of root rot then do not cover the drainage hole of the pot.mkv
450.3 MB
Ep04 - Love cannot be lost if a flower of the soul blooms.mkv
392.5 MB
Ep05 - The promised land answered that the messiah would not stay.mkv
869.8 MB
Ep06 - Though you admit yourself to be powerless, still God offers his image to be stepped on.mkv
659.2 MB
Ep07 - The Fool that the card signifies is not a halfwit jester.mkv
432.2 MB
Ep08 - Rainbow's trajectory draws an arc at the beginning of the end.mkv
465.8 MB
Ep09 - The way in which to live cannot be counted on one hand, even still there are ways to survive.mkv
439.3 MB
Ep10 - Past defeat is with the omen of good fortune.mkv
381.6 MB
Ep11 - When removing the armor that cannot be taken off, the seed of fortune and misfortune sprout.mkv
317.4 MB
Ep12 - You can't erase the voice of the voiceless even after the applauds end.mkv
543.6 MB
Ep13 - Those with wings carry the wingless, Those without wings bless those with wings.mkv
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