QnA

Put simply, I just don't have a Domesday. And regarding LDs, my one and only LD player recently kicked the bucket too...

So, as I have stated before, Cho Kuse's VHS tapes were badly mastered. This goes beyond a poor white balance job.

To answer this, I need to explain how detelecine works.

Animation is typically produced in 24FPS. But analog TV only operates at 60hz. 60 half-frames, fields, per second. This means getting a film master onto a TV requires turning the film print into an analog video stream. This is done with a telecine! Essentially, it takes a video of the film print's contents and saves that video to tape.

The end result of this process is a video stream that contains five fields for every three frames on the source film print. Two full frames directly from the film, and one orphaned field that must be deinterlaced for it to make a full frame. Ordinarily this is quite straightforward to automate, as 60 just so happens to be exactly 2.5 times 24. You'll find plenty of capable plugins that can do this, and some even implement high-end deinterlacing algorithms as well, namely QTGMC.

But the thing is, Cho Kuse's master was mistimed at some point in the many transfers made between the film print and the VHS release. Some fields bleed from one frame to the next, operating in a gradient pattern. Now when viewing this recording as intended, at worst, this will bug the videophiles in the audience. But if you want to detelecine, you need every single field and all of their placements to be perfect. Try to detelecine anyway, and this timing issue results in broken frames, compounded timing issues, and other fun artifacts such as jitter!

ADHD.

More specifically, things like my comics I simply either burned out or lost interest in. And with ADHD, a drop in one's own interest is a passion project death sentence, fun fact. More recently though, if a project of mine was canceled, it's likely because I'm trying to quiet down online. I don't really want a ton of attention... This is why my Youtube channel for example was made unlisted.

Well... because of ixangel. She harassed me for months on the ILTV discord regarding the series' scanlation, so I did what I could to keep the bonuses out of her way and I kept being part of Aoi Shoujo entirely secret. ixangel then followed me to my removed space and continued to harass me. Fortunately, I worked up the courage to stop bending over backwards for her and reveal the secret- and then a bit later she was completely banned. It's been such a relief to be able to blog about all the scanlations like I do in my own server 🙂

Maybe one day I'll write a master list of all the messed up stuff ixangel did. But for now I think that the afterword page is plenty enough. Lord knows that that list would take a week to write and fact-check.