Figured I'd upload it to Nyaa once it's done, and I guess I'll offer it here too.
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Right, so I'm done with my version. Here's some comparisons from ep1 between all the releases I'm aware of.
1:
UTW |
Kirakira |
HiNA |
Tokimeki2:
UTW |
Kirakira |
HiNA |
Tokimeki3:
UTW |
Kirakira |
HiNA |
TokimekiUTW's is terribly over-sharpened. I'm also not too fond of their choice of font.
No one else deinterlaced the scene transitions that have double pulldown, leaving residual combing and jerkiness. I tried to make these transitions as smooth as possible, so unless you're watching for them, you probably won't notice them in the Kirakira version. I used UTW's scripts and made the dialogue styling easier to read, tweaked a lot of the typesetting to fit better, did some slight editing (mainly removed ellipsis abuse), and improved the timing on some lines.
HiNA used UTW's script and just modified it a little. Except they didn't time shift it correctly, so every line is a bit early. And instead of making the styling better, they made it worse. Their colors are off because of the incorrect colormatrix flag I mentioned before, and it looks like they warpsharpened a bit. (Notice how the text in the second screen is a bit shrunken compared to the Kirakira shot.)
Tokimeki over-cropped on the left side and resized to 848x480 for some reason. They used hard-subbed karaoke for the OP/ED, their typesetting is also hard-subbed, and they didn't typeset as much as UTW. (Not that there's much typesetting outside of ep1.) Their timing is full of scene bleeds too.
And now I'm tired, so I'll get an offer together for the Kirakira version tomorrow.
