Alright, I have a few answers to your questions. This is 800x600 because it’s a VHS rip from a leaked advanced screening. There’s obvious VHS degradation, but over all the tapes are very well stored. At the start of episode 13, shortly before the VHS plays there is a screen that quickly flashes (
https://reddit.com/r/translator/comments/fau83h/japanese_english_seemingly_an_old_ad_from_a/) after being translated, we can see this is an advanced screening from Asahi Television.
The shortening and weird parts of some OP’s could be because these were made for a test screening, it could be later changes, broadcast time limits or to track leaks.
As for the 24bit FLAC, this is from a broadcasters professional tape which has higher quality video and audio then normal tapes.
This answers the same question on why so many of the tapes were in amazing condition, they have dedicated storage at major TV companies to store these relics.
ImpatientRaws well, I have no clue. Probably a release group with some connections on the inside.
With that being said, this is cremelcropè rare. I only have 22% of the torrent done and it seems like it’s being peer flooded. So please, seed your torrent. Your paused if you didn’t know. Or upload the season to some direct download site like MEGA. This is truly a piece of history and the highest quality we’ll ever get besides a better encode from our source, direct scans of the animation frames or a proper remaster
Thank you
