Sakura’s just writing a love letter to her favorite tofu shop deliveryman.

man i was going to do Initial D First Stage in 720p today ;)

Nice! Thank you!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA superb release thank you so much!!!

Sakura taking orders of tofu.

Thanks

Godly work, big thanks and will seed

Downloading. Thanks 13!

thanks for the release judas. like everything i download i will seed too

Damn! Thnx!

As an anime ánd car fan I always wanted to watch this! But I could never find a batch this complete!

Rip sakura image, thanks for the release

Yesss Thank you so much for doing this request :) finally i can watch this tofu guy i saw on youtube

Sanks!

Season 4 files have a weird aspect ratio… how to fix it while watching?

Thank you
Could you also upload the anime “Baki” in Dual audio,

You’re all welcome!

@DarthMage Maybe your player is automatically changing the aspect ratio to a wrong one, you can surely edit it in the Video options or something like that. If you need better assistance you can join our Discord

[Judas] 06 - Initial D Fourth Stage has a 4:3 aspect ratio, it should be 1.85.
You can fix them as a batch using the free JMkvpropedit.exe
Under the Video tab, paste in these Extra parameters to change the aspect ratio to 1.85:
–set display-width=37 --set display-height=20 --set display-unit=3

GAS GAS GAS!
I’m gonna step on the gas!

Thanks for this upload!

@Judas, I have tonnes of your encodes, but this is the first time I run into an issue that I cannot resolve in a hassle free way. Sure from a PC I can quickly resolve that via the player’s settings but I use Plex and not VLC or MPC or any computer whatsoever to watch my media - I solely watch via AppleTV or casting. Plex allows you to adjust the streaming resolution & quality but not the aspect ratio. Gonna manually fix them via an MKV tool.

Edit: found the culprit in the video track display dimensions
https://imgur.com/L3aC5cA

With all that said, please know that I massively respect what you’re doing for the anime community and will always be grateful for the encodes you dish out

thanks for the all in one release @judas :) awesome work

and thanks for fix @andor1999, works perfect although i just used mkvtoolnix, big thanks anyways!

Sankyuu

is it just me or the audio is messed up for the movies?

is it just me or the audio is messed up for the movies?

@KingOfdarkness Unsure if this is the issue, but sometimes movies have 5.1 surround and you need to set it to 2.0 or you’ll miss the rest of the channels.

did this have music only for battle stage 2?been looking everywhere,but still not found it…only found battle stage 1 music only…anyone have it?

Thank you

Other than the issue with Initial D 4th Stage (I fixed it manually in a few minutes by setting 1920x1040 for the affected video files in mkvtoolnix and remuxing) this is a stellar release. Thanks a whole bunch!!!

Deja vu

Sankyu Judas!

Awesome release!

Everyone who has some issues with the movies and 4th stage, here’s some fixes --> VLC Media Player is needed (unless your player supports the given below):

• Audio for the movies is set automatically to 5.1 but you have to set it to 2.0.
  –> Audio > Stereo Mode > Stereo

• Aspect ratio has been accidently put on a 5:4 scale but we need to put it on 16:9.
  –> Video > Aspect Ratio > 16:9

This should basically do it! ^^

Thank you @VipapkStudiosOfficial for the fast fix, I messed up with metadata while muxing.

You’re all welcome!

Initial D Fourth Stage Aspect Ration Not correct.

hey @Judas, is there a way for you to make a new torrent for 4th stage and the movies with the correct encode, cuz VLC doesn’t fix it permanently, it’s only in the player bro

What a crappy quality for 1080p. They should had remastered this.

@Judas you could fix it and release just the IPF files.

sanks!!

Did you also do the battle stage 3?

I can’t thank you enough.

Thanks! And thanks for the fix @andor1999 @aphirst

Thanks!

Did you re-encode it, as in apply filtering? Because DarkDream’s encode has left in a lot of artifacts. Even basic stuff like banding. Also, can you source the BDMV so I can encode it?

I think the fps doesn’t match up in the fifth season. I’m getting weird stuttering in panning shots only in that season.

I just noticed these encodes. They are supposedly x265 re-encodes of my old encodes from multiple years ago. If this is the case, I am glad to see someone provided a smaller release for those who are not obsessed with quality, as mine are large quality based encodes and not highly compressed.

It looks like they didn’t do the variable framerates correctly. The framerates are messed up in the couple stages/seasons I used timecodes files on, so that the animation was 23.976fps, and the CGI or end credits were 29.970fps for smoother, and proper playback. This means the episodes will go out of sync for you when you are watching it due to the video not playing back properly.
It also looks like the aspect ratio is incorrect, and or ruined for some of this series. The image is stretched out and distorted.
The extreme amount of compression made the banding much more obvious, and didn’t do the fine details any favors.

Anyways, I only really came to mention that I have made new higher quality V2 encodes of the entire series. Both my video and audio are much better in the V2 encodes when compared to my older ones. I also have the newer released things included this time as well. The ones here are quite outdated now, and could be better with the V2 encodes of mine used as the source instead of the older ones. Hopefully the framerates would be done properly by whoever re-encoded these next time around, if it gets done again.

https://nyaa.si/user/DarkDream787

Awesome torrent! Glad it is still alive! Will seed!