Okay, so, I started with [hchcsen's release](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1603262) and made the following changes:
* Reencoded so it is no longer a batshit insane 255.6 GB for a lazy upscale of a low-budget anime from the 90s. There really isn't that much detail.
* Added chapter titles, because "Chapter 1" through "Chapter 5" isn't helpful. I didn't modify the chapters, only gave them names.
* Removed unused fonts, because hchcsen muxed all fonts into every episode whether they were used in that episode or not. That wastes way more space than you'd think.
* Changed the main font, because that was one of the ugliest fonts I've ever had the displeasure of laying eyes on. I went with the main font from the Gundam SEED release for a little bit of consistency.
* Fixed the occasional typo.
* Removed the pillarboxing, because WTF.
* Redid all of the margins and typesetting, because removing the pillarboxing breaks that stuff.
Yeah, so hchcsen's release only works for archival purposes, not for regular people to actually use to watch anime.
Fun fact: I originally made my own version of this from scratch, using the direct, unmodified ASS-conversion of the official subs from [here](https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1048329), except I switched them from embedded fonts to standard muxed fonts, because embedded fonts take up twice as much space. But hchcsen's version turned out to be better than anything I had been working with. So I scrapped my already complete work and switched over to this.
Since hchcsen already modified the official subs to make fixes, I decided to screw leaving the subs alone myself and went ahead and also fixed the capitalization of the episode titles (the translator was someone with the knowledge of capitalization rules equivalent to your average person with no writing experience, and it tickled my OCD). And fixed the typos in the titles on TheTVDB. And replaced the crappy fansub titles with the official titles on TheMovieDB. And added the "Kidou Shin Seiki" and "Kidou Shinseiki" (because MAL) alternate series titles to both (including "ō" variants), so organization and media center software that uses those databases will actually be able to figure out what this is. No effort had been put into this show anywhere.
But seriously though, at least that lunacy gave my encoder virtually lossless video to work with, so it could compress it even more efficiently and get even smaller file sizes. Even tiny imperfections that are imperceptible to humans from a previous lossy compression can add to the amount of detail an encoder needs to compress, increasing the final file size.
Video: 1080p x265 10-bit (HEVC main10)
Audio: Japanese (Opus)
Subtitles: Modified Official English (ASS)
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