Piyo-Piyo Productions presents: The Heroic Elegy of Confucius 12/17/18 (original) 12/25/18 (v2.0) 6/7/20 (v3 – Domesday Edition) 6/10/20 (v3.1 and imma stop fiddling with this I swear) https://www.otakubell.com/ https://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=13397 Project Pipeline: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kn1CpiTGbjW3zO6TfLTw21ZayYqdHbJoWUsNw2ETh8A/edit?usp=sharing Source: Laserdisc Everything PPP-Raw releases is from laserdisc source. At the time of ripping, no DVD or Bluray souce is known to exist. Domesday Edition: This was captured using a Domesday Duplicator. You can read all about the Domeday Duplicator project at https://www.domesday86.com/?page_id=978. Project notes: I didn’t do versions 1-2 THAT long ago, but I did them before I had the Domesday Duplicator. But Orphan found a translator for this and requested a re-do before subtitling it, so you’ve got that to look forward to at some indefinite point in the future. Orphan could use your help, BTW. I would refer you to https://collectr.blogspot.com/2020/01/status-2020.html for details. They need all sorts of help, really: “So Orphan needs staff, of all kinds: translators, encoders, QCs (particularly an RC), but yes, even editors and typesetters”. If you can do any of that stuff, maybe you can make a subtitled version of this (and a bunch of other good stuff) happen faster. Speaking of things happening faster – I’ve gotten assistance from some anonymous guy! He uses Vapoursynth, a more recent and modernized filtering package. I think he did a fine job here, but have a look and see what you think. Its all part of my efforts to pipeline my projects a little better to speed things along. Like Orphan, I could use a bit more help if I’m going to tackle some longer projects (like Maze TV 1-26, for example). Its a funny thing – this was the title where I really began to apply color correction to things, and then the DdD made that all obsolete. You see, NTSC signals require constant color correction. My analog capture setup put the disc through the ancient LD player hardware and into a firewire capture device, and it skewed everything dark, for example. Since the DdD is pulling directly from the original RF signal, however, its color output is (in theory) identical to what is actually on the disc. Whether that was calibrated correctly in the first place is, of course, up for debate. Unfiltered high bitrate DVD conversion included for archival purposes.