The first three seasons of Zero no Tsukaima look mediaeval and awful because of obvious up-scaling traces from DVD. In addition to the conventional anti-aliasing, we also added subjective enhancing to the image, including edge darkening, broken edge fixing and artificial grain. The point is to improve visual sharpness and experience while avoiding altering too much of the original style. Please see the first five pairs of screenshots for these fixes.
One thing we need to point out is that the first three seasons contain many interlaced scenes that the source left over, and there is no way to fix them after being enlarged and sharpened during BD remastering (see https://img.2222.moe/images/2020/03/23/27650.png). We manually located many of these frames and replaced them with undamaged frames nearby, on a case-by-case basis. Most should agree that slight jitter is better than severe interlacing. As for those too mild to be located or no replacement available, we had to give up on them.
The fourth season finally reaches the HD standard. Although there is still aliasing, ringing and chroma shift, post-processing is much more straightforward. We only fixed image artifacts and did not introduce any subjective processing.
Reseed comment:
1. Fixed incorrect Menu colour in Zero no Tsukaima F.
感谢所有资源提供者 / Thanks to all resource providers:
BD&Scan: dtlnor
CD: dtlnor, Enola
本次发布来自 VCB-Studio 旧作重发计划。我们会不定期重发过去发布过的合集,或为补充做种,或为修正制作错漏,或为整合系列合集。
This is a release of VCB-Studio Reseed Project. We would re-upload pervious torrents from time to time, to resurrect old torrents with few seeders, to correct errors/omissions, or to batch separate releases that belong to a same series.