Hibike is one of my all-time favorite shows--feels like Kyoto Animation created a show specifically for me, honestly. Somehow I have still yet to watch the two original movies and S3 (I know, I know!), so at this point I'll just wait for the all the S3 BDs to come out and watch them all in one fell swoop.
Except for that cursed loud background music that would be in every audio clip you saved
Ugh, the bane of my existence, even for English-language streams. It wouldn't be quite so bad if everyone had proper audio compression and ducking set up, but I'm constantly amazed at the shocking state of even veteran streamers' audio. If I'm watching a VOD where it's particularly bad I'll sometimes go as far as to use demucs (a machine-learning-powered tool for splitting music into stems) to isolate the vocals and mux that back into the video to preserve my sanity.
YES. I actually relate more to Kumiko more than any character ever. The show is strangely very important to me. It's my favorite piece of media. But it is definitely worth it to watch the rest in good quality. And I'm not sure where you are at with Japanese or still studying, but the novels are very good reading material!
And I was worried about being thought of as too negative for the audio thing, but I'm so glad someone else relates lol. I actually did a ton of audio editing on clips I used for note cards for Japanese. I had a whole pipeline for AI noise reduction -> ReplayGain (which thankfully Anki supports). I hadn't heard of demucs, so I'll check it out. I used a few open sourced ones, but then I just turned to my pirated Adobe software.
And it is crazy to me that streamers seem to not care about sound that much, but I do know that most people don't notice the same things as me, so I get it. The bigger ones all seem to use the same bass-boosted mic and either no compression, or so much compression I feel like I'm trapped in a box with them. My favorite streamer, Northernlion, has the worst audio and refuses everyone's cries for him to fix it, but he's funny enough to get away with it.
Hibike is one of my all-time favorite shows--feels like Kyoto Animation created a show specifically for me, honestly. Somehow I have still yet to watch the two original movies and S3 (I know, I know!), so at this point I'll just wait for the all the S3 BDs to come out and watch them all in one fell swoop.
Ugh, the bane of my existence, even for English-language streams. It wouldn't be quite so bad if everyone had proper audio compression and ducking set up, but I'm constantly amazed at the shocking state of even veteran streamers' audio. If I'm watching a VOD where it's particularly bad I'll sometimes go as far as to use demucs (a machine-learning-powered tool for splitting music into stems) to isolate the vocals and mux that back into the video to preserve my sanity.
YES. I actually relate more to Kumiko more than any character ever. The show is strangely very important to me. It's my favorite piece of media. But it is definitely worth it to watch the rest in good quality. And I'm not sure where you are at with Japanese or still studying, but the novels are very good reading material!
And I was worried about being thought of as too negative for the audio thing, but I'm so glad someone else relates lol. I actually did a ton of audio editing on clips I used for note cards for Japanese. I had a whole pipeline for AI noise reduction -> ReplayGain (which thankfully Anki supports). I hadn't heard of demucs, so I'll check it out. I used a few open sourced ones, but then I just turned to my pirated Adobe software.
And it is crazy to me that streamers seem to not care about sound that much, but I do know that most people don't notice the same things as me, so I get it. The bigger ones all seem to use the same bass-boosted mic and either no compression, or so much compression I feel like I'm trapped in a box with them. My favorite streamer, Northernlion, has the worst audio and refuses everyone's cries for him to fix it, but he's funny enough to get away with it.