Batsu & Terry (1987)

Another collaboration between perevodildo and I, released under our "LonelyDildo" tag.

This project has some complicated history behind it. Not "complicated" to the point that it's essay-length or anything, but rather in the sense that what went down behind the scenes would probably have you thinking "lmao did all of that seriously happen?".

I won't sugar-coat it—I'm not completely innocent in this, as some of it does involve some pretty stupid stuff I did which I should have never done in the first place. Regardless, the short (and considerably condensed) version is this:

Another group (you can probably already guess which one if you dig deep enough) had been working on this since at least '24—Perevodildo and I had been informed sometime in the summer of '25 that that group was supposedly making new progress on the movie, but some time had passed by without any of us seeing anything further come out from it. Considering the history of the group at hand, we both had reasonably assumed that it was going to be stalled yet again, so we made the decision to just go forward with our own release instead.

Ultimately, that other release ended up getting posted first before Perevodildo and I could finish ours. However, despite it already having been uploaded, we still are deciding to move forward with our version for two reasons. Number 1 being that we already put in enough work & effort into this release of ours that we don't want to trash it now, and number 2 being that the other group's release has a couple of flaws in it that gives us the opportunity to put out a better release.

• Better encode quality—the other release uses a capture that was recorded with Domesday equipment. Despite that, the encode looks really yellow-tinted. Additionally, due to how badly this anime was mastered for LaserDisc, there are a lot of details everywhere that look really jagged—the encode used by the aforementioned other group does not fix this. The encode used for our version, also recorded with Domesday equipment, fixes those jagged details whenever applicable, has better colors, and overall looks less noisy. An encode comparison between the two releases can be found here:
  https://slow.pics/c/k9SPHCza
• Better audio quality—the other release uses lossy AAC audio; ours utilizes FLAC audio and also has had some touch-ups by Krycek7o2, who assisted with removing the hum from the audio & making sure both channels had an equal amount of volume.
• Bonus goodies—the LD release of this anime contained a trailer for it. For whatever reason, the other group omitted it, so we decided to go ahead and sub it ourselves. Trailers for Dirty Pair: Project Eden and Royal Space Force were also included in the LD, but the latter was excluded from this release as they're already in HD and likely subbed in English anyways. The former, on the other hand, was subbed & included since neither perevodildo nor I could find any evidence of it having been subbed in English anywhere.
  
  Additionally, we also included a FLAC copy of the OST, ripped from CD—this had already been uploaded publicly long ago, but just in MP3 only. Up until now, the FLAC version had only been locked behind private community sites, so I purchased & obtained a new rip of the OST. I also included my own scans of the OST's LP version.

The site where these releases usually go already contains the credits of those who contributed to this project, but considering the grand scale of it, I've decided to go and post them here too. A big thank you to the following folks:

Raw Capturing — FatGooGooBabies
Encoding — Anonymous
Audio Touch-Ups — Krycek7o2
QC — Paul Geromini & imatu
Trailer Typesetting & Movie Title Logo Typesetting — Windii
OST Ripping — squidlin
LP OST Scan Fixing — Kaleia78

Note: this is not the final version of this release. There are more additional goodies I wanted to include in here, but they realistically won't be ready for quite a while since the people working on them are quite busy with other stuff. I'll post a v2 of this with said goodies once they're ready.

You can find this release at the usual spot.