The Sacred Blacksmith Update

I'll be re-releasing Episodes 1 and 2 using a modified version of Coalgirls' release. Other episodes that need censoring are episodes 5, 7, and 11. I will hopefully do them sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Update on the Sacred Blacksmith

Episode 5 has one scene which needs censoring, I'm waiting for someone to release raws with FLAC audio before I release. Episode 3, 4, and 6 need no censoring that I could see.


DmonHiro has released Eps 3-6 (AAC audio only)
Episodes 2-4 (uncheck ep 2 if you only want 3 and 4).

FLAC audio can be grabbed for eps 3 and 4 from these raws.

You need to put a 20 MS delay on the audio for ep3 and a 570 MS delay on the audio for ep4 if you want to mux it in (using mkvmerge, on the 'Format Specific Options' tab).. I'm not really sure why it isn't correctly synced....


Episode 6


Episode 5 uncensored, I'll have the censored version up soon.

The Sacred Blacksmith 01-02 BD w/TV Censors

I'm a quality fanatic, but I also don't want to watch any nudity. This presents a dilemma... for example the Blu-Ray version of The Sacred Blacksmith has scenes which were censored in the TV version, but not in the Blu-Ray version. All of a sudden it occurred to me... why not replace those scenes on the Blu-Ray version with the scenes from the TV version?

As a result I re-encoded the release (linked at the bottom of this post) to have the TV censored version for the uncensored scenes. This amounts to about 2 seconds of video for each episode. It was just the video that was changed, not the audio. I upscaled the HDTV (MX rips) to 1080p using lanczos resizing. It doesn't look as good as the rest of the video... but as I said it's only about 2 seconds. There is an extremely minor quality loss from re-encoding the video, but it shouldn't be noticeable (SSIM mean is within 99.4%).

For those wondering, the censors are at:
Episode 1, 14:37 (where Cecily tells Luke she wants him to look at her)
Episode 2, 8:26 (where Cecily's Breastplate cracks off)

Modified version of gg's subs (not by me, but by the poster of the original release)
1920x1080 Blu-Ray video
AAC audio



The Sacred Blacksmith 01-02 Blu-Ray w/TV Censors Torrent

BTW, I only plan to do this for episodes which require censoring. If anyone is interested in the creditless Op/Ed they can be found in the torrent below.

Original uncensored release