KickAssAnime
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KickAssAnime (KAA) is an anime DVD-ripping group founded in the middle of 2003. It has lived by the following philosophies:
- Single audio, Japanese only: KAA does not support dubbed anime.
- Simplicity: KAA does not use new, experimental formats - that's part of the reason it took so long to adopt and adhere to Matroska and H.264.
- High quality: KAA is always looking for new ways to improve the quality of the anime it encodes. This has included the switch from 233 MB to 280 MB per episode and sometimes larger, which, while incovenient for users without a DVD burner, is a necessary step to have truly high quality.
The past and today
In the past, KickAssAnime had issues with low quality subtitles, which were ripped straight from the DVD and had many errors (such as the infamous "ajob" in Chobits). Those were often hardsubbed Comic Sans white subtitles, without any special formatting. Around the middle of 2004, KickAssAnime started relying heavily on typesetting, to produce high-quality subtitles.
KickAssAnime also had some video issues in the past, such as mouth combs, but those problems have been eliminated.
Today, KickAssAnime's encodes look sharper and cleaner than the DVD, due to manual fixing and heavy filter processing of source.
