23 OCT 2025 - We are back! If you have been following us over the last few years, you will know that the last 2 months have been rough. We website was practically not loading. Sorry for the mess. We are back though and everything should run smoothly now. New servers. Updated domains. And new owners. We invite you all to start uploading torrents again!
Video: JPBD. Encoded by smolkitten.
Audio: Japanese Opus (2.0, JPBD), English AAC (5.1, USBD)
Subtitles: Full subtitles [LostYears], Signs/Songs [LostYears]
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My BD encode of the show. Subtitles from [LostYears] (via [sam]). I removed romaji from songs for consistency with other [smol] releases.
Optimized a sign in episode 17. It was previously so bad it'd make a high-end streaming box hang for 5 whole seconds.. straight up skipping into the next scene.
If you're wondering why I used AAC for the 5.1 track; after my season 1 upload, I was told that Opus doesn't support the "5.1 (side)" channel layout, which Fruits Basket's USBD indeed uses, rather than the odd 5.1 layout which Opus allows with rear channels. That results in the layout being swapped to using rear channels rather than side channels. There's no simple workaround for that, so I ended up with qAAC instead; as it retains the intended channel layout, and audio quality is nearly as transparent as Opus at the same bitrates.
