One day, I’ve stumbled upon Kare Kano anime, but after searching for rips for a while, I did not find a single DVDRip I would consider acceptable.

So I thought: heeey, maybe I should rip the DVD myself?

God, how wrong I was.

In this post I’m going to write about the shit I found while working with Kare Kano DVDs.

I’m writing this post not to be informative, but for myself to be done with this DVD. Forever.

In this part, we’re going to parse unpacked .art data.

In this part, we’re going to look at the unpacking function in Mischief.

There is a great drawing program called Mischief.

It is beautiful, minimalistic, vector-based and very responsive. What’s there not to like?

I wanted to read their file format, but it turned out to be harder than expected.
So I decided to write about the reverse-engineering process.

I spent a whole day debugging Bezier SDF shader only to find out that WebGL is broken in the browser

Don’t even ask me how I managed to find a workaround in the form of if (abs(s) > 0.) {} for Chrome.