The BDrip quality shines brightest in the audio department. The 5.1 or 6.1 surround mixes are aggressive.
High-quality rips you may encounter (often on torrent or private trackers):
| Group | Quality | Notes | |-------|---------|-------| | THORA | Very high | Renowned for faithful encoding, proper color, lossless audio. Dual audio (Japanese/English) + signs/songs. | | Beatrice-Raws | High | Near-lossless, heavy bitrate, often used as source for other encodes. | | Yurasyk | High | Good balance, includes typeset subtitles. | | Judas | Good | Smaller size, decent quality. | | Elysium | Good | Common in earlier fansub days; now dated vs. newer BD remuxes. | Evangelion- 2.22 You Can -Not- Advance - BDrip....
Preferred: THORA or Beatrice-Raws for archival. Avoid “10-bit” if your player doesn’t support it (most modern players do).
No discussion of 2.22 is complete without addressing its infamous ending. The final six minutes—from Shinji’s scream to the giant, haloed Rei-Lilith figure—are an exercise in sensory overload. The sky tears open, blood rains down, and Kaworu descends from the Moon in a coffin-like vessel, spearing Unit 01 with the Spear of Cassius. On a poor-quality rip, the sheer density of information is lost. The BDrip allows you to pause and analyze individual frames: the four Adams, the door of Guf, the glowing cross-explosion. The BDrip quality shines brightest in the audio department
Importantly, the 2.22 BDrip includes the uncut version of this sequence. Some international streaming versions slightly trimmed the post-impact silence to fit commercial breaks. The BDrip preserves Anno’s intended pacing—a full 30 seconds of pure, ringing silence before the credits roll.
The keyword "BDrip" is abused. Many files labeled as such are actually: The Golden Rule: Real BDrips have a bitrate
The Golden Rule: Real BDrips have a bitrate above 8 Mbps for video. A remux (full disc copy) is 35 Mbps. If the file is 1080p but the bitrate is 2 Mbps, it is a transcode of a transcode.