I did the original Panyo episodes for ANBU back in the day, up to like episode 11 I think. I resumed at episode 12 about a month ago.
The problem with Panyo is that the raws really DO look like ass when the screen gets going in high motion. The only available raws are MP42 CBR encodes, and they are quite subpar once action gets going - particularly in the opening sequence since there's usually a lot of high motion stuff. Warpsharp was the best way to mask that noise, but of course gives that painted/pastel effect in the process, so it was a tradeoff.
Now I've got better filtering available to me (remember the old panyo episodes were done like 9 months ago) and I can do a lot of temporal and spatial cleaning as well as a lighter warpsharp and achieve much better results. Then I can use XviD with b-frames and get vastly superior image quality in smaller filesizes. Works great, but it still can't compensate entirely for bad raws.
Finally, about Tenchi GXP - I have the TV raws for that show as well, and they have problems. First off they were done with DivX5.01 when it first came out, and it was using B-Frames (at least, episode 2 and up, the encode for Episode 1 was using DivX5.0 without bframes). DivX5 (any version) has very nasty looking bframes. They have lots of noise and many other undesirable image quality problems - that's why I don't recommend using divx5 + bframes. XviD doesn't have the issues in the good development builds.
And Finally - Chobits was not broadcast in widescreen originally. I know - I watched it raw on TV while I was in Japan. Much like Sugar The Little Snow Fairy the show was produced in widescreen, shown on TV in fullscreen in the first TV run, then shown in HDTV/Anamorphic NTSC on pay-broadcast and DVD.


