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PLAMAX doing god's work

Huh, neat! It's minimal new tooling but still something actually new! Guess we'll have to wait until next year for a 100% new kit to happen.

Nope. It's been a long and sad trend of 4K anime BDs to completely scrub the grain out. We did have a good ride of a lot of BDs giving us wonderfully preserved image quality as it is on the negatives but in the end the grain haters have made the studios submit and start DNRing the life and detail out of everything. Especially with their new "AI" crap. As for the claim of even the blurry scene being in focus now I don't buy it. Most of those scenes are blurry because of poor photography during adding the zentradi subtitles optically. That would still be in the final negative. To properly fix that they'd have to dig out the original animation-only negative elements, scan that and re-add the subtitles digitally. I don't see them going through that much effort when they can just oversharpen things with "AI". Honestly willing to bet upscaling the original BD release to 4K with a simple bicubic resample will have better detail in places than the overfiltered new scan. EDIT: oh god damnit, replied without seeing there's a 2nd page to the thread. bah. But yeah those comparisons show how dire 4K animation trends have become. frakking RIP to actually preserving art.

https://hjweb.jp/article/1627713/

Max painting the Max Battroid the Max way

So this is the first side-by-side with the Hasegawa that I see and the vertical chonkiness is interesting. The person is also using a old Bandai head on the PLAMAX

During the live show they had the Hasegawa 1/72 and Bandai 1/100 side by side and boy oh boy Hasegawa really puts Bandai's big gaps and oversized panel lines to shame

Runner photos

YEEEEESSSSSSS https://twitter.com/MXF_official/status/1788004436868219026

Seems they're building up hype for May 9th and going to actually reveal things at a webcast during Shizuoka Hobby Show weekend