It took many hours of processing, but my buddy & I upscaled the classic 80s anime Fist of the North Star to 2160p with the right settings. What has resulted is no doubt the best quality version that exists on Earth.Audio: Japanese, EnglishSubs: EnglishSize: 448.38gbWill bump this thread with comparison pictures.Enjoy!magnet:?xt=urn:btih:490a4426fd051f6e25f92192bf650d9c1a6f9bcc&dn=Fist%20of%20the%20North%20Star%20I%20%26%20II%20%5B152%20Episodes%5D%5BJAP%2BENGSub%2BENGDub%5D%5B2160p%5D
Had to reduce resolution to meet 4mb 4chan limit.
>>1314211Forgot to mention this contains all of both FOTS (109 episodes) and FOTS2 (43 episodes).
>>1314211448 gb for a single anime series that's been ruined by AI upscaling? Not on your life. Try again in ten years when the technology improves.
>>1314211You know that there is ALREADY an Anime thread here that this could have fit perfectly in, right?
Thank you, OP. And thank you for making this its own thread. Fuck that retarded VPN thread which is now in the garbchive where it belongs. Based af
>>1314218>RuinedNah. Improved. The settings used totally respects the original vision.
>>1314211From which source did you upscale it from? Also, please use https://slow.pics/ for image comparisons
>>1314211kill yourself>>1314407kill yourself>>1314213kill yourself>>1314214kill yourself>>1314217kill yourself
>>1314213>>1314214>>1314217all i see there is an argument against the upscaled version
Thanks, it's always fun to laugh at upscale fags
>>1314443>>1314454>>1314546So much seethe. Love it.
>>1314211OP you should post this on nyaa.si if you haven't already
do you plan to do it with a different show?
>>1314600true, stupid people always make me seethe
>>1314211>448.38gb
Original looks better in every conceivable way. God I hate AI upscale zoomer trannies (and I am a zoomer myself)Also there's already two anime threads on this board right now.This fucking board has gone to shit because of normalfags and reddit refugees over the past couple years.
>>1314815Preach, brother.> Single topic threads that would fit perfectly in another thread> AI upscales> Not even encoded properly> Not understanding at all the speed of the boardSad. Many such cases.
>>1314815What are you talking about? This upscale is BEAUTIFUL. Look at all the smooth lines and lack of grain. Not even an actual remaster could achieve that level of fidelity. We get all of these massive improvements and not even a third of the image looks distorted. Keep in mind this is just using the technology we currently have, meaning in the future (2 weeks) it will look even better.Now if only it were also interpolated to 60fps...
>>1314840I know you're trolling anon but goddamn reading that shit makes me want to put my fist through my monitor.
Looks like shit sorry. Should have consulted with people before you wasted all this time. Looks like someone went over and washed out all the grit and detail of the actual art itself
>>1314211Who would want this? It looks awful. And you didn't even use a high quality source. It looks like you used a fucking 240p source or some bullshit.
>>1314943Original looks nothing like 240p. It looks like standard def 480p or 480i but a very old DVD transfer. Probably that's the best home video release that exists with some very obscure anime.
>>1315016>very obscure
>>1315021I've never watched this one so idk.
>>1314211This is offensive.
>>1314211Looks like shit. Kys.
>>1314211your mother should have swallowed
>>1314211Thanks anon, this was one of my favorite anime back in the day, don't listen to the Naruto unwashed casuals in this thread
>>1315203>people are insulting the concept of ai upscaling>fag thinks they are insulting the anime itselfkek
>>1315286upscaling might be good for some early digital shows that dont look great but for older cel stuff like this its a travesty
>>1317615and that's a good thing
>>1314211why? just literally why?>>1315027>I haven't seen it, therefore no one else has heard of it>been around for 40 years>Japanese still pretending to punch, yell, scream and piss the same as Raoh>Opening still getting edits on youtube and other places>Literal well known and repeated meme older than this foolthere are always new people to forgive, but i forget there are always idiots too.
>>1315192but that....ah whatever, i laughed
>>1315203>Naruto unwashed casualsthe projection here...
>>1317743just get one of the original releases, from here for example https://nyaa.si/view/1273112this show was made using cel animation so AI or digital upscaling doesn't do it any favors, higher pixel count doesn't automatically make something better
>>1314211So what is the tech involved in upscaling? Which AI? Is it a paid service or do you run it locally? I do not give a fk about the series but I am interested in the tech. Thanks
>>1317764This looks like non tweaked topazAI, probably ran on OPs (faggot) PC
>>1317782thx anon
What about sound? Didn't discotek completely fuck up the sound on these or something
>>1317807discotek just used what's already been fucked by toeijust check any youtube video about the dragon ball audio. different show, but same exact problems
>>1314213That looks god-awful anon.
>>1314211You're right up there with Raze (a retard who uploads 60 and 144 fps versions of anime to Nyaa).>>1314213>>1314214You looked at this and said "yes this looks better"?
>>1319445the gain might have been minimal (i.e. 0), but the loss was cataclysmic
>>1314214dude this is fucking awful.
who has a link to the originals, as God intended it to be watched?
>>1314211You made a perfectly watchable anime look like ass, great.https://nyaa.si/view/1273112
guys, please. you keep insulting the guy and i don't like all this negative energy we are having. let's try and say something nice to him. i'll startanon, you are really brave for creating and sharing this piece of garbage and don't let anyone say otherwise (about the second part)
>>1319827>https://nyaa.si/view/1273112Thank you!
>>1314211Bump + seeding
>>1324177kill yourself
this looks like shit nigga what are you doing
>>1314211never do this to any other animeyou are a monster and God will judge you unworthy of Heaven for your sins against the arts and humanityyou killed a rainforest for this, you son of a bitch
Please seed... 0 seed right now... This is a masterpiece torrent
>>1324517No. Sageru.
Pls do the same for Yugioh
>>1314211Here's an idea, OP. Your upscales are decent, but look "too clean" if you know what I mean. How about trying to add a light film grain filter? The old episodes had filmgrain, so adding film grain to your upscales, makes them more accurate to the original
>>1314211>I upscaled the classic 80s anime Fist of the North Star to 2160p with the right settings.pointless
this looks like absolute dogshit, i hope you lose the technical means and the knowledge required to do this so it never happens again
>>1314211kill yourself
>>1314211how did you do it? what did you use?
>>1334232printed out every frame and then pissed on it and scanned it back in with an android camera
>>1314217Kek it looks horrible. You wasted a lot of time.
>>1318203i thought discotek fucked up the sync or something
>>1314211Is this the same that can be found in the archive.org, with arab and englusg subtitles?? https://archive.org/details/hokuto_no_ken_by_wilmer29_d9qm239Missing episodes in the torrent but still can be downloaded individually
mfw a thread died for this shitty ai upscale that couldve been put in ag
>>1341277welcome to nu /t/
>>1334279tbf it doesnt look horrible it is at its core still fist of the north star, but it does look bad - ai upscales and ai art in general is basically just the illustration equivalent of interpolated anime theyre the same for the obvious reason but theyre both also ass for the same reason - interpolated animation completely destroys any weight in motion for the sake of a shallow smoothness, and ai upscales similarly remove any of the weight or sharpness in brush strokes making it all uncannily smooth for the sake of a clearer imagelike maybe its cause cause im a mildly trained artist but even ignoring the anatomy, perspective and lighting mistakes prevalent in ai art i can almost always clock it from the shitty brush strokes alonealmost anyone who has trained the slightest amount or even payed attention to art can almost always recognize ai art if they try, and it looks like shitnormies who can stand ai art or ai upscales need to get a brain
