Magic Crystal (Vinegar Syndrome)

A light touch, but there’s so much damage, that it would’ve looked fine without any repairs. This is a bad restoration not because damage remains, but because the repairs are ugly, creating their own artifacts.

Interpolation:

Hideous interpolated eyes.

Interpolated spot repair. These scenes are over an hour into the movie. Up to this point, I wasn’t even noticing repairs bad enough to take notes until large areas of grain suddenly started warping as if due to terrible compression:

Frozen temporal cloning:

Opening and end credits use some other source, which looks like a recreation, de-grained and filtered to death. Check out that aliasing!

The included interviews use clips from this older, altered source. First, a sample from VS’s version:

Vinegar Syndrome BD

Now, this older version, clipped from the Wen Chao-Yu interview. No wires and no grain:

Previous release.

It could have been so much worse.

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