# Dragon's Heaven \[4K Remaster\]

With English and French subs muxed. GotNextVideo's notes: Dragon’s Heaven is a one-shot OVA released on VHS in 1988 and on DVD some years later. It will likely never get an HD release, in part because the creator has stated he feels DVD media is "good enough" and worries that HD would change the look too much. I think that's unfortunate, and I want to show that that the show is, in fact, even more beautiful in HD. I know that upscaling anime is controversial, and this anime in particular moreso than most, but I am hoping that the result shows that, with the right workflow, this can be done tastefully and convincingly. AI upscaling is a powerful tool, but it’s not so powerful that one can simply scale any content to any resolution on default settings and have it look good, which is why most anime you see scaled from SD to 4K looks like it’s had all the detail and hand-drawn character sandblasted clean off. I’ve been experimenting with different workflows and I feel like I’ve worked out a better approach. Dragon’s Heaven is a perfect example because it is an especially difficult film to upscale to 4K. It has only been released on standard-def DVD, it has exceptionally detailed artwork, it features scenes with heavy artificial noise/static overlaid on the scene, and even live action segments. It’s also a controversial choice, as the director Makoto Kobayashi has said that he doesn’t like HD media because he feels it changes the character of the image and the tone of the…

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 2022
- By: AIC
- Genres: Animation, Science fiction, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/dragons-heaven-4k-remaster-v2)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/dragons-heaven-4k-remaster-v2?play=1)