Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Best anime upscaler, super-resolution, enhancer or 4k, you name it, in 2022.
This video includes reviewing Real-ESRGAN, Real-CUGAN, ESRGAN, Topaz, and Waifu2x.


All-in-one Installation Tutorial (Real-ESRGAN + ESRGAN + Real-CUGAN)
[Tutorial] youtu.be/B134jvhO8yk
[GitHub] github.com/styler00dollar/VSGAN-tensorrt-docker
[Colab] colab.research.google.com/github/styler00dollar/VSGAN-tensorrt-docker/blob/main/Colab-VSGAN.ipynb

Real-CUGAN: Real Cascade U-Nets for Anime Image Super Resolution
[Official GitHub] github.com/nullArrayList/Real-CUGAN/blob/master/README_EN.md

Real-ESRGAN: Training Real-World Blind Super-Resolution with Pure Synthetic Data
[Official GitHub] github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN
[Official Anime Upscaling GitHub] github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN/blob/master/docs/anime_model.md
[Official Paper] arxiv.org/abs/2107.10833

ESRGAN: Enhanced Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks
[Official GitHub] github.com/xinntao/ESRGAN
[Official Paper] arxiv.org/abs/1809.00219
[ESRGAN Model Collection] https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database
[ESRGAN Upscaling Community] discord.gg/cpAUpDK

Waifu2x
[GUI Version] github.com/AaronFeng753/Waifu2x-Extension-GUI
[Original GitHub] github.com/nagadomi/waifu2x

Topaz
[Official Website] topazlabs.com/video-enhance-ai

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Individual Results (Some has no audio, Cowboy Bebop OP copyright too tight)
Real-CUGAN
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/O2dygDw78ys

Real-ESRGAN
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/igQg7ASF7Gk

ESRGAN
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/dXz8Hl5vxKU

Waifu2x
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/0-g_CkasWFo

Topaz
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/OtyCRGlAlUk

Original
[Fate: Stay/Night - UBW] youtu.be/DG3YhlPsrq8


0:00 Intro
1:32 Criteria 1
2:53 Criteria 2
4:32 Criteria 3
6:14 Discussion
8:36 Sponsor
9:48 Outro