This seems to be a different scan from the parent post; there's dust specs in different areas. I've no idea which one you guys would want to keep though.

Kept the parent post. Looked at both, i still think our parent post is better in terms of quality.

but the parent post get deleted? anyway i prefer keep them all

My fault there, was sure i deleted the correct one till i later noticed i didn't :P

But yeah second thought after looking much more carefully, best to keep this one too. I think you undeleted it too quickly where i couldn't view the deletion too.

I think color of this picture is better.

The white levels are clipped on this version, the parent looks better there but this one seems to be filtered slightly better.

not clipped for me
edit: check http://hisuitei.com/c83%20kokuti.html

It's definitely brighter but it doesn't seem clipped.

Right, not really hard clipped maybe but the levels look adjusted. If you look at her shirt on her chest the transition from grey into white is much more abrupt which to me means the white levels were adjusted too much. Adjusting the midtones would have taken the washed out look away without hurting the highlight detail this way.

Nothing wrong with her chest - just check the official sample.

My point is simple, it needs to adjust midtone, black level or whatever to make it 'darker', but white level itself is ok.

Xcalibur said:
If you look at her shirt on her chest the transition from grey into white is much more abrupt which to me means the white levels were adjusted too much.

Pretty smooth to me. It's not any more abrupt than the child post at least.
But as fireattack said, midtones are a bit washed.

Maybe it is just the gamma on my display. Actually on a display where the high window gamma is offyou wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

*shrug* It doesn't look bad either way.