Ya, some images it looks good in, while others would need to be 'tuned down' on the effect. like that previous image I posted in the town, I think overall it looks quite well, but in zell's house it looks pretty bad (even considering reshade darkened it up more). But it was the easiest background to change that my current saves let me go to so I used it for an 'in-game' shot.
I really like that manga109 image you posted though, that's a damn nice filter. How do I go about getting my hands on that? I'm not having much luck finding it so far with my initial searches. From what I can tell it's a dataset provided by a college/university or something like that and tbh, it's license might not really apply for using like this from what I've read so far. Do I have to fill out that application form or is there an easier way to use it?
With just a couple quick filters the pixelation on that image can be easily removed, it really requires very little effort to fine tune it, I'd like to see some of the other backgorunds done with it also (I consider this particular background to be one of the worst I've worked with so far tbh):
With just some very minor softening and resharpening of the image produces fantastic results, and that's just one attempt without even really testing our much I should soften or sharpen it up. I think we would be hard pressed to find something better than this to work with, I'd really like to get my hands on it.