Asaki said:

After watching these a ton more times, I must say, I like them a lot more than I expected to. It is a bit softer than the JSC, but somehow it feels...different. More of a natural softness whereas the softness in the JSC feels more distorted (maybe due to the color smearing?).

I think this LD is in fact a little softer than the JSC, but player and capturing device combined with what filtering is used when authoring these discs is also a big factor. IMO it is a little too soft, but the risk of adding some sharpening is that you just create a fake sense of detail in some cases and the dot-crawl/noise will also be more visible.