Looking to see if anyone knows anything about this.
I not long ago bought a Seven Samurai B2 poster, first release. When I received it I went over it very carefully looking for the indicators of a fake and it came up clean. Paper is correct, printing, etc. There is one major difference though. In every B2 I have ever seen the yellow lettering at right has a black outline for a few characters from the hat brim upward. Mine has a partial outlined character and then the rest outlined completely until the last four. I have gone as far as to put it under a microscope and the letter outlines are printed like the ones at the top, not hand done. Even odder is the one character, the first in the lower outlined section that is only half outlined on the right portion. Another slightly odd part is the registration seems to be better than most.
I do not doubt the poster is authentic but am searching for an explanation to the added outlines. A different release, roadshow of some sort, special? In the two images below, the tall ones bright areas are the outlined characters, the short one is s side by side with a normal one. Please ignore color differences, one is mine, one is HA.
Any thoughts appreciated.