Something feels off, I will wait before uploading the rest, because I spotted something on another image of the set: it might have been upscaled/edited with a software or AI.

DivineEspadas said in comment #2620716:

Something feels off, I will wait before uploading the rest, because I spotted something on another image of the set: it might have been upscaled/edited with a software or AI.

After investigating, there is no way this picture ever existed in digital form in this size at the time of release. It is heavily suspected that they cropped a tapestry (medium) from a sample catalogue of some sort and then used AI to upscaled-enhanced the image. Once a better picture is found and placed as its parent, this post needs to be flagged for deletion.

DivineEspadas said in comment #2620745:

After investigating, there is no way this picture ever existed in digital form in this size at the time of release. It is heavily suspected that they cropped a tapestry (medium) from a sample catalogue of some sort and then used AI to upscaled-enhanced the image. Once a better picture is found and placed as its parent, this post needs to be flagged for deletion.

@DivineEspadas Do you have any links to help other users verify this? Like one for the sample catalog?

Blank_User said in comment #2620759:

@DivineEspadas Do you have any links to help other users verify this? Like one for the sample catalog?

@Blank_User There's this one where there are images of products released by Bookoff which is the company who released the official merchandise.
https://www.bookoff.co.jp/buy/anime/goblin-s2402.html

There are the same images on the official Goblin Slayer! website in the news. Tweaking a bit the web link for the images gives you access to higher resolution images than on the former site.

https://goblinslayer.jp/news/1576/

There was probably a site https://anibox.jp/shops/goblinslayer
that contained similar pictures, maybe slightly bigger, but if there were pictures they can no longer be found there.

I did see this picture earlier today on https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%82%B4%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AC%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A4%E3%83%BC-%E5%A5%B3%E7%A5%9E%E5%AE%98-B2%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9A%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC-BOOKOFF-%E3%82%B3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9C/dp/B0D8V1ZJ7N

But this is the only image of this size I've found on amazon so far.

All three previous sites released similar images on February 16, 2024: same day this post was released along the other 4 included in the source twitter post. I don't believe there was a leak, if there was they wouldn't have waited the same day of release and the pictures would be of higher quality.

Comparing this image with the best scan I found so far asset #49493741 (Which I consider uploading). It is clear that some parts of this post are distorted. This is pretty much all the information I got/found.