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Oh shit Kraco's pissed. Run fo cova.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Sorry I couldn't be as diplomatic as you regarding the first movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Ah, I see where I erred. I should've used "peaceful". And probably should've simply pointed out that it didn't "contain a really strong plot", which of course would've made me "sad".
Haha. I guess you got me there, Bud. I had no recollection the first ep might have been weaker during the first watch.
So when are the BDs coming out?
February 2nd for Japan and February 8th for North America.Quote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
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Aniplex of America announced on Monday that it will release Ufotable's entire Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners film series in an English-subtitled Blu-ray Disc box in North America on February 8, 2011. The eight-disc box will include the seven theatrical chapters of the franchise plus the bonus Final Chapter that will be available for the first time in February. The online retailer Right Stuf will be the exclusive distributor.
The Japanese Blu-ray Disc box of the film series will ship less than a week earlier on February 2. Right Stuf will offer the North American version for US $398.98. (The Japanese release will sell for 52,500 yen or about US $620, although that is the suggested retail price before discounts.)
One of the early releases:
Final Chapter 720p ~1.2GB
Final Chapter subtitles + fonts
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I felt adventurous and downloaded this. It's surely a lot for 33 minutes, no matter how you look at it, but waiting for a more reasonable sized release I thought to check it out in the mean time. First and foremost I have to confess this felt somewhat underwhelming. Maybe because after the ending of the ch7, I was expecting some mushy Kokutou+Shiki scenes. Instead this was psychological talk that wouldn't feel ashamed standing next to the last eps of the original Eva... There were a couple of a nice moments but otherwise this is quite forgettable, unfortunately. I'm not saying this was bad but hardly anything to talk about in comparison to the actual episodes.
Oh, well. What is done is done. At least it suggested those two are still together.
GG is doing these right?
[66] Kara no Kyoukai - Epilogue: Torrent | DDLQuote:
Originally Posted by Archangel
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We used the English subs provided with the BluRay instead of doing it from scratch so we tagged this as [66]. Like, gg’s evil twin or something. (fuck idk) The subtitles were ocr’d and retimed. We changed Rio to Lio because of the lion line. The subs having western name order and no honorifics is how the Aniplex subs came. Deal with it.
There was also a very effortless effort to proofread the BD subs but the BD subs are Pretty Good and generally make more sense than the fansubs so we’re just going to chalk up any strangeness (read: proofreading laziness) as a result of :nasuwords:.
The release order will be “some random contrived order” based on when they’re finished encoding and being retimed. Epilogue goes first since we assume there’s a higher demand for that compared to the other movies.
The video quality of movies 1-7 unfortunately is kinda shitty (tho still better than dvd) and I’m pretty sure we’re only doing them still because TheFluff bought the BD box and took 2 days off of work to encode them. (Very serious fansubbing!) We’ll only be doing 720p due to the quality. Anyway, the epilogue looks better compared to the rest of the movies.
This final chapter did indeed have a pretty good video quality. But on the other hand it only had a single scene and setting, so it would have been truly unforgivable for it to have poor graphics. Half of the screen time was even claimed by the sky and the static city scene, anyway. While those looked very good, lighting included, it was still a single matte painting and a sky full of falling snow, which could be handled easily enough with CGI.
It was pretty flat indeed. I expected too much thinking it was an extra ep instead of being an epilogue.
Just yesterday I was coincidentally thinking how cool it would be if Kara no Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin got animated. And now I see an ANN news article telling it will. The best news today, for sure.
I don't know much about this final chapter (apparently it's not as old as the rest of the novels but was written by Nasu when the other movies were being made, according to somebody from the internets, explaining why there are basically two epilogues), but what I do know is that it features Mikiya and Shiki's daughter:
http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/9...gishikipic.jpg
I'm as interested in seeing her animated and voiced as seeing just what kind of a mother Shiki could ever be!
Hmm, I think I only watched the first movie. Will see about watching the rest while I'm gone.
Loli sighted. Will watch.
Kidding aside, I just hope there is no surprise tragedy like Shiki or Mikiya already being dead in this epilogue.
There's a Mirai Fukuin PV available now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHwwrB-fK_s
Naturally even a single line from Mana (Shiki and Mikiya's kid) would have been impossible, to reveal her VA, so no choice but to wait. According to ANN, the movie will premiere in Japan this fall, so I guess it's a year from now for us.
It's going to be Hanazawa Kana anyway...
(I'm only half-joking.)
Looks like the release date is this September, according to ANN. So, no surprises, luckily not bad ones either. The BD ought to appear during the first half of next year for our pleasure. A long wait, but it will be worth it.
Mirai Fukuin 720p | 1080p - Commie
Extra Chorus - KoyuuKekkai
Extra Chorus is half an hour story that can be watched after or before Mirai Fukuin, it doesn't matter. Although it needs to be watched after the older movies.
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I have to confess first and foremost I'm somewhat distressed by my own false expectations and the disappointment they caused, after a fashion. I thought Mirai Fukuin would be a somewhat different story compared to the earlier ones and would show Mana fooling around, perhaps even dangerously like Rin in F/Z, with Shiki being a weird mom and Kokutou... Well, the kind of gray (boring) but wise and resourceful father one would expect him to be. Instead the first half, or rather a little more, was about everything else, although I suppose it was totally similar in theme to the older episodes, so it's not strange as such. Seo getting some exposition isn't bad either, plus we got to see the reason for Mikiya's after the credits lines in the 7th movie, but this all meant Mana's portion was cut regrettably short. And when she finally appeared, she was only together with the bloody bomber dude of the first half and we never saw her doing anything with mom and dad.
The first half of the movie was a wholesome story, as much as the previous independent episodes, but Mana's portion felt incomplete. The episode ended right when it would have got genuinely interesting. In that respect the Extra Chorus would be even the better one of these two... Although it's not like a whole lot happened in it nor was the stuff so meaningful.
Should I watch extra chorus after the movie to leave a better taste?
That's what I did, though not on purpose, and I'm happy I did. Apparently in theaters it played before the movie. But it's not connected to it in any particular way, so afterwards is just fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by shinta|hikari
Mana felt almost entirely superfluous, she could have been replaced with anyone else in the same age range, even a Prisma Illya character. That said, I did like the last third of the story overall, but it wasn't as good as the first two thirds.
The faint hint that the Mother of Mifune could in fact be Mitsuru's relative (too old to be his mother though) was an interesting touch. I didn't expect that.
Mana seemed like a real handful. It's annoying me so much we didn't get to see how Shiki handles such a lively kid. Both Mikiya and Azaka are pretty forceful and headstrong personalities, so I guess it's easy to see where that part of Mana is coming from, but how she seemed so super joyous and optimistic is another thing. I guess she never went unloved or without due attention, despite having Shiki as a mother.
I think much is said with her line, "Someday I'll defeat my mother and win my father back!"Quote:
Originally Posted by Kraco
Shiki, being the possessive, moody, and grumpy-face cat of a woman that she usually is, very likely just grabs Mana by the ankle and holds her upside down until she gets dizzy or something similar, and then makes an innocent display of affection toward Mikiya (that we've never seen and can only imagine) in front of her incapacitated daughter. They've probably made a game out of it over the years.
Even though Shiki has switched from combat boots to zōri or geta with her kimono, I'm sure she is still more than capable.
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If I had to define Shiki with two scenes in from this series of movies, it would be the cat-like landing from backdashing down the stairs in this episode, and the rolling over and over on the bed waiting for Mikiya in the previous sets of films. If Saber is a lion, Shiki is a nekomata.
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And then they just make it obvious in Extra Chorus!
I liked extra chorus better than the film itself, but I also enjoyed the scenes with Seo. Mikiya being such a smooth talker is fun to watch.
The bomber parts should have had more action. What we got was too little for the wait for this film.
The Mana parts were pretty dull. The only part I liked about her was when she said that she was good at using people like her father and the bomber dude. Her character is really too different from her parents that I am forced to wonder if she is adopted. She doesn't seem to have supernatural powers either.
If Shiki is the boss of a crime syndicate, what is Mikiya doing? I don't see either of them running a crime organization.
Overall, I am not impressed with the main film. I liked all the parts of the extra chorus, even the emo girl in the middle. Fujino certainly is bad ass. The way Shiki got angry because she was identifying with the cat when Mikiya understated feline loyalty was also great. Mikiya's New Year's wish was also exactly like him. Watching that really makes me want to wish those two happiness, not that I ever felt otherwise. The icing on the cake would have been a kiss initiated by Shiki, but I guess that is asking for too much.
Wasn't Shiki's family originally from a crime syndicate or assassins? It seemed perfectly natural to be that she became the boss. She's the type to coldly walk up to a person, poke their finger with a toothpick, and then they're down one finger. While they're apologizing, she cuts their "I'm a fuckup" line as well, and then she's got an underling that turned around flawlessly.
Mikiya is doing what he's always been good at doing. Finding things.
Fujino definitely impressed me too. She's turned (heh) her life around, despite what she's lost. Though it wasn't clear to me how blind she really was. It seemed like she could see quite well so long as her eyes were active.
The timelines do kind of screw me up. I find it rather tough to figure out what is happening in relation to the other movies without a timeline of each of them from wikipedia. One saving grace is there is no way that Azaka could have been at the Clock Tower the same time as Rin and Luvi. Then again, she's Touko's apprentice so I'm a little unclear if she'd even go there. If she did, Azaka would have been there sometime around 2001, and Rin doesn't seem to go there until at least 2004-2005 (immediately after FSN).
That solitary cat that holes up in her room when she isn't personally hunting down prey is now leading a large organized group of people? Even if she somehow could, it didn't seem like she would want to do.
Maybe it just points to her growth by Mikiya's side. She might have learned to stop being so prickly and make use of her inherent bad ass aura for charisma.
After the time skip with the bomber, it wasn't Shiki who was grilling the dude. Shiki merely arrived later, with Mana to boot. Maybe that's how they do things. The lieutenant with sunglasses might have been the same dude we saw hanging around the Ryougi household in the older movies. He looked pretty much the same, having aged quite mercifully.
True, but Shiki is the "infamous boss," and that kind of statement doesn't mean that he alone is afraid of her (though he has good reason to be afraid of her).
I also got the impression that the only reason he was saved and asked to join them as an investigator was because he happened to have written Mana's favorite children's book. Shiki gave him to Mana as a plaything.
Apologies for the necro, but I finally got around to watching the latest movie and Extra Chorus. Superb visuals, as always, and Extra Chorus provided a great follow-up story for Fujino. The movie itself had some good action points, and I loved the time jump to Mana (who looks a lot like Rin, which is to be expected I guess). I only wish there had been a bit more use of each character's futuresight ability.
I am confused on one major aspect of the film though, which is why I chose to post. The fansub I watched (UTW) mentions that the time-jump events take place 10 years later, in 2008. The KnK Wikapedia page says this as well. However, the film itself broadcasts the events as happening in August of 2010. The point of reference that I'm using doesn't appear like it could be a QC error on UTW's part, so I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this glitch?