The limited edition contains (in order from the photo):- A box drawn by Takeuchi Takashi.
- A folder containing a bromide and two film cuts.
- A color 20 pages mini-artbook.
- The blu-ray.
- A 160 pages mini genga artbook.
-Two alternate jackets drawn by Ishihara Megumi (the Rin one) and Yamanaka Kotetsu (the Saber one).
The folder containing a bromide of Saber & Rin and the two film cuts. The film cuts are two non-consecutive film frames. I got two pretty cool ones:
Rin in the rooftop...
...and a close up of Archer.
The color mini artbook is a collection of pictures that appeared in several media (mostly magazines) to promote the movie.
Pictures that appeared at Animedia, Hobby Japan and Megami Magazine.
I find Archer pose in the bottom left picture kinda disturbing...
The genga artbook contains key animation drawings for the movie.
Despite the small format (is the same size of a blu-ray case), is considerably thick being 160 pages long.
EDIT:
Finally I watched the movie.
As extras it includes several variations of the trailers, and as expected no subtitles.
Maybe is because the first blu-ray that I watched was the gorgeous Evangelion 2.22, but I found the quality of the image average most of the time...
Except for some key scenes, the animation is only one step above a regular anime quality, and the the pace is so fast and leaves so much information behind that makes me think that this movie is incompressible as a stand alone without the background info from the VN.
The fighting scenes are fast paced and visually appealing, but if you watch closely most of the animation is sub-par... if you compare the picture above of Rin fighting (that is not by any means the worst quality) with the scene of Saber above, they seem like completely different movies.
Finally I watched the movie.
As extras it includes several variations of the trailers, and as expected no subtitles.Maybe is because the first blu-ray that I watched was the gorgeous Evangelion 2.22, but I found the quality of the image average most of the time...
Except for some key scenes, the animation is only one step above a regular anime quality, and the the pace is so fast and leaves so much information behind that makes me think that this movie is incompressible as a stand alone without the background info from the VN.
The fighting scenes are fast paced and visually appealing, but if you watch closely most of the animation is sub-par... if you compare the picture above of Rin fighting (that is not by any means the worst quality) with the scene of Saber above, they seem like completely different movies.
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You are a lucky person :)
I wanted to buy it, but I had no job, don't understand Japanese fluently ans don't even have Blue Ray reader ^^
I hope finding a good fansub, if only japanese DVD had english subtitles :)
I don't think "lucky" is the best word to say... while I was in Japan I lost my job and just recently got a new (shitty) one, I'm still paying debts and I can't buy stuff at the same rate I was used to. And the PS3 that I use for watching blu-ray is actually property of my brother.
Finally saw the movie, much better than what I was expecting. Not too much to complain about.
Now I really want this too.
But 8800 yen for what would essentially be a takeuchi illustrated box and the film frames (as I don't have a blu-ray player nor do I have plans on ever getting one, damn dvd for not having at least the Takeuchi drawn box D: ) is kinda a lot. Not to mention I can't afford one ...without drawing more loan that is :p
Need to get a job myself soon.
If I do, what are the chances of me getting a film frame you'd trade the Archer one for me?
No 3D CGI Dragon ? \O/
@Archerwannabe: I feel you pain... and I don't really mind Archer, so I'm willing to trade it for a decent frame featuring any of the girls.
@Kypper: No, but this time we got a 3D CGI dolphin!
I think I'll try my luck after all :p
@Kypper: Wrong route -> wrong animal (as far as a dragon can be considered an animal).
You might've seen my post on the beast's lair forum where I got two copies of the limited edition blu-ray lol. Also, I felt like the audio on the blu-ray wasn't really taken advantage of. Even though the specs states it's in Japanese Dolby 5.1 Surround TrueHD, it sounded like everything was crammed into a 2 channel stereo filter even when I set my HDTV to decode Dolby TrueHD sounds.
I dunno, maybe I need a real surround sound speaker system to get the full experience but other blu-rays I've played that have Dolby TrueHD audios sounded pretty distinct and very noticeable on my HDTV compared to the one on Fate/Stay Night's UBW blu-ray.
The two film cuts I got in my package are Rin & Saber. The Rin one is particularly beautiful as it's a cut of a frame where she's leaning against Shirou's back. Links to the two frames are below. I don't know whether I should open the 2nd copy of the le blu-ray to see what frames are enclosed though as I may sell it off someday.
Rin
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/darktruth/DSCN0972.jpg
Saber
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v399/darktruth/DSCN0978.jpg
@darktruth:
Pretty nice cuts! Both are great close-ups from key scenes.
I didn't mentioned the audio quality because the sound specs of my HDTV are pretty average and I don't have any more blu-ray disc to compare besides the Evangelion one, but is true that it doesn't sounds very remarkably.
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