Kara no Kyoukai on Bandai store?
 

Well I was just looking on the Bandai Entertainment store and to my surprise they shown a listing for the Garden of Sinners aka Kara no Kyoukai. Now when you click on the link there is no photos or price listing but it is still listed. Now whether or not this means Bandai has the rights to dub it or to just release it in the US I don't know but it would be nice if that were the case. What do you guys think?

Meh dub...

$500+ box set like in Japan D:?

Well I have had it pre-ordered since August on Amazon Japan, but it would still be interesting if it is also released here.

It's been hinted that Aniplex USA have the rights (shows up on their banner add on ANN),
they release via Bandai Store.

Now official http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...den-of-sinners
$400 before store discount, 1/3 cheaper, but still high.

WHOOO HOOO!!! XD

*dances around a Happy Dance*

Thank you Aniplex USA!! This is one of the GREATEST BIRTHDAY PRESENTS!!

*continues dancing while listening to "Kimi ga hikari ni kaete yuku"*

-Rai

P.S.: Gaijin, for future reference, Kara no kyoukai is a novel series, not a visual novel sereis. We didn't even make a thread about Angel Beats when it was airing =P

Now if only Del Rey'd get off their butts and make the books or sell the rights to someone else... :/

Kodansha USA looks like a good probability ;)

-Rai

O really? Why do you think that? I'm been waiting from Del Ray since 2009 and the only release the had was the one in Faust....

Kodansha is the original publisher in Japan =P

I guess they sold pretty well? :D

Anyways... only a few more days till they ship...

Mine's already arrived and it is glorious. The Book that comes with it was worth the price alone.

enjoy your shitty q-tec upscale

what the moogle... *searches*
anyways, I haven't found official info or a sample of the original source that tells me they just botched the job, rather than the quality of the early movies simply being inferior to what we would expect...

Being a layman with this stuff I am relying on entirely on google, so feel free to add better information...

But, assuming it isn't just a botched job; the gist I'm getting is this :
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Here's a nice comparison of one of the movies versus the DVD version :
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comp...4370/picture:1
And here is one, not sure which movie but a clear difference :
http://twitvideo.jp/contents/img/04fNv
http://twitvideo.jp/contents/img/04fNs

http://cfile2.uf.tistory.com/origina...4D4785E30A6078 (and this face shot is probably from first movie)
The later movies seem to fair better than the earlier... unsuprisingly...

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And lastly this link gave me a little background on Q-tec :
http://muhootsaver.tistory.com/1200#comment8314152

And this sums up your thoughts on it ?
This sounds pretty reasonable :
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........On a positive note~
Nice looking box and book though... pretty LARGE :
http://gigazine.net/news/20110202_ga...inners_bd_box/

edit*(information subject to change probably; most of these quotes are just a few days old)

So... it's just like AIR, where the animated portions were lower resolution than the backgrounds? Well, except AIR used a really terrible upsampling algorithm for the animated portions. Both releases suffer from less encoding artifacts compared to their DVD counterparts, though.

This is grammatically incorrect. If something is countable (e.g. people, cars, encoding artefacts), you have to use "fewer".

cool post thanks for the info

Point being, the Rakkyo blu-rays look terrible and ufotable is basically ripping off anyone who bought them.

*sits impatiently staring at an order status screen that refreshes every minute in the center of a circle comprised of various Kara no kyoukai figurines, nendoroids, novels, magazines, games, etc. with nothing but Kalafina and Rakkyo OST music blaring in the background*

I'm a scientist! Nothing is ever perfect! Who cares about little nitpicky issues like that! The promised day that Aniplex USA has waited for has come! Rakkyo is about to be unleashed to the NA audience! The day us fans of the series have been waiting for since the first time "Fukan Fuukei" graced the Japanese big screen! And best of all... THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE ARTBOOK! XD

*Status still says Processing*

*starts bouncing up and down like a spoiled brat*

C'MON RIGHTSTUF! PROCESS FASTER!!!!!111 >< >< ><
-Rai

P.S - j/k I'm actually only laying @ the computer, listening to my Yuki Kajiura folder refreshing every hour ^^;. But still, I don't care about really bad nitpicking of video unless it is some glaring problem like some greening I've seen in some upconverts.

Ja, ne
-Rai

Looks like TRSI is sold out of the boxset now... Glad I picked up a copy at the showing (they brought 10 copies with them to the theater, along with 7 movie guidebooks, one for each movie)

At the screening, the upsampling filter looked very obvious in the animated characters, although I got used to it by the end of the first movie. They had a producer from Aniplex and a producer from ufotable there, who had interesting things they talked about. For example, the scene where the police are searching through the grass in episode 7 took months to finish.

Just got it. :3

Best looking boxset I now own... High quality materials: even the book and blu-ray cover is made out of some material that won't leave fingerprints (not velvet... ummm what is it called...).
I accidently brushed the plastic sticky cover wrapping against the artwork on the front of the box (oh crap!), but even though it was well stuck to the artwork; I pulled it off and .... not even the slightest damage. (whew!)

As for the video quality... I only previewed Thanatos (the oldest); and it looked good to me. Obviously better than DVD quality (judging from scenes with great detail and sharpness).
When I paused it and approached the TV I could see the poor filtered quality of the characters and non-background content...

But, since I don't notice it on the 53" HDTV while playing (I was however using the 120Hz feature; TV smooths out motion, but shouldn't affect low-motion scenes) I'm perfectly happy with the purchase :D And assuming it only gets better quality in the later episodes then I have no complaints at this time.

Oh, well there is one thing :/ Apparently my amplifier isn't up to blu-ray audio specs :/ So I can't listen to it in 5.1 properly... yet...

still... waiting...

AHA!! WRONG TRACKING #!!! NOOOOOoooo I'm not gonna be there to pick it up!!!! ;_; I Can't get back across town in time to catch the UPS GUY!!! *bawls a la Hiyori from Mizuiro* WAAAAAAAAHHHHH~

*Taishi Laugh*MUHAHAHAHAHAHA I made it back with time to spare!!

-Rai

It's like AIR in the fact that it's upscaled, but QTEC is much, much worse than what AIR used. It's pretty much an insult towards anyone who bought the KnK box set.

IT"S HERE!!! *happy dance holding it like Haruhi-chan w/ the kappa*

how's it look? :D

btw just saw this press release from aniplex... looks like some buyers may run into bad luck...
(complete info : http://aniplexusa.com/pdf/theGardeno...nt20110210.pdf )
I'm not exactly sure what they mean, but I looked at mine carefully but don't see any problems, whew!

Not sure if I have that issue, and even if I do, I think it would be hard for me to remedy it, since I bought it at the showing instead of through RightStuf.

It looks fricken awesome!! The top is just a tad warped, but not a huge cosmetic issue with me. It ties up fine and keeps everything protected, so it's doing it's job ^^. I spent the past two days plowing through the set and I couldn't ask for any better visuals! Definately a huge step up from the DVDs! The subs were very good. A few slight errors here and there, but that's to be expected. Very easy to read font. Probably Tahoma with a black outline (Not like FUNi's god awful pure white >.<)

The two books feel like (and probably are) velvet! Soft, fluid to the touch with slight fingerprints and tracks from touching it. Artbook is absolutely gorgeous! And helps me prove that it is a gyp that the regular edition art for the DVD's looks better than the Limited Edition!! The translation booklet is fun to read with the interview with Nasu, Takeuchi, and Sakamoto. Some very interesting info behind Type-Moon and the production of the movies. ^^ Nasu is especially interesting. He gave an apology for Movie 3's story and noticing that it paled in comparison to the novel. You can easily see as people have stated before that Nasu is the creativity and Takeuchi is the brains of the group ;)

I am keeping it in the box it came in (a cardboard box with plastic handle with Kara no kyoukai on it) just because... letting something as precious (and expensive!) as that set lay out for dust to cover and should something fall on it would be a sin! Definately worth every single penny.

It was alot of fun plowing through all seven movies again and the epilogue. Kudos to Maaya Sakamoto for basically doing a 30 min monologue O.o That's basically what the epilogue is with some interjections from Mikiya (Kennichi Suzumura) who definately looks a little cooler now with his scar.

Whew...
-Rai

If you want the box replaced, you can.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...of-sinners-box


I want to get it too. I thought there was no way that it would be sold out and thus I could take my time to save up, lol. Guess I was wrong....

http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showpost....&postcount=312

http://www.mania.com/aodvb/showthrea...53#post1900053

Compare for yourself. The quality is pretty good.

Of course it looks better than the DVDs. It's still shit for a BD though.

How much did the DVDs cost? Was the BluRay that much more expensive?

LE DVDs were around 60-80 depending on the exchange rate (pamphlet, OST CD, postcards)

Std DVDs were around 40-60 depending again on exchange rate.

-Rai