i downloaded this the moment subs release it, but only watched it today ROFL
anyways...

yeah the ending theme of yuki kajiura brought back nostalgic mai hime dramatic music
animation was so so until the fight scene, with awesome camera view, good detailed animation to back the 360 degree angles.
what got me so hooked is the sound, and you prolly guessed it. it sounds SUPERB on 5.1. especially the first encounter of that ghost, omg the whispers coming from behind, creepy. then pushing onwards the fight scene... just, wow.

and the best part? the BGM is all fully surround supported with the choir singing from behind while the music playing from front and during those epic camera movements the song follows suit. even the ending yuki kajiura performance was made surround-tastic (if thats even a word )

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Added on June 23, 2008, 11:12 pmyou need to surround sound it (if you havent) and kajiura will be over 9000

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Added on June 23, 2008, 11:14 pmspot on. mai hime

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Added on June 23, 2008, 11:15 pmas i said, surround. maybe its less "kajiura'ish" without the surround (assuming you didnt have em) but to me, woah, it was TOTALLY screaming mai-hime XD

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jun 23 2008, 11:15 PM

i lol'ed

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Added on June 24, 2008, 9:23 amwell, in her defense, you "kill" a person, he can become a ghost and "not die"

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jun 24 2008, 09:23 AM

mai hime sucking or not has no relation that kajiura's music is awesome

pretty much same feeling after watching ep2 today.
i think hardcore/loyal fans would like ep2 as it has quite a deep storyline, but to those thats unfamiliar with typemoon storyline (like me, that never watched tsukihime/fate series) just seriously wont know wtf is going on.

like the entire duration i was like... HAY GUISE WTF IS GOIN ON?!?!!?

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Added on June 29, 2008, 2:29 amtotally stealing my thunder wolf, but yeah QFT on this.

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Jun 29 2008, 02:29 AM

still doesnt mean you could just be an ass and spoil it for everyone.

that said, i do realize this is the internet /shrug

not saying that ur spoiling anything, more to correcting that even though someone ask something, doesnt mean the person that answer it can just spoil it for others that didnt ask the question by not putting a spoiler tag.

already done downloading kek

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umm nice episode, pretty nice fight scene as they were both "equal" (in the sense that shiki's opponent has powers, unlike first ep, lol ghost is lol, 2nd ep... kokutou )
5.1 were pretty awesome, as usual. although for this episode it sorta slacked, the best effect of this were done ON A DAMN DOOR (27:39 from gg-takajun subs to be exact)
ending theme was awesome, 2nd one wasnt so catchy, so 3rd i suppose was a good redemption. all in all i still prefer 1st, but this one's all good by itself

and main attraction.... FUJINO
nice body too. im sure kokuto wouldnt mind starting up a harem, despite that she got violated early on by so many shitheads. but hey, that onyl means she got experience now

and lolwut i killed teh appendix, so like, since shiki can kill anything even god, she could be the ULTIMATE DOCTOR?! "oh hai thar, you has aids? here letme stab it"

cuz im not a typemoon longtimer fan? lol (been mentioned from the beginning of this thread)

but at least the plot/storyline thus far isnt too hard on the non typemoon followers. episode 2 isnt such the case though but thats just one ep outta 3 thus far and theres 4 more to make it good.

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lately busy at work/spamming TFM chat so hard to lurk at AS XD

but yeah the storyline is rather confusing a bit especially when the gap between movie releases/sub releases etc etc that further worsens the already confusing storyline.

but yea, regardless of the storyline, its still a good treat for your senses with its good audio/visual

im not in particular a typemoon fan but im cool with this

heck i never watched the fate series/tsukihime

just watched it.

what you said.
and... honestly, this is a huge let down. (not as great as ep4 did, and dont get me wrong, it is a good episode, but with all the hype surrounding it and it being 2 hour... it wasnt as good id hope it to be)

the surround sound effects was "slacked off", episode 1-3 was WAAAY BETTER. like the zombie fighting scene, that was a GOOD chance to play with surround sound effects with shiki "dancing" amongst canon fodders. sadly, slacked off with heavy BGM, and EVEN THE BGM, was rather weak.

again, KnK was main attraction is its lore, but to people that arent "hardcore" typemoon fans for its lore (or the style of it), its just very hard to hold a strong attraction. what got me hooked to this? the visuals and mainly, surround sound. 1-3 had it all, ep4 blew it, hoped for ep5 to make a comeback, while the visuals was GREAT (imo the best amongst the 5), the audio was lackluster.

last fight, awesome. but to sit through almost 2 hours of "lolwut" lore and mediocre action for that last battle, imho, not worth it. redemption? shiki's dere face at the end.

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Added on February 6, 2009, 11:28 amEXACTLY.

had they made it into maybe a 1hour 30min or around that duration and cut down on the needless skipping/flashback/PIME TARADOX, it would've turned out rather great imo.

the "episodic" time skips i can accept, but dayum 2 hours of it within the episode itself, wow...

AFAIK, from the people mentioning in this thread (namely fyonne), the novels is written in this way, so if they wanna preserve it, this is what we get. again, im TOTALLY FINE with keeping it the same with the original novels, but you can IMPROVISE to make it more friendlier to non "hardcore" typemoon fans.

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Added on February 6, 2009, 11:29 amgundam 00 ep17 > that with ~20mins. very huge let down.

This post has been edited by Quazacolt: Feb 6 2009, 11:29 AM

/slightofftopic
storyline/lore aside, what it provided there was much better than what a cinema/ova/movie production 2 hour show - knk 05 ever did. hell, the emulated surround sound was much better than knk 05's pure surround sound (pretty much just the last fight, seriously).

the only thing that was notebly worthwhile from that 2 hour was the last fight, and the dere shiki face, and quite frankly, 2 hours for those 2 wasnt quite justified to be worthwhile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kara_no_Kyoukai

^

this part makes me hate ep5 more. damn you wiki.

as raged on tfm chat:

ep6....
SNOREFEST FOR 40+ MINUTES
for 3-5minutes of action.

/hang

and the 5.1 action?

- doorslams
- footsteps
- rain
- that short lived battle
zzz

and azaka being a heat(lol?) wielder, using dodge instead of just burning those lousy fairies, i lol'ed.

the starting "fire prohibited" + the rio/lio is even better than the actual ep6... and thats pretty damn sad. :/

fixd

good luck. lol

yeah a friend of mine in despair of that news few days ago. as for me, i still need to collect season one of maiwaifu, so this one is a definite pass for me :3