Kalafina 5th album "far on the water"

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@Spirica Rose The're region-free? I was assuming that they weren't because the Live DVDs are region-locked (according to Amazon). Either way, I'm going to stick with the BD version because I think my mom said something about getting me the BD version of FotW for my birthday, which is a few weeks later.

EDIT: I found a Consolation unboxing video on YT, but the quality's too blurry (even on 1080p) to make out anything on the discs aside from the Kalafina logo.
 
What the art does remind me of is a lot of stuff relating to Kajiura herself, look at all the merch and whatnot for Vol. #12 and I'm sure she's had that kind of style before. I really like it, though. Pencil sketches are kind of my thing anyway, I love buying artbooks for animation and games and films and the like especially when they have pencil sketches and storyboards, I love the sketchy, somewhat unfinished look to that kind of thing.

Red Moon's white background behind the random branches and Seventh's Heaven's cluttered mass of items on a black background don't exactly look 'complete' either, to be fair. Small, somewhat illegible title aside, I think I prefer these covers to either of those. I absolutely adore After Eden and Consolation's covers though so it's a step down from there. These covers do also remind me of Moonfesta's covers though, and I love those too.

Now I'm back home and can actually look properly at the artwork in full size and all, the BD version just looks terrible. There's no sense of composition there at all, it looks like they just threw a photo on top of a preset background with no thought as to what should be where. I'm actually kind of tempted to buy both the BD and DVD versions, swap the actual disc and give the BD-version-with-a-DVD-disc to a friend or something, because I want the HD footage but can't stand the BD cover, whilst I like the DVD cover and it's a different style to the rest. The regular edition won't look great I don't think, it's lovely and all but on a CD booklet I reckon it'll be too small to actually see much, luckily this is averted by the Vinyl edition being larger by default. Considering the size of the booklet, the minimalist style of the DVD cover works to its advantage whilst the regular edition may end up looking too cluttered. As with Martin and someone else earlier on (I forgot who and can't be bothered to look back right now) I'd say Vinyl is best, followed by DVD, then regular, then BD far below the rest. I really like the style they've got here though and I'm really happy I'm getting the vinyl, I reckon it'll look gorgeous.

Now if only the album is as pretty as the Vinyl cover. Please be good :comeback:.
 
Westkana said:
@Spirica Rose The're region-free? I was assuming that they weren't because the Live DVDs are region-locked (according to Amazon). Either way, I'm going to stick with the BD version because I think my mom said something about getting me the BD version of FotW for my birthday, which is a few weeks later.
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Sticking with the Blu-Ray is fine. Gotta love that HD! :goodjob: I just thought it'd be good to put that thought out there, in any case. :) For me, I like watching on my computer and sadly I don't have a Blu-Ray friendly drive.

'Region-free' isn't the same as 'Region-all' afaik, at least according to Wikipedia. CDJ says the same thing, but they do that I think because most stuff besides Blu-Ray's are region locked.

I scanned my copy of of Consolation, just for a visual reference:

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Martin: We'll see if I get my own player or not before then. I get paid soon, but my bank account is already low. heh I already ordered the Blu-ray and the vinyl. But maybe the other images will be great as well.

I did that with ring your bell, getting both BD and DVD, but like I said, bank account being low and all, I can't get them all right now. *sigh*
 
Seasonreaper said:
Also I disagree about their BDs being subpar besides Budokan. I have both RM and AE and they're both great to me, and at least Hikaru isn't dying there. I hope she'll get over this.
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Ohhhh well I haven't gotten the other live BDs aside from Budoukan so I guess I jumped to conclusions too early. Well, that's good to hear then.

And I am with you in wishing her to get better. :cheer:

Seasonreaper said:
As with Martin and someone else earlier on (I forgot who and can't be bothered to look back right now)
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I think that'd be me :XD:

Westkana said:
@Spirica Rose The're region-free?
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I can play all the DVDs from Japan on my bf's laptop... I guess it's because the laptop was bought from Saudi Arabia, which has the same DVD region code with Japan. Anyway, I tried playing the After Eden DVD on our PS4, and boy was I surprised it played! Still weirded out with all the DVD region shizz, really. :@_@:
 
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I'm in South America yet I can always play their stuff just fine. I think my Bluray player just helps me bypass all of the region restrictions altogether.

The Bluray cover is lame but I dislike the DVD cover more, I don't like that they're all turning away from the camera. I love the drawn on background so I can't understand why they left it out of the DVD and Bluray covers. It doesn't really bother me because I'm getting the vynil and I take the CDs out of the cases and store them separately so I don't really care much about the covers on anything.

I hope that this means we're getting more songs like Moonfesta, which is one of my all time favorites. I love their bright folksy tunes. I hope Hikaru's voice is doing better for this.

EDIT: I would love pretty much anything with Keiko as main vocal, but a jazzy song would be glorious. I've never heard any Kajiura songs with jazz influences though, but my other favorite japanese composer Kanno Youko is great at jazz, I wish there could be a collab between them somehow like there was with Revo.
 
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Thanks guys! My mom said that she hadn't ordered yet, so I convinced her to order the DVD version instead. :sohappy:
 
Westkana said:
Thanks guys! My mom said that she hadn't ordered yet, so I convinced her to order the DVD version instead. :sohappy:
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Lucky! My Budokan stuff hasn't come yet so my parents won't let me pre-order, perhaps that's for the best though. BUT I REALLY WANT TO OWN THE MISSING LIVES GRR! (I'm a live junkie :ohoho:)
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I can play all the DVDs from Japan on my bf's laptop... I guess it's because the laptop was bought from Saudi Arabia, which has the same DVD region code with Japan. Anyway, I tried playing the After Eden DVD on our PS4, and boy was I surprised it played!
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I heard that a pc will switch region codes to play dvds a set number of time the factory allows, then it locks you out so you can only play the region it was last on ( I could be wrong about that though.) But I know VLC just bypasses code. I'm pretty sure most sony consoles are region free since you can play a game from any country on them so I'm not surprised dvds are the same.
I can't remember who said something on region locking blue rays but a quick Google search says that Sony doesn't say if Blu-ray players are region locked or not so apparently it might be a little hit and miss.

Thankfully my DVD player is so old I don't have to worry
 
Westkana said:
Mine is from the late 90's or early 2000's, so I feel ya :XD: Unfortunately, I saw a "Region 1" marking on the back of it.
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:vortex:That sounds horrible! I really should look on the back of mine. I just googled the model. :XD:It's a combo player though and I don't think they even put region locking into place when it came out in like 2001
 
That blu-ray cover :swt: I'll probably purchase all four copies regardless but it seems so out of place and drab compared to the other covers. Any pre-order bonus information will be much appreciated!
 
kala x ace said:
That blu-ray cover :swt: I'll probably purchase all four copies regardless but it seems so out of place and drab compared to the other covers. Any pre-order bonus information will be much appreciated!
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Same. Usually most Kalafina stuff has a pre-order bonus but so far nothing has been mentioned about FOTW
 
Hm... I just hope she will just compose something different. The strings are just a tiny part of the whole boring combo of the last songs.
 
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