Unboxing [US]: Fate/Stay Night - Collection 2 (Blu-ray)

My Rightstuf packages have finally arrived and I am excited to show them to everyone. They may not be the most popular of such but I got them all on a very good deal. For the fifth and final item Rightstuf reduced the set to as low as $14.99, just wow.

What's even wow is that this adaptation has CGI DRAGONS AAAAHHHHHH!!

Fate/Stay Night is an anime adapted from the very popular (and very long) visual novel of the same name by Type Moon and Kinoko Nasu. The visual novel has three major routes and this anime done by studio Deen only covers the Fate route but apparently also tries to cover the others. It's essentially a trainwreck that doesn't stop, but does an average enough job to help bring new fans to the franchise.

This set from Sentai Filmworks is pretty much barebones as it's your typical simple Blu-ray release. There are 2 Blu-ray discs that cover the last 12 episodes of the series and only creditless opening and closing animations. The subtitles are unlockable and this release is very old, old enough that you need to use the Bypass method if you don't have a Region A player (Disc 1 is Title 4 and Disc 2 is Title 3).

This particular Blu-ray release doesn't have the best treatment ever. For starters it's an upscaled release and also interlaced (1080i). The subtitles do have a couple errors and the video quality isn't the very best. Now there is a complete collection with 1080p but that release is basically the exact same set with the subtitles fixed. I don't know how Japan handled their Blu-ray Disc Box but chances are that it's way better than this version.

Blu-ray Specs:

Languages: Japanese, English

Audio: DTS-HD MA 2.0 [Japanese], DTS-HD MA 2.0 [English]

Video: 1080i SD Remaster/Upscale 16:9

Region: A

Subtitles: English [On-Screen/Lyrics], English [Japanese language]

Subtitles Locked: No

Discs: 2

Plot Synopsis (via Back Cover):

The Holy Grail War continues to escalate as a series of shocking revelations explain the history connecting Saber to Excalibur. In a lethal game of chess, pawns and knights are expended one by one, slowly whittling down the number of surviving players. As a massive wave of comas begins to take down the cities, it becomes clear that the only possible path to victory is an assault on the Master and Servants of the Ryudoji Shrine!

But when Sakura is taken with the intention of sacrificing her in order to summon the Grail, Shiro is forced to choose between two equally lethal options: let Saber's mana continue at its existing level, almost certainly insuring her death as the battle wages on; or resupply her mana from his own magical circuit, reducing his power below that of the other Magus, and leaving both of them open to magical attack. The price of winning could mean potentially losing everything.

Extra Content:

None

Fate/Stay Night, the 2006 version, is available on Blu-ray and DVD from Sentai Filmworks.