Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly (Limited Edition Blu-ray Disc Box) Unboxing

Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly is a 2019 theatrical anime film based on Type-Moon and Kinoko Nasu’s visual novel Fate/Stay Night and its third story route ‘Heaven’s Feel’ with illustrator Takashi Takeuchi. The film was adapted by studio Ufotable, and the staff credits include director Tomonori Sudō, writer Akira Hiyama, character designer Atsushi Ikariya, Hisayuki Tabata & Tomonori Sudō, and music composer Yuki Kajiura. The film was first theatrically released in Japan on January 2019, distributed by Aniplex.

This is the second part of the Heaven’s Feel film trilogy, so any images and details mentioned below will be considered as major spoilers for those who have yet to watch or read any of the story aspects covered in this film.

Note: This post has been updated on July 2021 & then May 2024 to reflect the current blog layout and some minor tweaks to the original write-up.

Background:

“Shirou Emiya made his choice: to keep fighting, and to protect Sakura Matou. Due to the participation of Zouken Matou in the Holy Grail War, and his summoning of the Servant True Assassin, things begin to distort, steadily worsening day by day. Resolved to protect Sakura and not betray her, Shirou refuses to leave the battle. While Sakura worries about Shirou, she also finds herself entangled in her own fate as a mage. However, their fervent wishes are about be crushed by the mysterious black shadow that covers the city, killing Masters and Servants one by one…”

Plot Synopsis via Aniplex of America, November 2019.

Fate/Stay Night is one of the most popular visual novels ever made, and also one of the biggest anime franchises out there with dozens of anime adaptations, spin-offs, games, books and more. It’s gotten to a point where Fate/Grand Order, the mobile gacha game is very huge worldwide and makes tons of money for Aniplex and Type-Moon.

I have covered pretty much how the Heaven’s Feel adaptation is handled in the unboxing of the first film, so let’s briefly go over what this one covers. ‘lost butterfly‘ is the second part of the film trilogy and continues to adapt the main story of the Heaven’s Feel story route. It’s darker, mature and slowly wraps up the visual novel’s overall main story. I won’t go into any further details for spoiler reasons, but once you finish this part it’ll make you want to watch the third and final film in the trilogy known as ‘spring song‘. If you can’t wait that long there are many Fate/Stay Night anime available to watch and there’s even a new series called Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia simulcasting this October (animated by CloverWorks though).

Aniplex of America handled the English rights for the film trilogy, with an English dub produced along the way. The UK release will be distributed by MVM and the Australian release will be distributed by Madman. The US release for ‘lost butterfly‘ is dated for November 2019 and is modelled similarly to this Japanese release, which Aniplex has done the same with the first film prior.

Limited Edition Contents:

The reason I acquired the Japanese version for Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly despite an English release incoming is because of pricing, timing and the fact that I tend to watch Fate/Stay Night franchise subtitled rather than dubbed.

The version I acquired is the Limited Edition but this time it’s the regular version and not any of the retail exclusive items like I did with the first film. There are multiple versions available like store exclusives such as Amazon Japan that come with B2 fabric posters or A3 Posters but I decided not to proceed with that route this time due to the price difference (2000 Yen more for little).

The limited edition is packaged as a clamshell box with a digipack that houses the film on Blu-ray as well as a DVD bonus features disc and the film’s original soundtrack on CD composed by Yuki Kajiura, who returns to make the music after her work on Fate/Zero (she didn’t compose Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works]). Also included is an animation booklet that contains interviews and Q&A from the staff and a hardcover illustration artbook.

The bonus DVD disc contained the following extras (not subtitled in English, so knowledge & understanding of the Japanese language is highly recommended); Stage Greeting with Premiere Event on the First Day [Before and After Screening], Kobe Stage Greeting, and Special Performance for Three Factions Stage Greeting.

The limited edition Blu-ray retailed for 9,500 Yen (Tax not included for Japanese owners) while the standard Blu-ray which is also available retailed for 5,800 Yen (Tax not included). I ordered it for 7,321 Yen (£58.75) with the overall cost being 10,049 Yen (£80.61, with £21.86 going towards pre-paid VAT and shipping) as of September 2019. The GBP value was weaker than the previous year so I had to pay more for the same JPY value.

Physical Contents:

• Rigid Clamshell Box with digipack packaging and clean artwork
• Card sheet for specification and logos
• Original Soundtrack CD from Yuki Kajiura
• Bonus DVD disc with additional featurettes and interviews
• 50-page Animation Material Booklet
• 52-page Hardcover Illustration Artbook

On-Disc Contents:

Distributor: Aniplex Japan
Released: 21st August 2019

The limited edition release of Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly contains the entire film on one Blu-ray disc plus an additional DVD disc with added on-disc bonus features. The discs were authored and encoded in Japan. Audio options for the Blu-ray disc include Japanese with English & Japanese subtitles only. An English dub does exist but wasn’t prepared for this release at the time.

The white subtitles are unlockable during playback, and the Blu-ray disc are playable on Region A, B & C for Blu-ray players. Anime released on Blu-ray in Japan don’t have any form of region locking, despite the country using Region A for their live-action titles.

The DVD bonus features disc will require viewers to understand the Japanese language beforehand. In addition it is also region restricted to Region 2 for DVD players.

Blu-ray Specs:

Languages	Japanese
Audio	Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Video	1080p High Definition Native format 16:9 Aspect Ratio
Region	A B C
Subtitles	English, Japanese
Locked Subtitles	No
Discs	1 BD-50

DVD Specs (Bonus Disc):

Languages	Japanese
Audio	Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0
Video	Standard Definition in NTSC format 16:9 Aspect Ratio
Region	2
Subtitles	No
Locked Subtitles	No
Discs	1

Blu-ray On-Disc Extra Features:

• PV
• Trailers
• CM Collection

DVD On-Disc Extra Features:

• Stage Greeting with Premiere Event on the First Day [Before and After Screening]
• Kobe Stage Greeting
• Special Performance for Three Factions Stage Greeting

Unboxing Photos:

Final Notes:

Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. lost butterfly was licensed and released on home video by Aniplex Japan and Aniplex of America. The limited and standard edition Blu-ray Disc Box is still available to import from retailers like Amazon Japan, but for a cheaper option there is the MVM Entertainment standard edition Blu-ray release on Amazon UK and Aniplex of America limited edition Blu-ray release on Rightstuf.

(Disclaimer: Amazon UK links are also included when available. They are affiliated so if you decide to order them, I’ll earn a small percentage if they ship which will help me with any hauls or small bills.)