Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
TheScarletCutter
Kara no Kyoukai is perhaps one of the most acquired tastes in anime, whether you're a TYPE-MOON fan or not. It has gotten a reputation for being a complicated mix bag, whether it's boring and/or pretentious, too hard to understand, or possibly a masterpiece. I've watched the entire movie series and while I barely understood what any of that means, at the same time, I've been amazed at how masterful its craft truly is. A series that yes, it's super complex, but doesn't take itself seriously while still being a serious work of art. All of this is thanks to the golden tickets that are Paradox Paradigm and Murder Speculation Part B. But... Those aren't what I'm talking about. What I want to talk about is Murder Speculation Part A, in my opinion, the most underrated installment of Kara no Kyouk…
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Kara no Kyoukai
The Garden of Sinners
Chronological Order
Kara no Kyoukai 2
Kara no Kyoukai 4
Kara no Kyoukai 3
Kara no Kyoukai 1
Kara no Kyoukai 5
Kara no Kyoukai 6 Kara no Kyoukai Remix
Kara no Kyoukai 7
Kara no Kyoukai 8
Kara no Kyoukai Recalled Out Summer
Kara no Kyoukai Recalled Out Summer ExtraChorus
As for the Story......
Is the Story Unique?
The Story is Amazing or is it? The anime is Foxused on this one Character called "Shiki" not SHIKI, Shiki is a Character which can see the Lines of Death and is a Character who wore a Ultra Acient Pro Max Suit pair with Her Elegant Red Velvet? Jacket Honestly Shiki is the Whole reason i watch this series or most importantly her Short Hair as for the Story......... is it Unique? My question for that is.... you depends.
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Horrible pacing with anticlimatic twists and full of exposition, ultimately boring. The feeling of wasted potential started here, a distaste and disinterest that will loom in future entries, keeping me from fully enjoying this disconnected series. Probably my least favorite episode. The story was boring, it wasn't predictable, still I didn't enjoy it. The art style is fitting for the story, maintining the beauty from the first installment. The characters remained as half-baked messes, all of them are weird and confusing and frustrating. They didn't react to situations in a realistic way and I guess some people will enjoy it more than I did, that's why I'm feeling a light six on this one.
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Pt2. Review
Kara no Kyoukai 2: Satsujin Kousatsu is the 2nd movie to be released in the Kara no Kyoukai series and focuses mainly on the events between Shiki & Kokutou in their high school days.
Now, let me start by saying that the after watching the 1st movie, I was instantly hooked into the series and was eagerly waiting to know more about the characters which this movie did focus but the overall character interactions & developments were disappointing to watch.
Although at first interesting, the weird pacing of the movie makes the said interactions or developments between our two mc boring. Besides, the male mc ‘s decision to not report crime while supporting the female mc just cause he was in “love” was so out of place & frustrating to watch.
The story for the most part was ok but…
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Kara no kyoukai 2: Satsujin Koukatsu is an improvement over the first installment of the series and could be enjoyed as a movie to dedicate one hour to experience it's story and development. It presents interesting but not correctly developed characters and a more than decent animation quality that makes it deserving of being watched.
The story seems deep superficially and it isn't really deep, it isn't deep because the way they developed it's central point wasn't the way they hoped to develop it and they could have developed it way better than it finally was, the story centers around a lady named shiki Ryougi who meets a guy named Mikiya Kokutou in the winter of 1995 while he passed her during a late night stroll in the snow. The flaws that the story has doesn't prevent it from being en…
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The second movie in the Garden of Sinners series focuses much more on explaining character relationships, yet it has a completely different feeling to the first movie. Where the first movie had an eerie and mysterious feel throughout, this movie had some sweet moments included in there and the creepy moments felt WAY more creepy.
So in the first movie, we were introduced to Shiki’s character. Though in the first movie, she acts as a saviour of sorts, in this one, we are introduced to a darker side of Shiki. It is revealed that she has two personalities of sorts, a sombre and supposedly tranquil one and an outgoing, yet perhaps more sinister personality. In the city, there have been some murders occurring and Shiki is shown around the bodies. The question is, is she the one causing the mur…
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This is my first review on MAL !
Kara no kyoukai is a series that I've been willing to try for a long time now and I finally started it yesterday with high expectations. I am watching this in the release order + for the first time :
*Art : 9/10 : It is stunning , specially the background and its beautifully drawn details. The light is perfect and matches the atmosphere. The reason I'm not rating this a 10 is the eyes... I find them at times way too blank or big (the male lead's case) and this might sound picky yet it really bothers me at times.
*Animation is decent I am not even going to rate it since there were nearly no action scenes or focus on movements.
*Sound : 8/10 Like the previous Film , the soundtrack fits perfectly.
*Story : 5/10 : a prequel to first movie.The focus was rathe…
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This is part 2 of the KnK series
This is a sequel to the 1st KnK......kind of....Well, not exactly. You see, KnK is not being shown in chronological order and as such should not be watched in chronological order. I almost made a grave mistake of doing so.
[Story]: (8/10)
The story of KnK 2 takes place 3 years before the events of KnK 1.
Mikiya, while walking home from school, meets a mysterious girl who he thinks is cute and starts falling in love with her. A month later, he met her again during the high school entrance ceremony. The mysterious girl that he met is named Shiki Ryougi. Meanwhile, the city is experiencing a series of bizarre murders but no suspect has been caught yet.
The events may have taken place before the events of the first KnK but the movie shows us how the 2 char…
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Didn't expect this to be a prequel. Actually I think it would work better in chronological order rather than like this. I'm a bit bothered that in the end the most important thing was not made entirely clear. Though we are left to infer it, but it just might be asking for a bit too much, in how much it expects us to assume and figure out what went on off-screen. And if that wasn't bad enough, pacing is slow.
I'll admit slow pacing is crucial to the atmosphere and feel they're achieving, but at times it's just too slow. At least 40% could easily be shaved off of static scenes while still retaining the overall feel. It's tricky writing this, as this ''movie'' has a ''part 1'' in it's name, so I'm guessing there's more to come. But taken on it's own, it's thematic points are exploration of t…
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Kara no kyoukai 2:satsujin kousatsu(part1) in the chronology of kara no kyoukai this should be the 1st episode of the animation this's when the viewer will see how the main character meet each other and so the supporting character along with the series,its all started here,in this episode it only focus mainly the 2 main character and some sub-char,the viewer will see the relationship between the 2 mains char while still high school and how the progress their relationship along with,the character are well explained their past.
The art and char design is just as fluent and fit for the animation except just lack of action animation not like the first series but the background and the environment was really improved in this anime,the character design is just the same as the first series it jus…
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Hello everyone and welcome to my first film review week. Why am I doing this? Because I've got five different anime films I've agreed to review so I figured it would be more efficient to find two more and take care of them all in a week than it would be to just stretch them out over the course of five. Many of you probably remember that a couple weeks ago I reviewed the first Kara no Kyoukai movie and it was not a well written movie at all. It had some good production values, but nothing of substance. So, why am I watching another one after that? Well, when I posted the review on MAL I got several responses from fans of the franchise. Surprisingly, they were polite, grammatically correct and respectful. No one said that my opinion was wrong (because opinions totally work on a right or wron…
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When I reviewed the first Kara no Kyoukai movie I was dissapointed with how the story was developing through it. I was hoping to see more than I had been actually shown. Still, I have decided to watch the second movie hoping that the potential which was not realised in the first movie would finally be unleashed in the second one... and it was, to an extent I have not anticipated.
The second Kara no Kyoukai movie takes place before the first one when Shiki was still inside Shiki. Unlike the first movie, the second movie has the qualities of a jigsaw. Although you see most elements of it from the very begining, throughout the whole movie you start putting them together, not only answering the question in the trailer about the identities of Shiki, but also how the two main characters of the…
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This is the second part of a 7 part series. With the first movie there was serious lacking in the character development department, with this movie however there was not only a story line but you actually got to understand a bit about the characters and where they're coming from. Story moves quite slowly, and there are many instances where you will be staring at the same pointless scene for far too long. Such as her lying down for bed and a random shot of her room is on screen for about 45 seconds. This may have been done to add suspense, but it didn't work for me and just made me want to hit the FF button. Unlike the first movie this one actually made me interested to see where the characters go from here. The story line in this one seems more like a stand alone side quest of the back sto…
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Okay, so if you have watched the 1st movie, you would be wondering if you should continue the series since you are utterly confused. The second movie gives a great insight on the main character Shiki (式) and SHIKI (織) that she has a dual personality.
So, to start things off, the makers of this movie has not reduced the level of blood spilled in this movie, which is good for those "I love gore" people and the romance between the two main characters is not to shabby at all. Most anime romance goes through repetitious, lovey pink bubbles, big glowing eyes waiting for you either kill yourself or constantly tell yourself to endure the pain.
As always in anime, there is always a person who cares for another person to the point where you think it's kind of awkward for a person to be that cons…
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Kara no Kyoukai 2 exceeds the first movie in almost every aspect. There is depth to Shiki that was absent before, new settings are introduced to a much more comprehensible degree, the supporting cast are more prominent and the writers - instead of being cryptic - present a largely compelling and well developed story, solidifying the series' true roots.
The first installment threw audiences into a mystery unfortunately dulled by the lack of depth to the characters, but the second installment lays down the groundwork, exploring the origins of Shiki and Mikiya. The story is well executed and - unlike in the first film - has a real sense of purpose, progression and development. It's a compelling origins story, where Shiki and Mikiya's relationship is genuinely captivating to watch unravel (es…
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Kara no Kyoukai review Part 2
The problem with movies is that all too often they're lacking in one or two fundamental areas, and unfortunately these are normally the plot or the characters. The first installment of this series suffered from the latter, and while it was still enjoyable even with that flaw, there was always the nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right.
Thankfully this episode begins to address that issue.
The second installment in the Kara no Kyoukai ~The Garden of Sinners~ franchise, Satsujin Kosatsu (Murder Speculation), is actually part one of a two part story arc (viewers will have to wait for the seventh movie to see the conclusion of this episode), yet while this small irony is amusing, the are some flaws with this episode which one can only hope will be re…
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[B]Intro
Ok having have the hell confused out of my brain, In my opinion this series totally redeemed itself and brought a fantastic come back with number 2 in the series. Here it goes...
Story
The story was great and has a nice but unexpected link with the first movie which was the murder mysteries. This episode also explained more about the characters and even answered questions that confused me in the first installment. Looking at it from a periodical point of view this episode SHOULD have been before the first movie to avoid confusiion but having watch the next few episodes maybe there will be a reason why. 9 out of 10 for story I just couldn't bring myself to put this at the same mark as my favourite anime. But it's still great, 8 would be way too low =]
Art
The art was just as good…
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I watched the first Kara no Kyoukai last night and wrote a review for it in which I complained about the lack of back story. This second movie really should have been the first movie since it does give you some character introduction (it takes place before the events in the first movie I believe) although it is still not much. Anyway on to the review:
Story (9): Like the first movie the story was engaging and made you eager to find out what was going to happen next. Unlike the first movie, Satsujin Kousatsu had a story that did not feel like you should already know whats going on. That being said the story itself did leave a lot of unanswered questions which I suspect will be explained in later movies (partially explains pseudo-cliffhanger ending I guess) but as a stand alone movie I cann…
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Well here we have it, this is the second movie of seven in this series in which I also mentioned in my review for Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fuukei. And as I have mentioned in my other review as well this movie is based on the Japanese novel series, authored by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi. I should also state, if you havent noticed in the title, that this movie is actually the first half of 2 parts.
Well anyway onto the review.
Warning: Their are spoilers within this review, so please watch the movie first if you don't wish to be spoiled.
Story - 8
Well first off the story in the second movie, is abit more smooth than the first one. It introduces how Shiki Ryōgi and Mikiya Kokutō first met back in high school, so this answers some questions from the first movie, but n…
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Once again Kara no Kyoukai has managed to score a 10/10 in all departments from me. Why? Because once again it has pulled off the story in absolute brilliance, leaving very little out from the original story and using a superb soundtrack combined with the brilliant animation to create another masterpiece.
In terms of chronological order, this movie is first in the timeline, therefore it is much more accessible than the first movie. The movie focuses much more on character development and allows the viewer to understand more about Shiki. Once again Nasu's work has been done justice in this outstanding movie adaptation.
For those who haven't seen the first film, I would suggest watching it. Although it is possible to watch the second movie without seeing the first, it is much easier to un…
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