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Title: Kara no Kyoukai and the Philosophy of the Subjective Viewpoint
Author: Đào Khanh
Originally posted on: Fate / Grand Order - FGOVN
Broadly speaking, Kara no Kyoukai can be seen as a compelling thesis, akin to the social commentary essays you might have written in school, presenting conflicts while simultaneously elevating a specific way of life to a new height. This is demonstrated quite clearly in the series' epilogue, which concludes with a conversation between Mikiya and Shiki (Void). It is a dialogue you would hardly expect to find in films about urban legends tinged with fantasy and horror; it feels like a philosophical discourse. The cadence of that dialogue indirectly discusses profound philosophical issues that lack a certain mainstream accessibility—in short, a highly compl…
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A very good epilogue and an end to the main story of "Kara no Kyoukai", that closes the series' narration bracket. Information gets told, unresolved stuff gets solved. This movie is one long dialogue between the series' main charachters - Mikiya Kokutou and Shiki Ryougi. We learn new and surprising things about the female protagonist, but we also should pay attention to all the things we learn about Kokutou - the person I always found slightly disturbing, because of how regular/plain? he is. It's now clear that was the author's idea from the beginning. People who are experiencing "The Garden of Sinners" for the first time will probably find the movie very surprising - although the rest of the series makes a person used to surprises and plot-twists :)
The story from this movie and correspo…
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A dumb epilogue animating the main duo's lip-flappings of the author's pseudointellectual ramblings of self-contradictory dialogue writ large. Worse, I could take every line of this and stack all the rephrased repeats and it would just repeat each a dozen times as it goes through conveying nothing of value for 30 minutes. It takes a very special person to think this juvenile attempt at philosophizing is deep. It adds nothing, literally, a pointless 3rd personality who may as well have just been SHIKI anyway because the 2 fill the exact same role of contrasting Shiki (who is already barely contrasted because it just headasses excuses for everything to make her murderous too filling the exact same role as SHIKI because in reality the multiple-non-multiple personalities of Shiki never actuall…
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It's been a while since I truly felt overwhelmed after I finished something, this left an indelible mark on my soul, it's about learning to embrace yourself, imperfections and all, about discovering yourself, facing the voids within us, the contradictions that make us human, but still, it's much more then that, it reminds us to cherish the ephemerality of life, life is short so spread your wings, fly.
It's a deeply personal creation born from a young Nasu's pursuit of his own beliefs, this story is Nasu's essence, reaching for his own truth, it's heavy but it also brims with meaning because of Nasu's obstinate. Thank You.
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I gave it a 7 but thats for the complete package. This one episode though….. I mean wow. Ive never seen so much pretentious dialogue. Just imagining the guy writing all this nonsense. Or even worse people pretending theres som deep meaning to it. This episode was made for one thing only. For Nasus own ego thinking he is some deep philosophical shit. But i guess in a way thats also the charm in all his works. But theres a fine line where it becomes to much. And this 33 minute long episode crossed the line. I do recommend watching it despite all this. Its part of the Kara no Kyoukai experience. The good parts and the bad parts. Its there to form a whole which this nonsenical charade is part of.
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I really liked Kara no Kyoukai. Some of the chapters are more fascinating to me than others, some more ecchi male gaze candy. It has intricate lore and mysterious, conflicted characters who reveal their natures over time, and who are multi-dimensional. I will note, in case the following is ultimately a consequence of the translation, that I listen/watch in English.
Shuushou is... I don't know if it's because I am spoiled by paying attention to literature and philosophy, but this felt like the pseudo-mystical musings of an adolescent who thinks theology, ethics, sociology, and science in general are all too boring to be true. It's like the bullshit of some sheltered, narcissistic, college frosh who doesn't do the reading and skips lectures because they think they nailed spirituality over a…
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"4 years later, they meet again".
The final chapter that quite a lot seem to ignore just because it's all words and doesn't have all those cool fights or "GREAT ANIMATION". This is untrue, by the way. Because the movie is definitely well-animated, especially considering the fact that it's just about a conversation between two characters.
Just like the beginning of the story (i.e., the beginning of part 2), Mikiya walks with his umbrella under snowy weather only to get a glimpse of the same person he met 4 years ago, 「Shiki」.
Shiki's true identity has been explained in three different archetypes in this film: Shiki as a body, Shiki as a psyche, and Shiki as a soul. As she argues, this 「Shiki」 we see here is the soul, an empty soul.
The entire film reminisces on many events from previous fi…
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It takes courage to go for such a format -- even in the universe of Kara no Kyoukai, where everything is slower-paced, introvertive, and atmospheric.
In a way, I like this closure to the previous 7 movies. It felt like a microcosm of what the relationship between Kokutoi and Shiki/SHIKI/ is at its core. While rather static in terms of background and music, there are several points where the slow dynamism of the scenes makes for a strong emotional impact.
In all fairness, the movie would have been even better if it were 5-7 minutes shorter than that. Explaining the core of Nasuverse concepts and some borrowed ideas from schools of psychology is a decent feat, but not when you have to repeat yourself without building up on the first time you mentioned them.
A solid 7/10 to me, with the h…
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My review for each knk movie :
Movie 1:
Idk what happened in this one it made me fall asleep so it's unrated.
My rating : --/10
Movie 2 :
It's a solid movie way better than the previous one , I really liked the dynamic between shiki and kokuto and their backstory . Even tho this movie has some few boring scenes but it's good and intersting .
My rating : 6.5/10
Movie 3 :
This movie was a disappoinement , It was so boring the story became uninteresting again but on the other hand I liked the antagonist she was kind of cool and shiki was badass in this movie .
My rating : 4/10
Movie 4:
Another cool knk movie , unlike the previous parts movie 4 dived more into shiki's character it revealed many things about shiki where did she got her power and the two shikis and stuff like that and it did g…
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It is better than the previous part of the series (Part 7-VII) !!! Here it talks about deep matters, and aspects of the deep story of the anime, not like the previous part (Kara no Kyoukai 7: Satsujin Kousatsu (Go) a foolish love affair !!! For more sale !!!.
deep manga ideas have been legendary and beautifully applied throughout the movie, It is good that this part focused on the deep ideas more than some parts that were concerned with the conspiracies and the power of the invisible that works in secret !!! Not much drama, just deep thoughts in the form of fairytale and beautiful art.
It's the best part after Part 5 (Kara no Kyoukai 5: Mujun Rasen) of the story.
Story: 10
Art: 10
Enjoyment : 9
Sound : 9
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This is the epilogue of the KnK series
30 minutes of wrap up. That's pretty much it.
[Story]: (5/10)
The KnK epilogue now takes place 1 month after the events of the 7th movie. While Mikiya is walking, he saw "Shiki Ryougi" standing at the exact same spot where they first met about 4 years ago.
If you were expecting something great to happen then don't. This is literally 30 minutes of Shiki and Mikiya having a conversation. What's the conversation about? It's about Shiki's dual personality and the "Shiki Ryougi" that he's seeing is not Shiki or SHIKI. Notice the quotation marks, the name Shiki with no quotation marks and capital letter name?
If you listen for about 30 minutes then it's not that hard to follow.
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If the show would have been better if the epilogue (or any episode/movie for that matter) didn't exist than you have clearly done something wrong.
The 7 movies don't necessarily explain EVERYTHING, but they explain enough to the point where I felt very happy and satisfied with the ending and story that I got.
This one just decides to step its foot where it doesn't belong and stir up sh*t to explain things. Unfortunately, the explanation that I got (to questions that I didn't have to begin with) made the story WORSE... I think the same goes for one part in the main 7 movies as well, and you probably have watched them if you are reading a review of the epilogue so some spoilers:
- spoiler for the main series!: I think I would have actually preferred if SHIKI (male part) had actually killed…
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Oddly enough, i think this epilogue would have been better has a prologue, especially how this movie series handles it's timeline. I accidentally watched this part first of the entire series and enjoyed it alot more then when i watched it last in order. However this might be because i was already familiar with the character Shiki before even watching the movies. Eitherway i like the mysterious fill and vibe of this episode so 8.
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Archaeon and Lucena have both written very explicative summaries of this series epilogue, and so I'm not going to focus on ideas that they've already covered. Having watched the entire Kara no Kyoukai series, including the special, over a span of a few days, I found that the epilogue both answered some questions I had, and posed a few more. This style of giving moderate definition to events and history, but not all, has been present since the beginning of the series; I would not see this as a reason to rate it with a poor score, however. For all the complexity of characters, mysticism, and selective background information presented in the original stories, expecting everything to be plainly defined, as some have indicated, doesn't seem feasible here; and would undoubtedly detract from the…
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So here’s the thing, if you watched all 7 movies of Kara no Kyoukai , you’re going to watch this epilogue regardless of what I say, so I’m not going to talk anyone out of seeing it. But I would if I could. The thing is, it doesn’t add as much to the story as it could have, and actually ended up leaving me confused and irritated.
So what exactly is wrong with this epilogue?
Where to begin...
The epilogue is meant to expand on some of the ‘behind the scenes’ goings ons in Shiki’s head. It’s basically supposed to clarify the how’s and why’s of her multiple personalities and explain the SHIKI versus Shiki dichotomy. The real issue with the epilogue is how they chose to do it.
It’s one giant speech…
Kokutou meets Shiki on the same bridge where they first met all those years ago, and they tal…
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The Kara no Kyoukai anime film series may have ended nearly two years ago, but for some, the story was not quite over yet. People who were lucky enough to get their hands on the Blu-Ray box set of the series were not only treated to the seven films in crisp HD, but also received a new, never-before-seen "epilogue chapter" as an added bonus. The chapter is one that many fans of the original novels had hoped to see animated, and once they heard that their wish came true, they rejoiced with great anticipation. Not long ago, I've decided to revisit this mysterious world for the first time since 2009. As to be expected, I was not embraced warmly by the film's presence, but was given a distant and melancholy greeting like the one Shiki Ryougi gives her close friend, Mikiya Kokutou, in the film.…
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What was the point of this Epilogue? Lets toss around a few scenes of characters standing in the rain on a roadside and listen to one of them talk for a half hour about deep deep things (tm) like PHILOSOPHY and EXISTENCE and WHO ONE IS.
I really really wonder why this episode was rated so high. Maybe people were afraid that if they didn't rate such DEEP THOUGHTS high, others would find them dull.
DEEP THOUGHT equals not enjoyable anime.
DEEP THOUGHTS + PLOT can equal enjoyable anime.
Plot, plot, where are you?
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Oh boy. So I watched this a while ago, so I may have forgotten a bit about what happened in terms of story... er... well, I think, anyhow.
Story: 1
Yeah so, there's not actually any story in this. I know, sue me, but there's storytelling in the dialogue, should you be inclined to follow it. I'll warn you though, it's deeper than the subsonic frequencies produced in the Mariana Trench while watching Boku no Pico. It's harder to follow than a blind and deaf man in a pitch-black labyrinth while drunk, dizzy, and inexplicably blindfolded. Or maybe I'm just not smart enough to figure it out. From watching, here's what I can tell in terms of a non-verbal story.
The guy goes and sees her on the hill. The snow is pretty. They have a conversation while walking slowly on the road. The snow is pret…
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Kara no Kyoukai review Part 8
Finding a way to end a story can be a little tricky if the tale in question has no "natural" conclusion, and in cases like those there is a tendency towards overemphasizing key events in the plot or particular moments of character development through the use of flashbacks or the ubiquitous clip show before the big finale. There is a problem with this method though, as while it can be effective in the right sort of setting, it also has the potential to ruin a perfectly good narrative. That said, the last hurrah of the Kara no Kyoukai franchise is an interesting variation on this idea that may see more use in the future.
Set after the events of Satsujin Kousatsu Part 2, the Epilogue takes place on a deserted road overlooking the town, and is nothing more than…
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