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Kara no Kyoukai 1-4 synopsis (light spilers)
16 years ago
踊れ愚か者ども!
I'm surprised that I haven't done this for the few who read my journals. This is my favorite anime movie series of the genre of things that fuck your mind.
For those of you who cannot understand weeaboo. Kara no Kyoukai or the Boundries of Emptiness series is an early Nasu Kinoko work, and features just how utterly messed up this writer is. I'm serious you need to be on some type of drug to come up with unbelievable creative shit like this. Kinoko is famous for 2 other more notable titles: Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night.
So we're talking about a guy who wrote the concept of the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," a magic eye trait that allows people to see the lines of death and the points of which the lines converge. And by striking these points you can effectively destroy a person's existence because these points of course, means you've destroyed their concept of existence. The world would try and destroy something that doesn't exist, thus an unavoidable death
The second concept that I find utterly fucked up is the Scottish hero Cu Chullain, who in Fate/Stay carried a spear that REVERSES CAUSALITY. For the people who don't know what that means, he can perform the result of an action before an action. That action being impaling a person's heart, before the lance is struck.
The main character unfortunately carries the latter, but it's more fucked up than what I described.
So here we go, the review.
This is where the first 4 movies culminated, and to sum up the first 4 movies.
Movie 1 "Overlooking View": Ryougi Shiki learns their [the P.I. agency she works for] new job is to hunt down ghost who has caused a bunch of teenage girls to commit suicide via jumping off high-rises. Her love interest, Kokuto Mikiya gathers information, but gets is soul stolen in the process. She laments for a bit and goes off to kill the ghost, only that was a lie and the ghost was actually a split spirit astral projection of a blind girl with a terminal illness who had no family and whose only comforting thought was the overlooking view of the top of her family's building and she herself commits suicide at the end the same way that she caused all the other girls 2.
Movie 2 "Murder Speculation part 1": The beginning of Shiki's story and starts off with her meeting Kokuto for the first time near the road to her house on a snowy afternoon. Cut to beginning of school, Shiki doesn't recall meeting Kokuto, but hang out anyway. They begin to have feeling for each other, but Shiki has a problem. She has a split personality that is male who is named SHIKI. The male personality hangs out with Kokuto and explains the situation, but slowly hints that he likes to kill people, i.e. himself.
Kokuto finds out through his uncle Daisuke, a detective, that a series of murders happening throughout town and that the culprit is most likely a person who goes to his school. Fearing of what he knows of SHIKI, he runs to her house only to find him over a corpse and says the ominous line "be careful Kokuto, a terrible premonition will lead to a terrible outcome."
The stupid git doesn't believe that he didn't actually kill the dude, and hides it from the investigation team who arrives shortly after. He then watches over Shiki everyday to make sure that he doesn't go out, to give him peace of mind knowing that Shiki isn't a killer. SHIKI eventually confronts Kokuto at school and hints that she knows that he's been watching over him.
The following night, SHIKI confronts Kokuto as he's checking on her, by violently coming after him with a knife and holds him and gunpoint in the open road. Kokuto says he doesn't want to die, SHIKI replies that he wants to kill him and then gets run over by a truck.
Movie 4 "Hollow Shrine": Shiki has been in a coma after getting hit by a truck for the last 3 years and finally wakes up. She has come to notice 2 things. First of which she has developed eyes that can see the lines of death. When she touches the lines things fall to pieces and dies. Unable to hand what she sees, she tries to gouge her eyes out. The second is that the male Shiki personality is gone and most likely the one to have died in the traffic accident thus leading her with a void within her soul. Kokuto asks his boss, a magus by the name of Aozaki Touko, whose P.I. bureau, the Hollow Shrine investigates supernatural disturbances, to visit Shiki and to help her calm down. She visits Shiki everyday and talks to her to slowly fill the void that is left behind by the male Shiki, and to protect her from the collection of wraiths haunting the hospital who are also possess her due to the void in her soul, by creating a barrier around her room.
Eventually she reveals that she knows about Shiki's eyes during the night that she tries to gouge them out again. Shiki laments the loss of her other half, and Touko responds to Shiki if SHIKI's death was a waste.
Eventually the wraiths possess a deceased man and break down the door to get to Shiki. Shiki jumps out the window, all while blindfolded. Touko reveals herself, Shiki gets pissed that she should do something about the zombie. Touko casts an Anzus on the Zombie and tries to burn it... to death. Shiki complains that she's a fake and Touko says that they should run for it.
Shiki says that she would take care of the zombie and strikes the zombie's death line with her finger, paralysing it momentarily, though her finger gets snapped backwards in the process. Touko passes a knife to Shiki and Shiki cuts the zombie to pieces with one strike.
The wraiths get expelled, but try to possess Shiki. Shiki holds the knife close to her chest and exposits that she will kill both the wraiths and her weak self... which she does. She passes out and Touko responds that she's a lucky bastard; a void can be filled in endlessly. Sorta like a hollow shrine
For those of you who cannot understand weeaboo. Kara no Kyoukai or the Boundries of Emptiness series is an early Nasu Kinoko work, and features just how utterly messed up this writer is. I'm serious you need to be on some type of drug to come up with unbelievable creative shit like this. Kinoko is famous for 2 other more notable titles: Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night.
So we're talking about a guy who wrote the concept of the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," a magic eye trait that allows people to see the lines of death and the points of which the lines converge. And by striking these points you can effectively destroy a person's existence because these points of course, means you've destroyed their concept of existence. The world would try and destroy something that doesn't exist, thus an unavoidable death
The second concept that I find utterly fucked up is the Scottish hero Cu Chullain, who in Fate/Stay carried a spear that REVERSES CAUSALITY. For the people who don't know what that means, he can perform the result of an action before an action. That action being impaling a person's heart, before the lance is struck.
The main character unfortunately carries the latter, but it's more fucked up than what I described.
So here we go, the review.
=============================================This is where the first 4 movies culminated, and to sum up the first 4 movies.
Movie 1 "Overlooking View": Ryougi Shiki learns their [the P.I. agency she works for] new job is to hunt down ghost who has caused a bunch of teenage girls to commit suicide via jumping off high-rises. Her love interest, Kokuto Mikiya gathers information, but gets is soul stolen in the process. She laments for a bit and goes off to kill the ghost, only that was a lie and the ghost was actually a split spirit astral projection of a blind girl with a terminal illness who had no family and whose only comforting thought was the overlooking view of the top of her family's building and she herself commits suicide at the end the same way that she caused all the other girls 2.
Movie 2 "Murder Speculation part 1": The beginning of Shiki's story and starts off with her meeting Kokuto for the first time near the road to her house on a snowy afternoon. Cut to beginning of school, Shiki doesn't recall meeting Kokuto, but hang out anyway. They begin to have feeling for each other, but Shiki has a problem. She has a split personality that is male who is named SHIKI. The male personality hangs out with Kokuto and explains the situation, but slowly hints that he likes to kill people, i.e. himself.
Kokuto finds out through his uncle Daisuke, a detective, that a series of murders happening throughout town and that the culprit is most likely a person who goes to his school. Fearing of what he knows of SHIKI, he runs to her house only to find him over a corpse and says the ominous line "be careful Kokuto, a terrible premonition will lead to a terrible outcome."
The stupid git doesn't believe that he didn't actually kill the dude, and hides it from the investigation team who arrives shortly after. He then watches over Shiki everyday to make sure that he doesn't go out, to give him peace of mind knowing that Shiki isn't a killer. SHIKI eventually confronts Kokuto at school and hints that she knows that he's been watching over him.
The following night, SHIKI confronts Kokuto as he's checking on her, by violently coming after him with a knife and holds him and gunpoint in the open road. Kokuto says he doesn't want to die, SHIKI replies that he wants to kill him and then gets run over by a truck.
Movie 4 "Hollow Shrine": Shiki has been in a coma after getting hit by a truck for the last 3 years and finally wakes up. She has come to notice 2 things. First of which she has developed eyes that can see the lines of death. When she touches the lines things fall to pieces and dies. Unable to hand what she sees, she tries to gouge her eyes out. The second is that the male Shiki personality is gone and most likely the one to have died in the traffic accident thus leading her with a void within her soul. Kokuto asks his boss, a magus by the name of Aozaki Touko, whose P.I. bureau, the Hollow Shrine investigates supernatural disturbances, to visit Shiki and to help her calm down. She visits Shiki everyday and talks to her to slowly fill the void that is left behind by the male Shiki, and to protect her from the collection of wraiths haunting the hospital who are also possess her due to the void in her soul, by creating a barrier around her room.
Eventually she reveals that she knows about Shiki's eyes during the night that she tries to gouge them out again. Shiki laments the loss of her other half, and Touko responds to Shiki if SHIKI's death was a waste.
Eventually the wraiths possess a deceased man and break down the door to get to Shiki. Shiki jumps out the window, all while blindfolded. Touko reveals herself, Shiki gets pissed that she should do something about the zombie. Touko casts an Anzus on the Zombie and tries to burn it... to death. Shiki complains that she's a fake and Touko says that they should run for it.
Shiki says that she would take care of the zombie and strikes the zombie's death line with her finger, paralysing it momentarily, though her finger gets snapped backwards in the process. Touko passes a knife to Shiki and Shiki cuts the zombie to pieces with one strike.
The wraiths get expelled, but try to possess Shiki. Shiki holds the knife close to her chest and exposits that she will kill both the wraiths and her weak self... which she does. She passes out and Touko responds that she's a lucky bastard; a void can be filled in endlessly. Sorta like a hollow shrine
