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Category: Kara no Kyoukai

Living on – Kara no Kyoukai 04

In my original, very first watch-through, this was the first episode that really stood out to me. It is not, in retrospect, notably more brilliant than the other episodes (though it is a great episode nonetheless). I think it is more the resonance of some of the feelings and emotions it explored with some of the things that were happening to people close to me. While episode 1 was the episode which more apparently explored the theme of suicide, this was the episode that, I thought, wove and lingered around the subtler sentiments around the act. It is a comparatively simple episode, but nonetheless one that is quintessentially Kara no Kyoukai.

You would want to have watched this episode before moving on. Folks who have yet to watch this amazing film series: watch it now! You’ll find few better uses for your time.

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Pain and Living -Kara no Kyoukai 03

Violence and sex are two things I intensely dislike when used as prominent themes in the stuff I watch, especially the former. The third film opens with a dash of disturbing scenes strongly featuring both, and I have every reason to be ired by that. Judging the book by it’s cover Kara no Kyoukai should never have been something that captures my fancy, and yet, as folks who read my previous two posts on the show would know, I am quite madly in love with the series. It simply means the storytelling and the exploration and the questions and the musings are that incredible. The third film of the Kara no Kyoukai series is a bloody mess of twisted violence and drugs and rape, but make no mistake. This is a beautiful episode.

Spoilers after the jump.

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Anisong: Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete yuku

Decided to do this one after all. This is the ED to the second film of the animated film series Kara no Kyoukai – the Garden of Sinners. It is a pretty nice song on its own, but it only truly resonates when savored in its intended context – as a curtain-closer to the second film. So if you haven’t watched it yet, I highly, highly recommend you go do so. Yes, watch all seven films. You won’t regret it.

Anyway here it is, “Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete yuku”, or “You return it to light”. Quite possibly a love song at its core. A dreamy song that traverses a spectral path from shimmering melancholy to triumphant catharsis. As usual, hit F8 to listen to it while it’s up, and hit the jump for a picture, romaji lyrics, and translations.

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Mikiya, Shiki and SHIKI – Kara no Kyoukai 02

Listen to this and reflect on the scene in which it plays in the film.

More than many other comparable media, I’ve always felt that anime tended to excel in producing original, varied, and high quality BGMs. And even with that laid out, Kara no Kyoukai really elevates itself onto a magnificent plane with the reverberating, soul-searching music it flaunts. This show does many things right – and in fact does many things brilliantly – but if an MVP has to be named, then it must be this – the incredible music.

You will want to at least have finished this episode before moving past the jump.

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Kara no Kyoukai, the Garden of Sinners – 01

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Alright here we go. First, a little on the series itself since it seemed to have garnered comparatively little attention – quite inexplicably. For Kara no Kyoukai is a masterpiece. It is a fantastic juxtaposition of all manner of dark subthemes trailing under an overarching grimly hopeful theme of Life. It is a 7-part animated film series that is also a 7-course audio-visual feast, with a phenomenal BGM score and stunningly detailed art that traverses the entire spectrum from the dark, twisted and bloody to the vividly, breathtakingly beautiful. It has some of the densest, richest story-weaving and character-crafting I’ve ever seen, and I’m still seeing new ideas surfacing to tantalizingly linger as I’m still rewatching. And if it doesn’t look like I’m gushing yet I am! All this to tell you first and foremost that you need to go and watch this stuff. And then you need to rewatch it. And then you can do a kind deed and come see me rant on it, if you want :)

Now on episode one…

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