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I like the title of this series. The Garden of Sinners its a beautiful and most downright accurate title for this series even though the translation of original title is quite different. Kara no Kyoukai actually translates to the Boundary of Emptiness cause in all the 7 films it follows a sinner in a garden of late 90s Urban Japan filled with murder and blood. And in all the 7 films I watched this is my favourite movie in the franchise.
Firstly Ill give a small intro to the franchise and watch order for it.
Garden of Sinners or Kara no Kyoukai is a film series made by ufotable and written by Kinoku Nasu TYPEMOON. Since the movie follows a nonlinear storytelling it can be watched in two different orders.
1 Release Order
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View 2007
Kara No Kyoukai: Manner Movies 2007 Optional
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 2: Murder Speculation Part A 2007
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense Of Pain 2008
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 4: The Hollow Shrine 2008
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm 2008
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 6: Oblivion Recording 2008
The Garden Of Sinners Remix Gate Of Seventh Heaven 2009 Recap
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 7: Murder Speculation Part B 2009
The Garden Of Sinners Recalled Out Summer 2013
Kara No Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin Manner Movie 2013
2 Chronological Order
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 2: Murder Speculation Part A
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 4: The Hollow Shrine
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense Of Pain
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
The Garden Of Sinners Recalled Out Summer Extra Chorus
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 6: Oblivion Recording
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 7: Murder Speculation Part B
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 8: The Final Chapter
The Garden Of Sinners Recalled Out Summer
Its recommended to watch it in the release order as the way the creators intended to watch it. Watching in chronological order for a rewatch would be good but not for a first time watch.
Now with that aside lets talk about this film ever cry never life Remaining Sense of Pain.
Spoiler Alert
The sinner we follow in this movie is Asagami Fujino. Though I say sinner she feels a lot like a victim than a sinner. The movie starts in quite the shocking way as it starts with a rape scene. I was completely taken aback as for why a shocking introduction was made unlike the previous entries but it made sense as the movie progresses cause it really helped to the build the setup for the kind of movie you are going to watch.
Her sin is mindless murder or to put it in the words of our protagonist Shiki massacre. Its shown how brutally she murdered the ones that raped her which is a justifiable reason but she gradually started to enjoy twisting people and butchering them which when she was confronted by shiki says its inhumane making her a sinner.
The main cause of her sin is her inability to feel Pain. She has an abnormal condition where she cant feel pain because her father feared by her telekinetic abilities numbs her sense of pain during her childhood in order to seal off her powers but it just made things worse after her abuse. Later it was revealed that she had a terminal case of appendicitis which causes an immense pain in her abdomen. Due to her lack of sense of pain she couldnt grasp that lifethreating situation she was in but this pain was triggered i.e. her insensibility of pain is gone when the gang who abused her was about to stab her. At this moment all her remaining sense of pain caused by her growing appendicitis awakens her abilities that resulted in her twisting everyone of those gang members into nothing but a mess of flesh blood except one guy who manages to run away. But Fujino misunderstands her abdomen pain with getting stabbed when she wasnt actually stabbed. And then she starts to wander around to find that one who escaped in fear that he might expose her abnormal condition which she hid from others for her whole life.
Pain is one of the way we feel our existence. To not able to feel pain is mostly like not able to live at all. Fujino hides her insensitivity to pain cause she wanted to look normal. Throughout the entire movie we sympathize with Fujino for that lack of sense of pain understands her instability we dont feel morally obliged when she takes her revenge some might even cheer for her but the sad thing is at the end of story where we see her being the most alive ever was when shes in her absolute pain both physically and psychologically. Her abdomen is slowly killing her off while her guilt of mercilessly massacre and regret is starting to haunt her as she desires to feel to live to love and to stay. A very sad situation but wasnt delivered to the fullest because of the pacing problems.
Shiki Fujino confrontation scenes are some tense moments in the movie but also some of the most interesting moments in the series. Shikis family expects her to manifest her mystic powers unlike Fujinos family who feared thought it was unnecessary in the modern world. They have opposite roots yet Shikis says that Fujino her are like two feathers of the same bird. Shiki understands sympathizes with Fujinos nature but finds its unforgivable when she crossed the line between murder as an act of selfprotection to massacre an act of killing just for fun because she stopped being human anymore and Shiki was once also in a similar position as Fujino. Shiki goes after Fujino when asked by Touko because of a request from a certain client and this client happens to be Fujinos father. She had no slavation to begin with. What do you call something that isnt a human and aimlessly kills others with no salvation? A Monster. Even when the monster is only trying to feel alive is longing for salvation in its own way.
Remaining sense of Pain is a tragic story about willing to live while enduring the pain and my favourite in the whole franchise. Only demerit is that it can feel like a mess at certain points due to its uneven pacing and storytelling method.
Summary
The ideologies it raises beautiful art animation combined with its mystical soundtrack and interesting characters outweighed its pacing problems and uneven storytelling.
If it hurts you
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