So fairly recently, I decided to press on with Kara no Kyoukai. I’d watched the first two movies and my impressions were, wow this is pretty cool, but it’s confusing as hell. Apparently, this web of confusion is the norm for Nasu and TYPE-MOON stuff. Anyhow, I finally had time to spend, so I decided to take a look at the third movie.

In addition to being confusing, the first two movies were a bit lacking in the action department. So I’ve learned since then that there’s pretty much only one large action sequence per movie, except for the fifth one. But not knowing that while watching the first two, the action scenes we got were Shiki killing a bunch of ghosts that weren’t doing anything and murdering normal people. Not exactly the most suspense filled scenes, although the fight with the ghosts was very pretty.

The third movie remedies this. We get to see learn a bit more about the characters and the setting. We get weird supernatural stuff. But best of all, we get Shiki being awesome, fighting against someone who can wreck stuff. This was the movie that got me.

The fourth movie helps to alleviate the confusion a bit. We get a lot of background information and character development. But this one was better than the second movie, because, again, we get to see Shiki being awesome and destroying a zombie. I also liked that we got to see Touko doing some magic.

But the fifth movie is just spectacular. We get some amazing fights, a lot of information, and plenty of progression in plot and characters. Not only that, but we get some crazily structured narrative and direction that’s confusing as hell. And as a bonus, it has the most awesome ED song out of all of the movies.

So, where am I at now? I am angry because now I have to wait half a year for the sixth movie to come out. I am looking forward to the rest of Kara no Kyoukai though. I have been reinforced in my belief that Maaya Sakamoto is awesome. I am also intrigued by what else TYPE-MOON has to offer. Maybe ufotable can be the TYPE-MOON studio like KyoAni has become the Key studio? I would love to see a Tsukihime or Fate/stay night anime that doesn’t suck. And I’m looking forward to those currently ethereal Blu-ray releases.

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