Kakera #003: My Fav Movie

Ahoy there! Welcome to another kakera of madness written by yours truly!

My favorite movie? Dunno. All movies are alike to my eyes. Hero gets girl, loses girl to the baddie, wins back girl after switching to a new deodorant, and so on. Heh. But if I had to pick one, I'd choose Kara no Kyoukai, hands down. Never heard of it?  Sucks to be you.


...okay, didn't mean that. Just stay at your seat and continue reading. Please.

*ahem* Where were we? Oh yeah, the movie stuff. Okay, Kara no Kyoukai (literally means "The Boundary of Emptiness" is (obviously) a Japanese Anime Movie created by the folks at ufotable. This movie as an adaptation from the visual novel of the same name created by TYPE-MOON (I know, Japanese companies have funny names). The movie is divided into 7 er...movies...with the first movie, " Overlooking View" premiered across Japanese theaters on December 1, 2007 with the rest of the movies , "A Study In Murder", "Remaining Sense of Pain", "Hollow Shrine", "Spiral Paradox", "Oblivion Recorder", and "A Study In Murder 2" being released soon after on December 29, 2007, followed by January 26, 2008, May 24, 2008, August 16, 2008, December 20, 2008, and August 8, 2009 respectively.

Now, the synopsis. the story centers on a girl boy whatever girl named Shiki Misaki. She is a girl who grew up in a family imbued with supernatural powers. In particular, certain members possess something close to dual personalities; the 'male" and "female" sides, who are aware of each other. This dual conciousness, combined with her upbringing and a certain impulse to kill (She's The Reaper made human) has led her to reject other human beings.


When she was in high school, she met a caring classmate, Mikiya Kokutou. Slowly, under his influence, Shiki began to feel happiness in her life. however, that came to an end when Mikiya became to close to her.

.............

Shiki....I don't...wanna die...

 *smiles*

I want to kill you.

.......................

Cue car hitting Shiki right on the head. Ouch. Right before she nailed the poor guy. Lucky git.

June 1998, Shiki woke up from a coma; her eyes bandaged. In her mind, she felt only an utter void. Her memories were a blur, and she couldn't feel her 2 personalities, as if they are dead
(They are dead. Yay). Her doctor told her that it was a car accident. One night a paranoid Shiki tried to claw at her own eyes; eyes that stare into the void. But suddenly a woman, a mage in hiding stopped her, claiming that "they are too valuable to destroy"; after all, they are the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception",  eyes that could see the thread of death of all things in this world, enabling her to kill everything; a human, a ghost, a cat, energy, Nyx, Mara, Chuck Norris, you name it. Eventually, under the tutelage of Touko the doll-maker/mage/ whatever and her old classmate, Kokutou, Shiki set on a journey to reclaim her lost identity.

*whew* That's long.

And that's pretty much the overview of the movie. I would give a synopsis on all of them but as KnK features a truckload of characters, from the antagonists to the guys who only have 15 seconds in the movie, and as my bed is repeatedly casting Masleepdyne at me right now, I'll pass.

The things that make me love this movie are that it has a dark yet deep plot, and lots of plot twists and mind screws, not a straightforward happy ending kinda movie that features fairies, knights in shining armor and what not. And it has gore. Lots of them (but let me get this straight; I am NOT a Nightmare Fetishist.). So if you like movies that feature mind screws, dark plot twists, deep character background and relationship, cannibalistic sociopaths, and lots of blood, stop reading this review and watch KnK.

Oh and here's the trailer. Enjoy.