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I like the title of this series. "The Garden of Sinners", it's 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, I'll 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
& TYPE-MOON. Since the movie follows a non-linear 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-
**"It's 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 let's talk about this film; **ever cry, never life (Remaining Sense of Pain)**.
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(*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**. It's
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 it's **inhumane**, making her a sinner.
The main cause of her sin is her **"inability to feel Pain"**. She has an abnormal condition where
she can't 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 couldn't grasp that life-threating 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 wasn't 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 don't 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
she's 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 wasn't 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. Shiki's family expects her to manifest her mystic powers unlike
Fujino's family who feared & thought it was unnecessary in the modern world. They have opposite
roots yet Shiki's says that, Fujino & her are like two feathers of the same bird. Shiki understands
& sympathizes with Fujino's nature but finds it's unforgivable when she crossed the line between
murder as an act of self-protection, 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
Fujino's father. She had no slavation to begin with. What do you call something that isn't 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 it's 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 it's uneven pacing and storytelling method.
#Summary
The ideologies it raises, beautiful art & animation combined with it's mystical soundtrack and
interesting characters, outweighed it's pacing problems and uneven storytelling.
If it hurts you,
~! You should've just said so!~
