Kara no Kyoukai
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Kara no Kyoukai (空の境界?) is one of TYPE-MOON's earliest works authored by Nasu Kinoko and illustrated by Takeuchi Takashi. It is also known under the name Rakkyo (らっきょ?), and its tagline the Garden of sinners.
The series originally began in October 1998 as a series of five chapters released online on Nasu and Takeuchi's doujin-based website, Takebouki (竹箒?), with its final two chapters being released at the Comiket 56 in 1999. Nasu and Takeuchi were later to form TYPE-MOON, and in 2001, featured a portion of the book in its 2001 Tsukihime fandisk, Tsukihime PLUS-DISC, which saw it gain significant popularity, leading to its release as a doujinshi publication at the Comiket 61 on December 30, 2001
On September 2002, a drama CD based on the series was released, and on August 6 2004, noted publisher Kodansha released the series as a commercial publication, which enjoyed immense popularity, with 5000 limited edition versions of the novel being sold almost immediately upon release. Both editions of Kara no Kyoukai altogether sold more than 500,000 copies.
The series is regarded as being set in an alternate parallel universe to another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime. with Aozaki Aoko's sister Aozaki Touko being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Ryougi Shiki, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Tohno Shiki.
The series will be adapted into an upcoming anime movie divided into 7 chapters, set to be animated by ufotable. The first chapter will be released in December 2007 at Theatres Shinjuku.
Contents |
[edit] Novels
[edit] Chapter Listing
- Chapter 1 – Overlooking the Scenery (俯瞰風景 Fukan Fuukei?) Thanatos.
- Chapter 2 – Murder Study (Part 1) (殺人考察(前) Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)?) …and nothing heart.
- Chapter 3 – Remaining Sense of Pain (痛覚残留 Tsuukaku Zanryuu?) ever cry,never life.
- Chapter 4 – The Hollow Shrine (伽藍の洞 Garan no Dou?) garan-no-dou.
- Intermission - Kirie/Fujino (境界式 Kyoukai Shiki?)
- Chapter 5 – Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?) Paradox Paradigm.
- Chapter 6 – Oblivion Recorder (忘却録音 Boukyaku Rokuon?) Fairy Tale.
- Intermission - Lio (境界式 Kyoukai Shiki?)
- Chapter 7 – Murder Study (Part 2) (殺人考察(後) Satsujin Kousatsu (Go)?) …not nothing heart.
- Boundary of Emptiness (空の境界 Kara no Kyoukai?)
- Gospel in the Future (未来福音 Mirai Fukuin?) recalled out summer
[edit] Animated Films
[edit] Movie Listing
- Kara no Kyoukai 1: Overlooking the Scenery (俯瞰風景 Fukan Fuukei?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 2: Murder Study (Part 1) (殺人考察(前) Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 3: Remaining Sense of Pain (痛覚残留 Tsuukaku Zanryuu?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 4: The Hollow Shrine (伽藍の洞 Garan no Dou?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 5: Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 6: Oblivion Recorder (忘却録音 Boukyaku Rokuon?) Fairy Tale.
- Kara no Kyoukai Remix -Gate of seventh heaven- (空の境界 Remix -Gate of seaventh heaven- Kara no Kyoukai Remix -Gate of seventh heaven-?)
- Kara no Kyoukai 7: Murder Study (Part 2) (殺人考察(後) Satsujin Kousatsu (Go)?)
[edit] Releases
- 2008-05-21 (Japan DVD 1: 俯瞰風景 - Thanatos)
- 2008-06-25 (Japan DVD 2: 殺人考察(前) - ...and nothing heart)
- 2008-07-23 (Japan DVD 3: 痛覚残留 - ever cry, never life)
- 2008-12-17 (Japan DVD 4: 伽藍の洞 - garan-no-dou)
- 2009-01-28 (Japan DVD 5: 矛盾螺旋 - Paradox Paradigm)
- 2009-07-29 (Japan DVD 6: 忘却録音 - Fairy Tale)
[edit] Theme Songs
- Each of the theme songs to the series are performed by Kalafina, a project formed by Kajiura Yuki.
- Overlooking the Scenery (俯瞰風景 Fukan Fūkei?)
- "Oblivious"
- Murder Study (Part 1) (殺人考察(前) Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)?)
- "Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Yuku" (君が光に変えて行く Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Yuku?)
- Remaining Sense of Pain (痛覚残留 Tsuukaku Zanryuu?)
- "Kizuato" (傷跡?)
- The Hollow Shrine (伽藍の洞 Garan no Dou?)
- "Aria"
- Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?)
- "Sprinter"
- Oblivion Recorder (忘却録音 Boukyaku Rokuon?)
- "Fairytale"
- Murder Study (Part 2) (殺人考察(後) Satsujin Kousatsu (Go)?)
- "Seventh Heaven"
[edit] Characters
- Voice Actors listed are, first, for the drama CD released in September 2002, and second, for the upcoming series of movies.
[edit] Major Characters
- Ryougi Shiki (両儀式?)
- VA: Kawakami Tomoko (川上とも子?), Maaya Sakamoto (坂本真綾?)
- A teenaged girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception", a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin". She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織?), and the original female personality Shiki (式?). Children born into the Ryougi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私?), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (オレ?). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold façade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Touko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.
- Kokutou Mikiya (黒桐幹也?)
- VA: Itou Kentarou (伊藤健太郎?), Suzumura Kenichi (鈴村健一?)
- Shiki's friend who, two years ago, made a promise with Shiki to attend college. He discovers a doll at an exhibition his friend asked him to and falls in love with its flawless craftsmanship. He is so charmed by it that he seeks out the maker, Aozaki Touko, and then finds her residence. With his hopes of attending college with Shiki crushed because of her coma, he drops out of college to work under Touko as an assistant investigator. Touko holds his investigative skills with high-regard because of his ability to find her workplace, an abandoned building hidden to all except those who wish to find it. The male Shiki and the current Shiki call him Cocteau (コクトー Kokutoo?) due to his last name's resemblance to Jean Cocteau's last name, though the current Shiki dislikes it for an unknown reason.
- Kokutou Azaka (黒桐鮮花?)
- VA: Tamura Yukari (田村ゆかり?), Fujimura Ayumi (藤村歩?)
- Mikiya's younger sister, who loves him. She becomes an apprentice of Touko due to her rivalry against Shiki, and is talented in the magic of ignition. She is quite similar both in appearance and abilities to Tohno Akiha (though Akiha's ability consists of controlling external heat, whereas Azaka's ability is inducing ignitions).
- Aozaki Touko (蒼崎橙子?)
- VA: Inoue Kikuko (井上喜久子?), Honda Takako (本田貴子?)
- Appearing as a puppet maker, Touko is actually an extremely powerful sorceress. She runs a business in an abandoned building called Garan no Dou (伽藍の洞, 伽藍の堂?), a detective agency consisting of only herself and Mikiya that only takes supernatural or otherwise abnormal cases. She is the sister of Tsukihime's Aozaki Aoko, with whom she does not share a particularly good relationship.
[edit] Sub-Characters
- Fujou Kirie (巫条霧絵?)
- VA (movie only): Tanaka Rie (田中理恵?)
- Introduced in 1/Overlooking the Scenery (俯瞰風景 Fukan Fuukei?). A bedridden girl who controls a ghostly version of herself above the Fujou Building (巫条ビル fujou biru?). She is the reason behind the supposed Fujou Building suicides.
- Akimi Daisuke (秋巳大輔?)
- VA (movie only): Touchi Hiroki (東地 宏樹?)
- Introduced in 2/Murder Study (Part 1) (殺人考察(前) Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)?). A detective working with the local law enforcement, Daisuke is Mikiya's cousin who acts as an elder brother figure to him. Despite his scruffy and laid back appearance, Akimi is a diligent investigator who’s put in charge of unraveling the truth behind a series of strange murders which he suspect someone from Mikiya's highschool. Daisuke hold's Mikiya's investigation ability in high regards, and often share some classified information with him for suggestions.
- Shirazumi Lio (白純里緒?)
- VA (movie only): Hoshi Souichirou (保志 総一朗?)
- Introduced in 2/Murder Study (Part 1) (殺人考察(前) Satsujin Kousatsu (Zen)?). An older schoolmate of Kokutou who quit school because he found something he wanted to do.
- Asagami Fujino (浅上藤乃?)
- VA (movie only): Noto Mamiko (能登麻美子?)
- Introduced in 3/Remaining Sense of Pain (痛覚残留 Tsuukaku Zanryuu?). Classmate and friend to Azaka, who both attend Reien Girl's Academy (礼園女学院 reien jogakuin?). A murderer in secret, her ability to feel pain is very distorted and her murders are seemingly a way of giving her inner peace.
- Araya Souren (荒耶宗蓮?)
- VA (for drama CD and movie): Nakata Jouji (中田譲治?)
- Introduced in Intermission - Kirie/Fujino (境界式?). An expert of magecraft and a previous acquaintance of Touko from the Mage's Association (魔術協会 Majutsu Kyoukai?).
- Enjou Tomoe (臙条巴?)
- VA (movie only): Kakihara Tetsuya (柿原 徹也?)
- Introduced in 5/Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?). A teenager that Shiki takes in. He claims to have killed his parents because of constant dreams of getting killed by his mother.
- Enjou Kaede (臙条楓?)
- VA (movie only): Miki Itou
- Introduced in 5/Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?).Tomoe's mother. In Tomoe's recollections, he stabbed and disemboweled her. However, in his nightmares, he sees her killing her husband, and then him.
- Cornelius Alba (コルネリウス＝アルバ Koruneriusu Aruba?)
- VA (movie only): Yusa Kouji (遊佐 浩二?)
- Introduced in 5/Paradox Spiral (矛盾螺旋 Mujun Rasen?). Director of the Sponheim Abbey, and acquaintance of Araya and Touko. They were on good terms until the day Cornelius came to the realization that Touko was a better Mage than he was. Even though he was popularly considered a better Mage than her, he became so obsessed with this inferiority complex that he occasionally becomes deranged when speaking of her.
- Kurogiri Satsuki (玄霧皐月?)
- Voiced by: Okiayu Ryoutarou (置鮎 龍太郎?)
- Introduced in 6/Oblivion Recorder (玄霧皐月 Boukyaku Rokuon?). A magus designated to be sealed, known as "God's Word", with an ability to manipulate others through his words alone, causing them to believe what he says. He demonstrated this ability by "convincing" Ryougi Shiki that she could not see him, and she was unable to cut him. Was also the one who gave Misaya Ouji the ability to manipulate the fairies, and was himself capable of manipulating memories, including recalling ones the target cannot remember.
- Ouji Misaya (黄路美沙夜?)
- Voiced by: Mizuki Nana (水樹 奈々?)
- Introduced in 6/Oblivion Recorder (玄霧皐月 Boukyaku Rokuon?). The daughter of the Reien's school chairman, was manipulated by "God's Word" into believing that her friend, Kaori Tachibana, committed sucide because she discovered that Hideo Hayama, a school teacher, was taking illegal drugs, and he drugged her in order to keep her silent, and nobody helped her. She planned to take revenge by using the fairies to force the students to commit sucide in the same way that Kaori Tachibana did, at the same site, but was stopped by Azaka.
- Seo Shizune (瀬尾静音?)
- Introduced in Gospel in the Future (未来福音 Mirai Fukuin?). Kokutou Azaka's room-mate.
- Kuramitsu Meruka (倉密メルカ?)
- Introduced in Gospel in the Future (未来福音 Mirai Fukuin?). A Bomber and 14-year-old boy.
- Ryougi Mana (両儀未那?)
- Introduced in Gospel in the Future (未来福音 Mirai Fukuin?). Shiki and Kokutou's daughter. She knows about her mother's male personality, SHIKI (織?). Her wish is to "beat her mom so she can bring her dad back".
[edit] Chronological timeline
- 1995
- March
- Mikiya meets Shiki for the first time on a snowy night.
- April
- Shiki enters high school and gets acquainted with Mikiya.
- September
- Murders begin to occur in the city. The most likely suspect is Shiki, but Mikiya thinks otherwise.
- 1996
- February
- Shiki encounters a traffic accident and spends two years in hospital in a coma.
- 1998
- March
- Mikiya enters university after graduating from high school.
- May
- Mikiya sees one of Tōko's dolls at an exhibition.
- Mikiya meets Tōko.
- Mikiya quits university halfway.
- June
- Shiki awakens. After getting discharge, Shiki agrees working for Tōko.
- July
- Shiki confronts an assasin that can bend things, and suffers from constant pain.
- August
- recalled out summer – Gospel in the Future (未来福音 Mirai Fukuin?) Möbius ring
- September
- Suicides occurring at a building, inhabitated by ghosts.
- November
- A boy escapes from home, after having killed somebody. His home seems to be a building that records the deaths of its residents.
- 1999
- January
- A mage resides in a girl's academy, using faeries to create havoc. Shiki infiltrates with the help of Mikiya's sister, Azaka.
- February
- The murders from two years ago resume, and Shiki finally confronts the killer.
- 2008
- recalled out summer – Gospel in the Future -The Beginning (未来福音・序 Mirai Fukuin Jo?) Möbius link
[edit] References
This article is based on or incorporates content from this revision of the article Kara_no_Kyoukai from the English Wikipedia
