S2E01 - The Garden of Sinners (Kara no Kyoukai) Parts 1 - 2 Review & Analysis

“The overlooking view is a breathtaking sight.”

For Season 2 of Japanimation Station – ufotable/Moon Works – we will be discussing all of the animated adaptations of Type-Moon’s books and visual novels produced by renowned studio ufotable. The best-known of these are related to Kinoko Nasu’s groundbreaking visual novel Fate/stay night, but the story of ufotable and Type-Moon’s creative partnership actually starts with an earlier work: Kara no Kyoukai, known in English as The Garden of Sinners, a light novel written by Nasu in 1998, and adapted into a series of films by Ufotable starting in 2007. We’ll be spending the first five episodes of this season working through these films, starting today with the first two installments: Overlooking View and A Study in Murder: Part 1. It’s a dense, intentionally confusing, and immediately gripping introduction to the world of Kara no Kyoukai and the Nasu-verse in general, with Sean coming in as a long-standing Type-Moon veteran and Jonathan as a newcomer to all of this. As we quickly learn, The Garden of Sinners is nothing if not a powerful conversation starter, and there is an almost endless well of things to talk about, both here and in the weeks to come.

Enjoy, and come back next week as we review parts 3 and 4 of The Garden of Sinners – Remaining Sense of Pain and The Hollow Shrine!

Time Chart:

Theme Song: 0:00:00 – 0:01:14

Intro to Season and Nasu-Verse: 0:01:14 – 0:42:31

Eyecatch: 0:42:31 – 0:42:41

Part 1 – Overlooking View: 0:42:41 – 1:47:30

Part 2 – A Study in Murder I: 1:47:30 – 2:26:46

End Credits: 2:26:46 – 2:28:01

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