Kara no Kyoukai Movie 7: Satsujin Kousatsu (Go)

In February 1999, a string of murders has Shiki Ryougi and Mikiya Kokutou on edge. These crimes share a disturbing resemblance to a similar set of homicides from 1995, when Shiki and Mikiya first met, and awaken a dark, murderous desire that has laid dormant within Shiki's soul ever since then.

With Shiki under suspicion due to her involvement in the past killings and supposed resemblance to the killer, she and Mikiya set out to find the true perpetrator. In the midst of their separate investigations, Mikiya grows increasingly concerned with Shiki's well-being and hurries to find the one responsible in order to protect Shiki from her own impulses. With the lead he receives from his cousin, police investigator Daisuke Akimi, Mikiya is led into the underbelly of Mifune City, as the salvation of Shiki's soul lies in his determination to prove her innocence once and for all.

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Ryougi, Shiki Main

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Kokutou, Mikiya Main

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

Shirazumi, Lio Main

Hoshi, Souichirou Japanese

Aozaki, Touko Supporting

Honda, Takako Japanese

Kokutou, Azaka Supporting

Fujimura, Ayumi Japanese

Araya, Souren Supporting

Nakata, Jouji Japanese

Hotaruzuka, Otoko Supporting

Kaida, Yuuko Japanese

Gakuto Supporting

Takahashi, Kenji Japanese

Akimi, Daisuke Supporting

Touchi, Hiroki Japanese

Iwakami, Atsuhiro Producer

Kondou, Hikaru Producer

Takizawa, Shinsuke Director

Iwanami, Yoshikazu Sound Director

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Jul 12, 2026

DaiTenshi_06

Recommended

This review is from the overall movies adaptation of Kara no Kyoukai.

Those movies are pretty flawed, as they could've have been handled way better and less rushed.
Paradox Spiral that is Movie 5 emotional pay-off of the novel hit harder. A 1h, 2h extra hours would have made our time with Tomoe a lot better in a way that we can connect more with the characters before his inevitable final moments. A lot of banters and dialogue that were maybe mundane but neccesary for adding more depth to the final twist of Tomoe.

Same with Fujino in Lingering Pain, Movie 3 , When Mikiya ... pick her up in the street and they talk at his home. It been skipped, she simply wake up and go. We don't see the promise they made and the quiet dialogue that show us Fujino love for Mikiya.


As for Movie 6 the Rien Academy drama was a complete disaster. It was so bad, it skipped and rushed almost every details. We don't know how Azaka see the fairies as Shiki advice her to use her fire magic to trace the heat signal, We don't know what Satsuki or God Word say to Shiki, threaten her with recovering SHIKI memories that make her panic for the first time adding so much more to Shiki character when she's threaten psychologically. We don't learn to Satsuki backstory nor his defeat, how he's a monkey paw wish granter and was cursed by the fairies and a lot more. This movie stand at the absolute bottom by how surface level it is.
It was not rushed, we jumped over every major details making the journey butchedred.
If the LN was heavy with philosophy, the movies are a stories in a hurry trying to catche a bus. It doesn't hit the same.

The only well adapted arc are Movie 2 and Movie 7 aswell as the epilogue that has a decent pacing.


For the animation.
Ufotable was truly ahead of it's time.. The animation, Sakugas and lightning especially in Movie 5,7 and 8 was breathtaking for 2007. It smooth, pleasing to the eyes and fluid. Even in early Ufotable style compared to HF or UBW or even F/Zero. It has it charm. You feel the power of the MEODP of Shiki when they glow in the night of Mifune or the ethereal snow and the orange glow of the town in the epilogue with Void Shiki and Mikiya. Not even at their pinnacle. Ufotable never fail to deliver a clean, incredible animation that capture the atmosphere of the urban fantasy of Nasu.

The OST.

Even before watching the movies I had a KNK ost playlist that I listened and enjoyed. Kiajura ethereal,eerie choir was a blessing to the ears.. until you see the movie and hear the same leitmotif in climax, intense same over and over.

It'a the same melody, the same notes with a different introduction and build up, arriving at movie 4 you can anticipate the choir that you will hear at a climax and you will be right. I don't feel like hearing a album but different remixes playlist of the same music. Kiajura didn't have this problem with Fate/Zero nor Madoka Magica but for some reason Kara No Kyoukai was just a bile of the same leitmotif remixed across the movies.






A lot was glossed over and It is a lesser version of the LN that I give the mediocre score of 5.5/10. Animation alone can get so far but a butchered jouney of a deconstruction of identity and finding meaning to life through sins can't afford shortcut nor precipitation.
I recommend it nontheless for the cinematography and the simple pleasure to see those characters talking and moving but if you want the full experience, you need to read the Light Novel.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jul 11, 2015

Eagleshadow

Mixed Feelings

I have no idea what this show is doing anymore, it's become too hard to analyse. This movie/episode was both good and bad, parts of it were kinda fun, but there were countless bad parts mentioned below. Overall, it was fun riffing on it while watching. All good points and bad points mentioned before remain.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

- 10:00 just fuck already! Or at least hug and kiss I don't care, but this status quo relationship is getting too ridiculous for a show seemingly so serious and mature.

- 16:15 what is this Saya no Uta soundtrack doing in my KnK?! Can't say it's not appropriate... ...

- 18:18 Really? You're gonna follow her even after what just happened? I'm not sure which one of them is supposed to be the psycho anymore. ...hey wait, was that the point all along?

- 24:48 lsd and pot? I hope this wasn't supposed to come across as ''junkies are getting murdered'' because to me it came across as ''people who enjoy life are getting murdered''.

- 25:12 link between drugs and murders? Thematic message better not end up being ''lsd and pot are bad''.

- 29:03 Their idea of tripping on 1/10th lsd dose is everything fades to black? Please...

- 30:52 She's the hero this city needs, but not the one it deserves

- tripping - you're doing it wrong. Also, ''he doesn't really reccomend it'', right... I guess no other line would be acceptable to the publishers. I like how his friend is cool with it.

- 36:00 TIL: ''lsd mixed with pot destroys your body'', oh wait let me rephrase that, TIL: ''Kara no Kyoukai sucks hairy ballz''.

- 37:19 Why exactly is she trusting him with all this free info? He's just a random stranger asking drug dealer suspicious questions. Oh right, same reason as above. .

- 37:42 Oh! Oh! Lipreading time! Hei...sen...berg!

- 43:00 Action scenes have been feeling weightless for a while, like nothing is at stake anymore. I guess that's what happens when writer calls back his shots, like that artificial arm deal, and especially the ''bringing characters back from the dead'' part. Why should I care if protagonist gets cut or killed when I know it won't matter? Why should I care if antagonist gets cut or killed when I've been watching people cut up and kill people, and far worse, for hours and hours already, since it's practically what the show is about. This is a serious problem.

- 48:00-56:44 To many ridiculous stuff to keep count.

- 1:12:28 Jack...pot! ...I'll show myself out.

- 1:20:30 We're really hammering in this idea that murder takes away one's humanity aren't we. How about hammering in the idea of smoking murdering your lungs? Since, I mean, there's about as many cigars smoked in this show as there are murderers, and just as viscerally. It's a show about smoking and murdering at this point.

- 1:23:43 ...man... if anyone ever needed a shower...

- 1:24:30 ''This how you sex right? I'm no longer virgin right? Right?!''

- 1:27:15 And here we go again calling back punches using random fantasy magic. Now I won't even care the next time someone starts salivating all over someone else.

- 1:29:10 And now drugs are also magic, why did I expect that not to be the case? I can almost hear the writer thinking ''my ignorance about drugs is hereby redeemed!''

- 1:31:08 ''10 times more potent than pot, you'll die if you don't do anything about it'' Ok this is officially so bad it's good again. (Also... you know you could puke it out right?)

- 1:32:00 Could've just fed him the bloodstuff right away...

- 1:32:10 Say no to drugs, kids! Even if it kills you!

- 1:34:18 I'm not buying it until I see his head on a stick. Actually I'm not buying it even if I see his head on a stick.

- 1:50:00 ''I won't let you go as long as I live'', he meant to say kiss.

Well that was a pretty epilogue, beautifully contrasted to the rest of the show. So I guess murder taking away one's humanity didn't really matter after all, in the end, at least consequence-wise. Seems like bad writing but I don't feel qualified enough yet to tell for sure."

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 4, 2021

meeeetch

Not Recommended

They can animate in vivid detail several minutes of gore, dismemberment, and drool-rape, but can't be bothered to draw a single smooch.

I've never seen a story so drawn out for such kindergarten-level morality. Yeah, killing is bad, but you can still bonk people on the head if they're wilin.

7 movies in, and I don't even really understand what the heck the Ghostbusters even DO. How do they get paid? Are they working with the cops? The lady talks with the detective frequently, so why don't they ever get involved?

Why stabby-lady chomp off her own thumb-thumb when we established that she can "kill" a lock with ... nothing but her fingernails or a ruler?

I've never seen such wasted potential. Cool characters designs, but given nothing to do. Just silly people doing silly things for silly reasons.

Pretty drawings, but that's about it.

This makes me want to take 10 deadly marijuanas and die.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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