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Superb art works! The drawings are greatly in detail from the stains of the buildings to the blood spots on the road. The description of the water splash in the action scene was incredible. The story itself is a bit unkind to those who haven't read the original novel (but this is an OVA, you know. I'm sure all the viewers have read the novel.)

P.S. I felt staff's deep attachment to the ice cream...
P.S. Of course, there includes a clay anime. (Neko Arcueid!)

to be honest, I have a problem with rating this movie. I haven't read the novel, since it's unavailable in English (at least as a whole) from what I know. so, the story itself maybe wasn't that confusing, but I had this feeling I'm missing something. still, it was enjoyable and I really liked the art, sound and characters. I guess it's something along 8-/10 for me.

Splendid animation, down-right-awesome music and good voice acting. I enjoyed this a lot, and I can't wait to see the other movies. There are a lot of details in this movie, not only visually, which is great. I'm glad some good friends made me watch Tsukihime some months ago. Next episode seems to be very awesome.

9/10, I think I'm going to rewatch it again this week.


I'm glad this got subbed rather quickly, but I don't really like the subs. They were alright and I know that a lot of work went into the subbing. But there are quite a few situations where the subtitles didn't 100%ly fit, with a few slighty changes in wording I would've liked them a lot better. But yeah, still happy it got subbed and it's not like I had to watch this movie muted with only the subtitles if you get me.

Don't worry, I know someone from gg and they're going to release a v2 in a couple of hours. Especially due to the subtitles not being correctly timed at some times.

Unfortunately, I'm only going to be able to watch this either Friday or Saturday.. : <

Slow torrent.
Getting it through gg bot...
Rebooting computer.
Rizon messing.
Finally getting back on Rizon, continues the xdcc download.
Is finally able to watch the movie; Over joyed.
At 23:02 the screen freezes. I notice that it for some reason have only downloaded 300mb of the movie...
Is raging.
Finds a faster bot and successfully gets it downloaded again.
Watches the rest and is crying at it's beauty.

So, it took me around 5 hours to watch it.

The animation, the music, the voice casting, everything was fantastic.
I've been having a hard time to decide which of Touko's designs I like the most. As I've always been liking her old design, but still been really into the new.
But watching Fukan Fuukei made me think that her new design is great, and I don't really think her blue short hair would fit animated. At least not with the movies' animation.

I loved how they animated the battles and Garan no Dou is looking really good, I wish I had that many TV's.
Now we all know how to eat ice cream, too.

I gave it a 9/10, and I'm going to rewatch this as well. Actually, I'm going to watch all of the subbers to be able to decide which one I like the most.
Looking forward to Satsujin Kousatsu~
Highly anticipating Tsuukaku Zanryuu.

Oh and, Ryougi <3

very good
although... too short.... =(
it just ended too quickly

Look on the bright side. There's still 6 more movies to see. =x

Wow, awesome music, background art and character design... Also, the movie totally does the novel justice, I recalled everything I read some years ago when I watched this movie, it's absolutely on par with the original work, even though I think the atmosphere feels a bit darker in the movie !

On a side note, I'm a big fan of Shiki in the novel and I guess she's even more awesome on the movies now ;) Well, I have a lot of spoilers in mind but I'll refrain for now I think ! The only thing you should know (because it isn't exactly explained in the novel or in the games so it shouldn't be included in the movies anyway) is that Touko is the sister of Aoko Aozaki, the girl in the prologue of Tsukihime that saves Shiki and gives him his very special glasses (and who is a magi, one of the greatest wizards in the world of Typemoon but that's another story).

And yep Sobzob, I saw that the former design of Touko was with blue short hair, that was probably prettier but I think it made more sense to design her with red hair to match with her sister's, don't you think?

Well, to sum it up : I loved it, it's really similar to the novel, and with great art, voice acting and music on top of that. 9/10

Absolutely loved it.

The visuals were unbelievable, probably the best i have ever seen and the music including the ending theme was amazing. I intended to read the novel before watching the first movie but it didn't happen but now I am going to read it AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! And the preview for the next movie looks like it could be better than this one.

Overall a 9/10.

Great introduction episode. The animation and music were great. Loved the whole color palette used in the background art.

Story didn't get anywhere though, but it's got another 6 movies to make up for that.

And Ryougi has made it to my top 20 favorite characters list. ;-;

8-8.5/10

Soundtrack + oblivious = KICKASS.
Liked it but I agree that it was too short.
The art and animation were also spectacular. When Ryougi was walking into the Fujyou building for the first time, I about had a sensegasm from the spectacular soundtrack and the amazing art. My new headphones easily enhanced my experience, but hey.
8/10.

Nothing much to say that hasn't already been said. An animation whore like myself obviously loved it xD 9/10

I'll be anticipating the next one a lot D:

It was great. I definitely need more story and details. Now the problem is waiting until the next episode. I think the shakes are starting already...

Excellent animation quality. On the other hand, I couldn't really figure out the significance of anything that happened. Why are those girls committing suicide again? Why is Shiki fighting those ghosts? Most of the dialogue sounded vacuous and pretentious as well. Most annoyingly of all, albeit not a fault of the movie, I had problems with jerky animation and the video even froze temporarily a number of times. I guess all that detail took a toll on my computer.

Maybe the sequels will flesh out the plot more effectively, although I'm not counting on it. I'm sure they'll at least look equally pretty.

One reason could be your computer, another is your player. You're probably using that crappy VLC Player. Try this: http://www.cccp-project.net/ - use Media Player Classic

Well, I'm using Linux so I can't use Media Player Classic... However, I just tested opening Kara no Kyoukai in MPlayer and it played smoothly, so I guess VLC was at fault here. I wish I had known that earlier... I haven't really had any problems with VLC in the past other than rare overlapping subtitles.

Now when the first movie is officially out in DVD's, the guys from Baka-Tsuki should continue to translate the novel because it has been stalled forever :<

VLC wasn't really made to play soft subs, but if its hard subs, then I would recommend it. Anyway, I recommend you to re-watch it again, you might've missed some important scenes like this:
(my friend missed that part cuz he used VLC.. >.<)


As far as I can remember, she wants someone to "fly" for her sake, and she wants that person to take her away. In the last scene (after the credits), they revealed that she had an incurable disease, and that she's been in the hospital for 10 years. Obviously, those ghosts that Shiki fought are the ghost of the highschoolers who died. Shiki fought the girl because she took that Mikiya's soul.. I think the reason is because Mikiya's the only person who noticed her, and she thought that he could take her away.

They just released it (v2) ~ I'm about to watch it now~!
Hopefully it won't be too hard to follow~



since I haven't =O

Out of the story, is it just my luck, or the 500 Mb MKV raw version had terribly low sound volume ? I tried Media Player Classic, hasn't confirmed against other player yet.

But the visual is stunning... so this is what difference animation budget could bring...