Alternative Titles
Kara no Kyoukai; Borderline of Emptiness; Rakkyo
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Type: Novel
Volumes: 2
Chapters: 10
Status: Finished
Published: Not available Genres:
Supernatural, Super Power, Sci-Fi, School, Psychological, Mystery, Magic, Horror, Fantasy, Demons, Dementia Serialization:
None
StatisticsScore: 8.781 (scored by 83 users)
Ranked: #172
Popularity: #725
Members: 397 1 indicates a weighted score
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SynopsisKara no Kyoukai is a Japanese novel series, authored by Kinoko Nasu and illustrated by Takashi Takeuchi (who were later to form the group TYPE-MOON).
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 Ryōgi 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. Tōko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.
The series is regarded as being set in the same world as another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime, with Aoko Aozaki's sister Tōko Aozaki being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Shiki Ryōgi, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki Tohno.
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Related MangaSummary: Faust
Adaptation: Kara no Kyoukai 1: Fukan Fuukei
Side story: Kara no Kyoukai Mirai Fukuin
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Jan 29, 200810 of ? chapters read 18 of 20 people found this review helpful I found it pretty entertaining to write a review, so I guess I'll be doing another one. But this time on the best novel I've ever read; Kara no Kyoukai.
So you can expect high rating on this one.
Story
It contains 7 main chapters with 2 intermissions and an epilogue.
The chapters are pretty much set up in a random order, putting them all together they become one story. But when you start reading the first and the second chapters it kind... of feels like it's going to be 7 different 'short' stories.
But as soon as you get to around the 4th chapter you'll notice that it's one story.
The story itself is really interesting in every aspect; the events, the meetings, the action. Fantastic! We even get a really sad and depressing chapter.
Score: 10
Art
Seems like this is the only one I'm actually rating rather low, compared to the rest.
As Kara no Kyoukai, or Rakkyo was written by Nasu in his earlier days, it's the same thing with Takeuchi; It was a rather long time since he drew the art for it. Thus not the best he've done, but it's still great art.
They recently re-released first volume of Rakkyo with new art by Takeuchi, much better looking than the old. But I have yet to get my hands on that.
Score: 8
Character
Another of the very best aspects of Rakkyo, the characters. They are, as well as the story; Absolutely fantastic!
The main character, Ryougi Shiki have been my number one favorites ever since I read the novel; She's amazing! Not to mention Aozaki Touko, whom is one really interesting character, too.
Mikiya is also a character you can take much liking to; surprisingly enough, as he's slightly the "I don't know anything, I'm in the way" type of character.
I won't mention anything on the antagonists as I'm good with spoilers that way. So I'll just sum it up as "I've taken a lot of liking to all of them in various ways".
I'm sorry that I'm not mentioning you, Azaka. But I don't really know what to say. You're pretty cool, I guess. Actually, you're great, too.
Score: 10
Enjoyment
I enjoyed Rakkyo to the max!
It's one of those novels you can't put away once you've started; Must know what happens next!
With all the events and action it's giving one the ultimate enjoyment while reading.
Score: 10
Overall
Okay, the overall view. It's as I've said a couple of times now, or so it feels like; It's great in every aspect! It's without doubt a must read.
If you don't know Japanese, you could always follow the walkthrough I wrote a while back to read it online.
I could probably write a lot more here, but I would have to start over with everything I've written so far and glue it all down here along with way too many additions.
So I won't, as I could go on forever.
Score: 10
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Feb 5, 2008? chapters 2 of 38 people found this review helpful at first..it was perfect NOVEL at all...
it stories fully and I guess it is one of the Nasu Kinoko's masterpiece!!
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