Kara no Kyoukai, 5, Mujun rasen
Rating :
Director :
Takayuki Hirao
Date :
2024-10-21
Country :
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(Japan)
(First) Release Date :
2008-08-16
IMDb :
tt1278060
Comment :
Legendary. One of the best anime series that has ever existed and this one is the series' best. This is also the one that got me into anime. There are so many things going on here. The narrative structure, the bent, squashed, folded time, the atmosphere, the poignant dream in the end... everything.
Though this, the fifth one in the series, is in my opinion the most irrelevant one in terms of story to the great main story line, but here through this maneuver the whole story line is given a 'cosmological' and metaphysical context, in which the meaningfulness of life and the nature of spacetime is philosophically and even theologically revealed, making the story much more poignant and moving.
Kinoko Nasu's stories are "uneven": there's always something profound, but this profoundness is quite "plundered" by the light-novel genre. Kara no Kyoukai is the least polluted one of his series. I can sense that he has some true understanding of the conceptual and symbolic contents of various religions, and is quite well-read in esotericism. Occasionally he's profoundly philosophical (BTW I hate what Touko Aozaki said in the moment of Araya Souren's dying; pretentious), and there's always a feeling of mystery and truth when he writes seriously.
Though this, the fifth one in the series, is in my opinion the most irrelevant one in terms of story to the great main story line, but here through this maneuver the whole story line is given a 'cosmological' and metaphysical context, in which the meaningfulness of life and the nature of spacetime is philosophically and even theologically revealed, making the story much more poignant and moving.
Kinoko Nasu's stories are "uneven": there's always something profound, but this profoundness is quite "plundered" by the light-novel genre. Kara no Kyoukai is the least polluted one of his series. I can sense that he has some true understanding of the conceptual and symbolic contents of various religions, and is quite well-read in esotericism. Occasionally he's profoundly philosophical (BTW I hate what Touko Aozaki said in the moment of Araya Souren's dying; pretentious), and there's always a feeling of mystery and truth when he writes seriously.