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June 1998. Shiki Ryougi wakes up from a coma; her eyes are bandaged. In her mind, she feels only " "--utter void. Her memories are a blur, and she feels disconnected from them, as though they are not her own. Her doctor tells her that it was a car accident. She wants to be rid of those eyes; eyes that stare into the void. A woman stops her, saying that they are "too wasteful to destroy"; after all, they are the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.

 

 

== Consists of the following novels and stories: ==

** Shiki's [[Leitmotif]] even finds it's way into [[Melty Blood]] Actress Again as her stage's music.

* [[The Lifestream]] - Akasha, the Root of everything and nothing, the beginning and the end, the Swirl of Origin, etc. [[The Nothing After Death]] would be more appropriate a description,though you're still sort-of conscious in it.

* [[Magi Babble]] - Almost a given with any [[Nasuverse]] work.

* [[Man Behind the Man]] - Araya Souren.

* [[Split Personality]] - Or rather, "United Independent Personalities." {{spoiler|The Ryougi Family has the supernatural ability of dual personalities, which resulted in Shiki having both a (dominant) female side and a male side. Shiki's male side ''dies'', which gives her a connection to death while she's still alive. What's left is the hole that is her so-called "Third Personality."}}

* [[The Stoic]] - Araya Souren, and Shiki; {{spoiler|her disinterest in other human beings started it, but it's her connection to the Root that made her empty.}}

* [[Sugar and Ice Girl]] - Shiki.

* [[Super Speed]] and [[Required Secondary Powers]] - Done to extremes. {{spoiler|Araya Souren can dodge a bullet after it has been fired. Ryougi Shiki can move faster than Araya's eyes can track, not to mention attacking so fast that he didn't even realize his arm was cut until it fell off.}} They even added something like a sonic boom in the film adaptation.

* [[Super Weight]] - Lets rank 'em.

** [[Love Hurts]] - Poor Mikiya. [[Love Makes You Crazy|Has a somewhat different effect for Shiki, though.]]

* [[Mistaken for Murderer]] - Done straight and serious.

** Only in the [[OVA|OVAs]], though. The cameo didn't happen in the original novels... probably because the original novels predate [[Tsukihime]], and thus, [[Melty Blood]].

* [[Snow Means Death]] - "April 1995. I met her."

* [[Feel No Pain]] - Asagami Fujino, both physically and emotionally, though she keeps this a secret from everyone else so they don't think she's abnormal. She was even {{spoiler|repeatedly raped by a gang because of her passivity and this unwillingness to tell anyone about her 'pain'}}. She starts getting her sensation back in fits {{spoiler|after one of the gang hits her with a baseball bat. The pain makes her feel more alive... and murderous. They die messily.}} It turns out that the lack of pain was the result of {{spoiler|her father medicating her as a child to seal her psychic powers before they got out of hand}}.

* [[Pet the Dog]] - In an odd way; Shiki {{spoiler|lets Fujino live by killing her appendicitis}}, which by her standards is petting the dog.

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] - Kokutou, of all people. Granted, {{spoiler|he's being told how one of his former friends and his buddies abused Fujino}}, so he's disgusted.

* [[Tear Jerker]]: {{spoiler|'' "I... don't want to die... I want to live more... I want to feel more... I want to talk with him more... I want to love him more... I want to be here longer... I don't want... to die... Oh it hurts... It Hurts so bad I want to cry... Can I cry?" ''}}

** There's also the post-credits scene, showing how Araya Souren is connected to the first three parts.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: When Shiki first wakes up the fact that her hair is now past shoulder-length lets us know she's been asleep for a long time. Add an [[Important Haircut]] later and you know she's serious.

* [[Out-of-Clothes Experience]]: While in the Void Shiki is depicted as being completely nude.

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=== #5: "Paradox Spiral" (October-November 1998) ===

Enjou Tomoe flees his apartment after killing his parents and unexpectedly finds sanctuary at Shiki's place. Tomoe then finds that his parents have apparently failed to stay dead, and that's only the first sign of the abnormalities surrounding the building. Things get bloody messy, and Touko meets some old acquaintances. This movie is notable in that {{spoiler|Shiki kills off the [[Big Bad]] of the series here, while the following two movies explore the loose and still-unused plot threads}}.

* [[All There in the Manual]] - The concepts in this movie are a ''lot'' clearer after reading the novels. The movie is also more passive over the fact that {{spoiler|Tomoe escaping and Shiki and Tohko getting involved (most of the plot, really) were caused by the Counter Force manipulating them to have the situation resolved.}}

* [[Anachronic Order]] - Deserves separate mention here. The movie plays out in three "arcs"--one from Shiki's perspective, then one from Mikiya's, and lastly a finale tying the two together--divided by title cards with a hand-sketched appearance. Several short scenes are repeated verbatim, such as Mikiya's surprise at Shiki's locked apartment door, with others shown from different perspectives. The long flashback as {{spoiler|Shiki breaks out of Araya's confinement}} fills in some gaps towards the end.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]] - Despite the large amount of blood elsewhere in the movie, the scene near the beginning of Tomoe killing his mother is oddly lacking. {{spoiler|This lack of blood is actually a critical clue to what's really going on}}. This also works as an effective [[Mind Screw]].

* [[Brain In A Jar]] - {{spoiler|Everyone in Tomoe's apartment is just a puppet, with their brains actually kept alive in a pile of jars in the basement}}.

* [[Off-Model]] - Shiki's fight against the zombie puppets.

* [[Pet the Dog]] - Shiki goes somewhere between this and [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] (but not quite - she is ''very'' hard to categorize) when she starts stabbing her pillow in frustration while griping about Mikiya's absence to Tomoe.

* [[Snow Means Death]] - {{spoiler|When Araya dies}}

* [[Start of Darkness]] - A flashback/dream of Araya's shows him standing in the aftermath of a bloody conflict 200 years ago, looking at the corpse of a little boy who got caught up in it. He resolves that since he cannot save anybody, he will at least {{spoiler|collect and record the deaths of people and reach the origin so he can end this world so there can be no more meaningless deaths}}.

* [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship]]: Implied of Ouji and Tachibana.

* [[Schrodingers Cat]]: {{spoiler|Tachibana dies in the novel and lives in the movie.}}

** In addition, the headmistress of the Reien Girls' Academy is mentioned to be one Mother [[Melty Blood|Riesbyfe, who has a large stringed instrument case]] in her office.

* [[Sneezing]]: Touko does this when Shiki and Azaka find her picture in the yearbook.