The Garden of Sinners: Difference between revisions

Each of the first seven chapters was adapted into a movie by [[Ufotable]] from 2007 to 2009, while the epilogue was released as a 30-minute OVA in February 2011.

 

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* [[Action Mom]] - {{spoiler|Ryougi Shiki in "Mirai Fukuin"}}

* [[Adaptation Distillation]] - The author of the original novels had hoped to rewrite several of the stories to be less "clumsy". Then he read the script for the first movie, and concluded that there was no need- they'd already addressed his concerns by cutting out most of the excesses.

* [[All There in the Manual]]

* [[Alternate Continuity]] - [[Word of God]] states that there can only be one user of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, which means either [[Tsukihime|Tohno Shiki]] has them, or this Ryougi Shiki. In addition, Aozaki Touko's goal contradicts with the existence of the True Ancestor Arcueid, also from [[Tsukihime]]. See the YMMV page for a different interpretation.

* [[Big Bad]] - Araya Souren, who is pretty much responsible for everything bad that happens to Shiki after meeting Mikiya in high school; {{spoiler|Lio Shirazumi, the true culprit behind all of the grisly murders in the city.}}.

* [[Blood Knight]] - Shiki

** ...she's a modern day warrior woman who only feels alive in a fight to the death.

** ...her weapons of choice are the tanto (knife) and katana (sword).

* [[Chekhov's Gun]] [[Chekhov's Skill|(And Accompanying Skill)]] - It is mentioned in the second chapter that {{spoiler|Ryougi Shiki possesses a sword and is trained in its use by her father}}; it is later used in the fifth chapter, {{spoiler|though it is broken in the end.}}

** Also, in the first chapter, it mentions the Fujino case. Guess what chapter three is centric to?

* [[Compilation Movie]]: ''Kara no Kyoukai Remix: Gate of Seventh Heaven''. ''Totally'' incomprehensible if you haven't watched the full movies already, but at least they rectified Satsuki's complete lack of backstory in the sixth movie. It also adds in {{spoiler|the first meeting of Mikiya and "Void" Shiki}}.

* [[Convenient Coma]] - A big part of the overarching story; what led to and what happens during the coma, and the repercussions after the awakening.

* [[Cool Old Guy]] - Akitaka, the Ryougi manservant.

* [[Cross Dresser]] / [[Villainous Crossdresser]] - {{spoiler|In the 7th chapter, Lio Shirazumi styles his hair like Ryogi's, and wears a dress to resemble her. It also doesn't help the fact that he's batshit insane. The fact that he looks downright frightening in a rather silly looking skirt says ''a lot''.}}

* [[Death Glare]] - Ryougi Shiki; those glowing blue eyes help.

* [[Death Is Cheap]] - {{spoiler|Aozaki Touko}}

* [[Functional Magic]] - Magecraft in defined as "artificial reenactment of Magic", requiring [[Equivalent Exchange]], whereas Magic is "achieving the impossible" (eg. Operation of Parallel Worlds).

* [[Genre Busting]]: It's a mix of romance, horror, [[Urban Fantasy]], murder mystery, and action.

* [[Girly Run]] - Azaka

* [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] - The mystic eyes in the movies. Shiki's eyes glow ''once'' blue in the novels, when she's considering killing Enjou Tomoe because she's restless. She decides against it.

* [[Knife Nut]] - Shiki, very much so. {{spoiler|Not that she has anything against swords though, as shown in her fight against Souren.}}. {{spoiler|Lio Shirazumi}}, although he isn't limited to just a ''knife'' nut per se.

* [[Last of Their Kind]] - {{spoiler|Both Asagami Fujino and Fujyo Kirie are implied to be the last supernatural member of their respective families, and Kurokiri Satsuki is the last person ''on Earth'' that can use the Unified Language.}}

** 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.

** ''Muggle Weight'' - Kokuto Mikiya ([[Unfazed Everyman]]), Enjou Tomoe ([[Ordinary High School Student]])

** ''Iron Weight'' - Shirazumi Lio (although it was magically enabled, he's pretty much got a weird variant of the [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]), Ouji Misaya (can cause [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] via her [[The Fair Folk|fairy]] [[Familiar|Familiars]])

** ''Lottery Weight'' - Asagami Fujino (Super [[Mind Over Matter|Telekinesis]], clairvoyance), Cornelius Alba (High-speed spellcasting, powerful puppets), Aozaki Touko ([[Immortality]], superpowered puppets, rune magic), Ryougi Shiki (mystic eyes superpower, highest-ranking [[Super Speed]])

** ''Deus Weight'' - Araya Souren ([[Implacable Man]], [[Immortality]], [[Nigh Invulnerable]], [[Force Field]], [[Super Speed]], crushing space-time attack, [[Reality Warper]] inside the temple)

* [[Tomboyish Name]] - The "Shiki" in Ryougi Shiki is a neutral name, hence Tohno Shiki of [[Tsukihime]].

* [[Took a Level In Badass]] - Shiki does this ''twice'' against Araya Souren. What's more badass than regular Shiki? That would be {{spoiler|Shiki with a sword}}. And what's even more badass than that? {{spoiler|Shiki's third personality}}.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] - Bottled water, of all things, for Shiki (it's the only thing we ever see in her fridge). She says multiple times that she hates sweet food.

* [[Tsundere]] - Shiki towards Mikiya.

* [[Eye Scream]]: One of the first things Shiki does upon waking up is try to claw her own eyes out, as the result of a [[Freak-Out]] upon realizing what her eyes can see.

* [[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) ===

* [[...And Show It to You]] - Araya ''rips out'' {{spoiler|Touko's}} heart, which is [[Beat Still My Heart|still beating]], and yet, being the Nasuverse, they still manage to have a philosophical conversation. {{spoiler|Touko gets better}}.

* [[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]].

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]] - Cornelius Alba in the anime only. The novel gives him more depth.

* [[Continuity Nod]] - Done very literally in-story with a completely different (and ''important'') meaning: while Shiki is basically {{spoiler|''in'' Akasha and viewing all the moments}} the Counter Force had an influence on the situation, she sees the moment she first met Mikiya -- and "that her" stops talking, ''looks up at the screen where {{spoiler|Shiki is watching from Akasha}}, and smiles at her.'' This is a '''''huge''''' plot detail.

* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]] - Enjou didn't have a chance against Araya. But ''damn'' did he tell him off.

* [[Eldritch Abomination]] - The ''thing'' in Touko's briefcase. Sometimes it just resembles a traditional [[Obake|bakeneko]]. Others....

** Maybe not so coincidentally, Mikiya himself has sung ''Singin' In The Rain,'' the song that Alex sung while raping a writer's helpless wife, ''twice'' in the film series.

* [[Eye Scream]]

* [[The Man Behind the Man]] - {{spoiler|Araya reveals to Shiki that he engineered her conflicts with Fujino and Kirei as a part of his [[Evil Plan]] to reach [[The Lifestream|Akasha]].}}

* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Touko chatters on about her meaning of life for a ''while'' after {{spoiler|Araya rips her heart out}} and only seems to actually {{spoiler|die when he crushes it in his hand}}.

* [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]] - Subverted. Araya mercilessly ''destroys'' {{spoiler|Tohko, but keeps her head alive}} on purpose - she's {{spoiler|created an exact duplicate of her own body and linked them to herself. Whenever she is "killed" the other body awakens, allowing her to come back - when Alba crushes her head, she comes back}}. ''With a vengeance''.

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* {{spoiler|[[Enjo Kosai]]: What Tachibana Kaori's class ended up doing, with ''their teacher'' Hayama Hideo as the pimp. Kaori herself was the last to hold out due to her Christian convictions, and ''[[Moral Event Horizon|was raped and impregnated by the said teacher as a result]].'' Both aspects were cut out of the movie.}}

* [[The Fair Folk]]: And were '''not''' talking about the packaged-for-kids Christmas version, oh no.

* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|The random giant flower thing}} in the movie.

* [[Kawaiiko]]: Azaka-chan is a slightly older than usual example, but oh so very cute nevertheless.

* [[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.

* [[Cry Cute]]: Is ''that'' actually {{spoiler|Shiki}}? My God she's ''adorable.''

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Averted, contrary to popular belief. {{spoiler|While it seemed as if Shiki was able to take out Lio quite easily in the final battle, she was actually experiencing extreme difficulty in keeping up with him. The novel actually elaborates on this outlining how Shiki was still experiencing the lingering effects of the drugs thus being unable to fight as well as she did before. It goes on how Lio was effectively weakening Shiki's limbs one by one like a predator slowly taking down its prey, with the final blow being directed at her neck}} (Shiki basically [[Counter Attack|took full advantage]] of the amount of space between them and took him out in [[One-Hit Kill|one fell swoop]] resulting in the fight to come across as a [[Curb Stomp Battle]])

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|A few minutes from the end of the movie, Mikiya is apparently dead from a stab to the face, and Shiki's resigned herself to melancholy after killing Lio. The situation eventually improves.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Mikiya obtains info on the drug-related serial killings by the only drug dealer around who's not selling that particular new cocktail because she thinks it's too damaging for the human body.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|Lio's diary starts with one. "April 1995. I met her."}}

* [[Not So Different]]: {{spoiler|Lio believes that he and Shiki are fundamentally similar, and that Mikiya is the only thing holding Shiki back from a murderous existence.}}

* [[Snow Means Death]]: {{spoiler|When Lio dies.}}

* [[Snow Means Love]]: "I'm never letting you go."