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How to read Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners

Kara no Kyoukai (literally translated The Boundary of Emptiness, officially translated The Garden of Sinners) is a light novel series by Kinoko Nasu, of Tsukihime and Fate fame. It was Nasu's first published work, originally published online in the 90s. You might know it most for the ufotable movie adaptations, or for the main character Shiki being playable in FGO.

This series predates Nasu's better-known Tsukihime and Fate series, and you can see inklings of ideas he'd reuse and refine in those works. Most prominent of these is the character of Shiki Ryougi, whose name, multiple personalities, and Mystic Eyes of Death Perception would all inspire Shiki Tohno of Tsukihime. This is also the series where Fate's famous Counter Force was first introduced.

The Kara no Kyoukai novels were Nasu's first published work, but have had a rough history in terms of translation to English. There have been bad and just straight up inaccurate attempts, and a publishing company that wanted to put them out officially went under before it had the chance, but now all these years later the series is finally completed in English!

Kara no Kyoukai is a supernatural mystery series set in Tokyo in the 1990s. Each chapter is an individual story (barring two-parters), but they all come together to tell a larger tale. It is written in anachronic order, not chronological order. As you read and skip through the timeline of Shiki and Mikiya's life, the story all starts to come together.

Translators:

Volume 1: Baka-Tsuki

Volume 2: ShikiRyougiAdmirer, KMP, Yusuke, Manolo, Dullahan

Volume 3: QualityMistranslations/YHK

Volume 4: Serouzo

Formatting: ProtoformX

Without further ado, the novels:

Volume 1 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Overlooking View Murder Speculation (Part 1) Remaining Sense of Pain The Hollow Shrine Paradox Spiral (Part 1)

Volume 2 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Paradox Spiral (Part 2) Oblivion Recorder Murder Speculation (Part 2) The Boundary of Emptiness

Volume 3 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Future Gospel

Volume 4 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Final Record

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top tier simpsons bit tbh

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I fucking love that big feet bird that has a random word over it.

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It's really weird how often I'll see people bend themselves into a pretzel going after Obama and democrats to the point they just lie to defend Trump.

I don't think they do it on purpose, it's just the danger of remembering Obama as The Drone Strike Guy and Trump's foreign policy being largely invisible from the news media outside of shit like assassinating Qassem Soleimani. But this?

One problem with this is that we can't prove it. Trump revoked Obama's executive order requiring the US intelligence to report civilian casualties.

Another major problem is that Trump also loosened the rules of engagement around airstrikes, i.e. the rules designed to prevent civilian casualties.

And finally, probably the biggest problem with all of this, is that in his first term, Trump carried out more drone strikes than Obama did in two. Trump campaigned promising "I'll bomb the hell out of 'em!" and then proceeded to do just that once in office.

Obama's legacy as the Drone Murder Guy is bad enough, you don't have to go out and whitewash Trump as some kind of dove. He's a Drone Murder Guy too.

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reblog to teleport your mutuals to a massive party when jkr dies

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saw someone describe Luke Skywalker as the 'bastard son of a sith lord' and i have to say i think Darth Vader would be VERY offended by that. like how DARE you imply Padme wasn't his wife??

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Love the monoeye designs and it's so cool seeing the rail it moves on

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I want someone to make one of these new sterile teen gay romance shows on Netflix but halfway through they pull a Doki Doki Literature Club and it turns into a fucked up fourth wall breaking psychological thriller that deconstructs the heteronormative and middle class ideals of the genre

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Sheev's Plan:

get elected to senate for naboo

start new sith order

work republic and separatists against each other. recruit evil guy to lead separatists.

(this jedi kid is wicked strong!)

get jedi in deep with clone army. (save some clone jars for later? just in case...)

PIVOT: Make the jedi kid evil. dont need separatist guy anymore. got a new evil guy.

make my evil guy kill his jedi pals when they come to arrest me. ill finish em off with my lightning attack

(fucking guy used his sword to bounce my lightning back at me! honestly my fault. takes a minute for the lightning to wind down and he got my ass on the bounce. fair play. now i look like a leather couch but its fine. can blame jedi for THAT too)

Use the clones to kill the jedi, have my evil guy kill the seperatists, keep the army, spin into empire

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

chill as emperor for a while. humiliate Vader for a laugh. make death star.

Endgame achieved.

(Vader's kid blows up my death star)

PIVOT: get new young apprentice by turning him evil once he kills his dad, or maybe make Vader cooler by making him kill his gay son. either way its a win-win for me.

(thrown down hole and killed.)

PIVOT: good thing i kept those clone jars!! make new clone body to inhabit. takes time to get right. need something to do until then

build enormous fleet of big spaceships, each with their own super death star laser. keep em on the down low... why use em? they lose half the value as soon as you fly them off the lot

(clone son runs away but its no biggie. its fine. have loads of clones at this point. whats one clone son?)

create a DECOY fascist empire. put one of my weirder clones in charge. Not giving them any of my ships though. can build his own shit. dont look at me. get a bank loan

let failed clone recruit vaders grandson (will explain why later)

LET those guys take over the galaxy with a different super death star. assume they built this one themselves. very cute!

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL (only via proxy tho. not done yet)

let(??) vaders grandson ("ben"?? ok) usurp failed clone and rule galaxy. wants to “kill the past” but whatever. can still make this work. NEED to keep this kid in the mix (will make sense when we get there)

drop the big news. Im not dead! Fortnite. awesome moment.

lead kylo ren to my base using complex scavenger hunt. puzzle knife.

tell him he’s always actually worked for me. big reveal. big moment. He's my lackey now. a little traitorous and unreliable, but this will pay off later trust me

use death star ships to take over galaxy even more

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL (awesome... but not enough. something missing)

let kylo ren lead clone granddaughter to home base using complex scavenger hunt (?)

taunt her into killing me so i can possess her un-janked body.

Endgame achieved. (??)

(kylo ren betrays me)

PIVOT: Possession stupid plan anyway. Instead, use ben and reys Horny Essence to make my nasty old body normal again…might as well pimp my robes out a bit while im at it...i deserve a treat

throw ben in hole (grandson purpose revealed)

destroy resistance with lightning powers. shooting spaceships down with magic lightning basically a solved problem at this point.

GALAXY NOW UNDER MY CONTROL

kill the granddaughter actually. dont need her anymore. lightning powers classic for a reason. ive got this thing in the bag as long as she doesn't bounce the lightning back at me off her fucking laser sword

Endgame achieved.

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IM WEEPING AGAHAHAHAHAGAHA

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hey folks if you have an android phone: google shadow installed a "security app".

I had to go and delete it myself this morning.

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And they still insist we shouldn't draw comparisons to the Holocaust

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sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”

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