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REVIEW: Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners

At various points throughout the series – which all along the way is completely humorless, wallowing in angst, practically staring at itself in the mirror while applying black eyeliner through bloody tears – it's terribly confusing, extremely gruesome, and even boring at points.

I think one of the most glaring moments of Garden's questionable pacing is a scene in the first movie where Shiki comes home and eats a cup of ice cream. I'm guessing the scene lasts for maybe 3 minutes, but those are the three of the slowest minutes of film I have ever sat through. In the moment, I'm wondering what's the point is of all this. Even with the context, I was still wondering why ufotable felt like so much of the movie had to be dedicated to a girl eating ice cream.

The thing that stuck out for me in the review was the comment that the $400 release had been sold out. That worries me heaps. That means that the experiment has succeeded and the forecast profits will be achieved.

Just to put it in context, the most expensive anime set purchase I probably have is the Genon boxset of Gankutsuou, which is about as long as the entire Kara no Kyoukai saga, and it was $150. Even if you need to tack on an extra for the Blu-Ray, $400 is insane; $200 would be far more reasonable, and at modern-day prices they need to make it lower still. It isn't going to get purchased by many people, and it's far more likely people will resort to fansubs at that price.

I think one of the most glaring moments of Garden's questionable pacing is a scene in the first movie where Shiki comes home and eats a cup of ice cream. I'm guessing the scene lasts for maybe 3 minutes, but those are the three of the slowest minutes of film I have ever sat through. In the moment, I'm wondering what's the point is of all this. Even with the context, I was still wondering why ufotable felt like so much of the movie had to be dedicated to a girl eating ice cream.

The thing that stuck out for me in the review was the comment that the $400 release had been sold out. That worries me heaps. That means that the experiment has succeeded and the forecast profits will be achieved.

Look out now for more super-priced fancy releases marketed to idiots who have more money than brains. Look out for reduced opportunities for the rest of us to legally watch anime that has caught our attention. (Which amounts to the same thing that people who only watch fansubs are doing).

Look out now for more super-priced fancy releases marketed to idiots who have more money than brains.

gerbilx wrote:

Not knowing what was going on and accepting the series' general pacing did not in any way seem like anything abnormal to ask of the audience.

I think one of the most glaring moments of Garden's questionable pacing is a scene in the first movie where Shiki comes home and eats a cup of ice cream. I'm guessing the scene lasts for maybe 3 minutes, but those are the three of the slowest minutes of film I have ever sat through. In the moment, I'm wondering what's the point is of all this. Even with the context, I was still wondering why ufotable felt like so much of the movie had to be dedicated to a girl eating ice cream.

Well, back in the day I bought the original Pioneer (Geneon) Fushigi Yugi box set releases for $200 each, so the whole series for $400 and that was a partially blind buy (I had bought the first VHS before, so I guess you could say I paid $30 to sample it). Ok, granted, that's roughly 1300 minutes of anime, as compared to the 500 or so from this, but the point being that I didn't think twice about buying them. Same with this release. You can say it's insane all you want, but the fact is, it sold. Why would they need to lower the price if people were buying it up at the current price point? I didn't buy this because I just bought a condo and didn't have that kind of disposable income, but once I get my feet back under me, so to speak, I likely wouldn't think twice about buying something like that. But, Rightstuf would appear to be sold out of their stock, so I don't see me getting my hands on it any time soon. I'm sure if I really wanted to, I could track a copy down, but it's not very high on my priority list.

This I don't and will never understand. An insult directed towards people that went out and actually purchased something they like. Forget the people that are probably at this moment ILLEGALLY DOWNLOADING rips of this set. Bash those now broke consumers instead

Why so bitter? Japanese releases have always been ridiculously expensive. Is this something you just discovered? I'm truly sorry that you can't have everything that you want for the price you are willing to spend. Where does this twisted sense of entitlement come from anyway??

I honestly worried about supporting a release like this one, but at the end of the day, I don't think too many fans could continue buying $400 titles. So while I probably did add some fuel to the fire, I don't think there's enough cash out there for it to continue to burn.

I knew this would be a limited release and I knew that I would regret missing the opportunity to own it. So I bought it. That's not to say that I chomp on every limited edition release - this one was special to me.