So I just saw u/UdonSamurai‘s post about translating volume 3 and was just wondering where I can read translated versions of volumes 2 and 1?

After much anticipation, Manolo and I are thrilled to share our translation of Kara no Kyoukai Volume 3! Dive into the depths of Chapters 6, Intermission, Chapter 7, and the Epilogue now!

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I’ve seen all the movies multiple times and loved them all, but I just started wondering if they’re „good“ adaptations of the original novel? I’ve noticed that with the fate series how many VN readers really dislike the adaptations and was just wondering if it’s the same with Kara no Kyoukai?

Also if I could read the novels for myself I would but I have no Idea how to get ahold of a translated version of them.

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While scrolling my feed, I saw something which made me recall the war in the Ukraine. I am from a country relatively close to Ukraine by the way, but still.

Two years ago, it occupied my mind daily. Being a country I'm a familiar with, made the prospect of people dying in a war more real. But two years later? Fuukan Fukei came into mind. Touko's monologue about our perception and how inevitable that it is; humans can't survive outside our boxes.

While looking up the deaths, Araya came next 57k killed and 250k wounded with many missing. My brain at this point, couldn't comprehend the number. It is a cliché line at this point. Humans are just a number or if they're represented as such,

As a child when news were more raw, I'd look attentively. Pictures of the dead, small details, anything to realize they're humans like me. Grounding me., disliking the idea of not giving value to the fact.

So when the number 57k showed up I instinctively thought "How could I do that?". And Araya's line chimed in; "If I can't save them, then I will record their deaths. If I can observe the ones who weren't recompensed for, who aren't saved form the very start, the ones who died meaninglessly would obtain a meaning."

Today that line hit me like a brick, for I realized that this habit from my childhood was because of that. As an observer of the news. or the aftermath, wanting to give meaning to other people's death, especially the more meaningless ones. Like an intrusive thought, sometimes I'd think of how many lived before me, and how we don't even know if they existed. A case in Africa, about a twin 7-year-old decapitated by his uncle for some voodoo, the Beslan School Siege in 2004, the Korean students in 2016, Palestine now, far few from countless examples.

We give life meaning because we're capable of thinking, having language as a tool to dye everything, give value. And we all live from our first lens POV; the protagonist. Trying to live a life, which has a meaning, or trying to find one. But if you die meaninglessly, especially if you're that young what was the meaning of been born in the first place? Not a new question, this has plagued our human minds since we created language.

We have these thoughts because we have a language. So, shouldn't death even if "just is" in nature, should have a meaning too? If you don't observe something it doesn't exist. If you don't give it value it doesn't have any; "Everything has the value that we give them," is what Touko said.

So only today did I realise how much sense Araya's goal had, despite his methods. In a way, this is the only solution to this paradox. For life to have a meaning, death must too.

just finished movie 2 and while i have a lot of questions which could be answered in the coming movies i think that i’ll probably forget the ones i got from this one and add on more questions for the coming ones. so it’d be nice if you guys could tell me the ones that will be answered and the ones i should’ve got from this movie

-what’s the deal with shikis split persona. i’ve gathered that one side is her rebellious part and another is her ‘murderous’ part? or are they the same? or is there more than 2?

-shiki told kokutou that she might kill him. She also said that one of her personality parts only knows ‘loneliness’ or ‘isolation’. is it that she’s becoming attached to kokutou and that scares her so she doesn’t get hurt similarly to her own experiences?(i’m just guessing that part)

-was the trait that she has but not her brother the mystic eyes or whatever she had in the first movie?