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So I finished my "rewatch" of Kara no Kyoukai last night. Rewatch being in quotes because I had already seen movies 1-6 several years prior and was rewatching those, but last night was the first time I'd seen movie 7 since my friend and I never got around to movie 7 on my first watchthrough.

Overall movie 7 was pretty great, but I do have somewhat mixed feelings. On the one hand, movie 7 has the best individual scenes in the series by a country mile, which for the most part is enough to carry the movie. Shiki and Kokutou talking on the phone from each other's houses, Shiki's reaction to Kokutou's supposed death, and all the Kokutou/Shiki scenes at the very end were all outstanding. On the other hand, overall I am have some issues, mostly to do with the movie's philosophy on murder. First, it's kind of underwhelming how they make a big deal out of how Shiki shouldn't kill someone for the first time, but the reality is that she already kill Araya in movie 5. The movie even acknowledges this but then is like "well mages don't count because ???", which is kind of dumb. On a more substantive note, Kokutou takes this absolute stance against killing, which is fine in principle. For a while I can agree with this when Shiki is hunting the killer for mostly personal reasons, but then the movie decides to take it to this weird logical extreme in which Shiki won't even defend herself while a deranged psychopath walks up to her and tries to kill her, all because Kokutou said so. At that point I just don't see eye-to-eye with the movie anymore, which kills a lot of the impact the finale otherwise could have had.

I don't think I have anything to say on the series as a whole really, other than that it is good and that Yuki Kajiura is the GOAT.

Final movie ranking: 5 > 7 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 6

I will likely watch the epilogue and the extra OVA/movie/whatever at some point, but I wouldn't say I'm in a rush to do so.
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