Kara no Kyoukai: Movies vs Novels

[MrSakal]

Which one is better or outstanding in your opinion, Kara no Kyoukai's movies or novels? As a person who only watched the movies, I'm curious about your response.

[Arashi_Leonhart]

You're not going to find a lot of discussion here I think, because most people who have read the novels read a wonky translation that they've been warned is wonky, and most people who have read the original Japanese and seen the movies are going to say "pretty good adaptation, except for whatever the hell 6 was trying to do."

[Strange_One]

You're not going to find a lot of discussion here I think, because most people who have read the novels read a wonky translation that they've been warned is wonky, and most people who have read the original Japanese and seen the movies are going to say "pretty good adaptation, except for whatever the hell 6 was trying to do."

Even wonky I manage to have the same opinion as the latter.

[You]

the issue i have with recalled out summer is that in the novel you don't learn that merca is a kid till the end since his whole thing about killing shiki was very Diavolo
while in the movie he's just right there
don't know how they could have adapted it better though

[Canon]

pretty good adaptation, except for whatever the hell 6 was trying to do.

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the issue i have with recalled out summer is that in the novel you don't learn that merca is a kid till the end since his whole thing about killing shiki was very Diavolo
while in the movie he's just right there
don't know how they could have adapted it better though

Copious shadow shots

[Arashi_Leonhart]

always nice to have a shill in the audience

[madarra]

the issue i have with recalled out summer is that in the novel you don't learn that merca is a kid till the end since his whole thing about killing shiki was very Diavolo
while in the movie he's just right there
don't know how they could have adapted it better though

eh, i could`nt tell he was a kid till the reveal...

[MrSakal]

You're not going to find a lot of discussion here I think, because most people who have read the novels read a wonky translation that they've been warned is wonky, and most people who have read the original Japanese and seen the movies are going to say "pretty good adaptation, except for whatever the hell 6 was trying to do."

Well, I actually wonder which one feels better. Movies have beatiful harmony with good cinematography, unique musics and poetic atmospher. But when i read the first volume of KnK novels, i was fascinated. It had an interesting and unique storytelling and different wording. It feels very different from movies, although plot is the same. That's why i wonder what readers of novel think about which feels better and which they would prefer. Even if there is a little difference in impressiveness between them. If the translation is wonky as you said, then I won't expect many responses.

[Cruor]

Movies were all around better then the philosopbabble snorefest both novels were besides Mirai Fukuin. It wasn't even GOOD philosobabble for the most part.

I like some of the expanded setting the novels gave (on thaumaturgy, Araya's group, the mysteries, etc.) but everything else the movies did made it a far stronger work.

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Oh yeah and it rocked out to a top tier ost. m23 is best

[Nikiri]

Which m23

from Remaining Sense of Pain or Paradox Spiral (both are good tho)

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I should read the Polish translation that I bought, but I'm scared of wonky translation.

[Cruor]

2.

Its also like m40 or something in the seventh movie but idr the number.

That song made the seventh movie.

[Nikiri]

Wait, I'm confused.

by 2. you mean the latter or 2nd movie

which still wouldn't fit your description

drop me a yt link

[Cruor]

the latter of what you said, so m23 of pair of ducks: spiro

Iirc thats the same song as like m39, m40, or one of the later songs of investigating redrum II

[Nikiri]

If you mean the last minutes of M23, then yeah, it's very similar to M40.

M23 is the 15 minutes track, so that's why it confused me, because for me the signature parts are the beginning and the middle.

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but those parts are also the track M18a