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Shiki Ryougi investigates schoolgirl suicides with her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.", "snippet": "Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1, Fukan Fuukei (Overlooking View), is a 2007 48-minute ufotable anime film directed by Ei Aoki, adapting Kinoko Nasu's novel; Shiki Ryougi investigates schoolgirl suicides with her Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.genre-form.animated-shorts.anime-features.yr-1999-2013", "markdown": "# Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1\n\n**Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners Chapter 1**, released in Japan as *Gekijōban Kara no Kyōkai: Fukan Fūkei* (劇場版「空の境界」第一章 俯瞰風景, \"Overlooking View\"), is a 2007 Japanese animated film, the first of seven theatrical chapters adapting Kinoko Nasu's novel *Kara no Kyoukai*. It premiered on December 1, 2007, runs 48 minutes, and was animated by the studio ufotable with distribution by Aniplex.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Japanese title | 劇場版「空の境界」第一章 俯瞰風景 (*Fukan Fūkei*, \"Overlooking View\")[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) |\n| Premiere | December 1, 2007, the first of seven theatrical chapters[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) |\n| Runtime / format | 48 minutes, theatrical anime film, Japan, 2007[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) |\n| Director / script | Ei Aoki (director), Masaki Hiramatsu (screenplay), from the novel by Kinoko Nasu[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) |\n| Studio / music | ufotable (animation production); music by Yuki Kajiura; theme song project Kalafina[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) • [2](https://filmarks.com/movies/4531) |\n| Home video | DVD released May 21, 2008: limited edition ¥7,500, regular edition ¥4,800[3](https://tsukikan.com/tmdb/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1) |\n| Series performance | The seven-film project became the highest-grossing Theater-chain single-theater anime film and shipped over 400,000 DVDs by the fourth chapter's release[4](https://www.sme.co.jp/pressrelease/news/pdf/20081222.pdf) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story\n\nThe film follows Shiki Ryougi (両儀式), a girl who awakens from a two-year coma with the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception (直死の魔眼), an ability that lets her see the death lines and flaws of all things, living or not.[5](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20110815dog00m200012000c.html) • [6](https://www.crank-in.net/movietitle/33709) Toward the end of a summer, schoolgirls begin jumping to their deaths one after another. The victims have no connection to one another, and the incidents are reported as a baffling string of suicides; Shiki, who can see the boundary between life and death, takes it on herself to investigate the abandoned building where the girls fell, a place she has her own unavoidable reasons to visit.[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/)\n\nIn the novel's internal chronology, the events of this chapter take place in September 1998, and the chapter is the fourth of the seven in story order even though it was released first.[7](https://www.tmdict.com/en/fu.overlooking-view) • [8](https://kukisetsuna.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/%E6%9C%80%E5%88%9D%E3%81%AE%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0%E6%8A%95%E7%A8%BF/) The film's subtitle \"Thanatos,\" used in some English listings, refers to the Greek personification of death.[8](https://kukisetsuna.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/%E6%9C%80%E5%88%9D%E3%81%AE%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0%E6%8A%95%E7%A8%BF/)\n\n## Production and adaptation\n\nThe film originated in a decision by the author himself. In a September 2007 interview with the web magazine *Kāzu SP*, Kinoko Nasu said he had initially turned down all proposals for a television anime adaptation, but agreed to a seven-part theatrical adaptation after the idea came from Takayoshi Ota of Kodansha. Nasu had considered submitting a revised script for \"Overlooking View,\" but ufotable strongly insisted on adapting the original text as written, and the chapter was produced faithful to the novel. The theatrical format also removed length constraints, letting each chapter be adapted according to the length of its source material.[9](https://ccsx.tw/2007/09/12/nasukinoko-karanokyoukai-interview/)\n\nThe staff assembled around director Ei Aoki, who had directed the television anime *GA-REI-ZERO* and *Wandering Son*, included character designers Tomonori Sudō and Takashi Takeuchi (the novel's original illustrator), art by Nobutaka Ike, photography by Yūichi Terao and Masashi Matsuda, and music by [Yuki Kajiura](https://www.edgepedia.org/yuki-kajiura).[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) • [10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vjKXxmhXM) The voice cast featured [Maaya Sakamoto](https://www.edgepedia.org/maaya-sakamoto) as Shiki, Kenichi Suzumura, Takako Honda, Ayumi Fujimura, and [Rie Tanaka](https://www.edgepedia.org/rie-tanaka).[1](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/) The ending theme introduced Kalafina, the vocal project composer Yuki Kajiura formed for the *Kara no Kyoukai* films.[2](https://filmarks.com/movies/4531)\n\n## Release and home video\n\nThe chapter opened on December 1, 2007, followed by chapter 2, *Murder Speculation (Part A)*, on December 29 of the same year; the remaining chapters followed through 2009, with the whole run from the first chapter to the seventh taking about one year and eight months.[11](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/lineup/karanokyoukai/) • [5](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20110815dog00m200012000c.html) The official website opened on December 28, 2006, announcing the adaptation as a feature film series animated by ufotable, after rumors began when Shiki appeared in the 2007 illustration calendar of the magazine *Newtype*.[3](https://tsukikan.com/tmdb/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1)\n\nThe DVD was released on May 21, 2008, in two editions: a fully production-limited edition at ¥7,500 with a jacket illustration newly drawn by Takashi Takeuchi, a soundtrack CD, and a condensed pamphlet, and a regular edition at ¥4,800 containing the feature and commercial footage.[3](https://tsukikan.com/tmdb/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1) • [12](https://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/134/134664/) In Akihabara the release drew advance attention substantial enough that some stores advertised it with escalator banners in their CD and DVD floors.[12](https://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/134/134664/) A 3D conversion of the chapter was later screened theatrically in 2013.[10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vjKXxmhXM)\n\n## Commercial performance\n\nBy December 2008, about a year after the first chapter's premiere, distributor Aniplex reported that the *Kara no Kyoukai* project had reached first place on the all-time box office ranking for Theater-chain single-theater anime films, ahead of *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time* and *Jin-Roh*, with 183,000 admissions and box office revenue of 200 million yen across an expansion from a planned late-show run at Theater Shinjuku to eight cities including Shibuya, Nagoya, Osaka, and Sapporo. DVD shipments for the series had exceeded 400,000 copies as of the fourth chapter's release.[4](https://www.sme.co.jp/pressrelease/news/pdf/20081222.pdf) Producer Atsuhiro Iwakami later attributed the hit to aiming the adaptation squarely at the core readership that had carried the novel from its doujin origins through the *Tsukihime* game to its Kodansha bestseller run, rather than attempting a mass-market nationwide release.[5](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20110815dog00m200012000c.html)\n\n## Reception\n\nThe chapter runs only 48 minutes, and Japanese film reviewers noted that it ends quickly while leaving a strong impression, with particular praise for the background art and character animation quality and for Kalafina's ending theme.[13](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/review/) On the review aggregation site Filmarks it holds a rating of 3.8 from more than 3,000 user reviews.[2](https://filmarks.com/movies/4531) Nasu himself called \"Overlooking View\" the roughest story of the seven chapters, written deliberately as a gamble: if readers accepted its opening strangeness, he reasoned, they would accept anything that followed.[14](https://himicomu.blog34.fc2.com/blog-entry-3234.html) • [7](https://www.tmdict.com/en/fu.overlooking-view)\n\n## References\n\n1. [劇場版「空の境界」第一章 俯瞰風景 : 作品情報・声優・キャスト・あらすじ, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/)\n2. [劇場版 空の境界／第一章 俯瞰風景, Filmarks映画](https://filmarks.com/movies/4531)\n3. [Kara no Kyoukai - the Garden of sinners Chapter 1, Tsuki-kan](https://tsukikan.com/tmdb/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1)\n4. [劇場版「空の境界」とは？, Aniplex press release (December 22, 2008), Sony Music Entertainment](https://www.sme.co.jp/pressrelease/news/pdf/20081222.pdf)\n5. [空の境界：岩上プロデューサーが語るヒットの舞台裏, MANTANWEB](https://mantan-web.jp/article/20110815dog00m200012000c.html)\n6. [劇場版 空の境界／第一章 俯瞰風景, クランクイン！](https://www.crank-in.net/movietitle/33709)\n7. [Overlooking View, TMdict (Garden of sinners Pamphlet · Kara no Kyoukai Settings Glossary)](https://www.tmdict.com/en/fu.overlooking-view)\n8. [一章 俯瞰風景 – 空の境界 考察](https://kukisetsuna.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/%E6%9C%80%E5%88%9D%E3%81%AE%E3%83%96%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B0%E6%8A%95%E7%A8%BF/)\n9. [《かーずSP》專訪奈須きのこ『劇場版 空の境界』全文摘譯, CCSX (September 12, 2007)](https://ccsx.tw/2007/09/12/nasukinoko-karanokyoukai-interview/)\n10. [映画『劇場版 空の境界/第一章 俯瞰風景3D』動画, Cinematoday on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1vjKXxmhXM)\n11. [劇場版 空の境界, Aniplex official site](https://www.aniplex.co.jp/lineup/karanokyoukai/)\n12. [豪雨で閑散としたアキバを救ったのは「空の境界」？, ASCII.jp (May 20, 2008)](https://ascii.jp/elem/000/000/134/134664/)\n13. [劇場版「空の境界」第一章 俯瞰風景のレビュー・感想・評価, 映画.com](https://eiga.com/movie/53661/review/)\n14. [奈須きのこ氏に訊く「劇場版 空の境界」インタビュー, COMU](https://himicomu.blog34.fc2.com/blog-entry-3234.html)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Films by genre, form, and subject › Animated and short films › Japanese anime features › Released 1999 to 2013*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/kara-no-kyoukai-the-garden-of-sinners-chapter-1.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. 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