The movie is somewhat predictable in places though, however this doesn't really detract from one's enjoyment of it as an individual episode. Although there is very little character development, the story moves along at a nice pace, and the tense nature of the movie is very much apparent to the viewer. The first movie, entitled Overlooking View, is surprisingly good in terms of its story. The non-consecutive ordering is how the series is should be portrayed, and the anime has stayed faithful to that method. Unlike Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu though, this seemingly out-of-sequence airing is not simply because of a whim on the part of the producers. Each individual film features a different time period, with no two consecutive movies following in any kind of chronological order.

The anime adaptation of the series is being released as seven movies that run for approxiamtely 50 minutes each. The stories have several parallels within them, which has led to the latter series being considered an alternate version of the former, or at the very least, set in the same world. will be find many things in Kara no Kyoukai familiar, not the least of which is the fact that they are both created by TYPE-MOON.

The series was picked up by Kodansha for commercial publication in 2004, and this year (2009), will see the series released on the international market courtesy of Del Rey Manga.

The story was originally created in 1998 by Nasu Kinoko and Takeuchi Takashi (who later went on to form TYPE-MOON), with the first five chapters being released on their doujin website, whilst the final two chapters were released in August 1999 at Comiket 56. The Boundary of Emptiness), is a series that has taken a long time to become well known.

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