About time another Kara no Kyoukai movie was finally subbed. Kara no Kyoukai 6: Oblivion Recording is the sixth in a series of seven animated movies based on a series of novels. The sixth chapter finds Shiki and Azaka (Mikiya's younger sister) investigating a paranormal event in a private school that involves fairies and disappearing memories.
While this movie wasn't nearly as dark, violent or bloody as the others have been it is still awesome. Why is it awesome well you would think with two girls in a private school all sorts of yuri shenanigans would happen but thankfully that isn't the case. No this is a great story to learn more about Mikiya's younger sister who we've only seen a few minutes of here and there in previous movies. Azaka is an apprentice to Touko, she has a serious brother love complex and is doing everything she can to get the attention of her brother and to become a better magus in order to beat out Shiki for his love so it's an interesting twist to toss the two ladies together in an investigation that revolves around fairies being responsible for the recent memories lose and attacks on students and faculty.
In the middle of the two ladies investigating who is responsible for the fairies we get a glimpse into the back story of Azaka and her brother and how she ended up falling in love with her brother. It's a nice backstory and it's interesting how everyone knows that she's in love with her brother except for her brother. But that's just filler to the action and solving the case. The bad guy ends up being a teacher who can manipulate people with words and is using another student to further his goals. The student is the class president who is taking revenge for her dead friend by killing the class that didn't do anything to help her when she was in trouble. Shiki confronts the teacher easily dispatching him in probably the least bloodiest fights I've seen in the movies. While Azaka takes on the class president and her fairies and while the fight isn't bloody it's damn impressive visually. Azaka defeats the class president and everything is dealt with. Nice easy movie. Not the most intense or suspenseful of the movies but still a great watch.
As usual of course the music is fantastic the artwork and animation is fantastic and it's all just combined to make another great addition to the Kara no Kyoukai franchise and damn if I don't want some one to get on their ass and license them for a North American release. I want to buy them and see them in HD damn it but I'm sure the hell not buying R2 non-subbed DVDs. Enjoy the trailer.
