History YMMV / KaraNoKyoukai

** Ironically, it's him [[spoiler: calling Touko "Dirty Red"]] that gets him killed. To be fair, [[spoiler: he wasn't exactly expecting her to come back in an identical clone body, either...]]

* AndTheFandomRejoiced - ''Future Gospel'' is being animated!

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler:Tomoe Enjou. Araya even mentions that his origin is ''worthlessness.'' This includes the fact that he was NOT responsible for awakening Shiki, she merely awoke at that time. His HeroicSacrifice was a SenselessSacrifice. The sword might have helped, though.]]

* CompleteMonster: Shirazumi Lio ''chose'' to become a [[ImAHumanitarian man eating monster]]. He only went downhill from there. Cornelius Alba is also thoroughly vile, [[spoiler:and his death at Touko's hands is immensely satisfying.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Souren Araya.]] He's much more sympathetic when it is shown that his failure to save people in the past has led to him to do everything he does in the series (ie. he wants Shiki's eyes to see Akasha and thus the Alpha-Omega of humanity to see that the deaths of all good humans are not in vain).

* AlternateContinuity: The entry for this trope on the main page has and can be interpreted in several ways: some say Nasu means that 'the chances are just infitismally low', while others interpret it literally as in 'it's impossible.'

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: ''Future Gospel'' is being animated!

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: We love you, YukiKajiura.

* AlasPoorVillain: Fujino [[spoiler:reverting to an innocent little girl, crying that she doesn't want to die, wanting to live on to love and feel more while bleeding to death.]]

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's a ''reason'' they used the instrumental version of Kalafina's ''ARIA'' instead of Shiki's normal asspwnery music here.

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When Azaka-chan uses an adorable SuperDeformed Shiki-plushie as an "effigy" for "target practice" with her magical fire.

* LesYay: Between Azaka and Shiki, at least in the movie. Most notably when Azaka pins Shiki to the bed and straddles her while trying to take away a knife.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Mikiya reaching for Shiki, [[spoiler:[[{{Determinator}} after he was poisoned and his left leg and eye were stabbed by Lio.]]]]
* FanDisservice: ''How does Shirazumi have so much saliva?!''
* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:Lio]] from the first minute. And. He. [[KnifeNut Doesn't.]] [[SlasherSmile Want.]] [[StalkerWithACrush To.]] [[AttemptedRape Stop!]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Fujino [[spoiler:reverting to an innocent little girl, crying that she dosen't want to die, wanting to live on to love and feel more while bleeding to death.]]

** * WorldOfWoobie - Holy shit. Fujino and Tomoe stand out, but even ''[[CoolBigSis Touko]]'' becomes an enormous JerkassWoobie via FridgeLogic and familiarity with ''MahouTsukaiNoYoru''.

** * WorldOfWoobie - Holy shit. Fujino and Tomoe stand out, but even ''[[CoolBigSis Touko]]'' becomes an enormous JerkassWoobie via fridge logic and familiarity with ''MahouTsukaiNoYoru''.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel - Watch it for yourself... I'm still too traumatized to even ''describe'' it.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Shirazumi Lio]], period.

** They mostly revolve around Type Moon fandom in-jokes and references to similarly surreal sections in other Type Moon works. For example, the yellow-and-green mushroom is Kinoko Nasu's avatar. Other non-[=KnK=] characters include super-deformed versions of ''[[FateStayNight Fate/Stay Night]]'' characters ..and [[{{Tsukihime}} Neko-Arc]] who is super-deformed already. The stop-motion for the last movie [[spoiler: pans out to show figures of several other popular Type-Moon characters in the audience (Sacchin's on the bottom-right)]]

** Subverted in [[spoiler:Fujino Asagami's]] case -- she doesn't die, but the scene where she starts crying and saying "I don't want to die" definitely counts.

* MoralEventHorizon - [[strike:[[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]]] [[strike:[[AClockworkOrange Alexander De-Large]]]] Cornelius Alba was never an especially sympathetic character, but after [[spoiler:he starts parading Touko's head around like a trophy, then torments Mikiya with it and then starts beating an unconscious Mikiya's head ''into the wall'']] he has to die.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Azaka in the movies from [[DemotedToExtra Kurokiri Satsuki]], the original focus of the novels. [[MemeticMutation Isn't it sad]], [[NamesTheSame Sacchin?]]

* FamDisservice: ''How does Shirazumi have so much saliva?!''

* TearJerker - [[spoiler:Kirie Fujyou's suicide.]]

* TearJerker - this ''is'' Nasu, after all.
** The fight between Tomoe's parents is pretty hard to watch.
** [[spoiler: Tomoe's final words]]: "I was here."
** The [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic cafe scene]] near the end, where [[spoiler: Shiki and Tomoe give their last farewells.]]

* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:Lio]] from the first minute. And. He. [[KnifeNut Doesn't.]] [[SlasherSmile Want.]] [[StalkerWithACrush To.]] [[AttemptedRape Stop!]]
* TearJerker: "I'm never letting you go."

* TearJerker - this ''is'' Nasu, after all.

* CrackIsCheaper: This is pretty much how Aniplex is handling the series for both North American and Japanese BluRay release (The Japanese fans need to pay more for the same thing than the American fans).

** Ironically, it's him [[spoiler: calling Touko "Dirty Red"]] that gets him killed. To be fair, [[spoiler: he wasn't exactly expecting her to come back in a identical clone body, either...]]

* MoralEventHorizon - [[strike:Willy Wonka]] [[strike:Alexander De-Large]] Cornelius Alba was never an especially sympathetic character, but after [[spoiler:he starts parading Touko's head around like a trophy, then torments Mikiya with it and then starts beating an unconscious Mikiya's head ''into the wall'']] he has to die.

!Movie Six
* AdaptationDecay: Whereas most of the changes made to the previous movies boiled down to cutting out/shortening scenes from the original novel, here the plot and theme have been altered directly.