History YMMV / KaraNoKyoukai

* ToughActToFollow: The first seven movies were planned from the beginning to be one cohesive story and thus are successful with anachronical narration, cross-references and distinct aesthetic. Being a later addition to what has already been completed and looking brighter in general, ''Future Gospel'' is considered by many as good as its predecessors.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny The roles of Lunamaria, Shinn and Lacus Clyne are basically reversed here.]]

!General series tropes:
* 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 infinitesimally low', while others interpret it as in 'it's impossible.'
** It's still part of TheVerse, at any rate.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The stop-motion bit imploring viewers to not smoke/make noise/pirate the film/have their phones turned on. It's... er, weird, to say the least.

* {{Moe}}
--> ''Smoking is prohibited. ♥ Don't burn, be {{Moe}}!'' [[note]]This is, incidentally, a {{Pun}} in Japanese, as "Moe" can refer to both "cute" and "fire."[[/note]]
* TheWoobie: Fujino.
** Tomoe, too, if only once heads or tails are made of the situation.
!Movie One
* {{Anticlimax}}: Shiki absolutely slaughters the suicide-ghosts the second time she encounters them. They literally do nothing but flee for their lives when she shows up.
!Movie Two
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: ''"Singin' In The Rain."''

!Movie Three

!Movie Four
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: There's a ''reason'' they used the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW-USGxo_nQ instrumental version]] of Kalafina's ''ARIA'' instead of Shiki's normal asspwnery music here.

!Movie Five
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lu_K_0x6MU Track 22]] of the soundtrack beautifully fits into this category.
* MoralEventHorizon: 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.
** Ironically, it's him [[spoiler: calling Touko "Dirty Red"]] that gets him killed. And [[spoiler: he wasn't exactly expecting her to come back in an identical clone body, either...]]
* MostWonderfulSound: 2 words: Shiki's laugh
* {{Squick}}: Right about the time we get a close up of Tomoe shoving his thumb through a guy's eye... and then it just [[AlasPoorYorick keeps]] [[HeroicRROD going]] [[EyeScream further]]...
* 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.]]
** Ironically, [[spoiler: it's the fact that he's so worthless that inspires Shiki to fight Souren.]]
---> [[spoiler: "Enjou didn't need to come here, but he will be the reason for your destruction."]]


!Movie Six
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When Azaka-chan uses an adorable SuperDeformed Shiki-plushie as an "effigy" for "target practice" with her magical fire.
** "Don't burn. Be [[IncrediblyLamePun Moe]]!!"
** Azaka attempting to sock Shiki in the face, played completely for laughs. "Paanchi!"
* 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.
* SeasonalRot: Generally agreed to be the worst of all the films due to several factors. Changes include the EnjoKosai plotline becoming {{Bowdlerize}}d into drugs (which is glaring considering the third movie did not shy away from depicting RapeAsDrama), BaseBreaker Azaka becoming a SpotlightStealingSquad while the novel's actual focus, Kurogiri, was DemotedToExtra, the removal of Shiki's memory loss subplot, and the plot and connection's to the greater storyline becoming nonsensical due to all the AdaptationInducedPlotHole|s produced by the changes and emphasis on Azaka. Even without knowledge of the source material and the changes, Movie Six can be downright confusing with how little information is given on the antagonists and how underdeveloped several ideas and plot points are.


!Movie Seven
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Mikiya reaching for Shiki, [[spoiler:[[{{Determinator}} after he was poisoned and his left leg and eye were stabbed by Lio.]]]]
* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:Lio]] from the first minute. And. He. [[KnifeNut Doesn't.]] [[SlasherSmile Want.]] [[StalkerWithACrush To.]] [[AttemptedRape Stop!]]
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* Anticlimax: Shiki absolutely slaughters the suicide-ghosts the second time she encounters them. They literally do nothing but flee for their lives when she shows up.

* BaseBreaker: Azaka. Some people find her cute and interesting due to having a BrotherSisterIncest backstory that's given a surprising amount of depth and in-universe justification; others find her personality obnoxious or her incestuousness creepy and pandering to {{Otaku}} and HaremGenre enthusiasts.

* MostWonderfulSound: 2 words: Shiki's Laugh

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: We love you, YukiKajiura. Taken together as a whole the films' [=OSTs=] are often considered to be Kajiura's MagnumOpus.

* 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 as in 'it's impossible.'

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment - The stop-motion bit imploring viewers to not smoke/make noise/pirate the film/have their phones turned on. It's... er, weird, to say the least.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - We love you, YukiKajiura. Taken together as a whole the films' OSTs are often considered Kajiura's MagnumOpus.

* TheWoobie - Fujino.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - ''"Singin' In The Rain."''

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

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - Track 22 of the soundtrack beautifully fits into this category.
* MoralEventHorizon - 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.

* {{Squick}} - Right about the time we get a close up of Tomoe shoving his thumb through a guy's eye... and then it just [[AlasPoorYorick keeps]] [[HeroicRROD going]] [[EyeScream further]]...
* 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.]]

--> [[spoiler: "Enjou didn't need to come here, but he will be the reason for your destruction."]]

* 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.]]]]
* {{Squick}} - [[spoiler:Lio]] from the first minute. And. He. [[KnifeNut Doesn't.]] [[SlasherSmile Want.]] [[StalkerWithACrush To.]] [[AttemptedRape Stop!]]

* SeasonalRot: Generally agreed to be the worst of all the films due to a case of AdaptationDecay so severe it's almost unrecognizable compared to the novel chapter it's based on. Such changes include the EnjoKosai plotline becoming {{Bowdlerize}}d into drugs (which is glaring considering the third movie did not shy away from depicting RapeAsDrama), BaseBreaker Azaka becoming a SpotlightStealingSquad while the novel's actual focus, Kurogiri, was DemotedToExtra, the removal of Shiki's memory loss subplot, and the plot and connection's to the greater storyline becoming nonsensical due to all the AdaptationInducedPlotHole|s produced by the changes and emphasis on Azaka.

** [[spoiler: "Enjou didn't need to come here, but he will be the reason for your destruction."]]

* HilariousInHindsight - The opening scene has Tomoe Enjou being chased by beaten up by one of his bullies from school. Watching it becomes oddly funny after playing VisualNovel/FateStayNight because Enjou is the character model for Shirou and the guy doing the beating has dark skin and white hair like Archer.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - We love you, YukiKajiura. The film's OST as a whole is often considered Kajiura's MagnumOpus.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - We love you, YukiKajiura.

** 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 as well as [[{{Tsukihime}} Neko-Arc]] (who is super-deformed already). The stop-motion for the last movie [[spoiler: pans out to show the figures of several other popular Type-Moon characters in the audience (Sacchin's on the bottom-right)]]

* HilariousInHindsight - The opening scene has Tomoe Enjou being chased by beaten up by one of his bullies from school. Watching it becomes oddly funny after playing FateStayNight because Enjou is the character model for Shirou and the guy doing the beating has dark skin and white hair like Archer.

* MoralEventHorizon - [[strike:[[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]]]] [[strike:[[Film/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.

--> ''Smoking is prohibited. ♥ Don't burn, be {{Moe}}!'' [[hottip:*:This is, incidentally, an IncrediblyLamePun in Japanese, as "Moe" can refer to both "cute" and "fire."]]

* FanDisservice - This movie will kill your desire to see anime nudity within the first minute.

* FanDisservice - ''How does Shirazumi have so much saliva?!''

* 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 - 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.]]

* AlasPoorVillain - [[spoiler: Araya is alot 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)]]

* 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).
** [[spoiler:Fujyo Kirie's]] suicide definitely counts as one, with a DyingMomentOfAwesome speech to boot.
** 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.

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

* 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.'

* TheWoobie - Fujino, very much so.

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