History YMMV / TheGardenOfSinners

* BaseBreakingCharacter: 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 (albeit largely limited to the novels); others, particularly those who have watched the OVAs, find her personality obnoxious, her incestuousness creepy and pandering to {{Otaku}} and HaremGenre enthusiasts, or a SpotlightStealingSquad who hogs valuable focus from important subplots involving Shiki and Satsuki Kurogiri despite her lack of relevance to the overarching story.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fujino Asagami happens to be relatively popular among fans due to her {{tragic|Villain}} [[RapeAsBackstory backstory]] and [[EvilIsSexy her cuteness]]. It also doesn't help to note that her angst is one of the main reasons why she is one of [[CreatorsFavorite Nasu's favorites]]. It has gotten to the point where she was featured as a 4* gacha Servant in ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'' during the "Garden of Order" rerun.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: 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, her incestuousness creepy and pandering to {{Otaku}} and HaremGenre enthusiasts, or her role in the overarching story insignificant.

* EpilepticTrees: Trying to decipher the murky relationship between this series and the rest of the Nasuverse (e.g. ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'') has led to a lot of wild theories about its place in the timeline. Early on Nasu stated that the probability of two people having the [=MEoDP=] was astronomically low, which made it unlikely though not completely impossible for ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Tsukihime'' (at which point ''Fate'' was implied to be a distant sequel to ''Tsuki'') to coexist. However, Touko's goal in ''[=KnK=]'' openly contradicts Arcueid's existence and origins in ''Tsukihime''. ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' explicitly states that Ryougi's cameo is due to being transported there from another timeline, which suggests that the two series are mutually exclusive. The ''[[Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel Heaven’s Feel]]'' route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (the first ''Fate'' installment) and the ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' (a ''Fate'' interquel) both feature plot-relevant cameos from [[spoiler:Touko]] that strongly allude to the events of ''Paradox Spiral'', implying that ''[=KnK=]'' is canon to ''Fate''. Thus the current theory is that ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Fate'' are part of the same BroadStrokes canon (known as the "strong human order" timelines), whereas ''Tsukihime'', ''Melty Blood'', and ''VisualNovel/WitchOnTheHolyNight'' represent another (the "weak human order" timelines).

* MoralEventHorizon: Cornelius Alba was never an especially sympathetic character, but after he starts [[spoiler: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.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fujino Asagami happens to be relatively popular among fans due to her {{tragic|Villain}} [[RapeAsBackstory backstory]] and [[EvilIsSexy her cuteness]]. It also doesn't help to note that her angst is one of the main reasons why she is one of [[CreatorsFavorite Nasu's favorites]]. It has gotten to the point where she was featured as a 4* gacha Servant in ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'' during the ''Garden of Order'' rerun.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Fujino Asagami happens to be relatively popular among fans due to her tragic backstory and her cuteness. It also doesn't help to note that her angst is one of the main reasons why she is one of Nasu's favorites. It has gotten to the point where she was featured as a 4* gacha Servant in ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder'' during the ''Garden of Order'' rerun.

* EpilepticTrees: Trying to decipher the murky relationship between this series and the rest of the Nasuverse (e.g. ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'') has led to a lot of wild theories about its place in the timeline. Early on Nasu stated that the probability of two people having the [=MEoDP=] was astronomically low, which made it unlikely though not completely impossible for ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Tsukihime'' (at which point ''Fate'' was implied to be a distant sequel to ''Tsuki'') to coexist. However, Touko's goal in ''[=KnK=]'' openly contradicts Arcueid's existence and origins in ''Tsukihime''. ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' explicitly states that Ryougi's cameo is due to being transported there from another timeline, which suggests that the two series are mutually exclusive. The ''[[Anime/FateStayNightHeavensFeel Heaven’s Feel]]'' route of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' (the first ''Fate'' installment) and the ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'' (a ''Fate'' interquel) both feature plot-relevant cameos from [[spoiler:Touko]] that strongly allude to the events of ''Paradox Spiral'', implying that ''[=KnK=]'' is canon to ''Fate''. Thus the current theory is that ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Fate'' are part of the same BroadStrokes canon (known as the "strong human order" timelines), whereas ''Tsukihime'', ''Melty Blood'', and ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' represent another (the "weak human order" timelines).

* CompleteMonster: In ''Paradox Spiral'', [[CardCarryingVillain Cornelius Alba]] is a hyperactive, flamboyant, murderous [[TheArchmage mage]] with a sickening obsession with tormenting and killing his old academy rival Aozaki Tōko. Allying with [[BigBad Sōren Araya]], Alba assists the man in his horrifying scheme involving the Ogawa apartment complex, entailing the massacre of the residents and then trapping their brains in [[AndIMustScream an unending loop]] of their final days alive and eventual deaths, a crime that Alba proudly brags about to Tōko with glee. When Tōko's head is severed from her body by Araya, Alba takes her fully-conscious head for himself to molest and torture as he pleases, before crushing her in his bare hands after bragging about his intentions to kill her defenseless protege Mikiya. Alba is killed after brutally beating Mikiya, smashing his head repeatedly into a wall and stomping his head just because of his association with Tōko.

* CompleteMonster: In ''Paradox Spiral'', [[CardCarryingVillain Cornelius Alba]] is a hyperactive, flamboyant, murderous [[TheArchmage mage]] with a sickening obsession with tormenting and killing his old academy rival Aozaki Touko. Allying with [[BigBad Souren Araya]], Alba assists the man in his horrifying scheme involving the Ogawa apartment complex, entailing the massacre of the residents and then trapping their brains in [[AndIMustScream an unending loop]] of their final days alive and eventual deaths, a crime that Alba proudly brags about to Touko with glee. When Touko's head is severed from her body by Araya, Alba takes her fully-conscious head for himself to molest and torture as he pleases, before crushing her in his bare hands after bragging about his intentions to kill her defenseless protege Mikiya. Alba is killed after brutally beating Mikiya, smashing his head repeatedly into a wall and stomping his head just because of his association with Touko.

* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Whenever [[AwesomeMusic Shiki's leitmotif]] plays.

* MostWonderfulSound: Whenever [[AwesomeMusic Shiki's leitmotif]] plays.

** Asagami Fujino. She goes through so much abuse that even Nasu has taken to calling her [[FanNickname Fujino~n]][[labelnote:*]]Ending words in ~n is supposed to onomatopoiea for crying[[/labelnote]].

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

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

** Shirazumi from the first minute of the seventh movie, and [[SerialKiller it]] [[CreepyCrossdresser doesn't]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindofEvil stop]] there.

* HilariousInHindsight: [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny The roles of Lunamaria Hawke and Shinn Asuka on one hand, and Lacus Clyne and Kira Yamato on the other, are basically reversed here. Athrun Zala gets to have a go on both sides.]]

* EpilepticTrees: Trying to decipher the murky relationship between this series and the rest of the Nasuverse (e.g. ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'') has led to a lot of wild theories about its place in the timeline. Early on Nasu stated that the probability of two people having the [=MEoDP=] was astronomically low, which made it unlikely though not completely impossible for ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Tsukihime'' (at which point ''Fate'' was implied to be a distant sequel to ''Tsuki'') to coexist. However, Touko's goal in ''[=KnK=]'' openly contradicts Arcueid's existence and origins in ''Tsukihime''. ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' explicitly states that Ryougi's cameo is due to being transported there from another timeline, which suggests that the two series are mutually exclusive. ''LightNovel/LordElMelloiIICaseFiles'', which is a ''Fate'' interquel, features a cameo from Touko that strongly alludes to the events of ''Paradox Spiral'', implying that ''[=KnK=]'' is canon to ''Fate'' by way of ''Case Files''. Thus the current theory is that ''[=KnK=]'' and ''Fate'' are part of the same BroadStrokes canon (known as the "strong human order" timelines), whereas ''Tsukihime'', ''Melty Blood'', and ''VisualNovel/MahouTsukaiNoYoru'' represent another (the "weak human order" timelines).