The Garden of Sinners/YMMV

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General series tropes

  • Alas, Poor Villain: 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).
    • Fujyo Kirie's suicide definitely counts as one, with a Dying Moment of Awesome speech to boot.
    • Subverted in 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.
  • Alternate Continuity: 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.'
  • Non Sequitur Scene - 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.
    • 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 Fate/stay night characters ..and Neko-Arc who is super-deformed already. The stop-motion for the last movie pans out to show figures of several other popular Type-Moon characters in the audience (Sacchin's on the bottom-right)
    • But hey, its very, very cute.
  • Complete Monster: Shirazumi Lio chose to become a man eating monster. He only went downhill from there. Cornelius Alba is also thoroughly vile, and his death at Touko's hands is immensely satisfying.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: We love you, Yuki Kajiura.
  • Moe

Smoking is prohibited. ♥ Don't burn, be Moe! [1]

  • The Woobie - Fujino, very much so.
    • Tomoe, too, if only once heads or tails are made of the situation.

Movie One

Movie Two

Movie Three

  • Alas, Poor Villain: Fujino 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.

Movie Four

  • Crowning Music of Awesome: There's a reason they used the instrumental version of Kalafina's ARIA instead of Shiki's normal asspwnery music here.

Movie Five

  • Alas, Poor Villain - 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)
  • Crowning Music of Awesome - Track 22 of the soundtrack beautifully fits into this category.
  • High Octane Nightmare Fuel - Watch it for yourself... I'm still too traumatized to even describe it.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight - 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 Fate/stay night because Enjou is the character model for Shirou and the guy doing the beating has dark skin and white hair like Archer.
  • Moral Event Horizon - Willy Wonka Alexander De-Large Cornelius Alba was never an especially sympathetic character, but after 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 calling Touko "Dirty Red" that gets him killed. To be fair, he wasn't exactly expecting her to come back in an identical clone body, either...
  • Squick - Right about the time we get a close up of Tomoe shoving his thumb through a guy's eye... and then it just keeps going further...
  • The Woobie: 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 Heroic Sacrifice was a Senseless Sacrifice. The sword might have helped, though.
    • "Enjou didn't need to come here, but he will be the reason for your destruction."


Movie Six

  • Crowning Moment of Funny: When Azaka-chan uses an adorable Super-Deformed Shiki-plushie as an "effigy" for "target practice" with her magical fire.
    • "Don't burn. Be Moe!!"
    • Azaka attempting to sock Shiki in the face, played completely for laughs. "Paanchi!"


Movie Seven

  1. ↑ This is, incidentally, an Incredibly Lame Pun in Japanese, as "Moe" can refer to both "cute" and "fire."
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