Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners

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A teenage girl, who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the "death" of everything in existence and kill the object by destroying its "origin." She recently recovered from a two-year coma caused by a traffic accident. Prior to the traffic accident, she originally had two personalities, a male personality named Shiki (織), and the original female personality Shiki (式). Children born into the Ryougi family are generally male and are raised with two personalities, so the male personality is customarily called the "yang" personality, while the female is called the "yin" personality. It is easy to tell which Shiki is speaking at a given time because they both have a distinct style of speaking, most notably that the female Shiki refers to herself with the pronoun watashi (私), while male Shiki refers to himself as ore (俺). After waking from her coma, Shiki discovers that she can no longer feel the male Shiki's presence and assumes that he died because of the accident. She also feels a detachment from her memories before the accident, and while she knows she is Shiki, she does not feel that she is. In the hopes of regaining herself and the "dead" Shiki, she puts on a cold facade that somewhat resembles the male Shiki's and tries to act as the female Shiki did. Touko understands the sense of detachment Shiki feels, but considers the current Shiki a third, new personality.

The series is regarded as being set in the same world as another TYPE-MOON series, Tsukihime, with Aoko Aozaki's sister Touko Aozaki being featured in this series and the protagonist of the series, Shiki Ryougi, possessing the same abilities as Tsukihime's protagonist, Shiki Tohno.

(Source: Wikipedia) Del Rey Manga announced in 2009 that it would release the Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners novels in English. However, the publisher went defunct before this could happen. The first chapter was published in English in the first volume of the Faust magazine. The series was published in Polish by Kotori from April 26, 2017, to January 29, 2018.

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Synonyms: Rakkyo, Boundry of Emptiness, The Borderline of Emptiness
Japanese: 空の境界 the Garden of sinners

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  • Touko Aozaki (蒼崎 橙子)

    Aozaki Touko

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    Birthday: August 8Blood Type: OHeight: 165 cm (55")Weight: 52 kgAppearing as a puppet maker, Touko is actually an extremely powerful sorceress.Aozaki Touko appeared initially as the sister of Aozaki Aoko in the publicly unreleased novel Mahoutsukai no Yor...

  • Mikiya Kokutou (黒桐 幹也)

    Kokutou Mikiya

    Main

    Birthday: December 20Height: 173 cmShikis friend who, two years ago, made a promise with Shiki to attend college. He discovers a doll at an exhibition his friend asked him to and falls in love with its flawless craftsmanship. He is so charmed by it that h...

  • Shiki Ryougi (両儀 式)

    Ryougi Shiki

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    Birthday: February 17Height: 160 cmWeight: 47 kgBlood type: ABA teenage girl who possesses the "Mystic Eyes of Death Perception," a supernatural ability that allows her to view the death of any given object and destroy its origin. She recently recovered f...

  • Daisuke Akimi (秋巳 大輔)

    Akimi Daisuke

    Supporting

    Height: 176cmA detective working with the local law enforcement, Daisuke is Mikiya's cousin who acts as an elder brother figure to him. Despite his scruffy and laid back appearance, Akimi is a diligent investigator who's put in charge of unraveling the tr...

  • Cornelius Alba (コルネリウス=アルバ)

    Alba Cornelius

    Supporting

    Height: 183 cmDirector of the Sponheim Abbey, he is a powerful Magus and a friend of Aozaki Touko and Araya Souren when the three studied at the London branch of the Mages Association. Cornelius is a direct descendant of the Renaissance-era scholar and ma...

  • Souren Araya (荒耶宗蓮)

    Araya Souren

    Supporting

    Height: 190 cmThough he may be considered an average Magus at face value, he is highly skilled in the creation of Bounded Fields. He carries a special Bounded Field that is divided into three layers, and absolutely anything that steps within range of the ...