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What does it mean to float? What does it mean to fly? What is the difference between floating and flying? Is one content to float on a certain, overlooking view, or must one fly into the vast skies to amass the new facets the world has to offer? What does it take to float? What does it take to fly? How does one know if one is floating or flying? And what reason is there to do them?

Finally, the long awaited official animation for Kara no Kyokai with its first movie episode, and I must say I’m impressed at how it’s trying to go parallel with the novel, as well as the splendid work done with the animation. I’m going to go serious this time guys, so fuck the puns this time around. Serious material needs serious assessment, and for that I’ll waste not a second.

Kokuto visits Shiki.

Someone knocks on the door, and Shiki gets it. After acknowledging it’s Kokuto, Shiki opens the door as he goes in with bags of groceries. Shiki gets a bag while Kokuto proceeds to the bed, bag with magazines in hand. He then tells Shiki he’s got strawberry ice cream for her today. Shiki declines, telling him she doesn’t eat ice cream. Kokuto notions about the weather about being hot, so he bought it. But what got me is how he managed to pick the flavor fitting for Shiki’s image. For one who doesn’t have anything, doesn’t want anything, and doesn’t need anything aside from what she already have, there’s almost nothing to describe an image for Shiki. So for Kokuto to image Shiki in the form of red, blood rose strawberry, he’s got good sense.

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