1) Release Order
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View (2007)
Kara No Kyoukai: Manner Movies (2007) (Optional)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 2: Murder Speculation Part A (2007)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense Of Pain (2008)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 4: The Hollow Shrine (2008)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm (2008)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 6: Oblivion Recording (2008)
The Garden Of Sinners Remix -Gate Of Seventh Heaven- (2009) (Recap)
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 7: Murder Speculation Part B (2009)
The Garden Of Sinners -Recalled Out Summer- (2013)
Kara No Kyoukai: Mirai Fukuin – Manner Movie (2013)
2) Chronological Order
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 2: Murder Speculation Part A
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 4: The Hollow Shrine
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 3: Remaining Sense Of Pain
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 1: Overlooking View
The Garden Of Sinners -Recalled Out Summer- Extra Chorus
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 5: Paradox Paradigm
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 6: Oblivion Recording
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 7: Murder Speculation Part B
The Garden Of Sinners Chapter 8: The Final Chapter
The Garden Of Sinners -Recalled Out Summer-
"It's recommended to watch it in the release order, as the way the creators intended to watch it. Watching in chronological order for a rewatch would be good but not for a first time watch."
Now, with that aside let's talk about this film; ever cry, never life (Remaining Sense of Pain).
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Her sin is mindless murder, or to put it in the words of our protagonist "Shiki", massacre. It's shown how brutally she murdered the ones that raped her, which is a justifiable reason but she gradually started to enjoy 'twisting' people and butchering them which when she was confronted by shiki, says it's inhumane, making her a sinner.
The main cause of her sin is her "inability to feel Pain". She has an abnormal condition where she can't feel pain because her father, feared by her telekinetic abilities, numbs her sense of pain during her childhood, in order to seal off her powers but it just made things worse after her abuse. Later it was revealed that she had a terminal case of appendicitis, which causes an immense pain in her abdomen. Due to her lack of sense of pain, she couldn't grasp that life-threating situation she was in but this pain was triggered i.e., her insensibility of pain is gone when the gang who abused her was about to stab her. At this moment, all her remaining sense of pain caused by her growing appendicitis awakens her abilities that resulted in her twisting everyone of those gang members, into nothing but a mess of flesh & blood except one guy who manages to run away. But Fujino misunderstands her abdomen pain with getting stabbed, when she wasn't actually stabbed. And then she starts to wander around to find that one who escaped, in fear that he might expose her abnormal condition which she hid from others for her whole life.
Pain is one of the way we feel our existence. To not able to feel pain, is mostly like not able to live at all. Fujino hides her insensitivity to pain cause she wanted to look normal. Throughout the entire movie, we sympathize with Fujino for that lack of sense of pain, understands her instability & we don't feel morally obliged when she takes her revenge (some might even cheer for her) but the sad thing is at the end of story, where we see her being the most alive ever, was when she's in her absolute pain, both physically and psychologically. Her abdomen is slowly killing her off, while her guilt of mercilessly massacre and regret is starting to haunt her as she desires to feel, to live, to love and to stay. A very sad situation but wasn't delivered to the fullest because of the pacing problems.
Shiki & Fujino confrontation scenes are some tense moments in the movie but also some of the most interesting moments in the series. Shiki's family expects her to manifest her mystic powers unlike Fujino's family who feared & thought it was unnecessary in the modern world. They have opposite roots yet Shiki's says that, Fujino & her are like two feathers of the same bird. Shiki understands & sympathizes with Fujino's nature but finds it's unforgivable when she crossed the line between murder as an act of self-protection, to massacre, an act of killing just for fun because she stopped being human anymore and Shiki was once also in a similar position as Fujino. Shiki goes after Fujino when asked by Touko, because of a request from a certain client and this client happens to be Fujino's father. She had no slavation to begin with. What do you call something that isn't a human and aimlessly kills others with no salvation? A Monster. Even when the monster is only trying to feel alive & is longing for salvation, in it's own way.
"Remaining sense of Pain" is a tragic story about willing to live while enduring the pain and my favourite in the whole franchise. Only demerit is that, it can feel like a mess at certain points, due to it's uneven pacing and storytelling method.
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