

So I recently watched the first movie in the Kara no Kyoukai series, but it
just started without any explanation whatsoever. For the people that have seen
the whole movie series, will they explain what is going on and why stuff is
happening?


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Will it be explained what is going on in the "Kara no Kyoukai" anime movie series?


Well, yes (...mostly). It wouldn't be a particularly good series if it didn't.

The big thing to note is that the movies aren't in chronological order - movie
#1 is set after some of the later ones. It starts _in medias res_ , in other
words.

If you really want to find out what the chronological order is, see the
answers to this question: [How do I watch Kara no
Kyoukai?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/8619/). But I wouldn't recommend
it - each movie tells you where in the timeline it falls, so you can piece it
together yourself as you watch.

In the spoiler block below, I list some mysterious aspects of movie #1 that
are explained later. I do _not_ list the actual explanations, so this is only
lightly spoilery.

> What's the deal with Shiki's left arm? Who is the girl with Touko at the
> end? Why can Shiki kill ghosts? How do Shiki, Touko, and Kokutou all know
> each other? Why does Fujou Kirie have those supernatural abilities? What's
> all that magico-babble about "records"?

There are, however, some things that won't make sense even after you've seen
the entire series (7 movies + epilogue). This is a mostly because _Kara no
Kyoukai_ is set in the so-called "Nasuverse", a near-legendarium written
primarily by Nasu Kinoko (the author of _Kara no Kyoukai_ ). There are some
details in _Kara no Kyoukai_ that only make sense in the context of other
works in the Nasuverse. That's a whole 'nother rabbit hole for you to delve
into if you like what you see in _Kara no Kyoukai_.


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