Kizumonogatari ( ??? , Kizumonogatari ) , translated to Wound Story , is a series of Japanese animated films directed by Tatsuya Oishi and produced by Shaft. It is based on the light novel Kizumonogatari , a prequel to Bakemonogatari and part of the light novel series "Monogatari written by Nisio Isin and illustrated by Vofan. The first movie, Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu ( ??? I am , Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen ), translated to Wound Story, Part 1: Iron Blood , released in Japan on January 8, 2016 The second film, Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (Japanese: ??? II ??? , Hepburn: Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen ), translated to Wound Story, Part 2: Hot Blood , released in Japan August 19, 2016. The third and final film in the trilogy, Kizumonogatari Part 3: Reiketsu (Japanese: ??? III ?? , Hepburn: Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen ) , which translates to Wound Story, Part 3: Cold Blood , was released in Japan on January 6, 2017.
Video Kizumonogatari (film series)
Plot
Tekketsu
Koyomi Araragi, a second year high school student at Naoetsu High School, befriends Tsubasa Hanekawa, the highest honors student in her school. Tsubasa mentioned rumors about the "blond vampire" that has been seen around their city recently. Koyomi, who is usually anti-social, likes Tsubasa's down-to-earth personality. That night, Koyomi meets a rumored vampire: she is an Acerola-orion Kiss-shot Heart-under-blade, also known as "King of Apparitions." The blond, gold-eyed vampire shouted for Koyomi to rescue her as she lay in her own pool of blood, her four limbs cut off by three vampire hunters. Kiss-shot asks Koyomi to give him his blood to save his life, and when he does, Koyomi finds himself reborn as a subordinate of his vampire.
Nekketsu
Now a vampire, Koyomi is charged with taking a broken Kiss-shot limb from the vampire hunters who took them. Before he faces the first hunter, the giant Dramaturgi is full of vampires, he speaks with Tsubasa. He conceals the nature of his vampire, but Tsubasa is still interested in rumors about vampires scattered around. In the fight, Dramaturgy tears Koyomi's arm with one blow, but Koyomi finds vampire power from rapid regeneration. Seeing the fight gone, Dramaturgy hands over Kiss-shot legs to Koyomi. At that time, Kiss-shot has taken the form of a child. But he turned into a young teenager after he consumed his adult legs.
Koyomi next fights with the human-vampire half-human episode, which can turn into fog and use a giant silver cross as a weapon. Tsubasa walks into his battle and entrails with Episodes. Before he died, Tsubasa pointed to Koyomi that he could defeat the Episode by throwing sand into his mist form. Koyomi uses the sand to defeat Episode and defeat Episode cruelly. Meme Oshino, Kiss-shot's ally, keeps Koyomi quiet and, at a price of  ¥ 3 million, tells Koyomi that he can use his own blood to heal Tsubasa. Koyomi then uses his own blood to save Tsubasa's life. The second leg consumption allows the Kiss-shot to turn into a young adult.
Koyomi now has to face the humane Guillotine Cutter pastor for the Kiss-shot arm. Before the fight, he desperately asked Tsubasa to go for his own safety. Tsubasa finally agrees, leaving his underwear with Koyomi as a promise that they will reunite later. However, Guillotine Cutter kidnapped Tsubasa, and Meme suggested that Koyomi should "forget to be human again" to save her. Koyomi uses the power to turn his arms into tree roots to defeat the Guillotine Cutter and rescue Tsubasa, but seems to have left his desire to become a human again.
Reiketsu
Koyomi and Meme finally managed to completely recover the Kiss-shot. Koyomi expects Kiss-Shot to then turn it back to humans. But before that, Kiss-shot and Koyomi spent the night on the roof, where the Kiss-shot recalled about his previous subordinates, a Samurai who chose to kill himself when Kiss-shot was unable to restore his humanity. Koyomi goes to buy food, but when she returns she finds Kiss-shot eating Guillotine Cutter's corpse. He is horrified at the realization that Kiss-Shot will now hunt man again, and that he himself will want to hunt as well.
The awareness of leaving Koyomi is desperate enough to want to die. But then Tsubasa shows up and persuades Koyomi to stay alive. He also points out that Koyomi himself has the power to stop the Kiss-shot. The words entertaining Tsubasa, as well as the awkward effort to squeeze her breasts, bring Koyomi's spirit enough to confront the Kiss-shot in a fight.
Kiss-shot and Koyomi face off at the Tokyo Olympic stadium. They repeatedly tore their legs and hands, but then regenerated their complementary back. Finally, Koyomi weakens Kiss-shot by sucking his blood. But Tsubasa suddenly realizes that Kiss-shot wants to die. Kiss-shot acknowledges that he will take the fight, and explains that he must die to restore the humanity of his subordinates, but can not do it for his previous subordinates because he is too afraid to die. Kiss-shot demands that Koyomi kill him, but Koyomi screams for Meme's help. Meme proposes a solution that will "make everyone miserable": Koyomi will suck Kiss-shot blood just to the point that she's too weak to hunt humans, leaving them both semi-vampire and human versions. Upon Kiss-shot protest, Koyomi chose this path. The next day, Koyomi explains to Tsubasa that he's mostly human but has some vampire traits. Kiss-shot now has the shape of a child, and can only eat by regularly sucking Koyomi's blood.
Maps Kizumonogatari (film series)
Production
The anime adaptation of Kizumonogatari was announced in July 2010 and in March 2011 it was announced that the adaptation would be a movie. In October 2015 it was announced that there will be three films: Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen Kizumonogatari II: Nekketsu-hen and Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu-hen ; the cast and crew for Tekketsu were also announced.
Release
In September 2011, the film is scheduled to be released in 2012 but it was announced in April 2012 that the release date has been denied. In October 2015 the release date for the first film was announced for January 8, 2016. It was released in the United States by Aniplex of America on February 26, 2016.
Box office and sales
On its opening weekend in Japan, Tekketsu was ranked third, the best-selling Ã, Â ¥ 322,509,300 of 243,702 receipts. On her second weekend, it's in sixth place with reception and in fifth place by dirty, with US $ 798,835 . By the third weekend, it's in ninth place via reception and in eighth place with gross, with US $ 418,165 . The film reached more than 450,000 receipts on January 26th. On February 7th, Tekketsu has scooped up US $ 6,156,959 . The Blu-ray Disc edition of the first film sold 36,018 in the first week, placing first on the chart.
The second film, Nekketsu earned Ã, Â ¥ 196 million on its opening weekend in Japan and ranks eighth with total receipts, with 148,200. The film earned US $ 3,442,498 at the Japanese box office. The Blu-ray Disc edition sold 30,670 in its first week, putting first on the chart, with DVD sales of over 2,000.
The third movie, Reiketsu was ninth on its opening weekend, the best-selling Ã, Â ¥ 86,7 million ( US $ 746.000 ). This yields 170 million yen in 4 days.
Critical reception
Nick Creamer of Anime News Network gave the first film the overall value of A-, saying that the movie "may be the first third of a masterpiece." This is an amazing experience.
He also gave the second film a class "A", praising his story, animation, and sound design. He noted as negative that the film's sexuality seemed to "trip over" at the time, but ended the review by stating "It's ugly, incomplete, and very beautiful.
The first film was the second winner in the category of "Best Movie" in "Newtype Anime Awards 2016".
References
External links
- Official website
- Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu at Azoland Pictures (Canadian distributor)
- Kizumonogatari (anime) in the Anime News Network encyclopedia
- Kizumonogatari on IMDb
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