July 1998 - After a group of delinquents is found dead in their hangout place with all their limbs twisted and torn off, Aozaki Touko receives a request to find the murderer and asks Shiki for help. The main suspect is Asagami Fujino; a girl who was the boys' plaything until recently, who Shiki believes to be "one of her kind".
Cinematography
Rain-soaked Osaka streets that bleed into abstract psychic space.
Direction
Obunai's merciless patience—violence as inevitable geometry, not spectacle.
Sound
Kajiura's score weaponizes silence; every note feels like a held breath.
Director
Mitsuru Obunai
Maaya Sakamoto
Shiki Ryougi (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Mikiya Kokutou (voice)
Mamiko Noto
Fujino Asagami (voice)
Takako Honda
Touko Aozaki (voice)
Ayumi Fujimura
Azaka Kokutou (voice)
Kenji Takahashi
Gakuto (voice)
Shintaro Asanuma
Keita Minato (voice)
Hiroki Yasumoto
Leader (voice)
Hiroshi Iida
Akino (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
Kouhei (voice)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Maaya Sakamoto recorded Shiki's fight scenes while physically exhausted to capture genuine breathlessness.
Fujino's 'Mystic Eyes of Distortion' invert the male gaze literally—her vision bends what objectifies her.
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