The Garden of Sinners is an older work by Kinoko Nasu that nonetheless deserves more attention, given its unique niche as a true occult mystery.
While Kinoko Nasu is better known for the Fate series these days, fans shouldn't sleep on The Garden of Sinners, the story that prototyped his future fantasy works and is the perfect anime to watch during the Halloween season. Its 11 movie adaptations by ufotable - consisting of seven main ones and several spin-offs - also mark the beginning of a collaboration that would lead to them animating various Fate shows.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While Fate diverges toward bombastic time-traveling fantasy, The Garden of Sinners is easily one of the most thoroughly "occult" of occult detective stories, with mysteries that show Nasu at his most mystic, mixing bizarre sorcery with very dark subjects. With ufotable turning their quality art towards disturbing cityscapes, the end result is a movie series where the supernatural is truly terrifying.
This hostility, however, also means the subjects The Garden of Sinners tackle are not for the faint of heart. When both the characters and their magical society don't care about being normal, issues like "the nature of murder" are open to contemplation. The first movie involves suicide, while the third graphically portrays sexual assault, though these are never taken lightly, even when they amplify the supernatural horror.
Nonetheless, the movie series is an artistic achievement, one sadly overshadowed by ufotable's later successes. Even the habit of using Yuki Kaijura's music compositions for Fate anime began here. The budget afforded to them affords consistently high-quality art that brings the urban gothic to un-life, with menacing pans across abandoned buildings, empty underground parking lots, and refuse-streaked back alleys.
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