Why Mirai Fukuin is not canon to Kara no Kyoukai:
Despite already addressing this topic in several of my threads, it seems many people still fail to grasp the issue, and some even defend that abomination known as Mirai Fukuin ( Future Gospel ), a spin-off story that offers a glimpse into Ryougi Shiki’s supposed “future” after the main series ends. According to this vision, she has a daughter (Mana) with Mikiya and takes over as the head of the Ryougi family. What many don’t seem to realize, however, is that this entry completely butchers the core narrative of Kara no Kyoukai . In fact, even Nasu himself confirmed this in an interview: Nasu: The actual writing of Kara no Kyoukai is a pretty embarrassing memory for me—suffice it to say it is a work that represents my true self at the time. I wrote it at a time when I felt I could take on the world armed only with my words, and I realized [through this movie] that the farther removed it became from the written medium, the more distant it became from what I was actua...