AnimeLab continues to find properties to add to their streaming service that will be of interest and the latest one is a series of films that are among my favorites with The Garden of Sinners. Based on the best-selling novels created by Kinoko Nasu, the seven-episode film series is now available for streaming in their original Japanese with English subtitles.
The films have been released on home video in North America by Aniplex USA. Check out our past coverage of the property.
Plot Concept: In September 1998, a string of seemingly random suicides leaves Japan baffled and devastated. But a detective agency specializing in paranormal occurrences notices that there are a few glaring, disturbing similarities tying the deceptively unrelated cases together: All the victims are schoolgirls, and all of them have jumped to their deaths from atop the ancient Fujou Building, a skyscraper that is scheduled to be bulldozed soon.
To investigate the cause of these disturbing events, the head of the agency, magus Touko Aozaki, dispatches Mikiya Kokutou and Shiki Ryougi. The kind and surprisingly normal Mikiya serves as a stark contrast to the cold and mysterious Shiki, who possesses the “Mystic Eyes of Death Perception”: an abnormal ability which allows her to see, and bring, an end to all things.
