title: The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine
text: # The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine
  
  The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine (空の境界 第四章 伽藍の洞, Kara no Kyōkai Dai-Yonshō: Garan no Dō) is a 2008 Japanese animated film produced by ufotable based on The Garden of Sinners novels by Kinoko Nasu. It is the fourth installment in the series, preceded by Remaining Sense of Pain (2008) and followed by Paradox Spiral (2008). Chronologically, the events that occur in The Garden of Sinners: The Hollow Shrine are the second in the timeline of the series.
  
  ## Plot
  
  Following the events in the second installment, A Study in Murder, Part 1, Shiki is rushed to the hospital for causes revealed in the seventh installment, A Study in Murder, Part 2.
  
  This part of the series is about Shiki's experiences within the void with her male counterpart, SHIKI, and the resulting ability to 'perceive' and 'touch' the 'death' of things in the form of cracks that ran everywhere she looked.
  
  It shows how Toko, Mikiya's employer, and Shiki met as she counsels her about the 'Mystic Eyes of Death Perception'.
  
  It also gives a glimpse of how Mikiya lived two years of his life while Shiki was comatose.
  
  Post credits shows a mysterious man in a dark trench coat visiting three people: Kirie Fujo, Fujino Asagami and a blood-stained guy.
  
  ## Cast
  
  * Maaya Sakamoto as Shiki Ryogi (両儀式, Ryōgi Shiki)
  * Kenichi Suzumura as Mikiya Kokuto (黒桐幹也, Kokutō Mikiya)
  * Takako Honda as Toko Aozaki (蒼崎橙子, Aozaki Tōko)
  