Can I play Kara no Shojo without playing Cartagra?

[Nekolover]

Or should I just buy both together?   

Does anybody know if there is a review of http://mangagamer.org/pygmalion/ Without spoilers? 

[Asonn]

playing both ofc, but I don't think it is needed because for the longest time KnS was translated while Cartagra was not. 

and for your second question: I have no clue 

[spademan]

n 5/20/2016 at 11:42 PM, Kaguya said:

No, you don't. You need to finish Cartagra in order to appreciate some references made in the second game. The story is still pretty much understandable by itself. 

Cartagra is nice, though, so if you like KnS you should probably play it anyway.

pretty much this

[Decay]

There are elements in the first game that call back to Cartagra, and there is some fairly serious drama directly involving some Cartagra characters in Kara no Shoujo. It helps to have played Cartagra in order to fully appreciate both KnS1 and 2 You don't HAVE to play it, but you should.. And besides, it's not bad at all.

[DarkZedge]

1 hour ago, Decay said:

There are elements in the first game that call back to Cartagra, and there is some fairly serious drama directly involving some Cartagra characters in Kara no Shoujo. It helps to have played Cartagra in order to fully appreciate both KnS1 and 2 You don't HAVE to play it, but you should.. And besides, it's not bad at all.

Indeed this is pretty much it. I always recommend that people play the entire series together but it doesn't have to be that way meaning you can play KnS without Cartagra but you'll understand more if you have played it there fore you'll be able to fully appreciate the whole story and things within it.

[Tyr]

Playing Kara no Shoujo 1 without having played Cartagra is like playing Kara no Shoujo 2 without having played Kara no Shoujo 1. And nobody would try to do the latter, would he?
People should start calling Cartagra "Kara no Shoujo 0", so nobody assumes anymore that just because the games are named differently, they could be played independently.

There is also a vndb discussion about this topic: https://vndb.org/t7131

tl;dr:
The answer is: no, you should not play KnS without having played Cartagra.

[VirginSmasher]

I played Kara no Shouno first because I had no idea about Cartagra, but I suggest playing Cartagra first in order to get a few references in both Kara no Shoujo and Kara no Shoujo 2.

[Silvz]

KnS2 is FULL of references to Cartagra. Like they said, you don't need it [like you don't need to read KnS before playing the second]

Seriously, I totally reecommend reading Cartagra. The main characters do come back in KnS and the whole story is pretty nice.