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Fate/Stay Night is just + Show Spoiler + a visual novel by Nasu Kinoko that has 3 route. Anime mostly focus on Fate (Saber) route but randomly has elements from all 3 mixed in, resulting in a confusing mess.
Unlimited Blade Works is Rin / Archer arc, the movie does an OK job but it's more targeted as a service to VN reader than actually coherent. F/SN VN is fan translated and pretty easy to find, and highly recommended to understand whole Fate series.
Fate/Hollow Ataraxia is the direct sequel to F/SN, it's a fan service disk with mostly random stories and somewhat of an overall plot. It's not available in English.
Fate/Zero is the prequel novel by Urobuchi Gen. The anime is a pretty good adaptation with minor differences (mostly Rin's silly adventure).
Fate/Tiger Colosseum and Upper are PSP fighting games that's pretty much blows.
Fate/Unlimited code is PSP fighting game that's better.
Fate/Extra CCC are PSP games set alternative universe that's kind of an imagining of F/SN. They are kind of fun to play but only available in Japanese
Fate/Kaleid Liner is alternative universe manga, currently in the third arc. S1 of anime covered first arc, S2 presumably covers second.
Fate/Apocrypha is a novel by Higashide Yuuichirou that set in alternative universe that has very little to do with Fate franchise.
In addition, Fate has loose relations to Tsukihime franchise and Kara no Kyoukai.
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F/HA has a tentative complete patch out, but parts of it are unedited and used machine translations (read: shit).
Fate/Extra has an official release. CCC does not.
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Mahouka: + Show Spoiler +the resentment gets even bigger! lol. Loving how OP Tatsuya is XD Inferno seems like a pretty cool spell. Glad this is a 26 episode anime and not 13 only.
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On June 28 2014 23:20 goody153 wrote:Show nested quote +On June 28 2014 22:55 KazeHydra wrote:On June 28 2014 21:44 RuskiPanda wrote:On June 28 2014 18:07 goody153 wrote:On June 28 2014 17:11 BigFan wrote:On June 28 2014 17:10 blahz0r wrote:No love here for Fate Ilya s2  I haven't watched any of the fate series or w/e they are called otherwise I may have given this anime some love lol You definitely watch Fate Zero bigfan. It's one of the few animes i could confidently say as one of the best. Everything that is not fate zero in the fate franchise was terrible in my books though. At best mediocre. Alright i'll just add my bias into recommending this. It's my favorite anime of all time. Not that it's perfect but i enjoyed it the most out of all the anime that i have watched. Of course it's personal enjoyment only again the show is not necessary the best. I believe there may be better stuff out there. Have you even watched any of the other series than FSN? Carnival Phantasm and Ilya were well above "terrible".. Eh, if you're going to include Carnival Phantasm, might as well expand to Nasuverse. Pretty sure Goody hasn't read most, if any, Fate novels though, so not sure why he's commenting on the entire franchise. Sorry for the lack of context in my part. I meant FSN unlimited blade works, Fate Zero, FSN (the first one) and Illya (manga only). I didn't know Carnival Phantasm was part of the fate franchise. The other 3 didn't fit in my taste.
IDK why every single time Fate stuff comes up, you feel compelled to say "Everything in this franchise other than FZ is terrible", then catch shit for it, and then correct yourself with "well I've only see a few of the anime adaptions". Its not like this is the first time. I think you just like slandering an entire franchise you have barely touched and read zero of, just so you can catch shit. Probably a masochist who likes the abuse.
On June 28 2014 21:04 Maxie wrote:Show nested quote +On June 28 2014 14:01 Sentenal wrote:
I wonder how far SAO2 will get. I'm betting they will get to the unbearable Asuna garbage of volune... 6 IIRC? Hopefully they don't, however. If they just do GGO, it will at least be better than the ALO shit. I'd like to see Alicization honestly, but it's not finished is it?
I'm not sure, but Alicization is a long ways off. No way they could get through both GGO and "Yuuki has AIDS, you can cry now", and then do Alicization on top of all that.
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So Mekaku City Actors is over; now with it's 12th episode being out.
In all honesty, the last episode was quite weak and I really didn't like it, neither music-wise nor story-wise.
As for the rest of the series: I really enjoyed it a lot. Yeah it's just shaft-pandering, Asumi Kana and jpop but it still ended up being my 2nd favorite show this season. I did like the weird way they told the story with you constantly going "Ah I finally understood what happened" after a period of not having a clue what happened and next episode it's just back to square 1 with not having a clue what's going on. But I can see how it would be a terribly boring show if you know what's going to happen, so I get the hate it's getting lol.
The thing being done by shaft and it basicly having scenes that looked copy & pasted out of Monogatari with it's design still made it interesting enough for me to like it based on that even though it's nowhere close to other things Shaft has done in that regard.
Music was good. I did google / youtube search the orignials and I've got to say that I didn't like those and I haven't listened to vocaloid songs ever before so that kind of creeped me out but the songs done "proper" were nice, catchy, pop songs. For those who aren't fanboying shaft enough to watch this, my top-3 probably is the ED from episode 6 (LiSA), also known as best song this season had to offer all in all. The one in episode 11 that went full vocaloid, and either the weird CG OP from ep 9 because it was so weird or the one in EP3. I played trombone for a crapton of years in orchestras and all that so I'm a sucker for everything pop that uses brass. So #1 and #2 are no discussion for me 
Well Slaughter and I are the only ones that didn't get fed up with the show, but if you intend to watch the show and haven't watched it don't open the spoiler / don't click the links. It's pretty much spoilering everything:
+ Show Spoiler [youtubelinks in here] +"Yuukei Yesterday (夕景イエスタデイ)" by Jin ft. LiSA (ep 6)「オツキミリサイタル」/ じん ft. IA (ep 11)(also has most delicious Asumi Kana ever, starting at around 1:08. "aaaaa moooo" :3)Ayano no Koufuku Riron (アヤノの幸福理論)" by Jin ft. Aki Okui (ep 9)"Blindfold Code" by Jin ft. Yasagure Koneko (ep 3) according to youtube
And well, it had Ene. Yeahyeah, I like Asumi Kana all right but I don't think I ever saw a more fitting role for her. Not that I've seen all THAT much of her yet but probably my new favorite role from her.
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Sweet it's out I will watch 11 and 12 tonight. I actually liked it for the story and characters (Ene is awesome too bad she doesn't have more screen time). Sucks the ending sounds like it will be a disappointment but we will see.
Also, speaking of the Fate universe, where do you get the lore from Sabers background as King Arthur? From the VNs? Always was curious about that since I have read snippets of her backstory and her clone and all that. Since I actually like Saber (unlike a lot of people here) I was curious where I might find it and if it's available in English.
Also is Fate/Kaleid good? It's an alternate universe so they can do w/e they'd want with it and it could just be a shitty grab for money.
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ep 11 was really good though!
On June 29 2014 05:00 BigFan wrote:Mahouka: + Show Spoiler +the resentment gets even bigger! lol. Loving how OP Tatsuya is XD Inferno seems like a pretty cool spell. Glad this is a 26 episode anime and not 13 only.
Just watched it myself. Episode was great but the spell you mentioned... was probably the only thing that felt underwhelming for me lol. Idk, everyone was like "woawoahwoah shit" in the anime and I'm just sitting there "so what?".
The other ones looked a lot cooler
But like I said, episode was great.
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Fate Ilya at this point is better than the majority of Fate related products. By that I mean better than anything not HF or F/Z.
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Are you following the manga? It's kinda- well, I'm not interested at all in the Prisma Illya original characters besides Miyu so I'm not really having much fun with it.
If you like magical girl schlock it's fine. If you're particularly attached to Illya as a character it's fine. I'm not a big fan or anything, but I watch/read because I'm a shameless fan of the Nasuverse.
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On June 29 2014 05:54 Ecael wrote:
Fate Ilya at this point is better than the majority of Fate related products. By that I mean better than anything not HF or F/Z.
Pls, UBW is much better than Sakura route.
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Ilya Miyu is the best pairing in years.
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On June 29 2014 05:31 Toadesstern wrote:ep 11 was really good though! Show nested quote +On June 29 2014 05:00 BigFan wrote:Mahouka: + Show Spoiler +the resentment gets even bigger! lol. Loving how OP Tatsuya is XD Inferno seems like a pretty cool spell. Glad this is a 26 episode anime and not 13 only. Just watched it myself. Episode was great but the spell you mentioned... was probably the only thing that felt underwhelming for me lol. Idk, everyone was like "woawoahwoah shit" in the anime and I'm just sitting there "so what?". The other ones looked a lot cooler But like I said, episode was great.
ya, it was a great episode. + Show Spoiler +They could've made it even more inferno-ish lol but I think it's just the complexity of the spell that's intriguing. She melted all of the ice pill ars then shattered them all in the blink of an eye. So far, I don't recall seeing any spell with that kind of destructive power.
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UBW's fine and dandy but HF has all of that fantastic Kirei and Illya, the best end and bad end, and Nine Lives.
UBW has some moments and I feel like Shirou vs Archer should be everyone's highlight of F/SN but... I'll still take HF over it.
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[23:44:31] <Emnjay808> no trap girl in sao?
[23:44:36] <ecael> mj
[23:44:38] <ecael> s2
[23:44:40] <ecael> kirito trap
[23:44:40] <Emnjay808> i thought they covered all the tropes in that show to please the otaku masses
[23:44:42] <Emnjay808> oh
[23:44:45] <Emnjay808> i can get behind that
[23:44:48] <Emnjay808> literally
I might have added the last line myself
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so i started mawaru penguindrum
what
the
fuck
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Penguindrum is pretty good yo.
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Penguindrum is 2011's best show.
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On June 28 2014 22:41 Zergneedsfood wrote:Show nested quote +On June 28 2014 16:12 Sterlymobile wrote:
Glasslip comes out July 3rd hopefully I am able to find a sub Friday morning. Not sure why people are hyped about this? All the stuff I've seen that are essentially the same thing (Hanasaku Iroha, Tari Tari) have ranged from average to god awful .>.>
Well I did enjoy Uchouten and Hanasaku but did not watch Tari Tari. So if enjoyed them then my hopes is Glasslip will do well. Or just megane girl.
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Just finished watching Attack on Titan first season on Netflix. Was instantly hooked on it (watched the whole season in three days). Was just wondering what you guys could recommend to watch that is a similar sort of show. Google brought up Claymore but figured id ask this thread
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Claymore is good aside from the anime original shit ending.
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