MINOR SPOILER WARNING - fanboy level high as well\r
omfg Rider looking sexier than ever right now\r
tried to keep this spoiler free (and succeeded for the most part. but theres no way to talk about htis episode without mentioning shinji and rider)\r
mad action at the school this week.\r
Ayako missing\r
SHIROU VS RIN\r
RIDER VS SHIROU\r
Thoughts?\r
Predictions?\r
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Older Comments:\r
Love the way that ufotable is blending aspects of the fate route in seemlesly and also hinting to HF as well. that Ilya scene was dope not from a loli aspect but just from getting to see Leysritt.\r
theres is more to Sakuras reaction than meets the eye*\r
For fate/zero watchers - is Ilyas hatred justified? Shirous healing abilities = Avalon (think about how Saber was summoned)\r
so there are gonna be spoilers from now on (its just necessary to discuss this) so at least have seen fate/zero if you dont wanna be spoiled on it. Ill try and keep spoiler free for fate/zero watchers. \r
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SO hype to see how this continues to play out. the pacing is just great right now. \r
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Thoughts/Predictions?\r
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Epectations for this series?\r
What does Gilgamesh and by extension Kirei have planned with Sakura\r
SO HYPE\r
フェイト/ステイナイト\r
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Background:\r
Fuyuki City is the setting for a secret and violent war among competing magi. For the past two centuries, seven sorcerers have gathered and engage in a battle royale known as the Holy Grail War, each gambling his or her own life to obtain the Holy Grail, a legendary chalice capable of granting wishes. The past four Holy Grail Wars have typically occurred every sixty years or so. However, the fifth war has started prematurely, with the most recent concluding less than a decade ago.\r
The seven sorcerers, known as Masters, are aided by seven beings known as Servants, reincarnations of legendary heroes from all time. These resurrected souls possess superhuman characteristics and wield powerful artifacts or abilities called Noble Phantasms, symbols of their heroism during life. Only one Servant can be summoned in each war from one of seven classes: Saber, Archer, Lancer, Berserker, Rider, Assassin, and Caster, each representing their distinctive role in battle. The Servants are summoned by the power of the Grail itself and aid their Masters in doing battle, protecting them from harm and killing other Servants or Masters. In return for their aid, the Servants also seek their own wish from the Holy Grail, should their Master become victorious.\r
Shirō Emiya is a serious yet helpful, hardworking, and honest teenager and a student at Fuyuki High, whose parents died in a fire years ago, around the time of the conclusion of the Fourth Holy Grail War. He was then adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya. When he was a child, his adoptive father told him how he had failed at his life ambition to become a Hero of Justice. Shirō affirms to his adoptive father that he intends to devote his life to achieving that distant ideal, much to Kiritsugus chagrin. To do this, Shirō pleads with a begrudging Kiritsugu to teach him sorcery; but being born without the capabilities of a magus, Shirō proves to be talentless in almost all the fundamental sorcerous disciplines. Kiritsugu dies in Shirōs youth. From then on, he grows up as an orphan in the occasional company of Taiga Fujimura, his English teacher at Fuyuki High, and Sakura Matō, his underclassman.\r
After cleaning his schools kyūdō dojo late one night, Shirō stumbles upon two Servants, Archer and Lancer, battling in the school courtyard. Upon accidentally revealing himself, Shirō runs away. To avoid compromising the wars secrecy, Lancer hunts down and pierces Shirōs heart with his Noble Phantasm, a long, red spear. Shirō is then discovered in a near-death state by Rin Tōsaka. For the sake of her sister Sakura Matō who has feelings for him, she uses an heirloom filled with concentrated magic to restore his damaged heart and leaves before he awakens. Shaken and dazed, Shirō picks up the heirloom and returns home only to be assaulted a second time by Lancer. Shirō weakly defends himself against Lancer using posters he strengthens with magic, but is soon overwhelmed by the powerful Servants attack. Before Lancer can inflict another fatal blow, a magical mark on Shirōs hand begins to light up and a magical circle inside the shed begins to glow. A young woman clad in armor with an invisible sword appears in a flash of light and blocks Lancers attack. After driving Lancer away from Shirō, she introduces herself as Servant Saber, and formally announces her intention to fight under Shirō for the Holy Grail.\r
Meanwhile, Rin has realized that Lancer will return to finish what he started and rushes to the aid of Shirō, only to discover that Shirō is safe and has
