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Tony K.
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TV Special: Fate/strange Fake -Whispers of Dawn- (special) TV Series: Fate/strange Fake (TV) Source: Light Novel (ongoing @ 9 volumes, written by Ryōgo Narita, illustrated by Morii Shizuki) Demographic: Seinen Animation Studio: A-1 Pictures Genres: action, drama, magic, mystery, psychological, supernatural, thriller, tournament Themes: conspiracy, dark fantasy, factions, fighting, government, homunculi, idealism, legendary warriors, magical items, military, monsters, moral dilemma, mythology, police, religious sect, secret organization, sorcery, spirits, superpowers, survival game, swordplay, tragedy, trauma, United States, urban fantasy, vampires, war Plot Summary: The Holy Grail War: a competition in which Mages summon Heroic Spirits and vie against each other in pursuit of the Holy Grail, a wish-granting machine that can grant any and all wishes. Several years after the conclusion of the Fifth Holy Grail War in Japan, the next war is about to manifest in a place called Snowfield in the western United States. It is a Holy Grail War that is full of false things. Mages and Heroic Spirits have gathered together on a false pedestal. Even though they know that this is a false Holy Grail War, they continue to dance on the pedestal. What is true and what is false will be settled in the next life. They do it not for the Holy Grail but to uphold their own beliefs and nothing more. Air Date & Platform: Special (Episode 00): July 02, 2023 (Sunday) Available on: Crunchyroll TV Series: Episode 01: December 31, 2024 (Tuesday) Episode 02+: January 10, 2026 (Saturday) Available on: Crunchyroll Episode Count / Runtime: Special: 55 minutes TV Series: Pending Total: 1 special, Pending episodes ---------------------------------- EPISODE INDEX (Clicking on the episode will [eventually] take you to my post that has a summary, comments, and screen-caps) Episode 00: Whispers of Dawn Episode 01: The Heroic Spirit Incident Episode 02: Ensemble VS Pretense Episode 03: A Battle without Heroes Episode 04: The Canon of Demigods Episode 05: Stars' Banquet Episode 06: The Wandering King's Rock 'n' Roll Episode 07: [url=][/url] Episode 08: [url=][/url] Episode 09: [url=][/url] Episode 10: [url=][/url] Episode 11: [url=][/url] Episode 12: [url=][/url] OP1: ED1: ---------------------------------- Probably gonna' be a while till the actual TV series comes out, but here's a placeholder to, at least, talk about the special. I've always loved the Fate/ universe, the concept of the Holy Grail War, its masters and servants with their various backstories, the roller coaster of emotions of who lives and dies throughout the war, and, of course, the epic action sequences. I guess this special could be considered a kind of preview or prologue? I usually avoid specials and Episode 0's because I feel they have the potential to spoil things way too soon. But I enjoy the lore and mythos of Fate/ so much, I had to give this a look. I've seen the original Fate '05 series, Zero, Unlimited Blade Works movie and TV series, and the Heaven's Feel movies. I tried playing the visual novel a few years ago, but got busy and stopped around the beginning of the Fate path (like, right before Shiro summoned Saber). There are a lot of spinoff Fate anime that got me a little overwhelmed and I never checked those out. But the main series is pretty awesome, and this new one, at least, looks like it has the version of Archer/Gilgamesh from the main series, so I consider that curious enough to check this out. Also, A-1 Pictures producing and Sawano doing the music sounds like another winning combination. We get no S3 of Solo Leveling anytime soon, but I'll gladly take a new Fate series in the meantime. Last edited by Tony K. on Mon Feb 23, 2026 7:21 pm; edited 14 times in total |
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Woo-hoo, look at Edjwald stepping up and making threads! Thank you my good man. I'd pitch in and help but I'm incomputech... meaning I suck at computer stuff. I know how to host images but I don't know how to resize them. I tried to create the Doctor Detective thread the other day but the screenshot of the poster image I grabbed off of ANN looked to be twice the size of image that Tony posts and I haven't been able to figure out how to resize, yet. I'm mildly OCD-ish about this stuff so not being able to do that correctly verklempt me from doing a thread at all. I've downloaded gimp to resize things, just gotta figure out how to use it, now.
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Edjwald
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:::Digs wax out of ear with pinky::: So, if I'm reading that right, basically, blah blah blah, you're too drunk?
 No problem. What goes in the Blood family Christmas eggnog is the Blood family's business is what I say...
That's not to say I'm committing to doing all the upcoming anime, but I'll do a few more that I'm interested in today and in the days to come, and then people can step up and champion their own causes. Hope everybody had a Merry Christmas, or Yuletide if Beltane's name comes from deeply held pagan beliefs
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Tony K.
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I actually made a thread back when the special came out, so merged.
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Edjwald
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Oh, hey Tony! You can just delete mine, or I will when the board lets me...having an issue there. And if you want me to stop doing this or do something different, just let me know. Hope you're having a merry one.
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Tony K.
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You keep doing what you're doing, Edjwald. I'll clean things up, later. I left the posts to keep context for the banter is all.
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*takes a belt of a triple Triple Sec and eggnog* Lissen... lissen t' me, mister... I really resemble that drukn remark, okay? I'm-- I'm slober as a judge, I tells ya... An' an' an' prolbly get even more slober as the nitgh gos' on... |
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smurky turkey
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Oh god, the Fate franchise... I tried getting into it once.
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Edjwald
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Smurky, yeah for me personally, this series will live and die by how well it can stand alone. Since it's about some kind of ersatz or cubic zirconia Holy Grail Tournament, there's a decent chance.
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I am by no means a Fate superfan, but I do enjoy some of the incarnations, especially anything made by ufotable which tend to be sumptuous visual feasts. I had sort of forgotten about the Heaven's Feel movies but I think I will buy them off of Apple when I get back to my place and can see things on my big screen again. I watched the 1-hour Fate/strange Fake special recently and kind of dug it. Jack the Ripper is one of the Servants this time, so that's cool. Not so cool is the annoying presence of Gilgadouche. The Fate franchise loves his sorry ass, but I think he's a turd of the first order. Oh well.
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smurky turkey
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Blood, your post reminds me a bit of those Fate zealots. Them saying just watch series x, y and z but in the reverse order while also watching these movies, reading these novels and looking up this info in the wiki and you will get it... mostly. Meanwhile I am just thinking that it all sounds like work.
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I'm not trying to convert anybody to Fate-ism, I just tend to enjoy the animes. Mind you, the Fate-iverse is so massive, there's lots I haven't seen. And I haven't read any of the actual source material.
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Edjwald
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I liked the first Fate Stay Night <==I know a backslash goes in there somewhere. But even then, I didn't love it. There was lots of stuff I just shrugged off and went with because I liked the dynamic of the two main leads dealing with all kinds of weird stuff that I didn't have to understand to accept that it was weird stuff. I've tried a few others and never made it through the first three episodes.
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I remember being highly irritated by the character of Shirou in Fate/stay Night (he was the lead along with Saber). He was always trying to protect Saber like she was some delicate little flower when in fact she could easily kick his ass. But I guess I've always been attracted to the central premise: magicians and their summoned servants who were heroes in their past lives duking it out for the prize of having a wish granted. Brilliant.
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Edjwald
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I was counting Shirou and Rin as the leads, not Shirou and his....avatar? Summons? Yeah, I know, Saber is all that and a tray of mini-muffins, and I just committed Fate blasphemy or whatever. I already said it, in the unlikely scenario that the Fate Series was interested in me romantically, it would be reading a book called "He's Just Not That Into You" okay? But I liked the way Shirou and Rin had a kind of charged rivalry, but they were still trying to retain their humanity despite the competition and stakes, and I kept watching because of that even though I kind of tranced through a lot of the show.
But I'll still give Strange Fake a shot. |
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