Heaven’s Feel and Fate/Stay Night retrospection make me write a long post again
I made it. The final route of Fate/Stay Night in its brutal, beautiful, painful, compelling entirety. The whole run of Heaven’s Feel after the divergence point is an experience similar to the time I...
View ArticleFate/Stay Night’s Unlimited Blade Works route: an inconvenient ideal
The first route of F/S N was the main inspiration for the TV series but what’s unlocked at its completion, Unlimited Blade Works, isn’t represented much there so came as a pleasant surprise to me. It...
View Article“Twilight fades through blistered Avalon…” Fate/Stay Night’s Fate route
My blogging kohai has a lot to answer for. With one full story thread of the Fate/Stay Night visual novel under my belt I can see where he’s coming from in terms of the connections that hold everything...
View ArticleLet’s play master and servant: my introduction to the visual novel
The visual novel is strange creature. It’s a quintessentially Japanese medium so that alone makes it worth mentioning on this blog but this peculiar mix of ideas and storytelling is something that I’ve...
View ArticleWhat I marathoned because I had too much to drink: Fate/Stay night
Most anime I watch is watched alone. My family and most of my friends aren’t really into that sort of thing so it’s only on occasional visits to fellow fans’ places that I can enjoy the experience of...
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