Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works

[Xelbair]

you are theorizing on a show with all details known? :O
heck, we even had a movie that covered this, not only the VN.

I am sad that best scene will probably be in s2 of this... also i just get it that we'll get ANOTHER emiya remix.. and i kinda miss one song in this adaptation

[shinta|hikari]

Hey, some people haven't seen anything Fate related prior to watching this. Cut him some slack.

[Kraco]

Episode 10 - HS




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The significance of Kuzuki's own, peculiar martial arts was kind of skipped in this fight, and Caster's magic emphasized. I suppose it's not altogether wrong since he wouldn't stand a chance against a servant without the buffs. On the other hand it might have been hard to concentrate on it too much within the limited time. Regardless, one more good fight. Saber losing didn't look too weird, though it's yet another sign of Shirou's poor quality as a master that the strongest servant would lose against a human.

A few more eps till we hit the season long pause. I wonder how dramatic a scene they will choose to send us off to the waiting land.

[shinta|hikari]

Saber didn't really lose though. She got downed, but who knows how things would've turned out. Her luck stat is abnormally high, after all.

Shirou performed awesome in this episode. Granted that Kuzuki underestimated him like Saber did Kuzuki, he managed to keep an opponent who hurt his servant even for just a few seconds at bay. It's quite funny how Kuzuki did not listen to his own advice. Some masters can stand in the front lines.

Rin's decision to keep Archer away was retarded. Sure, she didn't want Archer to meet Caster because of the crap that he said, but had he been there, Kuzuki and Caster would be jerky. A single Noble Phantasm arrow would disintegrate Kuzuki.

Rin is weak as hell. It doesn't help that she talks big. "I just have to keep you away, ugh, defeated."

What I am not happy about was how they translated (at least horriblesubs) the intro. It was in Japanese, but they used the English Archer chant, which means something completely different. I took a stab at the translation, for those interested:

His body is made of blades.
His blood is iron, and his heart glass.
Undefeated after traversing countless battlefields.
Never retreating, never understood.
Always alone on the hill of swords, he is intoxicated by glory.
Therefore, his life is meaningless.
His body, surely, was made of blades.

[David75]

Ermm... HS does not translate, someone does for CR though.

[Kraco]

What I am not happy about was how they translated (at least horriblesubs) the intro. It was in Japanese, but they used the English Archer chant, which means something completely different.

Yeah. I don't know more Japanese than a bunch of random words, but that same thing still bothered me as well. I'd be bold enough to guess that whoever is translating this at CR isn't a Type-Moon fan at all but just some random person who didn't think anything of this.

[shinta|hikari]

By the way, Ataraxia goes into full detail about Kuzuki's past. The same goes for Lancer, Caster, and Rider (!!!).

[Buffalobiian]

I'm really thinking of just waiting for the BDs for this show. It deserves a higher bitrate with all those dark scenes (and now it seems, deserving of a better translation).

[kmkze04]

There was a part in UBW where they used the English chant already right? Can't remember now...

[KrayZ33]

(and now it seems, deserving of a better translation).

Which group will pick them up though? THORA and UTW seem to be dead and the only groups for the TV release are Commie and Hatsuyuki so far.
Commie doesn't bother to translate it correctly either (if they translate it themselves)
Hatsuyuki is even worse than me with grammar.
I doubt that the english BD script is going to be any better.

[Kraco]

If somebody releases BD rips with HS subs, I can just fix this one thing myself...

[KrayZ33]

I'm dubious about the correctness of their translation in general whenever something like this comes up.

For example, when Shiroe talked to Kuzuki, Hatsuyuki translated it along the lines of: "You are just an ordinary human8"
while in Commie's it says: "You are a decent human being, right?"

Hatsuyuki's translation suggest that he is unable to resist and probably just a puppet, because he's just a teacher and not a magus.
Commie's translation suggest that he couldn't have known/been willing to do it because he is a nice person.

Minor differences like these in every 3rd/4th sentence add up and you'll get a different episode by the end of it.

[Kraco]

Episode 11 - HS






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Archer speech was heavy, and he certainly sounded like somebody who had went through it himself. A finely executed scene, just like most in this show. Shirou and Rin growing closer, and Rin noticing the wrongness in Shirou's personality were good as well. I'm happy they spent a whole episode on everything that happened in the ep, including how Shirou tried to hide the numbness and Saber only gradually noticing it.

Too bad we have to wait several months to see if the best scene is included or not.

[Buffalobiian]

This episode was full of the lovey-dovey Rin/Shirou banter I've been wanting!

[shinta|hikari]

Their conversations are a lot of fun when Tohsaka is in control. Reminds me of Holo and Lawrence.

[Archangel]

Their conversations are a lot of fun when Tohsaka is in control. Reminds me of Holo and Lawrence.

You really hit the nail on the head there, they really are very similar.

[NeoCybercoin]

[HorribleSubs] UWB 12 [1080p]
Oh yeah, double episode. Things did go differently from source material but this looks better.

I know there are a lot of Rin fans but there were so many cute Saber moments in this one. Like her trying to figure out where to begin eating the Takiyaki.

[shinta|hikari]

Saber is more feminine in this series than in any other Fate version. She speaks very softly and acts a lot less macho. That really cute white and blue dress helps.

[Kraco]

Shirou's must save everybody attitude is really paying off here. Even Archer didn't bother to comment on it anymore.

Despite being a Rin fanboy, I have to agree Saber was cute here. I guess it's partially because she had no pressure on her, especially from Shirou's direction. She was just the third wheel, and being sort of naive, she was simply happy to hang around with the others and get some new food and exercise.

It's going to be a long wait till April.

[David75]

I remember in the VN that Saber was in full servant mode, watching for any kind of threat and then got caught in the date Rin organised for her and Shirou.
It still felt like Rin did just that, just it wasn't mentionned and Saber was in easy mode from the start.

A gripe I had in the ep, was Kojiro standing with his rib cage open (or with multiple blades in his torso) and speaking like it is nothing.
I understand he's a servant and not to be compared to human reactions, but then why have that scene in the first place?

I also liked the taiyaki reaction