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It has been repeated ad nauseam for years and it always, always comes down to one of the parties going "well, I didn't play the VN". It is the most boring and tedious T-M conversation that is possible to hold. E: To clarify I am not saying that there aren't conversations that can be held on the ups and downs, good and bad points, of Shirou's character and arc, but it has become abundantly clear to me over the years such back and forths go loving nowhere or actually tread meaningful ground when one or more of the participants haven't actually read the VN. Nate RFB fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Dec 15, 2017 |
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The ufotable anime had a pretty great trauma face though. Sadly I can't retrieve it on phone. It's when he's talking to Rin about the fire though.
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Dec 15, 2017 23:57
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I really like the one time in the UTW anime where he sees Ilya + Berserker fighting Gil and he completely loses his poo poo. It really sold me on "this character is not aware of some of the forces that drive him" Some of the slower everyday-life things in the earlier episodes of the adaptation are really nice too. I can't help but think that I want to like Shirou a lot more than I actually do.
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Dec 16, 2017 01:02
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The nicest thing I can say about Shirou is the other human dudes in Fate are much worse, and it's cute when he gets mad when Rin makes fun of him. Mostly he's just kinda boring.
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Dec 16, 2017 01:06
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From my understanding, Shirou was the only survivor in the fire, which cause him to have survivor guilt that he shouldn't be the only alive, and need to do something to amend such a gift of life and luck. kiritsugu being the right person to taught him the idea of Hero of Justice, whom is someone who will saves others, fits perfectly to the need of Shirou. It have become his coping mechanism for the guilt. His mind have long since been broken during the fire, and was never heal up to the point of the Grail War. He only lives for other and not for himself because he doesn't feel there is a need to serve yourself, and thus he never capable of saving himself. He lives everyday for someone's sake: Helping issei and anyone who are in needs, and performing dangerous 'magic' training on his body to prepare for the day he can be of use to someone. He NEEDS to save people and don't want to get hurt because that will trigger his mental flashback of guilt. He have to do it, and he don't care about his life even if he have to suicide. He can't live with himself if he failed to saves someone. As for the woman talk, he's just making up any reason to keep Saber alive.
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Dec 16, 2017 01:31
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The UBW anime makes it pretty clear that Shirou is not quite right. He literally needs a trigger warning for happiness because people suggesting he do things to enjoy himself gives him horrible flashbacks. If nothing else the abridged version demonstrates that the character works fine with the misogyny excised and the next six adaptations should follow them in removing it.
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Dec 16, 2017 01:40
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Nate RFB posted:It has been repeated ad nauseam for years and it always, always comes down to one of the parties going "well, I didn't play the VN". It is the most boring and tedious T-M conversation that is possible to hold. They ain't coming back. Maybe post this next time instead of being a butt. Taking the mega out of megathread.
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Rand Brittain posted:The UBW anime makes it pretty clear that Shirou is not quite right. He literally needs a trigger warning for happiness because people suggesting he do things to enjoy himself gives him horrible flashbacks. I thought the misogyny from Shirou mostly resolved about Saber fighting, and the one time in UBW he tells her not to fight is against Gilgamesh for he is the only one who can actually counter him.
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My favorite thing about Shirou is how first thing he does after getting revived from Lancer stabbing him is clean up the mess. He has a lot of great character moments, but that's one of the earliest and more memorable ones for me.
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Nyaa posted:From my understanding, Shirou was the only survivor in the fire, which cause him to have survivor guilt that he shouldn't be the only alive, and need to do something to amend such a gift of life and luck.
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Cephas posted:I really like the one time in the UTW anime where he sees Ilya + Berserker fighting Gil and he completely loses his poo poo. It really sold me on "this character is not aware of some of the forces that drive him" Seriously that was good characterization. Shirou was prepared to jump down to Gil and fight him even if it meant death and Rin had to hold him down
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shirou isnt a misognyst because he gets worried about saber being injured because he doesnt seem to give a gently caress everytime rider or caster gets brutally murdered
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Shinjobi posted:They ain't coming back. Maybe post this next time instead of being a butt. Taking the mega out of megathread.
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More to the point, in the same route people always complain about his "misogynistic" tendencies, he says absolutely nothing about Rin, who is incidentally far, FAR weaker than Saber, directly challenging Heracles to buy time. Huh, imagine that. And funnily enough that still exists in the DEEN anime.
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"Shirou is misogynistic" is the most boring poo poo that keeps being brought up by people who don't bother to read between the lines, whether they read the VN or only watched the anime and that aspect kind of sheds itself in the stories anyways due to the crazy poo poo going on. I like Shirou because he is good at cooking and cleaning and being a housewife and my heart is warmed whenever I see him with his (mostly lady) company because at least he has a family!!! He's imperfect as gently caress and probably does edge towards too much of being a bland harem dude at times, but he has stuff that makes him tick and how it's dealt with in the three routes is interesting especially in Heaven's Feel.
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"Shirou is misogynistic" and "Shirou is a complicated character" and "Shirou is good, actually" do not have to be mutually exclusive concepts It's not impossible to imagine someone being put off from the series by how he acts in the Fate route because of hiding any kind of actual insight into his character until a thousand words later. Hell, I thought he profoundly sucked the entire way through that route but people told me he got better, and while he does I couldn't begrudge anyone wanting to tap out before then.
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Blockhouse posted:"Shirou is misogynistic" and "Shirou is a complicated character" and "Shirou is good, actually" do not have to be mutually exclusive concepts Blockhouse posted:It's not impossible to imagine someone being put off from the series by how he acts in the Fate route because of hiding any kind of actual insight into his character until a thousand words later. Hell, I thought he profoundly sucked the entire way through that route but people told me he got better, and while he does I couldn't begrudge anyone wanting to tap out before then.
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Shirou chooses to express "I can't allow anyone to put themselves in danger that I could take instead" as "Saber I can't let you fight you're a girl" so he has some issues with gender even if that's not all that's going on
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Terrible Opinions posted:See the narrator in Fight Club. "worst VN protagonist" is a loving race to the bottom I never want to consider
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Fate route is legitimately actually bad imo mostly because Shirou is terrible in it and Saber is the least interesting F/SN heroine by a mile
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The biggest problem with the Fate route especially on replay is how much exposition it has (arguably understandable why, but still) and its pacing. It spends so much capita and gravitas on elements that anyone with even a passing semblance of knowledge of the series has known for years and is barely worth discussing at large compared to the rest of the story.
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cheetah7071 posted:Fate route is legitimately actually bad imo mostly because Shirou is terrible in it and Saber is the least interesting F/SN heroine by a mile "Can you stall them?" "Stalling them is one thing, but it's fine if I win, right?" exchange.
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It'd be a decent action story with a ton of cool moments but bad pacing and all the coolest characters shunted to side roles while it focuses on the most boring ones. Like, it's readable in that state but I wouldn't ever recommend it to anyone. e: yeah I've been steeped in fate poo poo for so long I've forgotten how cool reading the premise for the very first time must be so I'll up it from "bad" to "mildly good" cheetah7071 fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Eh, even in Fate route Rin, Archer, and Ilyasviel get a good amount of screentime, and those three are good characters even in Fate route. I'd mention it in lists of decent VNs, especially considering how few translated VNs actually have decent action scenes.
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I would argue that Fate doesn't really focus on anyone other than Saber. You don't learn anything major about any other character, except maybe Gilgamesh who is really kind of self-explanatory. Everyone else has important context that just doesn't show up till UBW or HF.
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UBW is the best route because it has my husband Cu and he doesn't go down like a chump like my other husband Diarmuid
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Lancer's bad luck stat extends to his luck getting screentime unfortunately
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Bad luck Lancer club, members: Cu Chulainn, Diarmuid, Hektor.
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you can't take about Fate having bad pacing in a game where Heaven's Feel also exists
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At least Heaven's Feel has an incredible payoff
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MonsieurChoc posted:Bad luck Lancer club, members: Cu Chulainn, Diarmuid, Hektor. Vlad, Karna, Fionn...
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Enkidu...
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I like Heaven's Feel. Or at least I did like 10 years ago when I read it.
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Terrible Opinions posted:Yeah I've only seen the anime and done a goodly portion of the fate route. He is by no means the most unpleasant light novel protagonist, but he is among the most boring. Shirou is incredibly interesting from a literary standpoint, because a competent and engaging story of FSN's breadth that is for the most part a character study of an static protagonist is like, goddamn. Normal, bland, is protagonists getting character development and a little growth through their story arc. They learn a lesson about life, or friendship, and become the hero that saves the day, yay. Shirou does not work like that. Shirou's entire story arc throughout Fate and UBW is, in the face of self-discovery, to double and triple down on remaining his own broken self - and doing so with downright heroic determination. Do we forget how much of a badass he is? He gets his little get out of jail card in Avalon, but even then all that keeps him alive and conscious as we're described in excruciating detail how his bones and organs knit themselves back together, or how he fries his nerves performing magecraft, is sheer willpower. And then we get Heaven's Feel. Fate and UBW endeavor to tell us how Shirou's housewife shenanigans and childish aspirations are just an endearing wrapping around a person that's broken inside, but then along comes HF and sheds light on there being more nuance to that, because of course there's more to it. How Shirou is indeed messed up, but his harem romcom protagonist daily life is as important a part of him as everything else - you could argue eventually leaving that behind is what truly sets him down the path of becoming Archer. And Nasu decides "hey, let's threaten that directly!" and the whole house of cards comes crashing down. For the first time Shirou changes, acknowledges something about himself and makes a small change, a priority shift, but continuing on the path he set out for himself on his father's deathbed is such a fundamental part of his identity that the decision quite literally destroys him. But boy, does he go out with a bang. Conspiratiorist fucked around with this message at 09:28 on Dec 16, 2017 |
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Having a huge amount of explanation as to why something is boring does not negate it being boring in the first place. Also a static character examined in excruciating detail is fairly common in novels, particularly long ones.
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Shirou is good. Archer is better though. Also Fate is the best route, because its the only loving route where he gets a happy ending, no caveats, no future doom.
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Heaven's Feel had a happy ending even though Shirou turned into a sentient mannequin. He also gets to live with Rider who is the best girl.
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Clarste posted:I like Heaven's Feel. Or at least I did like 10 years ago when I read it.
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The only part of FSN where I legit stopped reading for a while from disinterest was during the fights with kizuki in UBW because in the VN they are so laboriously described and it isn't immediately apparent why everyone is getting chumped by a fuckin history teacher. Fate was fine, though again I thought the fight sequences were kinda lackluster initially (My first and just previous VN was MLA so I feel like I was a bit spoiled in that regret. I think UBWanime suffers heavily from being an adaptation of a first person perspective work that is specifically dealing with that character working through things, and having read that before hand. Independent of the VN, I think that shiro is probably more boring than the events occurring around him without getting to see his own thought processes and just his actions, but even still is a more complex character on screen than many many shounen protags.
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Fate's romance gets a lot better when you realize that Saber's the repentant protagonist, and Shirou is the tsundere girlfriend.
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