Fate/Apocrypha #06: Who Am I?

hisui_icon_4040_round If you’re not playing Fate/Grand Order I will point out that the title of the post is a reference to Mordred’s Max Bond Level Card. Even if you know nothing else about the game it should be a big hint that most of this post will be spent talking about the Knight of Treachery.

The biggest revelation in this episode is actually quite significant in the greater Type-Moon pantheon of lore but is easily missed by casual fans. This was the first onscreen shot of Morgan le Fay. Even if she is either in shadow or a faceless memory it is still more than she has even been seen before. When Fate/Stay Night has first released King Arthur and Bedivere were the only Arthurian characters who had portraits. As time has gone on various Fate offshoots have increased the amount of fully fleshed out pieces of the legend. Especially since Merlin was unveiled there have been three people who I feel are critical and have been left out. They are the Lady of the LakeGuinevere, and Morgan le Fay. Thanks to Fate/Apocrypha one of the three great mysteries finally have some answers. While Morgan le Fay is still partially clouded in secrecy she now has a general character design and a voice actress. I expect to see her appear in Grand Order fairly soon with a full character design and a little more insight into the infamous sorceress.

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Fate/Apocrypha #05: Freedom! Horrible, Horrible Freedom!

hisui_icon_4040_round Seig really went from nobody to central focus character in no time flat. I was just talking about this with Elliot Page but Type-Moon does like to use the idea of the decoy protagonist. It happens with the Rin prologue in the original Fate/Stay Night visual novel and prologue of Fate/Extra with the fake out protagonist. In a way, this is no different from those examples but the amount of lead up to the reveal feels a bit different. It reminds me of the story I heard about how Tomino always wanted to make a mecha show where the signature mecha never appeared in the first episode but Sunrise NEVER liked that idea. Even with Turn A he at least had to show the titular suit at the end of the episode.

We shall see if the Tomino or the Sunrise approach was the correct one soon enough.

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The July 2017 Line-Up

The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of new anime, manga, novel, and artbook licenses for the U.S. It also lists new streaming/broadcasting announcements and posted crowdfunding projects available to U.S. residents. And finally, it includes anime/manga projects and live-action anime/manga adaptation announcements from Japan.

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