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Fate/Zero TV #004: I’m Too Sexy for this Grail War

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The first real fight has started. It is of course interrupted by periods of characters on the side lines discussing the fight, characters in the fight discussing their techniques, characters in the fight analyzing their opponent’s style, and people discussing what everything means all around. But such is any Type-Moon property. Even the mute True Assassin goes into long monologues in his head in the original Fate/Stay Night so character who can talk are going to be pretty darn chatty. Even when Nasu does not write something his love of characters chatting about things bleeds though into everything in the Fate universe. Heck even Fate/Tiger Coliseum is pretty chatty when you get right down to it.

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The Speakeasy #022: Berliner Weisse mit Schuss, A Legend of the Galactic Heroes Discussion

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Drink #022: Berliner Weisse mit Schuss,
A Legend of the Galactic Heroes Discussion

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In this episode, we discuss the epic, the legendary, the greatest anime space opera Legend of the Galactic Heroes. With so much material, we couldn’t do it alone so we invited Caleb from Otaku USA and Vinny from All Geeks Considered to help us out.

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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

Berliner Weisse mit Schuss

1 ounce red-raspberry flavored syrup (or green Waldmeister sweet woodruff syrup)
16 ounces light German wheat beer

Pour a 1 oz schuss of waldmeister or raspberry syrup into a large wheat-beer glass. Slowly add 16 oz cold Berliner Kindl Weisse or other light German-style wheat beer.

Fate/Zero TV #003: For the moment, our biggest obstacle will be this “Clinton” guy!

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Welcome to the Fate/Zero power half an hour. We get what everyone (me) has been waiting for: SABER IN A SUIT. My goodness there might not be much fighting but there are some wonderful visuals. And for the doujinshi fans this is clearly the episode that launches a thousand ships. Yaoi, Yuri, and various flavors of hentai comics surely will be spawned by this single episode.  Plus we finally get the setup for our first real fight that does not involve a one-sided Gate of Babylon massacre.

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