The Type-Moon Miscellaneous Thoughts Thread

[Dullahan]

trying to estimate which period of japanese history has been raped the hardest by FGO i.e. by instrumental application of degenerated "flat" historical consciousness & attendant reprocessing by TM brand conventions.

no doubt a fruitless endeavour, but all the same - genocide is genocide but someone has to count the bodies and establish a basis for comparison

I was gonna say sengoku/early tokugawa (up to, let's say, 1633, shimabara, the martyrdom of the yugioh guy) but considering how much retardation originally came from koha-ace ('nobbu' and whatnot), i'm now leaning toward late heian/early kamakura. i think "raiko" by herself should count for a lot against them here

okita's gonna okita but honestly it's surprising that the bakumatsu hasn't been treated far worse, particularly considering how a lot of "19th century" "servants" from outside japan have turned out

[Rafflesiac]

Raita and Takeuchi are heroes.

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Though now I'm curious, who's the oldest Japanese Servant, and which era has the most of them?

[Dullahan]

Murasaki is the oldest from japan afaik

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and what do you know she's a raita abomination too

[Skull]

FGO Part 2 spoilers

He isn't a playable Servant yet, but as Ashiya Doman was a contemporary of Abe no Seimei, he would theoretically be of a similar age and thus slightly older than Murasaki.

[Dullahan]

why does murasaki's NP have her draw abe no seimei's seal? makes u think

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unspoil that you coward

[Skull]

Though now I'm curious which era has the most of them?

I just know I'll have probably forgotten someone, so this is just to give you a rough idea.

List contains spoilers for FGO Part 2

Heian Period (794–1185): Ashiya Doman, Fujiwara Hidesato, Murasaki Shikibu, Benkei, Tomoe Gozen, Raikou.
Sengoku Period (1467–1603): Oda Nobunaga, Ieyasu, Fuuma Kotaro, Sasaki Kojiro, Miyamoto Musashi, Uesugi Kenshin.
Edo Period (1603–1868): Amakusa Shirou, Sakamoto Ryouma, Okita Souji, Toshizo Hijikata.

unspoil that you coward

No.

[Dullahan]

if knowing the names of any of the collectible pieces of cardboard that will be appearing in FGO part 2 "spoils" your "enjoyment" of the "game" then honestly god fucking help you

[R.Lock]

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if knowing the names of any of the collectible pieces of cardboard that will be appearing in FGO part 2 "spoils" your "enjoyment" of the "game" then honestly god fucking help you

Forumwide, and especially in GO General, you are expected to exercise reasonable discretion as to your use of story spoilers concerning events which are accessible in-game but which a considerable portion of the user-base may not yet have reached. <...> If you do not understand what qualifies as reasonable discretion, just save everyone a headache and tag it.

(Policy is subject to reasonable revision if any gaping holes are uncovered).

[Tobias]

Don’t encourage people to post spoilers.

[fire_mountain_30]

It aint a spoiler if you dont think people dont already know about it

[Reign]

Didn't we already get a name for him in fgo?

Spoiler:

It's implied that that's Eumenes iirc.

Oh, where at?

[Kotonoha]

Oh, where at?

Both in FGO and Case Files, it's not conclusive or anything but both Iskander and Faker say there's a resemblance.

[Reign]

That does sound familiar now that you mention it.

[asterism42]

why does murasaki's NP have her draw abe no seimei's seal? makes u think

she was his pupil or smth

maybe has something from rl legends (how much do we know about rl murasaki), but just as easily could be something the writers made up

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Since Murasaki Shikibu had a certain level of familiarity in Onmyōdō, “The Tale of Genji” also contains within its sections certain elements of the craft. Putting it in a modern way, she was actually the sort of author to ’study real magic for the sake of writing a novel in which magic occurs’.

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[fire_mountain_30]

> reads the case files volume 3 translation

Fuck you Nasu. What so you mean Touko isnt a powerful fighter? Wtf was it that i just saw then?!

[AmADo VII]

> reads the case files volume 3 translation

Fuck you Nasu. What so you mean Touko isnt a powerful fighter? Wtf was it that i just saw then?!

Touko is indeed not a powerful fighter.

but she is a powerful weapon maker. never change since Mahoyo or KnK.

[forumghost]

> reads the case files volume 3 translation

Fuck you Nasu. What so you mean Touko isnt a powerful fighter? Wtf was it that i just saw then?!

I mean when he said that he did specify that it would change depending on which Touko model is currently in use- After all there are a lot of her, and some have better specs then others.

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Touko is indeed not a powerful fighter.

but she is a powerful weapon maker.

She's only an average fighter, but a brilliant scientist!

[asterism42]

I imagine that if you ambushed her, or if she didn't have enough time to prepare, she'd go down like a chump. Araya manages to take her out pretty easily under such circumstances.

But actually catching her off-guard is the tricky part. And, like, killing her won't do any actual good in the long run, since it'll just activate the next Touko.

[Daiki]

You can't catch Touko off guard though.

Spoiler:

Araya had home advantage. And she didn't bother to go all out.

[Altaris]

Though now I'm curious, who's the oldest Japanese Servant, and which era has the most of them?

Technically Tamamo is the oldest Japanese Servant, cause ... ya know

All those thousands of years to get tails and such