Unpopular TM opinions you have

[Deathhappens]

And some of his tales were about the extraterrestrial.

And some others were about the extradimensional, particularly if we include the extended mythos, but that's not the point. Lovecraft's genre is horror, not fantasy or sci-fi. Calling Gilles and his tentacles "lovecraftian" because he used a meme incantation and summoned tentacle monsters is quite the disservice.

[LJ3]

We never really got Lovecraft mythos shit until Gilles??

And well now with GO very explicitly which I'm ambivalent on. Just from impressions, it seems superficial and not really needed? Will say I'm not that well read with Lovecraft and other ilk.

[Mcjon01]

^ Hmm... I'd personally disagree that the Lovecraftian elements started with Urobuchi. The Types in Notes and all the imagery of the Shadow/Angra Mainyu in Heaven's Feel was already pseudo-Lovecraft in my mind to when F/Z rolls around it feels like Nasu finally learned to embrace it and Urobuchi was just an enabling influence.

Types were cribbed directly from Angels though
Thw whole story is literally just Evangelion with furries

[LJ3]

Who was the guy who designed the Angels for Evangelion?

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And some others were about the extradimensional, particularly if we include the extended mythos, but that's not the point. Lovecraft's genre is horror, not fantasy or sci-fi. Calling Gilles and his tentacles "lovecraftian" because he used a meme incantation and summoned tentacle monsters is quite the disservice.

Lovecraft made more than just horror. He made an entirely new genre: Cosmic Horror. Modern literature and popular culture is influenced as such by Lovecraft that Gilles' shenanigans can indeed be traced back to Lovecraft.

TM indeed borrowed many elements from Lovecraft, which as pointed out, Nasu already implemented in his earlier works. Now the problem is that with the direction FGO is taking, started with Gilles' explicit reference to Lovecraft, TM is now basically trying to implement Lovecraft cosmology into TM, instead of just using Lovecraft as a passing meme.

[You]

Types were cribbed directly from Angels though
Thw whole story is literally just Evangelion with furries

so that's why the black barrel is called longinus

[forumghost]

so that's why the black barrel is called longinus

And here I thought it was because it, as Yoda would say, a long-gun-is.

[GarlandGreene]

Who was the guy who designed the Angels for Evangelion?

The same guy who designed the characters aka Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

[Mcjon01]

And here I thought it was because it, as Yoda would say, a long-gun-is.

Yoda would say “A long gun it is”
If there’s one thing I hate more than puns it’s fucking up references to popular nerd culture

[34]

Types were cribbed directly from Angels though
Thw whole story is literally just Evangelion with furries

Evangelion is arguably even more Lovecraft inspired

[Dullahan]

nonsense. eva's roots are in freud and the kaiju genre

[34]

and the kaijus are even more lovecract inspired, etc

[Dullahan]

smh

[34]

please look forward to FGO's upcoming crossover, featuring Foreigner Godzilla

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wait, that's just Kingprotea

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Kingprotea Alter (Godzilla) when

[34]

"it's not the same and the same and the same, we're recycling existing character over and over and over. key word; recycle! efficiency! creativity is involved! now shut the fuck up and roll the gacha!"

[Dullahan]

the kaiju genre is not lovecraft inspired

[LJ3]

The same guy who designed the characters aka Yoshiyuki Sadamoto.

Thanks. I was wondering if it was also the Bokurano guy.

[34]

maybe not intentionally, but the thematic is similar enough that the kaiju genre could fit nicely within lovecraft
which later writers may easily synthesis both

[SirGauoftheSquareTable]

Evangelion is arguably even more Lovecraft inspired

I thought Evangelion was based on Christian religious horror?

[Reign]

I thought Evangelion was based on Christian religious horror?

It has Christian imagery but not really. It's very surface level.