If anyone's interested in what Meteo's done previously, I recommend reading the commentary for the first volume of Fire Girl. It's a love letter written by Nasu himself.
https://firegirlthetranslation.wordp...-1/commentary/
It depends on the Servant and the Master. With some, yeah, the potential for romance is there, but more often than not I agree the relationship should be about other things, because usually Servants should be so much larger than life it's difficult to see them as romantically stuck to someone they just met and who's much more often than not their clear inferior in a believable way, on top of all the previous baggage both sides bring in.
When GO has all of history's greatest figures present as basically anime characters in a stock love crush of some sort or another (ambiguous as it often may be) with a generic SI vessel with little characterization and no background to play with that's just too jarring to feel anything but awkward.
It becomes extremely obvious once you see stuff like the Crypters, where the Master actually has a personality and so the relationship is immediately that much more appealing than the SI protagonist. Those still have issues, though, and one big one is that they're the antagonists and thus just don't get as much screentime as, well, Erice or Waver or Shirou or any of the other Masters that people care about.
So if you want a good Master/Servant relationship, make sure that the Master actually has a personality worth speaking of and has enough screentime to show that off.
All the romance stuff in GO is narratively meaningless fanservice, akin to marrying a boat. Of course it'll be shallow and shitty, that's why whales eat it up. :V
Rich character interaction can sell anything. It's hard to do that between the MC and a herd of characters with a gacha game audience cipher.
it's been 4 months, any news on the digital version?
I didn't know
Spoiler:
Wandering on internet
Didn't know chap 2 was TL'd, so thanks.
My Fanfics. Read 'em. Or not.McJon01: We all know that the real reason Archer would lose to Rider is because the events of his own Holy Grail War left him with a particular weakness toward "older sister" types.
same energy“It’s just…it’s just a graveyard, that place. It’s a great big graveyard.” Part of me had grown irritated with the know-it-all expression plastered on Karin’s face and wanted to hurry up and change the topic, so I’d started speaking more harshly than I meant to. But at the same time, these were my true feelings.
“Grail Tournament? What a load of crap. It’s just a game, right? It’s all just make-believe. I’ll never understand what enjoyment people get out of turning Servants into an exhibition. Don’t the fighters know they’re just being turned into commodities to bring more spectators to the show? We twist the ideas they held dear and lay them out for everyone to see, and we trivialise the skills they spent their entire lifetimes perfecting – how can that be ok? Servants aren’t meant to be our slaves!”
Karin stared back at me, not the least bit cowed, but I continued with my tirade.
“Maybe the people in the stands feel like they’re fighting alongside the competitors, but that only lasts until they get bored and find something else. How are they supposed to understand how the Servants in the arena feel from behind a safety barrier?” It was a grotesque farce, that had propagated in order to make Heroic Spirits mistake themselves.
Karin had waited carefully for me to finish my piece, but now she spoke. Her voice was quiet, but laced with anger.
“How dare you make fun of something people are serious about.” She grabbed me by my necktie and pulled me in. From up close, I could see her eyes were blazing.
“Honestly, I’ve never even really paid much attention to the Grail Tournament. But that attitude of yours is wrong, Eri.”
“Huh?”
“How sincere other people are isn’t something you get to decide.”
I immediately made to retort, but something about her gaze told me that this wasn’t up for debate.
“You can call it an exhibition or a farce all you want, but the people who’re in the arena, the people who’re actually there – they’re putting everything they’ve got into making it entertaining for us. Even the Servants – you think they get through to the final rounds just by doing what they’re told? Of course not. What are you trying to say, that nothing’s important unless people are dying? That without the impact of kingdoms falling or ages ending, it’s all just some kind of childish joke? That the kinds of jobs people wrote about in that human history you love so much are the only ones worth doing?”
“That’s not what I’m…”
“You seem to think old-fashioned ideas way outta the reach of the common people are the only things worth caring about, Eri. And you need to cut it out.”
“Well, you wouldn’t understand, would you, Karin? A…a next-gen like you…”
Yes, the link for chapter 1 was share a while back. But it seems chapter 2 was updated today so thanks for sharing the links NMR-3!!
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In case you didn't know, that user also translated the prologue, here's the link in case you or anyone else haven't read it: prologue
The scene where Erice, Karin, Pran, and Kouyou are with Kuchime in the square is utter kino.
Good characterization and a pleasant interlude--evocative of the best of Fate/stay night's daytime sequences, yet fresh enough to have its own identity, one distinct to /Requiem. If this story were told as a visual novel project like Meteo's older works, that scene'd definitely be CG-worthy. Small wonder it got an illustration of its own, really.
My Fanfics. Read 'em. Or not.McJon01: We all know that the real reason Archer would lose to Rider is because the events of his own Holy Grail War left him with a particular weakness toward "older sister" types.
Yeah I'm really like Erice and the other characters. Fate/Requiem looks like it's going to be fun. And the dialogue feels natural honestly. Not stilted or awkward like a lot of translations can be.
For all of the rather hesitant reactions I remember Requiem getting on announcement I'm enjoying it a lot so far and am glad to see it being generally well received.
So this spear…was a projection… It wasn’t a genuine…Noble Phantasm…It had been a counterfeit, reproduced by the hand of someone other than its rightful owner.
That would…make sense… If it had been…the true Holy Spear…an arcane bullet couldn’t have…
But still, there was something in its framework that came extraordinarily close to the genuine article, forged with incredible precision. My lips curled into a self-deprecating smile, at the absurdity of my lapse in judgement and the situation I had been placed in.
The projection’s creator showed no sign of coming to retrieve her spear, or any intention of making sure of the death of her foe. She must have found the satisfaction she sought, believing her vengeance complete. Now, she should no longer have any reason to remain in this town. I prayed that she managed to escape Akihabara before her Saint Graph disappeared in totality…although I reserved the right to register a complaint or two with her, should we ever meet again face-to-face.
Is this standard Gradation Air or more like Shirou's version? It sounds more like Shirou's considering how close of a copy it is.
I would imagine it's probably standard, but amplified by the fact that she has seen the genuine Holy Spear multiple times in her life.
"Here's a bangin lil' tune about takin' on The Man!"
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