Started reading Fate/Prototype Fragments. Even if it feels similar to Fate/Zero I'm enjoying it so far. Proto-Saber is awesome. <3
Don't let him fool you. Kohaku is clearly the best girl, that's why she's saved for last.
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I finished the first volume of Fate/Apocrypha and I loved it. I'm going to start reading the second volume tomorrow.
I should get around to finish that, huh
Alright.... So I finally finished both the Akiha and Hisui routes(both endings). I liked them. Ciel is still my favorite, and I always smile when she appears, but I like Akiha and Hisui too. Though I did have a bit of trouble getting through some scenes as I wasn't as invested in them.
I'm very excited for the Kohaku route. Her character is interesting and enjoyable. Shiki Tohno is also an intriguing protagonist. A lot of my enjoyment from Tsukihime comes from the mindfuck, it really grabs me.
Thanks! I hope I enjoy it as well. I've heard lots of praise for it.
After taking a long break, first for Extella, then for Babylon and then for general disinterest went back to Apocrypha and finished vol 4-5.
Now only the dictionary of the Apo materials remains (and the Jack short story I guess, would you say is it worth it?)
I think I have mentioned before (like, every single time) that the prose itself wasn't terribly interesting for me. Well, I'll say it again. When I look back and enumerate everything that happens these novels should be overflowing with awesome, but it seems to me that the text itself spends too much time plainly describing everything so it loses impact. It seems like it's trying too hard to be amusing in a visual sense, which doesn't work so well on paper. otoh it could work well on animation, so I'm cautiously optimistic to the adaptation.
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Finished Proto vol.5
It was... a thing, I guess
I like the writing but I don't think I was ever particularly engrossed (only with the Serenity chapter of the last volume maybe)
To be fair the story was pretty constrained in the first place; we already knew that Manaka had curbstomped her war and stuff
(To be even fairer the novels didn't really need to repeat every other page how great she was)
In that sense I think Sakurai did a good job taking what we already knew and expanding/explaining it
People's main complain is indeed Manaka's narrative, I think. Can't really do much if your character is as 1D as her.
nah manaka has a second dimension
she's p flat
It'd be weirder if she wasn't, she's like 10
I thought it was 14?
I finished reading Act 1 of Fate/Apocrypha. I made the right decision to not read it at night.
I'm reading fate strange/fake, it's really well written.
Currently doing a Fate/Stay Night route marathon with Fate/Stay Night 2006, will movie onto Unlimited Blade Works 2014 and then do the movie, will finish Fate/Zero and onto Kalied Liner Prisma Illya!
Rewatched Paradox Spiral. I kinda missed this kinda stuff.
Finally, better late than never, finished with rakkyo movies. Cant help to feel tsukihime vibe on it, even without vamps around (I already knew the reason anyway). So even I won't hear or see that adaptation in my lifetime, I think I'll be okay with that. Its TM afterall (valve time anyone?)
closedness and urban fantasy + nasu