oh so that's the one
oh so that's the one
Spoiler:
He'll turn out to be a walking reference to DiZ from Kingdom Hearts
Did Extella Link.
Simple story that didn't let Nero and Tamamo throw their cringe at your face, and Charle was fine. Not enough Altera though.
Dare I say it was even a bit fun with the gameplay.
I rate this a "Will play again whenevr I feel like playing a mindless musou with a Fate skin out-of 10".
Eh, I finished the majority of fate titles but FGO and some other stuff like Fate/Extra is remaining. I'm reading the original 2000 tsukihime vn right now (although it's the translated version) and after finishing all routes I plan to start with the remake, then eventually start with fgo and finish any remaining good stuff. There's plenty, so I hope I enjoy it.
So, I read MELTY BLOOD Back Alley Nightmare again (in preparation for LB7, personal theories, etc).
And my god, once you actually start to process what's going on in this manga, it's like magic. I will admit it's taken me like 3 reads, copious amounts of slow-reading, tons of theory-video intake, and a talk with the greatest Lev fan in the world (who claims to have read MBBAN "over 500 times") to actually grasp it, but...
One day I'll see if I can create some kind of guide to reading it, as well as a proper translation (the current one is quite bad), because I want others to be able to have this kind of experience.
Seeing BAAN brought up again reminds me of something that could be related to FGO plot beside Lev.
There's something about one of possible timelines for Sion, the one where she's presumably gone from BAA's life for thousand years, which Satsuki kept tabs on. But then she spotted anomalies; they couldn't answer what has been going on during that time span other than people suddenly disappeared, Satsuki's lack of bloodthirst, and strangest of all; their flat reactions upon seeing Sion again after such a long time.
So the simulations could generate the environs and characters in question after x amount of time, but they failed to account the process which leads to that result.
It is somewhat similar to Lostbelts so far which have been depicted as stagnant until the arrival of Apostles and Crypters as shown by the files that Kadoc found back in Olympus, which lend credence that it's something artificially generated rather than naturally occured history. So Nasu has laid down the foundations for future stories as far back. Other possibility is he just repurposed the concepts.
Seven Crypters, Seven Lostbelts, One New World
A battle between Crypters, with the winning Lostbelt overtake the world.
I feel like I'm going to walk into one of these threads and be confronted by a thesis from Petri any day now. And it better include lots of Levlove.
I do love the manga a lot and it reminds me we don't have more Tatari yet. Fuck me.
Last edited by Nanaya; November 27th, 2022 at 08:16 AM.
I'd love to see him write a review of it some time as well!
The priest was waiting for the arrival of the princess, who was only an enemy of all of them.
For the priest, the golden princess was the one and only main heroine.
Everyone else was unworthy of his respect, no matter how strong they were.
Tsukihime 2 Prelude III
Be careful what you wish for.
Trust me, I'd love every second of it!
The scenario of 1000 years in the future with the crimson moon in the sky and Satsuki losing her lust for blood was pretty clearly the scenario the Alchemists of Atlas were trying to prevent and the future Arc summoned in OG Melty. Seemed like only humanity was dead/vanished and not actually the planet. I wonder what all that stuff entails. Probably to do with CM's eventual revival.
The priest was waiting for the arrival of the princess, who was only an enemy of all of them.
For the priest, the golden princess was the one and only main heroine.
Everyone else was unworthy of his respect, no matter how strong they were.
Tsukihime 2 Prelude III
There is nothing that would make me happier than a thesis that makes the Extra review look like peanuts.
Spoiler:
Checking the manga version of Iselma. The flow of Iselma's beginning is already severely dragged down by the weight of all the exposition it's set out to do, but wow, these walls of text look so much worse in manga format. I feel like this is the golden counterargument against people who ask for adaptations to keep all the narrator monologues intact.
Crazy that the FSF one is still the best manga adaptation of any TM works by far