Unpopular TM opinions you have

[weeblord]

I was that way, then I realized I took an arrow to the ears when I realized Akira Ishida voiced hentai and my stomach started doing cartwheels (not in a good way), then I heard that certain VAs pretty much orgasm on screen with their original names attached (instead of the tried and tested practice of going alter ego) and I positively felt nausea.

What on earth is your problem dude? You some kinda crazy soccer mom or something?

[Leftovers]

Strange Fake is everything a good HGW fanfic should be.

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I already scheduled a readout for both Notes and TnS: when I'm being driven to another city next week, because thankfully someone volunteered so I have 2 hours of road trip to burn.

Dude how do you find the time to post on an internet forum with the busy life you lead

[the god of world-0]

I am an EGOIST (and ryo in general) fanboy, so I can't give you an option that is not complete bias.

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Hentai VA's shouldn't have to be ashamed of their works. There is nothing wrong with work on the pornographic industry, is a normal part of human nature.

[Byegod]

Strange Fake is everything a good HGW fanfic should be.

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Dude how do you find the time to post on an internet forum with the busy life you lead

So is apocrypha then what a bad HGW fanfic is?

[NMR-3]

lol at people who don't have assgryffynn muted across multiple forums

[mami-kouga]

Wait you can mute certain people?

[the god of world-0]

Apo is an overly ambitious HGW fanfic. A bad HGW fanfic has an OOC Shirou self-insert effortlessly slaughtering all of the other Servants (who we are assured, are overpowered but never giving any proof of it) and amassing a harem of other TM characters along the way.

[mami-kouga]

That says, I don't read anything he writes anyway, just people's reactions so maybe nothing will change for me

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So is apocrypha then what a bad HGW fanfic is?

I'd say it's more someone's second attempt at a HGW fanfic. Where it's not as bad as the first attempt but they still get carried away cramming everything that seems cool into it first and then not really knowing where to progress from there.

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I'd call last encore a bad HGW fanfic over Apo at least

[eddyak]

I get why people like it but I find Strange Fake to be pretty mediocre. Narita's stories have always been the epitome of style over substance and I feel like he's at his best when he tackles his own original works compared to working on an existing franchise.

The whole thing is just a bloated mess of references and a cast comprised of revolving door characters that all await their turns at the spotlight yet it all comes off as very stagnant and nothing really substantial happens throughout it as of just yet. It's like a less crappier version of Apocrypha...which is not saying a whole lot since Apo is already at the bottom of the barrel.

Even Apoc had its upsides- Despite the plot railroading, where it took most of the characters was good, even the long dead heroes had some development, some of the death scenes were incredible- FSF is just rule of cool above all.

[jennajayfeather]

Wait you can mute certain people?

At one point I had everyone in the FSF thread muted to avoid spoilers.

It didn't last.

Now I just mute people with bad takes.

FSF is just rule of cool above all.

Idk I respectfully disagree because like, just taking a birds eye view of it, it might seem that way, but there's been a lot of heartwarming stuff too (Flat's discussion with Jack on the church balcony, Sigma's discussions with Zealot etc.) Maybe it's just me but I just kinda brush off the cool things and just go for the emotional scenes

[Leftovers]

Apoc is the guy who just finished FSN and tries to write a fanfic based on it but can only remember the cool fights and Last Episode. Last Encore is the washed-up author digging up one of his old works and remaking it based on the good parts, except he has forgotten how to write character.

[weeblord]

tsukihime fans sweating nervously

[Aozaki-desu]

dead do not sweat

[Leftovers]

Even Apoc had its upsides- Despite the plot railroading, where it took most of the characters was good, even the long dead heroes had some development, some of the death scenes were incredible- FSF is just rule of cool above all.

six volumes later and the same buzzwords, all i can say is cope

[mami-kouga]

tsukihime fans sweating nervously

dead do not sweat

Are tsukihime fans okay?

[the god of world-0]

Are tsukihime fans okay?

No, they aren't, unfortunately.

[Rafflesiac]

Are tsukihime fans okay?

They've had over 15 years to go through the five stages of grief, they're alive.

[asterism42]

I was that way, then I realized I took an arrow to the ears when I realized Akira Ishida voiced hentai and my stomach started doing cartwheels (not in a good way), then I heard that certain VAs pretty much orgasm on screen with their original names attached (instead of the tried and tested practice of going alter ego) and I positively felt nausea.

Do you clutch your pearls in shock when any actor ever has to perform a sex scene then?

[weeblord]

Are tsukihime fans okay?

the pain never subsides, we just ran out of tears to shed

[Imperial]

Strange Fake is everything a good HGW fanfic should be.

I dunno, man.

A lot of my hype for it died when Narita introduced a whole other cast’s worth of Servants and Masters. It’s like he took Apocrypha as a dare.

I still hold up Zero as the best of the official Fate fics, which is a controversial one in its own right.

I maintain the Fate/Stay Night is still the best Fate story, but FZ is the best Grail War. It balances the cast fairly well, giving an appropriate amount of exploration to each team without diluting them the way Apoc did with too many cooks in the kitchen or the way Extra did by turning them into monsters of the week.

All the glitz and glamor of Archer Herk, Gil, and True Rider smashing mountains won’t amount to a hill of beans if the narrative stretches too thin. It’s too soon to call it, of course, but Narita skews toward “looks cool” and too many characters to make me give a rip about any of them.

People shit on FSN for its multitudinous cooking scenes (and rightfully so), but you have to lean into characters and let them breathe a bit to get me truly invested.