There were a number of major problems Studio Deen had with the Fate/stay night TV series a few years back. The biggest one, and probably the major culprit, is that it was billed as being an “original scenario”, covering all three scenarios, rather than being one. As a result, they did a bunch of stuff that resulted in it being particularly stupid, or coming off as rushed, etc. In fact, I do think that advertisement and goal with the TV series was why it failed so hard in the first place.

Now they’re making a movie based off Unlimited Blade Works. If you think about it though, not long after the Fate/stay night TV series ended, Kara no Kyoukai’s movies came out, and they were a resounding success. What’s not to say that Studio Deen realizes that what they did was pretty stupid, and that they want to try this again for round 2? After all, people do learn after screwing things up… most of the time.

Of course, this is all just a very dim, but glimmering hope of light for the UBW movie, and I pray that it will actually work out well. If they had billed the Fate/stay night TV series as just being the Fate scenario back in the day, maybe it would have worked out better; all they’d have to do is follow the Realta Nua variation of the Fate scenario.

Better yet, they could have done it as a movie, and that would have worked out as well.

Someone’s been playing a little too much Ace Combat Zero.

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While we’re at it, the official site has been updated with some special commentaries from some of the big shots: Urobuchi Gen, Nasu Kinoko, Takeuchi Takashi, and Haganeya Jin.

As expected, the only person with any intention of making a proper commentary was Takeuchi-san. The other three just screwed around as usual.

Haganeya-san’s commentary gave me a good laugh.
There are three kind of kings:
(Japanese: The one who craved for tyranny)
Aleksandros
(Japanese: The one who lived by the code of chivalry)
King Arthur
(Japanese: The one who can’t get a clue)
Gilgamesh

…Wait, that’s my Gil-sama you’re talking about there!
…Well, it’s the truth anyway.

Oh noez! Kara no Kyoukai is coming to the big screen!

If the ufotable animation studio doesn’t ring a bell, maybe the Tales of Symphonia (OAV) will.

Thanks to DarkMirage for the heads up.

More for you to enjoy. See:

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Any requests?

If you’re wondering, the Flash animation on the Fate/Zero site worked beautifully.

Kara no Kyokai anime? Apparently it was mentioned a page on NewType and will be discussed later alongside Fate/stay night in the next issue. Fingers crossed again. I hope the cast used for the drama CD come in for this one…

I thought Fate/Zero was supposed to be a funny skit in Fate/hollow ataraxia. Now it’s turned into a prequel of Fate/stay night:

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In the wake of the new blog having been brought into play, most of my Movable Type entries from April had died out due to issues with the SQL server. Those entries happened to be Fate/stay night related, so I’ll summarize here.

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