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Seimei sounds insanely arrogant. I mean, if the affair with Rika happened where Douman first got his immortality and he STILL had trust in Douman by the time Heian-Kyo happened in a singularity despite having Clairvoyance. And Douman was still ALIVE alive even through modern times. You'd think he'd have permanently killed him before then but I guess nah? Is there a way to reconcile all that because that sounds nuts (or maybe that's the point) or is that too in the realm of hypotheticals.

Sakurai tends to alter the originals for the Servants she creates only for two reasons.

To integrate their stories with pre-established Nasu lore (the oni stuff from Tsukihime; the Clock Tower presence in the lives of Holmes, Helena, Jekyll, and Cagliostro; the Mozarts being one of the original Western mages; the laundry list of Nasu lore elements in Dantès's life; Attila and the Olympias being integrated in the Sefar backstory)

To make them less shitty husbands (Kasugahime accompanying Koga Saburou to Yuimankoku, Ragnar's wife order being shuffled, Yoshinaka having a total personality makeover, Takeru not marrying Miyazu after Tachibana's death, Odysseus never giving Circe a chance)

Reason number 2 has me really curious particularly about Rika and Cagliostro's Lorenza. Neither of those two were ever mentioned despite acknowledgment of stories they're part of, so my guess is that maybe Rika doesn't exist in TM. I really hope to be proven wrong though. A Sakurai take on Rika sounds fascinating.

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superb-fox submitted: Who is this man, why is he on all the art

That's a doodle of Sensei done by Arona,

The AI that lives in their tablet (... ostensibly). Much like Lord T(eitoku) and Lord T(rainer), Scribble-Sensei gets put as the face for any use of them in art when an OC isn't involved, because it looks ridiculous.

Also used officially.

However, there's an official Problem Solver 68 manga that has Sensei look like this

so you'll occasionally see Sleep-Deprived Sensei instead of an OC when Scribble-Sensei isn't appropriate.

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It is funny

But there's also the inherent eroticism of card game battles to the death(which is reinforced by the series itself)

Something i thought was funny

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With the Heian chapter of FGO soon approaching NA, I thought it would be good to make a refresher post reminding people of the basic concepts behind the main Heian cast of characters. Kinda long post. Enjoy.

Minamoto no Raikou

This character presents herself as a prim and proper lady who never misbehaves and reprimands those around her for their misbehavior. This concept is taken to somewhat of an extreme, with her attempting to force herself into a very emotionally sterile lifestyle, to a point beyond what she can humanly handle, leading to some really messy slip-ups.

The reason for overwhelming self-regulation is that this character is a mixed-blood of human and oni. And one whose oni traits are remarkably ancient and powerful, at that, so can't afford the risk of allowing herself overtly emotional responses to anything, or the consequences will be severe. Her inability to function like a normal human is a consequence of her attempts to remain human.

Another key character trait of hers, usually at the forefront, is her pseudo-incestuous infatuation with our hero Sakata Kintoki. They aren't actually related in any way, she just overlays her conscious romantic feelings with a family framing because she's a freak like that. She's also a frequent target of jokes about her chest size.

Sakata Kintoki

The protagonist of his cluster of characters. He was born and spent his early childhood deep in the Japanese mountains until he was brought to the big city and adopted into the house of the character above, Minamoto no Raikou, because his birth lineage makes him a powerful asset for oni slaying. One of the powers granted by his genealogy is the Pure Eyes, which makes his irises blue and allows him to see things others don't.

Despite his mountain background, his story is set years after he's already grown accustomed to civilization, but his childhood years still left him a man without concrete goals. That said, this is not a bad thing, as he's ultimately content with his simple everyday life.

Being the protagonist of a monster vs human setting, he naturally embodies the heroic virtues of compassion and willingness to be a bridge between both sides. And of course, he gets his fair share of both human and monster love interests.

Shuten-douji

Sakata Kintoki's main love interest. She's the most powerful being on this sub-cast, but she's actually a weakened state of something much greater. Contrary to the restrained half-onis, this character is portrayed as fun-loving and unstoppably free, although she still has principles she strictly follows about the nature of her species.

Her first interaction with her love interest involves him trying to slay her. As someone who always saw herself as invincible, she got very interested in his real prospects of killing her and developed a deeper relationship over time and mutual demonstrations of violence. Despite this, she's actually very insecure about the long-term viability of human/inhuman relationships and ultimately chooses to keep her distance from her love.

Ibuki-Douji

The older and more powerful entity Shuten-douji used to be. She has a far more solemn and dignified presence at first, but at her core, she's noticeably still the same character as her more recent self.

In this specific story, she's more of a setting element and plot device than a proper character, but she gets to show her personality in other stories.

Ibaraki-douji

Mainly a comic relief character but with a sweet deal of tragedy hidden under the surface. She's a loser woman whose key draw is being a loser woman, but that doesn't make her any less capable of gruesome on-screen violence. Holds a huge one-sided grudge against Watanabe no Tsuna, to point this could be considered a core element of her character.

Her personal story is that of a human forced into an oppressive environment due to a suspicion that she had monster blood in her veins, until she reached a breaking point and chose to become the monster she was suspected of being. With that, she gained power and freedom but remained essentially a loser leagues below the level of her aforementioned Watanabe no Tsuna rival (although their shared history enables her to cause meaningful psychological damage).

Watanabe no Tsuna

A remarkably skilled member of the monster-hunting organization and somewhat of a senpai to Sakata Kintoki. Tsuna was born as a common peasant who was perfectly fine with staying that way until the character's first encounter with non-humans changed their life.

The narration surrounding Watanabe no Tsuna loves to describe the character's non-human hunt as thoroughly machine-like, reflecting the character's habit and ability to shut down emotion and perform full self-dehumanization for the sake of a mission. Though one exception to this comes with Ibaraki-douji, as Tsuna's greatest trauma and regret is the incident that orphaned Ibaraki.

Ashiya Douman

A character presented by the narrative as a dark mirror to Sakata Kintoki, but in a that still lets him stand out well as his own character with a completely different background and personality. Character foiling aside, he also has a literal spiritual connection to Kintoki.

We actually don't see much of the actual Douman-born Douman because he spends most of his on-screen time possessed by an ethereal being who can be considered another incarnation of himself after experiencing death many times.

The flesh-providing Douman is presented as a very implicitly tragic figure in his limited screentime, while the reincarnator Douman (called Limbo for differentiation purposes) is remarkably knowledgeable of the magical secrets relevant to the overarching plot and serves as a neat window for the things to come. Limbo was also somewhat of a simp for Ibuki-douji before the events of this story made him change his mind.

And one key aspect all versions of Douman share is their comedy relief aspects, which are centered around him being the unwanted member of his group or him getting easily excited and losing the ability to shut up.

Murasaki Shikibu

A lady-in-waiting to a noble lady. Has something of a sisterly relationship with her fellow lady-in-waiting Sei Shounagon. She's actually the more naturally excitable of the duo, but the dark circumstances of her work environment made her somber, outwardly dispassionate, submissive, and courteous to a fault.

Sei Shounagon

A lady-in-waiting to a noble lady. Has something of a sisterly relationship with her fellow lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu. She's actually the more naturally introverted of the duo but since the person that she cared about the most started to lose her smile, Sei Shounagon became a constantly cheerful silly girl in a questionable attempt to make her feel safer and remind her of the good times.

She went through some really bad times in the past, but her compassionate understanding of the heart of the lady she served and the knowledge about onis she gained from personal experience prevented her from acting out of hatred towards the one who made her suffer.

My favorite character in the entire game, by the way.

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If you were to write your own Grail War wich servants would you include and their classes ?

I feel like a pretty fun one, which I haven't posted about before, would be a grail war set in the slice of time right before the Great War and during its early days (call it the Great Grail War, even)

set the grail war itself Serbia and have the Black Hand fielding a master in a desparate attempt to gain an advantage in what's to come. all participants besides them, regardless of familiarity with the concept of grail wars, are pulled in during accidental summons (unless stated otherwise)

Black Hand Master - servant identity initially unclear to the master, but later revealed to be Assassin War (a la Pale Rider), summoned into that class rather than rider

Stranded Association Magus (from Britain) - Caster Jára Cimrman, who works kind of like a caster version of Hassan of the Hundred Faces

Protagonist - Archer Jan Žižka, who is inexplicably a one-eyed Nobuface but with a much more serious personality. does the matchlock thing but with cannons.

Church Executor, sent in an attempt to stop the grail war and then got pulled into it - Berserker Hala, taking the form of what appears to be a black-haired homunculus, but readily destabilises into a flock of crows

Fortune-seeking Independent Magus - Saber Stefan the Tall, our designated saberface because we have to sell merch.

Rogue Church Executor, later revealed to have assisted the Black Hand for his place in the ritual - Foreigner, initially believed to be (female) Lancer Georgios, later revealed to be outer god Yidhra

Makiri Magus, initially presented an innocent teen boy caught up in the ritual with no desire to fight - Rider Cú Chulainn. sorry. he just can't stop getting the worst masters.

the main tension stems from the invasion beginning before the grail war is complete, which leads to hasty alliances between the surviving masters. Berserker ends up aligning with Archer, while Rider ends up taking on a fatherly role to his young master (you can imagine what this is foreshadowing)

didn't put a ton of thought into this, but it'd be fun to see something kinda like it!

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whats particularly fucked up to me about the fate GO april fools parody ending with romani waving goodbye is that even though hes like mega ultimate dead he's still haunting the narrative in some way. for all that he's been gone for more than over half of fgos life he's still a genuine tangible presence within the story. even moreso with fate GO in particular he's waving goodbye in a world about to be "erased" with april fools ending.

the romantic superhero doctor can only exist in our past as memories of a happier time

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Huh....

Kodaka April Fools tweets 2024

Lying just because it's April Fools' is so dull. Honestly painful to watch. Lying in general doesn't do you any good. In my younger days, I told every lie I could, saying some genuinely insane stuff about being a supreme leader of evil and whatnot, and thanks to that, now that I'm in my thirties, I got famous for all the wrong reasons and can't find a stable job because people think I'm associated with the yakuza... Sigh, I wanna deck my cringe younger self's face. Quit lying for fun while you can.

My classmates aren't doing great either. Thinking you're hot shit during your school days always comes back to bite you... My advice to my past self: slow and steady effort is worth more than any talent. Also, the part of life you spent larping with that silly horse laugh is not going to be one you'll want to remember later. I wish I could make that clear to him. White lies aren't a thing. Talent is never enough. My class is proof of that. Wanna know what my classmates are like now that we're in our thirties?

Akamatsu became a piano teacher. Her player skills capped off in her teens, it seems. But she's not that good at teaching so she's considered kinda mid at her job. And now she's struggling with the father of a student incessantly hitting on her. Tough world to live in.

Toujou opened a housekeeping company but she was too strict with her employees so everyone quit. And now she's doing everything on her own. Sucks to be in your thirties without any successors or employees. She's a prime example of how being so much better than anyone else doesn't do you any good. Well, she's always working for celebrities, so she's doing well financially, but I heard about some major court fight about a missing item under suspicion of theft from one of her clients. That can't be nice.

Yumeno got to her thirties still saying magic is real, so she's past the point of no return. She agrees that's an unhinged way to live, but she's too old to suddenly change gimmicks. Work takes her all over the country, but her gimmick doesn't allow her to publicly drink, so she has to get plastered alone in her hotel room after shows. I wish she could fix her life with real magic.

Harukawa? ...Haven't heard that name in a long time. Now she was a living edgy fantasy. The past tense was because I hadn't heard of her in a long time. I don't know the details, but apparently, she went to some war zone outside of Japan because her first love didn't want to date her. Takes some real edgelord to react to a broken heart like that, but if she's still alive, I have no idea how her thirties are treating her. My personal guess is that she's a mother of many.

Chabashira opened her Aikido school but is having a hard time attracting students. So she had the idea of starting an anti-sexual-harassment campaign that could double as advertisement, but thanks to her cluelessness when it comes to romance, she got canceled for mistakenly tossing men in regular couples. She's still doing the "degenerate males" bit in her thirties. Girl really needs to get on with the times. Rumor goes that she still downs huge packs of tequila bottles with Yumeno every now and then. Really don't think there's any salvaging her reputation.

Shirogane is an office lady still continuing her cosplay hobby on the side. She could be doing well if she knew how to keep her mouth shut but frequently rambles about cosplay history and etiquette, so no one likes having her around. Stay emotionally dependent on a single hobby long enough and your passion starts to close you off to others. That's her problem.

Angie was the most successful in the class! She made big money both on the art and the religion fronts. However, there were some controversies about her devotees selling counterfeits of her paintings at exorbitant prices and one magazine made a huge news coverage of it, which resulted in her catching the police's attention. She's been recently untraceable, with the rumors saying that she'll never be back to Japan.

Oh, and Iruma... Up until some point, she had the best life of all of us. She made big money off of her inventions' patents. So far so good. Things only started going off-rails after she married an ex-stripper. The two started a YouTube channel together. And later, her husband ran in last year's elections and lost big time. They got an awful debt from his election campaign and she had to get into side jobs to pay it off. And her husband? Disappeared. No word from Iruma herself about what happened. Tough world to live in.

No further updates from Kodaka in the past 3 hours, so I assume he went to sleep and will come back to tweet about the 7 remaining boys in the morning.

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Eh I am not exactly an expert in this, I thought lappland name is based on that region in Finland. Was that done (the naming of the place that is) as slur from the start or just a coincidence?

Edit: Oh well that's just bad and problematic like legit naming region after a slur like jeez Finland

I really wish arknights didn't have a character who's named for an ethnic slur of my people

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Interesting cause I know some people said she seem to figure it out in her own route which led her to be more interest/help him.

In your opinion what is so special about Shousetsu that it causes her to be the catalyst in her own ending for Iori to genuinely change for the better and even outright admit admiration for her ideals? When he isn't shown to change that easily in other endings.

She isn't special. In the route he interacts with her more, he has as much of a chance of entreating the darkness as he has of not doing it. And in the route he interacts with her less, he has as much of a chance of entreating the darkness as he has of not doing it.

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"kintoki just challenged ibuki/shuten to an imprompt wrestling match and hes fiddling with his belt and ibuki/shuten said the only way to stop her was to knock her over and she doesn't mind whatever method they use for it nor if anyone else wants to join them midway" the amount of self restraint that the people writing this interlude had was insane they were fighting for their fucking lives trying not to outright say that they were going to fuck its the visual novel mobile game equivalent of parents caught mid sexo by their kid saying that they're just wrestling go back to sleep

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The…. The Douman….

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So modern Yugioh?

the thing that makes adapting type-moon to any sort of rpg kind of difficult is that nearly every character has some variation of "ability that kills the opponent instantly under specific conditions"

and, for the most part, they don't really whiff the ability. it actually just works