Fate/stay night - 15 April 14
OP2
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OP2: 「きらめく涙は星に」 (Kirameku Namida wa Hoshi ni) by タイナカサチ
Watch the OP! Mirror 1 Mirror 2
I’ve got lukewarm feelings toward the new OP, but the animation that accompanies it is pretty juicy. Archer vs. Shirou in particular o_O Honestly, I don’t think that the OP scenes necessarily reflect what’s going to happen in the show, but are instead maybe just scenes to make the fans happy.
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Summary:
Because Saber is feeling so weak, Shirou carries her through the forest. They arrive at some ruins that Archer had scouted out in case they needed a place to hide. After Shirou lays Saber down, he asks Rin about Archer. Holding her arm, she says that he was conceited to the end. But she doesn’t want his death to be in vain, so they must defeat Berserker. And in order to do that, Saber has to make a recovery. Since there are no people in the forest for her consume souls from, Saber will have to replenish her power by having Shirou transplant his magic circuit to her. Shirou decides to do it, so Rin walks up and kisses him. When he pushes her away in surprise, Rin tells him that she was trying to give him a little preparation before the ceremony. Rin also gets Saber ready by untying her shirt and pushing her onto the bed. She says that all this is necessary to raise the success rate. Shirou then takes Rin’s place on top of Saber and Rin starts chanting. It causes Shirou’s spirit to leave his body and enter Saber’s. There, he finds an open area filled with lava that’s guarded by a dragon. The dragon rips off Shirou’s arm and eats him, but inside is Saber and her magic circuit.
Shirou wakes up the next morning with his arm around a blushing Saber. She’s been recharged and seems ok now. The plan is for Shirou and Saber to face off against Ilya and Berserker while Rin hides until she can launch a surprise attack. Rin and Saber start discussing what Shirou will be doing while Saber is holding off Berserker, so Shirou takes a tree branch and turns it into a bow. He asks Saber not to use her Noble Phantasm and she agrees. Ilya eventually finds them, and since Shirou can’t convince her to stop, Berserker and Saber face off after Ilya orders her servant to kill everyone. Saber is barely able to hold her ground, so Shirou tries to help her out by making himself an arrow and shooting it at Berserker’s head. It hits its target, but harmlessly bounces off Berserker’s skin. As Berserker starts to wail on Saber, Shirou realizes that he still can’t do much to help. He remembers Archer’s advice about mastering the one thing that he can do and how what he images is his strongest form. A vague image of a sword starts to appear in Shirou’s mind. At this point, Berserker shatters Saber’s armor. She still manages to push forward and knock Berserker back a little. Rin decides that now is the time to launch her attack. She uses her jewels to freeze Berserker and to blow up his head. In doing so, however, Berserker catches her in his spare arm. And he’s still alive despite the damage. Ilya explains that Berserker has twelve lives, one for each of Hercules’s twelve labors - this is his Noble Phantasm: God Hand. Rin has knocked off one of his lives, but Ilya explains that Berserker still has seven lives left. At Ilya’s command, Berserker starts to crush Rin; the situation looks hopeless.
Preview:
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So the question that started my day was: How the heck are they going to handle the sex scene between Shirou and Saber? Well, this is how they did it. In order to transplant his magic circuit, Shirou has to go inside of her, confronting the dragon and everything. I guess you could make a pretty strong argument that it’s all a giant metaphor for sex. Still, there was some great fanservice, courtesy of Rin preparing Shirou and Saber for the ceremony (including her kissing Shirou and all of the RinXSaber shots).
Is there something wrong with the way Ilya is doing math? If Archer killed Berserker five times and Rin once, wouldn’t Berserker only have six lives left, not seven? Or do they count the first one as not one of the twelve he’s got stocked? Something seems fishy…
I’m glad that Shirou looks like he’s going to create one of Saber’s swords for himself. He’s proving himself to be pretty adept at making weapons. The whole bow thing seems like a vague reference to Archer though.
Anyway, I hate cliffhangers, so I’m eagerly awaiting the conclusion of this battle next week.
mikemil828 at 5:25 pm on April 14th, 2006
Rather interesting way of showing hot sexxors it seems, with the dragon and all….
Sol Fighter at 5:25 pm on April 14th, 2006
Looks like an interesting episode, Shirou is starting to use his skills, one step to becoming Archer.
Sanjiyan Unkara at 5:25 pm on April 14th, 2006
Man… can’t wait for the summary…….
kurotsuki at 5:28 pm on April 14th, 2006
hahaha..so they basicly totally avoided the sex scene hahahaha nice..good job geneon .
Chewie at 5:32 pm on April 14th, 2006
Well “that scene” looks very interesting. Whats with the shinyness and ghost Shirou? Blushing Saber=HOT lol. Can’t wait for the summary.
Kocopo at 5:33 pm on April 14th, 2006
i wonder if Archer does come back to life….
considering how the new op is…
x__X”
muhootsaver at 5:34 pm on April 14th, 2006
-_- Geneon you idiots. What are you doing. I was screaming “WHAT THE He*l is that dragon!!!” when I was watching this… I am so sad that I will never get to see the mana transfer… and what was with the new OP… are they going to show UBW after all?
Rasmiel at 5:34 pm on April 14th, 2006
I’m surprised they even gone through pre-sex scenes…I thought they’d change the plot to get Saber back in the action O_O
kws at 5:37 pm on April 14th, 2006
Wow wow wow…
Great OP, great ’scene’, great clifthanger!
Ale at 5:41 pm on April 14th, 2006
I haven’t watched the episode…but are my eyes fooling me or am I seeing hot dragon coming out of Shirou’s arm sex?
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I gotta say that’s original at least. I did expect the sex considering the buildup and the obvious preview in the previous episode, but…well, I thought it’d be something like, say, the first episode in REC, where it’s implied but nothing is shown. This is just weird.
kurotsuki at 5:46 pm on April 14th, 2006
by the way you see gilgamesh in the op i doubt this is going on the UBW scenario.
unless you consider the fact that shiro lost an arm ( even tough is was some kind of hallucination ) , and the fact we see him fight archer in the op . but how would that be possible anyway ? we all saw him die
gammaoh at 5:51 pm on April 14th, 2006
There is no way for a Servant to return before the next HGW… IIRC
ads at 5:53 pm on April 14th, 2006
Saber looks really cute in those screenshots
muhootsaver at 5:58 pm on April 14th, 2006
~_~ you never know… they already added a dragon. why not revive a servant.
mango at 6:00 pm on April 14th, 2006
oooo saber x shirou AND rin x shirou?
=DDDD i am very happy
mikemil828 at 6:06 pm on April 14th, 2006
>>oooo saber x shirou AND rin x shirou?>>
Don’t Forget Rin x Saber
Saga at 6:17 pm on April 14th, 2006
… well this made my day. e.e;;
Nigredo at 6:29 pm on April 14th, 2006
alright, we got a great censor for the sex scene, the op feature THE UBW event even though Archer is dead, what else? HF ending? I don’t know how it will end -.- I just hope they will follow FATE scenario without having to add moments from the other scenario…
P.S: the dragon thing was horrible seriously, at least for me since I was hoping to see THAT MOMENT! >_>
Xellos-_^ at 6:31 pm on April 14th, 2006
I guess form now on we replace the elephant jokes with dragon jokes
Izzile at 6:34 pm on April 14th, 2006
Think of it this way…Shirou came SO hard that he began hallucinating about being eaten by a dragon. Now that’s the true power of Saber and her sword Sexcaliber!