![]() When the Angelia Cage closed and the HGW ended, the dead weren’t stripped of their emotions and stopped being disassembled, building up into a curse. They’re both Dead Faces left with nothing but hatred and destruction. Indeed, being a ghost would be a step-up in his eyes. However, Julius isn’t a Cyber-Ghost like Alice was. Hakuno goes Dead Face and recalls the memory of defeating him the first time, so he knows that Julius died. Julius comments on how stubborn he is to kill while kicking him around. Saber ditches Rin, leaving her to fight him, while she goes looking for her Master. Unlike everyone else, Julius recognizes Hakuno and states he’s been waiting for him before leaping down and beating on him while Saber and Rin fight against Berserker. Of course, the good mood ends when they come across Berserker and Julius. He only needs to do what he’s capable and that is enough. Since all people are different and one may not do what others can, a genius is someone who understand that cruelty. Saber tries to cheer him up by telling him her definition of genius being someone who can see the difference between themselves and others. Hakuno’s self-esteem is low enough that he can’t really think that way. She was a born loser who bore a foolish wish, practically the opposite of him, but their appearances were so similar Saber thought that she had been reborn as male. They eventually split up and Hakuno asks about Saber’s previous Master. Saber acknowledges that he’s strong and they barely beat him, but she knows all his Servant’s tricks so she’s confident they’ll be fine. Saber and her previous Master defeated him on the Fifth Floor in the last war. Rin and Saber both identify him as Julius Harwey, brother of Leo from the first episode. ![]() During the Grail War, he was also taking people out from the shadows. However, even though there isn’t a Floor Master, there’s a killer who was murdering people on Earth even before becoming a Master. They spot the ladder to the next floor and, since it has already descended, he can climb if he reaches. When they get there, Hakuno has a flashback to the scene of a city on fire from the first episode. She’s optimistic but Rin isn’t as she gives them both raincoats since the Fifth Floor is nothing but rain. Then we cut to what leads up to that, with Saber mentioning that the Fourth Floor Master and Servant weren’t even worth mentioning. Hakuno can’t find it in him to rebuke his words either. The twisted landscape gives way to Hakuno having a discussion with someone else who tells him that he’ll never be satisfied with anything, lacking in a wish and a desire to live. ![]() The episode opens with a shot of a ruined city shrouded in dark clouds, the dull colors padded out by rain and thunder. I mean, she wasn’t wrong, but you really shouldn’t call yourself out like that.The eighth episode of Fate Extra: Last Encore has aired, and so I’ve come to give my review. He literally opens the series with a teacher calling the exposition she is about to spout boring. This is the first time Fate franchise creator Kinoko Nasu has written scripts for an anime, confirming my belief that he is by far the worst writer involved in the Fate universe. He wanders through SHAFT’s signature impressionistic backgrounds, which feel more excessive than anything else, with a vague frown on his face while those around him spout poorly-written exposition. He doesn’t do much other than look dour and mutter about hatefulness while things happen around him. I don’t know if a female protagonist would make much difference at this stage, but apparently the video game had a romantic element, which would at least open the door to some queer representation.īut no, they went with the male protagonist, who is an absolute potato of a man. And, like in most video game-to-anime adaptations, the anime staff decided to go with the utterly dull default male choice. Like in many games, the player could choose between a male or female avatar, though that was largely a cosmetic choice. (What’s a Grail War, you ask? Unfortunately, opening the Pandora’s Box that is trying to explain the Fate universe’s lore would require many thousands more words than I have to expend on this.) Fate/Extra, for the uninitiated, originated as a video game about a virtual Grail War taking place on the moon.
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