#leonardo bistario harway

[nero-draco]

I think this illustrates well the contrast between Hakuno and Leo. Leo was born strong and raised to be always strong hence his empathy didn't reach others. Hakuno is the opposite of that, he's a weak person that carries his own weakness to move forward. That allows his empathy to reach others.

Leo who is the strongest and can only to relate to others who are strong as he is and Hakuno the weak who able sympathize and empathize with anyone (even someone with ill repute like Nero or Tamamo).

[tainbocuailnge]

[chugs a gallon of loving gawain juice in front of the fridge and writes this post with the word magnets]

gawain is a buffoon but not an idiot. he’s loyal to an absolute fault but not blindly so. gawain is as much of a radiant knight as he is a boorish sex pervert. he doesn’t consider either of these mutually exclusive traits but no matter how horny and unrefined and arguably hedonistic he might be, he will set all that aside in a moment if the need arises. his knightly ideal is that of a sword and while it’s possible for a person to be both knightly and boorish, a sword does not have desires beyond those of the one who wields it. a sword does not question, it does not tire, it simply acts in accordance with the will of its lord.

gawain is shameless enough to convince the lion king wear a sexy bunny suit. he’ll tell you in detail about his preferences in women and how much he loves big titties and that he’s not so stiff as to pass up on a chance to get laid just because he’s te~chnically a married man. it’s something that shines through even when he’s more serious, like his valentines scene where he’s being legitimately gallant and more considerate than you’d be inclined to expect from sir buster gorilla while simultaneously implying he’d ram you against the bedpost if he wasn’t worried he might literally snap your weak magus nerd bones in half. 

but he prides himself in being able to basically override his shameless musclehead personality in order to be a sword when needed. near the start of CCC event melt talks about how all humans are just slaves to their desires and gawain responds with maybe so, but that is why we chain those desires. he makes no attempt to downplay or hide his buffoonery because it in no way prevents him from fulfilling his duty, and as a result those around him are thrown for a loop because the buffoonery is as real as the chivalry even though it feels like one of them should be fake if he really is such an ideal knight  

gawain is a weapon for the king, not a companion to the king. it is in gawain’s nature, in his ideal, to believe the king is right even if he knows the king is wrong, because that is what it means to be a knight to him and a knight is what he chose to be. conversely, gawain can’t bring himself to challenge his liege to become a better person. gawain’s primary regret in life is letting his personal grudge against lancelot get in the way of his duty, and so postmortem he is resolved to become the best damn weapon you’ve had in your life. 

his knighthood inevitably makes him an enabler of his lord’s bad and good qualities alike. not unlike karna, who will accept and support any way of life and in doing so inevitably keeps enabling evil and self destructiveness, gawain will accept and support whatever king he has sworn himself to even should they destroy the world. the light of the sun shines on everyone alike, not caring if it blinds or scorches in its radiance.

archer calls him out on it in extra, saying that people can’t understand that kind of selflessness because it makes you a freak, but he adds that gawain probably already knows and accepts this. later on he calls gawain selfish for being so knowingly selfless, and while gawain disagrees he can’t refute it. it’s the path gawain chose and a path he takes pride in even if it takes some mental gymnastics but it’s not like he’s actually fooling himself into thinking that makes him a righteous person. gawain isn’t some hollow shell who found purpose by clinging to an ideal he doesn’t understand, nor is he a demigod on a separate level of understanding from humans since birth. he is talented and blessed but ultimately a normal person, he chose this out of his own volition and now he’s sticking with it out of pure stubbornness. 

gawain’s sense of self is strong enough for him to confidently be an absolute buffoon, and that buffoonish self decided it wants to be a sword. he won’t choose a lord whose goal is evil, but if their lofty goal requires evil then he will commit that evil for their sake while knowing full well that it is evil. it might seem like his devotion is blind but it’s the opposite, he follows his lord full aware of the consequences. he followed leo of his own will knowing it would lead to his lord’s demise, he followed the lion king of his own will knowing it would end the world.

even so gawain’s absolute unquestionable loyalty can actually be seen to waver a few times in camelot. he lies to agravain’s face that he absolutely did not see bedivere and half a galahad at the gates. when king hassan is beating his ass gawain yells in frustration that he could’ve stopped them back when they were still building the city if he’s this strong, instead of only showing up when it’s almost too late. even during his final stand on your way to the throne room he sent all the other knights home and faces you alone, because he’s not here to defeat you, he’s here to prove a point. 

as knight he wants the lion king to succeed but as person he knows that would be the end, so he will leave openings for others to hopefully exploit to put a stop to it all. he himself will not stop though. he praises the loyalty of the knights that stood against the lion king to protect arturia’s honor but he killed them all the same, because he has selfishly decided to be selfless. besides, after everything he’s done in the lion king’s name, claiming that her ideal was a false one means he committed all those crimes for naught. gawain is noted to be very fond of his siblings and especially gareth, but before we arrived in the singularity gareth despaired and begged for death and gawain was the one to kill her. if he backs out now there is no way he could ever live with himself again, so he will stand against us with all his might, even if only 90% of his heart is in it. 

this is also why he tells bedivere that he resents him after that final battle: gawain knows he’s complicit in the lion king going as far as she did and he knows it might not have happened had bedivere been there, the one knight to look upon the king as a person rather than king and want to be beside the king as a person rather than a knight. it is not the loyalty that follows the king but the loyalty that stands against the king that will save the king, and gawain can’t help but resent that. in the end he still couldn’t be the perfect sword, and even if he were it wouldn’t help because the king wasn’t perfect either

excalibur galantine’s title is usually translated as “sword of resurrected victory” or occasionally “sword of revolving victory” but the bit that gets read as something that repeats/returns (転輪) is actually part of the term for “the ideal universal ruler” (転輪聖王), the chakravartin that buddha’s noble phantasm in last encore is also named after. galantine brings victory to the ideal king, therefore the one it brings victory to is the ideal king. losing the fight isn’t just a failure on gawain’s part, it is fundamental proof of the king’s flaw. as long as gawain wins it means the king he serves is just, his loss is proof of the king’s imperfection as well. because he is merely the sword that is wielded by the king. 

and that is exactly why galantine was able to dislodge chakravartin. the leo who has tasted defeat, who would offer up the last remnants of his life for a brighter tomorrow, is truly the ideal king. therefore, galantine will bring him victory even though and perhaps because it is broken. the flawed ruler with the broken sword is a more perfect ruler than the very concept of the perfect ruler, because perfection is the antithesis to humanity

as guda’s servant gawain throws himself headfirst into the same loyalty as before, recognising them as someone with the authority of a king and bringing them victory in accordance with his duty as sword. as hakuno’s servant he is more reserved however, saying he serves another lord but will offer his help regardless. the gawain of the moon is sworn to leo long after leo’s death because it is in death that leo became the perfect king for gawain to pledge himself to as the perfect sword. this is only further underlined by leo’s own buffoonery in CCC and the way they enable each other’s foolishness. living as a regular person allows leo to understand what it takes to become the perfect king, just as gawain’s unrefined personality lets him understand what it takes to be a perfect sword. 

gawain is a buffoon, and kind of a dick sometimes, a handsome prettyboy with a refreshing smile and polite conduct and the refinement of a gorilla, chivalrous and selfish and stubborn, and all of these are what makes him, above all, the best damn weapon you’ll ever have. because nobody but himself chose that path for him.

[llart]

my number one seitokaichou 

[queenofnohr]

i have so many fucking words this fine evening and none of them are for what i need to be working on oof

[morsking]

Beating Leo... isn’t something that feels good. I found myself waiting with anticipation on our fight at the end of the game, nervous as to how it would play out knowing I would win since I came prepared, and that that’s how the story goes on anyway. Hakuno Kishinami defeats Leonardo Bistario Harway at the summit of the Moon Cell. That outcome was certain because that’s what was decided. 

And yet, after all the ideological disagreement with Leo, after watching him almost nonchalantly talk about his dead brother without the slightest trace of grief or sorrow for his demise and even looking down on him somewhat, after threatening to eradicate all of Asia just to intimidate Rin into submitting to his rule, after treating you with nothing but condescension for the majority of the game, after finally being acknowledged as a force to be reckoned with after beating Rani...

I felt no satisfaction at all. It actually felt sad to watch Leo die after finding fulfillment and a sense of accomplishment completely separate to his initial goal. Leo growing and learning from his defeat and becoming a much more mature person in the span of seconds as he realized what he was lacking all along made you want him to stay around longer. Gawain’s undying devotion to Leo, assuring him that he was walking down a righteous and worthy path, staunchly supporting him and praising him as a brilliant and perfect king, made it all the more poignant.

I’d like to think that if Leo had learned defeat, had learned to connect with the losses of others to think of himself not above them, but equal to them before entering the Holy Grail War, he would have made a fine King and a much better person. I’m going to miss Leo (until my next playthrough) very dearly. 

[jr-moviebuff]

The title says it all.

So Netflix’s habit of adding dubs of their ‘Original’ anime to Netflix Japan several weeks in advance is not letting up and Fate/Extra Last Encore (Netflix URL: https://www.netflix.com/title/80185145) is the latest show in line.

The series under the list of titles with English audio

Several weeks ahead of the show’s worldwide release on June 30, 2018. Here’s the English Cast and Crew of Fate/Extra Last Encore (of its first 10 episodes, titled as Oblitus Copernican Theory):

Crew:

Dubbing Studio: Bang Zoom

Producer: Eric P. Sherman

Co-Producer/Casting Director: Mami Okada

Assistant Producer: Mio Moroe

Dialogue Director: Tony Oliver

ADR Script Writer: Erica Mendez

Translation: Rika Takahshi

Production Manager: Risa Koitabashi

Production Coordinators: AJ Gam, Cheri Crisostomo, Rayner Tham

Production Assistants: Aki Kuribara, Patrick Dugan, Suzanne St Clair

Spotting: Ryan Raydarke

Sound Supervisor: Patrick Rodman, CAS

Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Brooks

Recording Engineers: Kenneth Thompson, Eddie J. Correa

Dialogue Editors: Kenneth Thompson, Benjamin Harrington, Eddie J. Correa

Assistant Engineers: April Machado, Eric Raichelson, JP Aller, Matthew Wollenman

Post Production Assistants: Jonah Martin, Jonathan Kreimerman

Cast:

Hakuno Kishinami (Male): Billy Kametz

Saber: Cassandra Morris

Rin Tohsaka: Mela Lee

Shinji Matou: Kyle McCarley

Francis Drake: Jessica Gee George

Dan Blackmore: Ian Alden

Robin Hood: Vic Mignogna

Rani VIII: Christine Marie Cabanos

Misao Amari: Cherami Leigh

Kirei Kotomine: Armen Taylor

Twice H. Pieceman: Greg Chun

Leonardo Bistario Harway: Laura Stahl

Archer Golem: Kaiji Tang

Teacher: Marcy Edwards

Alice: Xanthe Huynh

Julius B. Harway: Jordan Reynolds

Li Shuwen: Chris Hackney

Hakuno Kishinami (Female): Ryan Bartley

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As expected (with Netflix’s past Fate series pickup in Apocrypha), they have rehired Bang Zoom to dub the series for the sake of consistency with Tony Oliver once again in the director’s chair and Erica Mendez doing script adaptation as she previously did for Apocrypha. All the major cast members from previous Fate Series dubs have returned with the exception of Kirei’s voice actor (currently played by Crispin Freeman in the mainline shows but is replaced here by Armen Taylor) thanks to this dub being a non-union project (as Apocrypha’s was resulting in the recasting of Saber from Kari Wahlgren to Michelle Ruff).

With all of that said, the series is still not done with a remaining set of episodes (titled as Illustrias Geocentrism) set to premiere in late July, though it remains to be seen when Netflix will be adding those episodes worldwide. Though you should expect a long wait.

Leaked News: Fate/Extra Last Encore’s Dub on Netflix Japan The title says it all.

[nero-draco]

[nero-draco]

As heartless as this scene is I can't help but find him cool.

[nero-draco]

[nero-draco]

[llart]

I think about them constantly

[llart]

the thematics of these three fit so well...

i was also thinking that he’d have an espeon as well but that’s something I can add next time

[llart]

BLOWS A BIG KISS TO THE LITTLE LION MAN!!

I finished rewatching LE with some friends over the weekend and boy!! I love him!! Challenged myself to work in illustrator and he fuelled me the entire time!! I love him! this is based on his CE, Ideal of the Holy King btw! 

please zoom in for full quality!

[nero-draco]

[nero-draco]

[llart]

Happy birthday leo!! my dear sweet boy

i sure hope you appear in last encore ;v;