#nasu kinoko

[glorioblog]

Review: Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon-

If you know something is a remake, are you more or less likely to check it out? Is the novelty or convenience of it being a new release the main draw? Are you less interested because you find the concept of remakes distasteful or more interested because clearly enough people liked it enough that it warrants a remake? I assume that there are at least thousands of people who played Final Fantasy…

[kaibutsushidousha]

To be honest, your discussion of Minase's positive and negative qualities piqued my interest. What do you think are the main recurring fgo writers' strong and weak points? Also where would you rank the lilim harlot event?

For the sake of brevity, I'll stick to one per writer. Picking apart everyone to the extent I did with Minase would take forever and would be better done after their respective Ordeal Calls.

I hesitate to call Higashide's comedy his strong point because his huge hits are about as frequent as his huge misses. I suppose I'll go with clarity for Higashide's main strong point. Even when I think he sucked at delivering his point, I can always tell what he's trying to say, which is not something I can say about Sakurai's most compressed scripts. His weak point is his lack of ambition. It's nice to have at least one person in FGO's team who will never try to escalate things, but I can't see it doesn't make his stories more forgettable in the long run.

Minase was already detailed in his own post.

Meteo’s best quality is a tone setter. Requiem, Salem, and all his events come with an atmosphere that feels very tangibly different from what FGO usually does. Often his events are bad, but never they lack a unique identity. Which segues into his weak point, being that many of his events are comedy events and the man is simply not funny. Bullying Erice is his only consistently good joke, and when he tries other things, the results are more miss than hit. See Las Vegas and Wandjina World Tour for major examples of comedy events that failed hard at the comedy side.

Nasu is a master recycler. I don't know how he does it but the man is constantly reusing the same structures, the same themes, or the same dynamics and somehow it never feels repetitive. There is always something that makes the whole recipe feel fresh and unique despite being so easy to recognize the same usual ingredients there. And what I dislike about Nasu in FGO is how he's still stuck at the concept of selling waifus from the girls with routes days. Everyone has their list of characters who get ship tease with Fujimaru but only in Nasu's case it feels like an overwhelming majority and that some of the choices create too large of a difference between the summoned character and the character in the main story. Was it really necessary to do this with, say, Morgan? Melusine? Tenochtitlan?

And Sakurai I saved for last because one major reason this post took this long is that I was struggling to sort out what is characteristically good and bad about her. Well, even now I don’t have a simple and satisfying answer. Things can’t be simple with Sakurai, unfortunately. One friend of mine described the experience of reading Sakurai scripts as “playing chess against an opponent that doesn’t tell that you are in a game of chess” and that’s honestly a fascinating way to phrase it.

Sakurai is an intriguing combination of inflexibly ambitious and inflexibly professional. She has grand ideas for her characters and she will include them in the script without fail. But she's also strictly adherent to script size limitations. While Nasu is making Camelot and Avalon le Fae with total disregard to every possible limit, Sakurai is cramming so much into Septem's and London's microscopic file space that it becomes utterly incomprehensible. Nasu wrote Last Encore's plot as a whole ass novel and hired Sakurai to convert that into anime scripts because Sakurai is his expert in fitting a lot of stuff into tiny spaces. Tunguska was tossed at Sakurai because probably no one else could fit into its raid event constraints. And because she doesn't compromise on what goes in, her alternative is not revealing the mysteries about her characters but laying out all the hints so the players can figure it out themselves, which is a really fun thing once you're used to it (read: aware that you're playing chess against her).

And the answer to "Where would I rank the Lilim Harlot event" is 1st place.

[call-me-noa]

How to read Kara no Kyoukai/The Garden of Sinners

Kara no Kyoukai (literally translated The Boundary of Emptiness, officially translated The Garden of Sinners) is a light novel series by Kinoko Nasu, of Tsukihime and Fate fame. It was Nasu's first published work, originally published online in the 90s. You might know it most for the ufotable movie adaptations, or for the main character Shiki being playable in FGO.

This series predates Nasu's better-known Tsukihime and Fate series, and you can see inklings of ideas he'd reuse and refine in those works. Most prominent of these is the character of Shiki Ryougi, whose name, multiple personalities, and Mystic Eyes of Death Perception would all inspire Shiki Tohno of Tsukihime. This is also the series where Fate's famous Counter Force was first introduced.

The Kara no Kyoukai novels were Nasu's first published work, but have had a rough history in terms of translation to English. There have been bad and just straight up inaccurate attempts, and a publishing company that wanted to put them out officially went under before it had the chance, but now all these years later the series is finally completed in English!

Kara no Kyoukai is a supernatural mystery series set in Tokyo in the 1990s. Each chapter is an individual story (barring two-parters), but they all come together to tell a larger tale. It is written in anachronic order, not chronological order. As you read and skip through the timeline of Shiki and Mikiya's life, the story all starts to come together.

Translators:

Volume 1: Baka-Tsuki

Volume 2: ShikiRyougiAdmirer, KMP, Yusuke, Manolo, Dullahan

Volume 3: QualityMistranslations/YHK

Volume 4: Serouzo

Formatting: ProtoformX

Without further ado, the novels:

Volume 1 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Overlooking View Murder Speculation (Part 1) Remaining Sense of Pain The Hollow Shrine Paradox Spiral (Part 1)

Volume 2 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Paradox Spiral (Part 2) Oblivion Recorder Murder Speculation (Part 2) The Boundary of Emptiness

Volume 3 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Future Gospel

Volume 4 (PDF / EPUB) contains:

Final Record

[kamikazia]

I want to say that this is the funniest thing I've ever read, because out of all the characters in the Nasuverse this could be about, it's about the greatest boyfailure of all time.

[animefeminist]

A World That Can’t See You: Otherness and disability in Tsukihime

Content Warning: Discussion of suicide, ableism

Spoiler: Light spoilers for Tsukihime

If I was told a few years ago that there was “another world” that I had never known of, I’d wonder just what you were going on about. But after being diagnosed with a rare and complicated genetic disorder, and after watching my world shrink bit by bit with every day, I understood that I was being spirited away to a reality very different from the one my friends and family lived in. It had always been there (as I’d come to learn), but I hadn’t seen it all this time. I wondered, how many people had I brushed off or failed to save because I lived freely while they were in chains? Even after being accustomed to a life of chronic illness and limited opportunities, I still ask myself that question.

But when I can’t find them in reality, I’ve always looked for answers in stories. Their worlds, their characters, and their messages—too powerful to be contained within a book or a screen—are all I need to keep going. In the days after my diagnosis and after a surgery left me bedridden, I watched an anime that would become my favorite: Re:Zero. The suffering its characters endured put my pain into perspective and the meaning they found gave me hope. And even recently, I’ve learnt strength by playing through Dark Souls and realizing that defeat only comes to those who never get back up.

What made me such a believer in the power of stories—and what held the answer to my question—was what remains to be one of my all time favorites: Tsukihime. One of Fate/Stay Night creator Kinoko Nasu’s earlier (and most significant) works, Tsukihime took the supernatural powers and in-depth lore that would define what was to become the Fate series and combined it with vulnerable characters, heartfelt romances, and a fragile world that once seemed otherworldly to me—only to now be the same as mine. But that original adult visual novel remains exclusive to Japan to this day, and for decades, audiences overseas only knew Tsukihime through an infamously lackluster anime, a short but sweet manga, and as that weird cousin of Fate that a dozen people swore was the best thing ever. Or at least, that was until this year, when a safe-for-work remake titled Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- made its way outside Japan, and its story of resilience in the face of “otherness” and social isolation was able to find a new, wider audience.

Read it at Anime Feminist!

[imp-of-the-perverse]

Fate/Zero (2011) // Kinoko Nasu

[thegoodthegrandandtheugly]

[gawrkin]

It is awkwardly hilarious to me that Kinoko Nasu, creator of the Fate Franchise and famous for gender-flipping King Arthur, has another interesting (and more controversial) spin on Arthurian Myth via "Morgan-le-Fay-is-the-Lady-of-the-Lake"...

...and it's corroborated.

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*(The above are from Wikipedia, on the Lady and Morgan's pages)

[morsking]

the most powerful knight in the kingdom, everyone

[zersk]

I found it

I found the opposite of searching up a historical figure and being given a Fate/Stay Night character.

Behold,

[weepingchoir]

You know a franchise has stupid lore when you're like "man I could be reading about 40k instead"

[pinkrosealice]

I'm starting to notice some patterns among some of the characters I have deeply irrational and intense feelings about.

[kaibutsushidousha]

Do you think Nasu became more positive overtime or do you think he was pretty positive from the start?

He grew unable to write more DDD, so yes, he became more positive.

[hungnitan]

HSR x Fate UBW coming in Q3 2025 !

(I write these in mind for anyone doesn't know Fate series at all)

For now it's unknown will it come with stories or just skin or full pack with playable UBW character

Not long ago HSR had interview with FGO team, the magazine only release their Q&A but considering both side love each other project, these collab shouldn't really suprising. If there's suprising fact is why only UBW not FGO directly ? Since there is no info about collab details, let's make some analysis for now :

FGO especially Fate series is really big world ! If you need comparasion, it's not only Honkai Impact world but all Hoyoverse become one and you need to know at least a bit of each title to make sense about Fate series !

Continuing point above, which is the reason they gave us years for this collab ! Their developer consider years should be enough for player to quick read most Fate series franchise (lol)

Fate as whole already into their 20 years old now so it's kinda impossible for anyone to learn that series from start (even I only know fifty percent of it). So to make it simple, they just pick their well known franchise but not making players too confused about their world building which is Fate Stay Night. UBW is decent choice considering what's happened with other two.

If anyone need comparasion, UBW kinda like GGZ in term of popularity and reminiscing (lol) while FGO kinda like former Genshin in term of popularity.

I kinda saw FGO pretty desperate nowdays or maybe they're already out of idea to promote Fate series onward. For anyone doesn't know, FGO was the king of mobile gacha games but after Genshin release their revenue drop sharply and with more Chinese gacha games out lately, you can say now it's their lowest situations so to be honest Fate series feels like gonna dying sooner or later which is this collab came.

I can say for sure that this collab came from HSR side since those otaku ops growth like now while watching/reading Fate series (lol) so I think there's no way HSR or even Fate team will slack off especially for storytelling since it's Fate main selling (if there's one for collab later lol)

Onto collab prediction since it's specifically UBW, means the main character is either Rin or/and Emiya. Maybe anyone still not read questionable leaks but there's info this collab need two version to finish means there's at least four and max six new character avaliable later. Considering UBW stories, I can think of Saber and Gilgamesh or maybe Kirei can join the roaster too.

Now for everyone who doesn't know Fate series and need pointer for later collab, first please watch Fate Stay Night, it have three titles with same story premise but different PoV with different ending (Fate Stay Night 24 episode -> Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works 1 movie -> Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel 3 parts movie). Next it's Fate Stay Night prologue, Fate Zero 24 episode and you're good to breakthrough the collab only.

Sounds simple right, which is the reason they choose Unlimited Blade Works for collab. If FGO, you could swarm yourself with 9 years FGO lore materials + other works with and without "Fate" titles on it (lol)

[wouldyourfavepaychildsupport]

Would Kinoko Nasu's little mushroom avatar thing pay child support?

[fiannalover]

"Summer Ereshkigal has been postponed from ServaFes II because that Event would have been too busy for her to take center stage" and other Kinoko Nasu exact truths that have become astronomically funny