#sougin no fragments

[borntobelime]

Special shout out for @fate-inspiration because of her i am now a fan of this Character

For those who don’t know if are you familiar with Fate Prototype its original series before the fate series

This guy is not a character to the story line he is a character who appears in a flashback of King Arthur

During a voice novel Fate/Prototype : Fragments of sky and silver

His name is Lucius Tiberius

Lucius Tiberius was an emperor who ruled Rome during the time of King Arthur. He was called "Caesar", who was the strongest in the continent and carried the title of "Sword Emperor"

More Info on the character

He is voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya

And if you wanna hear their fight Arthur vs Lucius (because its a voice novel) i placed a link to find it easier

Sure I don’t understand Japanese but i have seen enough anime to understand a bit what is happening

LINK

If i recall right Arthur had to go back exhausted from their fight back to Britain (He went to Gaul to free them ) thus why he lost his life against Modred because he didn’t had time to fully recover

Here is a few extra images without the lights and extras

honestly he has such an interesting design and we don’t have a lot of material to work with

But it would be interesting if Fate Grand Order maybe make him a playable character

[nero-draco]

[tbzrai]

I COME BEARING GOOD NEWS PROTOTYPEHEADS

FATE/PROTOTYPE: SOUGIN NO FRAGMENTS MANGA ADAPTION BY TSUTA SUZUKI!!!!!!

The first ep of the manga will be released tomorrow on the TYPE-MOON COMIC ACE website and some character drafts will be shown in TYPE-MOON ACE VOL. 15!! AAAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY WE’RE WINNING SO HARD

[reignsan]

[shazzeaslightnovels]

October 2024

(Series: Zero no Tsukaima | Artist: Eiji Usatsuka)

I've had two big distractions this month: Fate/Samurai Remnant and Papa's Cheeseria. F/SR is just a genuinely fun game with a really interesting plot that I want to keep on playing to find out more. I've done 2/3 of the endings and I'm currently doing the DLC before I get the third one. YouTube recommended me a video of someone playing the Papa's games and it made me really nostalgic so I ended up downloading Flashpoint to play them and it's been really addicting. There's something about the play loop that's so satisfying and makes it hard to stop once you've started.

Due to that, I've barely watched any anime this month. I've only picked up Love Live Superstar Season 3 of the seasonal anime. I'm really liking it though. I think it's an improvement over Season 2. I love that the group has been split up and it was smart to only introduce one completely new character and continue developing the existing ones. I've enjoyed both performances this season as well. I did try Acro Trip but it just wasn't for me.

I also read Fate/Alternative: Sougin no Fragments volume 4 but I haven't been doing review for this series due to the plot structure making it too hard to talk about. I've only got one volume left though so maybe I'll post my thoughts on the series when I'm done.

List of reviews:

Tensei Oujo to Tensai Reijou no Mahou Kakumei: Oukyuu Hiwa

Zero no Tsukaima 1

[kaibutsushidousha]

What's the deal with Beast VI? It's a dragon in Proto but Nero in GO?

In terms of what we really know without filling the blanks with speculation, yes that's exactly how it is. There's nothing really weird about it, considering how dragons work in Type Moon. It's just that in Proto we only saw her dragon form and in Arcade we only saw her human form so far.

(Side note: Nero's shift to the dragon side leaves us only 6 Saberfaces that aren't dragons)

[hsylog]

Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments Drama CD

Saber - Sakurai Takahiro

Lucius Tiberius - Hosoya Yoshimasa

Sigurd - Tsuda Kenjiro

Merlin - Kawasumi Ayako

[animeinspirationofficial-blog]

Anime/Game: Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments Character: Lancer (Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments) Pixiv’s artist: 17508164 ——–

[pkjd]

Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments Drama CD Vol.4 CM.

[otakunews01]

Fate/Prototype: Sougin no Fragments Drama CD Vol.2 CM. On sale January 24th

[ryougimonogatari000]

Character Spotlight: Ayaka Sajyou

Today, I’m gonna shed some light on Fate/Prototype’s main female protagonist Ayaka Sajyou! (because I feel like it lmao.) More under the cut.

To those who are familiar with her, she’s known as Shirou’s prototype from before Nasu conceptualized the now widely popular Fate/Stay Night visual novel together with Takeuchi even before Type-Moon’s earliest days. But that’s just lightly touching on her character. In truth, she’s closer to a fusion between the three main Masters of Fate/Stay Night, eventually splitting into what would become Shirou, Rin, and Sakura for the final product. She shares Shirou’s role and position in the story as Saber’s Master (who is also King Arthur but is a completely different person and is not a genderflip unlike his FSN counterpart); has elements of Rin’s backstory, appearance, tsundere personality (see her quote above. TL: “Are you an idiot?!“) and relationship with her Servant (though Arthur’s much less cynical than both Archer and  Artoria), while also sharing Sakura’s attitude (namely, feeling inferior to her supremely talented older sister), status as a younger sister, as well as some elements of her generally passive personality. Though she was eventually unused in favor of those three and FSN in general, she wasn’t forgotten and her would-have-been story was also animated as a short OVA special by Lerche, the guys behind Carnival Phantasm (of all series). Though Prototype’s story is incomplete (because all info we have of it is just a draft) we at least have a prequel novel that’s basically Prototype’s answer to Fate/Zero.

Background

(Disclaimer: Haven’t read much of Sougin no Fragments so some info about what Ayaka did there that wasn’t mentioned in the main work is a little incomplete)

When she was younger, Ayaka Sajyou had lived together with her father and older sister, Manaka Sajyou in a magus household. Both she and her sister Manaka are half-British by descent thanks to their British mother, who died before the events of Sougin no Fragments, and purely Japanese father, Hiroki Sajyou (this explains why Manaka’s features are noticeably more western compared to her sister’s). Thanks to the way magi families work (think Sakura’s position in the Tohsaka family minus being given away to the Matous), Ayaka always saw herself as average and inferior compared to her ludicrously talented older sister, and their father (seemingly) ignoring her while continually supporting Manaka thanks to the Grail War that was happening at the time sowed the seeds to her low self-esteem by the time Prototype’s story rolls in. Her completely average stats and magic circuit quality (grade C) don’t exactly help her case.

But what cemented her pessimistic outlook towards herself and her reluctance to participate in her Grail War eight years later were her older sister’s last words to her before Saber literally stabs Manaka in the back just moments before Manaka nearly sacrifices her to the Grail:

Manaka: “Because, Ayaka, you're ordinary. Being an ingredient is the only thing you're good for.“

Of course, being traumatized to the point of losing her memories regarding that incident thanks to seeing her nutty older sister brutally killing their father and other young girls in front of her while knowing she’s next probably reinforced her reluctance to participate a lot...

By the time of Prototype’s Grail War, she contracts with Saber and is given the title of Princes for her rank as the 7th Master.

Personality

As mentioned, Ayaka’s personality traits are a combination of the Tohsaka sisters’. While she’s passive and pessimistic toward herself, often seeing herself in low regard, she’s also surprisingly tenacious and fiery when she’s being teased, and becomes more courageous over the course of her story (sadly, unless Nasu or Sakurai made a complete reboot of the main Prototype work, we don’t get to see just how she grows). In the official drama CD where she and the main cast celebrate Christmas together, she gets a hammy side to herself thanks to playing the only sane man there (and her topnotch KanaHana voice acting is a big bonus in itself).

While she’s already a tsundere when it comes to Saber whenever he teases her like I said, she becomes even more aggressive when she takes her glasses off and is much more confident as a result, becoming even closer to Rin in personality as a result (but since Rin is the tsundere queen, Ayaka’s not quite at that level yet). According to Nasu and Takeuchi though, this haughty personality of hers (though less confident and much more childish than Rin’s) is actually her true personality albeit one she hides at home.

Apart from her personality, taking off her glasses changes her appearance a little: her hair and eyes basically glow, and she’s honestly gorgeous when her glasses are off. While there’s no real confirmation over this whatsoever, it’s heavily implied that she’s more powerful when she takes her glasses off, if her final confrontation against Sancraid Phahn (Proto’s equivalent of Kirei but whose personality is more reminiscent of Alba from Kara no Kyoukai) is anything (P.S. She wrecks the room they’re in and we only get to see the aftermath where Phahn is already beaten). Then again, that was after her character development came into full circle, where she sheds her self-esteem issues in exchange for her hotter, adrenaline-makeover self.

Naturally, Proto-Gilgamesh finds her really attractive without her glasses, and her feistier attitude doesn’t hurt much either (tbh, i don’t really get why she needs to wear glasses. She looks great without them and it doesn’t look like she has eye problems either since Sougin no Fragments shows her without them at all so why). 

Speaking of her character development btw, her growth is much more straightforward than Shirou’s, though that’s a given since her work was originally supposed to be a light novel and not a visual novel like Shirou’s. So in terms of characterization, she’s much more basic than Shirou, her development being much more linear thanks to the nature of her story.

Abilities

Pre-character development, she uses her family’s Witchcraft using an unidentified form of black magic that uses crow’s feathers as weapons, which she puts to great use during her “fight” against Lancer in the OVA. During and post-character development, she takes Saber’s advice and begins to train in Formalcraft, a.k.a. “Thaumaturgy for dummies”. What the specifics are behind these abilities is unknown so we don’t really get a complete picture of what she’s capable of doing as a magus. The one thing we can confirm however, is that while competent in using black magic, she isn’t particularly good at it, and like Shirou’s Projection magic, Formalcraft is something not many mages would consider practicing but is something she discovers she excels at and has high aptitude for.

By the way, as a magus, her stats are completely average. She’s a flat C in terms of magecraft and magic circuit quality, so while she’s not as bad as how Shirou started out as before his awesome upgrades in UBW and HF, she’s not impressive either, and constantly has to rely on her Saber to fight for her when needed. Like Shirou, her status as a below average Master sets her Saber back too, just not to Shirou’s level when he first started his War thanks to actually being raised in a magus household. Manaka, Saber’s original Master in the previous War, had rank EX quality circuits, so uh, yeah, quite the downgrade for Saber. But hey, at least Ayaka’s sane.

Final Words

To end this article on our Proto-protag, let’s list down the number of appearances she’s had in the Nasuverse outside her story (including all those drama CDs and 4koma shenanigans). Naturally, since it’s a prequel, her younger, eight year old self appears in Sougin no Fragments, and she plays a small, but very crucial supporting role in that LN series. She’s in the Fate/Hollow Ataraxia PS Vita port’s hanafuda mini-game together with her Saber where she meets Kiritsugu and his Saber (which leads to a funny convo right after), she’s a boss fight in Capsule Servant which was also included together with Hollow Ataraxia, she cameos in Fate/School Life as a Homurahara student (though technically that’s not her per se, but her alternate universe counterpart in the Stay Night universe), and is the first boss Satsuki and the Back Alley Alliance (plus Saber Mysterious Heroine X and Ciel) have to beat in Type-Moon’s 2013 April Fools event, representing the rat of the Chinese Zodiac.

In Fate Strange Fake, Ryogo Narita mentions very early on that the blonde “Ayaka Sajyou” who appears in that series as a main character and also the Master of a Saber who happens to look a lot like Proto Saber is not her or even an alternate universe counterpart of hers since her true counterpart there is name-dropped by El Melloi II and Rohngall as someone who was in Romania during the events in Strange Fake. Think of the blonde “Ayaka” there as being similar to Fate/Extra Rin. Having the same name with another known Fate character, but is not quite them or their counterpart either. 

So there you have it folks! Here’s hoping that she and her series get rebooted either as an LN series or as an otome game (it’s got reverse harem vibes so it’s possible). Of course, Nasu should get the Tsukihime remake out first before he continues to milk the Fate franchise further since it’s taking him waaaayyy too long to finish it.

[mamoru-miyano-france]

News du 29 et du 30 septembre 2017

Drama CD

Mamo doublera Berseker dans le premier drama CD “Fate/Prototype : Sougin no Fragments”. Celui-ci sortira le 25 octobre 2017 accompagné de l’Original Soundtrack 1 (site officiel).

Anime / Film d’animation

– Voici le nouveau trailer du film d’animation “Haikara-san ga Tooru Movie 1 : Benio, Hana no 17-sai” qui sortira dans les salles japonaises le 11 novembre prochain. Mamo double Shinobu Ijūin (site officiel).

– Mamo doublera les personnages de 3 anime pour cette saison automnale. En plus de “King’s Game” (en simulcast chez Wakanim le 5 octobre), on retrouvera “Blood Blockade Battlefront & Beyond” en simulcast (version originale sous-titrée en français) chez ADN le 7 octobre prochain à 21h10. Il s’agit de la seconde saison de la série “Blood Blockade Battlefront” (site officiel). Son personnage se nomme Dog Hummer.

Enfin, Mamo reprendra le rôle de Ryota Sakuragi dans la quatrième saison de “Ame-iro Cocoa”. Intitulé Ame-Con!! (abréviation de “Ame-iro Conversion”), l’anime sera diffusé au Japon à partir du 4 octobre 2017 (site officiel). 

Théâtre / Comédie musicale

– Le DVD de la comédie musicale “Ouke no Monshou” (ou “Crest of the Royal Family”) sortira au Japon le 31 octobre 2017. Mamo incarne le Prince Izmir dans la version Ra (site officiel).

– Les répétitions pour la pièce de théâtre “Dokuro-jô no Shichinin” ont débuté. Voilà une photo de Mamo avec Koudai Matsuoka, l’acteur de Kirimaru : lien.

Magazine

Voici un aperçu de la séance photos pour le magazine “CINEMA STARS” qui sortira demain : lien. Vous pouvez le commander sur CDJapan.

[nero-draco]

[tbzrai]

as stated on the tm ace page for the fate/prototype fragments manga, the next chapter will be dropping on the 30th of august!

[reignsan]

First chapter of the Fate/Prototype manga is on mangadex now.

[lancerarthur]

For the people who can’t listen because it’s region-locked, opening it from twitter should work, at least it does for me

@cafe-camelot our prayers have been answered