I know it’s become a joke to say but literally what even is Fate and how do I get into it? The only things I know about it are Astolfo, Arthur is a woman, and a meme were a guy shoots a massive beam out of his sword with the caption “me when I see black people.” I tried to ask a friend but he basically just told me to not even try because apparently its really difficult.

>>280356985 (OP)

>>280356985 (OP)
https://vndb.org/v11

>>280356985 (OP)
Don't get into it.
It's not worth it.
There's only, generously, 4 good installments in the series.
The premise is so cool and you'll want to see more, but none of it will live up to how you hype it up in your head.

>>280356985 (OP)
>I know it’s become a joke to say but literally what even is Fate and how do I get into it? The only things I know about it are Astolfo, Arthur is a woman, and a meme were a guy shoots a massive beam out of his sword with the caption “me when I see black people.” I tried to ask a friend but he basically just told me to not even try because apparently its really difficult.

>Fate
Fate/stay night REMASTERED
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2396980/Fatestay_night_REMASTERED/
Fate/hollow ataraxia
https://nyaa.si/view/1732011
Fate/Zero (Japanese)
https://pastebin.com/33E3XfDB
Garden of Avalon
https://tri-hermes.org/Novels/GoA.html
Fate/strange Fake
https://www.tumblr.com/humbertozero/150696689780/how-to-read-fatestrange-fake-light-novel-read
Fate/Kaleid Liner Prisma Illya
https://nyaa.si/view/1976278

>Fate Anime
Fate/stay night 2006 (DEEN)
https://nyaa.si/view/1445954
Fate/Zero
https://nyaa.si/view/1804578
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
https://nyaa.si/view/1890595

>Fate Manga
Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works]
https://comick.io/comic/00-fate-stay-night-unlimited-blade-works
Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel]
https://comick.io/comic/fate-stay-night-heaven-s-feel

>Fate/EXTRA
Fate/Extra + Fate/Extra CCC [English]
https://nyaa.si/view/1753542
Fate/Extra Last Encore
https://nyaa.si/view/1985027

>>280356985 (OP)
Had to be there 20 years ago

>>280356985 (OP)
You read the VN. You can either play the official Remastered version or the unofficial Ultimate Edition. Remastered generally has a better translation, but it's also based on the all-ages rerelease which has significant plot changes in one of the routes. Remastered has mods to fix a stupid name change and to restore the original soundtrack but not the uncensored text. Both can switch to the Japanese equivalents for reference.

>>280357340
Reminds me of DBZ Orange Bricks

>>280356985 (OP)
you should listen to him

>>280356985 (OP)
>but literally what even is Fate
Its a Visual Novel

>and how do I get into it?
By reading it. Original is probably the best and is uncensored. Never really looked into all the shit you'll need to fix for the remaster

>I tried to ask a friend but he basically just told me to not even try because apparently its really difficult.
You have a good friend and he's right. The problem comes from Japan not giving a fuck about continuity and accuracy and adapting random parts of the VN, most of which not even good adaptions either. Its like trying to connect all the DC comic franchises tier mess. Anime wise its such a mess that its better to tell people to just read the original VN, the prequel Lite Novel Fate/Zero, and maybe the sequel Hollow Ataraxia and forget everything after. You can't even recommend the anime, they are that bad and miss the point of the story.

>The only things I know about it are Astolfo
Around 2009 or 2010 is when the series had its 2nd wind and started selling out with endless spinoffs, gachashit, flashy beam spam ufotable anime adaptions, and is when all the normalfag coomer shit started that you're familiar with. If you want to dive into that you can just play the mobile gacha and forget everything else.

>>280356985 (OP)
The answer remains the same: Read the VN.

>>280357119
Lol quintessentially this. I read the VN 20 years ago when I was a boy and I was one of those really hooked up chuuni Nasuboys, which was really prominent and phenomenal in the 2000s, it truly was "The Nasu era." Also played Ataraxia when it came out but it slowly wore off from my mind as I grew older so I didn't read Zero and haven't followed the franchise ever since. Still my childhood memory.

>>280357575
>Lol quintessentially this. I read the VN 20 years ago when I was a boy and I was one of those really hooked up chuuni Nasuboys, which was really prominent and phenomenal in the 2000s, it truly was "The Nasu era." Also played Ataraxia when it came out but it slowly wore off from my mind as I grew older so I didn't read Zero and haven't followed the franchise ever since. Still my childhood memory.

All you really need is Mahoyo, KnK, Tsukihime, FSN/FHA

Everything else he wrote is slop

実はこれが最も大きな影響で、少し恥ずかしいお話ではあるのですが……昔どこかの雑誌で見たエピソードで、まだTYPE-MOONが商業デビューをしてなかったころに、武内さんが奈須さんを夕暮れ時のベランダに連れ出して、「（奈須は）好きにやっていい」といったことを話されたそうなんです。

奈須氏：
ええ。色々なものにがんじがらめで、自分の夢を半ば諦めていた頃ですね。「おまえは凄いやつなんだから、いいかげん好きにやれ。半年分の生活費はもってやる」といった

Based Takeuchi

>>280356985 (OP)
>Zero>Fate UBW> Heaven's feel movies
That is the starter pack for casual viewers, all done by Ufotable and with crazy good animation.
>Fate/stay nigth(studio deen)> Fate/apocrypha > Visual novel
This is if you want to really go into the franchise.
>Basically anything else (Carnival phantasm, strange fake, extra and the illia show)
If you want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes, and above all else avoid Fate GO (the gacha game), so many men than you have lost their lives to it

>>280357705
No surprise there was a fan headcanon that Nasu was a female (blonde lol) and married Takeuchi lmao

>>280357875
>Not VN first

>>280357875
I suddenly got a flashback to that horror story of some Japanese guy taking out loans to get one copy of Skadi. FGO has some great moments and fun story chapters but being attached to a predatory gambling system really puts a damper on things. They at least implemented a pity system a while ago, as stingy as it is, and power creep hasn't been too bad. Still I advise people to be wary of anything gacha related.

奈須氏：
さっき焼鳥さんが『Fate/stay night』をクリアしたあとに、「虚しさ」を感じたとおっしゃられていたじゃないですか。それは、自分も『FF4』【※】をクリアしたときに思ったんですよ。

エンディングを迎えたときに「俺は明日からどうやって生きていこう、死ぬか」と思ったくらい、あまりにもゲームに熱中しすぎていて、終わった瞬間、ものすごく虚無になった。でも、振り返ってみると、あの虚しさは、やっぱり「悔しさ」なんですよね。あの「なんで永遠に続かないんだ」という悔しさがあったからこそ、いま良いものを作れている。

だから、ワールドエンドというものは、それがどんなに美しい終わりでも、終わる以上は悔しい。その悔しさや切なさが、いいゲームの終わり。それが、本当に意義のある物語だと思っています。逆に、永遠に続く物語は、生きてはいるけど戦っていないというか……まあ、ゴールがない人生はツラいですからね。

だから、『FGO』もキチンと終わらせることは初めから決めていました。終わらせ方も動かしようがないけど、もしきのこのエゴより巨大な民意がやってきたら、その民意に屈服せざるを得ない。アニプレさんがスポンサーだからさ！

Nasu loves Final Fantasy 4

>>280356985 (OP)
Read fate stay night and Hollow Araraxia. That's it, everything else is not worth it.

>>280358310
>逆に、永遠に続く物語は、生きてはいるけど戦っていないというか……まあ、ゴールがない人生はツラいですからね。
What have you become, Nasu?

>>280358727
Nasu finally agreed that HF was the correct path

>>280357875
This is an alright guide, but here's a better one.

>>280357080
>The premise is so cool and you'll want to see more, but none of it will live up to how you hype it up in your head.
The premise is cool. So much so that it's almost as if it was invented as something tailor made to make something that sounds like it would be really good in a (gacha) game.
But of course the timeline makes that utterly impossible to have happened. But it's actually incredible how lucky the premise fits.
It's like he wandered into winning a billion dollar lottery completely by mistake by just coming up with some cool and interesting world building.
In the end, it almost seems like a waste. It's alright stuff, but the concept is better than its execution imo.

>>280358962
Oh man...lmao

>>280356985 (OP)
Read Fate/stay night, then read Fate/Hollow Ataraxia. If you can stand shitty gameplay, play Fate/Extra and then Extra CCC. Done, you don't need anything else.

>>280358962
>FATE franchise
>lists Tsukihime

>>280358962
Tsukihime...ANIME!? What degenerate made this list?

>>280356985 (OP)
Zomg chatgpt so awesome. It make do text. Then I write this on 4guatemalans "how to get into series" and user reply. How to get into series.

>>280356985 (OP)
>what even is Fate
The modern Iliad

>>280356985 (OP)
Read Fate/stay night, then Fate/hollow ataraxia, and you're done with that most would consider to be the quintessential parts of the IP.
You can also read/watch Zero before or after HA as dessert. It's Urobutcher slop so turn off your brain, forget about the characters being dumb for most of the plot, and have fun.
After that is when you get into the realm of *other* Fate works. At that point it's entirely up to you to decide what to consume and what to like. Some fans think Prillya's the best part of the series past SN, others think it's the Extra series of vidya, etc. etc. All of them are about stuff unrelated to the setting of FSN/FHA/FZ, so if you don't want to leave 90s/00s Fuyuki behind don't bother with them.

>>280360299
I forgot this but if you're even REMOTELY interested in it, read Tsukihime (the original since the remake's still incomplete) after FHA and watch Carnival Phantasm. It's probably the best Fate anime from an adaptation/source material standpoint and objectively the best Tsukihime anime. You won't be disappointed

I’ve been going through Tsukihime and the fan disc, I like it pretty well. Does it make sense for me to say I like the concepts and characters, rather than the whole thing? Will probably try Fate after, assuming the quality is at a similar level.

>>280360377
Tsukihime, FSN, EXTRA and Mahoyo were made by the same devs

>>280360377
The feeling's mutual. Most of Nasu's stuff boils down to "7/10 premise with 10/10 ideas and 6/10 execution = 9/10 LN/VN". If you liked Tsuk and its fandisc you'll like FSN and FHA. In a worst case scenario, you'll finish reading it thinking it was a slightly worse and shonen-ier Tsuk

>>280360377
It does. The prose, plot, and structure were extremely messy, and the art and music were poor even for 2000. Fate's word count is still bloated, but it otherwise makes big strides in all those areas. After that, it just comes down to taste.

>>280361092
FSN music is excellent, what are you talking about?

>IMG_
Fake TM thread.

>>280361296
FSN was 2004. I trust you can connect the dots from there.

>>280361573
Yep i misread that.

I got you covered, just follow this guide.

>>280362620
>redditshit

>>280356985 (OP)
>what even is Fate
A failed reverse harem otome game that like the mythical Hydra produced an infinite amount of offshoots
>how do I get into it?
start here:
https://youtu.be/YukKDks9GVg?feature=shared

>>280358310
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QGvBsyPPQo
This song really gave the end of the VN that hollow feeling they mentioned.

>>280360333
>Carnival Phantasm. It's probably the best Fate anime from an adaptation/source material standpoint
If you had read Take Moon, you would know it was a horrid adaptation of it. The original manga was mainly Tsukihime-focused, but he skipped the vast majority of the Tsukihime chapters and made strange alterations to the ones it did adapt like removing characters or showing the same scene several times in a row with minor differences. The Fate segments had several major differences too, like the entire anime-original Lancer subplot and the director deliberately sabotaging Sakura's portrayal in it because he was projecting his ex onto her. Also, the Neco OCs that had zero connection to anything from Type Moon unlike Neco-Arc and Neco-Arc Chaos and were just pure lolrandumb one-note cartoon characters.

>>280356985 (OP)
Pic rel. Also, Tohsaka's anus.

Akiha best girl