Is Fate Japan's Iliad?

no

>>280393470 (OP)
Are you on fumes, anon?

When's Strange Fake?

No. It's Heike Monogatari.

Fate's kind of fallen off in the last few years, hasn't it? Not a lot of anime and manga things.

>>280393470 (OP)
Every person I know that makes Type Moon shit a big part of their personality is an unsalvageable subhuman

Japan’s equivalent of the Iliad is probably Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Its one of the only things Korea, Japan and China mutually love. Heike would be closest to something homegrown.

>>280394063
You're mentally ill

>>280394216
considering that 90% of Type-Moon's current popularity is thanks to a gatcha, he's more right than he realizes.

>>280394216
Oh, another one showed up

>>280394216
He's absolutely correct.

>>280394355
>90% of Type-Moon's current popularity is thanks to a gatcha
I think you are underestimating how much of its popularity comes from hentai.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJxwrvUgPs

The culmination of 20 years of Fate.

>>280397395
I can't stand FGO and her lancer versions, but I also can't help but enjoy the video. Still,
>altria

I was going to make a post about THE ABSOLUTE STATE of Fate but I'd rather just blogpost
Finished reading Hollow Ataraxia yesterday - it was nothing short of fantastic. It's the kind of creative project where you can see obvious flaws in it, but its positive traits and creative decisions resonate with your soul so much that you end up calling it "perfect" despite the fact it's far from being flawless.
About 1/10 of the SoL scenes were boring to me or just seemed badly written, and a few more felt like padding and didn't interest me much, but everything else was super memorable. The writing team rode the line between stay night-style SoL and expanded, comedic SoL with utmost care.
Of course, the story side of things with the HA "trio" was perfect throughout. There's simply no way for me to lay out all the parallels, meanings and concepts I liked.
>Bazett being weak in spite of the image she built of herself and was imprisoned in all her life, and not realizing that until letting her Servant get comfortable with her two-sided personality
>Avenger also being weak but having a strong sense of self despite the fact he's nothing to begin with, going as far as to save people he shouldn't care for and grow attached to them
>Caren being an inverse of Kirei and being a helpful and affectionate character despite her chaotic actions and outwardly mistrustful demeanor
It's too meaningful for its own good, in a way. Scenes like Illya acknowledging Angra's false self, or Rider being saved from her doom, or Caster remembering Shirou's comment about letting her kill him at the end, or Bazett getting angry at herself and towards Illya over leaving Angra behind and considering him to be worthless, or Lancer lamenting his life choices and luck regarding women, or Archer splitting up with Rin only to bond with her one last time at the bridge, etc. etc. It's just Nasu and his colleagues endlessly stabbing you with KINO that only makes the ending feel all the more bittersweet.
RIP Avenger

>>280393470 (OP)
Fate is just amwf propaganda.
>FSN has female king Arthur give her virginity to a Japanese high school boy
>Medea instantly forgets her marriage to the Greek hero Jason to get bred by a Japanese kungfu wobbly fist master
>Medusa gets wet thinking about Japanese dick
>Tohsaka ancestor implied to have married and impregnated an Edelfelt Sister from the 3rd Grail War
>Kotomine's white wife literally dies trying to fix him
>FZ has a prestigious German family hire a Japanese mage to impregnate their crown jewel, he also happens to have a devout assistant who happily serves as his stress relief
>FApoc has the queen of ancient kingdom fall in love with a literallywho Japanese
>FE has a Roman empress fall in love with a Japanese boy
>FGO goes hard with this, Japanese teenager/college student/shota is sought after by female knights, goddesses, witches, queens/empresses, etc.

>>280393470 (OP)
Rin is Japan's sappho.

I miss how fun old Fate used to be. The old doujinshi were silly but still understood the source material. It doesn't feel like it these days.

>>280393470 (OP)
I wouldn't know, I never read it. I looked up all the spoilers though. I also read FGO.

>>280393470 (OP)
No, that's Gundam.

>>280400899
The original series, right? Gundam, Z, ZZ and Char's counterattack.