Fate/stay night Episode 15 Discussion thread

[Shiroth]

Yeah, Saber showing a lot more emotion in this episode's made it an episode to remember in my eyes.

I love all side's of Saber, but the blushing side's gotta be in my top 5.

[MakubeX2]

Originally Posted by DwArD

I feel the same way dude! Now....how to make Rin blush just like Saber.....*drools*

They just might, considering what Shirou did to initiate UBW in the game before the final battle.

[[DOT].L]

What did it for me this week was Saber becoming conscientious of her womanly assets, whereas a few weeks ago she'd hardly fret about appearing naked in front of Shirou.

[Eclipze]

I do wonder: why didnt Rin tell Shirou of this method of mana replenishing in the first place? She explicitly said that Saber either has to attack humans to replenish her mana, or disappear due to the lack of mana (and apparently those 2 were the only options at that time).

Any special reason why this method of mana-replenishing was only revealed now?

[Sorrow-K]

JAM IT IN!

I concur with everyone else... the entire mana regen sequence was just impossible to take seriously. It was poorly executed no matter how I look at it and kills F/SN's generally serious atmosphere. And the dragon was terrible. But I won't harp on it, since enough's been said about in this thread so far.

But there was a lot of good in the second half. The fight scene was one of the best in the series, IMO. I have no problems with Ilya giving away all of Berserker's secrets... personally I think that's totally in character for her. She's been given what appears to be the strongest servent by a long way, and because of it she's overcomplacent and thinks she can't lose, no matter what she says. Inevitably, this will be her downfall (I predict).

Spoiler for speculation for next episode:

I think Rin will live. I think if they were going to kill her off, she'd have gotten the final blow before the end of the episode. I also think it's inevitable that Saber will defeat Berserker when Shirou summons Excalibar... but the next episode preview pretty much gave that away

Didn't like the new OP song. Maybe it'll grow on me in time (they usually do), but disillusion is just so quintessentially Fate/Stay Night that I know I'm going to miss it. Interesting that there was an Archer v Shirou fight in the OP sequence...

Not a great first half, but the episode redeemed itself a bit in the second half, so it didn't quite go so far as to turn me off this series altogether.

[Shiroth]

Originally Posted by Sorrow-K

Spoiler for speculation for next episode:

I think Rin will live. I think if they were going to kill her off, she'd have gotten the final blow before the end of the episode. I also think it's inevitable that Saber will defeat Berserker when Shirou summons Excalibar... but the next episode preview pretty much gave that away

Spoiler:

Shirou summons Caliburn.

[molitar]

Man I couldn't give this episode more than a 7 and that was being generous. What a let down. Come on if he is to transfer his magical circuit they should of shown him and her having clothes removed they didn't actually have to have sex. Especially after they had Rin say it herself they needed as much skin contact as possible than they didn't have NO skin contact! Even in Mai-Otome they showed enough to indicate that when Antsy as he liked to call her was wet and cold he had to warm her up and that required removal of the clothes. So if they can do that in a non-h anime and not show anything what the HELL is wrong with the creator of this anime? Total morons for the way they pulled this off And the scene with a dragon was just so cheesy it was like watching a b-movie effect in the anime.

[eMpTy265]

Originally Posted by Angelsama

Spoiler:

Shirou summons Caliburn.

Judging from the title, I'm wondering it the producers plan to change the plot.

Or course, the title could be something to mislead us.

[Shinji103]

Originally Posted by eMpTy265

Judging from the title, I'm wondering it the producers plan to change the plot.

Or course, the title could be something to mislead us.

Somebody said a while ago that the director announced he was going to have a new plot different from the game for episodes 16 and up.

[stormy001_M1A2]

Rin already blushed twice.

[mp3chan]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

I do wonder: why didnt Rin tell Shirou of this method of mana replenishing in the first place? She explicitly said that Saber either has to attack humans to replenish her mana, or disappear due to the lack of mana (and apparently those 2 were the only options at that time).

Any special reason why this method of mana-replenishing was only revealed now?

I think Rin doesn't want it to happen so that she didn't let shirou know about the 3rd option. But now since they are in critical condition, of course smarty Rin would choose to live in jealousy rather than to die in berserker hand.

[DwArD]

Originally Posted by Eclipze

I do wonder: why didnt Rin tell Shirou of this method of mana replenishing in the first place? She explicitly said that Saber either has to attack humans to replenish her mana, or disappear due to the lack of mana (and apparently those 2 were the only options at that time).

Any special reason why this method of mana-replenishing was only revealed now?

I just saw the subbed episode. Its not like Rin don't want to tell Shirou about this method, as it involves 'tearing' away part of Shirou's magical circuit and implanting it into Saber. That means Shirou will no longer have a complete magical circuit, meaning he will no longer able to become a complete magician. Fortunately, the circuit he used for his 'reinforcement' socery is pretty much intact. Saber took away all his other unused circuits instead.

[SweetSpring]

the next episode title is long Excalibur-the sword that brings the promised victory

[Prodigious]

I dunno, I thought this episode was really corny. I mean, I enjoyed the fanservice and such, but after last week's ep this seems like a horrible travesty. A complete 180, which I don't like very much. Even the new OP seems incredibly tacky and disjointed. Why fix something if it's not broken? I loved Disillusion. This new song lacks the smoothness and quality, and the frames don't match the beat very well.

Was the studio on acid when they made this episode? CG dragons, horrible OP, a lot of awkwardness, etc.

btw, at least it ended with a hell of a cliff hanger, which is a plus.

[Xellos-_^]

To anyone who might find this intresting, there is cosplay porn video of FSN out on that "site which will not be name" uner other

[Sorrow-K]

Originally Posted by Xellos-_^

"site which will not be name"

What an ironic name to call it.

*has unpleasant flashbacks*

Oh yeah... and cosplay porn. Teehee. At 700MB, I think I'll pass.

[TougeSil80]

The way they avoided the sex scenes are pretty lame. They could've done what countless ecchi anime did, just cut off the scen when the get into bed and/or have some sheets pulled over them. As it is right now, the digital dragon/bird is really lame. Other than that, I love this ep. Looks like Shirou is going to create a Excalibur replica, next ep should be good.

[Last_Hope]

Wtf?!? A few episodes back Saber had no problem standing naked infront of Shirou and now she blushes just cause he´s holding her arm...

But other than that I enjoyed the episode. And I liked the animation for the dragon. I think it was a good choice.

[mp3chan]

I wanna know what japanese people think about this episode. Do they really think the dragon is cool? Maybe from 2ch, anyone who read japanese, please?

[Eclipze]

Originally Posted by TougeSil80

The way they avoided the sex scenes are pretty lame.

Well, If you wanna talk about lame, then that scene is pretty much lame itself.

They are being chased by a giant sized Hercules (with a psycho loli as its master no less), but here they are, still not in a "safe-zone", and having sex? Even if it does serve the purpose of mana-replenishing, it sure as hell would be better just running away. (consider this: Saber, replenished, still couldn't handle a fight against Berserker).