Fate/Zero/YMMV: Difference between revisions

* [[Accidental Innuendo]] - Lancer: "You are as good as naked before my spear."

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: Averted with the anime for the most part. It's almost 100% faithful to the source material, and while it quite a few scene-specific changes which could be seen as both good and bad, it leaves out a great deal of Kiritsugu's characterization in the novel-- as an example, just compare the anime and novel's versions of the prologue. Episodes 16 and 17 are generally considered by the novel readers to be straight examples of this, however.

** [[Yuki Kajiura]] is doing the soundtrack. There are no words for how awesome this is.

* [[Base Breaker]] - Kiritsugu is quite controversial character among the fandom.

* [[Crazy Awesome]] - Rider, who uses his Noble Phantasm to pop over to Saber's place for a drink. When they are surrounded by Assassins, he calmly invites them to sit down and drink with them.

* [[Complete Monster]] - Caster and Ryuunosuke.

** And of course, Zouken Matou.

* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] - ''“The King is never lonesome! For his wishes are our wishes!”''

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - [[Yuki Kajiura]] is doing the score for the anime. Nothing more need be said.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]

** Gilgamesh, unsurprising since this also applies to his original incarnation.

** Disturbingly Caster and Uryuu also get some of this, with some people even declaring the latter to be a ''[[Yandere]]'', which misses the part where there needs to be at least a bit of ''dere'' to balance the ''yan''.

** Kayneth has also received an unexpected fandom from /a/. And [[Pixiv]].

** Kariya is ''absolutely adored'' in both Japan and the West. But especially Japan.

** Ryuunosuke is impressively popular for a homicidal sadist. Apparently, he is loved by the female staff members of [[Ufotable]].

** Saber x Gilgamesh is also rather common.

** Fate/Zero's anime release has created a veritable [[The Ship Yard|Love Boat]] in its wake, to the point where nearly every character is shipped with at least one non-canon love-interest. As a corollary to the Saber x Lancer ship, [[Ho Yay Shipping|Lancer x Kayneth]] is equally widespread on Pixiv, often drawn by the same people drawing the Saber x Lancer and complete with [[Doujinshi]]. Other popular non-canon couples are Caster x Uryuu, Kotomine x Kiritsugu, Kotomine x Gilgamesh, Kotomine x Kariya, Gilgamesh x Tokiomi, Rider x Waver, Waver x Lancer, and [[Les Yay|Saber x Irisviel]]. You may have noticed a [[Ho Yay Shipping|trend]]. Given [[Blue Bishounen Ghetto|the ratio of male characters to female]], it was probably inevitable.

* [[Foe Yay]] - Kiritsugu and Kotomine, Saber and Lancer.

* [[Fridge Brilliance]] - Iskander's {{spoiler|death scene mirrors his life as explained in the flashback. Carrying on towards a goal he fails to reach, endlessly pushing forward, while everyone behind him lies dying.}}

** The episode featuring {{spoiler|his death}} will air on June 10th, {{spoiler|the date of his historical death}}

** Also, the episode where {{spoiler|Kiritsugu was forced to kill Natalia}}, whom he considered a surrogate mother, aired just a few days before ''Mother's Day''.

** Kiritsugu and Irisviel's final meeting manages to do this ''thrice'' in rapid succession. Irisviel wishes for Ilya to come see Japan someday (she does...as another Einzbern tool of war doomed to die), for her to see the cherry blossoms (which can be seen as a reference to the [[Tragic Dream]] in Heaven's Feel route) and the summer clouds (Shirou staring at the summer clouds while thinking about his loss and about how his life changed is a scene people might remember from the epilogue of Fate route).

*** Even worse, later on, when Irisviel talks with Maiya, she hopes for the Fourth War to be the final one... so that Ilya won't have to take her place in the next one should they fail. Her asking Kiritsugu to bring Ilya to Japan is doubly effective because {{spoiler|after the end of the war, Kiritsugu spends several of the last years of his life trying to do that and failed because the Einzberns won't let him, and due to the curse he was too weak to break through their defenses.}}

* [[Ho Yay]] - Kirei and Gilgamesh, Caster and Uryuu (Takeuchi even says that they "should get married already"), and Rider and Waver (who get an official 4koma implying they restored mana ''that way''). Especially since both Rider and Caster are [[Word of Gay|canonically bisexual]], not to mention Gilgamesh's relationship with his friend Enkidu was brimming with homoeroticism in the [[Epic of Gilgamesh|original epic]]. And that Gilgamesh's image song is basically him mourning Enkidu. Berserker and Kariya also have a bit with the brief {{spoiler|blood-sucking scene}} they get.

* [[Iron Woobie]]: Irisviel. The matter-of-fact, almost cheerful way in which she explains that {{spoiler|her body has degraded too much for her to use magic alone, engage in her favourite hobbies, or even ''dress herself'' without considerable effort}} is downright heartbreaking.

* [[Karma Houdini]] - Ryuunosuke, in a sense. {{spoiler|He gets killed by Kiritsugu, but he is so thrilled at the sight of his own blood that it doesn't really feel like actual punishment. It is stated in the novel that he dies with a smile of total bliss.}}

** WAGA ARU G <ref> Lancer consistently refers to Kayneth with "''waga aruji''", or "milord".</ref>

** Being Lancer is suffering.<ref> There is a perception in the fandom that Lancers tend to meet terrible ends.</ref>

** Team [[Netorare Genre|NTR]] <ref> A [[Fan Nickname]] for team Kayneth, referring to how Sola-ui falls in love with Lancer.</ref>

*** In the same vein, other [[Fan Nickname|Fan Nicknames]] for the teams include Team Cool (Caster and Ryuunosuke) and Team Yuetsu ({{spoiler|Kirei and Gilgamesh}}); see below for explanations.

 

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