(07/11/2010 03:46 AM)S7* Wrote:  Maybe to you, cause you play VNs. I've not seen the anime so I wouldn't. *shrugs*

You don't have to play lots of VNs or keep up with the scene to know about F/SN.  It's like one of the biggest most talked about animes back then when it aired (though you probably weren't into anime yet at that time).

And you don't really have to have watched F/SN to know about some of the main characters.  Like I knew about (at least to the extent of recognizing where the characters come from) all the main characters from Haruhi way before I started watching it.  You see them like everywhere on people's avatars and sigs on forums and pretty much anywhere anime related (ok, Saber way more so than Rin, but whatever).  Like I doubt Lunar and PB seen the anime either, and I 99.99% doubt they read the VN.  Sky probably read the VN if I were to guess.



Either way, it's no big deal.  It's not like you're going to get eated by a shark if you don't know some anime character.

(07/11/2010 03:49 AM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Haven't seen FSN either.
There's too much to watch and not enough time.

The anime wasn't that great.  Play the VN.

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(07/11/2010 04:26 AM)SkyDX Wrote:  Third, it's a nice feeling having already 2 beautiful figurines now and I agree, the Love Hina poster does look like a Love Hina doujin drawing but damn it looks good and I like it^^

I thought Love Hina straight away but because it looked a bit different I thought it must be something else.. still a very nice poster nevertheless.

(07/11/2010 04:35 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  You don't have to play lots of VNs or keep up with the scene to know about F/SN.  It's like one of the biggest most talked about animes back then when it aired (though you probably weren't into anime yet at that time).

The release of Unlimited Blade Works is pushing me to watch it. I was gonna watch the OVA Reproductions but I've heard nothing particularly good about them.

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(07/11/2010 04:43 AM)S7* Wrote:  

(07/11/2010 04:26 AM)SkyDX Wrote:  Third, it's a nice feeling having already 2 beautiful figurines now and I agree, the Love Hina poster does look like a Love Hina doujin drawing but damn it looks good and I like it^^

I thought Love Hina straight away but because it looked a bit different I thought it must be something else.. still a very nice poster nevertheless.

Well, the art style looks similar to these Negima mangas my sister had back then (Negima by the same artist as Love Hina).  So I'd say they're official.

The manga, not the anime.

(07/11/2010 04:43 AM)S7* Wrote:  The release of Unlimited Blade Works is pushing me to watch it. I was gonna watch the OVA Reproductions but I've heard nothing particularly good about them.

"Reproduction" is just random bits of the original anime cut and pasted together, from what I heard.

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(07/11/2010 04:46 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(07/11/2010 04:43 AM)S7* Wrote:  The release of Unlimited Blade Works is pushing me to watch it. I was gonna watch the OVA Reproductions but I've heard nothing particularly good about them.

"Reproduction" is just random bits of the original anime cut and pasted together, from what I heard.

Yeah, and apparently not very well. Series it shall be, then! (Have you seen the film yet? Any good?)

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(07/11/2010 04:51 AM)S7* Wrote:  Yeah, and apparently not very well. Series it shall be, then! (Have you seen the film yet? Any good?)

No, but Tetris has, and you can read his thoughts here...
http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...?tid=25045

(07/11/2010 05:03 AM)SkyDX Wrote:  I still plan to fully enjoy FSN in one form or another because I remember I liked the first 2 eps but as with Zinga there's too much >.<

I would encourage you to play the VN instead of watching the anime.  It's generally regarded as being superior to the anime.

But ofcourse, the VN takes more time.  So it's sort of a tradeoff.

There's a manga too, but noone's heard of that.

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(07/11/2010 06:00 AM)Assassinator Wrote:  

(07/11/2010 04:51 AM)S7* Wrote:  Yeah, and apparently not very well. Series it shall be, then! (Have you seen the film yet? Any good?)

No, but Tetris has, and you can read his thoughts here...
http://endlessparadigm.com/forum/showthr...?tid=25045

(07/11/2010 05:03 AM)SkyDX Wrote:  I still plan to fully enjoy FSN in one form or another because I remember I liked the first 2 eps but as with Zinga there's too much >.<

I would encourage you to play the VN instead of watching the anime.  It's generally regarded as being superior to the anime.

But ofcourse, the VN takes more time.  So it's sort of a tradeoff.

There's a manga too, but noone's heard of that.

I was kind of in "awe" after finishing the movie at the moment when writing that review so i guess that's the impression the movie would leave upon you.

Regardless, this movie WILL NOT MAKE SENSE if you don't watch the anime or the VN; i probably loved the movie so much because unlimited blade works in the VN felt shallow without the action being animated. They did a good job for still scenes, but obviously the VN fans wanted something more and the movie delivers.

Unlimited blade works set the feeling and action sequences in anime form, but the story wasn't explained throughly enough for me to recommend to someone who is new to fate/stay night. I think it's a way of the animators giving a big middle finger to the people who criticized the FS/N anime to be too much of a pussy parade (forgive my use of language); kind of like saying "YOU WANT VIOLENCE? YOU WANT ACTION?!?! ALL RIGHT LEEEEEEEEROOOYYYYY FUCKING JENKINS~! HERE WEE GO! MAXIMUM GAR ESTABLISHED"

Another interesting thing to note is that the movie stayed true to the VN in the scenes it did show, with even remakes of the images that popped up here and there in the VN.

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