Comments on: The Unbearable Lightness of Non-Being: Sakura Matou

By: DrmChsr0

DrmChsr0 — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 08:31:26 +0000

Sakura is very pivotal in Fate, if you play through Heaven’s Feel.

If you think Fate was tragic, wait till you see Heaven’s Feel. HF True Ending is a lot more tragic.

Ilya’s fated to die, no matter how much you try to save her.

By: Haesslich

Haesslich — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 18:27:14 +0000

Indeed - the Fate storyline’s the shortest of them all… and probably one of the more tragic of the love stories, with Heaven’s Feel’s True Ending being the most angst-inducing of the bunch. This would’ve done better in a shorter storyline, especially given how much ‘filler’ there was at the start (3 episodes in which almost nothing happens). Heaven’s Feel or UBW would’ve been better for the 24-to-26 episode run that F/SN has, as the stories there are more convoluted.. and to be honest, ‘deeper’ ones. The other characters get more development in both, and Shirou has a better reason to become a ‘badass’ in there than he did here - he took almost 14 eps to really start getting his stuff together, and only in the last 4 or so has he shown any real redeeming traits as a harem lead.

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By: Zyl

Zyl — Sun, 11 Jun 2006 12:05:57 +0000

Kurogane, the exception to the ‘focus on winning girl’ approach in recent anime would be SHUFFLE! imho. I’m quite upset with how much Rin has gotten sidelined but making fun of Sakura is so much easier - even if they are both symptoms of the same problem.

Haesslich, you are right of course. Personally I think this was a strategic error by the studio - the Fate scenario probably didn’t warrant 24 full episodes but might have been absolutely riveting if it were 12-14 episodes. This also had the effect of making the UBW and HF fans unhappy. Just like Tsukihime, the studio translated the simplest route in the game into the anime, wasting the richnesses and potential in the multiple threads of the game. Making all three scenarios work in one anime might have been ambitious but, again, I think SHUFFLE! managed to do it successfully despite having pretty mediocre source material to work with (hugely expanding on Psycho Kaede was a master stroke).

Skane, my guess is that Ilya will survive but disappear from Shirou’s life. Btw, I am also guessing that Saber returns to her own time.

Lupus, perhaps the Sakura fans should also be grateful that, at least, her character wasn’t horribly mangled. I’m still upset with how SUNRISE made Lunamaria into Shinn’s gf. X_X