Fate/Zero - First Scene

[@hououinkyouma3864]

Just put yourself in Kiritsugu's shoes. He knows he will sacrifice the women he loves and if he fails he's daughter will be sacrificed as well.

[@TaigaXsenpai]

in the end things way even worse for them...... His daughter lived 10 years of hellish life, tortured, brainwashed haunted by ghosts. When Kiritsugu couldn't do anything about it no matter how many years he tried...... Their life is probably even more tragic than Kariya.. if it wasn't for Fate/hollow atraxia this series would traumatise me for a long time......

[@kazylol226]

Yes 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[@arvindcosta9379]

@@TaigaXsenpai Why did kiritsugu say "goodbye Illya" when he kills the grail/illya ..did he know that the Einzbern family wont let him meet the real Illya ? (Waking irisveil makes sense cause now she is dead, but returning illya ? When was she taken in the first place ?)

[@pali7591]

@@TaigaXsenpai wait whag change in hollow ataraxia

[@adityannair8951]

@@arvindcosta9379 AAA don't make me remember this shit I love dark ending but while watching this somewhere inside my heart I wanted them to live happily but anime now we will fuck hit and give them a tragedic ending husband scarified her daughter killed her wife then husband became empty inside the daughter goes through torture face and then at least one more bomb shell we will kill the daughter too ahh remembering it makes my head hurts

[@Wurzelknecht]

I guarantee you: everyone who knew Fate/Stay Night before watching Fate Zero started crying the moment they saw baby Illya's face. From that moment on we knew what we were in for with this anime...

[@howtocry8129]

I cried in every Illya scene because damn....

[@benakinnusi2518]

Fore me im watching the series from start from zero.

[@GrayCatbird1]

Meanwhile those of us who watched Zero first were completely clueless, had no idea why the heck they were talking of gloomy stuff, and even imagined that perhaps Kiritsugu might win this war.

[@benakinnusi2518]

Catbird same

[@luminousinferno443]

i actually watch fate zero because i firstly thought that its a continuation of FSN 2006, and seeing Saber in it i really hoping that she get to reunited with Shirou as their final farewell in FSN really hit me hard. took me 2 episodes to realised that FZ is prologue to FSN

[@27thjamtray]

"Her eyes are just like yours" what does this mean? Her eyes are red, and at this point full of life. Kiritsugu's are grey and dead inside.

[@tastymackerels]

If you compare the eyes of "kerry", the younger version of Kiritsugu before he became a killer, and Ilya's eyes, they look similar and that was how Irisviel phrased it. "A boy full of hope for the future" shown in the same eyes of her daughter, Ilya.

[@axeljulesetienne3917]

@@tastymackerels *Kerry

[@nguyenquanghung2344]

the death fish eyes =.=

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

Maybe she still sees the life in his eyes, even though nobody else (including him and the viewer) does.

[@doggerlander]

Kiritsugu's eyes have life, he's a man with hopes of making a better world, not just a mindless killer. In his mind at least, he doesn't murder, he sacrifices, which is why he's so sad and afraid of doing that to his own wife, and why he breaks down after killing his surrogate mother. But he never gives up on the future he has in mind, so he does all these terrible things hoping that it will pay off some day. He's passionate and dedicated to his dream, and that's the basis of his dynamic with Kirei, a soulless husk of a man.

[@incendiesproductions]

And thus began one of the finest anime series to ever exist...

[@Batman_the_bad_man]

Probably my favourite!

[@theunknownuser9609]

I don't know how many times I've rewatched this scene. I love it all. The silence of Kiritsigu, the dark colors in contrast of Iri's dress and her eyes, the snow storm outside... The positive tone of Iri's voice and the sadness in Kiritsugu's broken voice... Yuki Kajiura's melody... The camera angles...

[@delarosalouiskentr.2604]

the scripts

[@roguesoldier100]

right? anime is awesome

[@delarosalouiskentr.2604]

@@roguesoldier100 but this is so awesome that i cried

[@RSAMV9611]

I watched this like a 50 times in 1 week time. Only this scene

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

It's so nice to see kids analyzing media. The guy wears dark clothes and is sad + girl is in white and happy. Oooh deep. Haha

[@pyroromancer]

Seeing this scene the first time means almost nothing but seeing it again after watching the whole series, this becomes one of the most emotional scenes of the whole franchise. I recently heard the fate/zero drama CD. iri was very inanimate when Kiritsugi first met her, she understood she would have to be sacrificed to create the holy grail, despite knowing that Kiritsugi broke her out of her she'll and showed her the world. Giving her the experiences of a lifetime, making her the sensitive and loving woman she is in this scene. heart breaking.

[@Wurzelknecht]

And that it why new fans should never start with Fate Zero. It's a prequel meant to be watched after Fate/Stay Night or else a lot of big emotional scenes go down the drain.

[@iluVioletLink]

@@Wurzelknecht hello I just caught up with ubw, but i watched fate/zero first and tbh the impact was pretty much the same i miss the happiness of the emiya family so bad

[@RustemKonan]

​@@Wurzelknechtbut stay night is unwatchable cringe. The fact that it's old doesn't work here because there are Death Note, Berserk or Guyver which are great animes. Fate Zero is amazing by itself, one of my the most favorite animes and Kiritsugu is my favorite protagonist ever after Natsuki Subaru. UBW and HF are watchable but I don't like them although Rin is great!

[@GManJR75]

These two are, in my opinion, the best relationship in the Fate franchise. Fitting that they are also in the best series in the Fate franchise.

[@jkf6676]

They both aren't the best couples in Fate franchise and neither is zero the best Fate story.

[@HANISZAHIRAIZAM]

​​​@@jkf6676That's your opinion. Not mine. I think that they are also fit to be the best couples in Fate Franchise or any other series of Fate

[@anonymous-wu9md]

​@@HANISZAHIRAIZAMshirou X saber>>>>>>>>>

[@CloudMountainJuror]

One of my favorite opening scenes.

[@coastline6273]

It's so heartbreaking... Illya was told that Kiritsugu killed Iri and she got insane from that lie and all the torture she endured. I don't know what they did to her on the Eiznbern castle but they probably think of her as some "special child" fuckkkkk Kiritsugu showed such a wholesome side when he was looking for the walnuts with Illya AHHHHHHHHHHH

[@CloudMountainJuror]

My favorite opening scene in anime.

[@frederickgrandison3609]

The legacy begins

[@kokochislibrary9541]

"Six billion people, and two members of my family. I will kill you, and save the world." Kiritsugu

[@danielosegueda5935]

i... cry.... every.... time....

[@noahweathers4408]

This one scene acts as a microcosm of the whole of Fate/Zero. Kiritsugu Emiya sacrificed everything on the hope and prayer that the Holy Grail could bring peace to the world, and in the end, it brought him nothing, and never could.

[@Siren_.X]

Kiritsugu: I have no right to hold that child... Me starting to get pissed off: BOY HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MIND CAUSE ILL HELP YA FIND IT!!!!!

[@PeterLi2v7]

But at the very least that child has the right to be held by you

[@aishi_rei]

He doesn’t want to kill his daughter twice.

[@tiffles3890]

Now this can only end in heartbreak.

[@ronniejohn6055]

I still feel the same thrill and the hurt in my heart, as painful as 9 years ago, because i watched FSN first i can't help but feel devastated when i see this very first scene of Fate Zero, and it still the same today.

[@KC-oc3zf]

that door opening sound just woke me up big time

[@KingMarkus222]

I just really wanted this family to be happy, but I know it wouldn’t come true. Except in the spinoffs

[@NoxTheRegicide]

Random person watches man be silent the day his child is born. "Wow what a dick." Hears his reason. "Wow I'M a dick..."

[@xXNickFosterXx]

*SUBARASHI* I started the whole series with Zero then with Stay/Night and the rest and oh my god how I miss THIS BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION

[@kioftouch]

Rewatching this gave me chills

[@elloyd760]

The moment Kiritsugu lost it all and there was shirou

[@snowphoenix8893]

What episode

[@KennyMcGavin]

0:31 "Look Kiritsugu, her eyes are just like yours" Me: "Like his eyes? What, deadpan and empty since 20 years back?"

[@Auqi]

and then one of greatest anime exist

[@Shura31412]

damn the nostalgia

[@frederickgrandison3609]

I watched this gem last year before Christmas

[@rosem.gottschalk9528]

FK THEYRE PRECIOUS AND BEST LOVING RELATIONSHIP HHHH

[@Phasmania]

It’s nice to see an anime relationship without the over the top anime tropes, even if their situation sucks. It helps that the show is amazingly written

[@Sentienal]

9 years later I was recommended this thank you KZbin For taking your godamn time

[@lostbankai6521]

So 8 years passed

[@ComfortsSpecter]

Pretty Vibey Introduction All The Reference Really Setting The Tone Densely Adorable and Gentle too

[@frederickgrandison3609]

Ahhh yes, the time before the real war

[@blackfire_x2964]

Been years since I watched zero and this scene still hurts to watch

[@almightyloaf9169]

This is America

[@Sanuw7]

What traits did Illya inherit from Kiritsugu?

[@zibsidian5215]

What is the song that plays here?

[@theunknownuser9609]

It's called The Beggining Of The End. It's pretty beatiful.

[@phillipwalters9462]

Spoiler alert I did watch the rest, I assume he took his own life he truly did love her and holy grail took his happiness from him.

[@owlsayssouth]

Nah. Spoiler heavens feel: Avenger in the grail cursed him for not freeing it. For rejecting it. He hung in there as long as he could. When he heard Shiro say he will fulfill his dream, he could finally be at peace. So the curse killed him. He had taught Shiro everything he could, without turning him into the killer.

[@alokrip9226]

0.02 name of background theme PLEASE

[@RustemKonan]

The beginning of the end

[@hamzacherradi5075]

Please could you share some good animé like this one, castlevania, full metal alchemist.....

[@ash0787]

I can't think of any that are really similar to Fate, probably the closest would be Code Geass. There's lots of anime with good writing and more serious themes though e.g. Death Note, Monster, Steins;Gate, Psycho Pass ( written by the same person who did Fate/Zero ). FMA is cool but I only saw maybe 1/3, its got a lot of episodes. If you like FMA you might also like Hunter X Hunter. One of the first anime I saw was Rurouni Kenshin, thats good too. Overlord and maybe Goblin Slayer also are worth a look.

[@hamzacherradi5075]

@@ash0787 death note is still perfect, never watched hunter x hunter, i prefer something more dark, adult(sorry for hxh fans)

[@justme2778]

EXPLAINNN WHY DID HE KILL THEM?!?!?!?

[@bugragunes7348]

Because of his ideals

[@marderkpz7148]

That just Iri(the grail) to corrupted Kiritsugu to win the grill war

[@MrThecrazyzombie]

He didnt

[@JariloVII]

For anyone who still doesn't understand, he doesn't kill her. It's just illusion inside the corrupted holy grail like Genjutsu. The real Illya was still alive in Einzbern Castle, West Germany. Also by that time iri was already killed by kotomine.

[@Ajay-dy3xw]

@@JariloVII Fuck, why cant she have a happy ending?

[@DollieAngelic]

Oh what?? Ufotable also animated Fate/zero? I only knew they animated demon slayer😮

[@dennisrocket9825]

Empty ahh room

[@abuhurairah4045]

Why he killed her though? Tell me pls

[@fkez0510]

You mean in the Grail dream? Basically the Grail method for Kiritsugu's wish was killing everyone, however it was going to let his loved ones survive. However Kiritsugu's ideology has been to sacrifice the few to save the many, so in this case he rejected the Grail and killed Irisviel and Illya (not actually, just in the dream) to save the rest of the world

[@arvindcosta9379]

Spoiler alert Why did kiritsugu say "goodbye Illya" when he kills the grail/illya ..did he know that the Einzbern family wont let him meet the real Illya ? (Waking irisveil makes sense cause now she is dead, but returning illya ? When was she taken in the first place ?)

[@sebastianbigott7184]

the moment before shooting he knows that he is going to reject the grail, he knows that the einzbern were not going to let him into the forest again, he tried several times but he knows that it is useless, so he stops trying and stays with Shiro, also believing that the war was over forever. Sorry if it is not understood I am still learning English :)

[@arvindcosta9379]

@@sebastianbigott7184 oh so he already knew that beforehand ..i thought he didnt know that the einzberns were gonna hold on to illya And ur english is pretty much flawless ..dont worry 👍

[@zpeedowagon5436]

@@sebastianbigott7184 I totally get your point brother. Thanks to you i understand why kiritsugu didnt go back to the castle and live with his daughter.

[@Zurab_Ozdoev]

👍

[@fkez0510]

Lemme just remind y'all that Irisviel is 9 years old And in fact she's around 1 year old in this scene Kiritsugu pretty sus ngl, oh and you nasty lot making rule34 too

[@coconut_tv0564]

Well she Is a homunculus so she was born an adult