The Lore of Lord El Melloi II Case Files Volume 1 - The Castle of Separation

It's time to start covering the lore of Lord El Melloi II Case Files. Here, I cover some of the foundation and then the first volume. It's a lot of info, so please enjoy!
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[@otakudaikun]

I NEED TO MAKE A CORRECTION! The way the epilogue is written happens to be very vague. The person sniffing after her is NOT Flat Escardos, but another student named Svin. He's not formally introduced here, instead being referred to as the dog-boy. Gray then starts talking about Flat without any transition, which led me to think there was only one person. It doesn't help that they're both blonde. So yeah, in the hallway, Gray hides from Svin, the dog-boy, while talking about her other classmate Flat. These two will be detailed more in the next video. Sorry for the trouble.

[@beaumorgan9529]

I have a question for you are you ready for Summer 5 it’s confirmed to be on the 12th

[@otakudaikun]

@@beaumorgan9529 Ya I'll be streaming that day

[@WildArtistsl]

I wad about to point out you used the wrong photo!

[@Sawtooth44]

you could also use pictures from the case file manga

[@otakudaikun]

@@Sawtooth44 I could but how many volumes got adapted?

[@michaeldaniels642]

"based on Kay, the knight who adored Artoria the least" Yeah, cause he was basically her older adopted brother

[@flippermango2619]

She’s his younger sibling, I completely understand.

[@jacek107ify]

this is something we needed for Type Moon. Presenting full microcosm of mage society. How they work, how they live, how family life looks like. Also what leads to corruption. As nearly half of mage society is corrupted in smaller or lesser way, we can truly how power and curiosity corrupts mages. Almost all of them, have mindset of mad scientists who seek to go beyond. We could see this in Fate and Kara no kyoukai, but due to limited number of characters we could never see whole society. I love how this show focuses on politics. Where those that have more money, or position can basically buy their way into commiting horrible acts. As for mages all knowledge is important, no matter in what amoral way they optain it. Waver constantly needs to watch behind his back and never trust anyone. Even his student betray him in smaller or bigger way.

[@SiegfriedFafnirsbane]

Waver and co are at least retain some Morals. Most mages wouldn't hesitate to murder a bystander rather than just hypnotising them because it's more work(wink Aozaki wink)

[@shinju112]

Now I finally understand Luvia's feelings about Waver when if I remember correctly in the series she did say she still doesn't like him but that he's an extremely good tutor. Honestly while it's sad Waver can't attain Amy magical prowess with his knowledge, his knowledge itself is extremely valuable and a dangerous weapon. In the series again its commented on how it's frightening how many students if his reach high ranks in the clock tower, so in every regard there's no better teacher then him and while unusual I can't help but think him being a lord is fitting. I just love it as well that Waver gets an entire spin-off and frequently recalls his time with Iskandar. How much it influenced him and how he wants to live up to his wishes if his king. One day, may it be fan service or not, that he appears in Iskandars noble phantasm would be the coolest thing!

[@Rollster007]

That's what happened when you deal with the Devil.

[@jacek107ify]

06:40 with so many characters with distorted mind seeing Gray and Waver interaction doesn't shock me that much. Even seemingly "normal" people as Shirou turn out to be people that treat being superhero to degree of religious fanatism. Where he acts every day doing good deeds, not realising that he is slowly torturing himself to death.

[@MajorLawliet]

I mean, Shirou's isn't normal at all, at least not as far as his mental health. It is quite clear he is dealing with a rather thick case of Survivor's Guilt, likely some PTSD too.

[@droidmaker7932]

@@MajorLawliet he does have PTSD. I mean, who wouldn’t after surviving what is basically a taste of ‘hell on earth’ type of disaster. It’s not as notable as his mind is a blank slate and remembers the feeling of cursed fire. As I recall.

[@RealLifeIronMan]

Troubled as Shirou may be, he is a breath of fresh air in mage society. As Rin points out, mages are selfish and cruel by nature. Shirou's personality and desires (of helping others at the cost of oneself) run counter to mage society's culture of backstabbing and betrayal.

[@darkshado124]

The way Angels are interpreted in Lord El-Melloi Vol 1 is facinating. They are biblically acurate!

[@MajorLawliet]

@this city is really a city Angels are a concept in fate, at least as far as magecraft goes. At no point do they treat with actual angels, just the idea of them as a vessel to work magecraft with more robustness because angels are a popular and widespread idea in modern society.

[@MajorLawliet]

@this city is really a city No, I meant more, which part isn't biblically accurate? I thought it was Michael being called an Archangel, but are you actually referring to him being described as humanoid?

[@MajorLawliet]

@this city is really a city Am pretty sure they never appear in shape, though...? As I said, they are merely used as a vessel for magecraft. They never make a physical appearance of any kind. If there was anything like statues and stuff, that's just general real-life facts that humanoid angels are the things that are almost always depicted modernly.

[@MajorLawliet]

@this city is really a city Sort of. Angels are just vessels of power in the context of magecraft. They are stable ideas that are integrated in spells and have seen more and more use in the modern landscape of western magecraft because they are very stable. I was not speaking about archangels, I was speaking about statue depictions of angels. I didn't remember any instance of Vol 1 showing images of angels so I was just assuming there were statues or something and that's why you were mentioning their looks.

[@madambutterfly1997]

Once again Kiritsugu's fighting evil with evil dominoes into a future dilemma

[@anadaere6861]

One of this days we'll see more shit Kerry has done that spiralled out of control "Oh that bounded field? Yeah that's stolen from the mage killer. Turns out if you stagnate the flow of mana to certain levels, you can artificially create a pseudo age of gods atmosphere. All those plants and animals are now closer to those that lived through the age of gods than our own. What did he do? He set up a trap inside a greenhouse and ignited the mana inside causing the mage to violently implode on himself" or something like that

[@armandomendoza7371]

We should do a list of things that happen because of Kiritsugu. There are at least two more instances of that in the last volumes, and one in strange fake. Waiting for Adventures to once again show us ANOTHER thing that is Kiritsugu's fault.

[@carljanale4566]

I heard, that the Author of Lord El-Melloi Case files, Makoto Sanda also wrote the Urban Fantasy Light Novel Rental Magica, which is also has the best Urban Fantasy concept. He also wrote some of the Ancient Magus Bride volumes. The author is really great at writing Urban Fantasy genres.

[@Sunnernite]

Gray is the most adorable saber face. All I want to do is protect her. Fight me. I love her backstory.

[@jacek107ify]

love how this show presents lots of real life occult and spirituality. Its nice spirituality lesson ;)

[@hydrasfang]

I can't help but wonder what would've happened and how things could've played out if Waver/El-Melloi II knew how and why Kayneth died in Fate/Zero as opposed to how they are going to play out eventually.

[@zen1210]

One of the best series from Nasuverse. While watching the anime, it give me vives of watching a classic show

[@weirdo82]

Great lore Otakudaikun. I admit I watched the anime, but not the novel. I knew a good bit of the references, but did miss some context, which this helps immensely.

[@ron2millionare972]

What I don't get is why Waver is so traumatized by Saber that he cannot bear to look at a Saberface. I don't recall them interacting much. If anything, he should be traumatized by Gilgamesh.

[@MajorLawliet]

Everything but Iskander is a bad memory for Waver as far as the 4th War goes. Being a stupid idiot in over his head, almost dying multiple times. Feeling like the cause of Kayneth's death, etc etc. Especially because he almost fucking died from Excalibur to the face if Iskander hadn't jumped from his carriage at the very last second.

[@lop90ful1]

@@MajorLawliet Yea but they never had the whole riverly going so it is kinda weird to have the whole arturia plotline in general. He was a scared little boy durning the war so i doubt he cared enaught to focus on sabers face to the point of hating it.

[@MajorLawliet]

@@lop90ful1 It has nothing to do with a rivalry. Waver is fucking terrified of his entire experience in Japan, to the point he even came across as mildly racist before he started appearing more instead of being mentioned in a material book. Except for his role to the Archibald family, he no longer has any connection to that time... except Gray, who has the face of the person that almost killed him with a massive fuck off sword beam that he literally saw disintegrate a sea monster a few hundred meters tall. I really, really cannot comprehend why it is so weird that he's scared of Saber's face. He wasn't literally walking around the entire war with hands on his eyes so he saw no one. He had multiple instances to see Saber's face clear as day.

[@lop90ful1]

@@MajorLawliet Idk feels kinda forced. Expect for that one fuck of exallibur shot she really had done nothing to evoke this response from Waver to the point of dislking her visage, as a litteral 1000 bilion iq detective that lives in the world of mages he should be smart eanught to not care about other persons face even if they are a spitting image of a servant he saw few times here and there.

[@MajorLawliet]

@@lop90ful1 ... Let me get this straight. Because Waver is such a smart and logical person (he's not, he's constantly annoyed he's a weak nobody magi while his students get to become far better than him. By his own words, the entire reason he's such a good instructor is that he's constantly thinking of how he'd use other's magic out of jealousy for their talents), it is forced that he has a trauma about the war and that he is scared by the face of someone that almost killed him, the only reminder into his adulthood of that traumatic event to boot. ... Okay, I guess? I find it a ridiculous idea, but nothing I can do if that's how you feel about it.

[@benjamindonahue9434]

Great video. Love this series and can't wait to see more of the full story and lore. This series really highlights possibly my favorite aspect about the Fate franchise being that while it centers around the Holy Grail War, and servants, they are not the most powerful or relavent things in their world. There's so much more to their concepts of magic and general history that makes the world so much more interesting to actually learn about. I really appreciate your great work with this over the years.

[@kevinbarber2795]

46:37 “I cast Magic Missile at the darkness!” -Luvia

[@aitorgarcia1092]

I'm so looking forward for Volume 2¡¡¡ That was really cool, these pieces of the fate universe are relatively unknown as there are no official translations, and I really love them. Thank you¡

[@zaazazaxdxdxd3980]

Thanks man this was awesome hope it continues

[@shuraragi]

Amazing vid Dai! Looking forward to more El Melloi vids

[@pedroportela6476]

Oooooh boy, I've been meaning to give this story a read for quite some time now, but never had the time to sit down and actually read all of it, so Videos like these are much appreciated.

[@gamerwarrior1005]

So good, i am looking foward the volume 2 :)

[@rem4904]

Thank you so much fir your thorough nasu verse lore it really allows us in the us have an easy option to digest the lore.

[@wojciechwerner8787]

I am happy that you did this. Even with your explanation it was hard to follow so I would probably give up on reading this on my own. Thank you.

[@Vaquita_Vibes]

Thanks for the vid!

[@shadowofeyes69]

This was truly excellent. If you are looking to diversify your channel from fate at all you should definitely incorporate this format for any other franchises you discuss. + one sub

[@tyronewilliams2638]

I think the point of the riddle was that even if you "get it", you'll have to still guess. So there'll still be more of a chance to get killed

[@Balthizar101]

Thanks for this summary. Case Files truly is an underrated series. I got into it back when the first volume was being translated on Beast's Lair. I love how it delves deeper into the details of magecraft itself as well as mage society. I haven't had a chance to read anything past the Rail Zeppelin arc, so I look forward to your future summaries. And if you want more visual references, there's actually a manga adaptation with the same illustrator as the light novels. Unfortunately it only covers about halfway through the next story arc, so you might not be able to get too much milage from it going forward.

[@michaeldaniels642]

"I kinda get but, also don't" And that's the point. My advice just accept what Waver says and move on.

[@timothyxv171mmmpertinentgamer]

Oh yes Lore of lords Melloi is here. ( Thanks OtakuDaikun ) Awesome books too read. Yes I remember what happened in the fate zero. Waver my friend you gonna become. Yes I am part of the family of mage craft. Gray she's so special, Morgan and Gray of the lore of lords. Waver he dislikes her. Discussion about waver he literally barries his emotions with the cat. Gray she's an awesome side kick. My friend Waver he took up some kind of smoking. Flu, Gray and Waver, luxury is special services. I'm so excited for the butterfly magic I can't say for sure it's something. Roseline and Waver and Luvia. Luvia she's of an rich gem diamonds family of mage craft. And it goes on and on for all of them. Luvia she's so passionate about everything. Oh is Gray's turn to possesse her own power. Waver and Gray they'll such a team together. Seventy two 72 angels I thought it was 51 angels. You know my friend you got to limit angels and join the family. Rosaline she's about to take place in her family's will power for her brother. Waver and Gray know exactly what happened Is necessary for mage's to fight. An good friend plays with butterflies to celebrate so hilarious. We're full feeling a call of the legacy of Mage craft. Orlock's so crazy and unfortunat. Magers are good accepting death for they're own life. Me Waver and Luvia stand's in front of everyone. Me and Waver, Gray, Luvia we're all about the Mage craft workshop...

[@stevepitt-ash4628]

A very good fate anime for those into the magecraft side of fates great video dai

[@HelplessFangirl]

Man Angels are a huge thing in Type Moon lore huh. Notes the command seals in Prototype and the fact they're also the basis of most modern magecraft

[@emiya4174]

I hope lord el-melloi gets a season 2

[@ashisgod]

I’m sure anyone from Spain would know the Agustina de Aragon. I just found out about her and how much of badass she was. I also think she would be perfect for Fate/GO.

[@Rollster007]

The clock Tower is always a cesspool of hubris, weakness, and hypocrisy. Distrust is common among mages and Waver's situation shows that deals with the Devil are inevitable and not all deals with the Devil are made willingly. And also, 20:18 shows to never a beautiful woman who's interested in you, a lesson he learned a long time ago.

[@Luxord-pd4uc]

Great Video

[@AstronScion]

Thank you very much

[@YashaMikage]

Having seen the anime adaptation of this series, I'm excited for this series. ^^

[@Saragiras]

I am very happy about that story I never really deep dive into the lord el melloi novel even tho I love waver

[@A_itsar]

Oh fucking yes, this is what I've been waiting for

[@A_itsar]

I hope you'll eventually cover strange fake

[@raiyansayeed1738]

The video was great man. Although I know the story of volume 1-3 via the translations and volume 4-5 via the anime, it still clarified some stuff for me. I hope you will make a video on volume 6 and onwards of the LN too. 🙂

[@otakudaikun]

I plan to cover whatever is translated, hopefully even the Adventures stuff.

[@armandomendoza7371]

@@otakudaikun Let's goooo, pirate Rin and Mikiya, also Ergo is awesome.

[@cristophermartinez6707]

This is really interesting

[@desmondmalone438]

3:45 Iskendar’s vessels also looked like waver foreshadowing of you thinking about it

[@arks_knights]

This makes me wonder just what did gray look like before becoming saber face

[@otakudaikun]

Not sure.

[@alexanderamaro1257]

The whole name of angels are like it doesn't make sense and sense at the same time

[@Itachi45481]

Man we need a fate anime like this well i mean more casefiles fate but as an action, mystery, thriller like the first and only season of the anime

[@SigmaEpyion]

If I remember correctly Vol. 4-6 were the books that the anime covers with Vol. 1-3 not covered at all outside of what I call the Cat chapter in Vol.1 being turned into Ep. 0. You only get a basic backstory/info dump in ep. 0-1 with Grey getting the short end of the stick as most of her backstory is in vol.1 with Svin and Flat also getting most of their backstory in Vol. 2, I think. This has also been brought up to me by others, but would you say that Waver Velvet is the flipside of the coin to Kishinami Hakuno?

[@otakudaikun]

Why would that be?

[@SigmaEpyion]

They have a lot of what the other lacks. Waver has an abundance of knowledge verses Hakuno's inability to retain knowledge. Waver' very low grade magic circuits verses Hakuno's higher grade circuits (which are only low grade due to non use). Waver can't support a servant without a lay line verses Hakuno supporting a servant even with degraded circuits. Even the worlds they live in are polar opposites with fate/extra having little to no traditional mages left. Mind you, I'm making these comparison off of fate/zero, the case files, and fate/extra & ccc. Adding extella and link makes things complicated on Hakuno's end due to how the regalia and the moon cell work as I don't think they were fully fleshed out in how they function in my opinion. There maybe more comparisons between the two characters (that I just want to give head pats and hugs to) but I've been up for 48 hours waiting on a job to call me back to find out if I'm hired or not. So thank you for the awesome video that gave me the energy to keep going while I waited.

[@otakudaikun]

@@SigmaEpyion I guess I never looked into Hakuno's actual abilities.

[@connor8610]

A great lore video dai, thanks, always happy to here more of gray, also wouldn't kay adore arotia the most dai? He was her adopted brother when artoria was adopted by ector

[@otakudaikun]

Kay's more of a closet Artoria simp. I'd agree he very much cares about her. I can only assume Morgan thought he was the least adoring.

[@connor8610]

@@otakudaikun ahhh I see

[@michaeldaniels642]

Kay cares for Artoria his sister but, dislikes King Arthur is the easiest way to explain it

[@MajorLawliet]

Kay spoke very scornfully of all the weight Arthoria put on her shoulders, even saying he would kill a giant without batting an eyelash but what she did would send him reeling in fear. He even gets angrier at Merlin finding out the mere 3 hours of sleep she had daily at their village before she started her campaign were used to train MORE with Merlin by having him go into her dreams.

[@daweithisisdavidinmandarin6121]

What a great story! I am only impressed by Dai and the writer, this is really good. The anime for me was too slow and it lacked action. Watching this video I understand why. This is meant to be read or told not visualized. This video series is excellent!

[@yesitsme1214]

this is interesting content its goes in way more detail than the anime wich i nice to know for lore reason

[@otakudaikun]

Yeah, the anime mainly covers some of the later volumes.

[@amongoose1087]

13:55 listen to the background music, it sounds like the noot noot meme music

[@otakudaikun]

I don't know that meme.

[@amongoose1087]

@@otakudaikun well if you search up "121 noot noot" on KZbin it should be the first video at the top

[@juansballen]

thanks for the summery of the story. The volume 1 of the lightnovel is cover by the volumens 1 to 3 of the manga if you need pictures of the manga I have copies of first 6 volumens. The mangan is printed by kadokawa.

[@xingxing5463]

Nice.

[@shauqiharris2772]

Is it just me or Waver Velvet looks like older Keanu Reeves in this series?

[@primordial-chaos00]

I do wonder of the possibilities of a modern day mage family or master could have a heroic spirit as a ancestor. I feel their a high possibility of this happening and summing that heroic spirit would have a mix reaction to seeing the master that summon them is their descendant. A mage family who are the descendants of karna would have a divine bloodline.

[@MajorLawliet]

Over such a long time, such a bloodline would likely not matter whatsoever, unless the god itself left some sort of marker in their body like with Bazett's family. Though... who knows, though unlikely in the modern age, it might not be impossible for the divine blood to manifest itself as some sort of atavism.

[@NoOne-ds7pw]

Nice

[@hatorihorrus]

The ost at the whelchiar mage make me remember the tut tut meme

[@otakudaikun]

This is the second time Ive heard this.

[@noahweathers4408]

Twilight’s Call, on Beast’s Lair. They provided the translation, correct? I’ll have to check it out.

[@johnnytitan5269]

type/moon should expand more of Lord El Melloi II Case Files anime

[@laelhochberg9497]

So that what Angels are. I didn't know. But I still would like to imagine Hakuno and their servant, or at least Ritsuka and Company, confronting the Archangel from that Baroque game.

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

27:47 Stranger Danger !!!!

[@abhinandannandan3863]

I really like waver, and can't watch the anime So your video are amazing, for this series

[@coockiechannel9054]

I love this, I always wanted more story content focused on the magical world rather than servants and grail wars

[@grahamstrickland3040]

On a future episode can you use some of the song "closing the case" from the show as background music.

[@otakudaikun]

The actual El Melloi Case Files anime is too much of a copyright risk. All my FGO streams that used its OST got flagged.

[@madambutterfly1997]

It’s official, I want Butterfly Magecraft. give it to me.

[@niekvanderhorst6065]

More plz

[@ssjgroup2579]

Wow, if you compare this to the anime, you can tell that they took away a lot of important plot details from the novel! Can't wait to see the next volume after hearing about the Case Files! 😮😯😱

[@otakudaikun]

The anime adapts completely different volumes.

[@ssjgroup2579]

@@otakudaikun I see, but they skip a lot of things that might be important, right? 🤷‍♂️

[@otakudaikun]

@@ssjgroup2579 I'll find out when I read those volumes.

[@Hakelous]

for the blackmore family you forgot robin's master from fate extra Dan Blackmore

[@otakudaikun]

I didn't forget him per say. It wouldve been more of a fun fact than one that affects the story.

[@simorghfeather5119]

love waver but the el melloi anime was confusing for me this is a good series

[@monsoul777]

is it possible to store reality marbles into magic crests

[@otakudaikun]

It's a spell you have to invoke, so you'd be storing the ability/knowledge to use that spell if anything.

[@Demon-cleaver]

Great lore video. Although as a Jew who is fairly knowledgeable in how to pronounce things in the Hebrew language, your pronunciation of things throws me on a loop several times over in trying to figure you out. An entertaining endeavor to say the least. Kind of cring at times and funny at others. But given that you literally never learned the language it's a given. Wish you the best of luck in further improving your pronunciation and keep making awesome content.

[@otakudaikun]

Do you have an example? My wife is Jewish so perhaps I should feel ashamed.

[@Demon-cleaver]

​ @OtakuDaiKun Sure thing! For example in the video you pronounced the angel Hachasiah (HChSh). in the Hebrew language the letter abriviation is "החש". Thus the 'Ch' letter is not the ch sound like in "children" but is closer to H pronounced as a throat sound. In addition the 'siah' part of the name is pronounced like the Hebrew word for discourse "שיח". When we take it all together the names is pronounced more akin to "Hahashiah". The root word of this name according to "השם המפורש" (Shemamhorae) is "חושך" which means darkness. One more example is Shemamhorae. There is literally no way you could have known that from the whrinting provided but it too is a mistake. Shem "שם" means name. amhorae however has no conotation acociated to it in the Hebrew language. However do to the subject matter being the 72 names of angels and the connection to the Tetragrammaton I dedused that 'amhorae' should have been 'ha meforash' (המפורש). Which means explicit, evident and explained. Thus its a 'codex' for lack of a better word which depicts the 72 names of god and each explanation to it. It was later expanded to number and name the angels, who are aspects of God and thus each holds a name/aspect of God. So sorry for the rant. I just got carried away with all this info and the excitement in sharing it. Cheers!

[@michaeldaniels642]

Wait, how often does that woman die in this series?

[@otakudaikun]

Hishiri? I'll have to find out.

[@michaeldaniels642]

@@otakudaikun I know she 'dies' during the mystic eyes one

[@michaeldaniels642]

There were manga chapters for this case

[@lop90ful1]

Glad you are doing this series. I was never really a waver fan and this series makes even worse for me because of his weird relationship with Gray. Anyway i wouldnt be able to stand to read it so its nice to have this kind of summery.

[@otakudaikun]

What's weird about his relationship? I mean, I agree, but what about it is so offputting?

[@japes25]

Can you post a link to the translations?

[@otakudaikun]

If you search "El Melloi Case Files Beast's Lair" you're bound to find it.

[@madambutterfly1997]

It's cherubims that have four wings seraphim are the angels that have six wings

[@Re.verseChaos]

8:07 it's canon that Lord El Melloi II plays the SEGA Genesis?

[@otakudaikun]

If you spot one in his room then probably. Though the novel specifies his portable gaming consoles.

[@Hakelous]

did you ever hear of or see the writer;s former work rental magica. it had a 24 episode anime about 15 years ago

[@otakudaikun]

I haven't seen it.

[@Hakelous]

@@otakudaikun it covered many similar topics to this series

[@Yusei5ds0707]

The anime did this LN dirty.

[@otakudaikun]

I quite like the anime, but it's annoying how they only covered one main arc.

[@WildArtistsl]

Case files? Aka waver is a drunk father caring for his adopted goth child

[@goetiaars299]

🍡

[@farawaytales4396]

Can anyone give me a soundtrack for the video & timestamps?

[@otakudaikun]

I use a combo of tracks from the 2006 Fate Stay Night anime and the original VN.

[@farawaytales4396]

@@otakudaikun thank you for the answer!

[@arks_knights]

Wait if artoria possess grey’s body will she be able to be together again with shirou thats if she still remember and the 5th grail war is over by the time she possess grey’s body

[@otakudaikun]

It would screw over Gray tho.

[@arks_knights]

@@otakudaikun true

[@elgatto3133]

Gray doesn't deserve that

[@CrazyNerdMonkey]

If Blackmoor villages magecraft succeeded Shiro would never have met Arthoria

[@shadowclaw7210]

So case of Lord El Milloi the second is basically Hercule Puirot but with magic

[@otakudaikun]

No clue what you mean.

[@shadowclaw7210]

@@otakudaikun well at lest volume you explained is basically detective murder mystery. Hercule Puirot just felt like best comparison to me.

[@otakudaikun]

@@shadowclaw7210 I don't know who Hercule is.

[@shadowclaw7210]

@@otakudaikun a detective from novels of Agatha Christie

[@darlingzerotwo7638]

Can you talk about mikasa abs?

[@otakudaikun]

I made two videos on anime muscle girls. Have you seen those?

[@darlingzerotwo7638]

@@otakudaikun Yes i already seen it but Im a girl and want to be like mikasa and In youtube I only see boy make video about how to be mikasa only a few girl did that or talk about that so I want you to do it but if you don't do it okay!

[@otakudaikun]

@@darlingzerotwo7638 I'm a boy, too though. What specifically about Mikasa do you want me to talk about that I haven't already?

[@laioszafeiriou4388]

What about Dan Blackmore?

[@otakudaikun]

Yeah, he's one of the Blackmore's from the Extra universe.

[@laioszafeiriou4388]

Oh, so he's part of the family

[@otakudaikun]

@@laioszafeiriou4388 Yeah but I don't know what he's up to or if he's even alive outside Fate Extra stuff.

[@laioszafeiriou4388]

Ok, I always wondered about that; such name sharing would be weird if coincidental. And dunno, might show up in FGO or something. Just met Sion :P

[@vader1481]

Reines is best girl

[@ABP0727]

this guy sounds like a watchmojo host Thank you for the work though.

[@quigonkenny]

"After his debut in Fate Zero." Didn't he debut in Fate/Hollow Ataraxia?

[@otakudaikun]

I meant chronologically. I don't think you actually see him in HA either.

[@jimmyjeff1777]

Honestly as much as I loved fate/zero (and by God did I love fate/zero) it was kind of a waste not to have waver and kayneth interact much, maybe have waver face kayneth directly and prove his worth as a mage by actually beating him, a bit of a missed opportunity in my opinion

[@otakudaikun]

The whole point is that Waver ISNT a better mage. For as cruel as Kayneth seemed, he was right.

[@jimmyjeff1777]

@@otakudaikun true, still it would've been cool to see them interact more

[@chearoth5093]

When are new lore video?

[@otakudaikun]

What do you mean. This IS a new lore vid

[@chearoth5093]

I mean servant lore

[@otakudaikun]

@@chearoth5093 I've got my Orion lore coming next month for the public. It's available now for early access.

[@ivanbluecool]

So much wasted potential in the anime by skipping so far into the future and then making up filler to try and get people up to date with the story they skipped. Luvia deserves a more serious anime as kalied she plays a side role where we only see her more motherly/sisterly side to miyu and ubw she had one cameo in the epilogue. El melloi could have done a lot more for her. I really want to see true sir Kay added to fgo not just add so he can talk about more sides on artoria same with ageavain as aside Lancelot they are the most interesting knights with how they work with artoria since he was mentioned all the way back in hollow ataraxia but nobody reads so nobody cares. I care.

[@ShinJack_]

I think I found the reason why the anime skip the first three volumes, source from beast lair : In choosing Rail Zepplin, Sanda kind of went through process of elimination. Most mystery novels are theatrical. In Detachment Castle Adra, the curtain truly rises when they get to the castle. An incident occurs and the tension rises. From that Gray and El-Melloi II investigate and there's another incident. Finally there's a climax. When writing the script a TV anime, 6 eps couldn't come out of that. This is also different from an action light novel. When Sanda writes one of those, There's a battle by page 50, another at 120, and the best battle on 180. The volume ends on 240. Making an anime with that is easier because you get a mini climax each episode. Adra and Iselma are more theatrical stories. Rail Zepplin has all the actions but still you need previous knowledge like Gray's abilities, El-Melloi II's relationship with Reines and aspects of the classroom. Also, we already knew sir kay's opinion on artoria from the garden of Avalon book and at that time when Shirou met him in the UBW drama CD... Adding him to fgo is just fanservice and probably just reusing the same line from both UBW drama CD and Garden of Avalon

[@ivanbluecool]

@@ShinJack_ fgo is the definition of fan service. Calling sir Kay fan service makes absolutely no sense at all as an excuse. I mean look what they did to voetigern. They ruined him immediately. Still El melloi missed a lot of opportunities to make a full series of stories as fate can start slow with how zero and ubw took an hour or two to set everything up as even kalied got into a lot of the slow stuff as a side manga compared and I hope they don't have this terrible mentality with strange fake is finished as that story needs every panel of information to work. It just doesn't work overall as skipping to the middle end of the story really makes doing sequels harder and prequels irrelevant

[@ShinJack_]

@@ivanbluecool I don't really care about fgo tbh... yeah it's fanservice and they will milked everything tm related and also ruin them at the same time but I hope the story ends soon so nasu can focus on non fate stuff like mahoyo 2 and 3 It's not a new thing that they skipped major stories... ufotable does the same thing with the Stay Night adaptation, they skip the first route and start with the middle route... Even nasu forced aniplex to make fate route free to read in japan so casual people can start with that and continue with ubw

[@ivanbluecool]

@@ShinJack_ you don't but type moon does with how many fgo adaptions they have done already. Some good like Babylon and Soliman and some bad like Camelot. They clealry want to market towards that. It's only gonna grow if they don't get tsukuhime 2 out sooner especially since mahoyo is getting a movie anyways but I don't think it will do as well as most fate fans aren't tsukuhime or knk fans. Deen did stay night so they didn't skip it. In fact the opposite and ubw was just a movie then an anime many years later. Not sure what logic you are using Deen stay night is even on streaming services too. Ufotable meanwhile was smart to start with ubw as a remake of fate would have been garbage as even Deen stay night had to take heavily from ubw and hf to even be a full story. Ubw then as an anime is better as it fits more to zero anime while hf just skips around the actually important stuff for flub

[@ShinJack_]

@@ivanbluecool actually, Deen mixing UBW and hf into the fate route has nothing to do with the route being trash... The reason is very simple... Early 2000 VN adaptation tends to mix some routes it's because they don't know if the series will be popular... A good example is Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien anime, they mix some stuff from another route but still follow the main route... 5 years later, they decide to make an anime adaptation for the sequel of the unadapted route and they actually make the "proper" adaptation in the flashback section so casual fans can understand some major info from it... Actually, UBW anime is not intended as a sequel to zero anime because clearly, some scenes contradict fate zero like that time when Gil in UBW said that in the 4th holy grail war, he was stopped by Excalibur before claiming the holy grail, but that doesn't happen in fate zero because Gil stated that the grail is very dubious and he doesn't really care to claim it, he only interested to married saber... Oh ironically, UBW anime also tend to reference some stuff from the fate route like the orphan stuff without explaining it, and according to Nasu, the reason why Gil's personality is very different in the anime compared to the vn is not influenced by fate zero anime but rather his king personality from fate route, #15 A Battle of Legend Showing how “Heroic” Gilgamesh is Miura: This was something I’d had on my mind the entire time. What I strove for in this episode was not to demean Gilgamesh in any way. The extra line you added, “At the very last minute, did I overcome the legend?” really changed the impression he left. Nasu: In the visual novel, Gilgamesh was such a straightforward villain. He was cast as the enemy that users could easily hate. But without the premise of the Saber route, I felt that we should show how “Heroic” he could be, as he was in the Saber route. I wanted to show clearly that aspect of him - why he was a hero, despite being a cold-hearted enemy. Miura: As I was depicting Gilgamesh, rather than see him as a bad guy, what drove me was the thought, “Because he’s a King.”

[@murilopenagoncalves3831]

I know Archibald (Waver's teacher) was a very outstanding magus, with a very old and important crest, and Waver learned under him, but why did he respected him so much. The guy was an as#$&$#+, and outright despicable human being (even for normal mage standards).

[@armandomendoza7371]

I mean not really, in fact Kayneth is probably one of the cleaner mages in the Clock Tower (discounting Luvia, Waver and all protagonists) part of Waver's development was to understand that what Kayneth told him was a fact (about how he couldn't grow as a mage without the need of bloodline like in his tesis) true he said it while calling him an idiot in front of the class but compare that to someone like Alba, also he genuinely loved Sola and was willing to give up on the grail (and his magecraft, family and essentially everything he dreamed of) for her, and he never actually did some horrible deed like most participants of the 4th war, he was just a traditionalist, strict teacher but never a psycopath like others. But for the record Waver did say that he respected him as a MAGE, but as a person he didn't really like him

[@murilopenagoncalves3831]

@@armandomendoza7371 I guess, maybe he just rubbed me in the wrong way in Fate Zero. Also, the way he went to face Kiritsugu, someone know for unheard tactics, was just stupid. He completely overestimated the guy.

[@adamrodriguez31]

Actually Amen comes from the bible. One example is in John 21:25. Look don't be surprised if you find groups taking credit for what God says and does. They've been doing it for a long time. Just like the Devil with his signs amd symbols.

[@otakudaikun]

You realize Judaism came BEFORE Christianity ya?

[@adamrodriguez31]

@@otakudaikun You do realize magic has nothing to do with God. Also they mention christianity, meaning it was translated from Hebrew to English.King James who has roots

[@adamrodriguez31]

To David's lineage. Ordered to have it translated from Hebrew to English. That's where KJ comes from. "Who is my mother and my brother, but those that do the will of my Father". Although I was surprised you were of the unbelief.

[@kevinchong5424]

Aaah! Stop watching! Haven't read them (or tried to) yet...

[@Night-ec7ef]

I honestly want more of this, and less of fgo. I think fgo has taken things in a direction I really don't like, know it's an unpopular opinion. I just feel like stuff like this is more grounded, and not crazy overpowered god servants.

[@valentinbezdan570]

I wish you would stop putting on this annoying accent/voice. The content is good, but your voiceover is really irritating. I liked your older videos more.

[@otakudaikun]

Honestly I don't know what to say to that. It's not really an accent, and it comes naturally to me.

[@Scalesthelizardwizard]

This sounds like Fate meets the Dresden Files and I'm a sucker for a good occult detective story count me in