Fate/Stay Winter: The Project Stops Here

...Yup, what I thought would happen did happen. Basically, Prisma Illya went hardcore with its brother-loving, loli fanservice plotlines...using lesbian kissing. I'm fine with lesbians (although I obviously don't swing that way enough to enjoy that), but the fact this goes into much nastier territory than even Cardcaptor Sakura makes it hard to stomach. Synopsis...

Fate/Stay Winter: It’s Not Winter Anymore…

...not that anyone cares. Welp, I was hoping to avoid this outcome by finishing Illya season 1 quickly, but...like quit a few of the other posts, I was up until 1 am working on this because of the spring 2020 post. Those have already started springing up like daisies (even though the season is 2...

Pledging Devotion in Fate/ and Its Spinoffs [Mar. ’20 OWLS Blog Tour]

“The path of devotion is a great labour. Do not ever mar it.” – Gilgamesh to Waver, Fate/Zero Hiya again. If you’re not familiar with this blog, this is the Animanga Spellbook, this is Aria (pseudonym) and you’ve probably been brought here by OWLS, the Otaku Warriors for Liberty and Self-Respect. This month’s OWLS prompt...

Fate/Stay Winter: Going Through the Motions

Synopsis Prisma Illya 4 - 7: Illya and Miyu struggle to work together as they figure out where their strengths lie as magical girls. Impressions My notes have become really insubstantial because I watched most of it (7 episodes of 10) in one shot, not to mention while all the other series were available via...

Fate/Stay Winter: Everything is Connected

  There was a Chibi Tamago event where apparently if you join and don't contribute, you get a punishment (I did join this one, but was planning to pace myself more since it was meant to run until the end of the month). However, by the time I finished 3 episodes of Illya, the event...

Fate/Stay Winter: Filling In the Gaps

Synopsis Detective Waver 9 - 12: All aboard the Rail Zeppelin as Waver - I mean, Lord El-Melloi II - gets to the bottom of cases that occurred 7 years ago as well as the death of Trisha. That's after he deals with Hephaestion (?) and the Mystic Eye auction first. Impressions So if there’s...

Fate/Stay Winter: Fanservice…Fanservice Everywhere…

Synopsis Detective Waver 5 - 8: After setting the stage by wrapping up the fairy case from episode 4 and having a girls' day out between Gray, Luvia and Reines...the main Rail Zeppelin case begins! Impressions I feel like Adashino is meant to be an Irene Adler-type figure…Update: Or she could be a rival, Moriarty-style....

Fate/Stay Winter: One Truth Prevails

Of course, I'm going all out with my knowledge on mysteries here. Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu, amirite? Synopsis Detective Waver eps. 1 - 4: When your name is Waver Velvet - aka the new El-Melloi II - life ain't glamorous. Not only do you pine for your ol' Grail War buddy, you have to deal...

Fate/Stay Winter: Let the Mysteries Begin!

"Catching up, only to fall behind again" seems to be a bad habit of mine lately. Real life bit me in the butt yesterday by snatching two jobs out of my reach in two days and I ended up drowning my sorrows in ID: Invaded instead to avoid my usual yo-yoing of emotions (because when...

Fate/Stay Winter: Shirou Keeps His Ideals

I finally finished enough to be ahead for only the second time in this project. Waver OVA rewatch, ahoy! Synopsis F/SN: UBW 19 - 22: A whole bunch of characters take far too long to die and some even come back from the dead briefly, whether in flashback or in...uh, spirit. (I mean, this is...