Let’s Look: Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works Mini Review Episode 6:First Rider and now Caster!

She may be an evil witch. Heck her alignment on the wiki outright says that she’s Neutral Evil but she is one fine lady. Please Ufotable! Take off Caster’s hood!

Note: I’m Super Mini Reviewing this episode because I’m running behind. It’s Sunday and I want to have Wednesday and Thursday off so I’m going on hyper mode to finish these reviews. I’ll be normal reviewing Fairy Tail and Trinity Seven though. The only reason I’m Mini Reviewing FSN UBW because it was more of a setup episode. Don’t worry this isn’t going to become a habit.

So we open up the episode with Shiro walking home after the talk with Rin when just turns around and calls out to Archer. Rin basically ordered Archer to escort Shiro home since he doesn’t have Saber with him.

They get into a pretty heated discussion and about their differences and how Archer basically thinks that Shiro sucks. The topic shifts to what Shiro wants out of the Grail and once again Archer says it’s stupid and Shiro asks what he wants to wish for.

Archer says he wants for nothing. He had no dreams that went unfilled…technically he’s telling the truth but he’s technically lying. Complex right there.

After that Shiro returns home and meets up with Sakura and Fujimura. They talk for a while before Shiro goes to meet with Saber. She gets on him about not coming back by sunset but she lets get go once he explain the situation about the other Master at school and the alliance with Rin. Saber’s got no problem with it though.

So the next day, Shiro goes to school and during the day he meets up with and starts destroying all those sigils that Rin was destroying around episode 0 I think. I guess she must have told him about the sigils during their little meeting last night.

Anyway after that Shiro sees Shinji. Shinji just gives off this really really creepy vibe. He outright says that he’s Rider’s master and that he(or in this case she since Rider put up the barrier. Shinji asks Shiro to make an alliance with him but Shiro refuses.

After that night comes on fully and Shiro goes out to the shed to practice some reinforcing magic but of course he sucks at it. So he keeps blowing stuff up.

Saber comes in to watch him practice but being a highly attractive young woman around his age, it only makes it harder for the poor boy to concentrate. Saber notices this and leaves.However she doesn’t realize he’s distracted because of her looks, she just thinks that it’s simply because she’s there.

Note: Saber because of her life as King Arthur had to hide her gender. As a result she never got told she was pretty or beautiful by anyone ever. It doesn’t affect her much in Unlimited Blade Works but during the Fate Route where she’s the main female protagonist she develops a complex about her looks. She can’t see herself as beautiful or attractive.

So after Saber leave, Shiro keeps up with the practice but nothing comes out of it. Instead he falls asleep. Lazy man. Just lazy.

So once he wakes he seems to be in the Ryuudou Temple in the mountains near Fuyuki.

Sometime during the night, Saber wakes up and finds Shiro gone but she notices some weird strings everywhere. So she follows them and ends up meeting the final Servant, Assassin!

So back to Shiro, he wakes up and someone shows up…

Caster!

Oh Caster is so hot! And thanks to her Seiyuu Atsuko Tanaka she has this low mature voice that
screams beautiful. Now some of your may think ‘Deven, what if you’re just hyping us up to let us
down? What if she isn’t hot?’

Well look!

Gets me every time.

Anyway Caster has Shiro caught in a web of magic threads and stars to suck out his magic. But luckily Archer comes through and saves Shiro’s butt.

And the episode ends the beginning of Saber vs. Assassin and Archer vs. Caster.

Now this was a kinda slow episode. But it has it’s good points. I’m going to give Fate Stay/Night Unlimited Blade Works Episode 6 an 6/10.

So it’s Caster vs. Archer and Saber vs. Assassin!
I can’t wait!

So until next week,
Later Days!

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Let’s Look: Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works Episode 5: Rider! Ah Rider! Oh and Shiro vs. Rin

There are so many Rider jokes out there because 5th Grail War Rider is an attractive woman. A lot of them are really perverted. The one I’m going to use is merely an innuendo.

Let Rider take the lead. She’s got an A+ in Riding! Granted I cleaned it up. The other version’s a lot more ecchi.

So the episode opens with the legendary ‘Hero of Justice’ talk between Shiro and Kiritsugu. To be straight since I’m finishing up Fate/Zero now, Kiritsugu should have stopped Shiro from doing the ‘Hero of Justice’ right at the beginning. He saw all the suffering that he had to go through just to bring good to the world in his way.

He had to watch his first love be turned into a Dead Apostle(the Fate series’s version of a vampire), killed his father, killed his mother figure, had to watch one of the few friends he had in Maiya Hisau die, then had got cursed by ‘All The World’s Evils’, live his last few years as his body slowly rotted, and finally he was unable to see his daughter and tell her him loved her.

You tell me. Is that the path that you should try to let your son walk down? Because at the end even you try your best, it’s nearly impossible to hold true those ideals of the perfect ‘Hero of Justice’.

Anyway after school that day, Rin holds true to her word to Archer and goes in on Shiro in a true one on one battle. That’s what I like to say but it’s really more of Rin using Shiro as a target dummy and Shiro trying to stay alive.

Now Ufotable is awesome with their animations but one thing I missed from the old Studio Deen version is when Rin jumped off the stairs to chase Shiro and she did the whole vibrating thing and it showed that she really hurt her legs landing like that.

It was a funny part within an otherwise serious moment.

Anyway during their fight, Shiro and Rin hear a scream outside and one of their classmates has been attacked. While Rin tries to heal her, a dagger gets thrown at her but Shiro blocks it with his own hand. Gutsy man. I like that.

Shiro rushes into the forest and fights against Rider. Not the big and cool Alexander the Great Rider but the sultry and attractive Medusa Rider.

Let me just say that Utofable was incredibly kind to Rider. Her fighting style was already graceful and fluid but now having an animation style that’s just a fluid makes her fighting look like a dance.

Shiro does pretty good against her before she just pulls on a chain that’s connected to the dagger still in Shiro’s arm. She goes for the kill but Rin manages to drive her off.

After that Rin and Shiro decide to make a truce and try to figure out the identity of Rider’s Master. The episode ends with Rin and Shiro conflicting over what is a true mage. Is it what Kiritsugu did with Shiro and allow him to choose his own path? Or what Tokiomi did with Rin and have her carry on her knowledge and the knowledge of the ones that came before her to the next generation?

So with that, the episode ends.

It was a good episode. Lots of good action and Rider in 780p is just breath taking. I can’t wait for episode six to come around.

So until then,
Later Days
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Let’s Look:Fate Stay/Night:Unlimited Blade Works Episode 1:Another Side Another Story

Looks like another episode of UBW. Maybe it’s not going to be as good as the last one. Some studios do that, you know. Put it all into the premiere and the finale.

Deven watches Episode 2.

I can’t breath! Choking on the awesome!

So the title says it best. Another Side, Another Story. It’s basically the same stuff that happened in episode 0 but from the main hero Shiro’s point of view.

Same deal as last time. I’ll skip the boring stuff because I respect you too much and I have other reviews to do tonight as I do this one.

So we start off the episode with Shiro as a kid in the Great Fuyuki Fire then we go back to the present day with Shiro in the Store Room of the Emiya House.

And someone comes into wake him up.

She’s so hot. It’s a pity what’s she going through. You’ll see in the Heaven’s Feel movie though.

 

Side Note: I love Saber’s new coat and scarf outfit. After 25 episodes of seeing Saber in a white blouse, a blue tie, and skirt and her armor, it’s good to see her in something else.

So after the opening, which is freaking awesome, we get Shiro doing some morning workouts and apparently he’s pretty well built.

So they have a good breakfast made by Sakura and the resident lovable freeloader Taiga Fujimura eats there too. You’ll be seeing a lot of her but other than one or two scenes she’s just for comedic effect. Remember Unlimited Blade Works is no punk and we need every laugh we can get once the action starts.

So to get those laughs, Taiga switches the soy sauce with the oyster sauce so Shiro puts oyster sauce on all on his morning rice. Personally I don’t see the big deal. I like oyster sauce on my rice. 😛

So after breakfast, Taiga leaves for school to grade some tests.

I think she stole that Vespa from Haruka from FLCL.

They clearly agree.

So after seeing a news report about gas leaks, Shiro and Sakura leave for school. Now I’m not going over of his entire day so I’ll summarize. Why? Because I have other responsibilities and it would take me two hours to write everything he did.

So now it’s time for me to do some summarizing and a pic spam to end it off. Shiro goes to school and helps out the student council president Issei. He goes to lunch and after school gets heckled by those three girls that snarked at Rin in episode 0.

Then Shiro has a flashback of the day that he was adopted by Kiritsugu. He goes over in his head about how he wants to be a hero of justice and to help people. However he doesn’t have power or the ability to so. So he settles for being able to help people with the little things. He ponders over all of this as he goes to work and even as he goes home.

The next day Shiro gets saddled with having to clean out the archery dojo by Shinji. Come on bro. Being nice is one thing but this is too far.

You’ve seen too much. You must be eliminated…

So Shiro’s there…on the ground…about to die but then someone shows up. We of course know it’s Rin.

So Shiro manages to drag himself back home and collaspe on the ground.

Come on he can’t even be near death in peace.

So Shiro runs his way out to the shed and something amazing happens.

It’s Saber!

Now I’ve got to do it. The classic scene for Saber and Shiro.

So Saber gets into a battle with Lancer and compared to the battle they had when Studio Deen had control this one is way better.

So after Lancer’s driven away by Saber, the second battle immediately gets started up with Saber vs. Archer. Unfortunately it gets cut off by Shiro using a Command Spell. And the episode ends with Rin saying good evening to Shiro.

Epic episode and the classic scene of FSN is Ufotable’s awesome glory. Best thing I reviewed this week for sure.

Now that we’ve eaten all veggies like good little boys and girls, we can get down to the insanely awesome action! The hype is real and I can’t wait for things to get started.

So until next week,
Later Days

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