Fate/Stay Night

After taking a month long break, I've finally decided to contribute to this blog once again. Call me a lazy bum if you will, I won't deny it.

Yesterday was a historic day for Kobe, the Raptors, and the NBA as Kobe drops 81 pts on the Raptors. During the game I wasn't rooting for the Lakers nor the Raptors, but for Kobe only. It was truely a historic game.

A few anime series ended in the past week or two, thus giving us some new series once again. One of them being Fate/Stay Night. For those who are unfamiliar with this title, this is created by Type-Moon, the same people who brought you Tsukihime. Although Fate/Stay Night does exist in the same universe as Tsukihime but there are no links between the two story. So don't expect to see any characters from Tsukihime in Fate/Stay Night or vice versa.

Similar to Tsukihime, Fate/Stay Night originated in the form of a PC H-game. But with its unique and entertaining characters, it became a big hit. Not just amongst H-game fan but anime/manga fan in general. Though the story itself does hold some entertainment values, but the main focus is on the characters, or the female leads to be exact.

The show starts by introducing the whole "war for the holy grail" concept. Like many legends, this grail will grant a person fame and fortune or even any wishes he/she has. In Fate/Stay Night, only seven people have the chance of obtaining this grail. Each of these seven people will be granted one of the following seven types of "servant": Saber, Lancer, Archer, Berserker, Caster, Assasin, and Rider. Well, the word "granted" is not exactly correct since they have to summon these servants through magical means. Meaning if you lack the skills in the field of magic, the chances is your servant won't retain the proper abilities he/she has. The main objective is to eliminate all but your own servant. When that occurs the grail will accept you as the one worthy of being its owner.

Emiya Shirou, the main male lead of the show, was shown to be involved in certain incident when he was still a kid. He was badly injured but fortunately was resuced by a man who later adopted him. This man is later revealed (well, in the first ep) to be a sorcerer. Whether he knows anything or was involved in the previous war for the grail is unknown for the moment. After being rescued by his new "father", Shirou decided to study magic and become the ally of justice. It does sounds corny but its something he truly believes in. A very respectable goal I must say. If only he lives in the world of super robots...Unfortunately, Shirou has close to no talent when it comes to magic. As most of you can guess, he somehow becomes one of the participant for the war for the grail and his servant turns out to be a beautiful looking female.
Now they must go on to face the other 6 pairs of participants.

As I said before, the story is not the selling point of this anime but rather the characters themselves. I'm not trying to take anything away from the actual story line, but the relationship between characters seems to be more entertaining. If you are sick of those typical romance comedy anime but wants a harem anime with a serious/darker story along with fighting and killings, this will be the one to go for.