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Dragon Ball Z Movie 7: Super Android 13!

Movie 7 premiered on July 11, 1992, after episode 147 and before episode 148. The original title is “Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Battle! The Three Great Super Saiyans.” That may be the most coherent movie title I’ve come across so far.

We open on footage of 17 killing Dr. Gero in his lab. Toei went out of their way to reanimate this whole scene, although the Z-Fighters aren’t in it. I’m pretty sure that big energy blast at the top is Vegeta blasting the door open, but he’s not actually shown.

And the Z-Fighters ought to be standing at the doorway, watching 17 finish Gero off, and yet they’re completely out of sight. You’d think their shadows would be visible here.

But Gero’s supercomputer in the lab’s basement is still hard at work. We first learned of the computer in Episode 143, because Cell credited it with his creation. And it was destroyed in... Episode 145, because Trunks and Krillin wanted to make sure it didn’t send any more surprises after them later. So yeah, we’re not even ten minutes into this movie, and we already have a continuity issue.

In the anime, the supercomputer just has a tank with the embryonic Cell next to it. But in this movie, that’s nowhere to be seen, and instead there’s three chambers, like the kind that once held 16, 17, and 18. What could be inside?????

And here’s the title screen.

This movie’s pretty thin on story. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, because it’s got plenty of action, but there’s not a whole lot for me to write about. As far as I can tell, this is set in some possible scenario where the good guys beat the androids and maybe Cell too, although it sort of looks like Cell just stone cold never existed in this movie’s world. So the gang is in the big city just sort of relaxing.

This is Trunks’ movie debut, but it seems kind of weird having him just stand around and kill an afternoon with the others. He seems to feel even more awkward about it than I do. If the androids are beaten, why hasn’t he gone back to his own time? Instead, he’s tagged along with Master Roshi, Krillin, and Oolong for some beauty pageant. They wanted to get good seats for ogling the girls, so they showed up super early. Krillin tells them to quit being lecherous pervs around Trunks, but earlier he was the one going ga-ga, so yeah.

The punchline here is that they ended up getting the date of the even wrong, so they stood in line for nothing.

Meanwhile, Goku and Gohan are helping Chi-Chi at the store, because women be shopping, amirite?

Outside, these two mofos show up and just start walking through everything.

I mean literally. If a bus gets in their way they just rip right through it.

Pretty sure they could fly straight up to where they’re going, but they take the escalator instead.

Then they open the elevator shaft, fly up it, through the car, and then rip their way to whatever floor they want.

All of this so they can shoot at Goku from the floor below where he and the gang are eating dinner. This whole assassination attempt seems kind of poorly thought out. If they were going for stealth, why were they so sloppy about getting this far? If they didn’t care who saw them coming, why didn’t they just smash right through to this floor and attack directly?

They manage to save everyone on the floor from the blast, though, so no worries. Goku suspect the attackers are here for him, so he tells everyone to get as far from him as possible.

Sure enough, the pair follow Goku, and he deduces pretty quickly that they’re more of Dr. Gero’s androids.

It takes a while to get the introductions made, so let me get this out of the way here. This one is #15, he has a hip flask and he likes to drink out of it.

And this one is #14. He looks like some sort of reject from the movie Highlander. I’m not sure why their skin looks that way.

Gohan insists on helping, even though Krillin says there’s nothing they can do at their level, and even though Chi-Chi wants him to come home for summer cram school. Gohan refuses, on account of his dad’s life being more important. So Chi-Chi tells Krillin to go after him and make sure he’s okay.

Back at the lab, the supercomputer activates a third android, #13. Why not just send them all out together? Is this just because #14 and 15 are having trouble? Because they haven’t really gotten very far into the fight yet.

Trunks tells Goku that they should take the battle to the polar region up north so civilians won’t get hurt. There, 14 and 15 manage to do a pretty good job working over both of them.

Then 13 shows up. The good news is that he’s more talkative than the others, but the bad news is that he doesn’t have much more to say, really. Practically every one of his lines is just a restatement of how they were sent by Gero’s computer to kill Goku.

That’s pretty much the whole problem with this movie. The villains are just... more androids. Are they cooler androids than the ones from the anime? Well, I guess that’s a matter of taste, but they don’t really have the personality of 16, 17, and 18. They might look cooler, but they don’t have character arcs or anything like that. 14 hardly speaks at all, and 15 just has that hip flask and a loud costume. 13′s got his hat, and not much else.

This is where the Funimation dub really came to the rescue, becaue they dubbed the Movie androids with a lot more flavor. 15 was really sassy, and 13 had this beligerent redneck persona to match his costume. My favorite line from the dub version is when he says “I was programmed to kill your ass”.

We get none of that in the Japanese version. These three are all business, and there’s not much to say here that wasn’t covered by #16-20 in the anime. Dr. Gero hates Goku, they were built to kill him.

The only real twist I can see in this movie is when 13 explains that Gero’s desire for vengeance was “transferred” into the computer. So now the computer hates Goku just as much as Dr. Gero did. Maybe that’s a distinction without a difference. In the dub, the computer was just a plot device to explain how the androids got turned on. Team Four Star’s abridged version of this movie had Gero upload his consciousness into the computer when 17 killed him. I liked that idea, because it allowed Gero to actually be in the movie, albeit as a stationary object. But the original Japanese script seems to be proposing that the computer itself could be the mastermind this time around. Except it never speaks or does much of anything through the whole film. It’s basically an even crappier Dr. Wheelo, if that’s even possible.

On the other hand, it sort of explains why the computer went out of its way to send 13, 14, and 15 into action. In the anime, it’s strongly implied that they were considered failures, either scrapped or put into storage. Gero probably wouldn’t have bothered to use them again, not after all of his later models failed, but if the computer hates Goku too, then it might be desperate enough to try to hurt him with whatever it has on hand.

So they keep fighting. Trunks has to handle 14 and 15 by himself, and it doesn’t go well.

Then Vegeta shows up to save Goku from 13′s finisher. Standard speech, no one gets to kill Kakakrot except me, yadda yadda.

So 15 goes after Vegeta, and now we have an even three-on-three fight.

Now, you might be wondering why they haven’t all gone Super Saiyan yet. Well, to answer your question, I have no idea. I get the impression that these three androids are far weaker than their anime counterparts. I mean, these would have to be the third string, or why else would Dr. Gero have left them on the shelf when he needed help? Goku, Vegeta, and Trunks never would have survived against 16-20 without their Super Saiyan forms, so the fact that they hold their own so long here tells me these three ain’t all that. It still doesn’t explain why they waited this long to turn up the juice. When they do finally transform, Krillin exclaims “They’ve done it!” like it was hard.

I suppose that’s the other explaination. Movies 5 and 6 both seemed to imply that the boys can only transform when they’re backed into a corner. So maybe Movie 7 is going on the same reasoning, but that’s kind of dumb, since we’ve had Super Saiyans for a while now and everyone ought to be familiar with how they work. Hell, Trunks and Vegeta transformed immediately when they fought Frieza and 19 respectively. They can all do it at will.

I take it back, Gero’s computer is way better than Dr. Wheelo because it has colorful blinking lights, so I can actually distinguish it from the rest of the scenery.

For some reason, Goku still has trouble with 13, even in Super Saiyan form, so Piccolo shows up to lend a hand. This seems kind of underhanded for a show that emphasizes fighting one-on-one.

As for Vegeta and Trunks, they dispatch their respective Androids pretty easily.

But then 13 reveals that YOU JUST ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD. Turns out that when you destroy 14 and 15, some of their components will automatically float up and enter 13′s body, giving him a power boost.

So then he turns into this big blue monster with red Vegeta hair. Well why didn’t the computer just build him like this in the first place? Why bother with 14 and 15 at all?

So yeah, he kicks everyone’s ass, and no one can even put a dent in the guy.

With the rest of the Z-Fighters down, 13 just tees off on Goku, eventually knocking him into a lake.

Krillin spends most of the movie convinced that he’s too weak to help, but then at the end he finally steps in to save Goku, and that’s pretty cool. He eats an energy blast for his trouble, but that’s how it goes.

This gives Goku a chance to try the Spirit Bomb, which we haven’t seen him use since it utterly failed to kill Frieza.

The others try to buy Goku time. Trunks in particular gives a speech about how he’s from the future, and 13 doesn’t exist in the future, and that’s because Goku must be destined to kill him here and now. Pretty sure that’s not how it works, but whatever.

13 tries to shoot at Goku, but Piccolo manages to suplex the big bastard. He only gets him halfway over, but that’s enough to ruin 13′s aim, so good enough.

Then Piccolo calls for Goku to show him the power of a Super Saiyan, and Goku obliges by transforming.

From the sidelines, Krillin points out that this won’t work, because you can’t create a Spirit Bomb with a malicious heart, and this apparently means that Super Saiyans just can’t do it at all. I have no idea where Krillin is getting this from. Goku learned the Spirit Bomb technique directly from King Kai, who invented it, and Goku’s the first Super Saiyan to appear in a thousand years. He is singularly qualified to know whether or not this will work. With all respect to Krillin, he has no idea what he’s talking about.

So what ends up happening is that Goku’s body sucks the Spirit Bomb into itself, so now Goku is surrounded by a glowing yellow ball of energy.

Is this a good thing? Is this what Goku meant to do? Was he just going to try a vanilla Spirit Bomb until Piccolo told him to turn Super Saiyan? Who knows?

Anyway, 13 just dives right into this mess and tries to attack Goku anyway, but everytime he punches him his fists get all messed up.

Then Goku makes this really angry face and he looks like Vegeta to me.

He punches a hole through 13, and he explodes. Fight’s over.

Then the computer just... shuts down? That’s kind of convenient. Maybe it figured it couldn’t do anything else now that all of its androids were destroyed, so there was no point staying active? Maybe its power was connected to 13′s? Oh well.

Everyone’s okay, but they all go to the hospital instead of looking for senzu beans. Krillin’s still trying to explain how Goku did that trick with the Spirit Bomb.

But Goku himself has no idea, so what chance do the rest of us have?

But where are Piccolo and Vegeta?

Just floating around on a chunk of ice, nbd. The fish jumps, so it’s over.

And that’s it.

I don’t know. From a story perspective, this one’s pretty weak. It’s just a warmed over follow-up to the androids arc, with 13 as a cheap knockoff of Cell. Movies 5 and 6 at least tried to raise the stakes with Cooler. Sure, he’s just Frieza’s brother, but he had a fifth form, and his cyborg form was tied into a whole machine planet. Turles was just another Saiyan invader, but he had the Tree of Might thing going for him. 13 really didn’t have anything like that.

Honestly, I think they could have done better by having 16 be the main villain. We never got to see 16 fight any of the good guys, so they could have done a movie where an evil 16 cleans their clocks. At least then it’d be a familiar face.

Nevertheless, I do enjoy this movie, just because it doesn’t skimp on the action. The bad guys show up about 12 minutes in and they fight pretty much non-stop for the rest of the film. It’s a good movie in that regard. If you just want to see a bunch of DBZ characters have a good old ruckus, this one’s got you covered. It’s bright and colorful and you can follow the action without any trouble.

But you definitely want to watch the dub version. It’s just a lot more fun.

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 4 years

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Fate/Zero 1 - 25 (FINAL)

Most of these notes stayed intact during Fate/Stay Winter posts, but I’m releasing them in an unedited version here (aside from the dotpoints and read more, of course).

Fate/Zero 1

For some reason, I have it recorded that I’ve watched F/Z ep. 1, but I don’t remember it! I only remember Saber fighting someone…that’s why I have notes for this ep too.

Ewwwwwww…what’s that in the Macedonian box…?

Oh! Heaven’s Feel is the name of one of the movies that came out this year or last.

LOL, the grandparents of Waver literally refer to him as “Waver”. I thought it was a title. Is it really his name???

I’m very good at making connections between seemingly disconnected things using only the things I know. I predict Kariya’s in for a verrrrrrrry bad time and will probably die in this Grail War, if not go bananas. I already know Rin, Ilya (the Einzbern child) and Sakura are already part of the Fate/ canon, so they’re probably going to fight in a Grail War as well.

Ahhhhhhh! B*stard Archer (that is, Gilgamesh)! He’s hereeeeeeeee!

What’s that counter on the ep title card…? Is it the time until the Grail War…?

Fate/Zero 2

I’ve seen enough spoilers being bandied about that I already know Rider is Alexander the Great.

Like, seriously, why do we call the dude “Waver Velvet”? What’s his real name?

Kiritsugu acts as Ilya’s dad, but…I’m pretty sure he isn’t her dad. Kiritsugu’s surname is Emiya, right? He’s Shirou’s dad, as far as I know. Then again, I only know what I know from being around Fate/ fans for so long.

LOL, there are far too many dragons in this name – Ryuunosuke Uryuu.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! Is this Giant B*stard Archer???? Is this Giant B*stard Archer??? (i.e. Gilgamesh) Oooooooooh! No wonder people like Gilgamesh, even though they call him a giant loveable b*stard.

Fate/Zero 3

Thy don’t call Rider that for nothin’, eh?

I wonder how Saber managed to get a passport…? She’d need one, eh?

Oh…CGI car…it’s burning my eyesssssssss! (although I do believe Troyca didn’t do any better with El-Melloi’s Case Files)

“Hotel in Fuyuki” – They couldn’t be any more explicit with this stuff, could they…?

“…Highness.” – I can see why Saber is so popular with the Fate/ fans now.

Huh? I seem to remember the battle that comes next! Damn *bleep* <- (censored name of anime club manager responsible for the anime marathon that caused me to go from the beginning of F/Z in the first place)! I definitely remember Saber fighting Lancer.

Fate/Zero 4

(sorry, seen this one! That’s where the confusion was! So no notes here!)

Fate/Zero 5

Berserker looks like Goblin Slayer covered in smoke…LOL.

…Well, they don’t call that guy Berserker for nothin’ either.

Rider would make a great Santa Claus, LOL.

Fate/Zero 6

Isn’t there a Joan of Arc in the Netflix Fate/ (Apocrypha)?

Dang, that Kayneth is an evil b*stard, alright!

Kirei is basically Wolverine…?

No wonder you never hear about Caster when people talk about Fate/…he’s neither hot nor a waifu…so nobody gives a s*** about him.

Fate/Zero 7

Is that a Gantz?

Wait, y’mean Rider is motivated…by pants? *spits* Hahahaha…

You can see Ufotable’s much-praised CGI at work here, too.

I can definitely see why Ufotable was chosen for Katsugeki and why they chose Izuminokami for their protag.

Had to google Jeanne to remember what she looks like in this universe, but yeah…she does look like Saber.

For some reason, I had a fleeting thought that Lancer would be the one to be on the mountain alongside Saber…I was right.

So basically, the entire Fate/ series is this: who would win? A mage or an assassin? (Or something like this.)

Fate/Zero 8

I still think Kirei is basically Wolverine.

Kiritsugu = “to cut and tie”.Update: It’s “to tie” and “to inherit”, apparently.

F/Z 9

I wonder…just what is Lancer’s motivation for the Grail? Surely, Servants have their own motives…

I literally covered my eyes when Sola-Ui bent Kayneth’s finger back…it was almost as bad as seeing Nozomi get tortured (Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka)…*gulp*

“Not well” is an understatement, Sola-Ui.

I had to google how old Waver was in this Grail War…he’s 19, apparently, so right in my strike zone right here, so to speak~.

Beleaguered Waver is what you cool kids would call the 2020 Mood…and yes, I’m watching this on the 1st of January, 2020 (but you’re reading this after I put it up later in the month), so I’m keeping the comment.

“What kind of moron would go busting in?” – *facepalm* It seems Rider would.

What the heck is Rider riding his chariot over on the floor, anyway? What’s up with these sewer creatures ? They’ve got tentacles…!

F/Z 10

Rin reminds me of Asuka (NGE)…*gulp* That can only mean bad things for her.

Zenjo? I’ll make a note of that name.

That one glowing sign says “Fuyuki Station”.

Rin no Bouken = Rin’s Adventure. I don’t see why the subbers included “Big” in there, tbh.

F/Z 11

Uh-oh. Why do I get the feeling Saber’s going to get very, very drunk…?

Gee whiz, the great b*stard is a narcissist…

Well, sometimes I forget I had “Archer = Gilgamesh” spoilt for me ages ago…probably because he’s all over Babylonia, not to mention he seems to be one of the more popular characters precisely because he is the great b*stard.

“I wish for my homeland’s salvation.” – An interesting thing to say, considering Brexit.

What the f*** is a Gordius…oh, okay. So that’s Rider’s chariot.

How many Assassins are there??? I thought there was just the one, but there were 4 last time.

This discussion is interesting…no wonder Saber got mistaken for Joan of Arc back in the day.

Welp, Assassins gotta assassinate…*shrugs*

Eyyyyyy…there’s this one guy who looks basically like an older Waver Velvet! That explains a few things, I think.

F/Z 12

“Ramasonic” (sic).

I still think Gil-I mean, Archer’s snakeskin pants are hilarious.

I feel like last episode was a lot better in regards to how good Fate/ could be. This episode is just Ufotable animating talking Gilgamesh and Kirei heads.

Why do I get a bad feeling something bad’s going to happen to Maiya…again?

Kirei trying to look bada*s while leaning against a wall…it looks sort of funny, to be honest with you…because he bends his neck at a funny angle.

F/Z 13

This is the end of the 1st cour, apparently…according to AniList, at least.

“…5 billion people.” – I think the number is 7 billion now, but okay.

Never leave your Servant unsupervised, amirite?

I saw one of the bookstore’s shelves has science fiction on it…hmm, in a show with magic, that seems ironic…or was that non-fiction? Also somewhat ironic.

Oh, this “Don’t you want to do anything fun?” from Rider to Waver is an interesting parallel to Kirei’s episode (the previous one).

Dragon guy’s off his rocker…seriously.

Paraphrasing here, but “…if you want to use the Grail to make yourself taller…” – then stick to milk and other calcium products, Waver…LOL. I mean, other anime characters do.

Even Saber Naruto runs! There are no aliens here…but that car does have gull-wing doors (<-had to google what the doors were called), so…is it a DeLorean or something? Then someone could time travel instead.

I thought one of the previous commands from the overseers was to defeat Caster…?

Fate/Zero has become a kaiju movie, LOL.

Scared Waver is also a 2020 Mood…LOL.

F/Z 14

What’s this “Giant of Light” business…?

Geesh…If Ufotable did a Godzilla movie, I would watch that…(now that this monster makes me think of that possibility.)

This is a small quibble, but is it “Diabolo” or “Diablo”?

Somehow it didn’t even hit me until the fight was halfway over…but does Gilgamesh control a flying airship as part of his Noble Phantasm?!

Pretty scenery or not, talking people standing still are just that…not very entertaining, for sure. It’s basically the only flaw of this series, aside from the fact it hasn’t plumbed the depths of its themes yet.

Ufotable’s clouds look kind of like Gainax’s in Houkago no Pleiades, huh?

Tokiomi seems to blame Kariya for the whole sister vs. sister thing. Hmm, it really just shows how demented the guy is.

F/Z 15

Berserker is only ever in CGI, huh? No wonder Ufotable was given the job.

“That’s…from King Arthur’s legend…” – Can I please interrupt with the Excalibur song? (I’m annoying like that and want to ruin your level of immersion, that’s why.)

Hey, who knew? We get to see Joan in this anime, too. Thank you, Ufotable and Type Moon for saving me a Netflix subscription.

F/Z 16

“Things have been rather hectic this evening.” – Well, you don’t say…

*Saber and Lancer start their fight * - I detect signs there may have been people shipping Saber and Lancer at this point in time, what with their mutual ideas of honour and such.

Kayneth is kind childish, LOL – he’s like a kid peeping at his parents while they complain to each other about a hard day’s work or something.

Uh, this curse from Lancer here is definitely gonna be relevant later, right…?

I was muttering, “Oh goodness” (<- I’m self-censoring here, but you get the point) a few times over when Kiritsugu and Maiya finally got around to killing Kayneth, Lancer and Kayneth’s fiancee. By the way, were those two ever married…? Also, this makes me wonder…what would happen if you got a completely useless Servant? Like “King of Fools” or something. It would sound like the Familiar of Zero, sure, but it would be an interesting exercise in making a compelling narrative.

F/Z 17

Dangit, B*stard Archer. Disappearing just after you provoked Kirei…

Oh! I found the Avalon scene confusing at first, but now that they explain it, it makes a lot more sense.

“As I live and breathe, Kirei!” – Sounds mighty ironic for a meant-to-be-dead historical figure to say that.

F/Z 18

We jump to someone else’s story…or do we?

For some reason, I think this beach place is based on Okinawa. (It seems like the best match.)

“This isn’t a game.” – Seems highly ironic, given his current situation.

I know Kiritsugu is probably looking into Shirley’s eyes, but all they show is the boobs downwards, so I imagine it to be fanservice.

That shaking was just to disguise the bad animation, wasn’t it…?

…and suddenly, zombies!

Well, that’s great, Kiritsugu. You ended up burning down a village by association. Good job…

“Vampires.” – Well, that wasn’t the word I was expecting…

For some reason, I think this new arrival is a woman, but now that I get a proper look at their face, they kinda look like the Great B*stard (Gilgamesh). Update: It looks like they have cleavage, but then they also kinda resemble Samatoki (Hyp Mic)…so, uh…I dunno. Update 2: Okay, she’s a woman…Natalia, to be precise.

The houses on fire look a lot like the ones in Katsugeki, come to think of it.

F/Z 19

Wait, what’s a Mystic Code again…?

Oh, I didn’t think this show would do it, but there’s a good few seconds of recap. I know, because I had to skip it.

Oh, the reason Kiritsugu doesn’t seem to ally with the Association or the Church is because Natalia wasn’t part of either. Right…I’m so dumb.

Am I just reading into Kiritsugu’s pose here too much, or does he look like Christ the Redeemer a bit…?

There’s something oddly pretty about Vorzak. Then again…it’s too bad he’s designated to be dead.

I could tell Kiritsugu was CGI for a second…but he was in fog. Dangit, Ufotable. You know how to disguise your CGI well.

…Okay, those bees were very CGI. Scrap what I just said.

Bees on a plane. What a way to die.

I’ve noticed Kiritsugu’s eyes don’t have any pupils in them. They’re always kind of dead, but not in th same way En’s (<- from Boueibu) are.

What happened to Kiritsugu’s mother…?

The extended flashback seems to be the best way to my heart, assuming you can pull it off properly.

What’s with that “sometime, somewhere”?

F/Z 20

There hasn’t been a proper OP since 3 episodes ago.

Was Maiya ever interested in Kiritsugu as a woman? This vague pseudo-harem sorta annoys me, which is why I need answers.

The crows in this show aren’t very fluffy. Not that I have a problem with that…it’s just a bit random (and I’m saying that as I operate without much sleep and will have a huge period of getting up early in my near future, so you’re probably going to see even more randomness coming from my brain).

Modanyaki. Never thought I’d be googling a Japanese concept for this anime.

This sleeping bag Waver reminds me of Aizawa, but this is at least 4 years too early for that.

That cloud in the top left is shaped funny…like a knight, maybe? (There’s a triangular bit that looks lik a helmet.)

I believe the bird is a bush warbler (uguisu), based on the colour.

So this is where you learn what the f*** a Gordius Wheel is…right.(sounds a bit pissed)

Seeing Kariya squirm…it makes me thank my lucky stars I had the sound off. My imagination makes the scene worse, though.

So fakers beget fakers and killers beget killers, huh? Not surprising.

“I’ve always told him he was doing the right thing.” – Because you didn’t know any better, huh, Iri?

F/Z 21

“Knight on Two Wheels” – What would that knight be riding, a bike…? (somewhat sarcastic)

…A motorbike. Close enough. (not sarcastic anymore)

The motorbike’s plate says “Fuyuki - Te” – instead of a licence plate combo, Japan has a single hiragana.

Well, at least now I know why you never hear of Kariya outside Fate/Zero much…those worms don’t give him long to live.

Isn’t Tokiomi dead though…?

Holy s***, Kariya, you just got framed! *yells in the tone of voice as if Kariya got owned…which he did, in a sense*

*brow furrowed* What’s up with the framing of Aoi’s killing that makes this seem like attempted rape…?

Kirei looks all dead inside. (LOL) I know it’s the animators’ fault that they didn’t bother with him in that scene, but…he has the eyes of a dead fish there, y’know? I can’t help but laugh.

F/Z 22

Never in my life have I seen a grandpa want to talk on the roof.

The grandpa reminds me of Rider…that’s probably where part of their relationship comes from.

You can see the lack of sleep is getting to Kiritsugu right now…his face looks a little sunken…

…Fate/ is apparently pretty infamous for treating its women badly from a feminist persepctive and I think I get why now…(referring to the death of Aoi and now Kirei’s treatment of Iri)

I think the scariest part of F/Z is watching th emotionless guy learn how to feel…kinda like Equilibrium, y’know?

Hmm? I wonder how this show will choose to end, since it’s signalling its end from 3 episodes out?

I predicted Rider would say something along the lines of “…befitting of the Rider class” and lo and behold! He did!

So Rider can summon a single horse as well as the entire chariot? *Saitama face* Okay then.

Number of Times Waver Appears: 1, Number of Times Waver Cries: 1, Number of Times Waver Blushes: 2

Come to think of it, even though I had that weird “Ohhhhhh! Great B*stard Archer!” reaction at first, Gilgamesh has shown up in most of the worst scenes of this show so far (basically, most of the “talking heads” scenes where he talks shop with Kirei). Then again, my change in feelings probably because I’ve had to keep a special eye out for Waver and knew Saber was the poster girl for the entire series.

The counter appears to be “time until the Holy Grail War”…well, that or its final conflict.

F/Z 23

I like how Waver’s joining in with Rider’s yelling.

I have the sound off, so now I’m just mentally narrating Sakura with this creepy child voice and it’s spooking me out…the Urobutcher could really go toe-to-toe with Stephen King if it weren’t my imagination…(LOL…?)

I feel sorry for that car’s owner…the car wasn’t meant to be wrecked…

I fully expect Berserker to be Lancelot or some other guy in King Arthur’s canon, judging by Saber’s reactio-hey, who’s Arondight…? Update: Oh, f***. It really is Lancelot. Turns out Arondight is the name of Lancelot’s sword. How did I know? There’s that upcoming Camelot adaption, isn’t there? Connect the dots.

Oh, f*** me – I feel conflicted. On the one hand, Lancelot’s hella handsome (and his dark hair is exactly my kinda thing), on the other hand…doesn’t he look like he came out of Castlevania or Vampire Hunter D or something??? F***in’ vampires!

Oh, f*** again, I stand corrected. Lancelot was handsome, before he became a Caster-looking…thing.

*bursts into spontaneous laughter* The new Lancelot looks kinda like Tsukasa from Dr Stone, LOL.

Number of Times Waver Cries: 2

Wait, isn’t Bucephalus Greek??? Update: No, he wasn’t. He was Alexander the Great’s horse. That explains why he’s Rider.

I was wondering how Waver managed to live long enough to be El-Melloi II when he was stuck in a battle to the death. Welp, that’s how he did it, folks! *points at screen*

Number of Times Waver Cries: 3…but…anti-climax, much, f***in’ Gilgamesh???

Uh, what’s up with Psalm 23:4? (I had to google that snippet of the Bible to find out its citation.)

LOL, Kirei and Kiritsugu have very similar faces. Didn’t realise that until now.

F/Z 24

It’s weird seeing Kirei full of fighting spirit…He’s still frickin’ Wolverine, though.

Is this taking cues from the Matrix? I bought it from the charity store the other day because I haven’t seen it yet, but I know Bullet Time from TV Tropes.

Now Kirei is channeling Bruce Lee, LOL.

Ouch…the bullet to the hand reminds me of the nail gun scene in The Island (which still freaks me out to this day). (…and now I’ve gone and done it – every time I think of that movie, I get the song The Island – part 1, at least - in my head as well.)

I can almost see Sakaido (from ID: Invaded) in some of these scenes instead of Kiritsugu…trust Ei Aoki and associates to do that.

I went to dump a screenshot in Paint and one of my Fate/ backgrounds from one of the previous posts was set to my background! (I have my backgrounds set to rotate every 12 hours and I have over 600 pictures for that purpose.) *sighs happily and incredulously* Well, whaddaya know…sometimes the stars do align.

I almost expected Shirley to appear, but it turns out it was Iri instead.

Kiritsugu still has his Command Seals so he’s still connected to the Grail War somehow…hmm…

C’mon, I predicted Gilgamesh would compliment Saber when she was down and bleeding.

F/Z 25 (FINAL)

Who’s Lord Justeaze?

Sakura has the same eyes as Kiritsugu. Dead, lifeless eyes.

Did Kariya just throw himself to the worms???

The Great Naked B*stard Gilgamesh.

A priest is a zombie, huh? How ironic.

Isn’t Gilgamesh annoyed by his lack of clothes…? Update: Never mind. He gets a cloth soon enough.

Wait, if Saber destroyed the Grail, who won…?

Huh? The timer ran out.

Aw, even Waver’s growing up.

One of the books says 零戦 (reisen) which apparently means “Zero Fighter [Plane]”. One of the sets of books says “William Shakespeare”, who I know is a Servant somewhere in the Fateverse.

The Bible verse is Job 19:25.

Lancelot’s head doesn’t disappear when the rest of him fades away…It’s pretty poignant.

Jubstacheit is the head of the Einzberns. Update: Think I had to google that.

“Becoming a hero has an expiration date.” – As much as I know that in my creative heart to not be true, my adult heart says yes, it’s true.

Welp, that’s the end of one series. Time for another.

#Fate/Zero

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Just read your padme/jango buddy fic, and if you ever decide to explore that again, I am 1000% all for it. Lovely little thing, it is ;)

Well, since you mentioned it~

I totally planned on writing an entire AotC AU, and I’d even gotten so far as to outline most of it before moving on to other projects, but here’s the gist of it.

Dooku is much more relevant

After the assassination attempt on her return to Coruscant, Padmé decides to get to the bottom of it herself, sidestepping the Jedi’s attempts of additional security at every turn

She figures an experienced bounty hunter will be able to scout out who’s behind the attacks as well, and eventually contacts Jango Fett

Fett in turn contacts Dooku bc “uh my target is seeking me out?”

And Dooku, as much as he wants to see his master’s plan of galactic war come to fruition, he’s also not above tossing as many spacemonkey wrenches into the mix as possible

Dooku wants Jango to take her to Kamino

And by this time the Jedi are all “that’s it, we’re gonna protect you whether you want us to or not”

Except they’re a little too late

Padmé’s already jetted off to Kamino while one handmaiden flew to Naboo to throw anyone off her trail, as she still has no idea Fett was the orchestrator of the first attack

The Jedi fall for it, though, and Anakin hops in a transport for Naboo

Padmé reaches Kamino and the Kaminoans are just happy that someone from the Republic is FINALLY there for the clones bc come on guys, it’s been ten years

And Padmé’s all what clones

And the Kaminoans are all the clones the clones for your republic the clones specifically bought for your republic by the jedi the republic’s clones. those clones

Padmé calls Kenobi and yells at him for roughly 36 minutes

Meanwhile, Boba is very excited at there being such a pretty human living down the hall and visits her every day and especially loves when she reads to him

Meanwhile meanwhile, Anakin shows up on Naboo, realizes he’s been fooled, gets a call from Kenobi that Padmé is on Kamino

(Anakin: where’s Kamino?)

But instead of joining up with Kenobi to fly after her, Anakin can’t live with the terrible dreams of his mother he’s been having, and he flies to Tatooine first

His mother’s still alive

He saves her from attempted abduction by Tusken Raiders

He may also start a slave revolt against Jabba the Hutt because, I mean, a Jedi *has* come back to free the slaves, amirite?

Kenobi lands on Kamino, strongly starts to suspect Fett is more dangerous than just hired help

Padmé is at the end of her rope because she was part of the committee constantly opposed to the creation of an army, and here’s an army all prepped and ready to go just say the word and if the Separatists find out about the army then it’s all over

She has to reach the Separatists first to give Diplomacy a chance to shine and Jango says he’ll fly her to the Separatist representatives for Negotiations

Kenobi’s barely been able to get a hold of Anakin through all this

Anakin’s having a really rough time on Tatooine right now please call back later. His mom’s okay… the other slaves that tried to follow him to the freedom he promised… not so much. Either way, though, Watto tells him Jabba never wants to hear the name of Skywalker ever again

Jabba’ll get about three and a half episodes of peace, at least

Anyway, Padmé lands on Geonosis as a representative of the Galactic Senate and walks right through the front doors like the diplomat she is

Kenobi, who followed her, sneaks in through a hole like the Jedi he is

He’s captured

Not before Anakin intercepts his warning about a Separatist army and relays it to the Council, though

Negotiations are going decently, despite Nute Gunray being there, until they hear from the Geonosian guards that Padmé also brought a Jedi to sabotage everything

Negotiations dissolve, Gunray wants Jango to “shoot her!” but he won’t

And it’s around here that I kinda gave up on outlining bc other projects, but somewhere in here Jango tells Padmé that if anything happens, he’d like her to look out for Boba

Basically this just came out of a need for Padmé to be much more active in trying to save her Democracy and keep the galaxy from outright war.

And also to toy with the possibility that it wasn’t the death of Anakin’s mom that spurred him to a dark place, but the realization that the Jedi failed people like the slaves on Tatooine, as they spouted dogma on Coruscant yet purposely ignored the downtrodden.

#motivation to write that aotc au #convos #whoaheyo

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