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jikenbosan · 10 months

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ppl liked this on twitter…

#lord el-melloi ii case files #waver velvet #lord el-melloi ii #fate zero #fate grand order #fate strange fake #lord el melloi ii case files #gray case files #gray fate #my art

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intrepid-fictioneer-7 · 1 year

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How to read the Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Light Novels

I was recently reminded that there is a lot of people who simply don’t know that they can read the Case Files light novels, and that there are people who do know but have no idea where to find them. This is especially a problem when these people have only watched the anime and want to know where they can find more of the story. Since it kind of requires you to go through some hoops (not a whole lot but still), I decided to take a page out of @humbertozero‘s excellent Fate/strange Fake resource post and make one for my other favorite Type-Moon Fate spinoff, the dossiers of El-Melon.

Read the First Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.1 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Second Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.2 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Third Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.3 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Fourth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.4 (PDF) (EPUB1) (EPUB2)

Read the Fifth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.5 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Sixth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.6 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Seventh Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.7 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Eighth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.8 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Ninth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.9 (PDF) (EPUB)

Read the Tenth Volume: Lord El-Melloi II Case Files Vol.10 (PDF) (EPUB)

Important note!

It should be noted first that I am just the compiler here. I am neither the translator nor am I the files’ creator. So all credits go to...

Credits

Credits and thanks to TwilightsCall on the Beast Lair forums (from which the majority of the other creditors originally posted their contributions) for translating the first 4 volumes and some of volume 5, thus getting the ball rolling. Further thanks to azwhoisverybored for translating the rest of the series from volume 6 onwards, and thanks to Kneenaw for starting the translation for the rest of volume 5. Thanks to Dotelias for making EPUBs for volumes 1-3, thanks to cereal_ for making EPUBs of volume 4, thanks to u/confusedkuratowski on Reddit for making EPUB of volume 6, and thanks to ProtoformX for making PDFs and EPUBs for volumes 5 to 10 as well as for Adventures volume 1!

And big thanks to Makoto Sanda for writing Case Files in the first place!

Further explanations

Anime

The anime adaptation of Case Files, with the mouthful of a title that is Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files: Rail Zeppelin Grace Note, is particular to use as an entry-point in the series, because it only partially adapts the series. See, the author, Makoto Sanda, said in interview that the two first arcs/cases in the series didn’t quite work as scripts for anime episodes, so the anime only adapted the third case/arc, Rail Zeppelin, which is more action oriented than the more mystery focused first arcs. But because they still needed to explain stuff like Gray, Reines, El-Melloi’s students, etc., many of whom are relevant characters to the arc, the first half/six episodes of the anime is about introducing them.

So to the question “where do I start reading after the anime?”, the answer is unironically to restart at volume 1. And then you may skip volumes 4-5 since they are the Rail Zeppelin arc and there are not much differences besides some characters not being present during that arc. This is why I think you can watch the anime first if that’s more your speed (I have my problems and criticisms of the anime but that’s irrelevant to this post).

And you can’t start with the anime and start reading with volume 6, the first 3 volumes have characters and plot points that come back for the final arc, so you’re gonna be incredibly lost if you think to consume the series this way.

Weirdly enough, despite being original episodes, the anime originals are most likely canon in some ways. Episode 0, the original OVA, is an expansion of an anecdote Gray mentions in the first volume’s prologue, and Episode 1 takes place during Waver’s travels before the story starts and is an actual story, one of the 3 incidents Sanda has in mind for Waver’s journey before he returned to London. Episodes 2 to 6 take place during the one month period between volume 3 and volume 4, and finally the special OVA take place on Christmas also in between arcs.

Manga

The manga has gorgeous art, but, at the time of writing, it is unfortunately only translated up to the second case right now. Still, go check it out.

The Adventures of El-Melloi II

The sequel series currently ongoing, started a year after the first Case Files ended in 2019. You might know it as “the (other) series where Rin shows up grown up and also a pirate”. @reignsan has been compiling pretty thorough chapter-by-chapter summaries of the volumes by @kaibutsushidousha if you don’t mind being spoiled. Or you can be patient and wait for azwhoisverybored to finish translating them on Beast Lair in this thread.

At the time of writing (27/07/23), the first volume of Adventures has been completed and compiled into PDF and EPUB forms.

Lord El-Melloi II Case Files material

This is absolutely not required reading in any shape or form, those lore books are usually of interest only to dumb nerds like me lol. A timeline of the Clock Tower? An explanation of its politics? Yes please. But it also has insights into the characters by the author that aren’t in the books proper, as well as behind-the-scenes explanations for some decisions (for example, why it’s Gray with the American spelling instead of Grey with the British spelling). Only the glossary/encyclopedia is translated, but give it a look...after you read the series, because it assumes you did and has some big spoilers.

Drama CD

What’s that? You heard something about a Buzzfeed quizz about the most handsome Clock Tower teachers and how it’s somehow a plot point? Look no further than one of my only posts that did numbers. Read the summary, it’s hilarious.

#lord el-melloi II case files #Lord El Melloi II Case Files #Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files #fate series #TYPE-MOON #nasuverse #lord el melloi ll #Lord El-Melloi II #Gray (Fate)#reines el-melloi archisorte #reines el melloi archisorte #flat escardos #svin glascheit #would you believe what I spent the most time on was finding a free collage making site allowing this grid layout for 10 pics?#never again #but it made me realize how neat the symmetry of the covers for books of a same arc are

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lordelmelloi2 · 28 days

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There is hardly any light left in his eyes but hes literally serving so much fucking cunt here. And for what? The slight sway the hand down behind him as he walks. The thigh gap. The calves. The head tilt. The communication of his catwalk style through this image. Literally had no reason to wake up and serve but did it anyways. Catwalk category Legend in the making? Why is he dedicated to femme realness like this

#waver velvet #lord el melloi ii #lord el-melloi ii #lord el melloi ii case files #fate series

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kiwikipedia · 1 year

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This is basically how my main Assassins act all the time. Poor Gray and her Murder Family

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chronologiical · 3 months

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iskandar's cute troublemakers

#my art #fate/grand order #lord el melloi ii case files #waver velvet #iskandar #hephaestion #zhuge liang #faker #fate/#fgo #reines revival event is giving me all the feels again #i dont remember if we had the rail zeppelin side story the first round #but i played it again #and now i'm about to read the entirety of case files ln for more of it #i want to know all about this lord's cheap underhanded scams

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pan-gya · 8 months

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i got a new drawing tablet so of course i had to draw my girl to test it out :3

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#my art #digital art #type moon #gray #el melloi #lord el melloi ii case files #fate #the outfit is one i designed while i was bored in class lol #i intended it to be one of her outfits from when she still lived at the cemetery #also how has NO ONE given gray and official outfit with pompoms?????#HOW????#with all her fluffy collars there are ZERO pompoms and that is unacceptable #i have to do everything myself around here #im trying to practice doing more backgrounds #i hate it hhh

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reignsan · 9 months

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Type-Moon Ace magazine volume 15 releases July 26. Includes Fate/Samurai Remnant info, a LB7 retrospective, various interviews, a new Fujimaru Doesn't Understand manga, a Fate/Lost Einherjar short story, and Type-Moon Books Material.

#fate grand order #fate lost einherjar #fate samurai remnant #lord el melloi ii case files #fujimaru ritsuka doesn't get it

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matchandelure · 4 months

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i know this isn't in your list but i'd love to see melvin and waver again... :') i loved your art of them before!

these two are still very dear to me

#thank u sm for thr request anon! it’s been so long since I’ve drawn them oml..#speaking of which…it’s almost time for my annual year end rewatch of case files hehe #also omg I’m so happy u liked my old art of them ;w; it’s so rare to meet another fan of these two im so happy difhhjsh #waver velvet #melvin weins #lord el melloi ii sei no jikenbo: rail zeppelin grace note #lord el melloi ii case files #fate series #willows requests

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hormonecyborg · 8 months

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what if sherlock holmes at the age of 17 had such a life altering and homosexual experience with a bear twice his size that he couldnt sleep for thirty years.

This, is Waver Velvet.

#lord el melloi ii case files #Lors El-Molloi II's Case Files Rail Zeppelin | Grace Note #waver velvet

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imightbestupid · 1 year

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Nasuverse protagonists, the remake

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borschtt · 2 months

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remake. new(left) old(right)

edit i. forgot his glassws

+some other stuff

#aceattorney #kristoph gavin #simon blackquill #dual destinies #gregory edgeworth #miles edgeworth #limbus company #meursault #yi sang #fate fanart #waver velvet #lord el melloi ii #lord el melloi ii case files

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lastencoregraphics · 6 months

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@giftober 2023: DAY 24 - COUNTRIES

#Fate Apocrypha #Lord El Melloi II Case Files #Fate Extra #Fate Samurai Remnant #Fate Stay Night #Fate Strange Fake #giftober2023 #i almost added prototype but lbr that thing is dead and buried

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intrepid-fictioneer-7 · 8 months

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One thing I find interesting about Waver's students is that a lot of them face similar issues of the possible loss/death of their identity and personality by way of being subsumed by a greater supernatural force.

Gray was raised as the vessel of King Arthur and everytime Artoria was summoned more of her body changes to become like her and erase who she was.

Flat is the conclusion of a 1,800-year plan in which the next step of human evolution secretly implanted within his family's Magic Crest would eventually take over his body.

Svin is more of a vessel for his magecraft than its user, and he is acutely aware that his Bestial Magecraft will eventually consume him and he will become a beast in truth. Already he has trouble remembering some of his past.

Ergo contains three gods within his body from consuming their flesh but because they are so much vaster than him, everytime he uses their powers it erases his memories to make more "space", and eventually the three gods will completely erase him. As of the latest novels, Ergo has even forgotten most of the first novel, including how he first met Rin.

I find that interesting. There's probably some link that could be made between this tendency and Waver and how his "Lord El-Melloi II" title has overtaken his "Waver Velvet" identity.

#lord el melloi ii case files #lord el melloi ll #gray (fate)#flat escardos #svin glascheit #ergo (fate)#type moon #fate series #nasuverse #nasu talks #waver velvet

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lordelmelloi2 · 4 months

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