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Summary:
Saber pledges her sword to Shirou, saying that their fates are now intertwined. After the contract is completed, Saber goes out to fight Lancer. As he watches her fight, Shirou notices that he can’t see Saber’s weapon. Lancer is angry that Saber is concealing her weapon, but she responds by charging him. Because of Saber’s provocations, Lancer uses Gae Bolga to pierce her heart. Saber figures out that Lancer is the Irish hero Chulainn and because of that, Lancer makes his retreat. Shirou runs up to Saber and watches as her wound closes up. The two formally introduce themselves to each other, then Saber goes off and starts to fight Archer. When Archer is injured, Rin has him disappear, but then Saber goes after Rin. Only Shirou’s yell for her to stop prevents her from striking. Shirou recognizes Rin and brings her into his house where she repairs the damage done by Lancer. Rin learns that Shirou knows next to no magic and laments about the fact that he got Saber. She explains the situation about the Masters and the Servants and war for the Holy Grail. She then takes him to go see the manager of the war.
The three arrive at the Kotomine Church, and Saber waits outside while Shirou and Rin go in. Shirou meets Kotomine Kirei, a magician who was Rin’s father’s disciple. Since Shirou knows basically nothing, Kirei starts to explain to him. First, a Master can only stop being a Master if the Holy Grail is obtained. Second, Servants are heroes of old who appear when it’s time to fight. But since Shirou is rather lacking in power, Saber can’t go into her spirit form. Third, the Masters don’t necessarily have to die, and basically whoever has their Servant still alive at the end wins the Holy Grail. Fourth, if a Servant loses their Master, they don’t disappear immediately, and thus can go to contract with another Master who has lost their own Servant already. And since there was wanton slaughter in past wars, there is now a manager for the event – Kirei. Shirou says that he has no reason to fight and no interest in the Holy Grail, but Kirei asks him if he can stand by while the others wreak havoc. After Kirei mentions the fire that only Shirou survived, Shirou decides to fight.
On their way home, Rin, Shirou, and Saber run into a young girl and her Servant: Ilya and Berserker.
Good fighting to start this episode, but the latter half’s explanation of the war and the grail is rather long winded, though probably necessary. I was most interested in the all the Servants are based on past heroes part, with Lancer supposedly being Cú Chulainn. That’ll be something of a mythology lesson every time they identify a servant. As for Kotomine Kirei, he’s really creepy, and the way the eyes are animated in this series (i.e. dead looking eyes) doesn’t help at all. The overall animation quality did go down slightly since there seems to be a lot more low-detail distance shots, but all the close-ups still look fine.
After having all the rules explained to him, Shirou only agrees to fight because of his sense of justice, so that he can protect and avoid another disaster. As Rin notes several times, Shirou isn’t a particularly capable Master, and while he did end up with Saber, he doesn’t seem to be bringing out all of her potential. But Shirou and Rin look like they’re gonna be a team for at least the time being. And with that lengthy explanation is out of the way, we can proceed with the story, where the immediate threat is Ilya and Berserker.
Hmm, so Saber loses? Damn, where’s the raw.. >_>
No way Saber loses already… >.
Well, at this particular point in the story, she’s not as powerful as she should be. Just wait, she’ll get stronger.
Kirei is creepy -_-
it looks like its because she lacks to much mana than she suppose to be….
Man, this series is great! A battle the moment she enters. and I was asking myself how long it would be from when saber is summoned to when saber fights.
Raw is out if you know where to get it >.>
This series is going to be a fav. of mine this season.
hmm better….get the game then its a visual novel by TYPE-MOON and has 3 chapters you can find it on wikipedia if you like
wow keeps getting better and better
so are saber and the main character gonna fall in love?
cept for the fisrt 2 mins everything is all TALK talk talk omg more talking i want action screw the talking.
Then go watch other crap like nar00to -_-
no thanks naruto is even worser than the talking here
can u stop complaining…gosh.. >.>
if the talking helps clarify things now so that it’ll make sense later, i dont mind it.
Watching the anime has really gotten me to play the fighting game I downloaded of it a month ago. Fate/sword dance- fairly good, needs more characters and i need to learn japanese
who’s complaining im sjust saying it would have been better if they added some more action to it instead of making the explantion so long and making hte priest the bad guy
Fate/Stay Night is a visual novel anime to begin with. It’s not meant to be an action anime like Bleach or One Piece. Considering how much action this series has had so far, I’d say it’s a pretty good amount.
Iriya is cute. Her Servant is way too ironic though. Berserker is just pure evil.
the actions would def. come later since we havent even seen all the masters and servants yet. and we havent even seen each of the servants special weopon or abilities
….What is this guy complaining about, there have already been 4 fights in the series already and from the looks of it, a 5th is coming up
ya i know lol but whatever. good episode =)
Good episode if you understand Japanese XD
Somewhat boring episode if you don’t and is watching raw XD
‘cept for the fisrt 2 mins everything is all TALK talk talk omg more talking i want action screw the talking.’ – Fury
We call that whingin + complainin -.- esp when u directly said something u wished for in a rathr wild and brattish manner
‘sides, im satisfied wid all the detailed and intriguin action so far =) , but things sometimes have to be explained more in detail so the storyline can make if howev4 little a bit more sense
yeah yeah whatever after yall ganged up on me youve made your point>_> btw good job Rasimel on knowing my actions shows ^^
great~ if there’s no talkin~ how u’ll know wad’s happening? being a type-moon fan, i think the show is being done well… just wondering which ending it’ll take from the game though i think it’ll be the orginal one rather than the other 2 scenarios.
nice epi, nice pics, nice summary xD Fsn definitely on the top 5 of my anime-list this season 🙂
btw fury, thats kinda changing the subj, and trying to get on someone’s good side afta they critiscized your POV lol if i may say, no offense ^^’
im sure they were all against you you’d wanna change the subject you. For instance standing in a room with women and saying why do they get periods.
Look’s really good this one! Can’t wait to see it! And Thanks as usaul Omni, for a great review.
I dunno x.x thats like being dumb and asking an idiotic question, whereabouts you whined and tried to change the deal after everyone accused you of your doing. You kinda just brushed it aside without properly acknowledging the fact that you did do it without thinking x.x and yea, dozen vs 1 is offputtin, but those did dislike ur actions
its a self defense mechanism that everyone has it cant be helped
OK people, lets go talk about Fate/Stay Night, nothing more, nothing else.
^_^ I just love the face that Sakura made in the preview… maybe she have a bad feeling of Saber, & you know what am I talking about.
spoiler Saber and the shirou fall in love, and it’s a love triangle between saber and rin /spoiler
Can someone give Saber few mana potions and give Shirou some little training? I wish to see Saber in all-out -mode. *Imagines the elegance of her future fights… Drool…*
To be honest, I had some doubts about the whole series because of the near-excessive hype it received but it turned out to be one of the best, if not the best, series this season.
Yeah, and that Berserker is damn creepy fellow. He gave me some Braveheart-vibes. And don’t ask why, it’s unexplainable.
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Hopefully lots of action next ep!
BTW, anyone have any possible guesses on saber’s “real name”?
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i agree -_-