Saber is in bad shape, and nearly out of Mana. Perhaps this lessens her resistance and allows Shirou a glimpse of her past life as King Arthur. Archer explains that Saber used up most of her mana knowingly in order to protect Shirou. Rin then adds that Saber will soon disappear unless she preys on humans or her master gives her mana. Ah yes, an easy out. However, at the moment, Shirou doesn’t know how to give mana, since he never read the manual. I find it hard to believe that it wasn’t mentioned in Kirei’s longass speech way back when.
While Shirou is spaced out, he gets easily ambushed by Ilya in the park. The jailbait is on the prowl, and just her touch is enough to numb his loins and knock him unconscious. Dude is so not cool. Ilya climbs all over him, but Shirou refuses to be her boy toy. Ilya then decides to go put an end to Saber and Rin, just like she finished off Shinji. When she leaves Shirou alone, like any good villain, he coughs up some blood as he tries to overclock his magical circuit. If only he could summon that sweet sword that he saw in his dream!
This felt like a setup episode, with little hints being given so that the impending battle won’t be completely deux ex machina. However, we all know that 1) Shirou will learn how to give mana, 2) Shirou will summon the sword of smackdown and give it to a revitalized Saber, and 3) there will be a lot of Saber yelling and charging up just like in DBZ. This is all very classic shounen material.
It was pretty funny how against Archer’s counsel, Rin still fell for Saber’s moé stumbling act. Archer must be seething with jealousy.
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> Rin still fell for Saber’s moé stumbling act.
Though I am a Rin x Saber fan, I wonder if Rin has bonded with Saber because she realizes Saber also loves Shirou?
> This is all very classic shounen material.
Still think it would have been funnier if this was a harem series. (;^_^)
The power of moe is strong. Especially in the hands of normally resolute characters.
Wargh. I don’t think Archer is so much seething with jealousy as, eh, disgusted with Shiro (or more specifically, Shiro’s -ideals-). As for why he’s disgusted with Shiro? Well, make sure to watch the entire ED on the next episode.
Actually this is a question. Does anyone know why Fate/Stay Night is related under ‘same setting’ with Tsukihime on AniDB.net? It’s bugging me and I really wanna find out
Heres a link
http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=rel&aid=3348
ussr2003, because it is? Fate takes place about a town over from where the events of Tsukihime happened.
Oh okay, didn’t know that sorry
Do you find that out later in the series or was it already mentioned and went completely over my head?
F/SN and Tsukihime were based on Novel Games, and both games were produced by the same company, the same company that gave out information about both worlds.