YMMV / Learning with Manga! FGO

• Audience-Coloring Adaptation:
  • As most official Fate/Grand Order adaptations use the male protagonist, this manga's depiction of the female protagonist as a Heroic Comedic Sociopath Psycho Lesbian has become the default fandom depiction of her.
  • Plenty of the fanbase remembers Olga Marie more from her appearances here than her appearance in canon. As an indicator of this, prior to her reappearance in the Lostbelt arc, she appeared on ten Craft Essences in the game, and six of them are references to Learning With Manga.
• Broken Base: How the Udon Servants are treated in the comic. The characters themselves are well-liked, but their minimal involvement with the main cast compared to the main Servants is a point of contention. Some argue that Learning With Manga's refusal to say any more about them than it needs to is fine, as the readers are here for the established cast and going into their backstories would ruin the gag nature of the comic. On the other side of the fence, there's the argument that saving the details for the main game doesn't work if only a few of them crossed over, and the lampshading the comic does about not caring about them is grating if nothing is done about them regardless.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The entire manga crosses the line like it wasn't even there, but to name a few instances:
  • The constant Black Comedy about Olga's death, including Gudako using the scene to jog her Servants' memory of her, Gudako apparently enjoying rewatching the scene from First Order depicting her death, and a Princess Maker parody featuring Olga having one reset the game by dragging Olga into Chaldeas.
  • Sexual harassment is not funny. Gudako telling Mash that she must remove one piece of her clothing every time she tells her something she already knows is hilarious. Gudako groping Mash to try to skip her Noble Phantasm's animation is side-splitting. Gudako... well, you get the idea.
  • During a filming session, Rider forces Edison to play a moon with the instructions (given with a smile) of "When this rocket hits your face, scream in agony and spray blood everywhere, okay?"
  • "After talking it over with everyone, we decided on a Director that gets swallowed whole by the enemy and has her clothes slowly melt away."
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Berserker/Paul Bunyan has the least importance of the original servants introduced in More Learning, but she's also the first of them to be added to the main game over Udon Servants who had more characterization (though making it into the main game did some heavy lifting for her own characterization) and has gotten two figures.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • As with their original games, friendly nods tend to be made with Fire Emblem Heroes: A Day in the Life, most commonly comparing their own player character stand ins: The more down to Earth and hapless Summoner and the more unstable and psychopathic Gudako.
  • Again, like with their original games, there is an overlap or a shared fanbase between Learning with Manga! FGO to that of Grand Blues!, given that both are similar in concept - being a webcomic Gag Series of their respective gachas. Usually, the cross-over fanfics include interactions between Gudako and Macho Vyrn, such as in these◊ examples.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Very frequent, to the point that it's a common joke in the fandom that Riyo is either an unwitting prophet or the true power behind Type-Moon.
  • One of Gudako's gripes is that her canon self doesn't have a voice actor despite the canon Male Protagonist getting one in First Order (Mash placates her by telling her that she's voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki, who voices the Male Protagonist). Come 2018, and Tomoko Kaneda finally gives her a voice for the game's Kigurumi Fes... the Learningverse Male Protagonist, on the other hand, has no voice at all (at least until the animated adaptation, in which he's also voiced by Kaneda).
  • On Danbooru, the original Servants are typically tagged with a word that begins with "B".^note Rabbit Ears was "Bunnygirl", Assassin was "Babydoll", and Berserker was... well, "Berserker". The tagging scheme was kept for most of the subsequent Servants, with Lancer being "Braid", Archer being "Bronco", and Saber's mother being "Bearing"; Caster was the exception, having no obvious "B" word, so they got "Mice". When Berserker crossed over to the canon game, her True Name turned out to fit right in with the naming scheme — Bunyan!
  • Gudako was capable of defeating Grand Caster in an early April Fool's card. Much later in the series, she becomes a "grand" Caster herself due to the mice Casters' influence.
  • One of the skits has Gudao thinking about using his grails on Astolfo, but is stopped when he thinks "what if a limited SSR Astolfo shows up". Lo and behold, Christmas 2019's (limited) SSR turned out to be Astolfo. (Bonus points: Gudao seemed to think an SSR Astolfo would be a Saber, which was dead on the money.)
    • Even better: Rider's arc in Volume 3 has her slowly gaining enough relevance to be considered for the game, and her use of the Moon Rabbit legend and name was to give herself an easy way in without getting into any trouble over her real True Name — then another pink, girly Servant who's usually a Rider shows up during the 2019 Christmas event with a Moon Rabbit theme. Better luck next time, Rabbit Ears.
    • Astolfo was predicted by Gudao to follow the Fanservice Pack model of some female Ascensions (where the Servant gains skimpier clothes the higher they go). Saber Astolfo's actual Ascensions tend to follow the male model (gaining more coverage): he starts out in a crop top, and ends in a frilly minidress.
  • One of the gags involving VR Mash was Mash herself developing a fondness for it and wearing a VR headset. Then Mash's Ortenaus design was revealed, and she happened to be wearing something that looked uncannily like a VR headset.
  • When animation updates started getting released for launch Servants (most of the Casters and even a couple Riders and Assassins did nothing but shoot identical glowing balls around), Riyo parodied it by having Martha and Marie decide to go fire off some orbs at Assassin while they still had the chance. In a reversal of those predictions, while Martha got her update the same year, Marie had to wait almost two years for hers... and when she finally got one, it still made use of old-school glowing balls, albeit in a heavily spruced-up form.
  • Speaking of Marie, her characterization here as a hardcore Yuri Fan became a lot funnier when her Strengthening included a buff to her charm that removed its "male only" requirement.
  • During the launch campaign for "All the Statesmen", Gudako grumbled that Berserker is normal-sized in most of her attack animations, remarking that the devs were too lazy to try to implement a giant character. Then Kingprotea was unveiled, who is at least as big as Berserker (and even has a fairly similar origin), and ends up like that all the time.
  • Doubles over with Harsher in Hindsight, but Gudako "saving" Olga Marie and having her become part of the main cast of the series becomes this when Cosmos in the Lostbelt reveals in Olympus Olga Marie is alive and back as a major character... except she's now (through unknown circumstances) become the Big Bad for the story arc. That is to say, she's an antagonist all the way up until Chapter 7—then she loses her memories and becomes a silly, naive young miss.
  • Assassin and Rider's initial plan to get in the main game was to ride in Berserker's pocket. Come 2022, and they've hitched a ride in as her Super form's summonable allies.
• Memetic Badass: Gudako is often considered "The greatest threat to humanity" via memes, and if she appears in an April Fools art of the game, she's usually manhandling the Servant in question, usually enemy-exclusive Servants. Case in points: She chokes Grand Caster/Solomon, mini-versions of herself molest Tiamat; reducing her to tears, and Goetia is made to be a Humongous Mecha which she piloted. The fact that she became The Master With No Name, final boss of the All The Statesmen event, could be the way the game ascended this meme. Ironically, she's also depicted as fairly weak in that event (owing to her laziness and insistence on going free-to-play and therefore having nothing but underleveled welfare Servants and Saber variants... some of which are 5*s, implying she's not so much free-to-play as salty about her luck and unwilling to put in the time).
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Altera's gacha luck dance in this comic strip became popular to parody for its cuteness and its out of the blue nature, making it extremely exploitable. The animated adaptation featured the gacha luck dance in the ending.
  • Altera's "BAD CIVILIZATION!" line originates elsewhere, but this was what turned it into a common fandom joke, to the point of appearing prominently in the opening of the special.
  • Gudao's imaginary "5-star limited Astolfo" in chapter 45 of More Learning with Manga! became very popular among the fandom after the release of the animated special. What's even more popular are his uncanny laugh and exclamation ("Boku wa kimi no ken!"/"I am your sword!"). This particular quote became so popular that a vast majority of players were extremely giddy when Saber Astolfo was announced for Christmas 2019, only to then be tremendously disappointed when he doesn't actually say that line in the game. (However, the line does get a direct callout in the event.)
  • This comic is the source of the common meme of Jeanne going doomsayer with the plank "Rate Up Is A Lie".
• Memetic Molester: Gudako. The fact that she's able to molest her female servants daily and have some of them fall in love with her back is a testament to how far she can take it.
• Seasonal Rot: It isn't uncommon to find people who feel Even More lost a lot of the absurdist elements that made earlier chapters fun and just became a standard gag manga.
• Signature Scene: If any scene is getting mentioned or parodied with characters from other franchises, it'll likely be an early strip of Gudako getting excited over gacha rolls such that she spins around in a circle to Olga's confusion.
• Unintentional Period Piece: FGO's early months were rough, which gave the comic a lot of material for parody, but the game improved drastically as things went on. This means that a lot of jokes in early comics are now quite dated. The Animated Adaptation even had a note explaining that one particular complaint (the inability to go back and use your skills once you enter the attack menu) had been patched in some time ago.
• Woolseyism: Chapter 3 of More Learning with Manga! FGO has Gudako mock Altria Pendragon's parents for naming their child after a dragon, a pun based off of how "Ryu" (dragon) is a common stock name that can be found in delinquent or criminal characters (so having it in plain English would therefore be even more delinquent-like) before Mash points out that it's her surname. Since the pun wouldn't work well in English, the official localization turns the conversation into Biting-the-Hand Humor about the Executive Meddling that prevented the usage of the fan-preferred name Artoria by having Gudako direct her criticism towards the name Altria and Mash says "We can't do anything about that", which fits with the manga's style of humor.