Type-Moon: Fate/stay night, Tsukihime, and Kara no Kyoukai discussion

All this chocolate is making me hungry. and lonely Medea's chocolate is surprisingly adorable. And Jack's looks absolutely delicious ... that's not weird is it?

edited 11th Feb '16 9:20:34 PM by absolclaw

Rejoice in Jack's chocolate. All chocolate should be loved, no matter what its shape. Plus, it goes well with Nobunaga's.

I'm quite fond of Martha's subtle hint that you should even lift, myself.

edited 11th Feb '16 9:36:43 PM by rikalous

Just don't eat Kirei's chocolate.

So Mashu Kyrielight is actually Matthew Kyrielight.

Thoughts?

What?

Her Valentine's chocolate has Matthew <3 written on it.

Who's chocolate...?

Shielder's

I'm used to seeing her name as Matthew in fanart when Google Translate kicks in. And other great translations like Mordred being Mode Red, top kek Doesn't really bother me when there are people called Twice in this universe.

Or maybe Gudako's canon name is Matthew, and she just wants her Matthew-senpai to notice her.

edited 13th Feb '16 3:54:33 PM by absolclaw

Twice and Flat and whatnot is one thing. A girl called Matthew is quite another.

I don't really think so, at least it is a name, whereas Twice and Flat (dunno who that is) aren't. Maybe that's why she likes the PC so much, they don't mock her gender blender name.

edited 13th Feb '16 3:58:09 PM by absolclaw

Flat's the adorable genius Mage that is taught by Waver because no one else wants to deal with his Genius Ditz personality and gets Jack the Ripper as his servant in Fate/Strange-Fake.

And also says hi to Waver and talks about the Holy Grail War on national television.

OK, rendering "Matthew" as Mashu kinda makes sense, as the th sound is typically rendered as an s sound in Japanese. Hell, the katakana actually break down to ma + shi + yu, which can be rendered as Mashyu/Masyu in some romanization systems, a much closer fit to "Matthew"'s actual pronunciation.

No idea where "Kyrielight" comes from, though.

edited 14th Feb '16 2:26:35 AM by MarqFJA

Kyrie is latin or greek for God/Lord IIRC.

And to be fair, even Saber kinda get one. I mean, her name in legend can be read as Arthur, Arturia/ Artoria, or, by Nasu, Altria.

At least Arturia and Artoria are justifiable because they derive from the Latin form of "Arthur" and one possible etymological source for the same name, respectively. More here.

edited 14th Feb '16 5:51:25 AM by MarqFJA

I've never liked romanizing アルトリア as "Altria" because the name "Altria" makes absolutely no sense when she's supposed to be King Arthur. The fact that the TM wiki seems to default to that for some ungodly reason makes me hate them all the more.

... What do you mean? They're currently using Artoria as the default, though I seem to remember that at some point during the past one or two years that they were indeed using Altria.

If they've changed, they haven't updated a lot of their articles. I tend to see "Altria" more often than not when I'm poking at an article that concerns her.

Well, her article is using Artoria, and I expect it to be the first on the list of any name-updating effort. They're probably doing it incrementally, given they have 800+ articles and an apparently limited number of consistently helpful contributors.

Just leaving this here.◊

... A whole horde of chibi Saber clones surrounding a chibi Saber in what looks a summoning circle? KAWAIIIII!

edited 16th Feb '16 9:55:58 AM by MarqFJA

Oh god, Saber turned into a himouto.

Humor Mode: ... She turned into a "dry fish little sister"?

Serious Mode: Huh. So that is where this character◊ comes from. I remember seeing her several times before, though not sure where.

Take Marq's link and replace the <!—C5—>8D with ō

edited 16th Feb '16 1:35:08 PM by Zelenal