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In general, if you come here from the wacky GUDAGUDA setting, the Darker and Edgier trope will hit you like a truck and makes you feel terrified at how the formerly wacky Servants of GUDAGUDA were portrayed here. It's unsettling and terrifying...
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In General
- Okita Souji? Forget about that Incurable Cough of Death-prone silly girl that likes to yell "DAISHOURI!". Instead, have a Dissonant Serenity-filled sword expert who didn't even blink as she dismembered any of her oppositions with extreme precision. True, her off-hour self is gentler, but when she's in battle mode, she's a merciless killer sanctioned by the government at the time.
- Oda Nobunaga is in firm Demon King Nobunaga mode, being a no-nonsense, Large Ham bearer of firepower against whom it is nigh-impossible to walk away from unscathed. The worst bit? She might still be a Noble Demon compared to the people she's working for—the historically-brutal Imperial Japanese Army
- Okada Izo isn't a sore Tsundere Man-slayer that talks too big for his own good. Since he's more or less surrounded with non-super powered beings here, he lives up to the title 'Man-Slayer' and acts like a true Serial Killer, thus if he actually talks big, he can prove it with deadly results. When he encountered Tsukumo, it didn't take long for her to lose her fingers and then stabbed at the chest. Which also threatens Kanata with a Temporal Paradox because if Tsukumo died young, he and his father would have never been born. And Izo sure as hell doesn't look like someone who cares about that.
Main Story
- Chapter 6.1
- Izo threatens to kill Tsukumo unless Kanata uses his Command Spells to make Okita commit suicide. When Tsukumo tells them to forget about her, Izo angrily stabs her again. This causes the left side of Kanata's face, arm, and leg to disappear. While Okita is horrified, Izo is only mildly surprised and decides he doesn't care. He calls Kanata a loser and again demands he make Okita commit suicide.
- Chapter 12.2
- We finally discover how bad the 1945 explosion really was: In Kanata's time, there is no Tokyo; just an empty crater filled in by ocean water and some wind turbines.
- Chapter 14.3
- Magatsu doesn't like how strong and independent Archer has become, so he orders Kaname to use all three of her Command Seals to force her into compliance with the Army's orders. And if that doesn't work, he gives her a vial of poison, hoping Kaname's death will be enough of a power loss to stall Archer. To make it worse, with the personnel loss, he decides enough is enough and starts a coup to install a military government, making it clear he expects everyone, Kaname most of all, to die for him if it's what it takes to fulfill his ambitions.
- Berserker is finally activated ... and proves completely uncontrollable, even with the armor. He chops off Magatsu's Command Seal hand and crushes it, goes an a wild killing spree throughout the base (with a terrified Magatsu carried along like a bread loaf), and remains unfazed even by the army's 'anti-Servant' weaponry (he just picks up the 'repeating muskets' and guns down his supposed allies). He even casually suggests to his Master a point system for his kills: 10 for soldiers, 3 for women and children, and 100 for Servants, all while his master can only look on in horror.
- His awakening is a Mass "Oh, Crap!" for some of the Servants as well, with the Church even immediately calling Tsukumo to take him out before he causes civilian casualties.
- Chapter 50: Tsukumo reveals that Kanata’s lack of pain when utilizing his magic circuits may be the result of a faulty implantation of his family’s magic crest, and given his father was not given proper instruction in magecraft, we are left with the disturbing possibility that Tsukumo herself may have faultily implanted the Crest in Kanata for an unknown purpose, given Kanata saw the afterimages of his own past self and his grandmother at her desk as he began slipping away from his time.
- Chapter 51 provides us with the lovely image of Lancer violently ramming his spearhead through Berserker’s skull, complete with blood splattering, then we get ANOTHER “lovely” shot of his gaping head injury.
- Then Magatsu terrifies Lancer, Lan Lanfang and any audience who didn’t know from previous works that Berserker’s armor lets him regenerate, as he glares back at his opponents even with half his face missing…
