Fate/Stay Night - TV Series

Originally Posted by STFUula

I've got up to episode 16 with this from Eclipse, and hope they continue despite the license.

Since Eclipse's entire reason for being appears to be subbing series that Geneon has prelicensed (see also: Shakugan no Shana), that probably isn't something you need to worry about.

Anyway, Fate is one of my favorite series airing right now. It also underscores just what Tsukihime could have been, as Kurado alludes to.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by chato

Also, people are just disappointed because its not like the fighting games. So they don't count.

You know, there are people who were disappointed with the Tsukihime anime because there was a lot of story material from the game (and I don't mean the fighting games) that was left out of the anime. The "Far Side of the Moon" story arcs, and all the plot information that came from them, are almost completely left out, for instance.

Shingetsutan Tsukihime wasn't a bad series in the least, but it wasn't nearly what it could have been, and Fate/Stay Night illustrates this.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by chato

IWe can't really say its been left out all the way, Not unless they make an anime out of MB to make up for a few mistakes.

There are people who have played the game (Tsukihime, not Melty Blood, so don't bother bringing it in) who can attest to major differences between the Tsukihime game and the Tsukihime anime. The far side story arcs, for instance, are in the game and deal with the Tohno family's history, but are almost ignored in the anime. This has various effects on the anime, like leaving plenty of thing unexplained (or just poorly explained) at the end, and reducing Kohaku's character to insignificance. Ciel doesn't touch curry in the anime, but that's not really important.

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For Fate, they have all kinds of stories including h-games that even has a plot (or so i heard from other hardcore fans).

I know. Tsukihime was the same way. It had two plotline groupings: the "near side of the moon" (Arcueid and Ciel) and the "far side of the moon" (Akiha, Kohaku and Hisui).

The point here is that the Fate anime has, by and large, used those storylines effectively, while the Tsukihime anime didn't. This is what is meant when it is said that Tsukihime isn't what it could have been, and Fate illustrates that fact by showing what is twas possible for Tsukihime to have been if done the same way.

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ehh...My point is that maybe Type-Moon didn't have much interest in the Tsukihime story anymore. Since Fate/Stay Night was a big hit back then, i assume they'll just rely on that for now.

If Type-Moon keeps refining Melty Blood, it would suggest that they do still have interest in Tsukihime, even if Fate/Stay Night has replaced it at their big moneymaker.

Their interest or lack of it isn't exactly relavent to the anime, though; they weren't the one's producing the anime. There's also the fact that when the Tsukihime anime aired, Fate/Stay Night hadn't been released yet.

I like how most of what I'm talking about in this Fate thread is Tsukihime.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.