Who Writes Fate/Grand Order? [Anime News Network]
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animenewsnetwork.comPosted Jan 15, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC
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animenewsnetwork.comMan, after all these years, we still don't know what Koushi Tachibana wrote for FGO. Has it just not come up yet or did it pass us by without noticing? The former might not be too farfetched since FGO loves to shelve stuff until they find a point to use them, so his scenario might still be in a backlog until a suitable point.
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Sees ANN I can already smell the bs lmao
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"Sakurai wrote the "Shimousa" chapter in Part 1.5, which is widely regarded as one of the best chapters in the game so far, period. "
hmm
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To be fair the japanese player base loves this chapter, it's just NA where most people have some issues with it so he's at least half correct
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Smh I think JP players had more issues with Shimosa,given they were shouting "MAKAI TENSHO RIPOFF REEEEEE" when it came out.
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A 4th anniversary survey in Japan had it as the 4th most popular story chapter, so they’ve probably calmed down since then.
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Last year it was on this sub's top 10... the NA TL didn't do it any favors as well tbh...
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The Makai Tensho stuff is part of why it's popular in JP, as opposed to NA where barely anybody even knows what Makai Tensho is.
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I've always wondered this, do Japanese creators just not do a lot of press? Or does stuff just not get translated for our pleasure frequently? It seems like whatever "making of" information comes out is from old blogs and forum gossip.
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This basically. Most Japanese creators do a fair amount of press, it just doesnt get translated. So a lot of English language "news sites" used to basically scrape fan translation blogs for news.
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Shimousa is one of the best chapters in the game, yes ( ' v ' )There are issues in the article like NOT SAYING HIGASHIDE'S TOKYO BABEL IS IN STEAM IN ENGLISH or that Hikaru Sakurai's Sona-nyl of the Violet Shadows is coming soon (illustrated by AKIRA, who made Kiritsugu's, Euryale's, Stheno's and A Fragment of 2030 art), but at least they said one truth there.
Btw, I quite feel like FGO is helping the various scenario writers to help each other to improve. As a person who knew them before FGO I can see an evolution here and in other current works the did it better and different than we would expect. All have changed. Even Nasu himself.
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From the same site that said Waver was gay
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"x site said y" is silly. Every big site has dozens of contributors, all with their own style and opinions. You should pay attention to the writer rather than the site.
99% of Kotaku's output is terrible, but that doesn't stop me from reading everything that Jason Schreier writes.
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They do tend to have certain editorial biases. Like hires like and the local culture tends to homogenize.
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I agree with your overall point, but Jason Schreier is responsible for half of why Kotaku is terrible. He constantly defends lootboxes as a necessity to keep developers afloat, and accused the Vanillaware artist of being a pedophile because he drew the Sorceress from Dragon's Crown with big breasts.
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There's also their YouTube channel, it always broughts me back to see more.
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Jason Schrier is great can't wait for his 2nd book
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I think the proponents of Waver's straightness are mostly in it for underage femdom fantasy, we all have our vices and most of them are fine.
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Is “Waver is gay” really that controversial a take? The way he’s written with Iskandar is deliberately homoerotic, and there’s jokes about it in canon material (to the point of there being a parody of the Train Man story with them as a couple). Yvette says that him and Caules >!(or, well, Dr. Heartless disguised as Caules)!< feel like a couple, and that’s not to mention all the stuff with Weins. On top of that he never reciprocates any of the interest which women show in him. I’m not saying that Waver being gay is 100% confirmed but it’s pretty strongly implied.
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And furthermore even the article that 'said' Waver was gay was just saying the author of the article read the series that way. Which is a perfectly valid read on the material. It's not like Fate is a series without homosexuality in it, and Iskander's explicitly bi, so reading his and Waver's relationship as romantic isn't any different than reading, say, Jinako and Karna's relationship as romantic.
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me :)
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Eh....
The article provides the link is already outdated and I've recalled that the theory is completely debunked by the majority JP fans outside the 2ch board:
Sanzang's event is written by Nasu, not Meteo, it is confirmed by the Machi Asobi FGO Creators:
ANN forgot to write it down that Ukyo Kodanchi writes Riyo's first event according to Nasu's diary. While Riyo writes his own short story for the celebration of Manga de Wakaru's second volume without Nasu's supervision.
The first summer event has two writers only, Nasu and Higashide. Each writer takes charge of each part. Yes, it is true about Minase's Columbus gets mentioned in the chapter, but that's just nothing but a "foreshadowing" or "future reference".
Before Minase joins the writing team, he is a guest writer and ghostwriter of the Prisma Illya event and he is recruited by Hiroyama himself. Hence the event page states Hiroyama takes in charge as supervisor of the event's original story.
Heck, even Keikenchi and Higashide join as a sub-scenario writer of Kara no Kyoukai's collab event.
AND MANY MORE.
The article only links that thread as an example of players guessing at writers, not as the gospel source for who the writers actually were. It doesn't go on to cite anything that thread says.
You're not really contradicting anything that the article says, you're mostly just adding extra information that wasn't covered like who wrote Summer 1.
edit: Article specified main writing team for Minase getting added after part 1 ended, so ghostwriting Prisma Causeway as a guest writer isn't really a contradiction either