New Fate/Stay Night Anime Announced!

[Cherry Lover]

The impression I got is that there will be some "new material", but whether that means an entirely new route or an existing route with some stuff tacked-on (hopefully better than Deen managed it...) I'm not sure.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

If it is an entirely new route... they'd better be doing Ayako.

[Cherry Lover]

If it is an entirely new route... they'd better be doing Ayako.

If it's an entirely new route, I doubt it will have a heroine at all. There is no reason why they need one in this format, and picking one girl as heroine means they have to focus on that girl more heavily.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

If it's an entirely new route I want the sex scene to be Shirou masturbating to the porn he keeps somewhere-or-other-they-mentioned-this-in-FHA

And I want the route itself to be the scrapped route where he teams up with Shinji

[Cherry Lover]

I can't see how teaming up with Shinji would work, honestly. The guy is just too much of a bastard.

[The Man With All The Cute Boats]

Apparently more likely than Ilya route, so it would have worked somehow.

Do not question the nasu

[Cherry Lover]

I suspect it would have worked by Nasu not having actually designed Sakura's character at that point....

[Arch-Magos Winter]

Or having done so and having Sakura getting killed off early on by Gilgamesh or Lancer.

[Cherry Lover]

Or having done so and having Sakura getting killed off early on by Gilgamesh or Lancer.

I can't imagine he'd have taken that route, because in that case Shinji would still be a rapist and general asshole. Having Shirou team up with him in a situation like that and act like nothing had happened would leave quite a nasty taste in the mouth.

[Arch-Magos Winter]

If Shirou doesn't know that Shinji is a rapist asshole and simply sees him as a friend in need, I could easily see the team up happening.

[Cherry Lover]

If Shirou doesn't know that Shinji is a rapist asshole and simply sees him as a friend in need, I could easily see the team up happening.

Yeah, but I can't see it ending well. Shinji will invariably end up backstabbing Shirou at some point (even if it's only when they're the only two left), he's too determined to win to do anything else, and even if he wasn't Zouken would demand it of him.

Oh, also, killing Sakura off means no Rider, so that is obviously not a viable option if Shinji is to have any significant role.

[Cherry Lover]

Well, the official website is up, although there doesn't seem to be much on it just yet.

http://www.fate-sn.com/

[Cherry Lover]

Hmm, Nasu posted a new blog post. Not sure if there's anything actually important in it, from putting it through Google Translate it doesn't seem like it is overly relevant, but I might be missing something.

 http://www.typemoon.org/bbb/diary/index.html#31

[Kat]

IMO, all signs show that this will not be Heaven's Feel or have HF elements since there is no Saber Alter or True Assassin in the advertising.

[Cherry Lover]

Sakura is there, though, which suggests some involvement on her part at least. And, True Assassin is hardly the most popular character, so him missing out isn't a big shock.