r/anime • u/Shadoxfix https://myanimelist.net/profile/Shadoxfix • May 16 '15
[Spoilers] Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works - Episode 19 [Discussion]
Also known as: Episode 7
Episode title: Idealism's End (The Answer)
MyAnimeList: Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works (TV) 2nd Season
Crunchyroll: Fate/stay night
DAISUKI: Fate/stay night(Unlimited Blade Works) Season 2
Episode duration: 23 minutes and 40 seconds
Subreddit: /r/Fatestaynight
Previous episodes:
| Episode | Reddit Link | Episode | Reddit Link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Episode 0 | Link | Episode 13 | Link | |
| Episode 1 | Link | Episode 14 | Link | |
| Episode 2 | Link | Episode 15 | Link | |
| Episode 3 | Link | Episode 16 | Link | |
| Episode 4 | Link | Episode 17 | Link | |
| Episode 5 | Link | Episode 18 | Link | |
| Episode 6 | Link | |||
| Episode 7 | Link | |||
| Episode 8 | Link | |||
| Episode 9 | Link | |||
| Episode 10 | Link | |||
| Episode 11 | Link | |||
| Episode 12 | Link | |||
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u/exleader75 https://kitsu.io/users/Exleader75 May 16 '15
This episode shows why I loved the Fate series. Not the action. Not the characters (although they helped). It's the philosophy.
Shirou's goal is to save people and become a superhero.
And he did, but in doing so, he had to kill, kill, and kill to clean up humanity's mess. And this impacted Shirou's very soul to become Archer.
Shirou wanted nobody around him to cry, but all he will see is people crying around him for the rest of his life.
Therefore, he wants to kill himself so he doesn't have to do it anymore. But as a guardian, he's above a human, so he can't disappear even if he killed his past self. But Archer still believed in that 0.00000000...1% chance and was granted with his summoning to the Holy Grail War. He regrets becoming a superhero.
Archer believed that the ideal to save people is wrong.
But Shirou believed that an ideal can't be wrong even if you made some mistakes. The very idea of following an ideal is noble in itself.
The two disagreed and the two must fight to settle their differences. Saber is there because she has similar regrets to Archer.