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Ultimately this alternate take on the basic Fate/Stay Night story has much the same feel as many Hollywood summer blockbusters: it delivers all the flash and thrill one could want but is still vaguely unsatisfying in the end.

>>8707543

Shirou did not want Saber to fight. Shirou didn't want anyone to fight. In Shirou's world, he's the only one who fights. All the swords belong to him, and he is no-one. Even if someone else is massively more powerful than him (Saber), from the way Shirou perceives the world, he is the only one who should fight.
The idea that someone would be hurt because of him is something that terrifies Shirou above anything else. He can't adequately explain this to Tohsaka and Saber, so when they were asking him what the hell was going through his mind, he scrambled for something to say, and just defaulted to "Girls shouldn't fight". He didn't mean it at all, or rather, he couldn't explain that he doesn't want anyone to fight but himself.

>>8357350

Is it an impossible dream that we will never achieve and only pursue because it is beautiful?

I'm gonna enjoy KS, but not talk about it on /jp/.

I will turn my mind to steel, and bear it.

>guilty

Get out.

I have no regrets. This is the only path.

>>4695797

Exactly.

You later learn that Reality IS NOT AMUSED.

>>4490004

There were three Shirous.

Of the three, one had no regrets.

Realizing the limits of ideals and the limits of reality.

Fate is the Ideal.
Heaven's Feel is the Reality.
Unlimited Blade Works is a middle-ground.

>>4265436

It has to hammer in all the rules and structure just so it will be that more amazing when it throws them out the window.

>>3667892

No, Shirou is SWORDS. Scythes cost 2 to 3 times the normal allotted mana.

Phallic imagery.

Actually, the sword is just a weapon that mankind has used for millennia, unlike the gun which has only come about the last 300 years. As such, it represents the power to fight for one's ideal and resist in force, rather than resist in defense like a Shield.

>>3096855

>A sword is basically your tool in order to meet your ideal.
>The sword is the road you walk down in order to reach your goal.
>Some poets even described swords themselves as ideals.

I have no regrets, this is the only path.


... No really, I know that if I try, I'll fail (hooray self-fulfilling prophecies), so why waste time and energy trying?
I prefer being a quitter than a failure.

>>2335391

I am the bone of my sword
Steel is my body and fire is my blood
I have created over a thousand blades
Unaware of loss.
Nor aware of gain
Withstood pain to create weapons, waiting for one’s arrival
I have no regrets. This is the only path
My whole life was "Unlimited Blade Works".