GILGAPACK?! | Fate Strange Fake Episode 10 Reaction フェイト/ストレンジフェイク

Alcides most plot armor than john fake lmao😂

They skip a major part of the light novel but basically Caster is Alexandre Dumas, the famous author of Count of Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers. One of his Noble phantasm is called Musketeers' Masquerade: O' Musketeers, Challenge the Windmills. It is a support type Noble Phantasm which allow his target (which he choose John as his protagonist) rewriting their lives based on his experience and literary work. This time I presumed he used Edmond Dantes, the count of Monte Cristo as the basis for John because John saw the past when Dumas met Edmond Dantes. Caster might have used the famous revival scene of Edmond Dantes where everyone presumed he is dead to rewrite John fate and restore and strengthen him. If you haven't known of the Edmond Dantes, he is the main protagonist of the Count of Monte Cristo, he was falsely accused and to escape from prison, he faked his death and upon gaining strength he sought only revenge by becoming the Count of Monte Cristo. They really missed a chance to animate one of the strongest Avenger class servant. (Yes, Edmond Dantes is a servant and an Avenger class)

Ngl this episode was the biggest case of "Fate Strange/Pacing" they skipped the assassin/Sigma vs Jester fight and each episode just adds more and more skipped plot/dialogue content

Its peak anime but if we talk about adaptation… 🤐

Fun fact: it was actually not his fault this time, ishtar being summoned in HGW is not normal under any circumstance. So gil being surprised is valid, his only mistake was throwing that key.

That was still alcides’ arrow that shot gilgamesh at first, that paralyzed him basically, ishtar only closed the gates and brought berserker, whose presence also caused him to get shot

OUR Glorious king did not deserve this smfh, I knew I heard those fuckass Saxophones right before his gates closed 💔

the plot will always find a way to fuck Gilgamesh over it never fails they just dont want him to win 😭

Insane ep. 16:57 speaking of teaming, the amount of teaming they had to do for these 2 MFS, gilgamesh and Hercules, is insane. 21:28 yeah where TF is she at. Also I'm sure y'all already heard the dope news, but beastars new season is up, AND dorohedoro season 2 will be out on the 1st of April. Can't wait for those reactions.

C i n e m a.

They did Gil dirty. If he really dead i hope Enkidu fucks them up.

gil is just cursed to fail bro … each freakin time

Caster out here rewriting fate so causally kinda crazy.

Anime omissions from novel that was significant:
1. John was fighting Alcides much earlier. He gained better superhuman physicality and the others then made the opening for him.
2. Alcides did die to the hydra poison, but the immortality he gained from Chiron acted as a second life.
3. Richard gets faster the longer he fights, including his Excalibur blasts.
4. Gilgamesh used more shields, and Richard's blasts accelerated until it was a continuous beam.
5. Gilgamesh countered by tying his NPs together with the chain of heaven. Richard could dodge, but was forced to make one more Excalibur to protect Ayaka, hence the result.
6. Alcides VS Gilgamesh pretty much only had the end adapted. Alcides first used 9 lives with 3 arrows per shot, which ricocheted and homed in to shoot down all of Gil's NPs. Then, it escalated to Gil using elements in a pincer attack with Alcides using the full version of 9 lives that we saw.
7. Gilgamesh was horrified when he heard True
Berserker's scream.

So I’m back with more explanations to enhance the experience this week! This one is going to be a bit lengthy though because despite how awesome this episode was, they unfortunately left a lot out or didn’t explain things well. That’s where people like me come in. This post will include some spoilers, but I have that part marked off so you can skip it.

To start off: JOHN STRANGE FAKE LIVES!!! (His last name is actually “Wingard”, but no one calls him that. Now, the question is, how did he live? Well, it’s thanks to Dumas’ Noble Phantasm, Musketeer’s Masquerade. It allows Dumas to strengthen a target by revising their personal experiences with his or those of the characters in his works. He basically empowered John right before he died so he could survive the attack. Pretty simple, just not explained in the episode.

It should be noted that Gil was actually trying to destroy the church when the roof caved in, but Richard blocked it, resulting in his injuries and the hole in the church (which was probably just from Richard falling through). It’s something that can be understood through the dialogue, but many reactors miss that apparently.

Sadly we once again see Gil being the victim on his own arrogance, granted he had no idea someone who could actually use his key besides himself was here. Gil actually has a high luck parameter (Rank A), but you wouldn’t know that with the Ls he takes in this franchise. Hopefully we can one day get a version of him that isn’t as arrogant, but that is half his charm I guess, lol!

Now, concerning Ishtar, Javon was correct that normally it’s impossible for a being like her to be summoned in a grail war. However, Taylor was also correct in pointing out that this war is different. Because of the incomplete nature of this war, it opened the door for things other than heroic spirits to be summoned. Heck, even Faldeus remarked that summoning Enkidu shouldn’t have been possible in Whispers of Dawn. However, that is not how and why Ishtar is here. In fact, she would be what is considered an invader in this war. I’m gonna do a spoiler alert like last week just in case they cover this at a later time so you can skip past it if you want:

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Ishtar actually put a curse on the world that made it to where if both Gilgamesh and Enkidu were ever present at the same time in history again, then she could come back. As a goddess from their mythology she already has a bone to pick with them as Gilgamesh to be the bridge between humans and gods but ended up becoming a tyrant and Enkidu, the weapon created to fight him, ended up becoming his best friend. The gods didn’t like any of that. Also, for Ishtar it’s personal as Gilgamesh rejected her advanced towards him. There is a lot in it for her to be here.

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It should also be noted that Ishtar is an evil goddess. Heck, she told True Berseker’s master that she wanted to dominate humanity back in episode 7.

You were actually spot-on with the idea that it was partially Tine’s fault for Gil’s demise. In fact, the LN specifically calls this out. Unfortunately her literal child-like admiration for Gil clouded her judgement and she forgot her duties as a master in the moment.

Now to briefly explain Nine Lives. It’s one of Alcides’ trump cards. It allows him to shoot more powerful arrows than he normally uses and speeds he wasn’t utilizing before. It’s even described that he was pulling the bow with so much power and speed that it looked like it almost snapped the bow. He also did it more than just the one time in the novels. All we saw in the anime was his final barrage. Also, as a testament to how powerful those arrows are, the weapons from Gil that he broke were actually powerful enough to actually pierce the beast hide that even noble phantasm weapons have bounced off.

Btw, to give you an idea of how awful hydra venom is since both Gil and Alcides had to deal with it: Chiron from Greek Myth was an immortal poisoned with the venom and chose to abandon his immortality in response than to continue to endure it.

Okay, this has been rather lengthy, but I want to leave you with this last thing: the flowers that True Berserker left behind from their blast is a hint at who they actually are. I won’t go into further detail though. I’ll let the show (hopefully) explain their identity in time.

So far they were adapting things without cutting out too much things out of the Novel, however in this episode they left out a lot of things. After the anime is finished and you want to see more of strange fake I recommend that you read the novel, it is 100% worth it.

Having mentioned that though, the next 3 episodes should be really peak if they do things correctly so I’ll be looking forward to you guys reaction!