Why is Fate so popular?

No, the franchise and type-moon had healthy amount of fans.
Historically inaccurate waifus and cheap fanservice. I mean who doesn't want to fuck female moredred or nero.

This for most fags, but it was the archer stuff in ubw plus shiro's projection that I liked. Honestly I'd never seen anything like it in the way they'd done it before, so it was refreshing despite otherwise being cliched. Also loved HF 100% and I don't know why. It was just done right

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tons of waifu/husbando
huge worldbuilding (organizations like the Church, Chaldea, MA and they also have 3 different main branches, magecraft/servant/DA/DAA/TA/... lore though the lore might be bullshit sometimes)
powerlevels discussion
has many spin-off works with different themes/stories

That gave me the biggest boner known to man. Hope HF3 does NLBW right

Agreed, and I hope they do Sparks Liners High as an extra OVA or something. 100% kino

I want to see Sparks Liner High, Normal End, and Superhero all animated fampai

>lore though the lore might be bullshit sometimes
Blame Nasu and his bs retcons in the form of alternative timelines/universes. Even a slight inconsistency with his works that could be easily fixed, he regards as due to AU shenanigans like he did with Fate/Zero.

It has some great characters and some great stories.

That's enough for it to be remembered fondly and stand out even if the rest is mediocrity with powerlevels and waifus. Because most series can't even manage that much.

No matter how much you guys hate FGO, you gotta admit it is what brought Fate to the mainstream in Nipland. Whether or not that is a good thing, it is for (You) to decide

Almost every Fate works (especially FSN and F/Z) has a stable popularity but the whole franchise has become far more and more and more popular all thanks to FGO, especially in Japan.

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Animated Solomon when?

Maybe they will announce it after Babylonia anime i guess ? Solomon ranked 3rd in the vote, while Babylonia ranked 1st and Camelot ranked 2nd (this result is also the reason why we get Babylonia adaption first)

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I wish it was actually popular....so secondaries can stop being idiots and just read the damn VN instead of pretending. It's annoying

Archer was cool
Shirou was cringe

I didn't mind Shirou in UBW and HF. He's idealistic but in a way that's believable. I think his ending conclusion in UBW was stupid but not enough to make me hate him. In Fate I just hated him so much though, like he really needed to die

pandering and chinese bugmen love the shitty blank slate waifus

>oh no this guy defeated a demigod berserker
>which we couldn't beat even with two killing machines
>and everyone is already dead
>better get out and get killed so I can't save anyone
Shirou is braindead stupid, this part he didn't even follow his ideology he just wanted revenge for Ilya, she was already dead and he came down to get killed.
And it was cringe watching how he beats his futureself

No they don't. Dozens of such anime air every season and have terrible profits.

How accurate is this?

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Panders to literally everyone and everything.

It's moreso that FGO is mega popular in Japan...and Fate/stay night among VN readers

.. ufotable got anime onlies with zero and unlimited blade works

FSN's a classic in the visual novel community but saying it's popular there considering the small fraction of people who even know what a VN is...yah

Apocrypha started early in the season and you know... Braindead seasonal hype hivemind...sigh

Otherwise most of it is pretty exclusive to people who actually go out of their way to look into it

...also constant content from fgo and thank God a decent story for the main story arc currently is ensuring people on that will never shut up.

...also finding the braindead bundling in of everything as one title kinda annoying now. Just cause people have watched fate/zero doesn't suddenly make fate/strange fake share in its status

The downsides of being popular means you get ESLs like , which are loads worse than EOPs

I don't get Zero and Extra

It's well directed.
This is not the same as well written.
Its scene structure, its character development, its framing and its revelations, how it opens up its world to the reader piece by piece, leaving each scene a surprise, making you constantly look forward to what happens next, what next amazing thing will dazzle you. These are all top class, especially in the original Fate/Stay Night, which has completely magnificent structure to it, albeit with some pacing issues when Nasu wanted to talk about japanese cuisine. (But even those are meaningful moments for the main character.)
It just has a really, really good arc to it. Its prologue has strong hooks, its rising action builds tension, and its climaxes pay off its foreshadowing and expectations in full.
Very good direction. And good direction can salvage some terrible writing simply because it makes the experience a rewarding one. Then, when you get something well directed, you want a sequel.

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FGO is, not Fate.
90% of gacha retards spamming waifus and that trap never touched the VN.

For F/Z, read the chain of this post boards.fireden.net/a/thread/188030033/#q188030721

The problem with your post is Fate =/= FSN, it is not a visual novel but big franchise with different type of works. FSN, despite being the first Fate work, is just a part of Fate franchise after all. And FGO's popularity can also be counted as a part of Fate's popularity anyway.

Have you ever been in Japan?
FGO is "FF7 was first FF game" tier retardation. It's FGO branding that's everywhere, not Fate.

Those overpriced FGO vanilla wafers still make me laugh.

It's a meme VN.

I think the main appeal of the original type moon VNs is because they did the urban fantasy atmosphere well.

Is this image still accurate?

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It appeals to the lowest common denominator. Duh.

Replace them entirely with FGO characters and people crying about not getting their 5 star waifus after dumping hundreds of dollars, then yes.

The vast majority of the TM fanbase doesn't even know what Tsukihime is.

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Third panel's become "where's the Tsukihime remake" but essentially.
Powerlevels got way dumber too.

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the series is a doujin factory

Too popular porn game.

I hear Fate Strange Fake is getting really good reception and popularity in Japan, being the 2nd most requested anime adaptation in an official poll last year.

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There were people asking for an Ayako route?

Yeah that's what determines a series popularity, you fucking idiot
You must be completly retarded to believe that.

Many characters that appeals to many people
A huge universe
Some spin-offs are really good

I hope we will get an adaptation one day

F/GO is massively popular. Not Fate. It was the gacha shit that brought in over a billion. Sure Fate was popular, but F/GO took it to new levels.

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