So in the end, why IS King Arthur a girl?
So in the end, why IS King Arthur a girl?
Because Takeguchi, the artist, didn't want to draw sex scenes from a female perspective.
The prologue from Rin's perspective was his small compromise.
Because peak anime design fit for a king
He didn't have to draw sex scenes in the first place.
What said. Originally nasu wanted Arthur male and the protag female but it was changed.
speaking of FSN, someone once told me that the VN Princess Waltz was very similar to the Fates VNs. how true is this?
King Arthur was a beardless boy king who was completely voluntarily celibate to the point that his wife had an extensive affair another man and had to be magically compelled into sex.
The idea that Arthur was a girl, while never a serious postulation, predates Nasu by decades.
Nah,that's not the original story
>Fate became as successful cuz the artist said "nah fuck you"
liking the irony here. Coulda been more generic the other way around, just enough for people to potentially not give a shit anymore unlike now.
Oh yes he did. You have NO idea how the japanese visual novel market worked at the time.
Until F/SN itself proved it could get along with only an atrophied handful of sex scenes, and then a few months later Clannad showed it could achieve meaningful success as an all ages novel, did the market undergo a change.
But before then? No sex, no sales.
"The original story" fluctuates wildly by region, bucko. Fate goes with Malory, Lancelot and Galahad are here, Sir Kay cannot grow 200 feet tall and shoot fire from his hands, deal with it.
japan just really loves giving girls male titles
Gendered titles and pronouns aren't really a thing in Japanese.
They don't even have words for "she" or "her", and have to translate foreign texts with "that girl" instead.
Ouji and Oujo are gendered, as are Kousei and Kisaki, but they're also frightfully specific unlike Ou.
>Kousei
meant koutei, ahem
>what is 彼女, 彼, 女, 男
Because it's gay
Because Fate is gay. Stick to KnK, Tsukihime and Melty Blood for anything Nasuverse related. It's much better.
I think the original reason given in game was the Grail made him a woman so he'd be less likely to be identified.
So if he was genuinely male then why all the angst about being secretly a woman in his actual lifetime and needing Merlin to magic him up a dong
In VN arturia was always female. She had to hide her identity to avoid being found out because camelot likely wouldnt take kindly to a girl as their king