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Snobby Gentleman
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
Age: 43
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End of War: Fate Zero
This is it! The ending, closure, aftermath, and epilogue to Fate Zero.
Now that Kiritsugu's overall story from the Fourth Holy Grail War has concluded the overall plot of the Fate universe has come full circle, that is for those of us who watched Fate/stay Night over six years ago.
What a closure summoning forth levels of high and best movie-film quality ever.
If there's one show to win for best anime of the year, then I nominate Fate Zero for: best characters- in terms of personalities, their philosophical ways of thinking, interactions with other characters, and dramatization; best pacing; best writing and editing- the writers knew all the way how to play their cards; best animation; best score and musical soundtrack; and best series of the year.
Now moving on to the characters that were given focus in the last episode.
Spoiler for Kirei and Archer:
So, basically, those two actually won the war and delighted at the seeds of tragedy and destruction that brewed all over Fuyuki City in the same vein as the Roman Emperor, Nero, did when he set Rome ablaze.
Gilgamesh will never cease to both irk and infuriating me as the jerk that he is, and thing is that being exposed to the Angra Mainyu allowed him incorporate himself in true flesh.
Kirei, as well, benefited from all the tainted evils of the world, becoming full of the one thing that he has truly been searching for: sowing tragedy and sadness in order to become a true living being but not being satisfied with the answer per se, because all the evils that let hell loose happened on pure coincidence, and he seeks now the source to the answer that fills him.
The moment that Emiya Kiritsugu averted eyes from Kirei looking desperate to find someone alive, that was the moment Kirei buried his former nemesis within the sands of time because the former ceased to become his equal before the now mad-Priests' eyes.
Spoiler for Kariya:
Guaranteed, along with Kiritsugu, Matou Kariya was one of the most tragic figures in the whole series, and one whom I wished more time was alloted to him on screen.
The brink of madness at the end made him to crush his only one and true love, and he only moved afterwards for the realization of a dream that, although he saw and clinged to it, it never came true. And, so he was crushed literally by his own family's insect parasites fading into the blanket of oblivion.
I burst in tears watching Kariya's dream, because it was a sad dream. It was a sad dream, because he only wanted to move his actions to secure his childhood friend and her daughters and getting the feeble reward from those pure girls, Rin and Sakura, to call him father.
That pure illusion is instantly crushed when Sakura in real time looks on Kariya's lifeless corpse being devoured by the insects, and she metaphorically swatted him aside with indifference on cold eyes for disobeying the Matou head.
Spoiler for Kiritsugu Emiya:
Another tragic figure that since his childhood had been losing loved ones in his quest to uphold to his ideals to save the world, and the so magical Holy Grail that would have granted his wish to stop the evil turned out to be a farce.
A farce that costed him to take a reckless decision that not only brought the end of thousands upon thousands of lives at the very end of the Holy Grail War, but completely shattered his philosophical belief that by sacrificing the minority then the majority of people can be saved.
The hell that materialized before his eyes made him to seriously atone for his deeds and choices, searching for even the tiniest speck of forgiveness. And after deathly wandering over and over the place with no fixed destiny but death everywhere, the man started to be overwhelmed by the darkness, until a tiny ray of light shone that gave him the bit of hope in his new quest for atonement that he much sought.
He saved the life of a little boy. A life he saved that Kiritsugu so much treasure it for he had saved himself by a saving one life.
Whoever that saves one life may have saved the world, or at least upon the eyes of that little boy, Kiritsugu Emiya not only save the child's world, but he became a sort of hero to the little boy.
After that, having lost his family, which became his final loss once being unable to save Illya afterwards, Kiritsugu settled permanently in Fuyuki City along with the boy Shirou adopting and giving his family name to the lad, in order to spend the remainder of his days at peace.
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