Why is Hollow Ataraxia so unpopular in the west compared to Stay Night even after receiving an official translation? It's fucking great, arguably better than the original in some regards.
>>749055683No anime adaptation
Not just in the "west", nobody cares about it in Japan either.
F/HA translation was intentionally held back for literal years until the hero, Archer, leaked a translation patch he had sitting on his hard drive--much to the fuming and seething of the faggot who was holding it back.
>>749055683I'll be honest with you. I've been a fan of Fate since Deen/Stay Night and I still have absolutely no idea what Hollow Ataraxia is. I think most people are the same shoes desu.
I never read it because HF felt really conclusive for Shirou and friends and I have no desire to continue
>>749057914What do you mean, you have no idea what it is? It's a visual novel.
>>749058295It's less of a continuation and more of a deeper look at some aspects of the characters and the setting which never got their time to shine in SN, like the backstories of the heroic spirits or what happened during the third war that made the grail so fucky.
>>749058420Yeah but is it a spinoff? Is it extra routes? Is it an alternate universe? It can't be a sequel because FSN concludes Shirou's story.
>>749058665It's a sequel in the same vein that Kagetsu Tohya isna sequel to Tsukihime. It's mostly low stakes and plays up things for comedy more so than the first game. Hollow Ataraxia is also responsible for many of Fate's memes, like shota Gilgamesh, mapo tofu, Lancer fishing, etc.
>>749059405>>749058665Also that said, afaik, it's labeled a fan disk. Imo it's basically a glorified bonus ep or in anime, the equivalent of an OVA. So it's understandable why others treat it as either non canon or irrelevant.
>>749059405Oh and it's where luvia was first introduced.
>>749059514Have you ever played it? It's dozens of hours long, way too big to be the VN equivalent of some sort of cheaply thrown together beach episode fanservice OVA.
>>749059635Also Caren and Bazett and Avenger and some other characters who you heard about but didn't see in SN, like the track team trio.Mapo tofu isn't from HA, though, it's from a scene from around the middle third of HF.
>>749059405How is it a sequel when Shirou fucks Kirei's daughter (Kirei also has a daughter now btw??) and is also the evil entity inside the grail? Everything I know about it sounds like fanfic.
>>749060437for intents and purposes, it kinda is but it's also written by nasu.
>>749060437>Kirei also has a daughter now btw??I think the daughter was mentioned in Kirei's backstory in F/SN
>>749055683Because it doesn't have an anime, and I imagine it is hard to make an adaptation of it because multiple time loops and different results.
>>749060437It takes place 6 months after end of SN.It takes place in a Reality Marble-like pocket dimension which loops the same four days endlessly. You might have heard some say that it's basically a dream but that's kind of a misinterpretation of what it is, people can enter it from the outside and the people inside aren't just a figment of anyone's imagination, most become aware of living in an illusory infinite loop by the end which is how they are usually convinced to assist the MC in ending said loop.
FHA should have been the Illya route, not whatever the fuck it is.
>>749055683Hollow Ataraxia has an official translation? I thought we were waiting on that still.
>>749060867She gets a lot of great scenes even so. Though in my memory she's kind of outshone by Leysritt and Sella.
>>749060908It had one since August last year.
>>749061081I had no idea, I wasn't expecting one so soon after the Stay/Night translation. Guess I'll read this shit finally.
>>749061142Seeing Type-Moon works on Steam is so uncanny still...
>>749060851>It takes place 6 months after end of SN.So, Fate is the one true canon route? Because Illya dies in the other two.
>>749061662Illya dies in all timelines, does she not?
>>749061662>>749061725Though dying does not exactly mean that you don't get to appear. Bazett is there.
>>749061725Nope, she survives in the Fate route. Although she only has a few years of natural life left due to what she is.
>>749058295Good news, Hollow Ataraxia isn't about Shirou at all.
>>749061867I know who you are thinking of, but even besides that, I feel like it's a story about learning to let go first and foremost. Which is obviously extremely ironic considering what happened to the IP since it came out in 2005.
>>749059514>>749060437It's the only sequel that was written by Nasu and is therefore canon.
>>749062004Well, the main story was indeed written by him. But the non-main story content has loads of guest authors, most of them friends of Nasu's and Takeuchi's from the visual novel business.
>>749061959Turns out money is stronger than passion.
>>749062213>>749062004The most obvious tell of this being the case, by the way, is that the H-scenes are pretty damn hot in this one, unlike Stay Night and Tsukihime. Sayonara, mollusks and educated prostitutes.
>>749060867fate illya>>>>>>>>prisma illya
>>749062516Agreed, but Prillya is also nice.
>>749055683>Why is Hollow Ataraxia so unpopular in the west compared to Stay Night even after receiving an official translation?Because it never got an anime.
Bump.
I think Oberon is a pretty neat character.
>>749066236Who?
