Fate Lore - The Tale of Sakura [Stay Night & Heaven's Feel] 

OtakuDaiKun isn't she more of a tortured heroine?

It's a mix of both I'd guess.

Tortured heroin

OtakuDaiKun Welp in comparison she has it easier than what happened too SCP-231/7.

OtakuDaiKun. Sakura is literally the only human character with real tragic past (Sans Shirou and Kiritsugu) so I'm trying to understand the heaven's feel route. As best as i possibly can.

Mentally strong u say? Bro I don't think u can say anything about Sakura is mentally right after all she gone through. Old ass of a man truly completely killed her mentally now she just a empty vessel obeying orders

@@kingortizjr.7580 No, Zouken literally admits he can't break her. After a while his tortures and mind manipulation stop working in Sakura. That's why he gave up on the Fifth War during the first two routes. His plan came to fruition when he realized Shirou was the ONLY weakness in Sakura's mind.

@@kingortizjr.7580 there's a bad end in the vn where rin is the one that took sakura's place and she died really fast to the torture unlike sakura that was able to withstand it

@@LeonGun8 this

@@kingortizjr.7580 I realize I'm 2 years late to this but I have to say my piece, especially in regards to one of my favorite characters (in Fate). Sakura is mentally strong because she has lived and survived for nearly an entire decade under an abusive household despite the things that had been done to her throughout all those years-- from being raped at a young age and on a nearly daily basis by her (adoptive) older brother, to being implanted with Crest Worms (that can literally kill her if she even dares to try defy Zouken), and god knows what else the Matou family did to her, she has stayed (mentally) strong against all the abused piled up on her. Her personality shattered as a result however. Because in the end, Sakura is still human, and anyone who has been so severely dehumanized, taken advantage of, and undergone such hideous actions inflicted upon them WILL have their spirits and hopes broken even if they remain strong against the abuse. She's "dead on the inside" because it is the only way she can live in this situation she was forced into-- if she tries to rebel even just slightly, Zouken will double his abuse on her and will even flat-out torture her to death. Sakura has conditioned and made herself believe that the pain doesn't matter, SHE doesn't matter, thus she basically took all of her emotions deep into herself and locked it all away. Now Zouken has no other idea of how he can break Sakura; because if she makes it appear like she cares about nothing and/or no one, then he will have no leverage over her in order to use her for his own goals. It's only in the Heaven's Feel route wherein he realizes that there IS a weakness in Sakura's defense; Emiya Shirou. The boy she loves.

Ditto. Whan I started with fate I was like cool action and Waifus... then this hit me and you are here in this dark depressing room with no way out.

Same here man, thought Fate was all good(not that dark) until I realized Sakura's living in hell😱😡

It was like watching a ntr anime

@@yourdataispublic You've only watched fate i guess. Because magus are total asshole.

@@yourdataispublic tbh, Fate isn’t just all light and sunshine. Most universe’s situation are pretty mess up

Should the party be at Shirou’s place or should everyone go out to eat?

Oh, who am I kidding? Party at Shirou’s place!

@@wodahexe8400 *AWESOME!!*

@@wodahexe8400 yah, except sakura will be the one eating And Shirou would be killed without dying

Cue Celebration by Kool & The Gang

S' always the quiet ones that'll surprise you

I dont like them they are good target for ntr

All hail the... Mary Sue?

@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s I'd have to disagree on Sakura being a Mary Sue.

@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s that title goes for rin actually.

NarutoBleachPS3Fan WE HAVE TO SUPPORT SAKURA NO MATTER WHAT

NarutoBleachPS3Fan Is Sakura considered a yandere?

john paul songayab AGREE WE MUST PROTECT HER!

Thor's Hammer As far as i know i would say no just because of who she is as a character if she ever became one it's mainly Shinji or Zoken's fault for beating her down so bad not to mention she felt like everyone she knew had abandon her one way or the other and wants her to straight up die. Also if you take notice to anything Sakura Matou is in no matter what she is always have something really mess up happen to her where she can't be happy unless you have someone like Shirou to help you out.

NarutoBleachPS3Fan Hmm...Sakura was made before Yuno was...so wouldn't that mean she was originally the queen of yanderes? *X files music* I'm joking don't take it seriously

Frain Herschel Worms so uhh...wrong it makes you wonder if it came from a SCP document or something.

For over a decade, at that.

Thor's Hammer Same here some people don't give Sakura too much credit for her own strength i wouldn't last as long too.

I don't like sakura because she just isnt as cool or interesting as the other 2 female options. Just having a tragic backstory isn't enough to get me to like a character and her character is 70% tragedy 30% MUH SHIROUOOOO. She dosent feel real at all. Like imagine the 3 female romance options ported over to the pokemon universe. Rin and saber would have their own crazy wacky adventures but sakura just isnt developed enough to imagine her doing anything other then sitting still and being sad.

John Ashe IF YOU HATE SAKURA THEN WHY ARE YOU HERE?????

Yeah because it was his wish to give her away, sure :^))) Just for your knowledge: He was forced to give her away and never knew what happened to her. He wanted her to be safe and have the same chances as her sister.

Lio×Sakura When you do not what mage family will have her? He could've used a loophole of branch heirs.

They do NOT have to give them away. The only thing they can't do is divide the Family Crest, because that weakens the bloodline. the Magic Crest of a mage allows them instant access to the magic developed by previous heirs of the family and the new heirs are expected to improve upon the Family's magic and add new uses or powers to the Crest. In this way a family gets stronger the longer it has existed (the Tohsaka family is considered weak due to only being around 200 years old while the Emiya family were literally nobodies with less than a hundred years of history, and since Kiritsugu's father was "Sealed" Kiritsugu only had half of the Emiya crest). Now here's the thing, while a family of mages doesn't have to give away their kids, the kid who doesn't becomes the heir will live an inferior life as a mage as they lack the power of the heir of the family. Because both Rin and Sakura were incredibly strong mages and both equally as powerful, a traditional magus would instead look for a magus house that lacked a proper heir (like the Matou, where Kariya abandoned the family and left the house without a proper mage heir) and would give their unchosen child to that family so that they too would be able to live up to their full potential. And that's the crux of the issue. Tokiomi chose to act like a Magus instead of as a parent. He chose the strongest magical house for Sakura expecting Sakura to become a proper magus, instead of keeping her himself at the risk of her being weaker than Rin. And worst, because of his total blind loyalty to both Zouken and the Einzbern family,he gave Zouken his daughter without any issues and without even a single question asked.

@@LeonGun8 you ever think that the Matou family Crest deteriorating symbolizes both their magic capabilities since they don't learn or overcome the obstacles in mage craft they sought to 'cheat' as they are artificially supplanting magic into their bodies by force and so ruin any mage that could be their heir even without taking into account how screwed their actual household as Zoulken soul jumps probably in reguar intervals into his family stealing any growth or expansion as he is literally eating their household like a worm to a Matou mage... Really gotta hand it to you. Went full deep analysis. Way to be! All I can say is the Fate Stay Night Abridge from Mouthwash Productions. Really drives home how stupid Tokiomi is, but yep definitely up there with worst ignorant dads in anime/video games. If only he thought about possibly gauging his daughters first to the point where one could literally be the face of the societal face of their household/businesses to pay for all the expenses. Bloody hell Rin will not be able to afford that estate with no proper training or mentorship from her only living (trained) magus family member in their familial mage craft and magic teachings. All she will be able to do is recreate spells seen in her father's book and notes. No one to actually refine her skills as a mage. Alright I'm stopping here br I rant anymore lol

@@TheBeastr You just reminded me that it's actually canon in a few endings that Sakura has to run the business side of the Tohsaka and Matou states because Rin utterly sucks at it. So basically: Rin=Great mage, horrible administrator. Sakura=Uninterested in magical power but great at running the family.

Don't forget the third leg. He honestly never needed it.

HEY I WANT SOME OF THE ACTION TOO AND GIVE ME HIS LEG I MEAN HIS HEART

Thor's Hammer YYYEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Starts beating Shinji with Night sticks*

I want some too "takes out a pistol and begins too pistol wipe him to a bloody pulp then he leaves them to have their way with him

Raven rider were actually strong but shinji’s capability were literally shit

BigHeadClan me too bro

don't worry you can always look forward to how they will execute the plot since the movie is not 100% the same as the VN... ex. lancer and assassin did not have that exciting fight scene while running around the city in the VN

Many people have already finished the game and still would watch the films

Oh yeah you can still do it, but it can definitely take away something when you have source material to compare too.

Totally worth it, I was so confused after watching the whole series in America as so much is edited out and inferences only do so much lol

How.

Just finished heavens feel Felt like u went through the best bad end possible

kelvin webley have you tried the true ending? It’s also phenomenal to me.

Ozymandias Kang of Kangz yeah but it has the best use of kirei, sakura, illya, shinji, rider, rin and arguably shirou

@@junior_3676 totally agree, but I think that the best version of shirou will always be the one from ubw, however in hf there are versions of extremely interesting characters, such as rin or ilya

Damien Bussing Welp he's a little bit of stuff that can help you *Shinji and Zouken being torn to pieces by SCP-096 and being tested on by SCP-049*

well that makes things a little better

Damien Bussing There's plenty of other SCPS you can use to kill them.

I wish they would make a Fate?Stay Night ultimate that sort of combines all three routes

Maya Like timelines crashing on each other.

They must try out all sorts of stuff to keep it fresh.

@@otakudaikun LOL!

Rider is best girl too

@@mr.executioner5150 *yeah*

@@ZFAIRGENTLEMAN 😃

Yuwan Yes but in this he has to prioritize her over everyone else.

Well yeah,but through this way, his ideals were realized in some way, he saved everyone, by saving just one person alone.

to be fair its not like he did any better if he tried in the other routs since he basically follows the same principle that his father did and we all know how terrible that turned out for his father if you see Emiya assassin or just him not as a hero spirit

@@otakudaikun And that's what makes it great! It challenges Shirou's ideals of being a [Hero of Justice] that he inherited from Kiritsugu, who had the jaded mentality of [the needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few]. Shirou wants to save everyone no matter the cost, and no matter what happens to him along the way (see what happened to Archer). But by falling in love with Sakura, learning about the things she's been through and what she could potentially become and do, it all begins to clash with his own beliefs. Would he make the same choice Kiritsugu did? Would he sacrifice the person he loved if it meant that a greater evil would not be unleashed upon the world? In the end, the canonical choice is that [he doesn't]. Shirou does realize that he's essentially betraying his ideals (and by extension, the promise he made to Kiri), but he wants to save the person he loves, which by extension will also end up saving the world. So, in a way, he simultaneously goes against and still follows to some extent his idea of a [Hero of Justice].

nu, i love sakura's character but i think shirou's only healthy relationship is the one he had with rin, or at least the couple that seemed more realistic to me as a love relationship should be

Fate/Stay Night was originally a visual novel with 3 plot routes. What you saw, Unlimited Blade Works, was just one of the ways that grail war could have gone down. The route that focuses on Sakura is called Heaven's Feel, and that's what this video tells the story of. Think of the plot routes as different possibilities. The 2006 anime by studio DEEN mostly covered Saber's route, which is simply called "Fate" and ufotable is in the process of adapting Heaven's Feel into three movies, two of which are already out. Let me know if you have any other questions. I also have two videos simply titled "The Lore of Fate/Stay Night" which help too.

Ren Amamiya LOL DID SHE EVEN EAT HIM ○_○ !?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

john paul songayab yeah

She swallowed him. She had no time to enjoy her meal because she was worried Gil would tear her from the inside out.

Ren Amamiya Well she gobbles a lot of them. It's a great moment but doesn't really develop her circumstances.

HOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLY MOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLY (○_○)

Chikipichi I have no intention of letting that slide.

GundamBarbatos9 Veterans *Sakura Tohsaka

Dzulfiqar Bagas Tito Agreed

Blame Gen Urobuchi. The man is sadism physically manifest

Sadly if the tohsakas realized that they inherited the edelfelts twin inheritor trait they both could have been tohsaka mages and the matous would've fucked themselves...

Caleb Porter Yep

Chris G I would love to see that.

Swagger Joyce ooh thank you!

I probably view the timeline as this: Zero to HF to what would be a what if that leads to the Fuyuki Singularity in FGO

sakura can regenerate what would it have done?

He meant to use on Shinji

Rin is just useless. Her mind instead went instantly into "kill Sakura save the world" mode.

@HaloRocks What makes her so useful in the other routes again? Oh right, I forgot how useful she was attempting to neutralize Shirou for him not holing up in his house like a "good boy" during UBW. And then getting betrayed by her own servant and kidnapped. ANd in Fate she gets her Archer injured and taken out of commision for a good chunk of the plot making her literal deadweight (since she does dick+1 to the Servants). And she also gets stabbed by Kirei for good measure.

@HaloRocks Oh, yes, so I'm supposed to ignore the fact that the very instand Kirei tells her the truth about Sakura she defaults to "Mage mode"? Before that she was watching over her "as a sister". She had no idea about the experiments or anything relate to the Makiri magecraft. She didn't even know about frigging Shinji until Shirou tells her. She even admits later that she was scared shitless about finding the truth so all she did was watch her from afar. Shirou knew far more about her situation considering he knew she was being suffering physical abuse from Shinji. She didn't even know THAT.

panos zouzoulas Well yeah those films are gonna be a trilogy after all.

Same here, watched first two films and could not care about any of the characters, because characters I loved from UBW were irrelevant and new relevant characters were not interesting to me (even Shirou which I liked in UBW is boring here with his I'm going to protect you/romance stuff). The only thing I enjoyed was battle scenes. This video explains story much better. I was not going to watch the third film after the first two, but now I'm going to

What about Illiy?

I've heard that the reason Sakura wasn't as liked as Rin or Saber is because she admits to not being a virgin, and that was TOO HARD for the purity freaks to accept.

@@hjt091 I think it had more to do with the fact that the way she likely lost her virginity was due to a worm burrowing into her. THAT is much, much harder to accept. Which is in no way her fault, but that's still hard to get behind in your heroine. If she was just a slut, that's at least something we've seen before. But there aren't too many cases like Sakura's. Rin's father (and technically her mother) was murdered (can't forget they're Sakura's parents, too, although I wonder if she even knows how they died), Saber failed her kingdom, and Sakura... got infested, first by worms, then by Shinji. Sakura deserves better from the writers, as far as I'm concerned. And several rounds of delousing. Shirou, too, to be safe. And no telling what Sakura might have gotten from Shinji.

I'll gladly defend her with my life man

Yeah, I don't like him either.

OtakuDaiKun he only cares about his family’s life as mages rather than thinking about them having normal lives too. He could have kept Sakura with her family and just let her be normal. I think Tokiomi doesn’t deserve to be a mage.

TheToaprimezilla Sadly Tokiomi is a very typical mage. The association would probably agree which is crazy.

OtakuDaiKun I see but my only question is why didn't Kariya say anything to Tokiomi or his wife about Sakura's abuse and torture that Zoukan was doing to her. If Tokiomi had learned about this he probably would have got Sakura out of there

TheToaprimezilla I honestly don't know that for certain.

I hope she won't get happy ending on the movie trilogy. Because this route does not fit for such happy ending. I like Sakura so much, but route itself has a very dark side that deserve sad ending.

HA definitely clears up a lot of details regarding the HF route.

that's because she finally got tired of taking shit from people and became more true to herself.

Her issue is she's barren as fuck in Fate and UBW so unlike Rin, Saber or Shirou who had three routes worth of exploration they shove it all in HF. HA does her a lot of justice by letting her character breathe a lot more.

Arturia doesnt really have any character dev in UBW or HF, despite her spotlight. That's why i need an animated fate route. does ufo really think sunny day is enough to satiate me!?

Aden YANG what kind of details? I've played HA but I don't remember anything that wasn't already explained in FSN.

Yes, but this story’s been around since 2004.

RagnarokMasta I love your explanation and you're absolutely right. I slipped that detail.

Ehhh slight gripe from me though... The shinji thing doesnt even matter, his bodily fluids and any other mage or even a normal person would give her the same mana... Shinji just has shit magic circuits because his family has no clue what the hell they're doing and their bloodline died... You would think after all the studying that mages do that they would've at least kinda known that moving to Fuyuki would've done that, did it just never happen to any other mage family ever?

My point was that there is no reason for him to have done that but revenge, its not actually helping her logically, because she is powerful. If she was in need, him "supplying" her doesn't even actually do anything. Using HF as an example of when she is in actual need due to Zouken's bindings AND producing mana for Rider, Shirou, who is an actual magus even if lesser than Sakura and Rin, couldn't provide enough. Its important to note the difference because Kariya even says himself that Sakura can take much more than he ever can because of her potential, Shinji is as far as magus potential is, a muggle, seeing as in UBW route, he became a blob when the core of a lesser grail was put into him, while Sakura has had one since she was 5 years old.The point is that Zouken never planned anything correctly because he didn't really care about anything but accomplishing one thing, and became corrupt because of that one thing.

RagnarokMasta right... I was just commenting without a real need to correct anything it's just that 90 percent of what happened in HF would have happened regardless of whether she stayed with shinji or went to shirou... While she might not have killed shinji because that happened because of her physical relationship with shirou and not wanting to go back mixed with angra mainyuu's influence.

She killed him because he blackmailed her, not just because she wanted to be "pure for senpai". The text literally says the guy was trying to ruin Shirou, not just 'steal Sakura from him to humiliate him', he wasn't going to stop messing with Shirou just because she endured, that was the point of what she thought internally and why she wanted him to disappear, because he exhausted her goodwill totally. The guy had gone full crazed at that point.Plus your missing the context here, sure, she is the same magic experiment of Zouken whether she is with Shirou or abused by Shinji, but the fact of the matter is certain events happened because of the order of occurrences.

Glenn Vatista I really love Sakura myself the new Heaven's Feel movie made me love her even more!

NarutoBleachPS3Fan I watched Part 1 a few days ago and I couldn't agree more tbh. She's so caring for Shirou.

Glenn Vatista Oh yeah they really did a great job seeing her and Shirou throughout the movie was just awesome It was one of my favorite moments to add more seeing Shirou and Sakura's relationship going from friends to family then to lovers is a nice change of paste. I love Sakura's new outfit in the movie it's so cute!

Cuz originally, those crest bugs were in fact magic energy sucking penis worms that also ate pussy....lots of illegal pussy. They got changed to the more grotesque and spikier ones seen in the censored version of the visual novel.

the crest bugs have a couple of stages of development, so they have more then one form

itsguy 246 Thank you^^

Indeed. I have a completely separate video for Angra. The part that corrupted the grail was the part that the legends made him out to be and not actually the original guy. As for the aphrodisiac, I simply didn't go into that level of detail for time's sake. That said, an aphrodisiac makes ya horny, and when Sakura gets horny things get dangerous. I'm not sure which one to truly blame.

Angra Mainyu did hate humanity he is the embodiment of hate and the concept of "curse" the thing is he has been like that for what feels like forever so he kinda (not rely) got over it but its a basic part of his existence.You would hate humanity if you went through what he went through in that he was tormented for most of his life and only died from old age

Goddammit, Gilgamesh! I said stay at chaldea! I even asked Enkidu to keep an eye on you! yet here you are spying on sakura wtf gilgamesh. Ishtar won't be pleased...

Rank E- Luck *Launch Salts Shakers* u can't contain me laughs laughs laughs laughs at you