Fate/stay night (Heaven's Feel): The Final Battle - Emiya Shirou vs Kotomine Kirei 

I like how Shirou takes only two-three tries to recall Kotomine's name, while he is having difficulty recalling Illya's...truly, the Kirei route

Kirei: Proceed to beat the shit out of Shirou *Emiya theme fires up* Kirei: Proceed to beat the shit out of Shirou.

Hundred of blades are growing out of my body. An inescapable death by skewering. I am the bone of my sword. But I already knew that.

"My face hasn't turned into swords yet" I love that line so much

"We only have a few minutes left to live. Let's chat about the nature of good and evil for a while."

That moment when you realize that the final battle of a magical battle royale story between mythical and historical heroes involves a straight up, manly fist fight between two "normal" humans.

My favorite part about this fight is the fact that Shirou likes Kotomine Kirei. Unlike Kiritsugu who couldn't understand Kirei at all, Shirou is also empty like Kirei.

HF TL;DR: Shirou get's sakura pregnant and wants to do an abortion, local priest gets in his way.

"I like Kotomine Kirei" This is why Heaven's Feel is Kirei's route.

"As my body is destroyed, swords are created trying to keep it alive." I'll be SO missing Shirou's inner thoughts during the final movie x.x They are what make the Visual Novel so great.

*Just a normal year of a High School Student of Emiya Shirou.*

24:25 is single best part of the whole VN, I swear to god.

"You said an older brother protects his little sister, right? I'm the older sister. So I have to protect my little brother." That scene will be godly in the anime movie.

"I don't want to admit it. But it seems... I like Kotomine Kirei." Finally KIREI becomes the main heroine on this Movie

What i loved about this fight is that Shirou starts punching Kirei the moment he realizes something. He isn't empty anymore, what made him similar to Kirei isn't there, Shirou has something that is worth fighting for, love, wanting to protect someone you love, something more tangible than being a hero of justice.

-manly brawl between Chinese martial art user priest and sword porcupine -best sibling sacrifice scene truly All the good in this life

The problem is, Kirei is half right. Angra Maniya is not evil, just incapable of feeling anything but hate (and for good reason).

"I keep doing it in spite of the pain, because people can't live without oxygen" Well at least he knows that people die if they are killed.

Shirou vs kirei: Battle of equals. Shirou vs Gilgamesh: Battle of opposites Best two routes.

Still bummed that they didn't include "I like kotomine kirei", biggest sin of the whole trilogy

"Things won't go conveniently right for me!" Things end up going conveniently right for him. Oh, Shirou.

Its such a shame so many people wont read the VN and miss out on epic moments like these because "mUh iM nOt G0nNa rEaD 100 hOuRs Of hEnTaI" even though the H Scenes are explained albeit not well written and are less then a fraction of the game give or take.

I remember when I did it, all the things I felt. That fight was just powerful. Kirei and Shirou's determination were so beautiful.

Can't believe it took me watching this multiple times to realise that shirou isn't worried that kirei will crush his head, he's afraid that ANY damage to his head will trigger the swords to try and reinforce the injury, resulting in his head turning into swords and dying in the way he's actually scared of.

This is one of my favorite fights in all of fiction. It’s a shame ufotable treated it as an afterthought instead of a main event.

That whole dialogue before the fight made Kotomine my favorite character

The biggest problems in the anime adaptation of Heavens Feel were in fact, the immense numbers of cut monologues that were essential for the development of the story and Shirou character, poor Illya basically excluded from the story and important facts omitted, all in favor of unnecessarily long battles and an exaggerated focus on Sakura and her Fanservice, but that's okay because I was looking forward to this masterpiece scene and I felt in my heart that they were not going to be able to ruin it ... I just say one thing: disappointment, they ruined everything that this scene develops; Shirou realizing how his ideals are distorted and equal to Kirei and admitting that he liked him, how Shirou and Kirei are exactly the same, but still opposites, the orgasmic Shirou scream and etc ... at least Illya's sacrifice was beautiful like in the VN, even so it is not enough to forgive how much she was excluded from the other films, after all this was to be the route of Sakura and ILLYA, the movie is so fucking shallow (And before someone comes up with the same fallacy as always: "Ah but you are an elitist/hardcore", "ah but it is impossible to adapt 100% of a VN in an anime" Yes it is impossible and I never expected it, but I expected at least one decent adaptation that would cover the essentials and not simply remove important characters like Illya and monologues to make 40 minute long edgy fights, also R.I.P Mighty Wind and Hikari to yami)

19:57 And… the movie adaptation literally has a scene where Kotomine and Shirou punch each other in the face. I know they’re limited on how detailed the adaption can be - but goddamn. Not only does it make the fight inconsistent - but it literally goes against what Shirou was attending to do

Ilya....Ilya!Ilya!Ilya!Ilya!Ilya!Ilya!!! my tears....ah~~~

Fate has resonated with and influenced me on a way no other literature can. This is truly a masterpiece.

Shirou sure have bad day in highschool year. I feel sorry for him

I can't be the only one who's crying about illya...

Kirei is like king bradley, nobody can kill him until the very end, and even in the verge of death he can put a good fight.

Oh nah 2 half dead men running fade and boxing each other? This shit is one of the most epic VN

How badass do you have to be to punch someone with literal swords growing out of their body.

"I like Kotomine Kirei."

Shirou remembered Kirei's name. Kirei is best girl

That was my fucking favorite route of the whole Visual Novel, made me cry like a bitch many times, specially the ending. I hope Ufo makes a good adaptation, to do it justice.

the thing is kirei is actually correct regarding angra mainyu, he is only cursed by the people, but was not actually evil. Since he indirectly saved people he became a heroic spirit, and throughout his slumper he only know of anger. that is, until f/ha came out

This and nine lives are amazing

I think all the VN Readers need to understand something. I’m a VN Reader, and I understood this perfectly when I watched it: Adaptations will always lose something. For Visual and Light Novels, this is especially prevalent. The Index Light Novels are the best part of ToAru, while the anime is all mostly mediocre with some good arcs and moments at best. We Fate fans have it different: our anime adaptations look way more beautiful than most other adaptations thanks to Ufotable’s work, and Spring Song’s (and Heaven’s Feel in general’s) extensive work over the many years just bleeds with how much passion each and every person put into making it good. It *looks* and *feels* amazing, because everyone cared. I can’t say the same for 90% of all LN and VN adaptations. We’re lucky. This movie isn’t perfect, but your expectations for believing a movie would be as good as a book made you disappointed. That’s rarely ever true, but you need to acknowledge that they did an amazing job nonetheless. I remember sitting in the theater with my girlfriend, who wasn’t a VN reader, and she was shocked, surprised, and cried at moments that I did when I read the VN, while I was enamored with the beautiful art and animation and voice acting and music. So clearly, people that haven’t read the VN consider this a great movie. At some point you need to drop the elitism and acknowledge that this movie did far and away better than most other, weak anime adaptations.

I love the irony of Shirou fighting to stop Angra Mainyu, all the world's evils from being born only after he cast his ideals of heroism aside. He only gets to be the big damn hero in the route he decides to simply be a hero for the people he cares for.

It was once mentioned that kotomine’s and Rin’s fighting style for Chinese martial arts, is based on Li shu wen’s ba Qi quan, Ba ki Ken. Li shu wen is summoned as a servant too in the fate series.

now where are the secondaries saying that FSN is childish? because this is manly af

12:39 Shirou being a tsundere.

I imagine who was lucky to play this and get to this point in history when it was released. imagine the fucking joy on playing this on 2004

Two of my favorite fictional villains died standing, without regretting the way they lived. Kino.

I cannot fucking wait for the anime adaption of this epic fight.

This really makes the movie version look like a bad joke.

I'm just picturing Crispin Freeman making this speech. He plays Kirei so wonderfully, with an oozing honey-kind-of-voice.

Kirei is best girl.

Shirou: I like Kotomine Kirei. Like a tsundere admitting they like their crush.

I saw signs of it in HF2, but I'm truly sad Ufotable went for spectacle over raw emotion and feeling in the later half of the HF trilogy. Imagine actually thinking this fight is complete without Hikari to Yami.

Just finished the movie, The fight itself was not as good but the illya scene is definitely tear jerking.

I've read and watch so many fight in books, novels, manga, movies, and I can certainly say this is one of the top 5. the emotional weight, writing and action scene is done with such perfection

god I still can't believe how much this scene got fucked in the movie

This needs to be made into an anime. I'm just saying: this franchise is one of the most loved in Japan and even the world.

this was one of the best confrontations I have experienced from any kind of story related media. this visual novel, and fairy tale for two are what got me hooked on Japanese visual novels. those things are insanely good reading material, and than you get these very unique stories to go along with it. sadly I think people are wrongly put off by visual novels because of the sex contained in most, but to me these helped add a more human depth to the stories. things moved beyond puritan story telling and hit the more raw side of reality.

*cries* illya :(

Just remember kids... "People can't live without oxygen" -Emiya Shirou, 2004

A local preparatory student sword boi fights a priest to decide if the student girlfriend gonna do a abortion

If Ufochan gets this shit nailed in the movie, I'm gonna go nuts

So much better than the movie. I understand a movie cannot always perfectly adapt a novel but they didn't even try.

"Things won't conveniently go right for me." Kirei: HA, SIKE- Oh, wait. Fuck.

The movie should’ve learned more dramatization from the vn tbh

Makes me cry seeing Illya looking like Irisviel in her last moments.

Off topic, but I would buy the BDs just to see Sparks Liner High adapted as an OVA plus normal end

33:51 imagine how heartbreaking it will be in the anime

Kirei is basically like animal activists protecting Godzilla right to live

Thank you, Illya, for everything.

I really love this fight Shirou Emiya Vs Kirei Kotomine is way beyond epic just well done Ufotable make Heaven's Feel truly a masterpiece that a god would fear it of the epicness and make Sakura Matou a really well done character so people will love her more :3

Came here to wash my mouth out of bitter taste the third movie's depiction of this fight left me after I watched it.

He didn't even use the Chinese martial arts in the movie lmao

24:25 that moment when words fail you and the music is just fucking perfect.

Manliness overloaded

The ost of this scene is way too epic

tbh i expected more from ufo's version. i get it, monologue is hard to adapt but damn not even the sakura fragments? what's the point of it being cool looking if there's no emotion..

THIS ILLUSION piano is so good.

Since he has an artificial heart made of grail muck, does that mean Kirei's technically undead?

Way better in the VN Still liked the movie but they cut or changed things too much

33:51 when someone asks you who you think are the best 9 characters in the fate series

I'm excited for this fight and 9 Lives fight as well in the upcoming ufotable project.

the best fight ever

me and my friend were reading this and predicted a lot of the events (this isn’t a bad thing honestly we enjoyed the guessing) that were going to happen such as shinji causing sakura to lose it and rule breaker being used on sakura. but neither of us even considered Kotomine being the final fight. (Mainly because of how he was dispatched in UBW) What a finale to the vn jesus christ

I really like this scene in the battle between men.

On the movie, Shirou puts a good fight. In the novel, he gets his ass kicked... Ufotable nerfed Kirei for the last fight :v

Rider vs Saber Alter was a visual spectacle in the third movie , but the brtual fight between these guys was my favorite

Doing bad things for good reasons vs doing good things for bad reasons.

Considering how good Lost Butterfly was, Spring Song is going to be insane with these epic HF scenes.

The movie's final battle didn't even come close to the quality of this finale of the VN. Easily the biggest reason why that movie didn't live up to potential.

STANDING HERE I REALIZE YOU ARE JUST LIKE ME TRYING TO MAKE HISTORY BUT WHO'S TO JUDGE THE RIGHT FROM WRONG WHEN OUR GUARD IS DOWN I THINK WE'LL BOTH AGREE

man the movie completely butchered this section, from plot to music to direction, god damn

Don't lie, you're in hype to see this moment in Heaven's feel 3 spring song. Ufotable please, adapt this scene as best you can!

When Emiya starts playing in this scene in the movie(s) I'm going to freak out

In the end, what decided the fate of the world was just two half dead men having a fistfight

Heaven's Feel should have been a 25 episode anime instead of a movie. This is the main reason why they had to rush everything and therefore iconic scenes like this were not done well and the inner monologue ws lost. It's better than most adaptations of other series but sadly did not meet expectations.

Still mad about ufotable's adaptation weeks after watching rn

24:54 Trace on... Trigger off... Set Falcon punch Blade Works

The Fake Priest vs The Fake Hero.

Am I the only one who finds the score here to be REALLY disturbing and scary?