You gotta give the guy credit, he watches Morgan torch the fantasy tree Magellan and almost nuke everything in Olympus with a freaking Rhongomyniad , and then just goes like "Yeh, imma just waltz into Morgan's throne room like nobody's business"
he can kill any deity in one hit because of his altered spirit origin as an altergo. he thought morgan would be a god like zeus so he was confident that he could kill her easily untill he actualy got there. but the moment he saw morgan he knew he fucked up. then melusine kicked his ass lol.
Bro, It's Leeroy Jenkins energy is so Strong. And the fact he actually to beat Barghest and Baobhan Sith when coming to Morgan castle. Only losing to Melusine and Melusine was trying to kill the man multiple times but He still survive (Really the Goat)
His work ethic swinging from "I could kill you...but that's not on the agenda today sooo" to "take care of a lostbelt? Gotcha, I'ma go challenge the King immediately" is indicative that he's swinging between Shirou and Archer personality wise
Taking out Chaldea? Not something Shirou wants to do unless absolutely forced to. Dealing with the existential threat that is Faerie Britain? That's something he and the Foreign God can finally agree on.
A lot of sword smiths live their lives creating swords with fire and iron, but your own body being the material to craft a sacred sword? That’s metal as shit!
There's *way* more to talk about with that NP btw. Specifically how it relates to Shirou and his UBW. The entire thing is an Inversion of UBW. It has a chant similar to it as well needed to invoke which is used in full in Shinmosa. The entire reason he can even manage to make the damn thing is because he uses UBW to manifest its landscape of infinite swords and inverts it to become a sword of Infinity. He's literally swinging a condensed Reality Marble in the shape of a sword. PS: the only time we see this happen in any other event in Fate is when Koyanskaya gets put in her egg by a self-proclaimed Grand Caster candidate.
Untrue. Jeanne's La Pucelle NP is also a Reality Marble in the shape of a sword. The demon skeleton that Nobunaga occasionally summons is the physical form of her RM. There's also Nursery Rhyme.
It was stated somewhere I can't remember where bit it was said in game that if Shirou somehow survived to reach old age his personality would be very similar to the personality of the Muramasa we summon
So Shirou ends up being a pretty interesting choice of host for someone like Muramasa. On a technical level sure, his affinity for swords is a great match, but Muramasa's nasty-sounding nature is quite different from Shirou. This possession appears to be a blend of the two personalities, and the end result is a servant who's a grump with a heart of gold. From what I've seen of Stay Night, Shirou's big characteristic there is always wanting to do the right thing amid the amoral world of magecraft he's been thrust into. As a servant he has less freedom to go against the Foreign God's wishes, but that moral core is still there driving him to help or at least not impede Chaldea whenever possible. And Muramasa for his part comes off as the type who'd hate being bossed around and would rather be left alone to do his thing, so Shirou's soft-disobedience would be fine by him.
I mean, OG Shirou in the VNs was actually rather snarky about everything, and his trauma was that much more apparent in his inner monologues, he just never really actually said any of it out loud. It didn't really carry over to the anime, which is why he seems so much nicer than the VN Shirou. But yeah, a grump with a heart of gold, that's the perfect description for MuraShirou.
I love Muramasa. When Master goes to spend some time with him during Valentine's Day, he fusses and frets so much about "What do kids like these days?" Then it comes to him "I know! MOCHI!" Such a good grandpa with Shirou's influence showing through. I can imagine if Shirou ever had kids, he'd be a bit like Senji and find ways to relate to his grandkids/spend time with them like that while telling stories.
Parvati's line about Muramasa also implies that Shirou might be a Descendant of Muramasa. I would also recommend you checking out the typemoon fandom for extra tidbits that they sprinkle about the Servants outside the game.
@@CrazyYurie The Typemoon Fandom. Unlike the Fate Grand Order Fandom which only provides info from inside the game, this one is the collective lore fandom for all works under Typemoon (though for the past few years, it has become a Fate series lore fandom due to the fact None of the other Typemoon works other than fate have recieved any new installments in either game or novel form.)
I'd recommend taking the wiki with a grain of salt as it's not always reliable I did some edits and accidentally made a mistake, I decided against correcting it to check how long it'd take to correct, it took over a year on Oberon's page during his release period on NA, so not great
Well, a few things: Flame EX actually has nothing to do with what happened in LB 6. The flames he uses are the ones you find in his pseudo reality marble which he deploys for his Noble Phantasm. He just draws upon the flames from there to power his attacks which makes sense why it charges his NP so much. Even then, the flames are also representative of the flames used by blacksmiths to forge their blade which also gets him closer to forging his ultimate blade therefore another reason why it charges his np. Karmic Eye also has close ties to both Shirou and Muramasa. For Shirou, this could be seen as a combination of EMIYA's 2 skills, Eye of the Mind (True) and Clarvoyence/Hawkeye. Eye of the Mind (True) being the ability to predict the moves of an opponent based on experience, which is why EMIYA could keep up with Herc, Cu and Sasaki despite being slower than each of them. Clarvoyence/Hawkeye are skills that give heighten perception and allows for a more percise hits and optimal moves, hence the crit focus it has in game. Muramasa on the other hand has a passive called "Connosier (Can't spell :P) of Blades" which symbolises his vast knowledge of swords and explains his own ability to use them effectively. He would likely understand the foundation of how a sword moves better than most allowing him to understand high level sword techniques. All this accumilates to Karmic Eyes which combines these aspects into one skill allowing Muramasa to break any defense instead of defending himself, and hitting more persicely with great skill. It fits the both of them and works rather well for this character. Then there's the first skill which I will not attepnt to type the name of. Yeah, this is basically Muramasa's version of Projection and fits more Shirou than Muramasa. However Projection as a magecraft is a perfect fit for Muramasa himself. The process of Projection is an advanced form of gradiant air, a low level magecraft which replicates the properties of objects. Projection takes it alot of steps further by copying the history and creation process of the object as well. That's why, while every mage is capable of using Gradiant Air, they'd never be able to use projection on the level Shirou does. Projection is essentially Blacksmithing but as a Magecraft. There's about 8 steps required to project even 1 blade. Muramasa being knowlegdable about Blacksmithing makes this skill even stronger than it already was. Then there's Muramasa's goal of creating the Ultimate Weapon. This likely stems from the story he was in with another blacksmith Masamune. There, they each create a sword, Muramasa creates a sword that can cut through anything while Masamune's cuts through anything that's not good in nature. While it's definately a false tale, it's stated that those blades are the goals for thier respective smiths which is the only instance we have of Muramasa even having a goal in the first place which explains why that's his goal in the story. Honestly I like Muramasa's depiction in fate, they took everything on him, fused it with a version of Shirou that became a proper mage, and created an excellent Character fusing some of the best aspects for each.
@@duelist4512 "FGO Material XII" the official material books that talks about servants and there skills. What it directly says: " Using one's whole body and soul to work the forge, to the point of burning themself. At the end of a pilgrimage, his actions on the "Inner Sea of the Planet" were engraved in the Throne of Heroes, resulting in the creation of this skill. It is Similar in nature to Altria Caster's Holy Sword Creation but it only affects Muramasa Gains 50% NP Gauge, applies Special Attack against Evil, Special Attack against Threats to Humanity and Increases NP damage As a side note, this skill was supposed to have a 2-turn stun after use (actually, it should have killed him straight up, but that would be too convenient), but since he was implemented earlier than Chapter 6 of Part 2, the stun was removed to prevent spoilers. Instead, the effect was changed to a simple skill effect."
@@dandragonmc Well, that's interesting, kinda sounds like how Jeanne's NP worked before it got buffed. I never really saw Flame as a skill that would only exist because of LB 6 because of how Muramasa seemed to work before then. Flames has been apart of his astetic since Shimosa. (God I suck at spelling...)
That was an idea I came up with in the process. I'd recorded several runs with Muramasa while trying to find the right animations. So when it came time to mention that he's a great looper? Having a bunch of loops happen while that's being said just made sense. XD
My theory on Muramasa's NP for his saber form is that rather then a recreation of a divine blade, its a culmination of all the swords he forged in his life manifested as a single blade
I wish we’d get to see his rival Goro Ryudo Masamune one day, I wonder if he would be another pseudoservant in the form of someone Shirou knows or if he would be summoned as a regular servant.
I'd like to mention that another reason Projection is such a good fit for Muramasa is that, as a servant, he's too strong. Every swing he takes, even with them being his own nearly divine blades, shatters them to bits. Getting to create a new weapon for each swing eliminates that weakness, allowing him to actually fight as a saber. I assume that one-swing restriction is part of why Tameshi-mono is a one turn buff, despite his swords theoretically being much more well made than Shirou's Projection
When Someone with so little background to know got one of the longest video. You know he is the GOAT. Also, for the Muramasa blade being not as durable. I don't agree, the reason being Muramasa blade was famed to be so sharp that it can cut through many things with ease. Especially human, this is probably why most people think the blades are demonic. It is simply merciless in that, it can cut through the living with ease. (This reasoning is also because, there is a tale about Muramasa and Masamune rivaly. Long story short, Masamune ended winning because Masamune blade will not cut those who are worthy meanwhile Muramasa will cut through anything the wielder choose. You can check on RU-vid, it's pretty cool) And another reason, Muramasa has skilled that can maximize a weapon destructive potential at the cost of it breaking. Sort of similar of Emiya using Broken phantasm. This is why in Shimousa, Muramasa blade immediately break after using. It is not because the blade is not the durable, Muramasa just maximaze the blade potential. Tho safe to say, people mention that a single failed Muramasa sword is worth 10 normal sword. That's just saying how good Muramasa bladesmithing is.
11:48 wait, I could have sworn this was stated in game explicitly, though? Maybe I'm remembering wrong and saw it somewhere else, but I definitely recall this information being told to me somewhere before.
While the connections to Shirou are deliberately obvious, to me, when playing through the story Muramasa reminded me of Kurogane from Tales of Berseria. Both are renowned blacksmiths obsessed with their craft even after "betraying humanity" (becoming a daemon for Kurogane, and being contracted to the Foreign God for Muramasa). Both desire to forge the ultimate blade, and have even created a sword named after themselves that could be considered their magnum opus (Tsumukari Muramasa for Muramasa, and Kurogane Stormquell for Kurogane). Both constantly create blades that fall just short of perfection (Muramasa's demonic blades and any sword broken by Stormhowl for Kurogane). Both act as the grumpy grandpa of the group due to being older than anyone else in the party. Said obsession with creating the ultimate blade reaches it's peak at the end of their stories where they turn _themselves_ into the sword (Excalibur for Muramasa and Kurogane Stormquell for Kurogane). And both would gift said blade to the person who gave them hope again (Castoria for Muramasa and Rokuro for Kurogane). Man, when you pointed it out, Muramasa really did go out in the best way possible. Got to forge a divine sword like he's always wanted, was able to stop his surrogate granddaughter Castoria from sacrificing herself and managed to break his contract with the Foreign God all at the same time. Respect.
Damn Muramasa is freaking awsome. I love his rebellios attitude towards the foreign god, hes literley in perma malicious complience mode, and I also realy like the role reversel between him and Artoria Caster. Imagine they still act that way once summoned to Cheldea, must be wary weird to watch fore Saber Artoria as well es Archer.
Late but the skill against Kings fits when you realize that most outside of Japan didn't really understand the difference between the Emperor and the Shotgun and the Shotgun basically acted as whatbevery other country at the time considered a King or Emperor to do.
I would love to see a full video on Yui shousetsu sometime. I feel like we really sleep on them in the west since a lot of us never learned about him in history
Muramasa picking a body: ah shiro he can use be like huh projection sorcery to make swords and he is into swords and might be family man this was much easier then I thought he was like on on the top suggestion list and has lots of info on already that was easy😅 thanks throne
its the man himself. he was the reason i started fgo. I got him to np4 on his realise and managed to 120 him during new years. absolutly up there with herc and lancelot as my favorite servant in fate
Idea for a future video: How LORE Accurate is Ereshkigal actually? The challenge: explain why Ereshkigal is Chaotic Evil. Although... even better: a video where you try to explain the questionable Alignment of some Servants. I already mentioned Ereshkigal is Chaotic Evil. But... Did you know that Altera is Chaotic Good despite being based on Attila the Hun?
Considering how craftsmen are usually put into Caster classes, I'd have preferred seeing a Caster design Shirou. Territory Creation and Item Construction are skills specifically for making workshops and crafting tools.
Just a thought: UBW is like, a super rare one of a kind ability. We’re talking beyond even Mystic Eyes of Death Perception levels of rare. It’s very likely if any legendary blacksmith, divine or otherwise, can only ever manifest as Psuedo Servants with the body Emiya Shirou. He’s a literal human smithy and the only one that exists across the multiverse of Fate timelines. He doesn’t just happen to be perfect to be a host for a blacksmith Heroic Spirit, he’s quite frankly the only one in existence.
As someone who has Muramasa as his favourite servant in the entire franchise, I must say i was deeply disappointed by the fact that Nasu decided to use him in LB6 The fact that he went into interviews saying that he wrote Muramasa's role in that story to make full references to FSN with castoria killed almost all possibilities for people to see him as his own character and now almost everyone just goes and self insert Shirou in him, which became worse considering how many lined towards FSN servants he has such as Saber, which are just bland nostalgia baits And before someone says that he sacrificed himself out of free will, Nasu also said in an interview that Merlin deliberately manipulated him into killing himself for Artoria's sake, hence why he started saying shit like "oh but what transpired here was FaTe" In the end, I find Muramasa's case to be rather tragic because of Nasu's incapability of respect his character, which is why I end up despising Castoria and LB6 as a whole so much It was a story that narratively and literally killed Muramasa as a character so bad that in summer 8 one fucking line to A.A caused huge controversies around him again and brought back all those people who refuse to treate him as character LB6 is a story that, for me, served nothing more than turning him from "an amazing swordsmith that could craft the ultimate blade" to "hey lets have a shirou face saving an Artoria face" 💀 I hate Nasu
@@CrazyYurie I don't know if you heard about it, but there was a survey in Japan where they asked the players, in general, who were the male servants who they expected to receive a summer costume (no summer alt because this game is so against that) Oberon came on 1st place and Muramasa on 2nd, and since he received a damage bonus boost during the event everyome was expecting something. It turns out that A.A had contracted Muramasa as a bodyguard because "Muramasa's first ascension can be considered a swimsuit" and was the reason he never participated in the event at all. His only dialogue in the whole event was "that was a stupid monologue" to A.A with an annoyed face while he was in her office, but the people took it in order to feed there desilusions with that disgusting ship Shit was so bad that social medias where on fire for months because Nasu keeps feeding those desilusionals with more references to the fate route. This is just another reason for why I hate LB6 so much. Making Muramasa's whole role about being used for references between Shirou and Artoria ended up causing that people no longer see him as Muramasa but just a shirou clone or something so they can self insert Shirou on it, which is even more tragic when you see how his bond 5 line is about Muramasa having an existential crisis and is trying to have the player reasure him that he is Senji Muramasa.
Ok I'm gonna be short, I love those videos you make, as a huge fate fan and mythology enjoyer, and you deserve more views for them. I've just binged your entire playlist of this series.
If I really had to give a class to muramasa outside saber, it'd be caster. "Oh hey I make some of the most cursed swords in Japan." Plus A lot of inventors like Tesla, Edison, and Babbage are casters as well.
That's one of the things I really like with FGO. The Pseudo-Servants are really just fan service, excuses to create playable versions of non-Servant characters. They didn't actually need to go so hard with the story telling with them, but they did, and it is amazing. I'm really looking forward to next time you do a Pseudo, because they are all pretty fascinating.
no, just maybe remind him why he should be careful around her, beside let's be honest he deserves it after how he treated her, but i don't mean murder@@CrazyYurie
