Seven Year Pay Off | FateStay Night UBW Abridged 

Btw, we're definetly doing HF after UBW.

"Archer is the absolute worst run where everything went wrong" EMIYA Alter isn't real, he can't be hurt in this reality.

The fact that "I killed my son!" is more devastating to him than "I killed Kennedy." is funny-

You missed the part where Lancer told the runestone to find the greatest source of sass present.

The nightwing joke is because archer made an analogy with himself as batman and shiro as nightwing in the previous episode

The title of the episode is also a joke the ep 0 title was 'speak of the devil' (where we were introduced to Archer) and this episode where Archer identity is "revealed" is named 'and he shall appear' so a little joke about him being "Actually Satan" and the whole 'welcome to Hell' bit in the beggining is also a call back to Rin saying that his Reality Marble was Actually Hell back in one of the earlier episodes. (Sorry for the paragraph, just had a lot to say)

Counter Guardians were always heroic spirits. This was established as in the Fate/side material book which was released alongside the VN. Page 56. It explicitly names Counter Guardians as a variant of Heroic Spirit.

makes you want to rewatch the entire series just for seeing the call backs again.

The Nightwing joke @ 5:32 was a reference to when Shirou referred to himself as the Robin to Archer's Batman when they fought Caster the first time and continued when Archer said that he went from Robin to Nightwing in the last episode.

Glad you like the flappies! it's lot of masks, tracking and colour correction like Logan said he gets us custom flaps for wherever we can squeeze them in! Gunna miss lancer ~

As a fun fact, Shirou's line "Even if my whole life becomes Unlimited Blade Works, Mine. Will be different than Yours." Is TRUE. ENTIRELY TRUE. The UBWs of Shirous who don't become a Killing machine like Archer all have a Clear Sky. Except Oath Under Snow, where it's an ever frozen hill of dead snow. Empty yet filled with graves Because that shirou has lost everything that would ever be seen over that freezing cold.

"it stores everything I see, with the aspect of being a sword and prepares it" hes not saying "I copy only swords" hes saying "I translate everything into swords"

Project Mouthwash did a big mic drop for this episode, bravo

16:40 I've never really been sure if the whole Lancer's Gae Bolg penetrating Archer's Rho Aise was on purpose considering the age rating on the original VN or just a completely accidental set of innuendo.

I was waiting for this reaction! 😂😂 Knowing this was coming out I rewatched all the other episodes before watching this one, a lot of the jokes you didn’t get or understand were call backs to previous episodes.

The Nightwing joke is a callback to the repeated Batman and Robin jokes they made throughout the series.

Love how the noted unlike everyone else that the sword in the stone is Caliburn and NOT Excalibur.

12:50 Shirou Emiya contradicting himself? Well, that's a first.

THIS IS HOW I'M FINDING OUT THAT THE NEXT EPISODE IS OUT!?!

@Airier So here is the cool thing about Archer. Because he has a reality Marble, EMIYA is able to store his memories in an alternate space each time he get summoned, so he's able to remember each instance of him being summoned to do things, whether that be as a Counter Gradian. By the time he shows up in UBW from his perspective thousands of Years of passed due to all the times he was summoned as a Counter Guardian. Normally that isn't a an issue with Heroic Spirits because they're just copies of the original, they don't retain any memories of the other times they've been summoned, but EMIYA is an exception to the rule because his ability is a thought construct. So the thing to remember Heroic Spirits they are can be summoned to any parallel universes as well, not just their own universe. The Archer that appears in UBW experienced the Fate Route as Shiro and Shiro's life thereafter. The Archer in Heaven's Feel has memories form the Unlimited Blade Works Route as Archer, and Shiro's memories of the Fate Arc. Last but not least the Archer from the Fate Route has Shiro's Memories of the Fate Route along with Archer's Memories of the Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel Routes.

I actually did ask if they intended for the DEEN anime to be Archer's original timeline (which is like the Stay/Night route but different), but they said it would not work canonically and they only used the DEEN footage because it's the only animated representation of the Stay/Night route.

allso love how shirou and kirito abridged (being the same voice actor) and he got to cook so danm well

39:58 they don’t have enough time to finish the story? Did I misss something is ubwa finished?

32:30 I guess this is case when answer "Yes" will be actually correct

35:11 this is why he gets off on what he does to Sakura

This episode of UBW Abridged was 🔥🔥🔥

i think we believe the man arthur based on was a general in roman empire.. who pushed the celts out of most england (which was england, irland, scotland, and walles) his name was lucious arthorious... there was alot of stories that did not survived about him and we dont know when it became from a general to a king.. what i do know is the first book about king arthur called arthur the great / the big and written around the 12 centuary since then by rolling storytelling they created allthe knights, the kingdom and the tailored story we bearely knows today

Also, the other reason Kirei forcing Lancer to do the Mario Mario bit makes sense in retrospect is to tie into what this episode said, that there are certain things the Grail wouldn't deem necessary for servants to know, so the only reason he would know that bit is 1. he had watched the movie after being summoned, or 2. as we see, his "master" forced him to do it as a bit for his amusement.

I have a head cannon that the archer in EMIYA's time line was Napoleon

16:46 At least they pronounce Gae Bolg correctly, unlike the Studio Deen adaptation of UBW where it was "GAE BULGE" and "RAW ASS"....

So, to be clear, Archer doesn't come from any route that has been depicted, in the game or anime adaptations. He comes from his own route that is very similar to the base Fate route, but with the exception being he never helped Saber move on from her wish, and she in turn never returned his feelings. This is still true in Abridged series and can be gleamed by Archer's narration not matching up with the DEEN shows plot (and changes made in the anime).

20:10 Actually it's a reference to Angra 29:04 From the "Annales Cambriae" Year 72 (c. 516) The Battle of Badon, in which Arthur carried the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ on his shoulders for three days and three nights and the Britons were victors. Year 93 (c. 537) The Strife of Camlann in which Arthur and Medraut (Mordred) fell and there was death in Britain and in Ireland. That's the oldest account of Arthur, note Mordred isn't mentioned as his son, nor on which side he fought Also regarding Fate and Appearances there is stuff where it's just blatantly unequivocally wrong. Achilles is Blonde David and Anne Bonney are Redheads etc.

58:48 that's what MAGIC does. Shirou never becomes a mage.

14:37 I'm personally hoping Sakura shows up in her last scene with a *very* sharp knife.

13:55 the reason Shinji Motou is scum because he's abusive to Sakura, physically and sexually The only reason we save him in UBW is just abusive but doesn't have the balls to do anything sexual to Sakura or Rin. He's still scum no matter the universe

You should react to Scootertrix the Abridged- It starts out as a bit of a gag real, but it turns into something that is honestly one of the brest abridged series I have seen in a long time, and by the end of the series it even has a lot of its own plot and animation.

45:29 pretty sure Deen FSN only covered the Saber route

Welp looks like Mordred got what she wanted.

i know in a prior episode archer also called shiro nightwing.

For the record, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is pretty much unrelated to the Kingdom of Britain (originally just the Kingdom of Lloegyr) ruled by King Arthur.

Yeah you are right. Shinji did survive this and Sakura help nurse him to get better. That feel wrong....

24:#6 - ...Anyone gonna tell him about The Saviour of France meme?

Guessing reason Kirei had ton of Seals? ...Gilgamesh can be a real pain in ass... Correct me if I am wrong, don't know much of Fate Lore.

21:04 oh it WILL.

NEXT CHALLANGE AFTER 50SHADE IS MOFO TOFU LOL @Airier

If you think about it...Fate Stay Night is the 2nd timeline...the original Archer that dies to hercules likely sidnt have an archer EMIYA in his grail war to begin with. Because in Unlimited Blade Works,the 3rd timeline, Archer remembers from his perspective of Shirou how badly things went for Archer in Stay Night. I still need to watch Heavens Feel to figure out what changes there. Maybe thats the Unlimited Blade Works Shirou that was summoned as EMIYA? Seems like each time Archer is summoned, its a better Archer helping build up Shirou further.

Ok so in the VN it is always the same Archer in each route. They can do it differently in the abridged version and I like what they did with it. But in the VN nothing states that it isn't the same one Archer.

Kinda wish you had reacted to the ending stuff because they actually said that this was thought out probably since the beginning and that next episode would go back to the more funny parts of being an Abridged. Also, isn't this the route where Gilgamesh basically makes Shingi transform into that huge mass that has something to do with the grail appearing thus having Shingi actually dying?

Also a neat meta joke ep 0 name ep 11 name just take a look

@Airier just a heads up about EMIYA Alter he is the worst timeline for shirou and the recent chapters of Fate Grand Order Seraph prove this in every way possible especially when you figure out who he killed in that timeline

Ishtar say hi archer...

Gae Bolg is a sword

ARCHER SHOT JFK HAHAHAHAHA

3:34 emiya alter is the absolute worst run of shiro emiya. look him up, his life sucks

I would say Bluebeard is the worst person ever, like way worse than the peoples image of Columbus.

The frequent pausing is physically hurting my head.

24:50 The entire time. We've had this roadmap since before episode 0.

Wait until Airier realizes we have a custom "O" flap for literally every speaking shot in the episode. Minor correction though - we've been doing it that way for the last bunch of episodes.

Archer is *not* Shirou moving through the routes, he is a very specific version of Shirou as described in this episode. A Shirou whose close to the Fate route but whose feelings for Saber were never returned.

Logan, the writer behind this has stated that this Archer is explicitly NOT Deen archer or Deen Shirou. He is the same archer recorded outside of space and time. He does not have memories from other routes, only his own life.

25:35 It's not "This is a smart version of Shirou" Canon Shirou is actually pretty intelligent, he's smart enough to figure out Gilgameshes identity before anybody else in the Fate Route, and he explicitly knows that the name Angra Mainyu is from Zoroastrianism, it's just that his worst decisions make him seem dumber than he actually is, with only the context of the Anime Adaptations Shirou appears stupid, but in the Visual Novel it's made clear that his more illogical decisions are solely the result of his survivors guilt

Correction:this Archer is from the universe that is CLOSEST to the fate route.....the biggest difference from the fate route however is that archer failed to convince Saber to give up on the grail,she destroyes it anyway cuz it's corrupted and can't grand her wish in a satisfactory way but it also say's that the basement scene DIDN'T happened in his timeline so archer also didn't faced his trauma head on and in turn Saber didn't faced her's.....

Shiro's lines at the end were specifically a reference to his version of the aria. Which, at least in this case, does serve as a pretty good refutation of Archer.

"Welcome to Hell", from actually Satan.

03:32 😣 Ooh buddy…EMIYA Alter would like to have a word. When your life involves personally murdering several of those dearest to you, starting with Sakura, then progressing on to Rin and Illya, then finishing off with hundreds of innocent monks, among their number TAIGA AND HER SON, just to kill a Beast in the making…THAT’S when you’ve REALLY hit rock bottom…

Shirou is basically creating the Aria for his UBW chant at the end there, the order is a little shuffled, but the unique portion of his Aria is all there just waiting to be properly organized

2:08 I mean Archer had a shield, as opposite of a sword as you can get, since the beggining. And Gil is an Archer who doesn’t even use a bow. Dictionary is more of a suggestion than a guideline in the Nasu-verse 31:36 Rin thought this was the best timeline for her but actually it was for Mordred. She finally got acknowledged by her father as her son.

3:27 Airier:i am pretty sure archer is the worst run of Shirou Emiya Emiya alter:hi!👨🏿

My favorite part about all this is the revelation that all of Cu Culan’s nonsense is due to kirei abusing his absurd amount of command seals

45:08 Wrong, it always was a part of Shirou's character, in the Visual Novel it's extremely obvious Shirou has Survivor's Guilt even if it's never outright stated, I've read the VN at least 4 times already (Yes it's that much better than the Anime Adaptations) so I'd know if Shirou's Survivor's Guilt was something added later, it wasn't :V

Archer is canonically from a world very close to the Fate route. Not 100% identical, but the main difference is that Archer Shirou wasn't quite as close to Saber. Its almost like if the Fate route had two endings and the one we got was the true ending but Archer got the normal ending. Its close enough that you can say that Archer's experiences match up to the experiences of a Fate route Shirou with deviations being rounding errors.

Lancer had the best lines in the show. "Battle continuation, bitch!" "Yorokobe, Kirei" "I finished my nap". he did deserve better.

This whole payoff is made all the more funnier with the knowledge that Shirou is also voiced by the guy who does Kirito in SAO abridged, because of the detective bit

5:50 The joke is earlier Archer called Shirou Robin, then a few episodes later asked "What... has Robin graduated to Nightwing and started taking issue with Batman's methods?" or something to that effect. Archer in this case being Batman.

So if i remember the lore right, EMIYA/archer IS a recorded in the throne of heroes cause as he mentioned, he did die. Most people dont realize/forget he made his contract with alaya basically after/as he was dying, thus being eligible to be a Gaudian and servant. The real confusing part is fgo where he basically remembers his past summonings, so its like "??? okay youre chill and nice so we have to ASSUME you're from the UBW route" Then you have detroit EMIYA

31:55 To be fair, the 5th HGW (+HA) is probably the only timeframe in which Artoria can and would acknowledge the fact - specifically given that it's the one of the few, if not only, time she has the mindset of Artoria, and not that of King Arthur. (Kind of a major plot point of the Fate route, that.) 39:20 It is the Catholic Church (the Executors such as Ciel explicitly get their orders from the Vatican), but given that there's apparently no vows of celibacy for priests in the Nasuverse (cf the very existence of Carmen Ortensia), they might have slightly less problems with the adequate processing of sexual urges.

11:35 the .1% was a jab at FGO gotcha rate @Airier lol

Its more acurate to say EMIYA is Shirou from a failed Fate route. One he did mostly right, but failed to romance Saber.

You know when you think about it, it's really more so Saber's Harem than Rin's Harem in the abridged cause most characters that met her love Saber apart from this version of Shirou, Kazuki, Scum, Lancer, and Gilgamesh

shirou isn't quoting "the opposite of UBW" to be specific, he's quoting *his* version of UBW chant in english I am the bone of my sword. Steel is my body and fire is my blood. I have created over a thousand blades. Unaware of loss, Nor aware of gain. Withstood pain to create weapons, waiting for one’s arrival. I have no regrets. This is the only path. My whole life was Unlimited Blade Works.

It really helps to rewatch all of the previous episodes before each new one. I’ve made it a tradition to do so, as a way to refresh my memory and just simply enjoy it.

Archer thinks that he is "Batman", that is why he call Shiro "Nightwing" as in the fact that Nightwing ends up replacing Batman whenever Batman quote "disappears." And since one of the earlier episodes he calls Shiro "Robin" this would be the evolution of the character with training.

Welll remember how the Iranian president die? Yeah…that maybe Archer

Shirou's survivor's guilt was a very explicit and exposed part of Shirou in Visual Novel, it just didn't get adapted well in anime

The "that is why we are called that" is a reference to Gilgamesh calling shirou and archer "faker". Because in gils eyes they make knock of broken phantasms, yet in reality they make phantasms that can rival the quality of the original. Also, by archer not having his own phantasm, and instead copying other phantasms, as the one who owns all phantasms, gil believe them to be plagiarized versions of himself.

Also? As someone whose first intro to Fate was the Studio DEEN series? I hate that people rag on the animation which STILL HOLDS UP. Sure, they made some oddball creative choices to weave in some things from UBW(namely Archer USING UBW) and HF(nearly outright stating that Sakura was Rin's sister), but it wasn't as bad as people make it. And frankly, the music in that series is so good that Project Mouthwash keeps using it throughout UBW Abridged.

Ya know if it was an actual HGW like it was intended to be performed I thin Cu and Bazette would have wiped everyone. Except maybe Heracles

@50:28 If they don’t flitter away, they’re A okay, LOL

I think shipping is a problem whenever it gets to be where you shove it down someone's throat or just be dick to someone because you don't like their ship. Looking at you certain folks in the hoyo/fate/other communities. It can be cool if its just cute and for fun, but there is always those who take it too seriously. I love how when it comes to the big reveal Shirou actually figured it out, or at least suspected so far back from the berserker fight. Yet they still make him a little...dense or slow when it comes or slow on other stuff. Also I think its clear that this version of Archer, while similar to fate route Shirou, is still not the same because he doesn't get Saber to love him. He probably did go through the Fate route as Archer which is why he does remember it and kind of does the same thing the archer in his story did.... I think, heroic spirits are weird. You can tell Logan had a lot of fun putting all the major lore drops when it comes to Fates concepts and archers dialogue. then they just threw us that lines about archer and Kennedy, it was hilarious. Honestly i can't wait for the next episode, your reactions are great too.

Cu is Lawful Neutral, not Chaotic Good. Objectively. They actually give servants canon D&D alignments. Lawful Neutral is his.

Clicked on the video so fast just to see this man’s reaction to the full picture that this abridged has place all the effect into preparing

@Airier just thought i would let you know wial you where suprise by saber acknowledging Mordred you miss the part wair Archer said he killed Kennedy, as in the 35th US president John F. Kennedy. Not trying to be rude just pointing out the other big surprise in that moment

Admittedly, the original Arthur would have been Welsh. English borrowed it, then French stole it and made up Lancelot (he's one of the things we KNOW is fake)

Like you, I would also like to voice my approval for Shinji's voice actor. I suspect it takes a great actor to craft someone so utterly detestable and still keep them funny.

An excellent exposé for those not fully in the know on undertones and commentary.

‏‪4:27‬‏ and thats the joke 😂 he's a caster summoned as an archer and fighting as a saber 😂😂😂😂

while it isn't stated often or even very loudly, it is canon that the reason Artoria didn't acknowledge Mordred as her son is because she didn't think Mordred was suitable as an heir to the throne (personally i headcanon that there was also probably some repressed trauma concerning how Mordred came to be). It was never a personal thing it was just another sacrifice made for britain.

I have watched this episode an unhealthy amount of times. Only to watch it again on reaction channels. It finaly came full circle. Ep0: Speak The Devil's Name… Ep11: …And He Shall Appear

Personally I've always viewed UBW as Archer rigging the thing that no one important dies if Shirou proves that he's "strong" (wrong word for it but I cant think of anything better). Because I cannot look at the end of UBW and think that the fact that all the pieces are on the board in the exact right spot to kill Gilgamesh is not him, their fight is basically a training round! At least that's how I view it.

Finally. Been waiting all day for this.