Anime in Focus: Fate Stay Night Episode 3

 <-Saber proves the time honored fact that chicks in platemail are sexy

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After Shiro almost got killed last time, we get to see how he’s doing. He’s know in the room with this incredibly attractive blonde girl named Saber, who is apparently going to serve as his well… servant in the upcoming holy grail wars. After explaining some legal jargon to him, she then engages in combat with Lancer wielding an invisible sword. Apparently these things don’t come with stuff already equipped.

Saber unsurprisingly manages to ward off Lancer, but Lancer gets off a critical shot on her using his signature move, Gae Bolg. Looks like this is going to be one of those animes where they reference various mythologies lightly, but not put too much thought into it. Just tell the researcher inside of you to put a sock in it, and then keep watching.

Well, after nearly getting killed by lancer, Saber then goes on to fight Archer for some reason. Shiro manages to negotiate terms for peace between all the combating parties however, leaving him, Rin, and Saber to discuss terms. Rin, realizing that Shiro knows next to nothing about this whole Holy Grail war business, takes him to see her father, an ancient wizard.

Rin’s father manages to explain a bit more about the Holy Grail war, so the audience and Shiro get a better idea on what’s going on. Apparantly the big war is a big fight between servants and masters, in order to obtain the holy grail, which grants one wish to whoever grabs it, as long as they are worthy. Shiro decides to go for it, in order to prevent the grail from falling into the wrong hands.

Meanwhile, we learn about the realationship that servants and masters have. A servant cannot be killed, while a master is much weaker than a servant. However, if a master is killed, the servant gets banished from the material plane. Hence, they have a general need for each other. After a long exposition, Rin, Saber, and Shiro run into that little girl again, this time accompanied by a 10 foot tall guy with a club

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