Been 21 years and I love this little nigga even if everyone pays the most attention to the waifus or his older self

fuck off dub shitter. do not (you) me.

even if everyone pays the most attention to the waifus or his older self.

And the Irish jobber.
And the King of jobbers.

Anyone who pays more attention to whoever else is probably an anime-only. It's pretty adamant that the story is written purely to explore Shirou's character. One cannot possibly finish reading all of F/SN and come out saying "loved it but hated the protagonist", unless they're severely brain-damaged.

Is the anime worth watching?
I read the VN and loved it.

Cu is only relevant when Fujos want to see him put his Gay Bulge into Archer's Raw Ass. That said you have a point about Gilgamesh. He's way more popular than Shirou as well.

If you want to see shiny shonen fights with lots of particle explosions go feel free to watch Ufotable adaptations of UBW and HF, but know they've stripped Shirou heavily of his monologues that make him so appealing.
If you want to listen to good music but enjoy a mess watch the 2006 Deen anime.
If you feel like you're too good for FSN but want to feel edgy watch Zero.

I AM THE BONE OF MY SWORD

it provides nowhere near the amount of characterization the game does, but if you just keep in mind the story how you know it from the source material, ufotable's adaptations are perfectly fine to watch if you want to see the fights animated.
personally i don't see any reason to watch deen.
if you want to learn a bit more about kiritsugu and kirei, fate zero is there

Thanks, I'll just skip the 2006 deen anime since I know the story and watch the rest.

Can you keep up with me?

Imagine finding out that in some universe out there that you yourself have a Detroit Emiya.

Still can't believe this design is an actual thing.

his backstory

A shame because this design is pretty peak Chuuni kino

Any chance for a paid Shirou skin do you think?

wtf is this AI slop?

he's literally me

2006 is good if you liked the vn. theyre all worth watching at least once except for the horrid hf movies

What's so bad about the HF movies?

All the good parts are either butchered or missing in favor of sakurawank. Anything that was good about the fights was changed to be le epic particle light shows. No hikari to yami

all fate anime are bad because they cut out the insane monologues so shirou comes off like an extremely boring retard.
there's a reason why steins gate is the only VN anime people tend to like and it's because okabe has about as many schizo rants out loud as he does internally unlike his peers

how can i convince my friends to read the vn?

Probably but a FHA anime would be cool

You know how hard you have to fuck up for the final Kirei vs Shirou fight to suck as much as it did there?

take kino

turn it to shit

retards clap and say suggoi

Things went wrong when people talked about the Rider vs Salter fight as being the highlight when every VN reader knows the real peaks should be Nine Lives Blade Works, Rin vs Sakura, or Kirei vs Shirou.

That's not an unpopular opinion at all. Shirou is well liked in most TM related places

The tide has changed. These days people disregard Shirou and FSN as a whole in favor of FGO and it's protagonist. It would be one thing if they co-existed but it seems like the FGO fanbase of casuals that would have never dipped their toes into other Type-Moon properties besides maybe Zero or UBW anime actively shit on it.

zomg salter vs bahsakah zomg

awful

Aniplex can't even get the FSF anime or Mahoyo movies on track

Nasu still hasn't finished Red Garden on top of writing FGO

You definitely have way too much faith in them

Why do people keep asking for a fate route remake or a FHA anime? HF was totally butchered and UBW was middling at best.

I want to see Shirou and Saber fall in love in 8K, Redman fight Berserker in a way that isn't a sideshow, and I want to see the End of the Dream, and I want this done in a modern fashion where millions of people will see instead of just dismissing as boomer shit.

Its better for it to be dismissed as boomer shit because zoomers aren't capable of understanding it.

Where is my food, aachaa?

Deen had the best soundtrack and atmosphere out of every Fate adaptation.
I mean, listen to this:

youtube.com/watch?v=WJXw0lL5-vA

This is not an unpopular opinion. Most people like Shirou a lot. It only seems unpopular because contrarians are particularly vocal in places like here.
Somehow an unpopular opinion in anime hipster circles is liking Goku despite him being one of the most beloved characters in fiction.

The zoomers like Archer a lot because he 'aura farms' or whatever the fuck they call it when he looks cool, and they consider Shirou a whiny generic shonen teen with barely any cool powers to make up for it because Ufotable is fucking awful at anything that isn't fights. Admittedly this is the same audience that thinks power fantasy garbage like Solo Leveling is genuinely a masterpiece

they cut most of illya screentime

I WANT TO RAPE SHIROU IN FRONT OF SABER, RIN AND SAKURA UNTIL HE BECOMES MY CUTE, PURE AND SUBMISSIVE HUSBAND

Get off Anon Babble Issei

We know, Caster.

Caster is sabersexual

caster just wants her own harem, ackshually

I played the vn on steam after hearing about how good the story is, but the writing was awful in most spots. There's some really good parts in there too, but some of the shit in there is just straight garbage...IDK why people go crazy for this game, it was ok at best from what I read. Did the first 2 routes then put it away in the middle of Heaven's Feel.

ARTHUUUUUUUUUUUUUR!!!!!

he played the steam version

ngmi

F/sn is one of those things that you just had to be there to appreciate because it's been copied so many times and spawned so many derivatives.

I wasn't there and its my favorite thing ever