Urobuchi, page 31
If, for example, I am a diver immersed in the story, then he would be the all-seeing nautical analyst on the water's surface testing the depths. His powers of understanding and analysis would undoubtedly overshadow me, who only knew how to dive beneath the water.
“What is re-creation?”
In recent years, Urobuchi Gen has often talked about this concern of his.
I respectfully call him older brother, but have often unceremoniously ordered him to do this and that. In my opinion, however, compared to me, he has a particular innocence.
Something happened a while ago.
During a press conference to create a cross-media adaptation, Urobuchi Gen had answered:
“~ Then again, is it really a good thing to adapt the story, which you wrote after so much work, into an anime or a game? You would only have shown it to the world after you believed it was complete. I hope you consider what would happen if you changed the media. It can only become ‘something completely different’, moving further and further away from its original, complete form. I hope you will realize that.
~”
There are a number of “original authors” who, though faintly aware of its wrongness, still bow at the feet of the so-called “joy of expansion.” Even if their hearts are suspicious, when they are faced with their joy and personal modesty, such suspicion seems so insignificant. For this reason, we swallow back our questions.
Urobuchi Gen is purely virtuous, pure enough to detect the fact that “it will be moving further and further away from its original, complete form.” This is almost similar to the virtue of a samurai.
And because of this, he would have the so-called “Re-creation Stress.”
Urobuchi Gen also said this:
“Commercial re-creation isn’t good. A non-commercial re-creation is good~”
Exactly. In writing “Fate/zero”, he didn't have even the slightest intention of going commercial, and only wanted to write “his ideal Fate”. That innocent wish was not stained with anything unnecessary or any factors that placated modern trends. Of course, he himself understands better than anyone else that his own way of life is incompatible with modern society.
Would the reader approve of his own particular moral values –?
Fortunately, “Fate” is a critically acclaimed work. It is the support of many readers that helped guide Urobuchi Gen and “his beloved Fate" onto the right path.
No, it should be said that he never went astray.
It was perhaps inevitable that “Fate/zero” became a saga of blood and tears, describing Emiya Kiritsugu’s progress in blood.
Many people were aware of their own hypocrisy and planned to stop writing thus.
Even more people believed in their love of the original, and so chose to continue writing.
I only hope to add a little more value to the story.
Even if he himself did not succeed in the end, the heir to his aspiration will one day appear –
It is easily said, but Nasu Kinoko couldn't help but feel sad in his heart when he realized that the times when Urobuchi Gen would casually say at 1am, “How does this sound?” and then recount a series of unexpected plots was coming to an end.
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Document Outline
Interlude Sometime, somewhere
Act 13 -48:11:28
-47:42:07
-47:39:59
-37:02:47
Act 14 -37:02:20
-36:48:13
-36:44:26
-36:38:09
-30:02:45
Act 15 -25:48:06
-17:21:41
-16:05:37
-04:16:49
-04:10:33
Act 16 -04:08:29
-03:59:48
-03:59:32
-03:59:04
-03:55:51
-03:54:28
-03:52:18
-03:52:07
-03:49:31
-03:11:56
-01:03:14
-00:00:00
Epilogue The Next Day
Half a Year Later
Five Years Later
Postface Urobuchi Gen
Commentary Nasu Kinoko
Translators
Editors
Fate Zero 04, Urobuchi
