Chapter 36: Popularity
Generally, when publishing houses do popularity statistics, they usually rank the popularity of the same work, because fans and readers may be happy to compare different works, but in fact, this is of little significance to the publishing house. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Because there is a gap in popularity between the works themselves.,If you're sorting the characters.,It's basically impossible to get rid of the characters of the popular works to suppress the characters of the popular general works.。
And if the popularity is equal, if the popularity of the characters is compared, it is even more unnecessary, in an objective sense, this is a trouble-seeking behavior, which is easy to provoke conflicts between fans.
So it may be okay to die once in a while, but "official" activities still need to be limited.
Of course, when it comes to evaluating the popularity of a work, it's easy to judge by the sales of comics, but as a commercial publishing house, when measuring the overall value of a work, the sales of peripheral products must be taken into account.
As for the popularity of a certain character, you can draw conclusions by comparing the peripherals such as figurines.
If there is a figure of the Hibiscus Society at this time that can dominate the entire figure world, it is impossible, and there is a decisive flaw in this, which is that the character that can be a super big seller...... It hasn't been animated yet.
There is no animated figure to buy a ghost...... But in fact, it can really be sold.,Although the work is not animated.,But because of the active animation image.,OAD's character figures sell relatively well.。
Especially with misfortune in the main part of the work has been taken off the prayer and is embarking on the final journey of Saber.
In terms of popularity, Saber is undoubtedly a Fate Kanban character, probably everyone has a heart for melee combat, although the progress of the story, the female swordsman who can pick up the knife in close melee combat and play a sassy and heroic posture is more popular than the tsundere magician who does long-range output.
So......
"Artoria Pendragon?"
"King Arthur?!"
"She's King Arthur, and King Arthur is her?"
The latest word of fate, to make a deeper explanation of the Holy Grail War, after all, from the direction of the story, the reader should also be able to feel that the so-called "Holy Grail that can fulfill all wishes" is not the beautiful image described at the beginning, this thing is not the same as the seven beads.
The main body of the Holy Grail is a magic circle built in the Liudong Temple, and the Holy Grail War is usually a cycle of sixty years, that is, by using the winter wood leyline to store magic for the Great Holy Grail, but due to special reasons, the interval between this war and the last one is only ten years.
After the leylines have been replenished, the war can begin, and with the vast amount of magic stored in the Holy Grail, the magician can summon the Servant from the Throne of the Immortal "outside the world".
After the war between the magician and the Heroic Spirit begins, although the war is going on, the souls of the servants can be stored in the small chalice one by one in batches and steps.
When the time is ripe, the Servant souls stored in the Little Grail will return to the Throne of the Immortals, and a path to the "Outer Side" will be opened, which the magicians can then use to reach the "Vortex of the Roots", which is also on the outer side of the world, which is the original motivation and ultimate goal of designing the Holy Grail.
Originally, war did not exist, but after completing this ceremony, the three families wanted to monopolize it, so there was the so-called "Holy Grail War".
The "Little Grail" that was originally used to store the Servant's soul was indeed a cup-shaped item, but in the previous Third War, the Little Chalice was accidentally damaged, so from the Fourth Holy Grail War onwards, it was replaced by self-disciplined androids.
This is also an explanation of Illya's ending......
And when there are not enough magicians involved in the war, the Holy Grail will find the right person on its own, and this is the case with Emiya Shirou.
At the same time, Gilgamesh also explained his purpose for obtaining the Holy Grail, firstly, he believed that the Holy Grail should be his possession, and secondly, he felt that there were too many humans in this world, and it was a good choice to destroy it by the way.
This is true from an environmental point of view, but such a declaration, combined with his ability to kill Berserker without much effort, basically determines his identity as the ultimate boss.
Because it has been treated with a more "juvenile" treatment, in the juvenile comics, the fate of such cute and charming villains is certain, and they have to hit the street like DIO.
But the focus of this issue is not here, but finally to explain the ontology of Saber, and the story is still in the final stage to make big news that will have an impact on such readers, which is also a powerful thing in a sense.
Saber's name is Artoria Pendragon, and she is a famous knight king...... This is indeed a super-famous character from a certain country who often appears in various works, but it should be the first time that he has been summoned in such a way.
This kind of story arrangement is more unexpected than the previous time that Emiya Shirou and Red A are actually two melons on the same vine.
For loyal fans, although the story has been serialized for four years, speculation about Saber's identity has never stopped.
However, when it comes to such identity guessing, gender is basically the first judgment characteristic, and guessing the identity of a female character cannot be guessed by a male in any case.
Therefore, when readers make an exclusion, they make a judgment too early and the scope is too large...... Well, this should be considered a "conspiracy" of the creators, and it's interesting to guess it.
Judging from the readers' reactions, this surprise really caused them to be in an uproar.
"Is there something wrong with my memory? Why is King Ryather a male character in my mind? ”
"Obviously there is no mistake, whether it is Pendragon who appears in various stories, his business card says that he is a professional king of England, and his gender is male."
"In terms of works, Saber has always regarded himself as a knight, with super swordsmanship, speaking in a male tone, and all kinds of characteristics are in line with King Arthur's setting...... Except she's a girl. ”
"So Mr. Hyakmu has challenged our senses and common sense?"
"Think about the new Oda Shinna a little bit...... So should this be recognized as a normal phenomenon, the demon king can become a girl, with this logic, then the knight king is not a problem as a girl. ”
The demon king's motherhood is the norm, and in the future, there will be a demon king who plays mahjong on the ridge and blooms all the way to the end, and she is also a woman.
“…… Isn't there anyone who is as super receptive to such a setting as I am? Why do I like this kind of identity completion? ”
"Actually...... Look at the title, the speakers here are all receptive to the new people, or ......"
"Great love!"