So. I have to continually give House a ton of credit as Fate sensei cause he'll take all my through the routes ramblings in stride and keep things quiet from me. I've rambled a whole lot about how for me, the casting for the VN is perfect and I could never hear these characters any other way (so we've talked a fair bit about how thankfully the cast in all adaptations has stayed 99.5% the same). The only complaint I ever really had was for Sakura. Not because her casting isn't good, far from it in fact, it's just that my ears and higher tones don't quite mesh. I mean she was never squeaky or anything, it was mostly just a matter of me forever preferring lower tones and such.
Imagine my sheer amusement once Dark Sakura joins the scene and her VA's true range is finally felt by my ears. Hnnnnngh, yes. I know I was all over the place last night when commenting on it because I was generally far too excited to be coherent, but the standoff with Rin sits *really* high up there for me as far as fantastic scenes are concerned. That switch of 11 years' worth of repressed feelings comes to a head and I just...
Yas. Tohsaka girls are best girls.
Rin and Sakura's relationship is definitely something I want to make a speech on eventually but that will probably come in whatever various books I write once I'm done. It's the sort of thing that hurts my heart in some of the most amazing ways when I look at things brought up through the VN as a whole, and later get the new context for it.
I'm at the point where Shirou and Kotomine are storming Einzbern castle and Blackened Herc has been called out to take care of them. I'm already anticipation having my heart stamped all over once Illya sees him. I thought UBW Herc vs Gil and the following Winter Forest interlude crushed my heart but knowing HF? This is going to hurt in the best ways imaginable. 