Neco-Arc Evolution

Or yet, an expected open rant that always happen on the end of december


We are yet at another end of year, where we usually take Tsukihime Remake crumbs that will "stuff" us to wait yet another year and for some people I know that has been the case for some time. This year will probably be the 5th or 6th year in my individual case.
For those who have been waiting with some expectancy and also don't like Fate enough to not be able to cope with current TM (like I know many Tsukihime fans do), how have you been doing? Are you ready to have to wait until the end of 2021 and do same thing? And 2022? And 2023?

See, I think this will be my last year of actually playing this role that I call Unstoic Expectant.

Being stoic is, of many things, not taking too much time of your day neurotically worrying about or even basing your actions on things you have no control. Therefore, expecting Tsukihime Remake, something that depends on Nasu and his personal and professional circumstances is the most notorious example of not being stoic. Unstoic living style, if you will. As there is nothing you can do but only expect, you are then an Unstoic Expectant.

Well, the thing is, we should strife to be stoic.


And I'm not saying "stop expecting". Nah, that is impossible. However, I still need a solution.
What must be done is to forget everything, to rewrite my memories and forget what Type Moon is and, following that, its promisse of delivering the remake.

I want to make it irrelevant even in my daily life, so much that even when it releases, I won't care anymore.

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You see, even though we have different perspectives and arguments, we all know that the reason TM has done nothing is because of FGO. Be it because it because of how it mixes with their schedule, be it because of how Nasu wants to express things in a different new way each year, be it because how the plot ending is important for the release of the remake.

All of that was fine for me, because I actually enjoyed the art piece Nasu was trying to build, I am one of the fans that was actually enjoying how FGO Second Part was developing torwards a redemption. I was ready to accept FGO as something that would enrich the nasuverse, and therefore Tsukihime. I know, I know, many things were destroyed in the lore, but things were fine if you were actually paying attention.

So, what really changed here? Wasn't it enough for me to just "wait" and "enjoy" the "natural(Nasu) way" things were going?

Well, yes, if things weren't artifically slowed to the point of a 'quasi-hiatus'.

FGO is at the moment suffering something similar to what we have been experiencing with Mahoyo, DDD, TsukihimeR, etc. Which is a focus on something completely sidetracked when things more important were in and in need of development.
The main difference though is that in FGO the strategy is what most shounen anime do when they want to stall: filler episodes.
The joke "half a chapter a year" is already something pretty common. Of course, in terms of volume, we didn't had half a chapter. The volume of text actually increased a lot. What makes it "half a chapter" is the amount of things that are actually important, relevant to the development.
The fact that we had chapters that are "5.2" "4.5" "5.5" which are in-plot "moments of the story where you're just having fun while Sherlock Holmes is checking something for the next main story update" is a blatant claim that they don't want to continue the plot immediatly.

And of course, the lockdowns are the first thing that comes to mind as a reason. This year was rather problematic for a lot of people. But, we all know that this started long before, in 2019.

What people often don't know is that the Greek Lostbelt wasn't intended to be a 2 part thing. And worse, Cosmos in the Lostbelt itself wasn't intended to have two arcs. Gyakko was to be the only Lostbelt opening theme we should have and Yakudo should not have existed. And that is not the first time this happened. Part 1 was intended to have most of the plot elements of the ending of Part 2.

Nasu intended to sync the ending of FGO, UBW and TsukihimeR release because (my interpretation) the concept of evils of humanity are important for the "shift of focus" between Fate stories and Tsukihime stories. Nasu is yet again practicing his bad habit of "It is time to stop with Fate" and then he comes with the "but".

And frankly, this is tiresome.

Everytime, with probably a frenquency of 2 years, Nasu comes with something new to extend Fate and therefore Tsukihime, Mahoyo or whatever we actually want. I have a hypothesis of why such thing happens, but I'll develop it another time.

The point is, this december of the 2020 year of the Anno Domini and the start of 2021, usually we watch what happens and go on. We make our rants, we get depressed and wait for the next december. However, something else will be turning, besides the year.

We are entering the new decade.

Yeah, some would say the decade started at january 2020, however, this year was so much of a dead year, that I intend to use the second counting which makes the 2021 as the start. Whatever method the important is that we're at a turning point more relevant than the passing of the year.

So, instead of making resolutions for the new year, maybe it is time to make resolutions for the next decade. And my resolution for the decade is: I shall delete everything I have related to Type Moon (images, plans, projects, contacts, bookmarks, etc) and regress to a point in my life where TM was irrelevant. I will regress to being someone who doesn't know what Fate is, what Tsukihime is, what Mahoyo is... I will, by 2030, have completely forgotten everything and anything and be something completely else...

If this december happens to be the same as any other december.

Waiting for the Remake while reading what Nasu says is too torturous. You're a joke of a person for waiting. You gain nothing from it. It is self-depecrating, it makes you depressed and lose will to live. It makes you exactly what Stoicism intends to prevent.

By the end of the month we will have the Tsuki no Sango recital and the Fate Grand Carnival Phantasm OVA. I'll do my best to check both and even spend money if necessary. I want to check yet again how silent Nasu will be regarding the Remake and making everything in Fate continue because of the filthy reason that I intend to explain in another blogpost.

2020, the Tsukihime 20th Anniversary will be the last anniversary I will commemorate if nothing ever happens, if there is no content, no glimpse of existence, no numbers, no commitment.

I will even stop being someone who pays attention to japanese culture if it is needed.

Because I am so tired...