“Getting to know someone is all about little moments like that, wouldn’t you agree?”
In this super-sized season finale of Japanimation Station, we close out ufotable/Moon Works with two reviews: First, we discuss Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, the 2018 original net animation spin-off of Fate/stay night that sees Shirou and all his friends making food and enjoying each other’s company. Animated by Ufotable and based on the manga by TAa, it’s a delightful and remarkably well-produced slice-of-life alternative to the action of Fate/stay night, but one that sacrifices none of the sharp characterization that makes this cast so wonderful.
Second, we dive deep with Witch on the Holy Night (aka Mahoutsukai no Yoru), the visual novel based on Kinoko Nasu’s first unpublished novel, originally released in Japan in 2012 and released worldwide in a 2022 remake. The remake landed right as we started recording ufotable/Moon Works, and we wound up making references to the visual novel throughout the season, as Witch on the Holy Night is something of a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for the Nasu-verse, featuring all of his character types and major themes in a single, smaller-scale story, and we felt we had to devote some extra time to it here at the end of the season. And since ufotable will in fact be animating the story for an upcoming feature film, it will soon be another ufotable/Moon work!
Thanks for listening to Season 2 of Japanimation Station, and be sure to listen through to the end of the episode to hear first details about the next two seasons, both premiering in 2023!
Time Chart:
Theme Song: 0:00:00 – 0:01:14
Intro: 0:01:14 – 0:03:36
Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family Review: 0:03:36 – 1:18:46
Eyecatch 1: 1:18:46 – 1:18:56
Witch on the Holy Night Review: 1:18:56 – 3:00:02
Eyecatch 2: 3:00:02 – 3:00:16
Closing Thoughts: 3:00:16 – 3:07:16
Season 3 and 4 Reveal: 3:07:16 – 3:14:49
End Credits: 3:14:49 – 3:16:04
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