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Collaboration Countdown: Celebratory Art featuring Rin & Castorice | Just 2 days to go until the Honkai: Star Rail × Fate [UBW] collaboration begins! (by @MikaPikaZo)
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Discussion
Praying that Rin Tohsaka makes a special appearance in the collab as shes main heroine of the UBW route, nice to see shes represented in fanart collab countdown
Rin is peak waifu
Monkey’s paw, Rin shows up but it’s Space Ishtar.
Acceptable. 50% Rin is better than no Rin.
What about the other useless goddess?
Also acceptable.
I just picked Space Ishtar because she’s the easiest one to write into this specific crossover since she’s a space bounty hunter and all.
Imagine lore-accurate Spishtar in the HSR universe, that's a legit Aeon-level of power right there
even better
Still a win
How about Blonde Underworld Rin (the best of them)
If Castorice gets to be a master then Ereshkigal would 100% be her servant.
Wooo, threaten me with a great time!!!
Jokes on you, I like her more!
Acceptable, more servant verse crap is always good(come on saber wars 3)
As a maxed out Space Ishtar haver
I sure do hope Shirou Emiya shows up as a special appearance as well.
The face of a man ready to kill Shirou Emiya
The closer we get to it the more this collab with ”UBW” is starting to just feel like “Fate” in general. more generically Fate and less specifically UBW. Which…I guess is fine…
But man how the hell are you gonna have a UBW Collab and NOT have Shirou and Rin.
I admit, I'm mystified as to why the collab singles out UBW. It's not like it's recent or anything. Why wasn't the collab with Fate/Stay Night in general?
Because they’d have to explain Sakura Matou’s entire existence in a PG-13 way and that…would be very hard to do lol
I mean, it is alluded to that Feixiao was born from a non consensual relationship. I don't see the Sakura situation that is problematic to deal with.
Marketing, licensing deals and contracts presumably
Of all the Fate series I'd say it's the most well known, and iconic for good, and bad reasons. Hell if this was a Fate/Zero, or Fate Apocrypha I dont think it would carry the same buzz.
apocrypha would work if they put some suggestive astolfo stuff in it
The probability of any fate collab that Isn’t stay night is very low. I’ve never seen a non-stay night collab before. Idk why that’s the case.
because they want the saber specifically after the events of ubw for this crossover
Licensing most likely
The UBW part was never going to be a focus. The characters and fate themselves is obviously what's being sought after.
It’s easier to bring in the servants than the master. Even in the series, shirou and rin is mostly locked in stay night and when they do show in other material, its usually alternate versions of stay night and non-canon spin-offs, fate/zero or has a semi-servant in fgo. The off-chance emiya does appear in a sequel…. Yeah, very rare. He was mentioned in strange fake, appears in adventures of lord melloi ii and he was in hollow atraxia but that’s all I know. This franchise is deathly allergic to sequels. Literally the only Fate ip I know that goes in a straight line is kaleid liner prisma Illya. Fortunately for Rin, she has much more appearances. Not only appearing has much as shirou. But also in extra and kaleid liner. Also twice the pseudo servant.
Licensing. I’m unsure of the particulars, but probably due to Aniplex’s particulars on how much of the fate series they specifically license, pretty much every “Fate” collab is specifically a collab with “F/SN: Unlimited Blade Works” regardless of the actual content.
…It’s just that archer and saber are usually in every fate collab anyway so this isn’t often an issue. It is when you only have 2 slots and Shirou and rin can’t be in though.
Idw i guess if it was a heavens feels collab, then they use Saber alter and Emiya with rho aias instead of ubw? Honestly, I’d be drooling.
Rin is one of the two characters who created the modern idea of Tsundere (Asuka Langley being the other one) so she's quite literally waifu history.
Thank you i just found out the meaning of that word
Praise be! One of my favorite artists doing HSR.
Not having Rin in HER OWN ROUTE collab is a crime, I would've pulled her over Phainon
I'll just have to pretend Hanabi is rin 😭
Well Sparkle is BiS for Archer... So I guess there's a reason why Archer is a quantum character with many SP usage lol
Twin-tailed girl wearing red and buffs Archer? Close enough, I guess.
You mean Sparkle.
Nope, I mean Hanabi.
I would have settled for them giving some existing characters the skins of Fate characters + our 2 Collab characters. Clara and Svarog not getting the skins we all imagined was a missed opportunity.
Castorin!
Mika Pikazo HSR x Fate artwork is not something I needed until now, is too good, I kneel.
interesting pairing
rin chosen as vessel for underworld goddess in fgo
castorice guide souls to the afterlife
God i love this artist, fe engage struck gold with em
Rin isn't even in the collab
Mika Pikazo I owe you my life
Rin with the Jeweled Sword is certainly a choice for what is supposed to be a "UBW only" collab
also why is it so big? I remember it being more large dagger size
edit: found a gif of her using it in the third HF movie and it definetly looks smaller than it does in the OP
So Lancer and Dan Heng art next?
Mika Pikazo!!
Defenceless
Ah yes, best girls looking stunning!
RAAAAHHH I FUCKING LOVE MIKA PIKAZO!
No one does it like the goat
Goated artist
bruh, i fucking love Mika Pikazo's use of colors
Mika Pikazo!
Celebratory art with a unit that won’t be in game 😭
No castorice dont touch her chest she will unalive
Now I want Castorice meet Eresh.
Ritsuka : I guess we love courting death.
Caelus : Hell yeah!
Kadoc & DanHeng : There two of them!
Don’t worry Dan Heng you have a pretty healer
Caster Hyacine. Just make sure she not on Boothill The Man hitlist.
MIKA! Her artwork always a blast
Hot sesbian lex
L bait(wrong post too)
What?
Archers husband(rin)+ Sesbian lex obv
Is this some kind of Fate fandom thing where rin is only supposed to be with archer? I have no idea
basically rin is either single or with archers younger self(Shirou) hell to summon archer you need to use the pendant she gave him which he has in his e4 art
you need to be extremely mentally ill to not recognize how every fsn char and ESPECIALLY rin is written in a very bicoded manner
Also, Shinji, Saber, Shirou, Kirei, Kiritsugu, Illya, Lancer, Sakura etc aren't really bicoded
some of them yes the rest youre reading with your eyes closed
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Holy mika pikazo
such an awesome artist.
a kaleidoscope of colors.
Bae's mama too.
Holy kira-kira drawal, that's beautiful
W
god damm this looks genuinely amazing
hey wait a minute thats the Jeweled Sword that Rin is holding
These are just *chef's kiss* awesome. So cool.
Man, you always know a MikaPika piece just by sight because their art style and especially their colour use is so distinctive.
I'm wondering, there will be 7 servants right? So far we only know 4? (Saber, Archer, Lancer, Mr Reca) Who could be the other possible 3 servants?
Cant decide who's cuter!
Would look great for Craft Essence or Light Cone.
Caster, Castorice, it’s puuurfect
My dear didnt know that this illustration was for the collaboration, i think i saw through my instagram feed, mika pikazo god tier artist, love her style, happy to see this and THANK YOU for sharing it :)
Costarica about to falcon knee the poor Rin
Damn
saved 830 pulls for Rin, since she was not added ended with phainon E6 instead.
honestly fuck this event for not having Rin, she is my favorite anime girl ever.
Rin showing up makes no sense even though it’s her route, just show us Ishtar.
My heart skipped a beat I thought we finally have news on a Rappa rerun 💀
the way this image appeared suddenly in my feed I require a photo sensitivity disclaimer (nice art btw, even if non canon🥲)
They're also the artist for Sei Shounagon & Mysterious Ranmaru X
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Also the main artist for Fire Emblem: Engage!
Colgate hair is their specialty
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Beautiful eyes with homophobia
gigi no
With what now?
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SENTAI RING!
Peak Mentioned
Also, the rat vtuber
Hakos Baelz!
Nagiko my beloved. She's also popularized the viral emotional engine cheese face that was everywhere a couple of years ago
love me pikazo, just the perfect amount of colorful and vibrant vomit on a canvas
Mika Pikazo? She seems to have free time so far.