The Study of Fate/stay night

I have started sharing the translation of the study of the video game Fate/stay night, on twitter.

https://twitter.com/mackuro3/status/1689458197244039168
黒田誠 on Twitter: "Chapter 3 Existence, Phenomenon and Personality: Summoning Magic and Individuality in Fate/stay night #FateStayNight #SummonedHeroes #FictionalCharacters #ExistencePhenomenonPersonality" / X



Chapter 3

Existence, Phenomenon and Personality:
Summoning Magic and Individuality in Fate/stay night

1 New Attributes of Games as A Mode of Fiction

Fate/stay night is an erotic game based on the scenario written by Kinoko Nasu released by Type Moon in 2004. The game is based on the battle of magicians who try to win the Holy Grail, which has the power to fulfill their immense desires, by summoning heroes from the world of myths and legends as their servants. It was initially released as a Windows version of computer software, but has now been ported to several home video game consoles and is widely accepted in general. The fact that many of the high-level erotic games such as Kanon and Air have followed the same process and are accepted by the public as general game and anime works seems to be a particularly interesting fact that tells the actual state of current Japanese cutting-edge fictional expression and the environment where these artworks are created.

Ambiguous Presentation and Visual Art: Polysemy in Valerie and Her Week of Wonders; translated

I have shared the translation of the second chapter of my study of meta-personality; “Ambiguous Presentation and Visual Art: Polysemy in Valerie and Her Week of Wonders”; on Acadedmia.

https://www.academia.edu/105368894/Existence_Phenomenon_and_Personality_Polysemy_in_Valerie_and_Her_Week_of_Wonders

What can be effectively pointed out in this video work is the characteristic change in the description of the fictional world indicative of the influence of the quantum mechanics worldview that developed under the influence of thinkers such as Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr who had a deep understanding of both philosophy and physics, following Einstein’s announcement of the Relativity Theory in the early 20th century. In examining the foundations of fictionality argument in relation to literary trends such as actualism and surrealism, and re-examining the ideological significance as system theory of fantasy literature, the visual expression introduced in this film seems to provide a particularly useful clue for understanding the implication of fictionality. This provides important suggestions that make it possible to infer the expanded domain of cognitive norms related to the essential grasp of existence and phenomena when the subject of consciousness accepts the reality of the fictional world as an object of perception and grasps it as a set of concepts making particular qualia.