Nexus Analysis

  I recently showed my father Fate/Zero . He loved it, naturally, but the ending left him confused and unsatisfied. I explained that Fate/Zero was merely the prequel and setup for Fate/Stay Night , which focused on the descendants of these characters fighting in the Fifth Holy Grail War. However, I cautioned him that Stay Night was split into three stories that all began the same way but took different directions. Of course, I was referring to the three routes of the Visual Novel: Fate, Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven’s Feel .  His smile wavered. “Oh,” he said. “I guess I was hoping all of Zero ’s plot threads would be resolved in a single story.” Visual novel fans will be familiar with this idea. In many visual novels, a “true route” is an unlockable final route that attempts to resolve all of the narrative threads set up by the previous routes. Fate/stay night famously doesn’t have such a route, only resolving certain plotlines in certain routes. Saber only gets closure in Fate and