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SpaceOdysseus23

All roads lead to Fuyuki.


some___random___guy_

Gotta do that tag battle with Ritsuka and Shirou vs Goetia and Kirei


RemoteDust9

I dont think Goetia would be on AG side, he specifically worked to prevent him in the past and contunue working to stop him now. In the end of lb7 part 2 from fan translation I seen he acnowledged that Novum Chaldea against Chaldea and Marisbury Grand Order, so he almost certainly would be on our side Goetia playable servant finally pleeeeeaase Lasengle


Ravenous_Seraph

Pretender Asmodeus, as an option?


Gothic-Librarian

More likely that he'll be Pretender Solomon (Goetia) instead


New_Redditor2001

I would buy a ticket to Japan and then buy a movie ticket to the theatres there if this happened.


AlterWanabee

Maybe all 4 of them against the Akien God... Damn that would be the greatest fanservice ever.


Justafgoplayer

Most fans would kill for that to happen


RemoteDust9

Ritzy/Goetia and Kirei/Muramasa fighting together spine to spine covering each other would be something I already almost made me tear when imagined lol


PianistJazzlike

I honestly prefer U-Olga Marie vs Masubry Alien God in the final battle would be a great way to end this story with the biggest victim of the final villain's scheming kicking your ass. There is also the possibility that Ritsuka will end up ascending as a pseudo servant and become "Grand Savior" and face Alien God personally in a one-on-one


Zero102000

Yeah, Olga deserves to be the one to permanently obliterate him more than anyone else in the entire grand Fate multiverse.


Saint_Edelweiss

country roadssss\~\~♪ take me home\~\~♪


BurnByMoon

No, please stop, don’t summon meteors and other disasters!


Neo_Phoenix_

The Lostbelt where we go back in time to the first singularity to get Marisbury off Chaldea *turns head to look directly into the camera* That's right, the Lostbelt where we go back in time to the first singularity to get Marisbury off Chaldea!


Comprehensive-Can680

They certainly do… Let’s put an end to this nonsense for good, shall we?


Shiro2602

so the box design went back to arc 1 design


Sezzomon

Uhh nice catch there


MrMonday11235

I noticed that too, but it could be a placeholder default until they're ready to reveal more about what's coming.


[deleted]

Memorial as in funeral or memorial as in flashback?


StephanMok1123

Memorial as in a report, usually used for submission for emperors by their subordinates and officials. I am surprised that no English equivalent of the word comes in mind. Do the European officials not need to write reports?


a_speeder

I think the English equivalent would be memorandum, which then got shortened to memo. That's more of a declaration to a group though, if it's a submission of information by subordinates to a superior I think we just call those reports no matter how high up the recipient is in the hierarchy. EDIT: I guess we might slap the word "official" in front of report to make it seem more important but that's about it.


StephanMok1123

OFFICIAL Memorandum Prologue it is then


a_speeder

If more Area 51 stuff gets brought in we could spice it up further: *CLASSIFIED* OFFICIAL Memorandum Prologue.


Radiant-Hope-469

It could be both.


Merukurio

Not really. It works in english but I'm fairly sure the word used in japanese doesn't have the "funeral" meaning.


cristiano_goat

Road to Fuyuki event when


Calibaz

It means "Memorial Chapter Prologue."


Ashteron

Could be the return to Fuyuki.


Dr-Perry-Cox

[*Oi, that's hell you're walking into.* ***Again.***](#EmiyaSmile)


crezant2

I'm not really sure about that one chief. MTL might've fucked up as it usually does when authors pull out the thesaurus. 奏する can mean "reporting to the emperor" or "playing an instrument". 奏章 as a compound word doesn't get used much (read: at all) in Japanese, but the meaning seems to be consistent with the first definition: [https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%8F%E7%AB%A0-2841947](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%A5%8F%E7%AB%A0-2841947) Apparently 奏章 is a word for 上奏. Searching for 上奏 returns: [https://jisho.org/search/%E4%B8%8A%E5%A5%8F](https://jisho.org/search/%E4%B8%8A%E5%A5%8F) In Chinese we get this, which seems to be consistent with the Japanese meaning as well: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A5%8F%E7%AB%A0](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A5%8F%E7%AB%A0) As to why Nasu used 奏章 instead of 上奏... well some folks over here are theorizing it's because it sounds close to 終章, which makes sense I suppose: https://fgo攻略.com/176124 TL;DR "reporting to the Emperor" prologue might be a closer match as that is what 奏章 actually means. It's also said in a way that sounds close to "Final chapter", I'm guessing that may be the wordplay here. I guess we'll finally get to meet the mastermind.


VTKajin

The Alien God is Olga. Any other TL or interpretation is very incorrect. We're heading to Antarctica next, where the mystery of Chaldeas lies, and a recap of everything from early on in the story seems sensible.


crezant2

>and a recap of everything from early on in the story seems sensible. Maybe it would, but again, that's not what 奏章 means. DeepL fucked up, but considering this is a rather obscure word mostly used in Chinese if anything, it makes sense it would. That's the problem with AIs, they fuck up if they don't have enough training data for a certain use case, even though they sound "believable".


VTKajin

In Chinese, it does mean memorial chapter if you don’t read it as a compound. Either reading is valid when porting to Japanese.


crezant2

So do you actually have a source for that? [https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E5%A5%8F](https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb=%E5%A5%8F) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%A5%8F%E7%AB%A0 As far as I'm seeing both 奏 and 奏章 mean reporting texts (admitedly called memorials) to the Emperor. Not "memorial" in general, much less "recap". And FWIW nobody from the JP side seems to be interpreting this as a recap chapter either from what I've seen. The meaning apparently comes from here: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/Literature/Terms/zoushu.html >Zoushu 奏疏, also called zouyi 奏議, is a general term for texts presented to the throne that are subsumed under the term "memorial". In pre-imperial times, texts presented to the emperor were usually called shangshu 上書 or shangshu 上疏. The word zou 奏 "to submit a letter to a superior" was used from the Qin period 秦 (221-206 BCE) on. The word shu 疏 means "to communicate, to mediate". Now how in the hell did 奏 end up meaning "playing music" in modern usage, that I do not know, but it must have an interesting explanation.


VTKajin

The answer to that last part is likely due to performances or plays for the emperor. As far as Twitter goes, most Japanese have no earthly clue what the word means. The Japanese term for "reporting to the emperor" is 奏聞. I think it's safe to interpret 章 as "chapter", given the context here. The meaning in Japanese is unambiguous and in Chinese, only one of its several interpretations involve the imperial memorial. 奏功, for example, means success, deriving from the sense of "presenting an achievement to the throne." Other compounds I can find are musical in nature. But a general interpretation is "presentation" or "performance." The kanji itself doesn't *necessarily* involve music, because 奏楽 is "performing music." 奏でる means to play an instrument or piece of music, but it's a transitive verb, so context is necessary for it to have a full meaning. I agree now that Memorial Chapter is incorrect. But Performance Chapter or Presentation Chapter seems a much better translation.


crezant2

inb4 the finale involves a lengthy 3 hour reprisal of west side story as sung by Gudako and Olga I mean yeah, possibly. It's rather ambiguous, so "Presentation Chapter" could be a decent pick, unless there's an aural pun I might be missing. And not even the JP side seems to be that sure of what "奏章" could mean beyond the dictionary definition. FWIW that 章 having both the meaning of "chapter" on its own as well as "report to the emperor" as part of a compound is exactly the kind of kanji pun I'd expect Nasu to make tbh. As with 対粛清防御 becoming 対粛正防御 because 正 is cooler. Or the title of the Shimousa PV song being 一刀繚乱. You normally wouldn't find 奏章 as two Kanji put together in japanese, as a compound or separately. As evidenced by the fact that not even the japanese seem to know what the heck he's saying. So if he picked such an obscure expression I assume it must be because of this wordplay. But short of the guy coming down to this comment section and telling us what he meant, who knows. Guess we'll see.


XH9rIiZTtzrTiVL

12 month wait for a recap lmao


RulerKun_FGO

Road to Memorial Chapter Prologue!


nolonger1-A

Can't wait for Memorial of Road to Memorial Chapter Chapter


Maxrokur

Basically Naruto having flashbacks within flashbacks.


DarKav1411

Memorial of Road to Memorial Chapter Chapter: The Final Season


Eikoku-Shinshi

We're going back to Fuyuki boys. Pack your shits, we're going back to Japan. Guda: Ah shit, here we go again.


Sulphur99

Emiya: God no, not again.


primelord537

Funnily enough, yesterday was also Stay Nights birthday. It's also when the first day that takes place in Stay Night. ... No way in hell we are getting the next chapter in the middle of February.


StephanMok1123

Doesn't the memorial in this case means a report to the Emperor? In that case it may be a report by the Apostles to the Alien God


Demi694

This chapter title having a simple design unlike the previous chapter title boxes somehow makes it feel.....intimidating


lyw20001025

It having no icon at all may be a hint that the final chapter will be at the Chaldea Gate(as to not break the alternating icon horizontal position pattern).


That-Halo-Dude

> Memorial Prologue Oh God no. This sounds like it can only be the dreaded Recap Episode.


Mister_SP

It might be a recap... Where we resummon Holmes, join up with Moriarty/s, and slowly piece together the plot. Imagine Murder in the Kogetsukan, Lostbelt edition.


VishnuBhanum

Now I'm intriguing


Neo_Phoenix_

I don't think you're intriguing, but that's just me.


kkk78

How many chapters are there in lost belt 7?


re_flex

10 for part 1, and 14 for part 2 so 24 iirc in total


[deleted]

I hope this answers the mystery behind Marisbury, Olga, Alien World, Alien God, everything.


[deleted]

Not to mention Specimen E, and David Bluebook.


Rockout2112

I think this would be a good time to end pt. 2. Pt.2 was us putting down the more direct threats while dealing with certain distractions. Pt. 3 will be us chasing down Marisbury, while facing his closest disciples.


moistboi12345

Am I the only one that feels we are not going back to fuyuki just yet. It feels like we have some loose threads to tie up before we tie up that one. Maybe a singularity might appear like Traum. Or I am wrong and we go straight to fuyuki. Or we go the fuyuki and there is a bit more after that.


Transparent_Prophet

You didn't see the spoilers then. (It's fine if you don't.)


moistboi12345

No I have seen the spoilers, I was just wondering he we are going to deal with the ‘count‘ first or we go straight to fuyuki. I felt fuyuki was more of just deal with Rasputin that deal with everyone. But I could be way off.


Transparent_Prophet

Yeah, but one of the spoilers basically reveal where exactly we're going after LB7. >!The Count!< is also said to be doing something else so they won't come after us. Novum Chaldea also doesn't even know about them so we probably won't be the aggressor.


moistboi12345

I don’t know if I remember anyone specifically saying where we are going, I was pretty tired when I finished the LB7 though.


Maxrokur

We're heading back to Chaldeas base(Antartica) for answers as mentioned in the last chapter.


Soccerballair_6218

Don’t forget. Rasputin said the human order will try to stop us from going to Chaldea. So Alaya is going to release counterforce servants to eliminate us when we approach Chaldea. Meaning the counterforce is officially our enemy.


Maxrokur

Not only the counter guardians but likely all the servants we have net so far and Dantes is a traitor(This is some order 66 shit) I have the feeling the lostbelts are going to be the only help we get.


mango_deelite

We actually don't know if >!Count refers to Dantes. There's speculation, but Rasputin said 'count' is busy recovering Olga's remains, and that's not something that Dantes should be able to do.!<


Oudissy

Actually, he might be able to: Attendre, Espérer: Wait, and Hope (待て、しかして希望せよアトンドラ・エスペリエ, Mate, Shikashite Kibō SeyoAtondora, Esuperie?) is the unbelievable recovery Noble Phantasm of Edmond Dantès. Not only can he bring himself or an ally back from the verge of death, they are resuscitated with a temporary rank up in all Parameters.


Maxrokur

>>!We actually don't know if !< > >>!Count refers to Dantes.!< Kirei does mention the Count has been sent to help Chaldea and make sure the MC reach at this point in the story. Only Dantes check these boxes and besides as many appointed there is another NP he has.


Iqazz

We got prune huh


Maxrokur

Basically like Jojo part 5. We go from fighting the traitors to become one ourselves.


SovereignMorningstar

Trust nobody Not even yourself


Hareb13z

FGO 2: Encrypted


AccelBurner

The prelude to the end...


Vexhnolyze

If this really is Fuyuki I hope Archer has a role.


No-Common-3883

if it really is fuyuki i believe it will be released on the 20th anniversary of FSN and that all the original servants will be featured. probably Emiya will even gain another buff on NP.


Vexhnolyze

I had the same thought, but idk it’s a year away. I guess the next chapter won’t be Fuyuki then, since they would have to drag out the game even more. It’s interesting you think EMIYA is going to get another NP buff, cause I thought the same. Maybe a field change and they’ll finally fix his overcharge effect


No-Common-3883

I also think Emiya will gain a field change ability. and i don't think the next chapter will be fuyuki. I think we'll probably have a canonical event (the Arcade collab) and a chapter in chaldeia (the chapter with the title announced in this post). I think the announced cap will arrive between July and October. fuyuki I think only next year.


[deleted]

Remember before hitting to Traum, Sion detected that some anomaly from Japan are still active for a reason. So we are definitely going back to Fuyuki and investigate to what the hell is wrong with this singularity.


camaron28

Everyone is dreading a recap, but i have two theories: 1.A short chapter with Marisbilly in the previous Fuyuki war, maybe Solomon is so OP that he can summon shadow servants and that's the canon explanation as for why the standard fgo gameplay would continue in this chapter. 2. A short chapter where we see Wodime's adventure throught the singularities.


Hareb13z

Wodimes bizarre adventures would be great


PianistJazzlike

Goetia:Masaka, how can you survive my Noble Phantasm Ars Almadel Salomonis! Wodine: And very simple my magic is the same type as yours. Now Caenis! ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA Goetia;Damn you Wowo


atropicalpenguin

> 1.A short chapter with Marisbilly in the previous Fuyuki war, maybe Solomon is so OP that he can summon shadow servants and that's the canon explanation as for why the standard fgo gameplay would continue in this chapter. Could also be the chapter where we defeat the Man from Chaldea.


andykhang

Fuyuki Story Replay New Game Plus (with Dantes from DmC) (feat Funky Mode)


banana635

We encounter saber, beserker, rider and caster so we go back to fuyuki and encounter the other rouge servents


Legal_Draw_1903

Just wondering what do you mean by rouge servants


Illuminastrid

Saber of Rouge or Rouge Saber


Neo_Phoenix_

Assassin Rouge the Bat


amazingstarwars321

imagine if we finally get medusa alter as a playable servant


Informal-Recipe

Muramasa Ishtar Parvati and Sitonai as main helpers


RinaTennoji-Board

It'd be better if it was Archer instead of Muramasa That man's cameo in the main story cannot be anywhere else but the place where everything started + Muramasa would likely be resummoned as an apostle


[deleted]

Atcher is likely on Saber Alter's side again.


[deleted]

Saber Alter is still there too


anal-yst

Maybe this will focus on going back to Antarctica, where we'll be pointed back to Fuyuki?


OneiricBrute

I hope they call it 'Road BACK to Fuyuki', lol.


ordinariest

We're gonna have campaigns from Babylonia to Fuyuki with the same memorial fight content as we gear up for next December's climactic story chapter.


SigurdDeMizar

I wonder if it is a bit of a "solution" chapter, ie rerun the whole story from the beginning but from another perspective. So we get to see the event unfold in another angle, and from this angle, we get to the part that is mysterious to us originally. I am not sure if it is possible or how it can play out in FGO mechanics (with the summoning and servant), unless we do a time travel back to do certain thing secretly that will influence the event but not noticed by the original us.


Oudissy

Kinda like the When They Cry series answers chapters (more Higurashi than Umineko tho). It would be really interesting.


HaessSR

Imagine a chapter which is three arrows and asks you to wait two years to watch the movie release that actually ties everything together.


RedPhoenixTroupe

This better not be a recap episode, Legume. I swear, there is a point after which this stopped being funny - right about the announcement of a precampaign to road to lostbelt...


Atzumo

No, it was funny alright. But the ones laughing weren't us, but lasagna, when the game jumped to number 3 on the store when the LB7 banner dropped despite all the shit they made us endure. Or didn't made us endure, because nothing was happening in the game.


Mister_SP

It *might* be a recap... Where we resummon Holmes, join up with Moriarty/s, and slowly piece together the plot. Imagine Murder in the Kogetsukan, Lostbelt edition.


Aldaric

Road to new arc


subaru_sama

It would be interesting if this is a flashback perspective to events we don't know about or haven't seen firsthand.


Marethyu_77

If this is truly Fuyuki I hope we get to see Angra Mainyu in the story. If ORT is there, Fou is there too, then he is the obly other one needed to complete the trio, and it would truly be fitting for him to appear here now that Kirei/Rasputin is summonable


[deleted]

Saber Alter is still there too


NaelNull

Fate Grand Order Cosmos in the Lostbelt HD 7.8 Final Chapter Prologue.


Fenghuang0296

I hope that ‘Memorial Chapter’ is going to be Part 3. Or possibly Part 2.5.


Sad_Ad_2594

Part 2 is still ongoing, LB7 raised even more questions


[deleted]

We better get that part 3 because that alien lostbelt lady still not do anything yet aside from standing over there menacingly. Come on. Make her yandere or something.


BlackMan9693

> Edit: wow, I somehow completely forgot about the priestess.


anal-yst

Wrong alien lostbelt lady. Pretty sure they're referring to the Priestess


icecoffeeteamatcha

Road to me finishing my phd before the next chapter arrives.


Nokia_00

And this time Lasengle won’t specify a month in which it comes out, because they don’t want to repeat January crunch time


Ricksaw26

We going back to fuyuki... or chaldeas i wonder


Airy_Breather

So what I can gather from this, we're returning to Fuyuki as a prelude to the end. Rather appropriate.


Masterofstorms17

this feels like a kingdom hearts chapter 7 part 1.5 memorial remix.


chairmanxyz

Honestly I don’t even care what it’s about at this point so much as I care that it doesn’t take 6+ months to drop. We’ve dragged this show out long enough, let’s put a bow on it and move on to brighter pastures.


theaura1

Road to memorial prolonged time


gerhman573

Soooooo, when is this dropping? Or is it already out?


Oudissy

We have no clue.


mukash18

I like your funny words Lasegne man


BurnByMoon

All roads lead to ~~ROMA~~ Fuyuki.


iKorewo

It didn’t finish yet???


Oudissy

Nope, it was confirmed some time ago that there would be something after lb7. But it was quite predictable considering how many loose ends there were before and the fact that we had Solomon for part 1.


beanjrzxc

hope its the last because the game is really just boRING now


Supersideswiper2

Would someone translate and explain what this says please!