About
Fate/stay night is a Japanese visual novel developed by Type-Moon,[1] which was originally released as an adult game for Windows on January 30, 2004. While never officially released in English, a fan translation was made by mirror moon for free.[2] The game is about Shirou Emiya, a high school student who unwittingly enters a to-the-death tournament called The Fifth Holy Grail War, where combatants fight with magic and heroes throughout history for a chance to have their wishes granted by the Holy Grail. He must defeat the other six combatants in order to win.
Memes
People Die If They Are Killed
People Die If They Are Killed is a meme originating from episode 23 of the anime adaption when Shirou is overcome by emotion and says, “People die if they are killed.” to his Servant, Saber. In actuality, the phrase itself comes from a play on an idiom that describes incredibly tough people who “won’t die if they’re killed”.
Jam It In!
Jam It In is an exploitable phrase (Along with VagOOO and POnOS) originating from an awkwardly-translated hentai doujin in which Saber asks Shirou to restore her magic by telling him to “please put your… that! y…your pOnOs! to my… my… here! my vagOOO!!! and j… j… JAM IT IN!” Shriou’s reply of, “You lost me…” has also reached memetic status, due to the situations in which it can be used to respond to a sexual innuendo.
Sakurafish
Sakurafish/Every Day Until You Like It is a daily dose type image mainly posted on 4chan’s /a/ (anime & manga) and /jp/ (otaku culture) boards. It shows one of the main heroines, Sakura, forcefully biting into a fish, with the idea being that posting them on such a regular basis will lead to even those that initially hate it to grow used to it and like it. Due to this, threads featuring Sakurafish are commonly accompanied with the text “I’m going to post this every day until you like it.” Although initially seen as widespread trolling in 2007 and 2008, through 2009 and later opinions about Sakurafish became more positive, resulting in the image seeing frequent usage in photoshops.
GAR
GAR is an anime-related term that is associated with “manly” and “badass” characters. Though once a popular and widely-used slang, in recent years its usage has died down. The term is more or less inspired by the character Archer. It originated from an /a/nonymous user who meant to post “I am Gay for Archer” accidentally posted “I am Gar for Archer”. The typo quickly caught on in popularity and was widely used on /a/ and other anime-related internet forums. The term also became popular on /m/ (Mecha board) due to the popularity of the series GaoGaiGar.
Unlimited Blade Works
Unlimited Blade Works is a copypasta parodying the incantation of the character Archer. Variations of it of it regularly appear on /a/ and among Fate Stay/Night topics across the internet. Originating from the Unlimited Blade Works route of the story, the character Archer is shown to have an ability to summon a Reality Marble (a space of altered reality). In this space he is granted unlimited access to copies of famous legendary swords. To summon this, he does the following incantation-
“I am the Bone of my Sword
Steel is my Body and Fire is my Blood.
I have created over a Thousand Blades,
Unknown to Death,
Nor known to Life.
Have withstood Pain to create many Weapons
Yet those Hands will never hold Anything.
So, as I Pray--
Unlimited Blade Works
External references
[1]TYPE-MOON Official Web Site
[2]mirror moon – Fate/stay night