There is nothing particularly strange about COSing at a premiere, but it is a little less common in Japan.
After all, Japan is a country with a strong sense of group consciousness.
Unless you want to be socially dead, few people would wear COS costumes on the street like in anime.
There are some in Akihabara, but they are only available in a few places like Akihabara.
It's the same even when watching a movie premiere. Unless it's a movie with a strong otaku vibe, few people will watch the movie in COS costumes.
However, there are not so many requirements in Europe and the United States.
There are simply too many enthusiastic fans who attend the premiere dressed in the costumes of their favorite characters.
For example, a certain Washimine fanatic.
"How's my look?"
William showed off to his friends around him.
At this time, the guy was wearing a black vest and a red backless windbreaker.
People who are familiar with Fate can tell at a glance that the other person is COSing a famous man with his back to the camera.
"Very cool!"
Ed gave him a thumbs up, but also expressed his disagreement.
"I like the look of the female Hassan more, with her long legs under the tight leather pants..."
Ed wiped the saliva from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand.
William quickly reminded: "Hey, you are a married man with a wife."
"Ahem, I mean Rikka will definitely like this look." Ed said something that he himself didn't believe, "But remember Donny said he liked Rika the most..."
"I mean, I really envy that body of muscles. Don't you think it's very manly?"
Robert Downey Jr., who was sitting next to Ed, ignored Ed's look that said "That's not what you said at the beginning" and said with a strong desire to survive.
He had to be strong because Donny's wife Susan was sitting next to him.
Downey, who was a playboy when he was young, was quite good at having fun.
When he first saw Medusa's tights, he imagined ten thousand ways to play with it.
It's a pity that his wife's figure doesn't support this kind of play, so Tony can only express his regret.
After all, the world is big, but my wife is the most important.
For Tony right now, things like sexual interests and hobbies are definitely not as high a priority as his wife.
In fact, Tony has never understood why so many people like a little girl with no breasts and no butt like Artoria.
Although Downey admits that this character is quite handsome, if she likes tomboys so much, why doesn't she like men?
[Perhaps this is the relationship between the aesthetics of different generations? ]
Donny shook his head secretly. He looked at the seats of ordinary movie fans in the back row and wondered who their favorite movie characters were.
"These people are really vulgar."
The conversation that Downey and his friends were having was heard by Kenneth Turan, a well-known film critic who was sitting not far from them.
Because someone was blocking his view, Turan did not realize that one of the people speaking was the famous star Robert Downey Jr.
Although Turan is the most tolerant of commercial films among well-known film critics, it does not mean that he does not have some bad habits of film critics.
Turan certainly knows that a curvy figure and long legs are the most basic human desires.
But how can a noble film critic associate himself with these vulgar people?
However, Turan himself still appreciates Kiryu Nanaya's movies.
Although this director's film shots also have a lot of kitsch elements, his sense of camera is very good.
Especially the beauty of photographing women is really something that general commercial film directors need to learn well.
"It's a pity that Nanaya Kiryu's movies are too commercial."
Turan sighed.
He felt that if Nanaya Kiryu's movies were a little less commercial;
Find an actress with better acting skills.
Maybe it will shine during award season.
It's a pity that Turan thought he would never see it in the Fate series.
This kind of purely commercial series of movies is what my colleagues hate the most.
But Turan was still able to find a lot of interesting things in this movie and was very interested in the development of the FZ story.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried his best to squeeze into this premiere.
You have to know that Washimine has never been very fond of film critics, and there are not many spots reserved for film critics at the premiere.
"The trailer is great and even brings a lot of surprises."
Turan sat alone in his seat and said to himself: "I hope the plot of the film will not disappoint people and can continue the dark and profound theme to the end."
Turan personally always thought that the story of the first half of FZ was quite interesting.
In the current environment where most commercial films are straightforward, FZ's relatively complex storyline makes people want to watch it several times.
If Nanaya Kiryu had not considered it from a commercial perspective, she would have forced the film to be divided into two parts.
Turan believes that FZ will not lose so badly at this year's Oscars.
"I heard that Kiryu Nanaya is currently filming a movie with a girl as the protagonist."
Turan rubbed his slightly fat chin with his hands.
"If that movie is a breakthrough, maybe we can try to promote it?"
As a film critic who prefers commercial films, Turan has always been committed to the integration of commerce and art.
He had a vague feeling that something was not right with the direction of the Oscars in recent years.
If there is anyone who can make a movie that can both change the direction of the Oscars and be commercially successful.
Then this person must be an extraordinary genius.
Turan didn't know whether Nanaya Kiryu was this person, but at least the first half of FZ made him see this possibility.
Just when Turan was thinking about how to help his favorite director shine at the film awards.
The lights above the theater went out one by one, and light gradually came on the big screen.
After a long wait, the movie finally began.
The first thing played was naturally the logo opening of Washimine and [Erque Studio].
But the black mud and flames that covered it afterwards gave it a gloomy feeling.
Audiences familiar with Fate know that this black mud foreshadows the contaminated Holy Grail.
This one hint alone casts a shadow over the film, which has yet to even begin.
What appears next is not the title of the movie, but the plot that directly enters the end of the previous movie.
There is no opening remarks, nor any review of the previous episode.
The movie starts directly with the river battle with Caster.
At this time, the sky of Fuyuki City has turned dark purple under the influence of the evil tentacles summoned by Caster.
Both the passers-by on the screen and the audience outside the venue felt a sense of uneasiness.
Everyone could clearly see a huge monster made of tentacles moving slowly in the river.
A sense of doomsday sadness was conveyed through the screen to all the audience in the theaters.
Then an ox cart flashing with electric sparks rushed past and crushed several tentacles in mid-air.
Audiences who have seen the previous film immediately recognized this as Iskandar's chariot.
But before Iskander's fans could cheer, a young girl rushed past on the water.
"Ha!"
Accompanied by crisp roars.
The blonde knight girl used a transparent sword to directly cut off the tentacles on the river that wanted to attack the chariot.
"Artoria!"
Seeing the swordsman girl appear on the stage, all the audience started cheering.
However, although Saber and Rider tried very hard to attack these tentacles, they were still unable to completely eliminate these tentacle sea monsters.
On the contrary, as time went on, this behemoth began to grow larger and larger, and the oppressive feeling of its size alone was enough to make people feel breathless.
Such a huge monster naturally cannot be concealed as easily as before.
The citizens of Fuyuki City began to flee in all directions, and at the same time, the US military stationed in Japan and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces also began to take action.
If we follow the original special effects film routine, after the monster appears.
The next plot should be that the human army is directly crushed and suffers heavy losses.
Then the Giant of Light appeared to save the situation and defeated the monster.
Everybody was happy.
It ended with a happy ending.
But the name of this movie is FZ, not Ultraman produced by Tsuburaya.
Of course, there is no such good thing as the Giant of Light saving the day.
However, the human army was still directly crushed.
But this is not the worst case scenario.
After discovering that ordinary firepower could not kill the monster, the commander of the human army began to frantically send in more troops.
But this obviously cannot stop this monster called the Sea Devil, which is actually an evil god.
And as the battlefield intensified, the human army became a rather unstable factor.
Just like in the Cthulhu myth, humans started to go crazy after observing the sea monsters for a long time.
Or maybe it would be more Cthulhu-like to explain it by resetting the SAN value to zero?
In short, the irrational human army began to go crazy.
At first, attacking friendly forces and firing at residential buildings were not common phenomena.
But as time went on, more and more people began to have problems.
For a moment, the entire river battlefield became chaotic, with all kinds of missiles and artillery fire flying everywhere.
Nanaya's explosion fetish was fully displayed in this scene.
For a moment, even the audience couldn't figure out what was happening on the screen.
After realizing that the situation was out of control, the first Servant to step forward was Iskander.
He acted promptly, and after explaining the situation to Saber and the others, he directly deployed an inherent barrier to encompass all the sea monsters and the army.
In the barrier of [King's Army], Iskandar showed no fear in the face of the modern steel torrent of mankind and the monsters covered with tentacles.
He drew his dagger and pointed it forward.
"Then, let's have a war!"
"Oh oh oh!"
The army that once swept across the Western world shouted, and they followed their king to attack the opposite side.
"Let's shout out our victory! Ah~ la la la la!"
As the Macedonian soldiers charged, high-pitched BGM began to sound.
Then the movie title finally appeared on the screen - Fate Zero: Inferno.