The Pnictogen Wing has got Heroic Spirits everywhere and yet we feel (much as we are with Undertale / Deltarune) disconnected from the lore and the fan community. It's especially obnoxious with Fate/ however because we are largely ignorant of Fate/stay night and most of our information on FSN comes from a best friend who despises Nasu's sexism (and the general sexualization of the whole franchise) so she's not exactly unbiased about Fate/. In fact she once wondered if it was a mistake to introduce me to the franchise.
Our pathway in was in the ancillary anime: Fate/Zero above all, first and best, followed by Unlimited Blade Works and the Heaven's Feel trilogy, which we think is very strong and gripping stuff but a bit too elliptical and confusing without foreknowledge of the lore. (Heaven knows what a first-time viewer of Presage Flower would think was going on.) Eventually we got to the gacha game Fate/Grand Order, to which our Nasu-hating friend regarded herself as seriously addicted, so she wrenched herself free from it. We did spend a bit of money on Saint Quartz but now Kris is starting over from scratch and the determination not to put a dime into it, relying upon Lady Fortuna and the Fates (har har) to summon good Servants. That ought to be interesting.
The thing is...the more I learn about (coughs) certain sordid aspects of the Fate/ franchise, especially with Fate/Grand Order, like with how they handle characters such as Mash Kyrielight and Illyasviel von Einzbern and Jack et alii, the more I'm inclined to think that Kaylin might just be right about Nasu. Blech. Why'd we get so deeply mixed up in this stuff? Now what
~Chara