User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-24982278-20140525073101/@comment-24762556-20140526050221

Again, the problem isn't Narita breaking some rules, it's that he takes too many liberties which butchered both the rules of the Fate war and the origin history of the Servants.

I'm complaining about Enkidu's appearance and personality more than anything actually. How does "wild man" and "lord of beasts" translate to "androgynous boy with green hair"? The original Enkidu is unable to shapeshift and I know Fate is prone to butchering histories with its genderflips and everything, but this one is too much of a stretch that goes onto a level of being more like an entirely original character labeled with Enkidu's name and with papermached with Enkidu's past.

For Gilgamesh I always take the regulations of the Archer class as more flexible than the Lancer for the sake of being able to qualify guns, crossbows, catapults, cannons or even missiles as viable "Archer" weapons. Gil's usage of GoB is basically the same as how a hero with missiles for NP would use it in battle. The biggest stretch you can make to a Lancer's weapon in my opinion is a bo staff.

Rider as I said, is a stretch on the qualifications of a Servant. if 'personifications' are allowed as legit heroes then I woulnd't know if any guidelines matters anymore. Not that I think White Rider is Narita's worst mistake in F/SF because hey, even Nasu himself made god-friggin Nursery Rhyme a hero for some reason.

Jack, yeah I don't like him either, but I still hate Loli-Jack and Higashide's "even if she kills people she is innocent because she is a lonely moe girl" logic much, much more.

At first I didn't care about Dumas, he is the first of the Caster to not be a spellcaster and perhaps at the time it does sound like a fresh idea, but then comes Shakespeare and Avicebron and Andersen and that simply made me hate all the "writer-Casters" group as a whole. It's a unique idea, but the fact that it pretty much like the case with Enkidu, the portrayals of these characters raped the rules of what defines a Caster, which definitely makes it an idea that shouldn't have been used over and over for four freaking times.

As I said, Narita is a very good writer when he is allowed to have absolute freedom in his writings. It's okay to break a few rules and butcher a few histories, but there still is a limit to how much liberties you can take on these things and I find that Narita took way too much of it in F/SF.