Fate/moon archive

they're calling it an episode of the year. koharu has some good stuff for us to dig into but ultimately leaves us disappointed while protofragments has opinions about women that are... disappointing to say the least.

next time, we'll be covering the remainder of protoframents volume 4. for yuri teatime, we're covering mari's route of cc through january 16th.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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this time on fate/moon archive we enter the route of our second favorite closing chapter girl, koharu. as she and haruki build one of the least firm foundations for a relationship i've ever seen, the ogisou siblings suffer and koharu has her looking glass insects arc at school. also, some stuff happens in protofragments. idk, i don't think volume 3 is very good.

next time, we'll be covering protofragments volume 4 prologue & acts 1-3. for yuri teatime we'll be finishing the koharu route of white album 2.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic...

This time, on Fate/moon archive! We begin with the back half of the White Album 2 Closing Chapter common route. Bad dates abound as we prepare to enter the route of Benn's dearest enemy, Koharu! In the main episode, we start on a new book of Prototype Fragments, and pray that the latest ally of justice isn't too annoying!

Next time, we'll be covering the rest of Fate/Prototype Fragments volume 3. For Yuri Teatime we'll be doing White Album 2 Closing Chapter's Koharu route from December 26th up till the February 5th date marker. Make sure you're spending...

we continue our run of short episodes with volume 2 of protofragments which is... more of the same for better and worse. over in white album 2, haruki and setsuna are in hell, trapped in a dance neither of them has been able to stop for the past three years.

next time, we'll be covering the first half of protofragments volume 3, acts 1-4. for yuri teatime we're covering white album 2 closing chapter from december 13th through the 25th.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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A nice short episode this time around as we cover the first half of Prototype Fragment's 2nd volume and meet an.... actually kind of compelling character who will unfortunately be trapped in muppets baby form for the duration of our reading. Over in White Album 2 land, Haruki fucks up! Bad! Get used to that!

Next time, we'll be covering Acts 5, 6, & the Special Act of Fate/Prototype: Fragments of Sky Silver Volume 2. For Yuri Teatime we'll be covering White Album 2's Closing Chapter right up until the screen says December 13. Don't play December 13.

Featuring co-hosts Benn...

this week: proto fragments continues to baffle but we get to the end of volume one at least. and white album 2 continues to be great as haruki gets himself mired even deeper in relationship drama as the band puts on a show.

next time, we'll be covering volume 2 acts 1-4 of fate/proto fragments. and for teatime we're doing the remainder of introductory chapter plus a replay (for some scenes only unlocked on your second time through).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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today, we start two new eras of the pod. on the one hand, for yuri teatime we're starting the acclaimed visual novel white albumn 2. on the other hand we read half of the first volume of fate/proto fragments. the disparity in quality is the fate/moon archive promise.

next time, we'll be covering the remainder of volume one of fate prototype (act 6, special acts, and the afterword). for white album 2 we're covering until the scene where the first kiss happens.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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our time with fate/extra ccc comes to a close as we read emails and forget to do a character ranking.

next time, we'll be covering fate/prototype volume 1 through act 5. for yuri teatime we're doing white album 2 introductory chapter through the phone conversation between setsuna and haruki.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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The end of CCC has arrived, and we can finally answer the only question that matters: Should everyone have been nicer to Passionlip? Also we talk about Gilgamesh, the extremely surprising final boss, and the problem with endings.

Next time, we'll be doing a special questions episode for CCC! For Yuri Teatime we'll be covering the full run of the manga Aishita Bundake Aishite Hoshii! and Throw Away The Suit Together.

Featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe). Guest featuring Chris (@tsukinomiko.bsky.social).

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go read 週に一度クラスメイトを買う話 / story about buying my classmate once a week. it's really good. we had fun talking about the first two-ish volumes.

next time, we'll be covering fate/extra ccc gil's route & true end. for yuri teatime we're covering mädchen in uniform (1931).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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this week is a blatant fill for time. from our side, that's because we need more time to finish ccc. from zvezda's side... you gotta fill tv slots somehow. better this than generic isekai slop #953, i guess; at least it looks nice.

next time, we'll be covering fate/tiger colosseum. for yuri teatime we're covering the first volume (chapters 1-10 or parts 1-34) of story about buying my classmate once a week.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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we're buying time for benn and i to get through ccc again so it's a bit of a goofy one this episode: we're covering the 2013 april fools game back alley satsuki. and folks? it's good.

next time, we'll be covering all of world conquest zvezda plot. for yuri teatime we're covering something, probably of the devil episode 2.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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It's the most holy time of the year (Arcueid's birthday), and that means a break from our usual programming for something fun!

With last year's Legendary Twenty-Four Hour Podcast still fresh in our hearts, your intrepid hosts wander into the woods to discuss a pair of science fiction dystopias. What, may you ask, does the woods have to do with our subject matter? Nothing! Now pull up a seat and play a video of trees, or maybe take a nice stroll and join us for a very special holiday episode of Fate/moon archive.

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we've reached the end of our time with ccc for now (we're doing gil's route and the true end next year), and it's a rather unsatisfying ending for all involved, but mostly us. some of that was to be expected, since there are as many questions left unanswered as there are sakuras we could have been nicer to, but our issues are more general in nature. at least we got to talk about two fantastic movies and the stuff we did enjoy in ccc before the end.

next time, it's our annual solstice special! that means what...

sorry everyone, this has become an arknights podcast. it wasn't on purpose and we didn't do it intentionally but we and our guests simply have good taste and so there's another long arknights section of the pod this time around, along with references throughout. maybe some day we'll do a structured pod, though at this point we'll have talked about all of arknights before we get there. anyway, the main topic this week is melt. she's great. we talk a lot about what works and doesn't about her chapter as well as the excellent 2018 film shoplifters.

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after a puppy-play session with bb it's time for a lighthearted chapter with everyone's favorite re-heated lizard, liz! there's not that much to talk about so even though we added a special bonus yuri teatime movie we get through ccc at a relatively fast clip, but make up for it by chatting about arknights and p5x for... a really long time. we're good at podcasting, i've heard.

next time, we'll be covering chapter 6 of fate/extra ccc. for yuri teatime we're watching shoplifters (2018).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).<...

it's a death-focused episode as we tackle first wild strawberries then jinako's chapter of ccc.

next time, we'll be covering the interlude and chapter 5 of ccc. for yuri teatime we're covering killer of sheep (1978).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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After a "brief" interlude of toxic yuri, we return to CCC to find... toxic yuri???? Get ready to meet everyone's favorite babygirl since Takuji as she scrapes and stalks her way every closer to Hakuno. We can talk it out right? Right..? I'll cry if we can't...

Next time, we'll be covering Chapter 4 of CCC, as well as Ingmar Bergman's "Wild Strawberries".

Featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe). Guest featuring Chris (tsukinomiko_).

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this episode marks the end of our journey through the toxic yuri jam, until the next one happens at least. we finish out our discussions of games we both played before getting down to the hard task of picking just 10(+1) games you dear listener should play. and the other 15 games you should also play. also you should play whatever sounds interesting, we're not your moms. thank you for joining us on this wild adventure, new listeners and old.

next time, we'll be back to fate/extra ccc! we're on to chapter 3, and the toxic yuri train keeps...

welcome back to crying rules actually, a podcast about taking a short break from our extremely important work talking about bb in order to cover the under-examined world of english language visual novels! this episode is the second in our series of deep dives into the 2025 itch.io-hosted toxic yuri visual novel jam. last episode we talked at length about games only one of us had played, this episode we go through roughly half the games we both played before we run out of time. scroll down for a full list of works discussed on this episode, timestamps for...

Welcome to Crying Rules Actually, a podcast about taking a short break from our extremely important work talking about BB in order to cover the under-examined world of English language visual novels! For the next three Saturdays we'll be releasing a deep dive dive into the 2025 itch.io-hosted Toxic Yuri Visual Novel Jam. Scroll down for a full list of works discussed on this episode, timestamps for when we discuss them, and links to all the available TYJ games we cover this episode!

Next week, we'll return with even more toxic yuri! Our normal schedule is on...

rani is back and this time they didn't forget to write her a character! (un)?fortunately her character is even more "wife" than rin was. most of the chapter is still clearly in the mode of setting up for the main focus of the game, and while rani has some funny moments it's far from the best ccc has to offer. oh, and we (the one's who didn't know already, at least) find out the pink lancer's name. at least late spring was a banger.

next time, we'll be covering ccc chapter 3. or, that's what you'd expect...

after waking up to an unfamiliar ceiling we chat with sakura for a bit before re-meeting the a cast of characters, new and returning, who are all (except gwain) better than they were in extra, then it's off to fight the boss of the game: tohsaka rin. that's right, finally rin gets her own route and... what's this i'm hearing? ah, it's about as thin as unlimited blade works and it turns out that sakura is the big bad of this game. too bad, try again next time rin. this week: fate/extra ccc - rin time and in th...

we're back at tsukimihara academy for another normal day at school. this week: fate/extra ccc and throw away your books, rally in the streets.

next time, we'll be covering chapter 1 of fate/extra ccc. for yuri teatime, we're covering in the mood for love (2000).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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it's time questions, but not before we spend an hour chatting about the itch situation and nsfw content in general. we're moving soon and so we needed to pad out the podcast schedule, thanks for understanding.

next time, we'll be starting fate/extra ccc. we'll be covering the prologue (everything up until the game asks you to save after you meet your servant). for yuri teatime we'll be starting a series of movie-themed yuri teatimes with throw away your books, rally in the streets.

the link to wishbleed benn mentions is here: https://deaddeaddeath.neocities...

do you know about the riddle of the two birds in the fig tree? you, dear listener, and i, the veteran podcast host, are much like those two birds if you think about it. the only question remaining is which bird are we. are you the bird who eats away at the podcast while i watch on? or are you here to watch me eat the figs, rejoicing as i tear apart the flesh of the fig? please enjoy as we wrap up tns20 and fate/apocrypha.

next time, we'll be covering nothing! we need a break...

the cycle begins anew. a different benn, a different fen, a different guest, but the setup is the same: a yuri teatime, a fate property, an endless discussion. echos of what came before but something new mixed in as well. and endless parade of loosing fens, all loved by this benn here (and now?). rondo rondo rondo.

next time, we'll be covering the remainder of both fate/apocrypha and tsui no sora remake. that's chapters 63-73 of the manga and episodes 23-25 of the anime. for tns we're doing the two remaining views, yasuko and takuji, as...

at times i'm fen.
at times i'm benn.
at times i'm katherine.
at times i'm blut.
at times i'm terin.
at times i'm chris.
and, every time i climb into the podcast chair, i feel as if i'm doing it all for the first time.

next time, we'll be covering chapters 54-62 of the apocrypha manga and episodes 21 and 22 of the anime. for yuri teatime, we're starting tsui no sora remake with the first three views (yukito, kotomi, and zakuro).

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen...

It's time to learn the truth. Questions we demanded answers to. Questions we didn't. A summer night in a field of sunflowers. The beginning, and the end. Well... let's find out if Subahibi is a game about falling, or a game about landing.

next time, we'll be covering the remainder of fate/apocrypha volume 4 and episode 20 of the anime. and the remainder of subahibi; that's all three epilogues (go back to the choice in jabberwocky after the first two for a third choice) and knocking on heaven's door, the extra chapter from the fvhd edition. and maybe...

my purpose is to finish covering fate/apocrypha, after that i'll disappear. i've tried to keep my distance from benn because i don't want her to be sad when i'm gone. i've held our guests at arms length for the same reason. my life was created for this sole reason and i intend to follow through on that. this week on fate/moon archive: volume 3 chapters 3 and 4 of fate/apocrypha (episodes 16-17 of the anime) and the 5th chapter of subahibi, jabberwocky.

next time, we'll be covering volume 4 through chapter 2 and episodes 18/19 of the anime. and the 6...

Bick Hazard is coming.

The sealed nervus uses a Specialized Physics Bug (i.e. an Outer Magic Dark Summons Bug) to plant negative thoughts in the human race. That is the true nature of the battle between the podcasters of this world (Benn Ends, fen fox, etc) and us (the peasants, the revolutionaries, the podcast listeners).
Benn and fen were infected by the Specialized Physics Bug.
The nervus used them to extend the podcast to unsafe and unreasonable lengths (the phenomenon of inducing a low energy state with an eight and a half hour discussion).<...

i look out over those on the rooftop and watch them celebrate. they were gathered through fear, fleeing uncertainty. i brought them here to punish them. so why. why are they having so much fun. this week on fate/kimika archive we finish the drug fueled ends of it's my own invention and cover a chunk of apocrypha that is almost all fights but still took us a while to talk about. it's our 4th anniversary!

next time, we'll be covering the prologue and first two chapters of fate/apocrypha volume 3, and up to episodes 13-15 of th...

Welcome to Riruru/Holy Surge, a podcast about wading through two hundred million Riruru corpses. i'm your host, riruru, and joining me is... Riruru! Today we'll be covering the final battle between good and evil as we stand before the final sky this world will ever see. But first, we have a series of increasingly upsetting hallucinations to lose our psychological coherence to, and a desk to fuck. It's Savior Teatime!

Next time, we'll be covering chapters 2 and 3 of Fate/Apocrypha volume 2, and up to episode 12 of the anime. For Yuri Teatime, we're doing the remaining bit...

as i look up at the end sky i can't help but think about how we got here. too many dead, and for what? benn's ego? i'd figured out how we'd gotten here, that part was easy, but the why eluded me still. why had so many followed her, why couldn't i do anything to help, why couldn't i stop her. why.

this time on fate/moon archive: down the rabbit hole ii; the yuri sex comedy has come to an end as it's time for yuki to investigate what's happening at school with all these spooky...

sorry for missing last week. this week is episodes 12 and 13 as we wrap up the series.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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Have you heard about it? The beginning, and the end of the sky. I've been looking for it for some time now. And I'll keep looking for as long as I must. Though now, more than ever. I worry that finding what I seek would only make you suffer...

This time we'll be covering the first 2 chapters of the first volume of Fate/ Apocrypha, as well as the prequel short story, Unbirth. For Yuri Teatime we're starting a journey through the rather long visual novel Subarashiki Hibi with the first chapter, Down the Rabbit Hole 1.

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well, that was one of the best episodes of anime ever made. this week episode 11 - te ustus amem.

next time we'll be covering episode 12, fluctuat nec mergitur.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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please watch it's mygo!!!!! and ave mujica, they're really good. this time is episode 10.

next time we'll be covering episode 11, te ustus amen.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

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The whistle is blowing. The ship is leaving. The crowd waves farewell as one journey ends, and endless possibilities open before us. Though your beloved cohosts may be split by an indelible line drawn between us by fate, we will never truly be apart. Life continues, love continues, and podcast, continues. And may we meet again one day, perhaps in some distant digital sea.

Next time, we'll be covering the first chapter of Subarashiki Hibi (Wonderful Everyday), Down the Rabbit Hole. We will also be returning to Type-Moon with Fate Apocrypha! We're covering the prequel story Unbirth...

please watch it's mygo!!!!! and ave mujica, they're really good. this time is episodes 9.

next time we'll be covering episode 10, odi et amo.

featuring co-hosts Benn Ends (@bennends.itch.io) and fen (@fenic.moe).

support the show and get access to bonus episodes: https://www.patreon.com/cryingrules

email us at cryingrulesactually@gmail.com with questions, comments, and compliments.

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