We need to test whether this “Astolfo Effect” is real. Our hypothesis is simple and intuitive, but we can’t just take it for granted. In this category, we expect characters like Holmes and Moriarty, who have endless movie incarnations. For instance, we expect Astolfo and Bradamante to be such cases, as the stories of Charlemagne’s paladins are not as well-known as, for instance, the (inferior ) stories about King Arthur.Ĭonversely, widely popular characters will have fewer hits about their Fate incarnations and those hits will appear later in the Google search. Furthermore, those Google hits will appear sooner rather than later in the search. We hypothesize that the most obscure characters will have more hits about their Fate incarnations than their original ones. So, we decided to see how biased by Fate Internet searches truly are. As Salvador (2020) commented, many historians, archaeologists, and literature scholars will eventually curse Fate when they do a Google search on a given character and are flooded by Fate entries. The popularity of the franchise can have a peculiar effect on the Internet because its characters are almost all taken from real-world material. It is one of the top-grossing mobile games worldwide, with most of the money being spent on it by the Japanese public (Chapple, 2020 Orr, 2021). Its current main product is Fate/Grand Order (henceforth FGO), a game developed by Delightworks (mobile version, 2014) and Sega AM2 (arcade version, 2018). The franchise has grown quite a lot since its inception, with numerous novels, manga, anime, games, and all sorts of merchandise. Source: Fate/Grand Order Wiki (©Aniplex). Final Ascension artwork of Napoléon and Heracles. For instance, Napoleon is a servant who’s a historical figure, while Heracles is a mythological one, and Sherlock Holmes is a literary one. A bit like Pokémon, but the servants are not kawaii monster mascots, but rather figures from worldwide myths, legends, history, and literature. Masters) summon heroic spirits (Servants) to aid them in their battle. To put it briefly, it is about mages fighting to obtain the fabled Holy Grail. The Fate franchise started with the computer game Fate/stay night back in 2004. Wellington, New Zealand.Įmails: tjvitor (at) gmail (dot) com (at) gmail (dot) com ² Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. João Vitor Tomotani¹ & Rodrigo Brincalepe Salvador²
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