A review by cyanide_latte
Fate/Stay Night Volume 2 by Datto Nishiwaki

dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

While the opening moments of this volume serve to show what happens after the cliffhanger of the first one, the first real chunk of this volume is backtracking to the day before, first from the POV of Rin and Archer, as well as interspersing a present discussion between Shirou and Saber with Shirou's day before. The latter chunk also gives us an introduction to Sakura and Fuji-nee, and shows us the start of the fight between Rin and Shirou before the high school comes under attack.  There's a lot more dense lore explanation in this one.  Again, it's not bad and for what it was at the time of its release, I feel it was fairly accessible to a lot of people who only were able to access the manga.  That aside, I do feel like some things could have been handled better and there were plenty of choices here that had me raising a brow.