Fate/Strange Fake Ep.11 - Who is Ayaka?! Tsubaki is so adorable!

Episode 11 of Fate/Strange Fake focuses more on mystery following the grand battle of last week. As I expected since we did not see his body disappear, Gilgamesh is not completely finished yet. Tinè Chelc managed to pull him away and keep him summoned by using her magic and two Command Spells.

He is currently unconscious and immobile, but this means there is a good chance he will return as a player in the Holy Grail War later on. This keeps the number of eliminated characters at zero in this highly unusual Holy Grail War. I suspect the story is planning to save all the eliminations for the finale.

Just look at that smile, we need to protect Tsubaki and make sure she lives a normal life after this war. Just way too adorable.

Ayaka (fake apparently according to this episode) has quite some nice expressions whenever around Richard. The two have quite a good affinity.

Most of the people present were transported into a Bounded Field created by Tsubaki’s Servant, who is still unknown. I wonder if Jester is the one who caused this, as he was seen talking with Tsubaki. Within the field, Tsubaki appears healthy. She is an incredibly adorable child with a gentle heart and a beautiful smile.

If there is anyone the series needs to protect, it is her. Hopefully, the others manage to disable her Servant, remove her from the Holy Grail War, and heal the injury that caused her hospitalization. Ideally, she should be taken away from her Magus parents as well, since they seem complicit in this situation.

The big reveal (see the attached video) was that Ayaka Saijou is not the real Ayaka Saijou, but a fake created for unknown purposes. The real Ayaka is currently in Romania and has a completely different hair color (I think we saw this detail in  a previous episode). This raises many questions. Why would someone create this duplicate, and what is the small figure that keeps pestering her? From now on, I will refer to her as Fake Ayaka to distinguish her from the original.

Apparently, Rin Tohsaka is also involved in this Holy Grail War, as she was briefly mentioned by Waver Velvet in this episode. Since we know the Masters of nearly every other Servant, by process of elimination, she must be the Master of Rider Hippolyta, but why is she not interacting with Flat?

Totally insane to think Ishtar set up an entire system just to create trouble for Enkidu and Gilgamesh. Like girl, calm down...

Seems like the story of Tinè Chelc in this grail war isn't over yet, she still will be able to participate in some form soon...

In the next episode, we will likely learn the identity of Tsubaki’s Servant, though I feel it is still too early for the Bounded Field to be destroyed. Considering that not all the players are present yet, and that Francesca was shown identifying the location thanks to Flat’s actions, she is likely to join the fray for real this time. I am looking forward to seeing which party gains the upper hand in this strange environment.