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« I’m Matou Shinji-sama, who originally was planned to be the boss character “General Shinji” but for various reasons was demoted to the tutorial punching bag! » |
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Shinji Matou (間桐 慎二, Matō Shinji?) is a minor antagonist appearing in Capsule Servant.
Appearance
Role
Capsule Servant
In both Shirou and Rin's routes, Shinji appears as the tutorial character. He admits he was originally planned to be the boss character “General Shinji” but for various reasons was demoted to the tutorial punching bag. Shirou feels sympathetic for Shinji, while Rin ignores him, saying she hates wakame. Afterwards, Sakura fights against Shirou and Rin to avenge her brother, but admits his hair is gross like wakame.
G-Sakura Route
In G-SAKURA story "ULTIMATE WEAPON S NUMBER ONE" (超兵器S壱号, Chō Heiki S Ichigō?), there are multiple Shinji in Dimensional Empire MATO (時空帝国マト, Jikū Teikoku Mato?). General Shinji (シンジ大将軍, Shinji Daishōgun?) is one of the top brass of the MATO empire, he finds Professor Tokiomi betraying the MATO Empire when he built G-SAKURA. In both routes, G-SAKURA squashes General Shinji upon awakening. In Rin's route, Cosmic General Shinji (シンジ宇宙将軍, Shinji Uchū Shōgun?) was re-modeled to have an evolved IQ of 5800 and he intentionally arrived late to take advantage of Rin and G-SAKURA fatigue after they fought amongst themselves. He claims that they have fallen right into his trap and sends his combatant Clone Shinjis (クローンシンジ, Kurōn Shinji?) to fight them. Both Rin and G-SAKURA defeat the Shinji clones.
Celebloomers Route
Shinji also appears in the Celebloomers story. He recognizes her as the reigning champion of Capsule Servant and explains to Shirou and Rin that Celebloomers is famous for annihilating her opponents with a deck put together by using money. In Shirou's ending, after Celebloomers is defeated, Shinji says that she lost because of the power of friendship, causing an annoyed Celebloomers to get rid of him. In Rin's ending, he wants to trade some rare servants with her, but they're stopped by Bazett.