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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

Because they want to show that a woman can be strong?

I don't know of many instances where Japan did it, but if they did it a ton of times, like you say...I totally see your point.

Totally a valid reasoning if that were the case... But it just doesn't feel that way at all.

No, it pretty much felt like they genderbent him for the sake of doing it. Caesar literally calls her his "Aphrodite" and her gender was revealed just for the sake of getting him back to her side because of her beauty...

Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero's Saber - also known as King Arthur/Arturia - is everywhere. She's insanely popular. And that's just the anime. There's also more games than just Stay Night that feature her. So it's been done before. And yes, she's a badass at times... but also literally just the clichéd love interest at others.

Make your own female character if you want to show a powerful one. Genderbending King Arthur, who was most definitively male, to "create" one and then just resort to sex appeal... Nah, I don't like it.