Fate/Stay Night
Hello ladies, peoples, and animals it is I, the Arcane Reviewer! Here to bring you a new anime review. As you might not know, unless you stalk me and if you do please stop. I am a fan of the Type-Moon universe. Type-Moon is a gaming company that has produced very popular visual novels. Novels such as Kara no Kyoukai, Tsukihime, and Fate/Stay Night. With the major popularity of these titles and well these titles being visual novels to begin with of course they would adapt them into anime. So here today I'll review they're most popular novel Fate/Stay Night. Is it any good? Well let's find out.
Story:
The story of Fate/Stay Night is a pretty badass one really. Very few years there is a "war" that is taken place called The Holy Grail War! Int this war 7 mages are chosen to be the master of 7 servants. The servants are epic heroes from all through time and from legend like King Aurther and Hercules. The winners of the Holy Grail War will be granted any wish that they desire. We end up meeting our hero Shirou Emiya. A high school student who really has no talent what's so ever but ends up in the Holy Grail Wars. He becomes the master of Saber, a beautiful and tough as nails warrior who is set on winning the Holy Grail War. Now just from the premises alone I was already won over and to be honest the show does start off pretty good. But unfortunately I can't have nice things so when ever the anime started to get really good it kinda took a noise dive into crap. The anime thinks that the huge battles between heroes from all across time and legend and instead decides to focus in on Shirou and his stupid teacher and boring friend Sakura. The anime has a nasty habit to draw focus away from the fights to instead do some stupid melodrama and it can get really frustrating. However I will say that when ever the anime starts to put attention on the story of the servants and the masters then it starts to get really good. But also the big climax at the end is pretty predictable. Especially if you accidentally watched Fate/Zero before watching Fate/Stay Night. Yeah, my bad.
Animation:
Animation here is pretty good....at points. Whenever the anime decides to show off their pretty fight senses the animation does look very good. But when it doesn't have any cool fight senses to show off nothing really happens. The animation really does look nice but not a lot a praised can be given due to all the nothing that happens. But I guess it better then having ugly animation so I'll be kind to this show and say that it visually looks very nice.
Music:
The soundtrack for this show can be described in one word. Awesome. While I feel that the music isn't super amazing and super legendary but it does get the job done. Fight senses get an extra boost in excitement due to the music that helps makes it more awesome. Also you get tracks that have a very slow and slightly creepy sound to it. These track help put a emphasis on the important moments in the anime. Also the first opening for the anime is freaking great. The opening has such a cold of kinda unfeeling tone to it and it's such an awesome intro.
Characters:
Oh boy these characters. This is not a very good cast of characters, in fact a lot of the interesting characters don't get a lot of screen time and they give all of it to the characters that aren't very fun to watch. Shirou is a bit of an idiot in the anime and he can get really fucking annoying. You also have Rin Tohsaka who is not as bad as Shirou but is very much just as annoying. She's a typical tsundere and she has a little bit of depth but not much to wipe the slate of stupid she also inputs into the anime. Saber however is a badass and is a godsend to the whole anime. She has an interesting backstory and she has an actual personality to her as well. It's always fun to watch her in the show and she's become one of my favorite characters. The rest are not even worth mentioning because they either don't have a lot of time to shine or they're fucking annoying to watch. Well except Illya, she's fun to watch. Why? Fuck if I know but I loved her.
Nitpicks:
Goddamn this anime has a lot of things that I really didn't like. Aside from everything that I named up above the main thing that really bothered me about this anime is just how much they got wrong from the original visual novel. They cut so much from the novel and try to cram so much of the Fate route and a little bit of pieces from the Unlimited Blade Works route all at the same damn time! This was really awful to watch and it was obvious that they couldn't fit all of the story in here. Also like I said before the characters made this show hard to watch mainly because a lot of screen time is given to people I don't care about so in return I really didn't care about these sense that seem to take up so much space in the anime.
Overall:
To some up this review I guess I can say is that Fate/Stay Night was a real let down. It could of done so many things right but instead it was just a crappy show in the end. The on e good thing I can say about it was that the love story that centers around Shirou and Saber was actually done pretty well. Yeah I was actually surprised how natural the relationship between the two actually felt. Sadly though this does not do much to save the show as a whole.
Arcane Reviews gives Fate/Stay Night a 5.5 out of 10.
You know I just really wished that this could have been so much better. Like have it center all around the Holy Grail War and have all the characters have a good amount of screen time. Yeah so that you don't really know which is the main character and it actually feels like a real war where you can't tell what the outcome will be. You know what, I think an anime like that in the Fate universe that does exist. What was it called though? Oh yeah.
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Characters:
Oh boy these characters. This is not a very good cast of characters, in fact a lot of the interesting characters don't get a lot of screen time and they give all of it to the characters that aren't very fun to watch. Shirou is a bit of an idiot in the anime and he can get really fucking annoying. You also have Rin Tohsaka who is not as bad as Shirou but is very much just as annoying. She's a typical tsundere and she has a little bit of depth but not much to wipe the slate of stupid she also inputs into the anime. Saber however is a badass and is a godsend to the whole anime. She has an interesting backstory and she has an actual personality to her as well. It's always fun to watch her in the show and she's become one of my favorite characters. The rest are not even worth mentioning because they either don't have a lot of time to shine or they're fucking annoying to watch. Well except Illya, she's fun to watch. Why? Fuck if I know but I loved her.
Nitpicks:
Goddamn this anime has a lot of things that I really didn't like. Aside from everything that I named up above the main thing that really bothered me about this anime is just how much they got wrong from the original visual novel. They cut so much from the novel and try to cram so much of the Fate route and a little bit of pieces from the Unlimited Blade Works route all at the same damn time! This was really awful to watch and it was obvious that they couldn't fit all of the story in here. Also like I said before the characters made this show hard to watch mainly because a lot of screen time is given to people I don't care about so in return I really didn't care about these sense that seem to take up so much space in the anime.
Overall:
To some up this review I guess I can say is that Fate/Stay Night was a real let down. It could of done so many things right but instead it was just a crappy show in the end. The on e good thing I can say about it was that the love story that centers around Shirou and Saber was actually done pretty well. Yeah I was actually surprised how natural the relationship between the two actually felt. Sadly though this does not do much to save the show as a whole.
Arcane Reviews gives Fate/Stay Night a 5.5 out of 10.
You know I just really wished that this could have been so much better. Like have it center all around the Holy Grail War and have all the characters have a good amount of screen time. Yeah so that you don't really know which is the main character and it actually feels like a real war where you can't tell what the outcome will be. You know what, I think an anime like that in the Fate universe that does exist. What was it called though? Oh yeah.
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