If I had to pinpoint what areas suffered more I would have to say the romance. Overall the story is nice and has a tremendous amount of care to it, sadly the director didn`t have time to fulfill all he had in mind and it suffers a lot from it. This gets the most aggravating when we deal with relationships between characters, but I will write about that on the latter topic. It is aggravating that some important stuff that happens later on have to rely on quick flashbacks to pack any meaning and even then the results are quite bad. The arc`s are well staged, but again the lack of proper treating and over ambitious director leave us with some problems. Terms they use all the time never get explained and this gets in the way of understanding stuff every now and then, it’s quite annoying and you have to put up some effort to understand stuff based solo on the sentence context.
More than once I felt like I needed a manual to watch the show and it wasn`t included. This show reeks ambition so much it ended up being smacked down by the usual budget / time frame reality, and this is the part where we feel it the worse.
The voice acting is also pretty well done, and I would like to add a special note that the English and German segments are amongst the best I have ever seen in an anime (as cheesy as they might be). They do come off occasionally on the wrong scenes but for the most of the time they are spot on.Īside the soundtrack, the sound effects are also ok and fit the scenes they take part into. The songs are catchy in their own merits and somewhat memorable. I`ve tried my best to find issues with the sound, but to put it simple it’s not bad at all! This show is definitely worth HD (I got the THORA release) and I wouldn`t settle for anything lower then 720p, it really deserves it. everything clicks beautifully, but what really shines are the character designs and the color employed on the scenes.
The backgrounds, the CGI, the still animations, the fight sequences. If you take into account it’s from 2006 it gets even better, surely nothing that yearĬan get remotely close to it, and even for today standard’s it is top notch, specially on the color pallet department. I will try my best to refrain myself from spoilers, but rest assured, some will exist SO if you didn`t watch it yet you are better jumping straight to my conclusion. I will refrain myself from commenting on the show before I give my view on specific issues. Just finished this show a couple of moments ago, the hype I got before watching this was IMENSE, but after sitting trough it all I can definitely see where it comes from. Will the boy become a hero like his foster father, or die trying? The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself.įate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber.
Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury. One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. At this point the story branches into several different routes including Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven’s Feel.After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice. The Holy Grail War itself is fought between seven sorcerers known as Masters and their Servants which are each reincarnations of historical heroes who possess powerful artifacts known as Noble Phantasms.īefore Saber appears, Shiro is also saved by Master of Archer, Rin Tohsaka, whose sister Sakura Mato has a crush on him. After being chased and almost killed by Lancer, Shiro is introduced to his Servant Saber, meaning Shiro is now an official Master and participant in the Holy Grail War.
Followed by sequel Fate/hollow ataraxia and prequel Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night was also adapted into a smash hit TV anime series by Studio Deen in 2006.įocusing on the Fifth Holy Grail War, Fate/stay night revolves around the story of teenager Shiro Emiya who was taken in by former Magus Kiritsugu Emiya. Fate/stay night is the original Type-Moon visual novel which kickstarted the entire Fate franchise.