GR Anime Review: Fate / Zero
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- Опубліковано 4 гру 2014
- A Glass Reflection Anime Review of Fate / Zero
Originally Released: December 5th 2014
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in my personal opinion Iskandar (or Alexander The Great) was the best developed character, and i loved his philosophy and personality HO GOD
The Banquet of Kings episode is my favorite, and it has little to no action but some of the best character dialogue in the show - especially Iskanders speech to Saber. Iskander to me had the most reasonable ideals.
Henny Zhi You must be joking. You DO know that Iskandar was basically Greek Hitler, right? And that he was responsible for thousands of deaths and he tortured his own family members to death , right? To the point that at the end of his life, his own closest friends poisoned him. How is that reasonable?
Harry Dresden The torturing of his own family I've never heard of - so you may have a point there. But I wouldn't go so far with the Hitler comparison. I only said he had the MOST reasonable ideals. Saber had a martyr complex, which is outright invalid. Kiritsugu was trying to justify his actions by being logical which has it's limits. Caster and his master gradually believed in a god that loves pain and suffering... etc.
Henny Zhi
Saber's ideals were correct ones. The way she approached them in her life was wrong. The whole scene was pretty much three tyrants (darwinistic tyrant, selfish tyrant and noble tyrant)
Harry Dresden They all were tyrants, but I guess this is just where our philosophies don't meet. I really don't see a selfless act in the world. They're are charitable ones, but no selfless ones. Everything a person does reflects off of them, and that's why Iskander was loved by many people. To say that you have to shoulder everyone, destroy the self, and save the day alone is not realistic. Saber didn't know how the rest of the knights felt which led to Lancelot betraying her trust in him. The King is never alone because his will is the people who support him - Iskanders ideal.
Fate/Zero is my favorite anime. It was my intro to the Fate series and so I didn't have any problem with the ending being predictable. In fact I was blown away by it and I had no idea that this was a series of shows. As for the music. Shut it dude, this soundtrack was freakin awesome.
The least thing you can say about fate zero's ending is predictable
Similer thing happened to me. This was like the 3rd anime I watched other then pokemon and so I was completely blown away and unaware that it was a prequel.
@@lordphinix3 well it's a prequel that works better as a stand alone anime soooooo you got lucky
You wouldn't have enjoyed did as much if you watched anything fate stay night related before it
@Savio CHIRIYANKANDATH Hmmm, Fate Stay night Heavens feel is really good.
@Savio CHIRIYANKANDATH you should watch heavens feel I held back on watching it but it's good
I watched this anime without knowing that Fate/Stay Night even existed and thought it was mind-blowingly awesome. Guess I know what to watch next... XD
Cement City .. I suppose you were dissapointed
Shadi Hernandez no fam that shit gud
Trash anime
that's the general opinion i find with people who watch Zero first, they find it mind blowing and ends up as one of their top animes. I can confirm this as i'm the same XD
Lancer's death was done brilliantly... Still feel bad for Kariya, the only master with a selfless goal, and a tragic end... Kiritsugu the coolest guy... And Archer the OP asshole yet most badass of them all... Love this series
eldiego68 Selfless? Kariya wanted to use a little girl as an excuse to kill the man he hates so he can steal that man's wife(who never saw him as anything more than a friend) How the hell is that selfless?
I believe Kariya 's goal started out selfless before his worm molestation "training". I think at the start he just went through all that to free Sakura.
But to get through that hell he used what he wanted as focal point. He focused on it to an obsessive degree and what he wanted wasn't just to free Sakura but to have them all Aoi, Rin & Sakura as a family. And to kill the guy who took his dream away from him.
ARandomGuy
Not really. The light novel makes it clearer but Aoi was his goal from the start. Freeing Sakura was supposed to make Aoi love him.
Its something he obsessed even before Zero's events and sent lots of signals towards her but Aoi genuinely loved Tokiomi and did not see Kariya as anything but a friend.
Harry Dresden So what separates a Light Novel from a normal novel?
ARandomGuy
Light novel primarily targets teens to young adults and is anime-genre-focused.
The term comes from the term "light reading", thus light novels mostly are fictional fantasy or scifi works in anime setting, with some illustrations there and here.
Watching Fate/Zero and Carnival Phantasm at the same time was a very strange experience.
lol i watched carnival phantasm like 2 days after F/Z i know what u mean...
it was like wtf, but it was funny tho
wasi pt reading the scource material then going back to Carn Phan is a whole different experience. CP has an insane amount of detail put into it
Schwartzbruder1 yeah, In CP i saw for the first time the black sakura ( i haven't play/Read the heavens feels route VN) and i was like O.o "why sakura has red eyes?")
Are you gonna review "Fate/stay night: Unlimited blade works" when it's finished?
Ray cee Obviously, might wait for the dub though. Not sure.
Glass Reflection And are you enjoying it so far? :D
You mean, Unlimited Budget Works
Glass Reflection
I was hoping you would do a First Reaction to it.
bleachbleachBLEACHER Now that would be awesome!
I'm sorry but Fate/Zero openings and endings are probably my favourite ever. They really hit my feels HARD. Especially after you know the whole story.
I still feel that you underestimate this show. I honestly think it's one of the best piece of art ever. That Kings drinking wine scene had me questioning my outlook on life. And the depressing conclusion had me feeling disturbed and sad for weeks. Also, knowing the outcome of story is the main reason why I think watching F/Z before Stay Night is a must. SN is not as good and kinda ruins this experience and you lose nothing if you watch it after this but you lose A LOT if you watch it before this.
Petar Štrok I still get the feels from the second opening
300 bucks for the Blu-Ray?!
I don't care how god-like this anime is no body should be paying that much money for an anime.
If I wanted to blow 300 bucks I'd buy a WiiU or a PS4.
This show on Blu-Ray should be 50 to 60 dollars at the most, I know dubbing is expensive and I know this show must of cost a small fortune to make but that does not justify a 300 dollar price tag.
I personally agree
Aniplex BluRay cost an arm and leg
Not even 80$ , it's less that 60$.
i agree with you i am a huge fan that bought this series on blu ray but this is the only series i could ever justify spending that much money on i mean damn all of the garden of sinners movies on blu ray was 500 dollars that is where you draw the line
Look at Kara No Kyoukai. Last i saw, it was going for like 700. Anime get's fucking pricy sometimes
One of the selling points of this anime is that the majority of the main characters arent teenagers. This is so fucking true it hurts me.
When Jesus is summoned no table will be left unflipped.
Luke William indeed
Luke William
Am an atheist, but!
If Jesus appears in this franchise and someone with a big ass sword attacks him, only for Jesus to turn the other cheek LITERALLY and the sword breaks across his cheek like a destructo disk to the back of Cell's neck...
I'd convert on the spot.
William Bussey me too
No, no, no! He will die and resurrect shortly afterwards. And he will probably be able to resurrect others aswell.
I can really see them turning Jesus into a Ruler, lol
The ending of Zero is INTENTIONALLY predictable. Fate/Zero is a Greek tragedy - you are seeing how the bits and pieces of plotlines and characters you know from FSN(either visual novel or the currently airing adaptation, not the 2006 anime original storyline) are falling in the place towards the predetermined outcome. That's where the depth comes and that's the intention with which Zero was written - to expand upon what you learn in FSN. Fate/Zero is not about how it will end. its about journey towards it.
*For those asking about watching order:*
ANIME ONLY:
1) Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works 2014
2) Fate Stay Night: Heavens Feel movies (2015/2016)
3) Fate Zero
For those who can read but want to primarily focus on anime:
1) Fate route of the visual novel
2) Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works 2014
3) Heaven's FEel route of visual novel(so you get the content faster instead of waiting for 2016)
4) Fate/Zero
5) Wait for Heaven's FEel movies to see the badassery animated.
Zero is meant to be seen last because it is an expansion material that is written with the idea of taking *EVERY SINGLE PLOT TWIST IN FATE STAY NIGHT VISUAL NOVEL* and expanding upon it. Zero assumes you know EVERYTHING from FSN visual novel(lore, how the things work, how characters are connected, etc) and you are interested in seeing how all those pieces fell into place. Without FSN knowledge you lose a LOT of enjoyment and complexity from Fate/Zero and would be VERY confused at second half of it.
"Zero assumes you know EVERYTHING from FSN visual novel(lore, how the things work, how characters are connected, etc) and you are interested in seeing how all those pieces fell into place."
Yeah we didn't get everything from the first two episodes that were pure exposition at all.
"Without FSN knowledge you lose a LOT of enjoyment and complexity from Fate/Zero and would be VERY confused at second half of it."
Right.. I lost so much enjoyment, that's why it's one of my favorite shows...
From *personal* experience I enjoyed the show without any knowledge about the fate series and I was excited ufotable was going to adapt the original material.
I get that I "ruined" the plot twists (still don't know what they are though), but atm having watched F/Z makes the enjoyement of UBW for *me* a lot better. And there is really nothing *you* can say to change that. (except for actually spoiling everything I don't know yet)
Benjamin Vanhees Yeah, I know what you mean about the plot twists. If you know nothing about Fate stay night in the first place, then the viewer probably won't even know what the hell the plot twists are.
Benjamin Vanhees
Zero first two episodes are condensed recap of maybe ~15% of needed information. It in no way helps to understand what the fuck is going on in whole second half of Zero.
ANd yes you lose a lot of enjoyment of Zero - without FSN context, Zero is just a battle royale.
Without the complex characterization and struggle Shirou goes through, Kiritsugu is just another antihero.
as an example - last scene of Zero with Kerry on the stairs - the context of WHAT Is happening there(that he is dying) is only known for those with fate knowledge, while those who start with it lose all the emotional context of that scene.
Same with Kirei's character journey in parallel to Shirou's. Most of Zero depth comes from FSN
As for twists - you already know who killed Tokiomi(MAJOR PLOT POINT in UBW), you already know why Rin acts the way she does(discovering why is the major point of the whole UBW route), you already know who Sakura is(the mystery of which is the WHOLE POINT of upcoming heaven's feel movies), you already know who Saber is, you already know there's more than 7 servants, you already know Illya's motives(which are supposed to keep you guessing) and so on. I could go on for several pages.
Harry Dresden Yeah that is true
Benjamin Vanhees You still enjoyed, but you certainly would've liked it more if you were seeing the backstory to characters you only heard about, and if you actually understood the ending. And it might seem like it makes F/SN better at the beggining, but believe me when I say that you've had a TON of stuff ruined for you later on, both in UBW and a lot more in Heaven's Feel.
My short review with positives and negatives:
Positives:
-Best animation I've ever seen
-Awesome and Epic soundtrack
-Great characterization of masters and servants
-Tragic ending
Negatives:
-Boring first episode
Score out of 10: 9.7
One of the best anime I've ever seen.
filmfan24 how was the first episode boring ?
filmfan24 The first episode was on of the best Episodes because of all the information which was very important
Hoekage that’s one of the reasons of what made it so boring. Also, with zero being my entry ticket into the fate series, I didn’t know who any of the characters were and thought kotomine, kariya, kiritsugu were the same person. I didn’t get into it until halfway through part 1.
why you gotta say its a tragic ending? that's like a spolier
I give it a 6.2. I see why it works for others. But. Its not deep. Its not a mastermind-esque masterpiece. Its full of shitheads and edgelords. It had like 4 good moments. Archer was just acting tougher than he really was and relying on op shit.
I feel like Saber should have an British accent.
+ArchOfWinter If someone form that time came to today, you wouldn't understand them. So no, not really. IIRC She would probably sound far more German actually.
+MrLittlelawyer True, old english sounds completely different.
Maybe. But I'd prefer it if they didn't bother with the British accent but still do a great job (which Kari Wahlgren most definitely did) rather than try the British accent and fail miserably.
King Arthur was a Celtic British king, not an English one.
ArchOfWinter, The so-called British accent didn't exist, until the...late 1700s? I forgot, but it was somewhere in the 1700s and 1800s...I think
I'm so, so glad Fate/Zero was my introduction to the Fate franchise, as I had no idea what the ending what was going to be. It's currently my most favorite anime, though I think Fate/stay night UBW 2014 will replace it.
Fate/Zero was also the first I saw in the Fate series, and I have no problem saying it's my all-time favorite anime!
*****
FSN > FZ, all day every day
Tohsakas anus > Tohsakas adventure
Afolabi Bukola You don't. Shirou just has a dream where he goes doggy on Tohsaka and he gets fascinated by her anus.
***** her anus.......is defenseless..... i.imgur.com/IIHoTpV.jpg i think this pic gets the point across don't worry it's SFW
***** Just like Shirou's hip movement.
300$ for the BluRay? Alrighty then, time to find my black hat and eye patch, arrr.
It's actually 45$ for each season. With other words, 80$ for the whole series.
Crunchyroll, it's there for free
14Theorder $90 ;)
14Theorder Not in the US it's not...
magatetus No thanks, I'd rather have lung cancer than stream anime, it's by far the worst method of watching it.
Only reason I love Berserker so much...
He reminds me of Artorias the Abysswalker.
Wulfy294 thanks!
And Artorias was inspired by Guts, the main character of the manga Berserk. Coincidence? I think not!
Yeah berseker in this case, was waay closer to guts, especially with the berserker armour.
Dear Arkada,
I know you are working very hard on these reviews, and I just want to thank you for all the work you've done. I've watched so much good anime because of you and I really appreciate you taking your time to show us anime and show us each part of it and explain it in great detail, while putting some comedy in the review. You're awesome! Stay Frosty!
Kiritsugu>>>>>>>shirou.
Well Kiritsugu >>>>>> almost everyone else.
Gutzahn true lol
Agreed
*****
Well I certainly like Rider as well. I mean how could you not love this big chunk of charisma on a charriot. However Kiritsugu is currently contending for my number one spot, so I still prefer him :P
Might help that I just finished the Zero light novels, in which we get to experience a bit more about the inner workings of Kiritsugu (though the show expands more on his past).
we need more proactive and pragmatic characters like kiritsugu. im tired of boring teenagers.
Picture this: After a few generations there's another war. And when Archer is summoned he is revealed to be Kiritsugu Emiya. I would watch the s*** out of that series
+Nick Campbell I bet that Kiritsugu would be the mastermind as well as a warrior. And at the end, when he wins the grail, he kills his master and/or destroys the grail because of his no risk and no faith in the good of mankind when in possession of such power.
+Samuel Snehota He's more qualified than the caster and the berserker.
***** Why not? The others didn't get their noble phantasm until they were summoned by the grail. Plus I could see the grail summoning him as a way to punish him for Fate/Zero. So he could die again for someone else's wish.
*****
Because he embodies what it means to be a hero. Caster was a sick and disturbed mage, and the berserker simply lost his sense of humanity. Kiritsugu sacrificed his opportunity to be regarded as a hero, or the "good guy", as well as any other desires of his own, to do away with the grail in an effort to save humanity from their own greed.
+Samuel Snehota How come Shirou got turned into a servant?
Hey Arkada!
I just wanted to say that I am truly thankful for the "Review Week Of Awesome". It was indeed awesome to get one video a day for five days, since I love your videos. Keep up the great work and thank you so much!
As Some one who watched fate zero first the ending was unpredictable so I don't know if you can fault it for it being predictable.
***** Which Arkada for some reason assumes that his viewers are.
***** Or those who watched Fate/stay night.
Christian Gueta It is intentionally predictable. Fate/Zero is the countdown to the moment where the main story started. Its intention is to expand upon what you learned in FSN(either visual novel or currently airing one, not the 2006 one), so you can see how all the pieces fell into place.
Harry Dresden
as someone who started his fate experience with fate/zero:
i did totally NOT expect that ending....
usuausschwaz
and did not understand why or what happened, I bet.
Because Zero already expects you to know WHY it happened.
This is way better than UBW.
I think this is the best of Fate series generally.
mattcgw Agreed it's a masterpiece but UBW is still really fucking good.
amazing review... this week of reviews was awesome!!! Thanks Arkada and keep up the good work
I like how simple the idea is. Like AoT and SAO, there's so much potential in the simplist of ideas. And just like AoT there are good executions of ideas, and like SAO there are bad ones.
I recon you could make 100 stories based around the same story and setting of Fate/Zero. I'm actually surprised the web isn't full of dozens of fan-fics about someone own take on the Holy Grail war. It's such a welcoming environment that I recon anyone can write a story on it. Just look and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - litterally thousands of fanfics are written about either characters from the show or their own OC's (and some of them are good - like really REALLY good (e.g. "Turnabout Storm"). So I'm literally surprised there aren't tones of other holy grail war stories online with people own cast of original characters and historical figures.
+jeramahia123 I'm writing one right now. However its more a combination of the concept of the holy grail war with the story and characters of The Legend of Zelda.
+jeramahia123 If there's something I know for sure about fanfiction is that the setting doesn't matter (unless it's Hogwarts, then everyone has to go there). Look at AoT fanfics for example (18k in number) only 10% of the stories are in canon and the rest are AUs (mostly modern world and highschool). Fate series is nowhere near as popular as AoT (only 2,6k) and among the few that exist most of them are about Fate/Stay Night. The most popular thing about Fate/Stay Night is Shirou and his harem because that's what people like to read so that's what gets the most attention. I have seen attempts at "my own take on the Holy Grail War" but when all that you get is 20 views and 1 review about "OMG, this story is the real deal" then you get discouraged very quickly and give up. So the reason why there are no fanfics like the ones you described is because firstly Fate series is not very popular on FF.net, secondly the setting no matter how intriguing doesn't matter and thirdly fanfics work on supply and demand and the demand is (sadly) Shirou/harem.
TiaMoshii You should see just how many fanfics there are of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic - 75k on FIMFiction alone.
And that's not counting all the UA-cam works. They've made an entire audiobook series that has Doctor Who as a pony (Doctor Whooves). And a 9-hour-long crossover series with Phoenix Wright - which ACTUALLY feels like a real Phoenix Wright game, and it's AWESOME and HILARIOUS!!!
+TiaMoshii Aren't you a depressing piece of work.
Sebastian Cintron Thank you, it's a blessing as well as a curse.
This show is also up on Hulu and Netflix, for those interested.
And fumination and chrunchyroll
I liked Fate/Zero so much more than unlimited blade works
One of my favorite reviews of yours back again 2021 good shit.
Thank you. I absolutely love all of your reviews sir, though sometimes we disagree on certain points. I love how you carefully think everything out and analyze it.
This is one of my all-time favorite anime, and in my opinion one of the best prequels I have ever seen, anime or otherwise. I agree with everything you said, though I didn't notice some of the things you mentioned with the music. The show is absolutely gorgeous, and I honestly think knowing the ending actually improves the story, if for no other reason than the absolute chills you get when starting the first episode.
Amazing anime, would watch again (and will).
GILGAMESH IS LOVE.GILGAMESH IS LIFE.
THAT IS ALL.
+chavs gooden how dare you speak of Gilgamesh you filthy mongrel.
I AGREE *CLAPS FURIOUSLY*
The Binary Concept of a Terraforming Slug
Fuck Gilgabitch
How dare you speak his magnificent name, mongrel.
yeah sure, he just killed a child with pleasure, he is definitely love and love...
The concept of a 'prequel' is pretty much always down looked upon with either skepticism or just negativity. And I get why. But why do some prequels fall flat? Is it because just knowing how the journey will end that takes away the experience? Or is it because they aren't given the proper attention to detail and effort they need?
When audiences watched Titanic, they all knew the ship would sink, yet it became a world phenomenon. When readers of A Song of Ice and Fire watched the Game of Thrones tv show, they knew of the Red Wedding, yet praised the twist anyway. Or Wonder Woman, a superhero movie that takes place before any of other DCEU films was widely loved by audiences, despite everyone knowing how it would end.
For me, I think a prequel works best when there is just enough mystery surrounding its mythos to allow audiences to want to see how the story unfolds. But another way that works is if everyone never suspected that what they were watching/reading was actually a prequel to begin with.
Yes! Been waiting so long for you to review this. Great work!
Thank you, mister galahad! This was my first anime review week of awesome, and i have loved every day of it.
Great review! I have very recently watched Fate: zero and i was amazed! I was never in contact with any fate series earlier so i really enjoyed the show. Its one of the best animes i have seen,strangly i found soundtrack also amazing,but anyway i cant say anything bad for the show and i would recommend it highly!
"No personality to the soundtrack". Look, this guy makes amazing reviews but he knows nothing about soundtracks. This is the same dude who said Clannad didn't have a memorable soundtrack. So take his review of the soundtrack with not a grain, but a whole tonne of salt.
Nice Review Week, Arkada. Keep shelling out them reviews, Ima look forward to the next one.
This week has been one of the best weeks I had ever had. I really appreciated all of these reviews you'd put out this week and I'm sure everyone else agrees too. I look forward to more of your reviews in the future. Stay frosty guys! ^^
The anime feels a lot more exiting if you watched it before stay night.
As someone who started watching the Fate series (with no knowledge of it beforehand) I can definitely say that Zero, was absolutely amazing. And since I didn't know of Stay Night's plot the entire ending was a surprise to me. And so if you're reading this and haven't watched any of the Fate series, start with Zero.... And then maybe do Unlimited Blade Works... Which I found to be inferior to Zero in every way except in Animation.
I enjoy your reviews so much. They're almost as fun as some of the best anime you review. You tend to bring up things that I may not have thought about whilst watching the show. Also I discover new shows watching your videos and even if it's a show you didn't like you add recommendations to other shows at the end which is really cool.
Also "Stay Frosty" is a cool saying.
Just wanted to say that your reviews are amazing! Cheers!
I thought Fate/Zero was way better than Fate Stay/Night, I guess I just didn't like the school life setting and the main character was annoying as F***. Just my opinion
+EtchaSketch333 Yes, the main character was the bad archetype of. Weak male character with strong female character. Male character becoming stronger and putting the strong female character into a weak a spot.
It was really a thing for a while with the anime at that time. And still is in some cases today. Like with SAO , Asuna now being a more a healer then anything else.
Not to mention fate/stay kinda got ruined for me. When it was more based on the H-game instead of the novel.
Nah, sociopaths are interesting characters. Shirou gets bonus points because of this.
Bruhh same. I am so done with high school bullsh*t like Fate Zero was mature and so brilliantly written
I dont like fate zero I'm not gonna like the rest of it.
Very cringe worthy. Since this was 5 years ago, I hope you've changed your mind.
Fate Zero always had my attention. The characters put their all into obtaining the Grail at whatever the moral cost and I was rooting for more than one character. Unlimited Blade Works left me dosing at times because I never really felt attached to the characters and I got sick of the high school relationship BS. It was like the SAO's plot downfall. As for the other season.... not gonna lie, I didn't know there were 3 of these. Guess I better go watch Stay Night.
Er, the fate route really shouldn't be watched. Just wait for heavens feels or read the visual novel.
Thanks for the anime review week! I enjoyed it quite a bit!
Arkada, you have the best anime reviews. I can always count on you recommending good anime. Keep up the good work.
It's Fate / Stay Night without Shirou. What more can you ask for? XD
And no 3D dragon either!
Sounds awful. A stay night without best boy isn't a stay night I want to read.
Heroic spirit Emiya is a badass though, can go toe to toe against Servants even with his low Mana pool and lack of physical boosts and a noble phantasm that is his "own"
@@boxtupos7718 Shirou Emiya in a form of Archer Servant is badass of course, just not in his still-teenager master form.
Holy poo, 5 reviews in 3 days. Gj arkada
Well, actually it's 5 reviews in 5 days, but it still awesome.
Holy poo 2 certified frosty's in one week.
Fate/Zero deserved no less.
It's his annual anime week of awesome it's good stuff
Fantastic Review Arkada, I love Fate/Zero and this review does a great job of showing just how beautiful, awesome, and epic this show is
Great review Arkada! I'm gonna use this to try and advertise the Fate series to some of my friends, as I'm just not as good at explaining why it's worth checking out as you are!
I actually do agree with what he has to say about the "complacency" that Kajiura's music seems to have reached (sad face) but I give Fate/Zero an exception to that simply because I PERSONALLY can find I can still listen to the tracks on their own, and even so, they do nothing but conjure awesome memories of watching the show, so....win win. :D
I really liked the dub for this, for the past 2 years I've seen most Anime either simulcast or shortly after coming out. So when I watch the dub I'm a bit biased and I am not always satisfied but I loved this dub. And it was great to see a recent dub without Patrick Seitz or Todd Haberkorn.
The review week of awesome was indeed awesome :) Great reviews, and a fine choice of anime to end it on. Nothing better than saving the best for last.
yesss happy you made this! Awesome review :)
Am I seeing this right? F/Z review from Arkada? THANK YOU KIND SIR! :D
I really hope you will review FSN Unlimited Blade (Budget) Works 2014 once it is finished next year.
PS: Fate/Zero completes the story of Fate Stay Night and SPOILS who survived etc and also acts like a mystery puzzle piece that completes FSN's story and shouldn't be watched first, because it will ruin the experience of seeing FSN when you know everything.
I'm so glad I watched Fate Zero first.
Super Ninja Bunny No you are not. You just got spoled on everything but Archer's identity. Why the hell would anyone watch the bonus material before the man course....
*****
Yeah i was seriously confused when he said "No you are not." I was like, what the hell is he talking about I did enjoy it and after watching fate stay night I still am glad i watched it first. I didn't even bother replying to him for that.
@@MyFeuerFrey Holy shit you're worse than a Jojo fan
@@MyFeuerFrey basically your logic is "If you watch the first series, then your stupid cause you just spoiled yourself"
I finally have the time to watch the videos of the Review Week of Awesome! XD
And man! The new look of the reviews are really great! The opening was cool! The titles of each segment being at the side was a good change! It's less distracting (in a way). And I miss the numbers of the Final Verdict, but **shrug** not really that bothered by it... And it's nice that your recommendation part of the review is a revised version of what it looked like when you started. :D
Omg, I was waiting for this review for a while! But it was worth wait. :D
just say'in I watched Fate/Zero as one of my first anime when I was just getting into animean I personal am a fanboy and go on the type-moon forums a lot Fate/Zero is brilliantly radiafingly awesome ( yes I made up a word).
Arkada:"...there are times when some characters get 'the shaft'"
Assassin: literally getting impaled with a spear
Me:"well played with the editing, sir, well played."
Posted on my birthday for one of my favorite anime's of all time. Well played my friend, well played
He's just cranking these out...props for all the hard work
I'm one of the few insane people who bought the blu-ray of this show and I don't regret it at all. I do wish aniplex releases weren't so pricy but with a Fate anime I couldn't resist. The new FSN anime is going to rape my wallet as well.
I also have the blu ray xD
I bought the Blu Ray box set too
i might watch FSN just because i want to see Sabers face again.
Dude I'm really digging all your posters man nice :D
You're one cool guy! It's awesome you get to do something like this, turning a hobby into a potential career! I review anime on Instagram but obviously it can't be anywhere near in depth like this is. Keep up the good work! Glass Reflection
IF YOU'RE GONNA KEEP TAUNTING ME THEN JUST PLAY ROUNDABOUT
Gappy The Eighth JoJo And Kira ♫ I'll be the roundabout, the words will make you out 'n' out, you change the day your way! Call it morning driving through the sound and In and out the valley! ♫
THANK YOU
Glass Reflection da best Ending =3
Glass Reflection
Will you ever review Jojo's Bizzare Adventure?
Glass Reflection man first review tokyo ghoul you totally forgot about it you reviewed zankyou no terror but not tokyo ghoul
anyone else a little sad berserk didnt make it in to the review week?
great review i just recently got into anime, sao and tokyo ghoul being my first ones so ill be havin a look at ur back catalogue for my next one :D
Arkada, you've been on a tear lately. Thanks for the entertainment. I sincerely appreciate it.
Any Gundam 00 coming perhaps?
I bought the Blu-Ray's I have no regrets. Great review.
Rider is love..Rider is life.
Fate Zero is also available on netflix
Hard or soft subs?
One Bell what do you mean by hard or soft?
RED SAIYAN Can the subtitles be turned off in Netflix? I don't have it so I can't figure out.
One Bell yes
Yes!! I have been waiting for this for a long time after watching Gigguk's review on it. This is my all time favorite show, and masterpiece or not all that matters to me is that it is very good in the eyes of many. I also feel like this show isn't getting enough hype tbh. The majority of friends I have reccomended it too couldn't seem to pick it up, probably because it is too mature and complex for em anyways.
Thank you for finally delivering. Now I want you to review the new UBW or at least raise the topic on the next Podtaku please. Love the Type Moon franchise and I am currently waiting for a Tsukihime adaptation.
Dude, was JUST about to comment on your Toradora review to ask for you to review this!! Psychic!
Also, finally!! My favorite (or tied for favorite, whatever) anime gets the honor of your review!!
3 new lesser anime series, a new game console, or Fate/Zero on blu-ray. Needless to say, I chose Fate/Zero and it was totally worth it. The dub was absolutely amazing, and the show looks god-like on blu-ray. It looks so good, I had to change the settings for my TV because watching it was hurting my eyes!
That is true determination.
One Bell Yeah, and I'm kinda proud of it. I knew saving a little of my birthday money every year would come in handy.
Mike The Anime Runner Now it's time to get Fate/stay night on Blu-ray xD
dragonwarriorz1 Not quite yet. I was completely blown away by Fate/Zero's dub, and as both a dub and sub fan, I am willing to wait for the English release. But oh man how I am tempted.
To be honest I hated the dub. I usually really enjoy the dubbed versions of anime but in this anime it sounded painful to listen to. No I'm not a dub hater there are a lot of english dubs I really enjoy but I hated the dub to this one. Still an awesome series though
I know this might be annoying but could you possibly do a review on either Hunter x Hunter or Hunter x Hunter 2011?I am a big fan of HxH and really want to know your opinion of it...
TaskForceEZ (I have seen the entirety of the 2011 version)
That would take way too much time to dedicate for 1 review. It took me 3 weeks to watch 1-148, and then the review would be massive. You'd almost have to do it arc by arc, like this:
Hunter Exam>Nen Development>Yorknew City/Phantom Troupe>Greed Island>Chimera Ant>Election (is really the Dark Continent, but the show stopped before then)
He has recommended to people before, so I think he believe it's good. Though I think it's too long for him to review in the format that he does.
Yeah, I love this anime and would like to see a review as well, but Matthew ist right. It would take about 20 minutes or more to go in depth and to create a proper review of HxH 2011.
Yesss! Hunter X Hunter especially now that it's ended
You Hunter fans should stop commenting this in each new review. He said he isn't reviewing long running anime
I can't believe this video was four years ago, I've been a fan for a while.
Btw does anyone know how I can play the Fate VN's? I just got a laptop rwcently and am wondering if there is I way I could just download and experience sonce so far I started from the DEEN adaption.
Finally, my favorite anime!
hey GR Arkada, im sure you received this request a lot, but can you do a review on Gintama?
***** you mean silver... huehuhehuhe...
He should also review To Aru Majutsu No Index K-Project and Magi but he probably won't cause he has so many requests and can't possibly take them all unless everyone joins up to give the same request.
***** that shoots kintamas
Isn't that show like 600 episodes
Holden and Gigguk don't like it, so he said he'll trust their judgement. But Gintama is Love, Gintama is Life regardless. =3
Finished this show yesterday - Really impressed and surprisingly satisfied. Good and complex characters, a story that take the viewer seriously (no fan service, plots and themes worthy of thought, and an appropriate amount of "darkness") and, as you said, stunning visuals. Unquestionably a part of my top 5.
love your vids keep up the good work
Please do a review of SHIKI if you can.
Aiolos Daftsis SHOKI?
I feel like when ufotable finish their F/SN adaptation we might get something really close to perfection if put together with F/Z as one whole anime divided into two parts..
And as for the soundtrack Yuki Kajiura did for F/Z I personally think it fits it quite well and it wouldn't have been the same if someone else (i.e. Kawai) did it.
Daria Maksimova Not really. Zero is just a bonus material. Ufotable's UBW and HF are what works together. Zero is just additional information expanding on what you learned.
Lol no. F/0 and F/SN, even if we imagine it as an anime divided into two parts still isn't going to be anything above average, possibly a 7/10. Fate/ is one of the most overrated franchises I've ever seen. It's nowhere near perfect, nor is it a masterpiece.
Harry Dresden UBW and HF are contradictory versions of the same story. Alternate timelines really don't mesh well together.
jb687827
They do not mesh together story-wise because they do not have two. But they mesh together thematically, exploring two sides of same argument
I highly doubt it. Zero and UBW have VERY different feels to each other. Zero benefited greatly from Urobuchi's writing. While UBW suffers from Nasu's.
The world and lore Nasu built is quite intricate and impressive, however his writing and pacing is kinda all over the place.
It's quite hard for me to view the two of them as a whole.
Maybe with the HF movies...
looking foreward to your review of Fate Stay night UBW :) and this is my favorite anime series I've seen so far, loved the music too, listen to it a lot while studying or drawing ;) but that's just how I felt about it, good review as always :)
Love the "Let the stars fall down" ost in the background
As an irishman, the pronunciation of the irish names such as diarmud (deer-mud) and grainne (graw-ni-ya) is so cringey xD. but I can hardly blame them for not knowing that
To be fair, it's a lot better than how they pronounced Cúchulainn in Deen's Fate/Stay Night! When they said it I had zero idea who they were talking about, despite being Irish myself!!
this is the first show that i think is really good but i cant get into no matter how hard i try, i saw some parts online that i thought were cool but i when tried to watch the series i couldnt get past episode 2 cause i was so bored
Episode 2?
Really?
Are you really that impatient?
Sebastian Cintron the dialogue was just so boring, nothing caught my attention
gerizzyYMcrew i think i have a decent attention span, now i think saying it was boring was over simplifying my problem with the show, now i would say nothing grabbed my attention or held my interest, also that scene where 2 guys are walking around this one guy while spouting exposition made me want to turn of the tv as soon as possible
gerizzyYMcrew lets agree to disagree
i had to watch the first episode 5 time because i kept falling asleep everytime. but im glad i pulled through cuz this is now one of my favorite anime series!
So happy to hear my favorite anime getting the 'frosty' recommendation :)
Oh snap. Arkada is on a role now. Already he's pumped out over 5 reviews just this week!
I have no knowlege of this series (stone me later) Should i watch this yes or no ? (pls no insults)
hell yes! just watch this before fate stay night
jmoak14 Ok will do. Thanks :)
jmoak14
definitely watch Fate Stay Night first, Fate Zero is a prequel and definitely meant to be watched after
johannes Andersen You can watch it before or after Fate/Stay Night, depending on how you want to view it. Fate/Stay (at least the current version) has some issues with it's animation, being a fair bit different from Fate/Zero (hard for me to specify, though looking at some pictures may give you some idea of what it is.) The same studio that made Fate/Zero is also currently producing another version of Fate/stay that follows a different plot from the original, but has the same connections that Fate/Zero has with the original adaptation.
GunNlazor lol no. you will spoil the story of fate zero if you watch stay night first. Your thinking of sequel here. SN is also just airing so theres good time to watch zero before that.
Shinsekai Yori >>>>> Fate/Zero
Ok?
random but certainly TRUE DAT!
*****
Not my intention ... random dude.
kk
That's a pretty bold statement, bruh.
Please, please, PLEEEEAAAASSSEEEEEEE review Ah My Goddess! So much nostalgia for it and would love to hear your thoughts on it!! 😊
I have waited for this for like a long time
As a person who saw Fate/Zero first , without any knowledge about ending or just story. This anime was perfect for me. Just flawless masterpiece
I know you Americans have it bad with Aniplex USA, so I thought I'd provide you with some links.
If you have a region free BD player, you can import the U.K. BDs for a fraction of the price.
Part 1: www.amazon.co.uk/Fate-Zero-Pt-1-Blu-ray/dp/B00IIK6C74/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417815044&sr=8-1&keywords=fate%2Fzero (about 28-29 dollars)
Part 2: www.amazon.co.uk/Fate-Zero-Pt-2-Blu-ray/dp/B00IIK6BV6/ref=pd_bxgy_d_h__img_y (about 29-30 dollars)
I don't know about import fees; you'll have to figure that one out.
Or just get a USB blu-ray player, software to play it, hook it up to a laptop and set your region to UK.
exodiathecoolone
How much is a USB BD player in comparison to a regular regionless player?
TheGamingSucka I searched on Amazon.com and saw a USB drive for $42. Software (I use PowerDVD) is $50. A region free player for $159.
exodiathecoolone Jesus fucking Christ. That's fucking expensive.
True. But if even that's too expensive, then the entire show is available on Netflix in USA and Canada. Both the Sub and the Dub.
dude, Like the wallpapers in your back ground especially the Steins;Gate wallpaper :-D
Great vid man, really appreciate it! But, in terms of the sound, you don't think that the intro really added character and charisma to the show? I personally really did.
Best. Anime. I. Have. Ever. Watched. By. Far
Its just glorious, it ticks all of my boxes except comedy but that's and excusable one in this sense (i should add as well that Zero was my introduction to the Fate franchise)
My word, Kirei and Gil are the favourite characters ever, the gradual development of their relationship, the mystery of Gil and the extent of his power (until the fight with Iskandar), the basically emotionless Kirei on a search to find answers for himself and his rivalry with Kiritsugu whilst being guided along that path by Gil which eventually turns him into the boi i know and love
Waver and Iskandar are amazing, the relationship, growth and finale for them
And then the twists and turns like Tokiomi seemingly being the most likely one to win the grail with Gil and his years of planning out the whole war is just taken out in a matter of seconds. Diarmud being suddenly forced to kill himself and Kayneth thinking he's safe due to the contract but then Maya takes him out.
*chef's kiss* it is just glorious
Most of the dub was fitting enough to be slightly under on par with the sub. Gilgamesh, however, sounded terrible in English. He sounded like a generic Hollywood villain. Also, his Japanese voice conveyed the arrogance much better.
***** Who, Gilgamesh?
Are you saying that as a bad or good thing?
i think they got the cocky douchebag part right, but when gil needed to sound powerful and dominating, it feels really off.
***** That's just a point in his favour, if you ask me.
I would like to know where he got the 'typewriter' sound effect that you hear whenever a new section starts. I have been looking for it but I cannot find it anywhere. It sounds very similar to the sound effect used in the ghost in the shell intro.
Amazing as always!! Keep it Up!!