Welcome to Rockmandash Reviews! I’m Kevin and this part 2 of
my Fate Stay night Review, and just one of the many videos in my Type Moon
Marathon. This is review of the Fate stay night anime, made by studio Deen in
2006. 2006 really wasn’t a great year for entertainment when you think about it....
Plot - Adapting a visual novel can be difficult, as there
are multiple routes. Studio Deen tried their best but could not tell the story
as well as the visual novel. In Fate Stay night, there are 3 main routes, Fate,
Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven’s feel. They decided to take most basic yet
bland arc; Fate, and try to throw other arc plot points into the story. Fate by
itself is just above average, but when you throw in other plot points and never
resolve them, It’s kind of like the anime doesn’t know that (people die when
they are killed), or how to make a story without plot holes and red hearings
that weren’t red hearings in the original. Even the parts directly from fate
aren’t explained as well. The plot is less than average, and but it’s not the
worst out there. >_>
Plot 6.5/10
Pacing - One thing it did do well is the pacing, it’s not
too long but it’s not too short. The pacing is pretty good in this anime, which
is kinda surprising because the tsukihime anime was too short, and the source
material was too long.
8/10
Animation & Art – It’s meh. Studio deen has a habit of
going off model with shows, and even though it’s better than say… higurashi,
it’s not great either. In comparison to the source material, it’s pretty
accurate, but usually looks worse… And out of nowhere… a CG dragon.(Show WTF in
video) FSN’s visual novel has a few sex scenes, and what the anime did to get
around this was make a Sega Saturn quality CG Dragon which looked horrible, and
it was just rubbish. The biggest disappointment with the art in this show is the
more detail you have in the video, the worse it looks. I first watched this on
a low quality stream and I didn’t think it looked too bad, then I watched a HD
one and now that I can actually see the details, I can see all of the flaws
this show has, and that’s generally something that shouldn’t happen. I have no
other description for the animation other than its consistently worse than the
visual novel.
6/10
Sound – This soundtrack is actually quite great. I really
liked the first OP, it’s one of my favorites and is really soothing. Most of
the soundtrack fits the atmosphere better than the game does, and I prefer the
soundtrack overall. It has a grander feel in comparison to the soundtrack in
the game. The voice acting for the Japanese dub has the same voice actors as
game, so if you liked the game’s dub then you will like this one. As for the English
dub, it’s a mixed bag. Some of the acting is really good but others are very bad.
Shirou, Issei and Ilya sound just horrible while Saber, Rin, and Archer are ok.
The Dub has some really good talent on it, I just believe it’s worse than the
Japanese dub.
Soundtrack and Japanese Dub 9/10
English Dub 7/10
Sound overall 8/10
Personal Enjoyment – I’ve watched this show twice. I didn’t
care for it both times. It’s just not very interesting in my opinion, but if
you haven’t seen the source material I’d assume you would like it more than I
did.
7/10
Conclusion This show is weird. It’s the polar opposite of
the visual novel yet it’s the same thing. The biggest problem this show faces
is that studio deen messed with the plot, thus it becomes worse than it really
should be, even if it’s better in some aspects.
If I were you, I’d just watch ufotable’s Fate stay night anime.
7/10 Rockman
Regrets
Pros
Good soundtrack
Good soundtrack
Good pacing
Cons
Rubbish Animation
Ruining of plot
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