Reviewing the ENTIRE Fate Series (Part One) 

(2/3) I think Illya’s character in these movies is great, too, and I like this take on it. After she loses Berserker in the 2006 version, she becomes a silly side character, but here she is very important, impactful, and intriguing. She asks questions that really drive the plot, one of my favorite being when she and Shirou are hiding from evil Berserker, and she tells him to get out of there, but he says he’ll stay to protect his little sister. She asks him why he puts himself through so much suffering and that he doesn’t deserve it, but he just thanks her and risks his life once again to save her. He’s literally Leon Kennedy, guys. Bro said “I’m taking him down. That okay?” ABOUT BERSERKER. He is the goat. But anyways, this is returned later on in the movie when she saves him (ish) and says she is technically his bigger sister. Idk i mainly had an issue with that moment because he still got vaporized by the explosion, but maybe she put an enchantment on him. Also, I like how skilled and smart she is. Saber Alter gets more to do in this, still not a lot, but she gets stuff to do. Her scenes are always so good, and her VA is so great at doing her deadpan voice. It’s really hot I’m sorry. At the end of the movie, it just turns into a really fun event movie, still with horror and drama oozing through it. Sakura’s VA does an amazing job portraying this character, like seriously. You feel every beat of despair to fury, and it sounds like raw emotion. Her conversation with Rin at the end, where she trauma dumps on her is so real, but after Rin says she doesn’t care, she goes crazy and like--it’s so good. Also side note--I didn’t take too many notes on Rin, but she is also really cool in these movies. The whole main cast is dope like these movies are the best in Fate if you ever want to watch them. But I like how Rin is always just a really powerful mage, and she gets to show it off at the end when she’s up against Sakura. I also think her saying “this is just a contest of power” was such an important line because it completely trumps Sakura’s whole motto of being too powerful (which was what Illya called her earlier). It’s likely because she’s always been the victim that she’s believed what all people want is power, so if she’s the strongest, she can finally be the one in charge, but she neglected to believe other people could simply outsmart her. I love how flawed she is as a person, even going through so many horrible things.

(3/3) I also love when Rin is about to kill her, she gets this flashback to when she was going to lose a cardgame, but she went with it anyway because she saw how happy Sakura was. Her smile was really something to be cherished since in pretty much every flashback, Sakura isn’t smiling unless she’s with Shirou or something. It’s so sweet because Sakura really is a nice girl, but she’s just so broken emotionally, but truly deep down, Rin and Shirou (and Taiga) just want to see her smile again. It is so nice. Later on, when Sakura thinks she kills Rin, Shirou shows up, and he does the most heroic, nicest thing ever. He tells her they can save her together, but she tells him he has to run away. But this amazing dude decides to run up and get her. She starts begging for him to leave, and he keeps moving, and she’s saying how she doesn’t deserve to be saved, how she can die there alone, but he pushes himself to save her because he promised he would. All because he promised. This guy is such a good hero I can’t describe how much this scene meant to me. He is literally becoming a hero of justice--this is what UBW wanted to be. Incredible. And later, he walks up to her after she tells him that she’s going to hurt him, and thiis reminds me of the last movie when he walked up to her even though she begged him to leave. This is amazing paralleling and storytelling. And then he says “It’s not going to be easy; you better grit your teeth.” This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in my entire life. I think Shirou’s final moments are great, too. His fist fight with Kotomine was brutal, and it was really just two dudes who hated each other. Also, it was kind of funny how jacked Kotomine was, but I also think his ideals are interesting--he wanted to let the creature be born because, even if it killed people, it has not technically been born yet or able to form judgement, relating it to people wanting to kill the child of a criminal with the assumption that that child would turn to a life of crime too. He also says that there is a contradiction in humanity in which we cannot be human without evils. I think it’s interesting, but I also like when characters start debating on their ideology. I like that the two keep talking while they’re fighting just to keep each other company. Of course, Shirou wins, but what’s nice is that Illya comes back to save him. He at first was going to sacrifice himself to kill the creature, but he saw a vision of the blades making some more body horror, where some would ven poke out of his eye. It was very grim, the embodiment of his suffering for the sake of others. But Illya asks him if he wants to live, and he finally says yes. This is great because she kept telling him not to make himself suffer for others, and he finally learns that it isn’t selfish to want to live and that he has truly done enough for these people. It’s time for someone else to do the saving, and here is when his VA does an amazing job as he says he made a mistake, but man, this moment just hits so hard. I think it’s simple but a nice ending that he get saved. And he gets saved again when Sakura and Rin find his body. Finally, I want to talk about my girl Saber. She once again only has a few minutes of screentime, but she has a rematch with Rider that is actually peak action. Like it’s perfect-it is probably the BEST FIGHT IN THE FRANCHISE THUS FAR. Look it up since I can’t play the whole thing, but it’s so well-made, the music, the choero, the colors, the animation-perfect. 10/10, no notes. There’s this one closeup shot on Saber’s eyes that looks like they used a completely different lens?? The whole thing is like 4 minutes, but it is sooooo perfectly and expertly crafted. It is like the best action sequence I’ve seen in a while. It ends with Saber losing, but this actually made me sad because she really didn’t do anything wrong--she was just serving and following orders. But she gets like horribly electrocuted and cries in pain, and then Shirou comes to stab her. She mutters his name, and his eyes widen, which makes me believe in that moment he did not want to stab her at all, but it was too late. Here’s my gripe: I think Shirou should’ve used Rule Breaker instead of the blade to stop Saber Alter. She literally didn’t have to be murdered if the contract was severed between her and Sakura. I’m not sure exactly how the shadow worked, but she was under her control, so maybe this could have freed her. It sucks how she gets so disrespected in this series-like when she got captured by Caster in UBW, she was petrified with sadness & it broke my heart to see her so indescribably sad-all for Shirou to barely care. Like she’s just a girl who wants to eat food and get competitive messing around, but she gets the worst ending in all of these shows 💔💔💔 #JusticeForSaber I even made a TikTok because of this (if I don’t get copyrighted). But I heard she has fun and is actually happy in Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family, so I can’t wait to see that. And at last, the prologue is really good. The music is amazing, sad, and haunting, yet still moving. I was kind of confused on how Rider got to stick around (I wish Saber got to), and I also just had to accept that Shirou was alive again. But I love that Rin asked Sakura if she was happy since Rin can finally see her smile without suffering herself, and Sakura got to see cherry blossoms with Shirou, another promise he made. It’s such an amazing movie. And the ending tracks by Aimer are bangers. A really satisfying ending for this trilogy. Overall, this movie was amazing. It’s more of an event, but it’s still really good when you watch it with the last one, so I’ll give it a 9.5/10.

I responded to this comment as I felt more appropriate to share my thoughts in general In a nutshell, the 3rd movie depicts Sakura descent into madness, as she no longer can hold the revolt she feels for the world around her, while she was filling herself with depravity and delusions (quite literally like something out of Alice in wonderland) in the 2nd film, and thus, as Kirei stated, she's utterly drunk with power, and wants nothing but to end herself alongside the world around her. As for the situation regarding Salter, I do understand your grievances regarding her lack of presence, and the inability for her to return to Shirou's side, but not only would she (probably) still be affected by Angra Manyu's corruption hence why he used the Azoth Dagger to finish her, but Shirou would also probably not be able to handle her landmass of mana, alongside him dealing with Archer's arm literally turning him into a vegetable from the inside

Thank you for this comment! I definitely figured something was off with how much they jammed into the fate/stay night (2006) near the end, so I’m glad to know that it’s because of the adaptation itself! I’ll definitely check out that Shirou video, and really I’m truly grateful for you telling me more context about the visual novel since I didn’t have time to read it! I keep rereading this comment because I like learning new things So thank you very much for watching and commenting 🙏

I did!! At the end... although I probably should have included more of the stuff I wrote about him... that or the copyright ppl made me cut it out lol

Thank you 🙏 Fate is AMAZING And yes I’m just now learning how much was skipped and altered in the stay/night (2006) adaptation-I think I myself would like a more faithful one just so I can know the real story Thanks for watching!

it was, there were a lot of wrong to what deen made , one spammable enuma elish , two the animation was rough even back then and the infamous dolphin sex. but people need to understand , back then we were all wanting a R rated adaptation of fate ,same goes why tsukihime was hated back then. ubw gets a pass becauses it had good animation , heaven's feel is kinda meh if you read the VN but still its understandable why some things are omitted like Rin actually rider and ayako's lesbian time. oh and the explanation why saber isn't utilized more in UBW is because it's not her route. it's Rin's. this explains as well why fate/staynight emiya is different from UBW, it's because emiya is suppose to be the player he suppose to be the projection of what a player chooses. in stay/night route you'd pick the safe options while in UBW you pick the go fucking head straight to danger. then there's heaven's feel route the bad end route. though you get to have a H scene with rider so that's a plus. where you get to pick the worse case scenarios , you get saber stolen , and you chose to wait and plan stuff instead of charging ahead triggering UBW route , you get your arm chopped off get archer killed and most of the servants in the game. the only one who has some what happy end in HF route is Illya. i think in terms of VN , fate has been the weakest out of all the typemoon projects. shirou is literally a self insert character. the best for me is tsukihime , the old tsukihime not the remake. the remake has too many characters that are not really interesting.

@@maosama3695 I actually stopped reading the Fate VN cuz I went with the anime but Tsukihime was my bias VN favorite of all time just because it started my fascination to VN. I remember reading it and thinking it was basic as f*ck until the scene where he sees Arcueid for the first time. After what he did, the monologue and the insanity that I went through by reading that part I've been at my peak interest towards the story. Yeah bro I love the Tsukihime OG VN it was one of my gateway to visual novels and the entire journey was a hell of an experience.

@@johncedricksantos2401 me too , in the early 00s when VN scenes were starting to pop up. it was probably my first eroge VN as well.

Thank you so much!

Why is Ado Edem here is there an ultimate one nearby?

I’ll have to check out that other ending for UBW! And I realize how passionate I was about Shirou casting Excalibur made me not think too hard about it, so I never considered that he just physically could not do it lol 😭but thank you for watching! I’ll check out that OVA

Ohhhh ok thank you so much! I was wondering how that all worked 🙏 and thank you for watching

You’re completely right-I forgot about him having a low amount of projections. I guess I tried to come up with anything to save Artoria in the end lol, but thank you for watching and teaching me new things 🙏

​@@serpentsirif you want that then watch the short OVA Sunny Day

YUHHH 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Shirou doesn't become EMIYA in any of the routes, Saber route included. EMIYA's Grail War was one similar to the one in the Fate route but where "he didn't save Saber's heart"

Yeah I recently learned how much was skipped and altered in the 2006 version 😭 I’d definitely want a more faithful adaptation. I think I’ll try to get to playing the visual novel-I downloaded the Fate Grand Order game, although I know they’re different stories

I'd recommend​ reading the visual novel first before getting into Grand Order@@serpentsir

@@serpentsir Fate Grand Order is pretty wack tbh it start very slow in the first 5 chapter It only from chapter 6 forward that Nasu the author of the original Fate Stay Night step in did it get much better Grand order does have an anime adaptation for chapter 1,6,7 and 8, out of the four though 6 adaptation was not great as it decide to adapt 10 hours of cutscene into 2 movie, still fun to watch for the pure spectacle though

Yoo love the playlist even more now though /hollow ataraxia comes before /zero so u got that wrong. & id suggest getting rid of the mahoyo & type-moon fes op. cause their just boring nonesense that don’t qualify as anime openings, something reactor is gonna want to sit through. I’m just glad u don’t got the garden of sinners 1 in here too cause that is 10x more boring. & it shouldn’t go by when the openings were released but the source material. Sadly some of them like ubw op 1 is blocked

Thank you 🙏

Yes, Fate Zero is next up on my watchlist! Thank you for watching too

Yeah I didn’t even bother trying to understand it 😭 just jumped right in and hoped for the best (it’s still confusing)

I’ll definitely add those to my list & thank you for watching!

Couldn’t forget the goat ofc 🙏

Yeah it’s way too big of a series tbh 😭

It's really not that hard to get into

​@@whateverwhatever4476actually it's not hard at all

Gotcha 😭 do you know if there’s a lot I’ll have to watch before Grand Carnival or just a couple shows? Also thanks for watching!

I think that show's mostly for mobile game players to enjoy honestly. But you can watch it after the Grand Order stuff I guess i.e. First Order->Camelot movies->Babylonia anime->Solomon film (and there's a Moonlight Lostroom thing if you're interested after that xD)