Fate/stay night

Drama : Low / High (It gets higher with every episode)
Comedy : Med
Action : High
Scifi : High
Ecchi : Low

Now that it's over, all in all, it's good. But Tsukihime is better. More drama packed into 13 episodes and Shirou didn't get any and he had up to 5 girls living in his house! Damn Shiki (from Tsukihime) got more than him.

What I liked about it:

• Rin! I loved how she was animated. In the last episode you can easily see they spent a long time on her animation and about 60 seconds on Shirou's. Her hair and clothes are some of the best work and Shirou's is just short of triangle face.
• Saber! Of course I loved Saber. She can cook, clean, and slice up your enemies with an invisible Ginsu knife!
• The ending: A very good ending, and no I'm not spoiling it.
• Rider! She was a good servant. Too bad she was on the wrong side.

What I didn't like it:

• The animation: It's so half half. Half good (Rin)/ half crap (Shirou). I wish they spent a little time and clean it up.
• The sex : Well not, the sex because they took all the sex out. Fate is a Ero-Game! They took out the one sex scene in the whole game and changed it to a complicated CGI dragon. Please..............­..
• The pacing: The whole pacing is off, Studio Deen's writer needs a bit of help.

What I want now that it is over:

• A sequel damnit!

It's a Low BUY high RENT but I'll leave it at BUY, and now that Geneon Announced at AX that they will be releasing this in October, I'm stoked!

R1 Release Notes

Ok I've got the 1st R1 of this. Not bad. For voices Saber is deep, Rin is normal, Sakura is squeaky, and Ilya is just a little chiyo chan. The one who steals the show so far is Taiga-Sensei, her VA hams it up good.

Episodes

• 2: Wahoo! Now that's some good action. They should've ended Episode 1 with Episode 2 but I guess too much info and characters that they divided it up into 2 episodes.
• 3:Nice little fight! While this isn't as good as FMP, it should keep me busy :)
• 5: Oooo Rin's out for Blood!
• 7: Now the harem starts to fight..hehe
• 8: Oh My! The harem is getting nasty. We find out another master's location.
• 9: Saber versus Assassin!
• 10: Shirou finally learns how to defend with swords and magic.
• 11: Saber versus Rider!
• 12: Rider, the final Battle and Saber's true identity.
• 13: Shirou is Captured!
• 14: Archer versus Berserker!
• 15: Saber versus Berserker!
• 16: Shirou versus Berserker!
• 17: Caster kidnaps a certain someone.
• 18: Saber Versus Assassin v2
• 19: All out war. We meet the 8th(8?!?) and final Servant.
• 20: Shirou takes Saber out on a date.
• 21: Saber Versus Gilgamesh!
• 22: Saber and Shirou on a date
• 23: The Final Battle (Part 1)
• 24: The Final Battle (Part 2)

I have a love hate relationship with this series. And it aggravates me so.

The story sets up nicely. We get to know all the characters. The rules are set for the game. There a nice balance between action and information. As the plot progresses throughout the series, things don't develop quite the way you'd expect them to. There's a little bit of irony involved and I was genuinely surprised at some points. The blatant attempts at humor fall drastically short of the mark, it's really just not funny, but there are smaller subtle moments that elicit a smile.

Shirou, our main character, is a stupid sexist git. He stays a stupid git though ultimately he makes the right decision. (rolls eyes) But perhaps I'm biased because this is a harem type series and thusly I hate the way they set everything to revolve around his stupid git character. For instance, I absolutely hate the decision that Rin (and ultimately Archer) made. I know all the girls in the harem are supposed to love Shirou and what not and that Shirou is the main character. But I absolutely hate it. However, the VA for Archer is so bad ass. Even though he was speaking Engrish pretty much, the effect came across very cool. His battle with Berseker is the best hands down. It was almost worth it.

Lol at the quasi ero scene. Very suggestive dialogue-wise, no nudity of course...unless I just have a dirty mind.

Towards the end I became somewhat unsatisfied. You're hit with twist after twist, and the rules are broken, changed. They insert a stupid episode where he goes on a date with Saber, yea, it's a dating sim spinoff, but honestly? I was angry that a such a serious and magical series had devolved into...a dating sim.

And then, and then the series goes and completely blows me away with the ending. There's a kind of interesting study there, to see the fall of heroes, how the selfless...become selfish. I don't know, I didn't fully quite grasp why I liked it so much. I was so tired of Shirou by then I just wanted it to end, so I'll have to watch it again. But I like it a lot. Though what happened with Saber made me cry. Heh. So, put up with stupid Shirou, and the rule breakage and whatnot and you'll end up with a pretty nice series.

the OP and EP are pretty (though that changes later). The rest of the OST is sweet, mostly sorrowful, soulful melodies, some of which remind me of kyuuketsuki miyu sometimes.