Genre: Fantasy, Magic
Plot Summary from Anime News Network: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by a sorceror by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya. Although he was full of admiration for his adopted father and yearns to become an ally of justice, Shirou has limited powers and was unable to become a strong sorceror like his father. That is until one fateful day, he was drawn into the Holy Grail War and had to summon a female "Servant" known as Saber in order to protect himself. It turns out that the Holy Grail War involves a series of battles among powerful sorcerors to fight for the possession of a relic that will grant one's wishes, the Holy Grail. There are altogether seven "Masters" who can summon their respective "Servants" from different classes known as Saber, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Lancer, Caster and Assasin. These "Servants" have to hide their names in order not to reveal their weaknesses to the enemies. The story revolves around Shirou and his entanglement in the Holy Grail War.
Plot Summary from Anime News Network: Shirou Emiya lost his parents in a fire when he was young and was later adopted by a sorceror by the name of Kiritsugu Emiya. Although he was full of admiration for his adopted father and yearns to become an ally of justice, Shirou has limited powers and was unable to become a strong sorceror like his father. That is until one fateful day, he was drawn into the Holy Grail War and had to summon a female "Servant" known as Saber in order to protect himself. It turns out that the Holy Grail War involves a series of battles among powerful sorcerors to fight for the possession of a relic that will grant one's wishes, the Holy Grail. There are altogether seven "Masters" who can summon their respective "Servants" from different classes known as Saber, Archer, Rider, Berserker, Lancer, Caster and Assasin. These "Servants" have to hide their names in order not to reveal their weaknesses to the enemies. The story revolves around Shirou and his entanglement in the Holy Grail War.
Commentary:
If graphic quality is your primary concern when choosing an anime to watch, then you've found the right show. Originally an adult game (graphical novel) by Typemoon has beed modified into a PG friendly 24 episode TV series, while maintaining the graphic quality of the game.
The story is somewhat strange yet the first three episodes makes a pretty good attempt at summarizing the key points. I do have some complaints in the attempt to establish character relationships. Because of this, the story seemed choppy and jumpy at points, and the viewer is left to guess the motives for the characters' actions.
Characters:
Tosaka Rin: The first picture on this page shows a chibi version of Rin. She is definitely my favorite character in this show, I just love her hair ^^~.
Archer: Rin's servant. See if you can figure out his real identity by the end of the show w/o wiki.
Emiya Shirou: Main character of the show. Having little to no magical abilities, he gets a good amount of teasing from Rin.
Saber: Shirou's servant, probably the most confusing character once her identity is revealed.
Music:
The two notable music theme are the first opening and closing theme. the ending theme is posted in my last blog entry. The opening theme "disillusion" by Sachi Tainaka is a very nice remix of the game theme (See music video at the end of the blog entry)
Overall:
honestly, the only thing that kept me watching until the last episode was the amazing graphic of this anime. Plot is somewhat mediocre, lack of real emotional peak moments (or rather lack of build up to them).
P.S. あの人は男じゃありません，女ですよ。名前は Saber です。
4 comments:
こんにちは。バージニア大学の一年生です。どうぞ宜しく。
FSN was pretty interesting but the anime adaptation was sub par. The reason the story was lacking was because it tried to take parts from the 3 main scenarios from the original visual novel (which is what you probably meant to write) and tried to combine them which failed. They used the Fate scenario and threw in bits from Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel which ultimately meant that lots of details were cut leaving viewers who never played the original game confused as anything. What they should have done is to keep the scenarios separate and animate 3 series which would have been a great business decision.
Anyways, Ilya's my favorite character.
konichiwa honya chan,
I believe the story of the anime stuck mostly to the Fate line. although there are some pretty obviously out-of-place lines by a couple characters here and there.
I honestly thourght they should've done unlimited blade works instead of fate, sakura line might be a little hard to PG-ize.
ps. your blog loads realllllllly slow for some reason
I've gotten that comment from a lot of people. I'm pretty sure its because of the ton of media I have on blog. Seriously, I have a ton of pictures and videos.
try limiing amount of post on the page?
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