Audience reviews
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MooBouBies
Honestly, I started this purely for completions sake expecting nothing more than laughs and cuteness, but by the end this brought home the core themes of Fate and left me with a full heart.
It's genuinely informative and will give you a greater understanding of the characters in Zero and the confusing world of the Holy Grail War while making you laugh. I'd say it definitely set the bar way higher than I'd expect for a box set special and I'd recommend it wholeheartedly for any Fate fan.
Also that twist at the end blew my mind.... don't spoil it for yourself, just watch it.
Read at the sourceSlobros
At first, sorry for my bad english. This is my first review.
First off, I expected cute little descriptions and facts about what is going on in Fate/Zero for people that are new to the franchise but I got so much more than that and the ending was outstanding and made me love the whole thing even more. I already really loved the Tiger Dojo in the VN, so to see this reminded to this wonderful time. I am not the best critic because I love this franchise just so much but anyway, I recommend everyone who is at least a bit interested in the franchise to watch this. I guarantee that you won't regret watching this if you have already seen Fate/Zero.
Read at the sourceFJW
This is Fate/Zeros version of the Tiger-Dojo from Fate/Stay Night. As such it explains quite a bit of background-information, both on the war in general and on certain servants. While this is mostly lighthearted fun (“you snuck in all proud of yourself just because a cool-sounding Kajiura theme was playing”), there soon starts to be an increasing amount of weirdly dark scenes. And while Irisviel seems to be quite nice for the most part, some of her decisions become questionable...
All of this would already be quite nice, but the thing that really turns this into more than just an explanatory series is the absolutely magnificant second halve of the last episode which takes a sudden turn into a MUCH darker direction.
Read at the sourceSky2042
This anime is for those who have played the Fate/stay night VN, as it is very reminiscent of the Tiger Dojo. To be clear, the Tiger Dojo is the room that the FSN player ends up in when he chooses a bad ending in the VN. The Einzbern Soudanshitsu plays much the same role for F/Z.
Story: The consultation room carries very little of its own story, instead relying on the parent work of F/Z for the story. It does help to fill in some missing information for the new-to-Fate series watcher, at least in the first 2 episodes, and even VN readers will discover a new thing or two.
Having watched this after watching F/Z, I might suggest that this show can or even should be watched in line with certain of the Fate/zero episodes so that the watcher can create (partially) the same tone that FSN VN has…
Read at the sourceTalismanG1
The Fate/Zero Counsel Specials are something that are to be watched after finishing the entirety of Fate/Zero, doing so otherwise may bring about confusion or spoil events to come.
The story to these 6 specials is very simple, and is not the main focus to these more lightly-toned, comedic and 'educational' episodes. However, it was designed simply enough to be enjoyable so the viewer can enjoy the comedy while not being too lost in the hints towards the 'plot' of the specials, the over-arcing story of the main series, and the series that Fate/Zero Prequels, Fate/Stay Night. Overall, the story gets a 6; On its own it would leave much to be desired, but it fulfills its roll adequately, and giving the viewer a bit more than they would expect.
The art is fairly similar to the main series, bu…
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