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ktulu007
I've talked about the Fate franchise a few times. It hasn't always been positive. I like the concept, but then you get rubbish main characters like Shirou and plot problems. Let's hope these films are a bit better than Unlimited Blade Works. We'll start with the first and go from there.
Story:
The narrative opens basically the same way as Fate/Stay Night or Unlimited Blade Works. Rubbish protagonist, Emiya Shirou, encounters a servant at school, ends up summoning Saber and has to have the situation explained in monosyllabic words as he is very stupid. The film basically covers the first part of this version of the Holy Grail war with the situation getting complicated by a shadowy creature that kind of looks like The Web from Reboot.
The biggest issue with the film is that the build up…
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I'm not sure what kind of person that's genuine would rate this above mediocre. Even if you were the greatest Fate fan, surely the faults of this "movie" are transparent, namely the incomprehensible structure of the plot and the weak storytelling. Even the score, which should have been memorable given that it's by Kajiura, was utterly bland.
I'll be honest, the only reason I'm here is out of an extraordinary love and devotion for Fate/Zero. Every time I watch that show I think more highly of it than the last, and I always wish there was more. A role that should have been fulfilled by either Stay Night or Apocrypha.
I'm reading a lot of reviews of users saying how this is in fact a great experience if you know what's going on. To start with, allow me to say that I sincerely doubt that. I…
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This anime is the representation of a good style but a pitiful substance. This review will be kept spoiler free.
Do you know how very often an anime adaptation can't give what a novel or a manga deserve? There are plenty of examples like that, but this anime is the opposite. A story like that doesn't deserve an adaptation this good. The quality of the anime is top notch but the story doesn't follow, it's pretty bad. This probably aimed at hardcore fan of the fate series, but after only watching the mere surface of it (Fate zero, Fate Stay Night UBW and Fate Apocrypha in my case) this show just feels empty. And it's real pity as this show had a lot of potential just like the rest of the Fate Franchise.
Story (3/10): One of the main drawbacks of the show. It's unclear of when and how it's…
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This film is a 2 hour introduction, it is simply a chapter that should last 40 minutes and take it to the cinemas and still manage to make many of the situations that do not have enough time to take them seriously.
Fights that come out of nowhere and a constant need to do everything as slow as possible, for me was the feeling that something was going to happen that in the end never happens.
I know it's thought of being a trilogy, but come on this is ridiculous
Literally the only relevant things is 10 or 15 minutes of the whole movie, it's just not worth it, there are no new situations, nothing new is explained, it's so simple to say why this movie does´t make any sense to see it that I have trouble writing this review is ridiculous.
definitely not recommended
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Presage Flower is truly unsettling, in a number of senses that is in and of itself, only describable with this word. There is little comfort to be had, as the brutal fights, lavish detail in Ufotable’s visuals, and the hauntingly melodic pieces by Yuki Kajiura convey an atmosphere of dread that permeates most of the film. It is truly an ominous, even exhausting piece of work, one not meant for the eyes of the unfamiliar.
This film is newcomer-repellant, as it goes so out of its way to not clue you in on anything. It even skips the first major battle, the moment of our main character summoning her servant, him and Rin meeting, and everything around this time frame, condensing them all into a montage monitored by Zouken, our disgusting antagonist. This is not the holy grail war you remembe…
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The beginning of Presage Flower is quite a mess. It throws random elements and characters in such a ludicrous pace that viewing this work as a standalone adaptation is impossible. We have recycled scenes from earlier works, copy-pasted character introductions and fights which are the down-graded versions of what we have already seen. At least the boob fondling scene was still present. I would have cried if they removed it. Perhaps this is exactly what I was expecting, I am just saying that it is not very pretty to watch. For example, the problem with the dark streets scene is how random it is. Our characters quite literally teleport to this location just so we could see yet another character introduction in the back alley. It feels quite cheap and there is little to no build up behind it.…
Read at the sourceSwaheelee
I'm a fate fan, hardcore die hard Fanboy.
I love fate zero, I love how they keep making alternative sequels to it.
I just stayed up all night watching this MASTERPIECE. HOLY
I'm taken away right now, it's 4:12 am and I just sprung out of bed to rate and review this piece of art.
I can't BELIEVE the amount of detail put into this anime, IT'S SUPREME, IT'S BEAUTIFUL. The art is GORGEOUS. It is without a doubt in my mind, The best art of any anime to date.
It's AMAZING. What's happening in this fate, is truly different. I was honestly a little spooked. It's scarier then any other fate, mind you I'm watching it in the pitch black and had no clue what to expect, I just thought lots of epic fighting, and love between Emiya and Rin or Saber.
BUT WAS I MISTAKEN. MAN WAS I MISTAKEN, I'm not s…
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Heaven's Feel. The 3rd and final route of the Fate/stay night franchise, and the route that basically acts as the biggest and most impactful route of the series narratively, even having the Urobuchi novel Fate/Zero link with it much later more than the other routes, the Fate route and the Unlimited Blade Works route. Those two routes were more of presenting different characters in the spotlight (Saber in route 1, Rin in route 2 as well as different side characters being more relevant respectively) with different themes and ideologies at hand. This franchise builds itself off those first 2 routes and adjusting to the setting and cast, and even Fate/Zero too if you already saw it narratively to create this massive trilogy to complete the main story of Fate.
This movie is the first part to t…
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Let’s get straight to the point.
This film is not for everyone. Not because of the violence, blood and gore one may expect, but because this is not the right place to start if you have just started getting into the Fate franchise.
The context of this review serves as an overview to anyone who has watched previous works within the Fate series and therefore may address some spoilers for beginning watchers. As such, it is not recommended to read this review if you believe you do not have a proper grasp of the franchise’s world-building, lore, and other elements.
Heaven’s Feel, the third route to the 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night—a catalyst to the gargantuan moneymaking franchise it is for Type-Moon now—acts as a culminating story built up from several hours of background knowledge one…
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I am no Fate series fan and yet I was lured by my curiosity of how big this fandom is and how people seemed to have a deep love for the series. Now, call me a huge dumbass because I started to dive into the Fate series with the anime movie of the third or the last route of Fate/Stay Night, Heaven's Feel. And so, here's some review from someone who is so amateur in Fate series that you could laugh at her.
Starting off the movie, we got small pieces of how Emiya Shirou quit the archery club which leave us with a major foreshadow for who is the girl Shirou will ended up with. The execution of these "prologue" was very slow paced that we have roughly more than 10 minutes up until the title card of the movie. For a non-Fate fan like me, it felt a bit off and boring. Then we have a barrage of w…
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I'll try to be as fair as possible in this review and try to read what I have to say before just dismissed it because of the Overall score. This review will contain SPOILERS.
Fate Zero is my favorite anime of all time and showed what anime were really capable of, it is my new storytelling standard anime and for its time it was my animation standard too.
Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, while it had some problems, some really out of place fanservice and some characters, mostly Kirei and Gilgamesh had unsastified ends due to their out of character motivations and attitudes. I wouldn't say it's one of my favorite of all time, but it was a really good anime.
Now, Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel: Presage Flower has some problems too, but it's pacing is all over the place and it is like…
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Story 8/10
The story is well paced with action sequences spaced evenly throughout. Most of the story is told through the perspective of Shirou. The movie doesn’t delve much into his internal monologue which may make it harder to understand his intentions but this is countered by how his actions were conveyed. The story isn’t overly complex and only has a few subplots which helps the pacing of the film. Despite having a rough idea of the plot, I still felt numerous emotions from heart-warming interactions between characters and adrenaline fuelled action scenes!
A series of flashbacks was used at the beginning of the movie to set the scene. I liked this because it could show the relationship between Shirou and Sakura in a succinct way. The slower pacing at the beginning of the movie may be…
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ONE THING: DO NOT COME INTO THIS MOVIE THINKING THAT IT HAS LOTS OF LONG FIGHTS. This movie is flawed masterpiece. It is undoubtebly better than Fate/Unlimited Blade Works and you could argue is better than Fate/Zero when it comes to story.The movie has a great pace and skips the introduction, so make sure you watch Fate/Unlimited Blade Works and Fate/Zero beforehand or else you will hate how they skip the introduction part of the movie. The action is slight and spread out through the movie, but it does not disappoint. The animation and art style is very detailed and makes the fights look amazing with the digital effects. The fights make Fate/Unlimited Blade Works look like a poor copy. Luckily this movie is a trilogy and will continue with 2 more movies because the ending was lackluster,…
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Seeing the anime score of this shows, people can't review beloved franchises objectively. I'm gonna make two reviews 1 objective and another personal bias.
I say bias wise its not bad if you have seen the other series beforehand as background "lore" I think you definitely have a better experience. The visuals are actually amazing, like one sequence in particular with Lancer will leave you breathless and that composed some excellent music. As a Fate Fan i would say 6/10 but still has fundamental problems as a film, like characters hahaha what is that, plot, its has a strange pace either too fast or slow.....
But objectively its lacks any explanation whatsoever, doesn't have a middle nor end just beginning it's understandable its a 3 parter film trilogy but characters do not change. I wo…
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Having seen Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works, Presage Flower serves as a functional sequel to Zero and an engaging tonal and narrative contrast from Unlimited Blade Works. However, while knowledge of its predecessor and alternate storyline are essential to gain anything from it, Presage Flower is so fundamentally different on a thematic and storytelling level that its worth recommending even to those who were not fond of the two aforementioned titles.
While Fate/Zero tackled themes of utilitarianism, nihilism and heroism and Unlimited Blade Works addressed (in a somewhat flawed manner) martyrdom and pathological altruism, Heaven’s Feel explores the impacts of childhood trauma and domestic abuse. This is explored through the relationships between Shinji, Sakura and Shir…
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Personally, this movie was a complete waste of time and I felt indignant after watching it. Lets get this straight first, I watch anime, not heaps but I have watched a fair bit and can definitely appreciate it as an art (unlike the general public) and also, enjoy it.
There are variety of reasons what made this film particularly frustrating to watch for me and I could go on forever but I'm just going to list it. However before this, I need to clear something up. To all those people saying that this movie is perfect blah blah, its not, they're biased, why? Because for a movie to be 'good', the plot should at the very least have a story that stands alone on to it's own merit where it can be understood without any prior knowledge (e.g. Star Wars V, great movie and understood what was going o…
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Heaven's Feel Presage Flower just like UBW and FSN, starts off with the same opening sequence for the main character where his decisions after that opening changes the story significantly just like the other two routes. Of course if you've already seen the last 2 Fate/SN routes, you don't have to sit through most of the opening because this time they kindly decided to fast forward it instead of having people who have already seen the start enough times to sit through it for the third time. The side and support characters all have slight changes for their role such as some characters in the story will have a different outcome and/or a different relationship in the story with the MC. For example, if a character in a alternate route was playing the villain, they might never have had to…
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I'll keep this brief, Fate Stay Night Heavens Feel - I Presage Flower can be an awesome ride, depending on how you go into it.
The Fate Series is infamous for being confusing and a challenge to even figure out where to begin watching, and while I can understand and even endorse newcomers to watch Unlimited Blade works by Ufotable (or even god forbid the two deen adaptations) I highly, highly, HIGHLY encourage people to make sure they have a sound knowledge of Fate before they go into this trilogy.
I watched the Australian premier of the film, and even there I witnessed many confused faces. This movie can be a mess if you don't understand the majority of Fate, but if you do, the film is fantastic.
This is easily the darkest adaptation of Fate, and while a lot of what make…
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***This will be a pretty spoiler-free review. I'll hint at certain things but major plot reveals will remain unsaid.***
Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel is another installment of the Fate/stay night visual novel series. The visual novel encompassed three parts, Fate, Unlimited Blade Works, and Heaven's Feel. As you can already see (looking up the series on MAL), we have already received adaptations of the first two routes of the game. This film adapts the beginning 8 or so hours of the Heaven's Feel route and I have to say, it's quite the package.
Going into this film I had knowledge of the material it was going to adapt. I have played the Heaven's Feel route up to the point that the film ended at. I did this in order to see what the studio would change and/or add in order to make the film…
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“Sublime” is an overused term of praise for too much in anime today. On any given day, you can easily find a vacuous voice on MAL claiming that a series involving a speech-impaired penguin or sexually-repressed swim team has saved anime. While I usually roll my eyes when reading such tripe, “Fate/Stay Night Heaven’s Feel” may be the first Japanese cartoon that actually lives up to this standard.
For those of you unfamiliar with the series, the basic setting is a small city in Fuyuki. 7 historical figures are summoned by 7 “masters” in a fight to the death. Once a single servant and master are left standing, they are rewarded with the Holy Grail – which grants any wish for both of them. This brings into play not just what the master might desire, but also what an icon of history may wish f…
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