Audience reviews
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KyubCube
For newcomers, this anime is one of several adaptations of the FGO mobile game. It adapts the prologue (Flame Contaminated City Fuyuki) to the first arc (Observer on Timeless Temple). There are also anime for the sixth (Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot), seventh (Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia), and eighth and final (Grand Temple of Time Solomon) chapters of this arc, and another telling an original story that slots between the interstitial Arc 1.5 (Epic of Remnant) and Arc 2 (Cosmos in the Lostbelt). Though no anime yet exist, manga adaptations are slowly adapting the remaining five chapters of OoTT and the five chapters of EoR.
So here's the thing.
The Fuyuki anime isn't as bad as you've been lead to believe. It makes some rather bizarre changes (including, sadly, cutting a fi…
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Story (6/10): It's very mediocre and it's just about three very clueless people that got sent to fight back in 2004. It's very rushed compared to the game, but it's not that badly executed.
Art (10/10): There's nothing bad to say. The characters and animation are done beautifully.
Sound (8/10): The soundtracks are decent and the voice actors do a good job.
Character (6/10): The characters are all clueless, but are not annoying or bad characters exactly.
Enjoyment (3/10): It was SO BORING until the end, and even then, it was not that good.
Overall (6/10): This is one of the worst fates, but the series is amazing. If you want to watch a good story with great fight scenes and animation, watch Fate Grand Order: Babylonia.
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A boy gets roped into a slaughter ritual without knowing much about the war and servants. Does this sounds familiar? If yes, then you know this is a alternate version of Fate/Stay, Apohcrya, Extra Encore and so on. Somehow Type-Moon loves to depict the end of humanity and let a slow sluggish boy with his "feelings" save the day.
Fate/Grand Order the First Order is an introduction to the whole Grand Order series. This show assumes you're already familiar with the Stay and Zero series. There are references towards those series and some information is left out as Grand Order assumes you already know this. As result the whole introduction towards Grand Order feels a bit messy if you don't know the other titles. This being the only disappointment, let's see what First Order has for us.
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Well, here comes my first review.
The guidelines ask to be objective (lol), so I guess I'll try to develop the arguments on my subjective experience to make it appear as something objective.
TLDR : I don't recommend the movie, I think it's a waste of time.
Okay, being a fan of the Fate franchise, I was hoping that this introduction to FGO would be at least enjoyable and would convince me to invest some time into this new franchise.
I pretty much expected it just to be a glorified ad, and oh boy! What an awful ad it was.
Story: Well... Basically it's not great.
Like... at all.
You know what, I'll say it : It's bad.
The story is clearly not focused as much on its setting as it is on simply driving the story to its next fight. No it's worse than that: the setting has never been about…
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After seeing little to no reviews made after the English version of Fate GO was released, I'm here to defend this hour-long special!
Most are upset that this is just a weird, poorly executed entry into the highly acclaimed Fate series we all know and love. However, most did not know of or mention the game that is supposed to accompany it.
Fate Grand Order is a gatcha mobile game released in 2015, in which you summon servants and play with a turn-based battle system. The gameplay works alongside a visual novel-type story, as with games like Love Live! and Fire Emblem Heroes. ***This special is subtitled "First Order" because it is a straight, pure adaptation of the entire first block of story in the game.***
I believe this entry takes place in the present day, but 2004 Singularity F spec…
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No spoilers in here-
As a long running fan of the fate franchise i honestly had my jaw drop to the floor when i started to see the direction this movie took. Maybe if it wasnt having to live up against the rest of the Fate franchise it would be an ok movie but you cant even begin to compare the two.
The story is honestly just so... out of nowhere. I had absoultely NO idea what was going on half the time, and there is literally no character development in the entire move. They try to make emotional scenes but i just find myself unable to care about any of the characters because i know NOTHING ABOUT THEM.
As for the animation quality and fight scenes they just dont live up to the Fate standard. The animations are all missing that brilliant flair that made the series so well known for its…
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This "Special" glorified advertisement has the most ironic anime name in history. A woeful way to cap off 2016. For anyone who saw this shortly after, what a horrible way to start off 2017.
*SPOILERS FOR FATE/GRAND ORDER: FIRST ORDER AND ONE SPOILER FOR FATE/ZERO SECOND SEASON*
Fate/Grand Order: First Order isn't grand in the slightest. The only thing "grand" about this special feature film is how much of a grand travesty it is. It simply doesn't GET how any of the intricacies of the Holy Grail War or the servants work. Instead, it opts to be generic and full of black holes (that's how gaping these plot-holes are), and as a result, this glorified mobile game advertisement fails as an addition to the franchise, and is the literal worst place for a newcomer to start. Why, you may ask. What…
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"Fate/Grand Order: First Order is a 1hour prologue to what looks to be an interesting game."
I'll make this brief.
Aside from knowing who Mash is and discovering her glorious fanarts, there is nothing else I've found enjoyable in this adaptation.
The story does not directly spoil any events from the branches of Fate adaptations, though they do hint at some story elements and information that is not yet adapted into anime form.
After watching, I'm left with the curiosity to check out the actual game itself, not because this adaptation was great but because I believed the actual game must be so much better than this.
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How amazingly poor!
I've played dozens of hours of Fate Stay Night and been a mild fan of the series for a few years, but this is far worse than subpar to the series. We're talking so bad I can't believe that the original makers of the FSN game or anime, or the very well done Unlimited Blade Works anime, could've accepted to release that.
Story: 2 : Forget any other Fates. This is a story with Servants and that's the only connection. The world is apparently in some "unspecified deadly anime danger" and some non-specific techno-device-thing exists that predicts whether humanity will survive or not. And there is also some time/space travel. And techno things. And a surprise twist villain. And oh god that whole thing was so cliché and uninteresting I just can't even care. It was a bad surpr…
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Felt mediocre in every aspect, I gave it a higher rating than 5 because I liked seeing familiar characters. It doesn't really go into depth with anything although it has an interesting premise involving "Chaldeas" which is a planetary replicate of earth using its soul allowing people to predict if there are going to be any devastating events in the future. Even with time travel into the past to correct the future it's not interesting which may be partly because there is little explanation. There is an interesting fight sequence but most of the fights are bland. And for the characters we're talking about a diehard devoted waifu girl that takes a liking to MC at first sight and a super weak bland MC that wants to be of help but is useless much like Fate/Stay night Shirou. His personality is…
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Fate/Grand Order: First Order is exactly what the title says it is. To put that into context for those that may not be aware, this anime is based off of the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. Specifically the introduction and the first chapter of the game. As someone who has been playing Fate/Grand Order for over a year now and has followed the story to it's recent conclusion, I want to disclose this fact now rather than at the end of the review.
Story: 6/10
Unfortunately the episode was entirely dedicated to setting the stage for what will happen later on within the story. And because it is set in Fuyuki, it can feel like it is relying on Fate/Stay Night as a crutch to keep your attention. With the majority of Servants coming from F/SN with shuffled classes and mirrors to scenes from it.
Ar…
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Is Fate/Grand Order: First Order, another adaptation from the Type Moon universe? Yes it is. Is it a cannon worthy adaptation from studios like Ufotable and the studio that must not be named *cough* Studio Deen? Not entirely. Is it another money making “adaptation” to exploit the grand Fate Universe that studios such as Silver Link have done in the past? After knowing it is based off of the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, quite possibly.
With that out of the way, is it worth watching this movie/special or should I watch the cannon works by other studio first? Well isn’t that why you are reading this review? *(To save you from reading the entire review, watch the Ufotable arc first before watching this)*
The major plot of the anime revolves around the organization called Chaldea, who carrie…
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As an avid fan of the overly popular Fate franchise, the hype I got before watching this film was immense. This is a great special, but it definitely has plenty of areas that could be improved. Although this film is admittedly worse than the other Fate series like Kaleid, UBW and Zero, it's still worth a watch.
Set in the year 2015, the final era of magic. Caldea is an organization established to observe the magical world and the world of science - as well as to prevent the final extinction of mankind. Humanity is guaranteed at least another 100 years, that is until the future realm observed by Caldea vanishes into thin air. Caldea is now sure humanity won't live past 2017, due to events taking place in the Japanese city of Fuyuki in 2004. The organization issues a Grand Order for a "Holy…
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Before I start with the review, I’d like to say a few things about its source, Fate/Grand Order, the mobile game. It started off as a fun entry in the Type-Moon franchise. So it's understandable if you think the story at the beginning isn't impressive. But after the release of a few chapters the players realized Fate/Grand Order is becoming like the a conduit for the whole Fate series, that includes Fate/stay night, Fate/Zero, Fate/Apocrypha, Fate/Strange Fake, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya etc. Suddenly F/GO turns out like the most canon story out of the whole franchise, with rewriting certain canon parts of it. It even is contributing towards the whole Nasuverse as well.
With that being said, this special episode, titled "Fate/Grand Order: First Order" is based on the prologue chapter…
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For those who don't know, Fate/Grand Order is a mobile game based on the Fate franchise. Having never played it, I can't really speak to the gameplay. However, Grand Order's story seems to be canon to the Nasuverse, and if I've understood correctly this movie/special/extra-long episode brings to life the first "arc" or "chapter" of the Grand Order story.
So. Fate/Grand Order: First Order. Is it worth your time?
That depends. If you don't know anything about the Fate series, I'd recommend you stay away from this for now. If you're not familiar with the Holy Grail War's rules, this movie will be nothing short of an incomprehensible mess to you. You might say that makes it a bad movie, but I disagree - this is very clearly not aimed at newcomers to the Fate series, any more than I suspect…
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Oh boy, where to begin? Ever since it's initial announcement, I was excited to watch the anime adaptation of Fate/Grand Order. Having played the game for a bit over a year, I was eager to learn the story and how this timeline was supposed to fit with the rest of the Nasuverse. Instead, I got a half baked story with a bunch of cliché characters and a confusing plot.
Story: 5
It's... an interesting concept I suppose? I'm sure the game did a much better job with handling it, but the adaptation barfed so much dialogue and exposition at the beginning, I was very confused going into it. The beginning also seemed very rushed, which didn't exactly help either. The rest of the story seems to be loosely connected plot points that hardly have any correlations with one another. Again, since I didn't…
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So essentially Bizarro Fate Zero meets Steins;Gate
Fate/Grand Order: First Order has lots of flaws but strengths under it belt once LA finished watching it, but it's primarily an hour long prologue to Fate/EXTRA: Last Encore.
In terms of strengths, although Fate/Grand Order: First Order has very similar character beats to it's original Fate counterparts, like Ritsuka Fujimaru voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki is a more competent Emiya Shirou but blander due none of his "justice beliefs" or "powers" Emiya did. Mash Kyrielight voiced by Rie Takahashi is Saber including the "subtle" romantic interest Emiya and Saber had in and she as a Demi-Servant she was pretty badass even with a shield, however she is somewhat overshadowed by the bizarro Servants , Olga Marie is Rin Tohsaka without her tsunde…
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I was expecting something as amazing as the previous installments, but was greatly disappointed. They severely rushed the story line and filled it with plot holes and cliches. Not only that, the first 50 or so minutes were extremely boring. When drama is forced into the story just for the sake of moving the story along, you have to turn off your brain and accept it in order to try to enjoy the movie. If you think too much about it, you'll realize how bad the writing is. If you love the senpai/waifu dynamic, 10 minutes of random fighting with mediocre battle scenes, lackluster sci-fi with plot holes, and characters with whom you have no emotional attachment to ....then you might like this story. The character design was cliche and has the standard anime tropes, you won't find anything new h…
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Adaptations based on the Fate franchise is hardly a new sight to see these days. In recent years, we’ve seen ufotable adapt Unlimited Blade Works while Silver Link put their talent into Fate/kaleid. Where does Fate Grand Order fit in? To be honest, this can be watched although not exactly a good place to start if you’ve just took your first step into Fate universe.
A lot of people often questions about what order to watch Fate series. Fate Grand Order draws references and alludes to Nasuverse quite frequently so at least a decent amount of understanding should be obtained before watching this special. As an episode worth of over 70 minutes of content, this to me was less of a special and more of a mini-movie. In addition, Fate Grand Order’s story is canon so it isn’t some fairy tale stor…
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*Minor spoilers*
Civilization ends in December 2016? Well, would you look at that, it is the last day of December 2016 in my time, but January 1st 2017 in other places. Let us see what happens in the next few hours. *Shrugs*
Have you ever watched the Fate/Series? Yes? Well, I would say not to keep your hopes up on this part of the franchise, and I'll tell you why.
The start of the story is that Mash Kyrielight ponders into the distance, whilst sitting next to her companion, Fou. Fou is a familiar-like beast in which had befriended Mash. Fou suddenly sees a man on the floor, fainted. That man was Ritsuka Fujimaru, the male protagonist of the series. During their time, there was technology called the Rayshift, a technology that utilizes time travel. It is used to go back in time, and it i…
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