Fate/Zero: Onegai! Einzbern Soudanshitsu

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.

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.

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.