Fate/stay night TV Reproduction

Oh, what have we got here? A reminder for the Unlimited Blade Works movie. Well take a closer look for this:

Well, the story is fair. For the TV series and even for the visual novel's Fate route, it's way too hectic. Many better scene had been cut out, deleted. You won't understand any points of the whole OVA if you don't meet with the series or the novel. So story has 6/10, and I'm clapping from the happiness.

The art, compared to the series is way more better, more mystified and sharpened. The studios made a good work on it and made sure: this isn't just ... a recaption, but also a somewhat remake too. The sound's quality risen also with the graphics. These two had got 10/10.

The characters. Well, many intuitions fell in the mystified atmosphere, or suddenly appear and disappear. Too bad for it: 8/10.

Enjoyment: very enjoyable, but the fans can argue with it. I say 9/10, because they had tried the impossible: squeeze a more than 10 hours story in 2 hours.

Overall: 8/10 and a bit more behind the decimal point. For a reminder to the movie is good, and that's all. It contains the necessary things, so that's enough for me.

Please note: this review is from the point of view from someone who is unfamiliar with the Type.Moon universe, and will be rated as such.

Personally, I did not like the original series. I got as far as two episodes in before losing interest.
This series originally came out in 2006, and while the graphics were good for the mid 00's, I was unimpressed, and the story, Rin (opening main character), and the cliche male counterpart set me up to believe this show to be a dull-fest, and never critiqued it beyond that, since I can't review something unfinished .

So why did I decide to watch this? ... Well because I love to give things a second chance! So I decided maybe I could gain some interest by watching the 2011 prequel; Fate/Zero, and did I ever enjoy the heck out of it!
Fate/Zero had a better opening, better pacing, more fleshed out graphics(which did wonders for the actions scenes) and enough characters with depth to keep me going. By the end of the series, my least favorite character (Kiritsugu) became the one I enjoyed following the most. That being said, i wanted a fresh lead-in that I didn't need to dedicate hours to, cue Fate/Stay Night: TV Reproduction

Worries people may have is if it holds itself as a stand alone, and that is where I can only give you facts, and let you decide for yourself.

Th hardest thing to decipher was who exactly was this aimed at? My first theory was that this was meant to be TV only, as in viewers were suppose to catch glimpses of it on the telly. This is not true, as if you plan to watch this, you CAN buy it, as opposed to the entire series set, and you will get a story that stems from beginning to end.

The intro and story fit well where the prequel (fate/Zero) left off, as it begins with Rin, and the boy from the final moments of the prequel. What follows next is something I like to call "the short and sweet effect". Since this is edited down from an estimated 8 hours down to an estimated 2, a main concern was the editing.

At times I felt dizzy since I knew a large chunk was left out, but it was well done on how they give you the pieces to connect the dots. For example, a character by the name Emiya was trapped in a perfect, black sphere. Where did the sphere come from? Well from the priest, of course! Who is the priest? The same priest from the Fate/Zero; but would I have known he had history with previous events if I haven't SEEN the prequel? Yes, because they take the time in the 2 hours that is this reproduction to keep you up and going.

In other words, yes, the editing gives it justice

Don't expect a lot of depth from the antagonists, though, as you won't get much outside of which side they pledge their loyalty to, and a quick reference to their goal. Besides the silver-haired little girl, most of the bad guys feel like fluff and filler, since they aren't ever explored, and the Masters are forgettable almost as much as their intentions. The only reason this isn't a train-wreck is because they are a collective whole, and even though it's quick, if you are paying attention, you won't feel like you missed out on anything (or at least too much).

All in all, it was short and sweet

Enjoyment:9/10

Wow. Just wow. Jamming such a story as vast as Fate/Stay Night into two hours is not a good idea. It definitely isn't. Fate/Stay Night TV Reproduction is basically a summary of the 2006 series. While it includes most of the important bits, so much of the much needed dialogue and scenes were just missing. This is not meant to be seen before the TV series.

Story [6]: Not good. While it does somewhat convey the overall storyline, it still leaves many things unanswered. So many plot points have been removed that it just doesn't feel like the story was really engaging at any point. Scenes ... will just jump around and you will be left wondering how this or that happened. For example, Shirou and Saber are recovering from a battle and then in the next scene, they're fully healed and already in a completely different location fighting another battle. What happened in between? How did they get there? Why are they suddenly healed so quickly? These are questions viewers who has not seen FSN yet would ask.

All the fight scenes have been shortened as well. Fights that were suppose to be at least half an episode's length has been reduced to nothing but a few short minutes. This is truly an extremely condensed version of the story.

Art [8]: The animation is pretty much remastered footage from the anime. It's still crisp and clear and it conveys the what is supposed to be colorful characters in the anime. The various noble phantasms are still excellent quality but unfortunately, cut short so many times.

Sound [8]: The OP to this work features a new version of the original anime's "disillusion" by Tainaka Sachi. The music from the VN and the anime are still here. A nice blend of mellow tunes that kind of fits into the shortened disted scenes but lacks to really draw us back in to the world of Fate/Stay Night.

Character [6]: This is where this two part summary really falls. So much of the dialogue between the characters and their developments were removed for the sake of time. Barely any characters had any development whatsoever. The only characters to even get a sliver of development were Shirou and Saber but even that was just nearly non-existant. The dialogue between all of the characters was what made them great but alas, without it, we don't really care much about them at all.

Enjoyment/Overall [7/6]: While I enjoyed immersing myself into the world of FSN once again, the disted and heavily cut direction really distracted me from keeping up with the story. The scenes were just jumping around so fast that they don't let you absorb what had actually transpired then. This is a poorly made summary recap of the original FSN. While it will remind you of most of the important things that happen, it doesn't really pull you back in the world of FSN. If they really wanted to do a summary, DEEN should've at least made an effort to reedit the script and change the animation enough to have it flow better instead of just cutting and pasting a bunch of the same footage together. This is definitely not made to be a standalone work. You'll need prior knowledge of FSN to really understand what actually transpired in the recap.

And where the fuck was my "People die when they are killed" line? Terrible. Just terrible.