Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly

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Synonyms: Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel 2

Japanese: 劇場版「Fate/stay night [Heaven's Feel] II.lost butterfly」

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 12, 2019

Producers: Aniplex, Notes, Kadokawa

Licensors: Aniplex of America

Studios: ufotable

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural

Duration: 1 hr. 57 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.49¹ (scored by 228,754 users)

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Ranked: #135²

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Popularity: #597

Members: 388,615

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Synopsis

The Fifth Holy Grail War continues, and the ensuing chaos results in higher stakes for all participants. Shirou Emiya continues to participate in the war, aspiring to be a hero of justice who saves everyone. He sets out in search of the truth behind a mysterious dark shadow and its murder spree, determined to defeat it.

Meanwhile, Shinji Matou sets his own plans into motion, threatening Shirou through his sister Sakura Matou. Shirou and Rin Toosaka battle Shinji, hoping to relieve Sakura from the abuses of her brother. But the ugly truth of the Matou siblings begins to surface, and many dark secrets are exposed.

Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly continues to focus on the remaining Masters and Servants as they fight each other in the hopes of obtaining the Holy Grail. However, as darkness arises within Fuyuki City, even the state of their sacred war could be in danger.

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Background

The Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel movie trilogy is based on the third route of Type-Moon's visual novel, Fate/Stay Night. Originally released in 2004 for Microsoft Windows, Fate/Stay Night later received an enhanced port featuring full voice acting, new soundtracks and bonus content―titled Fate/Stay Night: Réalta Nua―which was released for the PS2, PS Vita as well as iOS and Android systems.

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Adaptation:	Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel
Prequel:	Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
Sequel:	Fate/stay night Movie: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song

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Characters & Voice Actors

Toosaka, Rin

Main

Ueda, Kana
Japanese

Emiya, Shirou

Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki
Japanese

Matou, Sakura

Main

Shitaya, Noriko
Japanese

Saber

Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako
Japanese

Emiya, Kiritsugu

Supporting

Irino, Miyu
Japanese

Gilgamesh

Supporting

Seki, Tomokazu
Japanese

Archer

Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi
Japanese

Kotomine, Kirei

Supporting

Nakata, Jouji
Japanese

von Einzbern, Illyasviel

Supporting

Kadowaki, Mai
Japanese

Rider

Supporting

Asakawa, Yuu
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Iwakami, Atsuhiro

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Kondou, Hikaru

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Sudou, Tomonori

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Nonaka, Takuya

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"I beg you" by Aimer

Reviews

Jan 21, 2019

Karhu

Recommended

Me before Lost Butterfly: "Yeah I have seen all anime related to fate/stay night, pretty much know all about it at this point."

10 minutes into the movie: huh?
20: ....what?
30: WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE

Mild spoilers follow.

Story:

No tedious philosophies nor pretentious dialogue that solely exists to postpone the battles and extent the awful battle tournament shonen storyline because of pride or other equally laughable reasons. No. This time it's all about Sakura being too horny to stand and Shirou holding hands with every girl imaginable. Literally sex scenes and masturbation. Now this is what I always wanted from Fate. Finally understand why Heaven's Feel is the best ...

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Oct 3, 2019

BagelTM

Mixed Feelings

Spoilers if you did not read the original 2004 visual novel nor the realta nua version
Spoilers if you did not watch the movie

Good points:
-The movie was based around the most boring parts of the novel and covered it as fast as it could. Good for the production team. Good for the audience who already read the novel since they can keep up with the fast pace since they already know. Bad for the audience who started with UBW or any of the DEEN adaptations
-The movie seems to have quite the unlimited animation budget
-The female characters are visually appealing to the audience. This is important because ... the fans of the spin off games of fate/stay night are primarily interested in good looking characters
-Regarding story, this is a fine watch. Alot of major plotpoints happen in this movie, and that will guide the story into movie 3, which will be my favorite part about the entire fate novel adapted into the big screen, so if you're looking forward to movie 3, this movie will satisfy you, and so will the small trailer that appeared at the end of the movie. This movie did a good job of hyping the audience into movie 3, where the major stuff happens

Bad points:
-In the novel, sakura has dreams where she is on the POV of the shadow that consumes hundreds of people every night around town. Sakura acknowledges that she knew all this time that she had been killing all those people at night as the shadow and goes along with it in her dreams, only for her to later crumble as she realized she was tricking herself into not thinking about the people she murdered and the harmful thoughts she had in her mind, that was the cause on why the shadow did some of the bad things it did, such as wishing harm on shirou. All of this showed the reading audience an interesting perspective on the sins she did and how she reacted to them, but in this adaptation, they retconned sakura into not knowing she was killing all those people at night as the shadow. They also cut the scene where gilgamesh warned sakura that she should kill herself before she becomes used to being a murderer. This sucks big time, why did the movie makers think this was a good idea or that we wouldn't notice, or why did they retcon this? I mean, there's no reason to make sakura not notice the multiple deaths in town nor the fact that she is supposed to see the shadow consume all these people... or is there? It's clear as day once you consider the only options available to explain this decision. What I am assuming here is that the intention of whoever was behind this movie was to repaint sakura as this sweet innocent girl that did nothing wrong. This is my problem. There are three audiences for Fate. The movie makers did not care to please the casual audience who wanted to watch a good story, nor did they want to please the visual novel readers who wanted an unchanging story from the novel, because there is a third audience that earns them revenue. which is the audience that likes the fate franchise for the cute girls. Having sakura be a bad person could ruin her role as another cash cow anime girl type-moon will use to generate huge revenue, because the waifu loving fans don't like characters who have imperfections, but rather have sakura be a mary sue who is just a victim of what's going on around her, rather than have her face the consequences of the actions that she brought onto herself in the original story. I have a problem with sakura getting retconned into not knowing what's going on nor later realizing that she is the shadow because now she doesn't have to do much in the story, she's just the damsel in distress that shirou needs to save in the third movie from the evil influence that's making her evil. By making her unaware of what's going on, she's locked from doing anything that could affect the story because she doesn't know what's going on. I don't really enjoy characters who previously had personalities being turned into one sided characters in adaptations like these.
-The movie is very vague for its main audience, the people who only watched ubw and fate zero.
-Not enough attention to the other girls from the previous routes, particularly Illya. Some of these characters will get their big spotlight once the last movie comes out, but they haven't got much attention in movie 1, so you could say that people who are fans of those two girls are forced to not see these characters and instead forced to see sakura be the main girl. All fate girls got alot of attention in the ubw anime, so it can be wierd seeing sakura getting most of the screentime

Too long didnt read version: Very fast paced, astounding animation, the girls are cute, the movie went along with the hf3 hype, but the movie characters, mostly sakura are one sided, the story is too vague, and the girls you are used to seeing get little screentime

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Nov 1, 2020

Indigo78180

Not Recommended

I just wanna say, this was a complete and utter waste of my time. Because I had watched Fate/Stay Night and UBW, I had foolishly thought that Heaven's Feel would be a lot like them, albeit darker. I should've noticed when the first movie didn't meet up to expectations.

It really feels like the people behind Heaven's Feel asked, "Hey, so poetic cinema consists of pretty lighting and people staring at each other without saying anything, right?" and no one corrected them. Of course there were some good moments in the movie! But overall, as several reviews have pointed out, this was ultimately an anime ... based on a porn game. I have not played this game, nor do I ever intend to, but I really just wonder. Why?

Here's Heaven's Feel, going all out with the hyper-sexualization of some high schoolers. In my opinion, this absolutely did not add to the plot or the characters at all in a meaningful manner. In fact, I think it destroyed my respect for certain characters, even though it's very clear that that's not what it was supposed to do. It was unnecessary and unwelcome for such a person as I, who expected something more along the lines of UBW or Fate/Zero.

Good points:
Music, still as awesome as always. Aimer must be my favorite singer at this point! And a lot of the music reminded me of Garden of Sinners, which suits the dark tone of this route.
The animation, of course, is also very pretty. I really like some of the sunsets. Lots of nice colors.
I also like the tone, which almost felt more like horror as opposed to a fantasy battle royale.

Bad points:
Everything else. The pacing felt okay while watching, but looking back on it, I feel like I didn't really gain anything in the end. What's going on? What was the plot? Why should I care about these characters? Everything falls apart.

I couldn't stop sighing and rolling my eyes throughout the movie as I yelled at characters to stop doing stupid things. I respect Rin, Saber, Rider, and Ilya. Shirou is okay, but he's still as bland as always, which makes sense considering he was the perspective from which people played in the original game. If he weren't bland, it would be harder for people to project themselves onto him.

But Sakura, who's pretty much the main focus? I liked her well enough, but I simply couldn't bring myself to stay interested in the development of her role in the plot. So many people also disappeared for the sake of the plot, too. Obviously, in Heaven's Feel, we're focusing a lot more on Shirou and Sakura, and yet, two movies down, I really couldn't tell you how these two characters have developed, or how they are interesting.

To conclude, this was such a massive waste of my time that I decided to write a review for the first time in my life in order to say how much I hated this movie. I came in with what I thought were reasonable expectations, and I have a pretty low bar for anime in general. I like to be generous when rating things I have watched or read. But this movie went so far below the bar that it dug straight into the ground. I feel bad for Sakura, that she had to be written this way. I really believe she deserved better. Thanks for reading this amateur review written by a severely, irreparably disappointed Fate fan.

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