| Hi, i was planning to start with Fate/Zero but then I began to hear mixed answers on what to watch first. Can someone please tell me a clear watch order for the fate series. You may include the movies as well. I won't be reading the visual novels |
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| If you already started watching the 1st Episode of Fate/Zero , go on and finish it. If not : |
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| There are 2 watch orders for fate series 1) 1-Zero 2-Ubw 3-heaven’s feel 2) 1Ubw 2-Heavens feel 3-Zero 1st watch order is harder to understand since zero does not try to explain fate universe. But it’s easier to get attached to characters and you don’t feel like a 3rd party when characters talk about past. 2nd watch order has massive spoilers for zero, but it’s so much easier to get into because shirou(mc) also doesn’t know anything about fate universe and you learn everything with him. I highly recommend 1st one but you can choose whatever you want. |
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Raihan_ said: Hi, i was planning to start with Fate/Zero but then I began to hear mixed answers on what to watch first. Can someone please tell me a clear watch order for the fate series. You may include the movies as well. I won't be reading the visual novels Alexioos95 said: go with this guy order, this is the best orderIf you already started watching the 1st Episode of Fate/Zero , go on and finish it. If not : |
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| Airing order is usually the proper order. |
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Raihan_ said: Hi, i was planning to start with Fate/Zero but then I began to hear mixed answers on what to watch first. Can someone please tell me a clear watch order for the fate series. You may include the movies as well. I won't be reading the visual novels Read the Fate/stay night Visual Novel, then read Fate/hollow ataraxia. Then: |
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Alexioos95 said: If you already started watching the 1st Episode of Fate/Zero , go on and finish it. If not : THANKS A LOT!!!!!!!!! REALLYY <3 |
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| If you haven't already started it, this is what I would suggest - 1- If you just want to watch a great story and don't really care about the world and stuff , watch Zero. Tho keep in mind, it will be very confusing at first. 2- What I would advise is you watch at least one of S/N anime before - either 2006 one or UBW. Everyone will tell you 2006 anime is shit, skip it. I'd suggest you decide for yourself. If you don't like it, drop it. I personally liked it (even more than UBW). Or you could just watch UBW, then Zero. Note - DON'T START WITH THE HEAVEN'S FEEL MOVIES |
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So is it ok to start with Zero? Because a lot of people told me that absolutely not you have to start with Stay Night. Also, difference between Stay Night and Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works? Is the first one just skippable? |
| Just watch rhe Fate/Zero. Except this everyhting in this series is waste of time |
Oznerol7 said: Stay Night UBW is an alternate route, so it's an alternate story.So is it ok to start with Zero? Because a lot of people told me that absolutely not you have to start with Stay Night. Also, difference between Stay Night and Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works? Is the first one just skippable? |
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Paperyduke6 said: Oznerol7 said: zero is a prequel and sets the stage for all other series so it should be the first one you watch. Stay night has 3 story routes with same base story but different developments.you can skip the original or watch it later on since it's not that good but you should watch UBW and Heaven's feel after zeroSo is it ok to start with Zero? Because a lot of people told me that absolutely not you have to start with Stay Night. Also, difference between Stay Night and Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works? Is the first one just skippable? Ok thanks, usually i watch prequels after in order of production, but it seems it was produced after Stay Night but before Unlimited Blade Works so i guess i'll watch it first |
Jontayy said: Oznerol7 said: PLEASE READ THIS So is it ok to start with Zero? Because a lot of people told me that absolutely not you have to start with Stay Night. Also, difference between Stay Night and Stay Night - Unlimited Blade Works? Is the first one just skippable? Ok so fate is a visual novel with three routes (stay night, unlimited blade works, heavens feel) or the saber, rin and sakura routes because of each arc having a different love interest. All three have anime adaptations. Fate zero is a prequel to both The reason this is so confusing is because of the argument that zero spoils all three routes in a different way. (It spoils sabers identity and some of the mcs powers, and it spoils a sibling relationship) Id also like to note that people think that the stay night route is bad just because of its old art style, don’t listen to them Note 2: when watching unlimited blade works watch the series not the movie Note 3: heavens feel is a trilogy of movies with incredible animation Overall: if you don’t care about spoilers, then I recommend zero, stay night, ubw, heavens feel. If you want the full adventure, I recommend watching stay night, ubw, heavens feel, zero (Think of this as watching Star Wars in chronological or non spoiler order.) Ok noted, as it's obvious from my profile i really really REALLY don't care (like at all) about older art-styles (also, 2004 is old? Wat). Ok whatever i'll just watch them in production order like i always do since it seems there isn't a 100% preferable way to go |
| Fate zero first Fate stay night 2006 Ubw Heavens feel do take place at the same time with different story, watch whatever you want |
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Shirqkuno said: I’ve always wanted to get into the fate series (considering the fan base seems to love it) but never knew the correct order since I always saw people saying about every order that it’ll spoil something. If there is no perfect order, I’ll settle for the minimum spoilers too. The Fate Series contains Zero , which is a Prequel to the Stay Night stories. So the chronological order is Zero > 2006 > Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel. But the correct/intented order is 2006 > Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel > Zero. (Since Zero spoils like 80% of the twist of the Stay Night stories , including 60% of them right into Episode 1 , it's also this order that have the less spoilers) If you want the order for everything related to Fate : Oznerol7 said: Ok thanks, usually i watch prequels after in order of production, but it seems it was produced after Stay Night but before Unlimited Blade Works so i guess i'll watch it first It was produced first only for the Anime adaptations. The Light Novel Fate/Zero came 2 whole years after the Visual Novel Fate/Stay Night , which already included the 3 Routes. You can watch Zero first , but you'll spoil 80% of the twists of Stay Night. |
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| The order you should watch as this is how VN was released: Fate UBW 1 and 2 Fte Heavens' Feel 1, 2 and 3 and then Fate Zero This is chronological order but I won' recommend this as this spoils about later installments Fate 0 UBW Heavens Feel |
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| My reccomended order is Ubw Zero Heaven's Feel Now why I won't reccomend the chronological order is that Zero aims at an audience that is familiar with the story and cast of Stay Night, so if you just straight up watch Zero first you're most likely going to get confused, and even if you do get into it you won't get the full experience. You will find the ending anti climactic as well. What happens after you finish Zero, is that you're already spoiled of all the plot twists of Fate and you'd be disappointed with all the other Fates. |
Shirqkuno said: I’ve always wanted to get into the fate series (considering the fan base seems to love it) but never knew the correct order since I always saw people saying about every order that it’ll spoil something. If there is no perfect order, I’ll settle for the minimum spoilers too. Well chronologically speaking, the franchise kicks off with zero and three stay night routes : Fate, UBW and Heaven's Feel happen at the same time. And there's another anime : Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files which takes place after zero and before 5th HGW. So that's the chronological order. Now then I've talked about chronology, lemme talk about how you should watch it. In my opinion the franchise should be seen like starting with Dean's version, Fate/Stay Night, then Ufotable's adaptation which are Fate/Zero, Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works and Heaven's Feel trilogy. Then you can move to other works like Fate/Extra, Fate/Apocrypha or Fate/Grand Order 🙂🙂 |
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| Chronologically, Faye Zero comes first. However keep in mind that both Fate Zero and Fate stay Night, spoil each other. No matter where you start, you’ll get spoiled |
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Oznerol7 said: Paperyduke6 said: zero is a prequel and sets the stage for all other series so it should be the first one you watch. Stay night has 3 story routes with same base story but different developments.you can skip the original or watch it later on since it's not that good but you should watch UBW and Heaven's feel after zero Ok thanks, usually i watch prequels after in order of production, but it seems it was produced after Stay Night but before Unlimited Blade Works so i guess i'll watch it first While the anime was "produced after stay night but before UBW" the original source material wasn't. As already mentioned Fate/stay night is the first entry in the series (without counting Kara no Kyoukai and Tsukihime which most of Fate doesn't reference at all, but is technically part of the same multiverse so some aspects of the world first brought up in those are sometimes used in Fate stories), and was originally a visual novel. Fate Zero was then a prequel novel series written years after the release of Fate/Stay night by a completely different author, but heavily based on stuff revealed in the original Fate/stay night game, and all three of its routes. This is why people say it spoils things. Because it was written for people who already know the original Fate/Stay Night, and all three of it's routes. So release order is technically "Fate stay night, UBW and Heavens feel at the same time, Fate/Zero after that, basically everything else after that" Now to the main problem. Those three routes in the original Fate/Stay night could originally only be played in order, meaning later routes already expected you to know everything that happened in earlier routes, because you had to have played them, meaning if you played them out of order, you would be spoiled on some parts. Now you might ask "so where's the problem. Just watch the fate stay night anime, then the UBW anime, then the Heavensfeels films, then Zero". Well yeah, if there were a Fate/stay night anime, then that would be how you should watch it to watch it in chronological order. However, the "Fate/Stay night" anime doesn't actually adapt the "Fate/stay night" route of the original game, but instead tries to adapt all three routes at once, while still mainly following the original Fate stay night story line. This of course will lead to the anime spoiling reveals from the later two paths, which most people consider to be a lot better. This is why fate fans don't recommend people starting with the first anime. It also cut out the Prologue to the story, which a lot of people like because it foreshadows one of the biggest reveals and main conflicts of the whole series. So now to the anime release order. After all of the fan backlash the original Fate anime adaptation received, but the fate series in it self still making boatloads of money, of course Type Moon (the studio behind the original Fate/Stay night game) wanted to try making a new anime, but seeing how big the original flopped, they tried it with a different studio, (one they already had a pretty good relationship with working on adaptations of Kara no kyoukai, another story in the greater Nasuverse) Studio Ufotable, and a more minor part of the series, the Prequel, fate Zero. After that was a huge success they let Ufotable adapt the second and third rputes of Fate stay night, and fans also loved those, but they never went back to readapt the first route. But since Ufotable adapted Zero first, and the stay night routes after, then now also snuck in small references to their own version of Fate Zero in UBW and HF which aren't necessary for the enjoyment of the series but still something you will miss out on if you haven't watched Zero before watching those. The UBW now does include the prequel, but the HF movies expect skip over the whole beginning of the story, because it is 99% the same as the original Stay Night route, which already got an adaptation, and they didn't want it to become another 7 year 8 film series like Kara no Kyoukai did. Additionally to that a re-release of the original VN got another really short ending to all of the routes at once called "realta nua", which also got an extremely short anime adaptation. That adaptation however is not available to view anywhere except for the Japan exclusive "Type Moon Museum", so yeah no chance you'll ever be able to see that. The original Visual Novel has since then also gotten a sequel Visual Novel, which hasn't received an adaptation until now. It is sometimes referenced in other Fate spin offs though, some of which have received anime adaptations. So now fans are at this weird spot where they don't really have a good starting point to recommend, so you get a million different opinions on which you should watch/read/whatever first, because most people don't want to recommend you read a 60h+ Visual Novel you can't legally buy outside of Japan that doesn't even have an official English translation. My personal recommendation is just start at any of the three, stay night, UBW or Zero. If you start with the stay night anime and don't like that, maybe drop it and give the UBW anime a shot, if you don't like that, pause it and give Zero a shot, and resume watching after you finished zero. If you also didn't like zero, then I don't think main line Fate is for you, and you probably won't find any enjoyment in it, so just watch something else. |
SinomDec 18, 2021 7:09 AM
Sinom said: Oznerol7 said: Ok thanks, usually i watch prequels after in order of production, but it seems it was produced after Stay Night but before Unlimited Blade Works so i guess i'll watch it first While the anime was "produced after stay night but before UBW" the original source material wasn't. As already mentioned Fate/stay night is the first entry in the series (without counting Kara no Kyoukai and Tsukihime which most of Fate doesn't reference at all, but is technically part of the same multiverse so some aspects of the world first brought up in those are sometimes used in Fate stories), and was originally a visual novel. Fate Zero was then a prequel novel series written years after the release of Fate/Stay night by a completely different author, but heavily based on stuff revealed in the original Fate/stay night game, and all three of its routes. This is why people say it spoils things. Because it was written for people who already know the original Fate/Stay Night, and all three of it's routes. So release order is technically "Fate stay night, UBW and Heavens feel at the same time, Fate/Zero after that, basically everything else after that" Now to the main problem. Those three routes in the original Fate/Stay night could originally only be played in order, meaning later routes already expected you to know everything that happened in earlier routes, because you had to have played them, meaning if you played them out of order, you would be spoiled on some parts. Now you might ask "so where's the problem. Just watch the fate stay night anime, then the UBW anime, then the Heavensfeels films, then Zero". Well yeah, if there were a Fate/stay night anime, then that would be how you should watch it to watch it in chronological order. However, the "Fate/Stay night" anime doesn't actually adapt the "Fate/stay night" route of the original game, but instead tries to adapt all three routes at once, while still mainly following the original Fate stay night story line. This of course will lead to the anime spoiling reveals from the later two paths, which most people consider to be a lot better. This is why fate fans don't recommend people starting with the first anime. So now to the anime release order. After all of the fan backlash the original Fate anime adaptation received, but the fate series in it self still making boatloads of money, of course Type Moon (the studio behind the original Fate/Stay night game) wanted to try making a new anime, but seeing how big the original flopped, they tried it with a different studio, (one they already had a pretty good relationship with working on adaptations of Kara no kyoukai, another story in the greater Nasuverse) Studio Ufotable, and a more minor part of the series, the Prequel, fate Zero. After that was a huge success they let Ufotable adapt the second and third rputes of Fate stay night, and fans also loved those, but they never went back to readapt the first route. But since Ufotable adapted Zero first, and the stay night routes after, then now also snuck in small references to their own version of Fate Zero in UBW and HF which aren't necessary for the enjoyment of the series but still something you will miss out on if you haven't watched Zero before watching those. Additionally to the a rereleasw of the original VN got another really short ending to all of the routes at once called "realta nua", which also got an extremely short anime adaptation. That adaptation however is not available to view anywhere except for the Japan exclusive "Type Moon Museum", so yeah no chance you'll ever be able to see that. The original Visual Novel has since then also gotten a sequel Visual Novel, which hasn't received an adaptation until now. It is sometimes referenced in other Fate spin offs though, some of which have received anime adaptations. So now fans are at this weird spot where they don't really have a good starting point to recommend, so you get a million different opinions on which you should watch/read/whatever first, because most people don't want to recommend you read a 60h+ Visual Novel you can't legally buy outside of Japan that doesn't even have an official English translation. My personal recommendation is just start at any of the three, stay night, UBW or Zero. If you start with the stay night anime and don't like that, maybe drop it and give the UBW anime a shot, if you don't like that, pause it and give Zero a shot, and resume watching after you finished zero. If you also didn't like zero, then I don't think main line Fate is for you, and you probably won't find any enjoyment in it, so just watch something else. Oy vey silly my thinking i was starting to grasp this franchise kek yeah i think i'll just go with stay night and see. Another question: The other type-moon series like Tsukihime and Kara no Kyoukai are in any way connected? Would be a good idea to check them out too first? |
Oznerol7 said: Oy vey silly my thinking i was starting to grasp this franchise kek yeah i think i'll just go with stay night and see. Another question: The other type-moon series like Tsukihime and Kara no Kyoukai are in any way connected? Would be a good idea to check them out too first? Kara no Kyoukai movies are great and watching them will clear up a lot of things. Tsukihime adaptation is bad and, if you don't want to read the long VN then just read the the manga. |
| Just watch Fate/Zero and call it a day. Rest is crap in comparison to it. But if you still wanna continue, than do note that Fate/Zero is a prequel that fans prefer to watch after F/SN. Even tho I watched it first, there was no problem. |
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Oznerol7 said: Sinom said: While the anime was "produced after stay night but before UBW" the original source material wasn't. As already mentioned Fate/stay night is the first entry in the series (without counting Kara no Kyoukai and Tsukihime which most of Fate doesn't reference at all, but is technically part of the same multiverse so some aspects of the world first brought up in those are sometimes used in Fate stories), and was originally a visual novel. Fate Zero was then a prequel novel series written years after the release of Fate/Stay night by a completely different author, but heavily based on stuff revealed in the original Fate/stay night game, and all three of its routes. This is why people say it spoils things. Because it was written for people who already know the original Fate/Stay Night, and all three of it's routes. So release order is technically "Fate stay night, UBW and Heavens feel at the same time, Fate/Zero after that, basically everything else after that" Now to the main problem. Those three routes in the original Fate/Stay night could originally only be played in order, meaning later routes already expected you to know everything that happened in earlier routes, because you had to have played them, meaning if you played them out of order, you would be spoiled on some parts. Now you might ask "so where's the problem. Just watch the fate stay night anime, then the UBW anime, then the Heavensfeels films, then Zero". Well yeah, if there were a Fate/stay night anime, then that would be how you should watch it to watch it in chronological order. However, the "Fate/Stay night" anime doesn't actually adapt the "Fate/stay night" route of the original game, but instead tries to adapt all three routes at once, while still mainly following the original Fate stay night story line. This of course will lead to the anime spoiling reveals from the later two paths, which most people consider to be a lot better. This is why fate fans don't recommend people starting with the first anime. So now to the anime release order. After all of the fan backlash the original Fate anime adaptation received, but the fate series in it self still making boatloads of money, of course Type Moon (the studio behind the original Fate/Stay night game) wanted to try making a new anime, but seeing how big the original flopped, they tried it with a different studio, (one they already had a pretty good relationship with working on adaptations of Kara no kyoukai, another story in the greater Nasuverse) Studio Ufotable, and a more minor part of the series, the Prequel, fate Zero. After that was a huge success they let Ufotable adapt the second and third rputes of Fate stay night, and fans also loved those, but they never went back to readapt the first route. But since Ufotable adapted Zero first, and the stay night routes after, then now also snuck in small references to their own version of Fate Zero in UBW and HF which aren't necessary for the enjoyment of the series but still something you will miss out on if you haven't watched Zero before watching those. Additionally to the a rereleasw of the original VN got another really short ending to all of the routes at once called "realta nua", which also got an extremely short anime adaptation. That adaptation however is not available to view anywhere except for the Japan exclusive "Type Moon Museum", so yeah no chance you'll ever be able to see that. The original Visual Novel has since then also gotten a sequel Visual Novel, which hasn't received an adaptation until now. It is sometimes referenced in other Fate spin offs though, some of which have received anime adaptations. So now fans are at this weird spot where they don't really have a good starting point to recommend, so you get a million different opinions on which you should watch/read/whatever first, because most people don't want to recommend you read a 60h+ Visual Novel you can't legally buy outside of Japan that doesn't even have an official English translation. My personal recommendation is just start at any of the three, stay night, UBW or Zero. If you start with the stay night anime and don't like that, maybe drop it and give the UBW anime a shot, if you don't like that, pause it and give Zero a shot, and resume watching after you finished zero. If you also didn't like zero, then I don't think main line Fate is for you, and you probably won't find any enjoyment in it, so just watch something else. Oy vey silly my thinking i was starting to grasp this franchise kek yeah i think i'll just go with stay night and see. Another question: The other type-moon series like Tsukihime and Kara no Kyoukai are in any way connected? Would be a good idea to check them out too first? As I said, they are technically loosely connected and some aspects first introduced in them do get brought up in Zero meaning they do kind of come out of nowhere when watching it without knowing anything about the earlier Nasu VNs. But you really don't need to watch them, since they are only really small things. Especially since the Tsukihime anime adaptation was received so poorly, that most fans pretend it doesn't even exist, and the Kara no Kyoukai anime is 8 movies long, so kind of a pretty large commitment just to understand a really short reference in a prequel (and some of the spinoffs). So don't watch them just to watch Fate. The biggest problem with the spin-offs (which zero technically counts as) is that most of them aren't written by the original author, but instead by popular authors who also happen to be fans of the stuff Type Moon released, and Nasu made. This means they like to put in as much stuff as they can from all across his works, just like Fanfiction writers love scouring wikis for hours to find some obscure thing they can bring up. Two of the most popular authors that wrote or are currently writing Fate Spinoffs are Gen Urobuchi (Fate Zero, Madoka Magika, Psychopass etc.) and Ryōgo Narita (Fate/strange fake, Baccano!, DRRR, etc.) and there are many MANY more. |
Shirqkuno said: never watch in chronological order, always go by release order. So that would be the Fate/Stay Night VN, Fate/Hollow Ataraxia then Fate/ZeroI’ve always wanted to get into the fate series (considering the fan base seems to love it) but never knew the correct order since I always saw people saying about every order that it’ll spoil something. If there is no perfect order, I’ll settle for the minimum spoilers too. |
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