~Story: Fate/zero starts off with a 45min long episode. The beginning has been quite boring for me but nevertheless it did a great job establishing the story of Fate/zero: introducing the various characters and briefly explaining the Holy Grail War concept. In episode 2, the Holy Grail War officially commences. This series is only the first part of the whole 25 episode series.This is not really a 'season', so don't expect a conclusion but be ready to be faced with a cliffhanger.
~Art: The art of Fate/zero is very game like. (I guess fate/zero did come from a game..or the artists just wanted to make it look 'modern'.) The animation is very smooth. I really enjoyed the action scenes where I think the art is totally stunning (Don't be mistaken, I am not saying it wasn't awesome at other times).
~Sound: The background music of Fate/zero has always been quite superb to me. It really helps create the right mood during the course of the story. At times when a scene's lighting is too dark, the music really stands out for me. The opening and ending songs were amazing as well. I have to commend on energy exuded in the opening sung by LiSA, it has made me look forward to this anime a lot more every week.
~Character: As I have mentioned before, this is only the first part of the whole Fate/zero series. Instead of having the actual climax, we have characters building towards the climax. The interaction between characters is very important and I think Fate/zero has executed this very well. Most of the time we will see the characters letting their fists do the talking (well, with the help for their weapons). Since this is an action anime, through the fights we can learn a lot about each characters. Fate/zero explores each character(well, most, seeing as this is the first part, some characters would inevitably be left in the unknown) really well, assigning sufficient time to each of them. At the start I had a small problem trying to distinguish the male leads. But this problem soon disappeared as the series continues because their personality became more distinctive. Each character's personality is actually pretty different from one another in the anime.
~Enjoyment: Fate/zero was generally quite enjoyable. I really like the art style of fate/zero, although there are times when I thought the lighting could be brightened up by a tiny bit. The characters are very well designed. I really like how every character is different.
Fate/zero is a anime for those who like fantasy and action. There is little comedy but don't worry there is still some! Fate/zero isn't really as dark as it appears to be(not to me anyway). I don't think you would need to watch Fate/stay night to watch this but doing so might give you a better understanding. I wouldn't recommend it (read my fate/stay review then you'll know why) and I think that Wikipedia does a better job at explaining than the actual fate/stay night anime.
