Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan

With the threat of the Holy Grail War no longer looming over Fuyuki City, its inhabitants can finally enjoy a time of peace. Now that all of the Masters and Servants have adjusted to their new mundane lives, Shirou has taken it upon himself to cook for his household and show Saber the wonders of modern cuisine. Every day, he ventures into the marketplace to see what kind of different meals he can cook up with unique ingredients and a limited budget. However, his legendary skills often attract uninvited guests from all over the city, so there is never a dull moment at dinner with the Emiya family.

As his guests entertain themselves in the living room, Shirou walks through the step-by-step process of creating some of his favorite meals. With delicacies such as his savory New Year soba with shrimp tempura, steamy foil-baked salmon, and cheesy bamboo shoot gratin, everything is up for grabs on his menu. Itadakimasu!

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Saber Main

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Emiya, Shirou Main

Sugiyama, Noriaki Japanese

Toosaka, Rin Supporting

Ueda, Kana Japanese

Emiya, Kiritsugu Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya Japanese

Archer Supporting

Suwabe, Junichi Japanese

von Einzbern, Illyasviel Supporting

Kadowaki, Mai Japanese

Matou, Sakura Supporting

Shitaya, Noriko Japanese

Lancer Supporting

Canna, Nobutoshi Japanese

Rider Supporting

Asakawa, Yuu Japanese

Caster Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko Japanese

Kondou, Hikaru Producer, Sound Director, Planning

Kurosaki, Shizuka Producer

Miura, Takahiro Director

Satou, Tetsuto Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, 2nd Key Animation, Animation Director

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Jan 1, 2019

Karhu

Recommended

I am the Apetite of my Diet
White Rice is my Body and Soy Sauce is my Blood.
I have eaten over a Thousand Dishes,
Unknown to Fast Food,
Nor known to Gourmet.
Have withstood Hunger to enter many Buffets
Yet those Hands will never Cook Anything
So, as I Pray--
Unlimited Seconds Please

I am not the biggest fate/nasuverse/type-moon fan, but there is something that I absolutely adore: the characters. And I adore them to a point that I have actually seen Carnival Phantasm 4 times (so far). That scene where Berserker turns into a car and Illya says "Berser-car" is among the most adorable pieces of art created by man. I ... get a coronary every single time. Naturally, when I heard Fate would be getting another show that has nothing to do with the main plot line, I was beyond thrilled, and now that I have seen it offer a scene where Illya wishes Berserker Merry Christmas after giving him a self-baked Christmas cookie that looks like him, I can only say that I will, most likely, never in my life giggle like this again. Perfection.

The first half of this show is a bit problematic. Let me describe it with a meme: "You either go all the way or you go home. I am not dealing with this." And I am not. This isn't proper fanservice, this is just fanservice undertones, and the real content (cooking, other food related thingies, sol nonsense and... just being there) isn't strong enough. But then the show starts going for better and pleases all my needs for cute, comfy and fluffy things. The series becomes incredibly funny and adorable after the 6th episode. The remaining episodes all are rather different from each others and they all have something unique to offer. For example, the beginning of episode 7 shows us a beach volleyball game that is... a bit overboard. Episode 09 contains one of the best background animation sequences where Saber is trying to refrain from eating her food. The way she shakes among the facial expression burned in my soul. The 12th is incredibly comforting, almost soothing to watch with its atmosphere and level of cute. It's almost hard to believe how enjoyable the show end up being after its weaker start.

The art and overall production is quite lacklustery. Especially the animation can be surprisingly mediocre, but it's not a big problem in a series of this sort. The music on the other hand can be real weird at times. Strange OST choices, the Op and Ed songs are quite awful to a point that they stand out. Some better decisions from the BGM department could have been done for certain.

I still easily prefer Carnival Phantasm over this series, but I highly recommend it for those who like the cast and warm, wholesome thingies. Seeing type-moon characters act like clowns truly offers something that no other cast seems to have because even when the series is this comedic the character traits remain and their behavior never quite feels out of character.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Apr 16, 2020

810Teams

Recommended

“Refill please!” - Saber

🥇 9/10
Take a break from the Holy Grail War and let’s relax in such a heartwarming cooking show, Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family. This show is bringing characters you love from Fate/Stay Night, then portray them in a totally new aspect. If watching Fate/Stay Night is like having a main dish, then this show would be a dessert.

🎬 Story - 7/10
Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is a show about cooking. While the story itself contains nothing extraordinary, it is rather focused on characters and filled with many heartwarming moments.

🎨 Animation - 8/10
Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family came with an ... above-standard animation quality, having a watercolor art style, unlike the usual ufotable Fate’s one. The art style gives off a very relaxing vibe, building up the overall relaxing mood and tone of the anime. The art style itself is not very common, making it unique. By having this art style, characters are also giving off a totally different feeling, becoming friendlier and cuter. Most importantly, it is very eye-friendly and easy to watch.

🔈 Sound - 8/10
Everything here in Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is relaxing. Theme songs are good, suiting the mood and tone of the anime. Soundtracks are surprisingly good, calm and relaxing.

🕶 Characters - 9/10
Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is having the characters you love from Fate/Stay Night in a friendly and cute mode, allowing audiences to see them in another aspect. You will get to see Saber’s sweetest and cutest side, ever.

🎉 Enjoyment - 9/10
As a Fate fan, Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family totally enjoyed me. The mood and tone is perfect, everything fits together. Having such nice animation and relaxing sounds with characters I love could not enjoy me more!

📌 Recommendations
Since Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family is a show that relies on its main show, not an independent anime, characters introductions are not included, Fate/Stay Night or Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works completion is highly recommended before watching this show. Lastly, if you love Fate/Stay Night characters, I am pretty sure you will love this anime. Enjoy!

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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Mar 31, 2019

Timz0r

Mixed Feelings

What kind of nutjob you have to be if you start the Fate series by not reading the eroge visual novel because you know you have to commit about 100 hours into it for the full story and it never really officially appeared in the west iether, plus it contains very lewd things in it or watching the 2006 anime series Fate/Stay Night by studio that contains very comedic fan-sub quotes like "People die when they are killed." and jump straith trough 'Today's Menu for the Emiya Family' or let's call it "Fate/Flavor"? In a way, it makes sense. You see, in the Fate/Stay Night ... VN had its moments where it went into great detail on meals prepared by Shiro and others during less dramatic moments that anime adaptations cut out so you atleast had that out of the way and since you have met the charathers first in a peacefull matter. The only thing that's different is that this anime is set in modern day Japan somehow. Trust me, I did my homework before I started to write this review while being this is the very first Fate-related anime I've watched. Guess the food porn gets its day in the sun with this series.

Story: 5/10 (Average)
Since this is considered a slice of life-show of only 12 minutes long each episode, so it's kinda the point there's not much story to begin with. Even though this show doesn't actually make a whole lot of sense continuity-wise, it gives us what we all secretly wanted - to see everyone getting along, alive and happy. And apparently, eating good food, too, I guess. This is pretty much what this anime all about and I kinda enjoyed it. I must admit however I probably missed a lot of references and jokes in the anime that I didn't get just because this is my very first Fate-anime I've seen. But incase you have seen more Fate anime, I'm sure you would get the references.

Art-style: 6/10 (Fine)
For being an ONA and a spin-off anime, you must consider the fact there's not much budget to work with compaired with a fully TV series, so I guess the animations is done very fine indeed. The food and the charathers are done ok enough art-style wise in my opinion, so that's atleast positieve. Even though an episode only takes like 12 minutes, the cute animations didn't bored me at all. There's not really much I can bash this anime regarding animation-wise, so I'll keep it at that.

Sound: 7/10 (Good)
The voice acting is done good and I loved the added background music. The opening song is cheerful and welcomes you very well. It really did fired up the anime quite a bit and I really enjoyed that.

Charathers: 6/10 (Fine)
Saber (Fate/stay night) is here! For me she's a really quiet girl and very chill gall to hang around with. Shirou Emiya in also here. I know he's the one that delivered the famous fandubbed line "People die when they are killed." Then we have our beloved Rin is with her very nice and easy outfit to put together for a late cosplay convention you want to attent afterall and very populair because of her thighs. Even the cute Illia makes her appearance in this show. No, you're not allowed to post pictures of her on Reddit and Tumbler somehow by unexplained reasons. Many other were also present if you're wondering. It was quite fun and wholesome to see all these charathers that are from a violent eroge visual novel interact with each other. These kind of interactions in between I really do crave myself somehow.

Enjoyment: 5/10 (Average)
I liked this show in some excent mainly because of the mundane nature. It's just a shame I'm not that familair with the characters. Otherwise I would probably enjoy this show more. It has it's wholesome moments for sure and it's lovely seeing the characters interact like friends & family with each other. It's just a shame I'm not familair with the whole Fate franshise, so I don't know the real relationships between the charathers that are going on, so I really can't make a comment about that.

Overall: 5/10 (Average)
So, would I recommend Emiya-san Chi no Kyou no Gohan aka Fate/Flavor? Atleast I've gotten some idea's I could try out to improve my very own weeb cooking skills if I ever feel fancy, but that's it. Can you get into the Fate series by watching this? That all depends on yourself to be honest. People (want to) eat when they are hungry. Itadakimasu!

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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