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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Jan 12, 2019

AnimeBW

Mixed Feelings

Ah, the Fate franchise. One of anime’s most respected, extensive, yet oddly superfluous multiverses. Admittedly, I’ve only seen Ufotable’s now iconic translation of the main storyline (Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works) in what has become a sprawling universe of near-infinite possibility, so I have certainly no right to comment on the overall quality of any of the many, many, many spin-offs. But I can’t help but wonder; how necessary, really, is all of this? The main plot of an urban fantasy wizard death game with magical, anime-ized takes on classic figures of myth and history is a spectacular idea, and the story both of Shiro ... Emiya and his father as they try to maintain their morals in the midst of a chaotic, swirling mass of conflict and death is simultaneously both a better Chirsopher Nolan philosophical potboiler and a better Zach Snyder mythic spectacle than either of those filmmakers have ever actually achieved. And the framework lends itself well to repetition, seeing what new familiar public-domain entities we can transform into magic-wielding badasses to duke it out in underlit streets and abandoned buildings. But Jesus, how fucking many of these things do we need? How many additions have there been to the lore and characters that just spread further and further outward like puke on the pavement until the excellent ideas and craft at the core are buried under infinite mounds of mediocrity and superfluity? Say what you want about the MCU, at least the vast majority of its properties are incredibly well-received by critics and audiences alike.

Well, perhaps I’ll change my tune on the subject if and when I finally start diving into the endless world of Fate spinoffs myself. Sadly, if Today’s Meal for the Emiya Family is any indication, I’m not sure how likely that possibility is.

I don’t want to be too harsh on Today’s Meal for the Emiya Family- or, as it will be henceforth known, Food/Stay Night- because there’s not really anything to hate here. It’s a light, inoffensive side thing that exists for a very specific purpose and not much else. Based on a spinoff manga, it takes place in a version of the main timeline where the combatants in the war for the Holy Grail have all settled down, stopped fighting, and pretty much just become slightly annoying neighbors to each other. And the show is a series of short, 12-minute vignettes focused on Shiro’s occasionally-mentiond-in-the-OG-text passion for cooking, as he cooks up a variety of meals across the year, inviting a rotating selection of the Stay Night cast to com eat with him.

So yeah, it’s essentially a cooking show featuring the Nasuverse mainstays, a food porn diversion that also doubles as Fate fanservice of seeing all your favorite characters just hang out without the stress of a war hanging over their heads, interacting in low-key stakes and bouncing their personalities off each other. That’s all it’s really here to do, so again, there’s not really any reason to get annoyed at it. I guess my indifference toward Food/Stay Night comes from just how bare bones it is. There really is nothing more to it than Barefoot Contessa with Shiro Emiya, nothing else of substance to hang onto or invest your attention in. The pacing is slow and aimless, with oddly long pauses in the middle of conversations and fairly milquetoast dialogue. The animation is nice and fluffy, refitting the harsh atmosphere and character designs of the show proper into a warmer slice-of-life atmosphere, but it's not unique enough to be a draw on its own. If you're not already super-invested in the lives of these characters, it has nothing to offer you.

And while the Fate universe does have a lot of really great characters, I find that their incarnations here feel unnecessarily bland. Everyone's just so nice and toothless and standard, and while I am a noted defender of nice and toothless storytelling, I find myself missing these character's more engaging edges. I miss Shiro's dorky intensity, Saber's stoic compassion, Sakura's slight lilt of pain, Caster's quiet despair, Ilya's creepy kid shtick. The only two characters who survive this sandblasting unscathed are Lancer, who's bro-y demeanor has always lent itself well to low-key comedy, and Rin Tohsaka, further convincing me that she's the best character in the whole damn franchise. Seriously, her spunk and take-charge attitude is an absolute delight, and the episodes where she takes the spotlight are easily the best episodes of the bunch.

Perhaps it does come down to preference here. By now, the Fate franchise has grown so far beyond the confines of its original interpretation that assigning it to just one role may be too limiting. And it would be foolish to dismiss any new endeavor just because it doesn't suit what *I* think of as Fate. But Food/Stay Night is just too inconsequential, albeit pleasant enough in the moment, to stake much of an opinion on either way. It's a wispy, harmless spinoff that fans will enjoy and no one else will get much out of.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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