Fate/Grand Order: Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot 1 - Wandering; Agateram

The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey.

The year is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem.

The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert, the people have been forced out of their homes, and three major powers wage war with each other in this wasteland. The Knights of the Round Table come together to protect the Holy City and their Lion King. With the whole of his kingdom summoned into a strange land, Ozymandias, the Sun-King, quietly plots against the tyranny of this bizarre realm.

The mountain people, protectors of those who were stripped of their land, await their chance at rebellion. In order to fulfill his mission, Bedivere heads for the Holy City where the Lion King rules. There he meets humanity’s final Master, Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has come to Jerusalem, accompanied by his Demi-Servant, Mash Kyrielight, in their quest to restore human history.

Bedivere joins with Fujimaru and his companions to undertake this quest.

(Source: Official Website)

Kyrielight, Mash Main

Takahashi, Rie Japanese

Bedivere Main

Miyano, Mamoru Japanese

Fujimaru, Ritsuka Main

Shimazaki, Nobunaga Japanese

Saber Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Aka no Saber Supporting

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Archaman, Romani Supporting

Suzumura, Kenichi Japanese

The Lion King Supporting

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Ozymandias Supporting

Koyasu, Takehito Japanese

Nitocris Supporting

Tanaka, Minami Japanese

da Vinci, Leonardo Supporting

Sakamoto, Maaya Japanese

Kuroki, Rui Producer

Chino, Takatoshi Producer

Kurosaki, Shizuka Producer

Toda, Takeshi Assistant Producer

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May 12, 2021

SigmaXVII

Recommended

~~ Intro

So, just to begin, I’m a massive fan of Fate. I’ve read/experienced the larger part of the source material, and Camelot in particular is one of my favorite chapters in FGO (beaten out by Salem, and neck-and-neck with Anastasia), so for one, I have a history with the series, and two, I’ll probably be drawing comparisons to other Fate adaptations throughout this review (most specifically the FGO ones).

To start, just to inform anyone, it cut two characters – Tawara Touta, a friendly Archer Class servant who tags along as “Caster’s” disciple, a decision that will have severe plot ramifications for the next movie in ... particular, and Hassan of the Hundred Personas, best known for her involvement in another Fate work. Normally in this chapter, she actually would get some characterization (unlike in that other work).

~~ Story:

If we’re going off of pure story coverage, while I’m not sure if it’s comprehensive enough for someone who doesn’t know the source material, as someone who does, I think it does a decent job with at the very least scratching that itch. It’s kinda cool to see some of these characters that have either never been animated before, or seeing them in something else by a different studio or in a different form. That being said, the pacing of this movie is exceedingly fast. I wouldn’t say the movie itself feels rushed, but with the team only having an hour and a half of time to fill, for one of FGO’s longer chapters no less, it feels less like an adaptation, and more like a highlight reel/reinterpretation. Part of this is caused by the two lacking characters of course, but it also doesn’t start at the BEGINNING of the story. It starts close to it, but it’s more in the middle. You don’t get to see the mission set up, you only really get a taste of the original’s opening monologue, etc. etc. It expects you to know what you’re getting into. It also doesn’t really try to introduce you to the characters, which leads me to say that this isn’t really done with the uninitiated in mind – this is intended for people who are already experienced with the story in FGO. I can’t… 100% say that’s a complete issue, seeing as FGO is a mobile game that is free to play and anyone that has the capability of watching this movie probably also has the capability of playing the game, but it is still a bit of an issue.

When stacked up against the Babylonia anime adaptation though… the quality of this adaptation starts to sour more in my eyes. For the most part, that series is full of fantastic action, and is relatively faithful, but here, Camelot feels like it barely hangs on. With the exception of really one character, the true main one of this movie, no one else really gets development. They speak, and you can gauge their general personality, but the movie only has so much time, so it needs to focus on the poster boy – Bedivere. He is a great character, both here and especially in FGO, but everyone else just kind of exists. Some have their moments, one moment in particular is definitely the highlight of the movie – if you’ve read Camelot, you can probably take a good guess as to which one I’m referring to – but past that, this is mostly the Bedivere show. At the very least, whenever he’s on screen, generally it’s for emotional moments, the decent action, or furthering the plot. When you see him, you can assume something interesting is going to happen - which does happen a lot. I wouldn't say it's boring - hard to be with the speed of a freight train - but it causes me to wish this was an anime, not a movie.

~~ Action:

On that note – the action. This isn’t Ufotable, A-1, or Cloverworks. Generally, the movie is more focused on dialogue or emotional scenes (which only really hit hard when you know the source material), but there is some action. A lot of the fight scenes are pretty short, and I feel they ranged from hard to follow to just not that interesting. Not necessarily a bad thing, as I can get down with some of these scenes, but it’s far from something I really cared about here.

~~ Soundtrack

As a minor aside, the soundtrack was alright. When it made these really nice sounding orchestral renditions of FGO tracks, or the main theme of the movie, it's some good stuff, but it generally goes for this grandiose orchestra feel - I do think some of the tracks kinda melt together.

~~ Conclusion

Oh man do I wish this was an anime and not a movie... not just for the missing characters, but for all the things skipped, missed, or just plain out wiped out of existence. Maybe my disappointment is largely caused by this being one of my favorite chapters in FGO, but despite that, I don't think it's bad - just decent. In some eyes, maybe that would be even worse than being laughably bad.

Camelot was the story chapter that signified the turning point of FGO's story quality, and what brought to what the game is specifically known for today - its fantastic story. The team did what they could with the time they had, but it's a shame that it's nothing more than something that can only offer me, a Fate fan and more specifically a fan of the Camelot chapter, mild enjoyment.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Mar 1, 2022

Godslayer27

Mixed Feelings

Well gonna summarize the feelings, thoughts and overall experience that i had after watched this movie, and this goes without actually know the original material in which its adapted (like i always do i only watch the animated adaptations), so this its coming from the prespective of someone who doesnt knows how far this adaptations its faithful to the original source material.

Even then the series could or not being completly truthful to the original (which i dont know) , that its not excuse to actually have an decent animated series with good characters and story overall. and there are more than enought examples of ... this in another series.

In this case i dont gonna to separate the good and bad things that under my opinion were of this movie just because its gonna be really an really short explanation of it.

Now one of the firts problems with not being the case only of this movie but in general of anime movies its that duration itselft its too short to actually give us an compelling and well narrated story, this format on most of the cases that i can think (with some exceptions) are one of the main problems of poor adaptations and really rushed and fast paced development with many plot holes in it and ending with characters that we cannot symphatize or even undertand the intentions or ambitoins of them because of how bad are portrayed. Even knowing that this its one of the two part of the movies that conform this story , the total of both of them combined its just 3 hours which in most of the cases its not enought deliver and decent and emotive story well narrated, this should have been released (like most of the movies adaptation that i watched ) in an format of tv series, so in that way they could have more time to actually expand on the characters and their ambitions as well as the story, because this actually its standout from the begginig with how actually unfold the events and the actions of the characters like with bedivere in a way really erratic and hurried.
The animation look really good and the scenaries are beautiful, the settings are freaking awesome and have an good ost with one or two track that to me at least were exceling from the rest, really well despicted the backgrounds overall.
The problem here is there are two or three events in the movie as we move forward were our protagonist with bedivere face the knights of the round table and these moments felt really rushed and take us out of context with dont even showing us all the battle as well as actually taking us from a second to another to another setting or objective without actually being closing the previous one that was taking place just a couple of second before, there is this kind of lack of conexion and cohesion with the differents events and also an really dissapointing waste of many characters that would be insteresting to deeph in that were dischardged too fast just for the sake to actually fit in those hour an half of the movie.
Leaving maybe the protagonist and the girl (which to me at least dont seem nothign outstading and are just the cclasic architype that we haves seen many times) there were many interesting characters that with how actually begings the movie it get us excited us wanting to know more about them, bedivere,gawaiin,ozymandias,etc but the movie didn make justice to what could end up being really good and interesting characters.
It had one or two moments that were pretty good but this format its not good to adapt this kind of stories, it bassicly impossible to fit everything in just mere hour an half, it did make some things good from my perspective in how realated some past of bedivere for example or how actually started, or how well depicted the settings were, but many things wasted.


RESUME

The movie follows an structure a little to convenient for the sake of being an movie which actually its gonna make us in early stages of the movie realize that were many things bad executed or wasted , i mean not everything was bad, but i keep insisting that if this could turned up being an series could be in the level of something really close to fate/zero and possibly at the same lv of fate unlimited blade works. If you can forget many of the things that sins and enjoy the overall the few things that had its could reccomend it to you, this its just my review for the part 1 , for what i could see the second part looks more promising so althought this might not be really good, you could give this one the go pass so it might redeem in the second part possibly giving us an decent ending.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Apr 10, 2023

Tablekun

Not Recommended

I came into this after watching Babylonia, so I may be underwhelmed, and I also have not watched part 2 yet. This movie was rather boring, and hard to get through at 3am. That is probably a combination of me being tired and this movie just being bland. Unfortunately, my expectations were high considering this singularity involved the ethos of King Arthur, but this first half of this story just didn't do it justice. We do get to meet some okay characters, and we do have a story here, but it all just isn't on par with Babylonia. I'm getting ... the feeling that after part 2, i might feel that these 2 movies are irrelevant, much like First Order. We'll see, but in general, just a meh feeling after watching this.

Animation 7/10
- Better than First Order, worse than Babylonia, not as flashy as I was expecting.
Sound 7/10
- SE are not as bad as First Order, they are pretty decent overall. Everything else is standard voice acting n such for Fate Grand Order.
Story 5/10
- The story is half done, so can't really give it high scores if its half-baked. It's okay, but it's boring imo.
Characters 5/10
- For me, the characters were bland, boring, not typical of the Fate I've seen before. The servants are not interesting whatsoever. Seeing Da Vinci was okay.
Enjoyment 6/10
- I couldn't wait to go to bed while watching it. It's just very average.

I get the feeling that this, much like First Order, is simply not needed. Watch Babylonia for sure. I can't recommend this to anyone but completionists.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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