| I recommend watching all three routes of fate/stay night or reading the VN and then moving to zero because they came out first. |
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| If you don't want to read the VN For watching FSN (I personally haven't seen the anime versions but I think this edit works) https://www.reddit.com/r/fatestaynight/comments/9ck38d/my_fan_edit_of_deens_fate_stay_night/ (first route) then watch Unlimited Blade Works then watch Heaven's Feel then watch Fate/Zero (which I also haven't seen) This is release order and afaik F/Zero spoils events of the routes as well as the 2006 Deen version. You can, as a lot of others say, start with Fate/Zero, but personally I'd save it for last, since it is a prequel with the mindset for people who are familiar with the characters, such as Yakuza Kiwami or Monsters' University, but if it works for others to start with Fate/Zero, it works. |
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gintokisbicep said: Theo1899 said: I recommend watching all three routes of fate/stay night or reading the VN and then moving to zero because they came out first. reading all three routes of fate..... bruh who has the time It's worth the time investment even for people who have seen the anime. It made me appreciate the franchise a lot more. |
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gintokisbicep said: Theo1899 said: It's worth the time investment even for people who have seen the anime. It made me appreciate the franchise a lot more. but finding it? and downloading and playing through all of it? your storage must be fucking infinite The version with the voice acting is 6.72 gigabytes and the english language patch is 31.4 megabytes. It isn't that large and I suspect the original version without the voice acting is half the size since the voice files are around 1 gigabyte for each route. |
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Sherlock184 said: Yeah, ikr. Who even has the time to spend 6 days 10 hours 56 minutes 48 seconds to play all Fate route and collect every Tiger dojo stamp. What an idiotic act would that be smh wait, you don't have to. he only made a recommendation based on his own experience. why that would be an idiotic act to play it ? -_- |
Shunsheng said: Also Fate/Zero is probably the best introduction into the series anyways. First episode literally scares away all normies with its exposition recap that assumes that you already understand everything. Also it's impossible to understand the whole plot of Zero without FSN. |
gintokisbicep said: Sherlock184 said: Yeah, ikr. Who even has the time to spend 6 days 10 hours 56 minutes 48 seconds to play all Fate route and collect every Tiger dojo stamp. What an idiotic act would that be smh i applaud you man. praying you did it in quarantine and didnt miss out life doing that. i also applaud your computer storage and mental patience. Lmao you're a dick. |
| When it comes to anime adaptations I will always recomend watching Zero before Stay Night. Not knowing how it will end and who will win makes it a much better experience. |
| Watching UBW and HF before Zero imo is the best option. Zero was created knowing that people were already familiar with Fate. Btw watching Zero first isn't the end of the world, but still it is not recommended |
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| Ho boy, here we go again. This is my perspective view as an anime viewer: just watch fate zero, after that go for UBW or heaven feel. It does not matter that much though. |
| Fate/Zero was released in 2011 dude... |
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| I recommend doing the order 1. Deen FS/N 2. Fate Zero 3. Fate UBW 4. Fate Heavens Feel VNs are also great |
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| just put all of them on a spinning wheel and watch whatever it lands on |
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| The answer to your question is No. |
| I would highly recommend you check out this guide as it has all the Fate entries here on MAL: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1866055 |
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OmankoMan said: I understand this mindset but if someone is going to peep the Fate route in the VN, they may as well read the whole VN since no anime adaptation is equal to it. The way I see it, its not a necessity to watch Zero last. Only if you want to keep the mystery aspect. People are making watch orders too strict and scaring newcomers away.I know this is pretty late but it hopefully helps someone. DO NOT start with zero. People who just say "just start with zero" are kinda ruining the experience for beginners cause zero hits way harder when you know how it's going to end. Read fate route VN which is the first route and has majority of the world building. (About the same length as 40 episodes of anime) Watch unlimited bladeworks. Watch the heaven's feel trilogy. If the 3rd movie is not readily available you can watch zero after the second movie too as most of the parts in heaven's feel that zero spoils would already be covered by the second movie. Then watch zero. First route is meh, but the world building is phenomenal. Second route is also meh, but the character building is phenomenal. 3rd route and zero are peak fiction. |
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gintokisbicep said: Theo1899 said: I recommend watching all three routes of fate/stay night or reading the VN and then moving to zero because they came out first. reading all three routes of fate..... bruh who has the time people who like vns? stupid roastie lel |
gintokisbicep said: Theo1899 said: I recommend watching all three routes of fate/stay night or reading the VN and then moving to zero because they came out first. reading all three routes of fate..... bruh who has the time watching all of gintama... bruh who has the time |
OmankoMan said: Did you just compare watching a fast paced episodic anime to reading over a million words of text? Time investment is time investment not sure what you're arguing here. Also since when is Gintama fast paced lol. |
OmankoMan said: Dieshouri said: Time investment is time investment not sure what you're arguing here. Also since when is Gintama fast paced lol. Gintama is mostly episodic for over 100 episodes and then you're already invested. Besides, the series had ended apart from the movie that's coming, so you can easily watch it at your own pace. Heaven's feel movies are at their peak of popularity rn, so it's quite obvious to get to it as fast as possible. Reading for 130 hours is a lot different than watching a couple of episodes every day when you have free time. Some of us have lives. Yeah you seem to be confused. You can pick up or put down a VN whenever you want. There is no difference in the amount of time spent lol. |
OmankoMan said: Dieshouri said: Time investment is time investment not sure what you're arguing here. Also since when is Gintama fast paced lol. Gintama is mostly episodic for over 100 episodes and then you're already invested. Besides, the series had ended apart from the movie that's coming, so you can easily watch it at your own pace. Heaven's feel movies are at their peak of popularity rn, so it's quite obvious to get to it as fast as possible. Reading for 130 hours is a lot different than watching a couple of episodes every day when you have free time. Some of us have lives. I played the vn 3 times in my life lol (I can read Japanese and also got the Psvita version on the go) Now I feel offended! (nah just joking xD) You can read on you're own pace.. I don't think it's pretty different if you compare it to watch anime (just read one chapter a day for example). There are also shows like Naruto or one piece with alot of episodes.. You need a long time to watch through the whole series as well (or read the manga). But to be fair: not everyone like visual novels as a genre.. Alternatively you can also watch some "summary videos" on YouTube or read the type-moon wiki if you have questions. It's definitely not the same experience like the vn (so I highly recommend it) .. But welp...it's up to you man. |
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| UBW -> Zero -> Heaven's Feel. You can go UBW -> Heaven's Feel -> Zero, but that would make Zero's animation a bit lackluster compared to movie (don't get me wrong, Zero's animation is top tier, it's just movie's budget is out of this world). Before watching all these, you can watch Deen's FSN, but it sucks. If you've already watched anything by ufotable, it will only pain you to watch anything by Studio Deen. If you're interested in Saber's route, just read the summary or go play the VN (which I didn't do and would never do probably). |
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| No, but you do need to read the Bible. |
| Yes. You're supposed to check Fate/Zero after all 3 routes of F/SN. It's the intended watch order by the creators , Fate/Zero spoils plotwist from the routes in F/SN , especially HF |
| This is a bit of a hard question to answer. No, You don't have to watch Heaven's Feel before Fate/Zero. Fate/Zero is an amazing stand-alone show with a concluded story. When you finished the show, you can just leave the franchise and never look back. HOWEVER, I highly recommend that you do watch Heaven's Feel before Fate/Zero. Fate/Zero was created with the intention that you know everything about Fate/Stay Night already so it will spoil the twists in Heaven's Feel. Since it's a prequel, it's expected that people who watch Fate/Zero will know the ending already. Thus, there are a lot of references to the Fate/Stay Night that you might scrub off accidentally and add up more details that add to unnecessary levels of confusion to Fate/Zero. From this post, I assumed that you haven't started the Fate series yet. If you never started Fate, I would recommend you to: Start with Unlimited Blade Works Prologue and Unlimited Blade Works (TV Series) for world-building, continue with Heaven's Feel 1 & 2 to get all those twists out of the way, watch Fate/Zero to provide context to everything and clear up the confusion you may have in Fate/Stay Night, then Heaven's Feel 3 for the finale to the saga. That's how I experience it and it's a "Yes" for me. Either way, what's important is that you watch them. Now, your brain might explode trying to make sense out of this dumpster fire. Just don't think too much about watch order. Sometimes you just have to feel something instead of understanding it. |
yomsiApr 3, 2021 4:57 AM
mavericko said: yomsi said: This is a bit of a hard question to answer. No, You don't have to watch Heaven's Feel before Fate/Zero. Fate/Zero is an amazing stand-alone show with a concluded story. When you finished the show, you can just leave the franchise and never look back. HOWEVER, I highly recommend that you do watch Heaven's Feel before Fate/Zero. Fate/Zero was created with the intention that you know everything about Fate/Stay Night already so it will spoil the twists in Heaven's Feel. Since it's a prequel, it's expected that people who watch Fate/Zero will know the ending already. Thus, there are a lot of references to the Fate/Stay Night that you might scrub off accidentally and add up more details that add to unnecessary levels of confusion to Fate/Zero. From this post, I assumed that you haven't started the Fate series yet. If you never started Fate, I would recommend you to: Start with Unlimited Blade Works Prologue and Unlimited Blade Works (TV Series) for world-building, continue with Heaven's Feel 1 & 2 to get all those twists out of the way, watch Fate/Zero to provide context to everything and clear up the confusion you may have in Fate/Stay Night, then Heaven's Feel 3 for the finale to the saga. That's how I experience it and it's a "Yes" for me. Either way, what's important is that you watch them. Now, your brain might explode trying to make sense out of this dumpster fire. Just don't think too much about watch order. Sometimes you just have to feel something instead of understanding it. Why heavens feel 3 the last one i need to watch? isnt it a continuation of heavens feel 2? The number kinda implies it doesnt it? But no, now that the 3rd movie is out you dont have to watched Zero between the 2d and the 3rd. Watch all of HF and then Zero. |
ssjokgApr 3, 2021 12:50 PM
ssjokg said: mavericko said: Why heavens feel 3 the last one i need to watch? isnt it a continuation of heavens feel 2? The number kinda implies it doesnt it? But no, now that the 3rd movie is out you dont have to watched Zero between the 2d and the 3rd. Watch all of HF and then Zero. It is a continuation of the Heaven's Feel movies. There is nothing wrong with watch 3 next. Yes, you don't have to watch Zero between the 2nd and 3rd movie. However, I just believe that watching Fate/Zero after Heaven's Feel 2 just fills in the blanks in terms of dialogue references, and character actions, when you watch Heaven's Feel 3, making it more impactful and less confusing. Additionally, every major spoiler has been revealed at that point. After Heaven's Feel 2, Fate/Zero would be perfect to wrap your head around everything. There would be a recap for the first 2 Heaven's Feel movies in Spring Song either way so there is no harm to watch Fate/Zero straight after Lost Butterfly. It's just my opinion. You don't really have to follow what I said. Again, there isn't a correct way to watch the Fate series tbh. It's mostly opinions for the watch order. |
yomsi said: ssjokg said: The number kinda implies it doesnt it? But no, now that the 3rd movie is out you dont have to watched Zero between the 2d and the 3rd. Watch all of HF and then Zero. It is a continuation of the Heaven's Feel movies. There is nothing wrong with watch 3 next. Yes, you don't have to watch Zero between the 2nd and 3rd movie. However, I just believe that watching Fate/Zero after Heaven's Feel 2 just fills in the blanks in terms of dialogue references, and character actions, when you watch Heaven's Feel 3, making it more impactful and less confusing. Additionally, every major spoiler has been revealed at that point. After Heaven's Feel 2, Fate/Zero would be perfect to wrap your head around everything. There would be a recap for the first 2 Heaven's Feel movies in Spring Song either way so there is no harm to watch Fate/Zero straight after Lost Butterfly. It's just my opinion. You don't really have to follow what I said. Again, there isn't a correct way to watch the Fate series tbh. It's mostly opinions for the watch order. Well, the correct order as Nasu and Urobuchi said, it's F/SN and then F/Z. |
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mavericko said: Ive read somewhere online that u should not watch fate/zero first coz it will spoil fate heavens feel. So i wanna get into fate series. Should I wait until all fate heavens feel adapted before watching fate/zero and the rest of fate series? Watch fate stay night (2006) first as it is a good introduction to the franchise even though it's not that good. Then u can watch fate stay night unlimited blade works (not the movie) after that u can watch fate stay night heavens feel and fate zero in any order u like. There should be an adaptation of fate hollow ataraxia (the sequel to the fate stay night series) soon as the fate stay night series has ended |
mavericko said: Ive read somewhere online that u should not watch fate/zero first coz it will spoil fate heavens feel. So i wanna get into fate series. Should I wait until all fate heavens feel adapted before watching fate/zero and the rest of fate series? watching anything spoils something it doesn't matter where you start Fate Unlimited Blade Works and Fate Heavens Feel are both just different alternative routes I'd personally watch zero first because it sets up the universe and elements properly in the first season in a pretty entertaining manner |
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| Yes you need to watch this before fate zero. Fate zero spoils HF route. |
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