Has Ufotable lost it?

Frozenkex said:




Yeah, she is pretty interesting unless you simply hating on characters because they are in highschool.



The only thing you can say about it is that some main characters are young (17) , i wouldnt call it even high school setting. There only 2 events that happen at the school, everything else is elsewhere. In 2nd season there is no school at all.



He has the same power that Kiritsugu had in the end, that keeps him alive. For someone who liked Zero you seem to not have paid much attention to either story.



What waifus? Saber is motherly character in UBW and guardian to both Shirou and Rin, so there is only Rin.



Not pretending anything. It is unique.



Haven't you realized yet that those characters are from FSN and not the other way around?

Different characters have less focus depending on the route they are in. This should be obvious, given how little coverage Rider had, you don't even know what her noble phantasm is. Kirei, Rider, and Illya has more stuff in Fate route and Heaven's feel route.

FullyErect said:
Shirou has been training his magic every night for like 8 years since Kiritsugu taught him magic. It just took a little push from Rin or Archer to make it all come out.

Omni_slash95 said:


Does that qualify him to fight with Archer or freaking Gilgamesh? He trained on his own (no professional training) & had some bs projection magic going on thats it.

Kiritsugu trained since he was a kid with Natalia and went on dangerous missions (not just chilling at his house & cooking). And he still just fought against other "normal" humans/Mages not against servants.

FullyErect said:

No since Archer was kicking his ass for pretty much the entire fight. By the end, Shirou had pretty much absorbed Archer's experience and his inherent incompatability with Archer spurred him on to show Archer why his ideal wasn't wrong. Archer could have easily cut him down but no longer had a reason to do so.
Projection magic didn't work against Gilgamesh. It was UBW that did and GoB fares poorly against UBW anyways. If he was fighting any other servant Shirou would still be killed.
Like I said, Shirou had been spending every night of several years training and bringing himself to near-death in the process; doing housework has nothing to do with it. Shirou even thought that performing magic was supposed to risk one's life every time.

Omni_slash95 said:
Just hard to buy thats all, I would say the same if Kiritsugu suddenly fought Gilgamesh in F/Z and somehow prevailed with some "special" ability.

MediocreHero said:
Even though I dropped it, it didn't think God Eater was that bad. Also video game adaptions aren't always bad. I thought Shingeki no Bahamut: Genesis was good.

Vuk_Spasic said:


Shingeki no Bahamit was new kind of bad(in my opinion)

Luthandorius said:
Watched episode 00 which was great. Episode 1-2 were boring. 3 in human world a bit better. Score after 1-2 was 6/10 for me. After 3 it is 6-7/10.

I'll decide after episode 4. Hoping the other humans soon will be able to see Seraphs or at least Alisha. Otherwise this might be boring. Also politics (with those noble guy and church guy and possible war they mentioned) could be more important/intersting and not only adventuring and fighting monsters.

I think such slow and less intersting plot is probably more suited for a game where you also have interaction and gameplay that keeps interesting.

Imo the 7.9 score on MAL extremely high - probably boost because of game fans and people that value animation higher (cause animation and action seems good).

Since I have already Endride and Alderamin on my list which I'm going to watch until end this one has to get still a bit better in episode 4 for me to not drop it. (2 other fantasy would usually alreay be enough and they have more plot and better/interesting chars especially Alderamin.)

bastek66 said:

Of course there is no point complaining about them it when it comes to plot because all scriptwriters and directors they worked for their recent productions were freelancers.

lawlmartz said:


I'm not sure which universe you're from where god eater wasn't universally reviled, but yeah. And no, an anime's job is not purely to successfully solicit consumers to purchase products, but to entertain.

Nayrael said:


At time when FSN was released, Visual Novels could barely sell without sex scenes. If you wanted to make a VN, you needed to have them, otherwise the risk of failure grows rapidly. Typemoon, which was a new company at the time, was not about to take the risk. Nowadays, they cut out the sex scenes from new releases.
Not to mention that FSN's success as a story was one of main reasons why non-eroge VN's became a thing.

With that all said, having sex scenes does not make something a porno game, unless you are a Mormon or some other fanatical Christian/Muslim who thinks that having a little sex in a story makes you porn.



To be perfectly honest, most of these are Visual Novels which are only technically games. They are more like novels.
Regular video games are less often successful (and VN's themselves fail more often than not).

Also, some like Gungrave sucked when they reached the parts from the game and shone when they weer in original material.

lawlmartz said:
Did ufotable not learn their lesson with God Eater?
Video game adaptations are never a good idea.
What is ufotable's problem?
Does anyone actually want this

(Yes, I do recognize that these decisions are made entirely by men in suits, not consumer demand or lack thereof)

GokuNazz said:
They've set a standard for CGI + Anime. Heck, even without the CGI the drawings itself are simply gorgeous.

Hopefully, moving forward we'll get to see more of this kind of shows or adaptation.

Shinji said:
Idea Factory made great anime though.

AssumingControl said:


Well you didn't explain how she had depth so I didn't do it either. I mean what did she offer? Just being an indecisive brat who says multiple times she will "kill" Shirou, then as expected it doesn't happen and we get some cringey romance where she keeps blushing.. The route barely focused on her character in any meaningful way, it was more about Archer & Shirou.

She tried too hard to be badass and at the end kept coming back to Shirou anyway, nothing interesting about her.


Of course not exactly like F/SN but just look through the last few years and you will see that there have been plenty of highschool (a setting I'm sick of at this point) anime where the MC gets dragged into some magical conflict and even though he isn't exactly experienced he has some random power that keeps him alive, there are a few waifu's for him etc.

Are you honestly going to pretend that the concept of F/SN is somehow unique in anime?
Especially compared to F/Z? C'mon

Because of the lackluster uninteresting characters, the lack of battle royale atmosphere (I call it the kiddie version of F/Z), dumbing down characters from F/Z etc. it was just not a very good anime for me.

Not going to change my opinion on that, if you enjoyed it good for you.

I'll watch HF and maybe that one is better and actually answers some questions at least.

FontSize72LOL said:
Honestly this anime is merely promotion for the games. On that note, i think they did a pretty good job, A much, MUCH, better job than the other "promotional" anime, being Rewrite.