Nov 11, 2019
Okay to start off the absolutely first thing you need to know about Last Encore is that it is not an actual adaption of the source material video game, fate/extra. To summarise, Last Encore is quite literally an extended bad ending not part of the original game.
Fate Extra takes place in 2030. You can choose the player character's gender in the game, and the female Hakuno seems to be the canon choice for the timeline this anime takes place in. Essentially, what happened in the Last Encore timeline is that the final boss in the game won the final battle against the protagonist of Fate/Extra,
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Hakunon (female player character choice). Last Encore takes place a thousand years after this point after Hakunon loses her final battle.
The protagonist of Last Encore HAKUNO looks like a gender-bent clone of the original protagonist Hakunon, but his actual origins are much more complicated, as you'll eventually find out.
Nobody really wanted this adaption. Fans of the Fate Extra series like me wanted an actual adaption of the original Fate Extra game or, even better, maybe its excellent sequel/midquel Fate Extra CCC. But instead, we got this. Nonetheless, Nasu wrote an excellent source material novel for this, which might have been actually enjoyable, like a cool new extended material of sorts if adapted properly.
But studio shaft completely butchered the adaption. The anime is incredibly rushed, vital plot points were put in and explained in a freaking website instead of being in the anime itself. Nuff said.
It's not something I'd recommend to anyone except hardcore extraverse fans. You need a lot of general information regarding the Fate/Extra Universe and even its relevant characters to properly understand a lot of stuff going on. The anime will not really explain much of anything to you.
As a hardcore Fate/Extra series fan, I am disappointed by this. It's somewhat bearable by simply treating this as an extended material of the series, an unwanted but somewhat interesting what-if story from the game if the villain had actually won in the end, though it was very poorly adapted.
I hope one day we'll get an actual Fate/Extra (or extra CCC!) adaption. Because Fate/Extra has an amazing story imo.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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