Over hyped as it pierced into the heavens, because Ufotable are going to re-animate so the action scenes look even more amazingly artificial and I thought it was just going to be cool action fiction thing with sprinkled anime archetypes but it ended up being stupid and pretentious.
Firstly, nothing is deeply complex of this show, there is a lack in themes or anything to think about because the show uses common story telling techniques to explain the known adventure. Nothing seems “total” bullocks *cough* Zankyou no Terror *cough* with Shiro's obsession of kindness beyond natural human altruism was a bit odd but there was at least a decent explanation on why he became that way, though we found it a bit silly, it was way, way better than just either making it vague, or unreasonable.
However, this in turn makes the drama undramatic because no one really seems to develop as if Thosaka's nature was the Tsundere cliché, it never helps that this wasn't meant to be a cool action show, but we need more emphasis on giving this show higher value like making annoying Drama! As if the countless moments of Shiro just trying to further nail the fact: that his insane altruism forces him to help too many people and the viewers are supposed to sob and fear about this thought provoking theme because they presented it in an intense manner! There were character interactions and their trauma and their development and writers were trying too hard to make us sob and where sobbing so uber much! Oh every moment was on par with the trauma drama of Clannad and I am crying in heavenly tears!
Has anyone killed each other for the sake of progressing the plot? No not the making random gore-fest moments that was redeemed laughable, but for the plot to move onwards, why the hell is no one trying to kill each other already?! Oh, Caster managed to lure our heroes to her trap and does she take this perfect chance to kill them? If Caster has uber hack powers from the gathering of so many corpses, wouldn’t that mean she can negate the magic to any of the Grail War participants? Its not like there were any flaws in that power (like over I don't know - over draining her mana) which practically as she was the only standing servant with her master meant that she wins the holy grail war within one episode, and actually “End!” The series!
To be honest, Ufotable's signature animation does'nt really appeal to me. It felt like they were simply throwing money like garbage just to blend and put so much CGI on to the hand drawn sections, that it makes everything feel more man-made and that there is nothing natural about it. Too much lighting made the wood look like plastic, and the action scenes looked holy sick.
Do you know what happens when you cross breed a maid and a knight and Shiro? You get Saber! Being the most overrated character in existence, her personality all comes down to being as loyal as a retard and respecting anyone. She is basically knight stereotype with boobs! Why are we still worshiping her?!
SCORES:
Characters: 3.5/10
Story: 3/10
Music: 7/10
Animation: 7.5/10
FINALE: 3.5/10
