It's a little hard to talk about this anime. I was waiting I are done playing the visual novel to make this review.
The anime starts a little slow, in fact, the first cour is slow. This is because this route is the introduction of visual novel. But the second flows faster. The anime has mostly as focus the protagonist's relationship with the character named Saber, who is the heroine of the anime.
Well, the anime idea itself is very good! the story of the Holy Grail ritual and invocation of servants are very interesting. Moreover, the world of anime is so well done. HOWEVER, some things were very poorly executed. Principally in a matter of the romance, which was too forced in the anime. The character "Saber" changed their behavior very fast, something that was not so sudden in VN. The protagonist does not help much. He's like a walking suicidal, a stubborn child. Another thing was also the presence of a hole during episode 15, which goes unnoticed by those who know not much of the original material.
The animation is pretty mediocre, with extremely constant presence of static frames. Inconsistent designers with a few bugs. It is the famous animation called " PowerPaint Animation".
The anime was able to explain the basic mechanics of the Holy Grail War, but did not elaborate too much. Something that disappointed me in the anime, was the lack of the depth in the dialogues, flashbacks, actions, reactions and thoughts of the characters. Something that the visual novel is well philosophical and deep.
The final fight was quite confusing for the spectators of anime. Nor I had understood when I saw the first time. The anime is not very faithful to VN, mixing a little of the 3 routes. "Mixing" in quotes, because it was more to collage. They did not care much for logic and simply put certain scenes there. Like the kidnapping of a certain character that does not even appear in the middle of the situation.
The soundtrack is simple but striking. Especially OSTs of the characters who are very good. The only problem is that sometimes the ost's are not so well embedded.
Same with all these defects I can still enjoy this anime ... The protagonist has many faults, but he is brave, altuist (too much) and does not regret of what it does, but it is childish. Because this, I like him. He has his faults, but also has its qualities. It was he who managed to save the heroine of a tragic fate, which incidentally was not explained in the anime.
Something that I found very beautiful was the heroine acceptance to realize that his wish was not right. She gave the best of himself and did not need to use the grail for that. What it led to one of the most beautiful end.
Conclusion: Talking about the story, the general idea is very good. But the execution, not so much. About anime in general, he was very ill-suited! removing much of the essence of the original work, leaving behind several important explanations for the understanding of the characters and the plot.
My recommendation? the visual novel. When I read, I saw an absurd difference, both in the narrative and depth of the story.
Jun 13, 2015
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