I’m not specially a fan of the Fate franchise but I like it and i’ve seen the other Fate series. I liked all of them and Fate/Apocrypha is not an exception.
I really enjoyed this show and I don’t know why there is so much hate about it. Generally, people judge an anime from his plot and his development of the characters. This anime has 29 characters and it seems that most of the trashtalkers say that it’s too much...
Of course it’s too much ! 14 masters + 15 servants is a lot and there’s no way that the studio can develop everything in 25 episodes, but take it in the good way ! They focused on 5-6 masters and 5-6 servants, and it wasn’t too bad ! They gave us 29 characters, yes, but they never promised to develop every of theses characters. Complaining about that is nonsense ! Honestly, who cares about the background of the red team’s masters ? Or Spartacus ? Or the randoms in the Yggmilenia family like Fat-man and Sadistic-girl ? We don’t give a shit about them, just take what the anime gives you.
About the characters, I can’t say that they were GOOD, but they weren’t BAD either ! And furthermore, giving us a lot of servants brings a lot of fights too ! I like seeing all theses heroes and discovering the powers they have. They developed the characters the less they could, but at least we can enjoy fate/apocrypha. More would have been great, but what we have is sufficient.
Like every fate series, there are a lot of fights that happen, just sit, relax and enjoy them.
Speaking about fights... it seems that the animation can be called “trash”. Really ? The animations is so fucking beautiful, the colors are nice and everything is smooth. “Yes but when the servants are fighting some frames are poorly drawn and the servants look like nothing”. Hey you, just tell me... why would you pause when two servants are fighting ? Theses moments are meant to be epic, you know, animation is money, I think that the animation is really well made because they added theses “ugly frames” to make the fights more intenses and smooth. It wasn’t a problem at all and I liked it a lot ! Complaining about that is only rage because in a fight, everything is fast, everything moves, you have no reason to pause. The animation in general is even more beautiful so i’m not gonna talk about it.
About the OST and the sounds effects. Well, the OST aren’t incredible or memorable, but they are still good. Personally, I think that they accomplished their role of bringing me in the anime and giving me good feelings, above all during the fights.
It is true that the sounds may be frequently loud with bass boosting. But for my part is wasn’t a problem. It didn’t blew up my ears or destroyed my car either. All they did was bringing me this feeling of power. I liked it and I hope to see this in other animes. If you are crying because you think it was too loud, maybe you should rethink about the volume you put while watching anime. It seems that people love crying when the a studio tries new things.
The plot was not bad but it wasn’t incredible either. It’s about whether the human is good or evil. I think that something in the end was missing, and that some relations are a bit too pushed. But they didn’t really had the choice in a short span of time of 25 episodes.
Finally, I can’t compare it to the other animes of this studio. I don’t know if the animations is really that horrible compared to precedents anime. All I know, is that I was always thinking « omg it’s beautiful » while watching. I enjoyed it and i don’t think that this anime deserves that much hate.
Hope you guys will find the path to enjoy fate/apocrypha as I did :3
