Reviews

My first foray in the ultra ubiquitous Fate series! I can't believe this is what people lose their shit over! Gen Urobuchi already has a permanent spot on my shit list for when I watched Suisei no Gargantia empty a whole clip into its own foot halfway through the season, or when Psycho Pass was worse Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for entire 22 episode runtime. Two leads are setup to be these very interesting morally grey characters with complex reasons for being the Holy Grail War... and then the plot proceeds to do literally nothing with them. We learn very little about them (or practically any other character, for that matter), and very little happens to advance the plot either. Because Fate/Zero came out after Fate/stay night it seems to assume you're already familiar with the world, the rules, and the other characters/families in the Holy Grail War, so it does not give an explanation for any of these things, while talking down to you about everything going on. It seems to think having the show stop dead in the middle of the runtime to have an episode starring Rin from F/sn to reiterate that the bad character is bad. I didn't forget, Urobuchi, you're just a bad writer, and I don't care if Rin is here either, can the plot go forward? Several people attempted to argue with my opinion that the show was poorly written (and not even written for some parts of it), by spoiling almost the entire second season because they didn't remember most of the plot is regulated to the back half of the story, or outright telling me that the second season is akin to the second coming of Christ. Slow shows are fine. Nothing except set up happens in the first season.