Fate/zero

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Category: TV
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Year: 2011
Studio: ufotable

Status: Licensed
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Fate/zero takes place 10 years prior to the events of Fate/stay night, detailing the events of the 4th Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City. The War of the Holy Grail is a contest in which seven magi summon seven Heroic Spirits to compete to obtain the power of the "Holy Grail," which grants a miracle. After three inconclusive wars for the elusive Holy Grail, the Fourth War commences.

Founded by the Einzbern, Matō, and Tōsaka families centuries ago, the Einzbern family is determined to achieve success after three successive failures, no matter the cost. As a result, they have elected to bring the hated magus killer, Kiritsugu Emiya, into their ranks, despite his methods and reputation as a skilled mercenary and a hitman who employs whatever he can use to accomplish his goals. Though Kiritsugu had once wanted to become a hero who could save everyone, he has long since abandoned this ideal upon realizing that saving one person comes at the cost of another's life. For the sake of humanity, he will ruthlessly destroy anything and anyone who threatens the peace of others.
However, Kiritsugu finds himself deeply torn between the love he has found for his new family - his wife Irisviel and their daughter Illya - and what he must do to obtain the Holy Grail. Meanwhile, Kiritsugu's greatest opponent appears in the form of Kirei Kotomine, a priest who cannot find any sense of fulfillment in his life and sets his sights on Kiritsugu as the possible answer to the emptiness he feels.

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Kit-Tsukasa
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May 21 2012 05:04 PM
Episode 20... moved a little too slow for me considering 12 hours had past since the countdown was last shown in episode 17. They dragged out the long issue about Irisviel and rushed the ending portion a bit when Iskander makes his entrance and Maiya dying in the process. With that said, we are now below the 36 hour countdown.

The sudden jumps in the countdown is bothering me more than ever given how slow it moved in season 1 as well as the beginning of season 2. Yet after Lancer's death in episode 16, it suddenly sped up. I hope they don't start rushing the upcoming fights with only 5 episodes left.
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May 21 2012 12:52 PM
So with this episode pretty much we get to see that Iri is finally at her limits here and hopes that Kirisugu will finish things up soon.

In any case I have to say I was rather saddened by Maiya's passing, but at least she was able to stick it out to the end there. Also, for her to find out that Iri wanted Kirisugu to win so Illya would never have to go though this ten years later was a lovely dream, but it's kind of unfortunate that it won't end that way.
Killer_Ossi
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May 20 2012 10:32 AM
QUOTE (Nioki @ May 15 2012, 12:31 PM)
I kinda find it interested that some people (Ex: tCD) actually dislike F/Z due to all the conversations that take place.

Well you shouldnt talk about such unneeded and useless existences anyway since its a waste of time and breath (and who or what is Ex: tCD?). The conversations are what makes this show so great. Fights you can get in every other anime but good dialogues are really rare in animes which is why this show is such a treat for us. Without the conversations this show would only be on the level of Stay Night (which would still be a 9/10 but a 9/10 just is no 10/10 ^^).

So the next hottie died. It was quite surprising. But at least Mariya got two great scenes with both Iri and Kiritsugu in this ep.
I too dont believe it was Rider, it just isnt his style to do things that way.
Norren
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May 20 2012 03:19 AM
Well, I guess the Kidnapping scene went about as well as could be expected. I was sort of hoping they'd keep the original "deadman alarm" mechanism, but explaining it would totally break the flow of the scene, the cellphone call was a suitable fallback. (It's a clever trick!)

Waver and Broskander had such a great bonding and maturing moment this episode.

Next episode will have Saber's Riding skill and the best motorcycle of the 90's vs Rider's Gordius Wheel. the last scene I've been waiting for. The PV also says we're going to have more fun with Aoi and Kariya, courtesy of Kirei .

I'm actually not expecting much more in the way of rush or cramming. Book 4 may have been one of the longest books, but I think quite a bit of it is spent on visual and aural descriptions that are made moot by the animated format. The battles themselves are intense, but not particularly long.
NecroRyu
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May 19 2012 01:09 PM
QUOTE (Nioki @ May 15 2012, 06:31 AM)
I kinda find it interested that some people (Ex: tCD) actually dislike F/Z due to all the conversations that take place. Imho a good amount of "not empty' conversations only help develop the  characters. Plus we still have the beautiful action scenes, even though there aren't that many there.

agreed and even if today's episode was almost full of conversations and no fight took place I'm glad the plot resumes though I believe Rider isn't the one behind Iri's kidnapping but the work of Berserker's copycat Noble Phantasm , also it's funny yet understandable how Kiritsugu makes her such promise like taking care of Illya without knowing that in the future he'll save Shirou with Avalon and raise him instead of his daughter ¬¬ ...just like Kit mentioned I'm afraid it'll be more rushed than expected with 6 eps left dedicating only two in average to kill each servant and master remining, except obviously for those who will survive in the final battle as seen in the first seconds of FSN and I'll hate it if F/Z purposely leaves episode 26 as a "cliffhanger" for FSN's prologue without going into details about what happened afterwards
Nioki
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May 15 2012 07:31 AM
If she was bitten that would make the scene much less heavy.

I kinda find it interested that some people (Ex: tCD) actually dislike F/Z due to all the conversations that take place. Imho a good amount of "not empty' conversations only help develop the characters. Plus we still have the beautiful action scenes, even though there aren't that many there.
Killer_Ossi
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May 14 2012 02:17 PM
I knew this sadly ends with Natalias death even though I hoped it doesnt. But until the end I was sure Kitritsugu does it because she was bitten but at least that wasnt the case.
NecroRyu
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May 12 2012 01:19 PM
QUOTE (Kit-Tsukasa @ May 06 2012, 08:41 PM)
To be honest, I'm a bit disappointed that they're spending two episodes this season on this. Good character development, but the poor pacing from the previous 2 episodes already bothers me with how the show will handle the remaining fights.

I'm really starting to think that the Rin episode back from season 1 is going to cost this show in terms of pacing. Not to mention that the cliffhanger from season 1 would have actually been significantly better by leaving off with the episode right before Saber regained Excalibur.

as I mentioned before even though this couple of episodes about Kiritsugu's past were great they should be turned into special two-part OVAs or a single long one, just like that Rin's adventure ep would have been better as a short OVA included in the DVD and BluRay from the first half of the series... that way the cliffhanger of S1 in relation with the first two eps of S2 defeating Caster would have fit nicely as a 45 mins "season finale" instead, making ep.3 of S2 a good enough first episode beginning with Sola-Ui's kidnap to Lancer being betrayed then extending Tokiomi's death and the 8th contract in two eps but those will remain as wishful changes -.- oh well back to F/Z's main story next week
Norren
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May 10 2012 02:46 PM
No mouth in this series smiles wider than our Broskander's. By definition! his mouth is wider than saber's head half the time.

In terms of the mouths, I noticed it too, I thought it was just because they were carefree smiles. Everyone during the grail war has something dark on their mind, more so than just the war itself.

It could easily be an animation error, or simply a different animator was assigned to the mouths in those frames and QC didn't disapprove.
Kit-Tsukasa
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May 10 2012 02:34 PM
QUOTE (wedora @ May 10 2012, 08:28 AM)
Can you clarify something for me? I noticed in ep 18 that the mouths in the animation opened much wider when talking and smiling than in previous eps. Do you think that is attributed to a perception of your culture and their way of speaking or an animation issue?

I actually noticed this myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it was an animation error or inconsistency since this season's animation in general seems rather lower in quality for some reason despite being more action heavy already. This may just be for the TV airing though and could be fixed in the "remastered" Blu-Ray releases.
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