At the time of writing this review, I have watched around 50 anime series and movies, and not once have I encountered one as appalling as Fate/Stay Night. Poor character development, atrocious characters, nonsense dialogue and predictable action sequences - this anime's got them all. The music and art were fine I suppose, but hardly anything remarkable - definitely something forgettable. The story was generic and predictable, therefore there isn't much to cover on that front.
First off, the character development. Well, it's nonexistent, so there's not much to talk about on this front either. All of the characters stay more or less the same as the moment you meet them.
The characters. Good God. The protagonist is a classic Mary Sue with plot armor thick as fog, with neither smart, nor brawn, but a lot of naivete. He's completely unlikable and forgettable. Oh, and he also happens to be pretty damn sexist - he forbids his servant(whose sole existence revolves around fighting for his sake) from taking up the sword because...she's a woman. The other characters are slightly less annoying, but just as one-dimensional.
Nonsense dialogue. If you know the quote "People die when they're killed" - that's where its from. Yup. It's from Fate/Stay Night, and while since that phrase's glory days are long over and the translation has improved...there's still no meaning beneath the shallow dialogues, which goes from stating the obvious multiple times to constantly saying each other's names(seriously, I've heard the name "Saber" called out about 10 times in every single episode for no real reason).
Well, I guess there was SOME amount of merit to be found in the action sequences. They were okay, if it was not for the fact that you knew precisely where things will pick up next as the scene unfolded before you. There were no surprises on that front. Something I found hilarious was the usage of random german words(as spells) and one of the characters suddenly monologuing in english for no real reason mid-fight(I suppose I didn't see that coming).
TL;DR Do not watch this. This is EXACTLY what people who say "Anime is trash" have in mind.
7
First off, the character development. Well, it's nonexistent, so there's not much to talk about on this front either. All of the characters stay more or less the same as the moment you meet them.
The characters. Good God. The protagonist is a classic Mary Sue with plot armor thick as fog, with neither smart, nor brawn, but a lot of naivete. He's completely unlikable and forgettable. Oh, and he also happens to be pretty damn sexist - he forbids his servant(whose sole existence revolves around fighting for his sake) from taking up the sword because...she's a woman. The other characters are slightly less annoying, but just as one-dimensional.
Nonsense dialogue. If you know the quote "People die when they're killed" - that's where its from. Yup. It's from Fate/Stay Night, and while since that phrase's glory days are long over and the translation has improved...there's still no meaning beneath the shallow dialogues, which goes from stating the obvious multiple times to constantly saying each other's names(seriously, I've heard the name "Saber" called out about 10 times in every single episode for no real reason).
Well, I guess there was SOME amount of merit to be found in the action sequences. They were okay, if it was not for the fact that you knew precisely where things will pick up next as the scene unfolded before you. There were no surprises on that front. Something I found hilarious was the usage of random german words(as spells) and one of the characters suddenly monologuing in english for no real reason mid-fight(I suppose I didn't see that coming).
TL;DR Do not watch this. This is EXACTLY what people who say "Anime is trash" have in mind.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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