The two must now participate in the Fifth Holy Grail War, a battle royale of seven Servants and the mages who summoned them, with the grand prize being none other than the omnipotent Holy Grail itself.įate/stay night follows Shirou as he struggles to find the fine line between a hero and a killer, his ideals clashing with the harsh reality around him. In desperation, Shirou summons a Servant of his own, a knight named Saber. Miraculously, he survives, but the same Servant returns to finish what he started. During his attempt to escape, the boy is caught by one of the Servants and receives a life-threatening injury.
One night, years after Kiritsugu's death, Shirou is cleaning at school, when he finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly encounter between two superhumans known as Servants. And as the final chapter in Fate/S tay Night's story, it wrapped things up with the same satisfaction that the route itself gives its fans, as the darkest timeline with the happiest and most satisfying ending for most of its characters.After a mysterious inferno kills his family, Shirou is saved and adopted by Kiritsugu Emiya, who teaches him the ways of magic and justice. This meant there were few places where the pacing dragged, but the overall narrative remained coherent. While Heaven's Feel fans didn't get a whole series, most of the filler slice-of-life chapters from that route in the visual novel could actually be cut without losing the crux of the story. But while both of the ufotable adpatations are stellar to say the least compared to Deen's Fate route adaptation, there's something to be said with parts of the Unlimited Bladeworks route from the Deen adaptation played on repeat in the ufotable adaptation that could make some arcs slightly more tedious to get through, if only slightly. However, there didn't appear to be any talk of another Stay Night adaptation-that is until it was announced officially that they really would be helming a Stay Night reboot.Ĭonceivably, Unlimited Bladeworks has the best adaptation, simply because it has the most time to flesh out its story without having to shove in other route story beats to fill out anything for a 26-ish episode run. Still, ufotable shot for the moon in terms of their adaptation of the orignal light novels penned by Gen Urobuchi. And many praised it as being superior to Stay Night, which, comparatively speaking, wasn't exactly hard to be.
It reinvigorated the Fate franchise, even brought in new fans. Then Fate/Zero was adapted into an anime, this time by ufotable, and it was a massive success.
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So, while many were content at least that an anime adaptation of the Unlimited Bladeworks route existed at all, since for the longest time there was no discussion of any further adaptations, it's fair to say that visual novel fans of the film over the TV series were probably settling, deep down. This, again, meant stripping the story down to its basics to keep the runtime down. Anyone familiar with the visual novel could easily pick out the parts that were from the Unlimited Bladeworks route, and for the most part, those parts worked well enough alongside the Fate storyline, with enough of the former there for fans of the visual novel, as well as for anime-onlys, to be intrigued and make a fairly decent guess at things like how Archer's identity is tied to Shirou.įor those fans who were upset that the Unlimited Bladeworks route just didn't get its own adaptation, Deen later came out with one, only just as a feature-length film. For what they came up with, it was an admirable effort. Moreover, the creators appeared to have set forth on the premise that they could do like many other visual novel adaptations tend to do, and focus on one route but still pull the best parts from other routes and include them in the same adaptation, as a means to tie disparate storylines into a unified narrative, not unlike what series such as Clannad did.
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However, the route itself was too bare-bones for a full series adaptation. Technically, it adapted the Fate route, which features Saber as the main heroine.
For a long time, the only anime adaptation that existed was the 2006 adaptation by studio Deen.
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