Fate/Zero: King Arthur is still a girl, fuck Japan.

Okay, so after getting on sort of a high for heroic spirits after playing Fate/Zero, I've been wanting to watch this. Partially because Fate/Zero is unlike the original Fate/Stay Night in that the protagonist is a stone cold killer with the ideal that of saving the lives of other people even if it means sacrificing a few. Fate/Zero is about Kiritsugu Emiya's fight in the War for the Holy Grail which 7 masters (Human mages) participate in. To participate you must not only be accepted by the Holy Grail but summon a servant, which is a heroic spirit from the past brought forth to fight for you. The servants are split into seven classes.

The servants in Fate/Zero are.

Saber - King Arthur (Arturia Pendragon)
Archer - Gilgamesh
Rider - Alexander the Great
Lancer - Diarmuid Ua Duibhne
Caster - Gills De Raise
Assassin - Hassan-i-Sabbah
Berserker - ???

Every class is self-explanatory and every servant is put into that specific class based on their abilities but can also fit into the other classes too should they be summoned at another time (For instance, King Arthur could also be summoned as a Rider if the spot for Saber was already taken). These are easily the most interesting parts of the Fate series as it's always fun to watch these heroic spirits fight it out against each other with increasingly ridiculous weapons and the personalities are just great.

I've only watched the first episode so far, but it's almost an hour long and contains enough information for newcomers to be able to jump in without any problems on figuring stuff out... okay, there's one scene you might have trouble with but other than that it should be fine.

Yes, King Arthur is a woman, I'm annoyed too.

I thought you read F/SN, wouldn't that make you like Saber?
Also, this is made by ufotable, so you had better love the hell out of it!

Saber was alright, but FSN's only good route was Unlimited Blade Works. Fate was dull as all hell until the last few days and Heaven's Feel only had a few good parts of it. I've only seen the first episode and I already prefer it to the anime and movie because ufotable has handled the first episode better than the first episode of the FSN anime or the background of UBW.

Are you up to date? How is it so far?

I got up to Episode 8 and it's pretty good so far. The fight between Lancer and Saber in Episode 4 was fantastic and fuck the dumb mexican standoff in episode 5.

Saber is King Arthur? What?

It's a 60 hour long story.

King Authur is a girl.. This is normal in Japan, I suppose. I like Saber though



Saber Bride mhmmm

I need to catch up with this, it was really good where I left off.

I listened to some of the soundtrack, and it is flipping amazing. It's by Yuki Kajiura, one of my favourite composers. I say go, now that it's completely finished.

I believe Berserker was meant to be Hercules in his past life if I am not mistaken.

I enjoyed fate stay night and the movie. Haven't got around to watch fate/zero yet.

Baal was this the one you stated that:

Spoiler:

Dude, I don't even fucking remember it's quite possible this is the same series, but Zero is free of that crap.

Bought the blu-ray of the first season the day before I returned to the cold. Might have to marathon it after Christmas. Excited!

So that was pretty cool, but the fighting felt rather lackluster. Still, the Saber/Lancer fight was good, absolutely everything looks amazing (as expected from ufotable), and some of the voices (especially Archibald and Archer) are really, really good. Waver sucks, though.