Anime and Video Game Insight

The most recent Anime I’ve been watching is Fate-Stay Night.  What is there to say about it?  From the first eight or so episodes that went by pretty quick, I have a pretty good idea how I’d review this series.

The first thing that stood out is that I don’t like the main characters eyes.  I just don’t…  Which made the first two episodes go by probably slower than it should have.

Other than that, it was a pretty normal start.  You have your young guy who wants to protect stuff and unwillingly ends up with uber something or other.  Throw in some rivals, some drama, some comedy, and there you go, you have Fate-Stay.  To me, it feels like it’s been done; so it looks rather predictable. Not exactly a bad thing, just exactly like I said though.

Anyways, only first two or three episodes are slow.  The series picks up pace rather quickly, and pretty soon you have lots of battles, you meet the cast, and you get your character development.

Characters are pretty colorful, the outfits are pretty nice for the most part.  Although seeing spandex wearing male characters within the first few episodes was something that would take time to accept.

Grouping the music and action together for this series, there are some very good points to both, but some rather cheap and weak scene and scores as well.  Most notable in half of the fights where action is barely even par to other series.

I’d say the humor is decent.  There are the cute moments to the series.  Fate-Stay reminds me a little of Jojo’s Adventure, Pokemon, and Gash Bell at the moment.  A lot of things came to mind on how to compare this with other series.  But in the end, I think I’m settling with something like “The RPG version of Mai Hime” minus the fanservice.  Or something…

Saber fights with an invisible sword, which is rather badass.

With what I’ve seen, I’m going to stick with saying this is an above average series, having some good high moments, some “cool” scenes, and other goodies.  Ultimately though, this is a forgettable series that will kind of just fade away over time like any other spur of the moment type of series.

~Fei