Fate Stay Night has 24 episodes that is basically about the Holy Grail War. This war happens every 10 years where 7 masters, supposedly a magician but not necessary, summon their servants, a hero from a certain era, in order to battle to survive and eventually able to grant a wish from the Holy Grail. There are 7 types of servants that can be summoned: Saber, Archer, Lancer, Caster, Assassin, Rider and Berserker. Each of them has their own skill and Noble Phantasms (special secret ability). For our main character, Emiya, he acquires Saber who is said to be the best among the servants… Emiya is not a full-magician but has can use tracing sorcery which will greatly help Saber in her battles. While Saber is the female version of King Arthur who desires the Holy Grail to change her past. This not an ordinary chess game of 7 opponents. In fact, Emiya also battles his past on the previous war as well his developed feelings with Saber throughout the battle.

First, I was surprised that the the male main character is not attractive (this somehow ruins the series for me). Next, the storyline is average the twists at the end didn’t give much impact to me but the characters

were interesting considering they were based from real heroes. Although the drawing of the characters were simple the choreography of the fighting scenes and the special effects put to it paid it off big time! But still, the drawing was bothering that i can’t even decipher the emotion of the characters. Plus, there are pauses and unnecessary repetitions(the flashback of 10 yrs is one). The music and voices pretty much reminds of the Playstation game Valkyrie Profile and is more in to the medieval atmosphere. Anyway, the fighting

scenes as i said were excellent and exciting and is actually the best thing about this series. Overall, this is worth watching. This excitement level would be sinusoidal and I just think it would have been a great series if only the male character or the whole cast for that matter were made more artistic. Anyway, after I watched this i started reading about Stories of King Arthur.. what a hangover ^_^

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