Fate/Stay Night Discussion Topic ~Spoilers~

[Shuten]

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Sincerely,
Shuten

[Dracos]

Huh, this has finally gotten started?

Neat.

Dracos

[thepanda]

Is it just me or does the protagonist look a bit younger (and kind of dinky) in the preview?

[Shuten]

Not exactly Dracos.

A promo dvd was released with two trailers for the series. The series itself will not start until January.


Sincerely,
Shuten

[Dracos]

Oh, well then see this in january :)

Dracos

[thepanda]

Any word on who is planning on doing this series yet?

Just saw the raw. It looked pretty nice so far. Not the greatest animation, but more than enough to get the job done. Consistant. Voice talents were superior. Took all of one sentence from Sakura for her voice to stick in my mind. Loved her as Ururu. Archer sounds pretty awesome, too. Junichi Suwabe has played some badass roles in his time (Fuuma from X, Katana from Gad Guard being my favs) and he just nails the character.

The opening music was good, just a remixed version of This Illusion. Its softer than the version I'm used to hearing, but it is more full as well. I still perfer the original version, but this one might grow on me.

I really liked the closing music. I don't recall that one from the game OSTs so maybe its new? Definately want the single when it comes out.

So far it looks like they're going to watch the pacing a lot more closely than Tsukihime did, thankfully. There is still humor in this one. From the raw I'm fairly certain this is going to be one to watch this season.

[Merc]

It is looking good so far, and I'm glad for that. I loved Fuji-nee's portrayal, and the voice acting is, as you said, superior all around. Issei's voice I find a tad too deep for a high schooler though, but I guess they were trying to maintain the serious/mature tone of the guy that way.

I found the remix's name cute too. As opposed to "This Illusion", it's "Disillusion". Cute. =)

I kind of wish there was a bit more in the ending sequence than Saber standing looking noble as her dress billows in the wind, but the song was decent. I doubt I liked it as much as you.

What I'm really interested in seeing is which direction the series heads in terms of the game. Will it follow any particular scenario, a fusion of two of them, a fusion of all three, diverge off scenarios, or just be it's own scenarion altogether?

Shu and I've mentioned our choices in IRC the other day, with me wanting a Fate/UBW scenario fusion, and him wanting a UBW/HF fusion.

I boo on evil Sakura though from Heaven's Feel! ^_^;;;

[thepanda]

I'm hoping for an original path, but with some evil Sakura worked in there. That voice gone evil would just be win all over. >_>

I hope Rider gets more love than certain scenarios would allow her.

[Merc]

Again...Boo on evil Sakura! ^_^

Just saw Eclipse's sub of ep 1. Pretty much what I got from the raw, though now I got to see the character's personalities shine through their voices, and shine they did, all of 'em.

Archer and Fujimura were particularly great of the bunch. I'm almost certain they're going to stay my favorite male and female characters of the show (at least unless Fuji-nee stops getting screentime once the war really gets underway).

Anybody know how long the series is scheduled for yet? I'm hoping for at least 26 episodes, and not the 12 episodes treatment that Tsukihime got.

[thepanda]

From what I've been able to gather it looks to be a 24-26 episode series. Rumors say its two seasons (26 episodes). Other rumors say it'll be released on 8 DVDs in R2 (roughly 24-26 episodes).

[Merc]

Anime News Network lists it at 24 episodes. So do a few japanese stuff online shops that I've looked around. Not bad. Hopefully it won't suffer from overdone recap episodes or flashback sequences of past episodes.

Anyhoo, ep 2 is out raw (Yay Shu for sending!). Nice episode, we finally start getting into the war and see some servant battle action. And as was expected by pretty much everyone, Saber makes her appearance at the very end of the episode. Yay. ^^

[thepanda]

Man, the animation quality dropped quick. >_>;

Still, its good enough for me. Let's hope it doesn't slide any further. Saber looked awesome. Not muchelse to say until I see the episode subbed.

[Merc]

animation quality -always- drops after 1st episodes. ^_^

[KIJIN]

animation quality -always- drops after 1st episodes

Not that the quality was all that great in the first place. I wished they'd just splurge more on the budget for the action scenes. I'd prefer a 13 ep-high-Hi-Q series than a mediocre 24-26 ep freebiee. Quality before quantity and all.  -_-

[Merc]

Mmm...I kinda disagree with the quality before quantity statement. While quality -is- important, less episodes doesn't always result in better quality. Art might go up, but plot often goes way down.

13 episodes tends to smush a lot of information together, with no care for pacing. While yes, some pacing annoys the living crap out of me (Noir), no pacing is worse (Tales of Phantasia and various animes of 13 eps or less).

Fate Stay Night has a lot of material to cover in even a single scenario and they already crammed a lot of little FSN tidbits into ep 1 right off the bat really. Hopefully the quality of animation won't go down a lot more though. I was somewhat dissapointed in Lancer vs Archer in ep 2 as well.