Doubted calling this S01E01, but MAL is calling it a ‘special’.
The most hyped I’ve been regarding fate since Heaven’s Feel III.
And I really like the artstyle, feels different from regular fate artstyle in a good way.
Heaven’s Feel, especially part III, really cemented a common pattern in the Fate series for me:
- Start off with an interesting, but understandable, premise
- Set things in motion, maybe hint at twists
- Go off the rails with things that some would consider “ass-pulls”, but do it with such hyped up animation/soundtrack (nine-lives blade works comes to mind), that it doesn’t matter anymore
- Sort of try to wrap it all up, fail
- Create another route, prequel, or alternate universe
- ???
- PROFIT.
I absolutely loved this. Did suffer a lot from ‘tv rush cels’, particularly a scene where
spoiler
Gilgamesh is walking in the desert
was really poor.
But I didn’t care! The whole thing was such hype. And the music. The music! I’ve been dying to talk to you about the music. A Fate show with music by Hiroyuki freakin’ Sawano? We are not worthy. Such an incredible banger, that insert song/ending theme too. Oh speaking of, the EP of the soundtrack is out on the streaming platforms. It’s good.
I only found out that Strange/Fake was out after Spotify recommended me the soundtrack EP. Credits to Hiroyuki Sawano, everything he composes hits perfectly. Also you might want to format your spoiler like this:
Episode Spoiler
Gilgamesh is walking in the desert
::: spoiler Episode Spoiler <Spoiler Content> :::
Yeah, I edited my post a bunch of times already, but none of the clients I used understood spoilers at all. You’d think Lemmy would use the standard spoiler tags that most Markdown sites use.
But thanks, it works on the ‘regular’ Lemmy sites now.
Made a comparison of the trailer’s and special’s visuals here.
Wait so I am kinda confused. Is this a movie? A prequel to an upcoming season? Please explain haha
Well right now I guess it’s classified as an ‘OVA’, and it’s an hour long. But it could be the first episode of a season. It’s unclear whether they’re making more than just the one.
Ok yeah I just watched it. It feels like there is more. Like, it ends in a cliffhanger, so if there isn’t more that would be really … strange lol
Fake and Strange, even.
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