Fate Apocrypha

[shinta|hikari]

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Synopsis:

The setting is a parallel world to Fate/stay night where the Greater Grail mysteriously disappeared from Fuyuki after the Third Holy Grail War. After many years of silence, around the same time as the Fifth Holy Grail War would have happened, the Yggdmillennia, a family of magi, openly declares their secession from the Mage's Association, and that they are in possession of the Grail. The Association dispatches fifty magi to retrieve it, and all but one are instantly slaughtered by a mysterious Servant. The one remaining manages to activate the reserve system of the Greater Grail, allowing for the summoning of fourteen Servants in total.

In the city of Trifas, two factions will fight for the control of the sacred relic, each of them possessing their own team of seven Servants: the Black Faction whose members are part of Yggdmillennia, protecting the Grail, and the Red Faction whose members were sent by the Mage's Association, trying to take the Grail back. For an event of this scale, the Grail itself summons its own Servant, the holy Ruler, to oversee the conflict.

This marks the start of the Great Holy Grail War.

(Source: Type-Moon Wikia, edited)

Episode 1.

[neflight86]

Interesting first episode. Shake up the formula by having two teams of seven mages, and then a regular war among the winning side. I just wonder if the writing will be such that the characters understand the end game of fighting with their current allies.

Also, Saber's offspring is a bit of a rebellion from her noble demeanor, no?

[shinta|hikari]

I'm glad they gave us a glimpse of the awesome fights that are to come.

Mordred is so ero-kawaii.

Can't wait for loli-assassin to show up.

But what I really like about this Fate spin off is that it has adult masters and a more mature story. Being mages, they aren't SJWs like Shiro, and will stoop to almost anything to achieve victory. I also like how the "main" character, Shishido, looks like a frigging yakuza thug. What a contrast to the ero-kawaii Mordred.

[ForteCross]

i am having some trouble with the voice actors... even tough this is an spin off, shiro doesnt sounds like shiro and saber doesnt sounds like saber...

this is not from ufotable as far as i remember so that would make sense, but at the same time after having saber for so long... even if she is her offspring i am still expecting them to have some kind of resemble on the voice.

i hope that not all the masters are so high tier mages, we still need someone grounded up and not all high and mighty, rider's master and rider himself in fate/zero were excellent protagonists, having someone grow up in the series, otherwise we would have the "best masters in the world" where they cant learn new things because they know everything that exists already...

also lolz @ the fat guy with the hilter's mustache, its like they didnt had any option than to make him obnoxious so that no one takes him seriously

[MasterOfMoogles]

Probably because they're not Shirou and Saber? I mean, they called him Shirou, but I don't think he's the same as our Emiya Shirou from Fate. And while yes, this is a "Saber", it isn't Arturia (or as the English version of Grand Order would have her, Altria, lol).

I do wish ufotable was doing this instead of Touken Ranbu...

[neflight86]

I do wish ufotable was doing this instead of Touken Ranbu...

I haven't really had any complaints to far with the animation so far. Guess the frequency (and quality) of fights will be where the burden is brought to bear for the studio; as is the case for most shows, if I give it a second's thought.

[Ryllharu]

Yeah, she's not Arturia Saber, she's Mordred Saber, as seen in the "MEMORIA" ending to F/Z.

Hey, I'd be happy if we ever got to see Queen of the Underboob, Alter Lancer Arturia.

[Ryllharu]

Double post, but it is pretty neat that Mordred is using a sword called "Clarent" which according to the Arthurian myth is the ceremonial sword stolen from Arthur and later used to kill him. Mordred's noble phantasm here is "blood Arthur."

How adorable!

[Buffalobiian]

I'm pretty ambivalent about this. It's easy to get into since I'm familiar with the system already. I'm in it from an eyecandy/action perspective and I'll let the story/characters surprise me if they turn out to be entertaining.

[lelouch]

Why isn't Ufotable doing this? The fate series is their shit.

[shinta|hikari]

Why does everyone want Ufotable to do this? They screwed up the final part of UBW, and the first episode looks good.

[Ryllharu]

ufotable is busy doing Heaven's Feel, that's why. Initially announced as one movie, now three.

[KrayZ33]

Ufotable did another show for this season though

[Kraco]

I appreciate this is different from the usual Fuyuki city formula. We have seen that a few times already, so this chess match ought to offer something new. Saber having more spunk isn't bad. I think we've already seen all there is to see about the original Arturia Saber.

[lelouch]

Why does everyone want Ufotable to do this?

Because they are GODS AMONG ANTS

[NeoCybercoin]

Episode 2 is out by UTW.

Red Saber is best Saber. Still..too bad they changed the location of the fight. In the manga it was at a cemetery if I recall correctly.

[shinta|hikari]

Mordred = Badass.

And always ero-kawaii. Her tsundere-ing is the rare example of me liking modern tsunderes.

[Ryllharu]

Semiramis all the way for me~

[Kraco]

There's certainly no good side in this. There might be decent masters and servants, but no side is better than the other. I hope Sisigou shows more necromancer tricks along the way. The heart poison gas grenade was promising already.

Bloody Kotomine Shiro. No better than the previous Kotomines. The only decent person with Kotomine blood doesn't carry that name.

[NeoCybercoin]

Too bad they cut out the scene of her master buying the clothes for her.
But I do really like Mordred. She's just a rebellious kid that seeks approval. I mean she seemed very happy when she got her clothes and really wanted to know what he thought of her moves.