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Fate has precisely two good things in the series. Fate/Zero, made by writer of Madoka Magica Gen Urobuchi and Fate/Strange Fake made by the writer of Baccano! Ryōgo Narita
The rest of it is really just waifu bait, but those two stories are like actual serious fun action dramas.
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I didn't actually care for Zero because most of the stories end up going nowhere. Those that do (off the top of my head: Waver, Berserker, Kotomine) were, imo, pretty unsatisfactory. The two parts I liked were Kiritsugu's backstory and the Caenith/Kiritsugu arc, because it showed people who are supposed to be smart and conniving actually coming up with tricky plans. I unironically preferred the Einzburn Consultation Service chibi spinoff.
I'm not familiar enough with the franchise to know what type of media Strange Fake is, but I'm willing to accept it may be okay.
I would say part of the problem with Zero not having its stories end well is from being a prequel so I was more willing to forgive it for those.
Strange/Fake isn't finished yet so it's hard to say too much about it but I think it has some very clever designs and character moments so far. Like one of the Riders (there's two different grail wars going on at the same time in the city) is a shadow monster of disease representing Pestilence (that hasn't been covered too much yet though) or their take on Jack the Ripper which is infinitely better than Apocrypha because this Jack is a Berserker who is actually sane unlike most Berserkers and can transform into anything that people thought Jack the Ripper was so crowds of people or a cursed watch or anything really as long as it's a real rumor.
The only character I can think of that's even close to a loli design much is Tiné who gets a youth potion and she's not sexualized at all.
Sounds closer to what I thought the initial concept would be, honestly. Also good that they didn't go with the Grand Order Jack who is... a loli in a g-string.
Fate has precisely two good things in the series. Fate/Zero, made by writer of Madoka Magica Gen Urobuchi and Fate/Strange Fake made by the writer of Baccano! Ryōgo Narita
The rest of it is really just waifu bait, but those two stories are like actual serious fun action dramas.
Fair enough. For what it's worth, I didn't actually care for Zero because most of the stories end up going nowhere. Those that do (off the top of my head: Waver, Berserker, Kotomine) were, imo, pretty unsatisfactory. The two parts I liked were Kiritsugu's backstory and the Caenith/Kiritsugu arc, because it showed people who are supposed to be smart and conniving actually coming up with tricky plans. I unironically preferred the Einzburn Consultation Service chibi spinoff.
I'm not familiar enough with the franchise to know what type of media Strange Fake is, but I'm willing to accept it may be okay.
I would say part of the problem with Zero not having its stories end well is from being a prequel so I was more willing to forgive it for those.
Strange/Fake isn't finished yet so it's hard to say too much about it but I think it has some very clever designs and character moments so far. Like one of the Riders (there's two different grail wars going on at the same time in the city) is a shadow monster of disease representing Pestilence (that hasn't been covered too much yet though) or their take on Jack the Ripper which is infinitely better than Apocrypha because this Jack is a Berserker who is actually sane unlike most Berserkers and can transform into anything that people thought Jack the Ripper was so crowds of people or a cursed watch or anything really as long as it's a real rumor.
The only character I can think of that's even close to a loli design much is Tiné who gets a youth potion and she's not sexualized at all.
Sounds closer to what I thought the initial concept would be, honestly. Also good that they didn't go with the Grand Order Jack who is... a loli in a g-string.