Fate/Grand Order: Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time: Solomon

Draculoid★ 7

Having enjoyed the Babylonia anime, I was left feeling let down by this film sequel. While Babylonia buckled under the weight of it's own ambition at times, it was also this ambition that led to some surprisingly exciting and fun action set pieces and sequences. With this shorter "boss fight" singularity acting as both a film and a sequel to that series, my initial expectations were set rather high. Not only did they have much more time to polish and work on the animation, it's working with a film budget and adapting a hugely climactic battle. With all of that said, it is a competentlymade but pretty by the numbers Grand Order product at the end of the day. None of what the film did reached the highs in animation from the Babylonia Tv series and we're left with about 3 decent sequences which aren't even really that impressive and LOTS of CGI tentacles. The story is generic, though there is a nice bit of tension in the final act and battle of the film. The character art is passable. The backgrounds are pretty great. What you're really here for are the servants, and since it's adapting the climax of the first singularities there are a ton of cameos. Unfortunately, since there are so many servants showing up, most of their appearances are nothing more than that, an appearance. There were probably about 30-40 servants shown in this film, with about half simply being shown, another 15 or so launching a single attack and probably another 10 that were included in a mediocre action sequence. Still, if you are a big Fate fan, which are the only people I could really see watching something this far down the rabbit hole, you'll grin when your favourite servant appears. Sorry this review is rather short and also not incredibly detailed, but it's also a film where I don't believe there much to be said. The animation is not of a quality that will bring anyone in for the spectacle, so we are left with the die hards that will probably eat up anything Fate related and enjoy seeing their favourite servant appear for 7 seconds. I really had hopes after seeing some of Babylonia's sequences and seeing much of the same staff working on this film that we might get one of the better Grand Order adaptations, but unfortunately for me at least, Grand Order has still proved to be pretty mediocre in the anime adaptation department.

g4r4nd0u★ 8

Note: I will mostly talk on how this one is adapted. And slight spoilers Story 9/10: Well, the overall story compared to Babylonia is meh. But for how it was adapted, it's an anime that perfectly captured the essential parts and further enhanced it making it better than the source material. People will think Avengers Endgame, but Solomon was never about that. It's a conclusion for Romani's choice, a resolution for Mash's life, a definition to the "Solomon" and a setting for Ritsuka Fujimaru's whole character in Cosmos in the Lostbelt. Art 8/10: I like the use of CGs, It's one of the best and better thanwhat ufotable uses and definitely better than Babylonia's. And the main antagonist not being a CG was a surprise. The same face syndrome is there tho so that's a meh to me(The new mystic code was cool tho). Sound 8/10: Well, it's almost about the same as Babylonia but they atleast used some of the game OSTs making giving it some more points and hey, that ending song got me seriously, a definitely must not skip part. Character 8/10: Babylonia Ep 0 has finally proved it's usefulness. Just like what I said in the story section, The main characters in this chapter is Mash, Romani, and Fujimaru. The existence of Babylonia Ep 0 have a great role despite the anime skipping chapters. And finally, Fujimaru is now just about as good as the manga. One problem here tho is that most the appearing characters we're just there to be badckground. Not saying it was bad but the problem is alot of non-FGO players, or people who didn't read the story, won't get the hype. The event characters being cut was pretty disappointing tho. Enjoyment 10/10: The animation, it was great. the combination of CGs and Sakuga was done well despite not being animated by ufo. The fight scenes, well adapted. They finally showed what Fujimaru's fighting style is. Something that should be shown since Camelot. The final fight? Short but better than that atrocious Shirou vs Kirei in Heaven's Feel. Overall: 8/10 This movie is a definition of "fan service". Most anime onlies who haven't read it will definitely disappointed. And alot of readers might be too if their husbando/waifu didn't appear or speak. But hey, atleast the overall story was better than in the game where there was about 3 hours of only banters.