Fate/strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn

MarokiC★ 9

Look it's a TV Special. It's practically the prologue for the upcoming Fate Strange Fake Anime Series. Episode 0 we can say. Let's not expect much of a conclusion from this. Was it good? Yes, it did its job introducing the Servants, Masters and our Boy Gilgamesh. Storywise, I'd say it did a very interesting take on the Holy grail war, a war based in AMERICA? Why has this not been done before?? I think it was a great introduction for the characters, obviously not a lot shown, understandable given its very limited runtime but its enough. And the voice acting is AMAZING. But easilythe best part for is the Animation, so many different animation styles, which reminded me of Apocrypha (just without the stillshots), honestly MOVIE level animation. A-1 really did good work with this. Story 8/10 (understandable, we barely know anything, doesn't mean its bad. We must simply wait for the Series to begin) Animation/Art (10/10) A-1 put in their A team (heh) into this. Beautiful all around, especially during that fight scene. the BACKGROUNDS my god, breathtaking. Music (8/10) not a lot of soundtracks shown, but for what its worth, they were pretty good. Rap during the Enkidu vs Gilgamesh fight is an interesting choice. Characters (10/10), all the characters I got shown seemed so interesting to me. Jack the ripper is a really interesting take from the Legend, and the blonde MC is surprisingly very likable. Cant comment too much without spoiling, but the characters felt really great, and I was never bored or annoyed by a character being shown onscreen. If I were to put score this as a Prologue episode, which it is. And how well it did it job as a prologue I would give it a 9. Im extremely excited for the series. Until next time

Chrismas95★ 4

Admittedly I wasn’t aware this was a prologue/introduction for an anime (which has only just been announced as of writing this), so I was a bit confused by the methodical pace when watching. After all, Fake was apparently an April Fools’ joke that was made real, so I was expecting a little cheeky hour-long animation of that and that’s it. But this felt like it was taking itself as an actual story seriously, which I think is (ironically) a funny way to present jokes like this. However, I was admittedly confused at everything that was going on. Almost everyone speaks verbosely, terms are thrownaround, characters are cut to, and relationships are revealed in a way that was pretty hard to follow for me (and in a way I don’t remember the other Fate introductions being). Maybe I've just been out of Fate for too long or missed a few too many spin-offs that are prerequisites. It probably all comes together in hindsight once you watch the actual TV series at least? It’s nice to see who the characters are going to be this time around. But personally I didn’t get much out of watching it alone simply a taste of what’s to come.