Fate/Apocrypha

This show is pretty terrible. The story is confusing AND boring. The characters are bland. The animation is basic and uninspired. Then episode 21 came along and everything changed. Not really. Honestly, the episode is still pretty bad, but short bursts of awesome animation and bad ass fight scenes won me over. It's like they brought in completely different people to do 15 second bits interspersed through the regular bad stuff. In fact, I'm positive that's what they did. Episode 22 too. Watch episode 20 for context.

Fate/Apocrypha is all around pretty terrible. from beginning to end, the story is confused, the dialogue is pretty bad and drags on forever in some episodes, there's very little consistency within the series or without the series and the directing is largely flat and boring and squanders the otherwise good animation and music. If you know the Fate franchise well, this series is going to be tough to sit through because there is little consistency to Fate/Stay Night, Fate/Zero, etc, so figuring out what is and is not carried over from those shows is going to be a pain. If you don't know Fate very well, I still can't recommend this series because a lot of information goes completely unexplained, assuming that you know the source material. The characters are generally pretty interesting, but all but 3-4 of them have incredibly weak executions and second halves. A lot of the character designs are cool, but nonsensical, the best characters get the least screen-time and the power creep is through the roof. There are a lot of competent ideas in this show, but for the most part, they never make the best of them and i can't really give the show credit for how good it could have been. With the sole exception of Episode 22, one of the greatest episodes of anything i have ever watched which single handedly raises this show from a 1/10 to a 2/10, the show averages a 2.5/10 for each episode. The only thing that i can recommend about this show is the action, but only about 75% of it is any good and there's so much stupid and boring in between fights that i can hardly see anybody in it for the action bothering to sit through it. If you're just looking for something to distract you while you wait for something better, i guess it does the job, but if you like to engage with and think about the things you watch, this show is going to drive you insane. The only reason i'd recommend watching this whole show is so that you can have all of the context to appreciate Episode 22, otherwise take a pass and save yourself the headache.

Fate/Apocrypha talks about a war between two factions of 7 mages and their servants for win the Holy grail, who can realize a wish. I really like the anime because the Fate's univers is very interesting, with so many historic and good characters. I think that the character of Jeanne d'Arc is the most important character of this anime, her chara design is very nice, her voice is very sweet too. Maya Sakamoto did a good job ! The worst character is surely Sieg: he is so simpleton ! He is the typical hero who wants to save everybody of this war ! By the way, Achilles is my favorite character, he is so charismatic. The Frankenstein's monster is very cute, I love her chara design, she looks like a bride. The animation is so beautiful, A-1 has done such a really good job, the battle between Karna and Siegfried was so epic ! The special effects were so wonderful ! The soundtrack is good too, but it is not the most important thing I think. The 2 openings are nice. So if you like fantasy anime, with historic characters and a wonderful animation, Fate/Apocrypha is the anime to see.

Where's emiya when you need the story line is just to corrupt, my way of ending it was with a Grinch on my face any hoo another adaptation to the fate storyline.

This is the fifth fate series I watched. After watching grand order last order and extra last encore which were really bad, this one feels like a masterpiece.

The world and rules differ from zero and stay night and the story takes a whole episode just to introduce the characters then the action begins. I thought the storyline would be bland, but to my surprise, it kept me on my toes until the end. Some of the characters are really lovable and the English dub is great (light years away from the horrible dub in extra last encore). I loved it all the way to the end and the ending was more satisfying than any other fate series.