Fate/Apocrypha

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.

In an alternate universe the theft of the Holy Grail 50 years previously ushers in a new conflict between the Mages Association and the rebellious Ygdillemna Family. With the activation of the Greater Grail, 15 Servants are summoned for an unprecedented battle royale in a new Holy Grail War.

I am honestly quite surprised to see some of these review not appreciating series. In my opinion this series is kinda of a breath of fresh air from the current fate shows. And yes the dub is pretty good well most Fate dubs are anyways.

Not to mention I kinda thought Sieg, Astolfo, Ruler and Murdered were all well written characters.

This is the third Fate series show I've watched. Fate: Zero and Fate: Infinity Blade Works were both very good shows that had interesting characters and solid english dub voice acting. They also got better as the show progressed and the story built upon itself. Fate: Apocrypha unfortunately falls short in this way. The characters initially seem very interesting in the first half of the show. The fights are beautifully animated and there's a sense of mystery that kept me watching. However, in the second half of the show things seem to fall apart. After a big reveal at the end of the first season the mystery is gone and the characters seem flat and boring. There's hardly any character development and the voice acting falls of a cliff for whatever reason. The action kept me watching but I couldn't find myself less interested in the story or characters (other than the Saber and her master who get far too little screen time in the second half).

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.

I was very interested in the characters at first and the idea of the holy grail war wasn't really bad , The animation The voice acting and characters all good except for that silly ruler and her lovely homunculus they were really built just with emotions and out of logic like sieg didn't even know how to eat at first but in only few days he learnt how to fight how to use magic how to be a master and became able to fight servants with the power of black saver who was barely strong enough to stay alive for 2 episodes so it just don't make sense to get a strong power from these weak guys power of hope? Of friendship ? Of freedom ? Is that how you win ? By having more emotions than your enemy has? Even though they had a perfect plan and they were strong enough to win this is none sense this anime is a disgrace for Fate series Ruler , Astolfo , Sieg really ruin the entertainment of that great war.