Sunday, April 18, 2010

Anime in Focus: Fate Stay Night Episode 1


Hello again readers, I’ve had a new anime club meeting, and hence a new batch of episodes to review. Well, sort of. We watched the first four episodes of Fate/Stay Night then everybody bailed to study because it’s getting to the end of the semester. So I’m going to watch some more stuff on my own to review so I don’t just post four straight reviews for the same anime. Won’t hurt me at least.

Anyway, on to the actual segment. This is the mandatory exposition episode. My friend who’d seen the series said we can skip it, but after seeing the first four eps, I can say he’s full of BULL****. Although not much happens, this episode sets up the characters and the general premise of the story. It starts with out a couple of warriors fighting and causing an explosion in some village. Unsurprisingly, the only survivor is the main character, Shiro.

After that, we learn about something called the “Holy Grail War, ” where a lot of people are fighting over something. Probably the Holy Grail. Then we’re transported to modern day, ten years later. Here we learn that Shiro has some strange power that makes him a really good mechanic. Also, we see a wizard summoning up an ancient warrior to do her bidding in this “Holy Grail war”

Lesse, not much happens in this episode… apparently there’s a” gas leak” (Why is all alien activity covered by gas leaks?) and some people being murdered with a bladed weapon. The main character seems to think it’s not going to affect him, but he’s definitely wrong. The main ends up walking past a creepy little girl, after a flashback about his father, and a few rants about the main character’s idealism. Also, the main character keeps having an image of a sword appear in his head.

Series looks good actually, I’m pretty exited to see everybody duke it out.

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