Review of Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia

This anime was made by the SALT of the players of FGO, but man did Cloverworks DELIVER Ritsuka deploys Harem Protagonist EX So LA will get LA's own credentials into FGO so you know what LA knows before LA started watching Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia. So LA watched the first Fate Grand Order First Order OVA, then got into FGO (EN) after it was released but LA more or less skipped the story and played the game mostly F2P and even though LA skipped the story (that will uhhh affect this anime in a good way), what LA got out of the gameplay and it'scharacters is why LA got to still playing the game, HECK, LA started playing FGO on JP, that's how great FGO has gotten to LA.

So with that out of the way, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia is the 7th Singularity of the Main 1st Arc of the game and it's one of the fan favourite Singularities thusly why this even got an anime. Yes, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia being the SEVENTH story might think it's only "for the fans" and yes it could, but with how isolated this Singularity is while only having a few rare plot points/scenes are linked to the latter and previous Singularities, but it doens't affect the main plot arc of this anime.

Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia is focused on Ritsuka Fujimaru voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki along with Mash Kyrielight voiced by Rie Takahashi going into the Babylonia Singularity and in finding the Holy Grail (What the previous 6 Singularities also did) to fix the singularity in question. This time in Babylonia, Ritsuka and Mash comes across Gilgamesh voiced by Tomokazu Seki as he commands the city of Uruk and the Absolute Demonic Front and the last stand of humanity. But upon meeting Gil, Gil ALREADY has the Holy Grail, however there is greater threats looming other than magical beasts, a Goddess Alliance and one of Gil's past shadows arises and the singularity is still hasn't been fixed.

Ok, there's lots to get through so let's start with characters. For the most part, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia brings in some character we pseudo-knows but "different", like Gilgamesh and Ishtar voiced by Kana Ueda with Gilgamesh not being the world's annoying bully, but instead Gilgamesh is now or to be more precise, before Fate/Zero is the commanding yet overworked king, where Ishtar a Mesopotamian goddess using Rin Tohsaka's body but personality-wise...is Rin Tohsaka. If people have watched First Order then Ritsuka and Mash are pretty much the same, BUT if anything Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia gives us ALOT of development to the both of them. With Ritsuka as the player surrogate but for a player surrogate, he has his own personality, he doesn't want to hurt anyone but ith the position he's in and the threats looming in, he HAD to fight even though he doesn't want to. Yeah for a player surrogate he is quite developed and yeah on the other side of things about Ritsuka and played ofr laughs is that he unintentionally caused a harem of servants in the process what with his personality and all. But to this, Ritsuka helps develop the servants one way or another like Mash and her dilemma of being a demi-servant with not much time left and Ritsuka comforting but her thus develops both of the simultaneously. Something the game would just gives us two choices that slightly changes the personality of Ritsuka, but here, we have the steadfast Master, sorta white knight but when push comes to shove, he will stand his ground, what with being the "last Master" left in humanity thus to save humanity he needs to sacrifice his pacifistic nature for humanity. Mash aforementioned got alot of development as what the singularity brings and wrings out affects Mash, for being a demi-servant with not much time, to humanity itself having not much time left what with both the Incineration of Humanity AND the threats against Uruk all happening at once, Mash can occasionally ties into the theme of Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia of losing and gaining hope for humanity.

On the minor character side of things, though there is ALOT of characters in this Singularity from Ushiwakamaru voiced by Saori Hayami, Leonidas I voiced by Shinchiro Miki, Quetzalcoatl voiced by Aya Endou, Ereshkigal, Ana voiced by Yuu Asakawa, Siduri voiced by Yumi Uchiyama, Benkei voiced by Tetsu Inada, Enkidu voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro, BUSTER MEMES Merlin voiced by Takahiro Sakurai and the aforementioned Ishtar and Gil all having a bit to play some more than others but if anything ALOT of these minor characters have their time in the limelight one AWESOME to heartbreaking ways to another. Due to how hectic Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia was with it's plot points and how it dealt with it in a small arc basis, for the most part, the majority of the cast along with Ritsuka and Mash are developed extremely well and played their parts well.

And that worked because of the animation and voice work done on Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia. Let's start off with the animation done by CloverWorks. CloverWorks OUTDID themselves with the animation, right down the expressive characters animation, to the batshit insanely well done and polished battles. CloverWorks outright did amazingly well in on this front. With a little bit of trivia is that some of the ALOT of animators famous or not were pretty much "Promoted fanboys", where they were given some of the favourite moments of Babylonia to animate!, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia wasn't only for the fans, it might as well of been animated BY the fans. CloverWorks once again strikes again and outdid themselves in the animation department.

As for the voice cast, the voice cast were amazing as well, form Nobunaga Shimazaki as Ritsuka, Rie Takahashi as Mash, Kana Ueda as Ishtar, Tomokazu Seki as Gil, Yuu Asakawa as Ana, Takahiro Sakurai as Merlin, Yumi Uchiyama as Siduri and Saori Hayami as Ushiwakamaru LA might've given all of them MVP's as well as many others. LA REALLY can't say much cept praise this voice cast and LA can't even pinpoint LA's MVP, there's just so many good voice actors in Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia, it's THAT good.

Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia for long time Fate fans gives us differing perspectives on certain characters or characters in new roles, the biggest in contention is Gilgamesh himself as in Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia he's the commanding, inspiring and a somewhat caring King of Uruk trying to save humanity unlike his Fate stay night counterpart and Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia will develop him into the loving, commanding king he is and to the point of Tomokazu's laugh as Gil becomes infectious, if you'd hated Fate/Zero's Gil, then you'll love Caster Gil. The other prominent one would be Ana who is pretty much a younger Medusa so we get to see the side of her when never really got from Fate stay night.

With as much praise LA does give Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia there is ONLY one nitpick LA has to put on this anime and that is near the ending it does kinda rush it, but to this defence, LA can see why trying to put in a mobile game visual novel anime adaptation to a 21 episode anime, things are gonna be left out and the such and even then , the rushing kept mostly in line with the story (which I know thanks to other FGO Youtubers) so the rushing wasn't a HUGE detriment one way or another.

Now Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia does take some liberties in what some of the game's visual like pacing was given and sometimes even surpassed some scenes in this regard because of the limitations of the game itself, thus animating it and seeing it much more detailed and visually just made the experience MUCH better in this regard. On the other side, the other liberties Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia was given in it's anime form was that some scenes were either omitted for good reason thus padding out the mundane tasks of the game or changed in order to make the plot progression easier for the audience. So either way even though Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia changed or taken liberties with certain scenes, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia did it for the better experience and naturally made the plot progression easier.

Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia is a mobile game adaptation for the fans, by the fans and it bloody well shows with how great the quality from the animation, voice cast and the great plot of Babylonia itself. Yes the battles are some of the best highlights of Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia but another strength is that of it's characters and how well they developed not only the characters but the relationships between Ritsuka and his Servants helped immensely with this anime. Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia was an amazing experience for LA and LA WISHED LA didn't skip the story i the mobile game because of it, but nonetheless seeing Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia animated and what it gave out, Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia was pretty awesome and quite obviously might bring in new players because of this anime, thus Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia did it job and quite easily exceeded LA's experience tenfold.

For LA Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia opens the gate to FGO's other singularities to maybe be animated and with the Camelot singularity announcement to be animated to a movie, LA wouldn't mind an Epic of Remnant anime of Salem or Shinjuku or maybe a long form OVA of the Fate Extra CCC Event and the rumors of Fate strange fake, the possibilities are endless and Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia opened it and with the finale hinting at the Solomon Singularity...FGO has the potential and likely CAN do it if they wanted to.

Useless Goddess Ishtar, but Best Goddess Eresh.