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

How did this anime, that I have serious complaints about, end up being one of my favourite anime of all time? I'd like to talk about things that I didn't like first. Music/OSTs were average. They were not THAT bad but any anime in general usually have pretty sick soundtracks. The music in this show was nothing special, some of them were used in very fitting scenes, however it is nothing to write home about. They were also very overused and felt like they didn't have a large variety of soundtracks (even though their album has so many songs, I'm assuming it's one of those situationswhere most of the songs are the same with slight differences or different covers).

The CGI was questionable. Some of it was used so well that some CGI looked better than hand drawn animation, but most of them were absolutely there just for the sake of it. If you easily get bothered by CGI, you are going to be in for a ride here because they have so much CGI and some of them are very poorly done as well.

The story was a little meh as well, but there is nothing to criticize there as they were basically following actual myths so the characters and their backstories mostly did line up with the real myths we have (mostly sumerian but there are few others from different places and times as well). Obviously the things that happen are not exactly like the myths as we have couple of characters that shouldn't exist in the same time period, however they were kind of accurate most of the time which was interesting. Definitely felt like the story could've been better, but it's above average with all the basic writing we have nowadays.

Now if I have this many complaints, how can I rate this show so highly?

The 2d animation fight scenes were unparalleled. The art style was very appealing. Overall direction of the show was also very good (camera angles, the way environment was set up, how they presented the scenes etc.).

They had so many characters that I loved, almost entirety of the cast were really cool and interesting. The sound design was really sick (except I would have appreciated if everything wasn't that loud so I could actually crank up the volume and enjoy the music and the conversations as well).

This overall felt like a successful adaptation. I enjoyed every episode and never got bored. They kept surprising me with every epic scene they had.

this show is a 10/10 for me and it's a very hard to hate show even with all the flaws it has. I gurantee your satisfaction and if you walk into it expecting nothing out of it, you're in for a surprise.