Review of Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
Plot - based on the moblie game adaptation of the same name "fate/grand order" takes place in the year 2016 in which a team of time travelers go back in time in order to fix issues called "singularities" that disturbs the flow of time and space, "Ritsuka Fujimaru" and his teammate/servant "Mash Kyrielight" AKA best girl go on the adventure of back in time in the ancient times around the land of uruk as they explore and team with a bunch of goddesses and protect the world from the current singularity that invades the mortal world with the non-human army and the story is prettystraightforward and paced slowly in a good way and the story in the surface may seem like a standard fantasy adventure but the way it was executed here was really amazing tbh, 10/10
Characters - Ritsuka was alright he was a fairly standard protagonist and ishtar and the other goddesses all seemed okay but what i really liked is the new portrayal of Gilgamesh in most fate content he seemed like the "full of himself" type of a king but this gilgamesh really felt like an actual king he was logical, kind and strategic and his speech was the cherry on the top for me tbh this gilgamesh's version is probably my favorite he was really great, mash kyrielight aka best girl she quickly obtained a dominant spot in my top 10 fate characters just what else can i say? mash has peak design peak personality peak waifu material pretty much all the side characters were good or fine but what i think was a missed opportunity was how poorly handled the chaldea team characters were i can understand that da vinci and romani had their screen time in the camelot movies and mash special but i wished we saw more of them more because romani and da vinci seemed to have quite the duo but i'll forgive this for best girl mash, 10/10
Production - the animation was average at best but the fight scenes seemed to be animated hard some scenes felt smooth as hell and even the osts were fine and the fate franchise never fails to create sound effect bangers like damn they hit hard when it comes to sounds effects everything was good overall, 7/10
Speciality - i liked the vibe this anime had, most adventure always feel pretty empty but fate/grand order had a final-fantasy-esque kind of vibe and i don't know if it's just me or not but coincidently i'm a fan of final fantasy games and i really liked the adventurous vibe of the anime each episode progresses the journey and not a single episode felt like filler which i think is every adventure anime should be because when a journey is at hand the audience need to see a coherent continuous journey they can follow and the themes of the anime is 100% about hope and humanity the goal of the villains is pretty much creating an upgrade for humanity and shine hope through all people, but the current humanity proves the new ones wrong by showing even in the lowest states such as the aftermath of uruk's invasion, hope can still be made through one singular speech from dear old king gilgamesh the theme of hope has been established in many fictional medias before but i liked this anime way of showing the theme without even mentioning it which is pretty genius to me, 9/10
Enjoyment - for a mobile game adaptation i expected this to be average or bad but i'm glad my expectations were blown out of the water, fate/stay night friendship ended grand order is my new friend now if you hunger for more fate content you should watch this hidden gem now!, my final rating is 10/10