I’ll be a special snowflake here. I think it deserves a 7.6/10 based on just the 3 episodes. Including the whole show, it would be a 6/10. Shaft's direction and art-style never ceases to amaze me. They insert weird shots of characters moving their lips or eyes that you just don't see coming, to the point it can kind of freak you out, and I'm saying that as a positive. It's not often you get these dynamic camera shots, and Shaft is one of the few that loves doing those. I love it; maybe I'm a masochist viewer. Also, I guess I like reading aphilosophical diatribe (I watched this subbed). This one really doesn't hold back on the talking, or the Nasu-talking philosophical rants, which I found very fascinating. Who cares about hack and slash anime when you can watch this and feel enlightened about the simple things in life. But yes, it is extremely boring leading up to these final 3 episodes. And that is the main weakness of this show. The lack of explaining things while pouring a psychological mind-****ery on you is kind of bad combination, so I would say going into this anime from the very first episode with the expectation it will be like the other fate anime is a huge mistake. You have to go into this with the mind set that you're entering a lecture with Nasu about existential nihilism. And as I said before, the animation was beautiful, like OVA or movie quality. The fights in these final few episodes was worth the time. The ending is like "wtf" and kinda leaves you thinking what the hell was that? At the end of the day, I gave this a high rating because it seems like a lot more thought was put into this than your typical-kind of anime. It was just executed in a way that turns off people with a short attention span.