Review of Fate/Zero

Fate zero, a fun show, it is the kind of show where the first time you see it, you are awed by the entire sight of a marvellous castle, but when you look closely you discover the whole thing was built with toilet paper. What I'm saying is, it is a fun pretentious show, sasuga Gen, the previously most overworked writer in the medium. Pissing on Gen aside, it is a fun show if you purposefully ignore some of the "small" problems like the bullshit debate of king's banquet, the edgy misused philosophy of the train track problem and the fact for a "battle royal"there isn't much fucking tactics involved in it. Hell, FE had more planning going into each battle and FE was literally a fucking tournament.

Story - 6

So basically there is this "not-omnipotent" cup that everyone thinks is omnipotent for some reason, and no one knows it was corrupted since the third grail war. So a bunch of ignorant magus host the fourth war, featuring Kiritsugu "Muh ideal" emiya, Tokinomi "I'm full of flags" Tohsaka, Kirei "Rejoice", Waver "the only one who act like a person", Kariya "Suffering", the comedic murder and a moron who was winging it and got killed.

Yes, I do have a pretty low opinion of Zero masters besides Waver, who seems to be the only one who want to win and understands that you need a healthy relationship with your servant to do so. Even if you don't win you still get something out of this experience, something that seems to fly over the head of most masters except for ryuunosuke and later on kirei (who was also the other master that got a happy ending).

But anyway, a bunch of fighting occurs, cup blows up, go watch FSN. FZ does wrap up most of the plot lines while leaving some for the Sequel-prequal.

Character - 8 or 4 depending on character

FZ character are into two tiers, those that are written well, and those that aren't.

Good: Waver, Rider, Kirei, Iri, the comedic caster duo

Mediocre to bad: Everyone else

This is because, Gen kind of reduced everyone else to mouthpieces or plot devices, like poor Assassin (poor Zayd, King Hassan is going to kill him/her for performing so badly in this war). Especially Kiritsugu and Saber, who both got turned really awfully childish in some ways. Arturia wan't really that strict to Knight's ideal, and did a lot of underhanded tactics, which is why Tristan said "King didn't understand hearts" in the first place (and Tristan's words are not a good measurement in Nasuverse, neither is Lancelot's words). So kind of OOC for fans of other fate works, it is amazing that Gen got the duo through the war using plot armour, considering a relationship this bad is pretty much suicide for a master-servant pair.

Overall, enjoy some ignore others, anytime a character spews amateur philosophy turn off your brain.

Art,Music - 9

Good, no other words are needed.

Overall - 7

Fun pretentious work, okay as a standalone, some problems as a fate entry. Overall, it is an okay time spent, you would probably only regret wasting half of your time on this mess.