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

Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia is an anime with rather disappointing story with slight pacing problems, boring main characters, but also boasts of amazingly, stylishly animated battle scenes that are guaranteed to get your blood pumping. While I believe the anime brushed up the fgo game storyline quite a bit(being a player myself,) I still found it quite lacking. Sudden resurrections without any good explanation, tons of exposition heavy mechanics that only pop up at the eleventh hour, and an obligatory focus on the boring, bland, fairly useless main character add up to a pretty unsatisfactory narrative. Fujimaru Ritsuka is the fgo game player's proxy,and thus, is an unremarkable character. The anime maintains him as the main character, but instead of using him as a pov character, proceeds to insert him into forcibly as a crucial component in many climactic battles. Note that he is not a magician, has almost zero abilities, and only became a "master" by chance. No. He is not someone you want as the main focus of the story.

Personally, I wasn't much interested in Mashu either. But being a "servant," she is at the very least more interesting and powerful than Fujimaru. To be honest, the whole Kalutea team is pretty boring.

The rest of the cast were great, though, especially the Fate series favourite, Gil!

But story and characters aside, the battle scenes were mind-blowing. I don't want to get into specifics(spoilers!), but suffice to say that though the battles were a little sparse in the first half, they are more than enough to keep the viewer hooked, waiting, waiting for the next one. And when the battles pick up in density in the second half, wow! It's a roller coaster ride of amazing visuals, bombastic sound design, on-point seiyuu acting, fluid animation, creative camerawork, roaring action, and just overall great, great fun!

Google the episode summaries and watch the ones with battle scenes. You will not be disappointed. The story is more of a pass for me(despite being a game player :P). But the battle scenes, the battle scenes are a MUST WATCH!!!!!