Anime

When it comes to adaptations of the original Fate series, I always come to the same conclusion – the novel was better. After rewatching the first film based on the third route today, which I saw about two years ago, and immediately following that with the second one, my opinion on this hasn’t changed at all. However, since the novel has faded somewhat from memory, this adaptation seemed better to me than the previous ones. I am even considering revisiting the adaptation of the second route, which I didn’t like at all... Ideally, I should reread it, but reading in 2020 is something incompatible and shouldn’t be mentioned in the same sentence. The well-known setting and plot this time evoked a sense of nostalgia, and many things that I didn’t particularly like before were now perceived more favorably. I remembered that the characters, even though many of them aren’t very appealing to me for some reason, are made very well. Oh yes, the studio did an excellent job with the backgrounds and reminded me that Shirou lives in the house of my dreams, damn it. And overall, I think he made a big mistake; he should have romanced Ayako, left that damned city, and started mass production of little Shiro clones; then there wouldn't have been any problems, and the Grail War would have somehow resolved itself.