Fate/stay night - 01 January 6
OP Sequence
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OP: 「disillusion」 by タイナカ サチ
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Summary:
10 years ago, two figures fought in the middle of Fuyuki City and enveloped it in an explosion that destroyed everything. Now, it’s apparently time again for seven magicians who employ servants to fighting each other for the Holy Grail. One of the few people who survived the inferno from that time, a boy named Emiya Shirou, was saved and has since grown up. Though the man who saved him and became his father, Emiya Kiritsugu, is no longer around, Shirou is taken care of by his homeroom teacher Fujimura-sensei (Fuji-nee) and his friend’s sister Sakura. On their way to school, Shirou and Sakura see a bunch of police cars racing somewhere, but think little of it. During the day at school, Shirou helps out by repairing machines when he’s not in class. He pinpoints the problem using magic to understand an object’s structure, but it seems that his powers are fairly limited. On their way to homeroom, Issei and Shirou spot Tohsaka Rin, a girl who seems perfect in every way, but Issei doesn’t seem to like her.
While Shirou is in an eventful homeroom led by Fuji-nee, Rin is with Archer on the rooftop discussing the other servants. Archer doesn’t have the power to perceive enemies from far away, but Rin decides to go searching anyway. During lunch, Issei tells Shirou of the crime from this morning where a family of four was murdered (which is where the police cars were going earlier), and the murderer is still on the loose. Shirou later remembers a conversation with his father about how difficult it is to save everyone. Though he feels that he understands now what his father meant, Shirou disagrees and still feels that he can help everyone. After work, Shirou senses other servants around the city, and then sees a smiling young girl on the street. She passes along the cryptic messages that he’ll die if he doesn’t quickly learn to summon.
The dinner conversation with Fuji-nee and Sakura is about Shirou’s childhood dream of becoming an ally of justice. After the two women leave, Shirou starts to practice his magic and remembers when his father told him that he was a magician. Shirou looked up to his father as a hero, but Shirou himself ended up with little magical abilities and thus has no seal to prove that he is a magician. His father did teach him that he shouldn’t use magic in front of people, and that since magic is hard to control, he should not neglect his training. But the most important thing is that magic should not be used for yourself, but only for others. Shirou swears to himself that just like his father saved him, he’ll save others and never forget his oath to be an ally of justice. Meanwhile, Rin and Archer are getting acquainted with the city and with each other.
ED Sequence
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ED: 「あなたがいた森」 by 樹海
I haven’t played the game, but I’m told that the OP is a cover of song 「THIS ILLUSION」 from it. I’m not particularly fond of the song though, and much prefer the ED (a much slower song) over it.
The first episodes does a good job of introducing various characters, but, for me who was expecting this to be an action-filled show, it seems rather slow. I was disappointed that the only fighting that takes place is at the very beginning. Those 30 seconds of fighting (between Saber and Archer it seems) looked pretty good though. And they do a good job of reinforcing how much Shirou looks up to his father and how much he wants to save people and be the “ally of justice,” which I guess is going to be one of the main themes. I don’t know the story very well, so I don’t know how that’s going to fit into the whole Holy Grail War aspect. Aside from Shirou, we’re introduced to a slew of characters from Fuji-nee (comic relief) to Rin and Archer (enemies).
The show looks pretty good animation-wise, and the music so far has been decent, but nothing to call home about. And it doesn’t seem like the quality will deteriorate for the next episode either. In fact, next episode should have quite a bit more fighting as they’re going to introduce Lancer and maybe even Saber (it looks like her armor that they’re showing towards the end of the preview). Something to look forward to…
Kaito at 3:28 pm on January 6th, 2006
glad to see you got the screencaps for FS/N up already :O
The OP and ED for the anime aren’t the same as the game’s OP and ED are they?
“THIS ILLUSION” –> “disillusion”…………
Fury at 3:30 pm on January 6th, 2006
ehh its looking pretty good
Kaito at 3:31 pm on January 6th, 2006
waiting for Omni’s opinions =3
zynk at 3:35 pm on January 6th, 2006
Hopefully animation wont go down in budgets in few eps like we saw it many times it really hurts when nice shows are killed by low budgets and poor animation
Syaoran Li at 3:54 pm on January 6th, 2006
That was fast!
^_^ Hopefully this will be my favorite show of the season, besides with Shakugan no Shana.
bj0rN`- at 3:56 pm on January 6th, 2006
LoL! I got a different set of screenshots. By my friend actually. He kinna got it minutes after the show was aired. But 1 thing’s for sure… The animation is great!
GStrike- at 4:36 pm on January 6th, 2006
wow looks great can’t wait to watch it… hope it’s just as good as bleach and Shakugan no Shana.
Nunka at 4:39 pm on January 6th, 2006
>> Hopefully animation wont go down in budgets in few eps like we saw it many times it really hurts when nice shows are killed by low budgets and poor animation
And hopefully it won’t devolve into a fetid pile of primordial ooze like Shakugan no Shana did.
Azbaby at 4:57 pm on January 6th, 2006
Sniff Sniff it has been liscensed by Geneon NO even before one ep been subb sniff sniff…. there goes more of my hard earned moeny to support this anime
Varion at 5:11 pm on January 6th, 2006
Kaito - About the OP… It’s pretty much the same song, although the whole thing is much softer and less… jarring. I didn’t like the game’s opening song and much prefer this one.
Kaito at 5:17 pm on January 6th, 2006
@Varion: softer and less jarring huh.. so it’s like a remix then?
@Nunka: fetid pile of primordial ooze?!?!?? you must be referring to the Aizen twins xD
deftoned at 5:20 pm on January 6th, 2006
::drools::
Can’t wait for subs!
Rasmiel at 5:28 pm on January 6th, 2006
Very slow beginning, it’s mostly introduction about Shiro…The animation on the most part wasn’t as good as the Curtain Raiser. Oh well, I hope the pace will start to pick up soon.
Mentar at 5:39 pm on January 6th, 2006
The animation was _amazing_. The show is oozing production values out of every pore.
I don’t know the game, but all those who did were very happy with the adaption. We’ll get enough action later on. For now, character introduction is king.
K.Neko at 5:48 pm on January 6th, 2006
yea its good and well i’m glad we will sub it ^^
the only thing that annoy me was the opening change …but well still promising series
mangamaxx at 5:49 pm on January 6th, 2006
finally it comes out!! Been looking forward to this since summer! Looks like everything I hoped, just hope a group subs it soon.
JT at 5:49 pm on January 6th, 2006
and the time has come!! finally wow it looks good
JT at 5:51 pm on January 6th, 2006
i dont know why but its kinda reminfing me of Ragnarok The Animation…. expecially the main character
mangamaxx at 5:57 pm on January 6th, 2006
don’t say that. Ragnarok anime was a big let down. You check out the story for fate? Seems good, like really good.
Dark_Schneider at 6:03 pm on January 6th, 2006
no offense but , no please man..ragnarok SUCKS A LOT!!
the main caracter from ragnarok is a loser!
and the rest of the caracters too, and the story more and more!
this anime here is like CRIST THE LORD, i mean it´s gonna save us all from the eternity hell of bad animation.so please don´t crucify it yet!!!Jesus have mercy from this mortal otaku ( LOL )