Fate/Apocrypha

Another Fate adaptation is here. Netflix won't be posting official subs for awhile but a certain dead fansub group has revived to bring us the first episode. Basically this is an alternate take on the Fourth Holy Grail War.

Actually this should be around same time as fifth would be. Weaver here is already Lord El Melloi II. and had his share of fun with Iskander in one of many fake wars ten years ago (we can assume Archibald was offed there as well, so...)

edited 2nd Jul '17 12:08:21 PM by Tenzen12

Yeah, the difference is that around the Third Holy Grail war the head of the Yggdmillennia house helped the Nazis steal the Holy Grail, so a bunch of imitations sprang up around the world.

But yeah, I was thinking that I was going to have to find some other way to watch it since it's not gonna be on Netflix for a while.

The return of glorious fan subs with such gems as the Code Geass memes

Did the show already start?

First episode was yesterday. Official subs won't be out until December/January at the earliest since Netflix has the rights so you'll have to use fansubs if you don't want to wait that long.

edited 2nd Jul '17 5:04:46 PM by Chariot

Welp, mostly here to see Mordred break stuff.

Yep, that'll be a satisfying thing to watch. That, and traps. Don't forget traps.

That said, I'm not sure how I feel about Clarent being rendered with moving parts a-la Nanoha'esque devices. It felt kinda odd to see a sword (yeah, magical sword, but still) start shifting in clearly-mechanical ways to allow for the Noble Phantasm to be fired

I'm willing to give Astolfo a chance but I suspect I'll dislike him. I usually don't like trap characters.

Right then; to Google when I get home.

EDIT: Watched it. Looks really good so far. I'm glad Waver got some screentime too. He's got Iskander's forehead-flick down too XD

I was also astonished at how Ruler was dealing with what looked like some sort of horribly mutated Spartacus? Seriously, I didn't think she'd be that strong XD The battle between the Red Dragon Tooth Soldiers and the Black homunculi and golems was also really cool. Can't wait to see when Karna and Siegfried face off.

edited 3rd Jul '17 6:45:16 AM by theLibrarian

I'll probably watch for Sigfried.

^ All five minutes of him.

edited 3rd Jul '17 8:54:31 AM by Arha

How many of these can they make?? Seriously, there's been like 30 of these.

Not really O.o

There's Stay Night, Zero, Hollow Atraxia, Strange Fake, Extra, Grand Order...I think that may be all of them sans Apocrypha.

Extella, Labyinth, Proto, Fragments, CCC. Though nobody cares about Labyrinth. There's also a few fighting games.

edited 3rd Jul '17 9:36:46 AM by Arha

So that's 11. And there's only been four anime, Zero, Fate/Stay Night, Unlimited Blade Works, and now Apocrypha.

There's also the UBW movie and Heaven's Feel is coming up soon.

Yeah there haven't been that many. If we're talking anime there's just Fate/stay night, Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works, Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works], four seasons and soon to be a movie of Fate/Kalied Liner Prisma Illya, this, and soon to be Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel as well as Fate/Extra. That's only eight anime based off the Fate franchise. Fate/Grand Order is also a thing but it's only one episode so it doesn't really count. Besides you don't have to watch everything.

edited 3rd Jul '17 9:39:59 AM by Chariot

It's also an OVA so it doesn't technically count.

You forgot Pola^wCarnival Phantasm.

@Arha Why do all of the cool servants have to die.

Fuck This series.

x2

I didn't forget I purposely left it out because from what I know it's a series that focuses on Type Moon as a whole rather than a Fate series specifically.

^^ To hype up someone nobody cares about, of course.

Although honestly Siegfried is pretty boring anyway.

edited 3rd Jul '17 3:17:09 PM by Arha

Fuck yeah Apocrypha!

The first episode was really good! The Cold Open was animated nicely and they even expanded it a bit. It gave us a bit of a preview of what we can look forward to.

Even though the rest of the episode was mostly exposition it didn't feel bogged down. Interesting that they are doing some expansion on Caster role tho.

And of course, here comes my favorite part of the series: the original Saber Clone, the King Of Daddy Issues, Moedread.

He looks amazing though.

Design-wise he's pretty badass.

Plus he's a really good Servant. Seriously, can't be damaged by anything other than a really powerful attack, has a cool Anti-Army NP...