History Anime / FateGrandCarnival

* MesACrowd: A bizarre sequence in the second episode has Edmond Dantes stranded alone on an uninhabited island. He quickly [[MundaneUtility makes use of his Noble Phantasm to create duplicates to build a shelter for himself.]] By the end of the sequence, [[UpToEleven a veritable army of Dantes fills up the screen, having created a ''palatial resort hotel''.]]

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: When Nero suddenly returns for the cavalry battle after dying earlier, she calls out "Thrice I Welcome the Setting Sun!" which is the name of her in-game skill that revives her when she is defeated.

A special episode aired as part of the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special on December 31, 2020. At the end of the short, two full OVA seasons were announced which would be released on June 2, 2021 and October 13th, 2021. On July 3rd 2022, the the two seasons were added to Website/{{Crunchyroll}} with an English dub.

A special episode aired as part of the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special on December 31, 2020. At the end of the short, two full OVA seasons were announced which would be released on June 2, 2021 and October 13th, 2021. On July 3rd 2022, the first OVA season was added to Website/{{Crunchyroll}} with an English dub.

A special episode aired as part of the Fate Project New Year's Eve TV Special on December 31, 2020. At the end of the short, two full OVA seasons were announced which would be released on June 2, 2021 and October 13th, 2021.

* AlternateSelf: Frequently seen due to the game having them, having four different Cú Chulainn appear before being executed. Interestingly, Nero and Osakabehime's summer versions are treated as their original counterparts in swimsuits rather than separate Servants.

''Fate/Grand Carnival'' is the 2021 {{Sequel}} to 2011's OriginalVideoAnimation comedy short series ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', featuring the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters that now make up the roster of Type-Moon's massively successful ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' mobile phone game rather than just those from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' specifically. Which unsurprisingly leads to even more [[HilarityEnsues ridiculous situations]].

* AdaptationalCurves: As shown in the opening, Shuten Doji is bustier in ''Fate/Grand Carnival'' than she is in ''Fate/Grand Order'', and is also [[AdaptationalModesty wearing less-revealing clothes]].

* AscendedMeme: A long-time joke from FGO fans is that they overwork the top-tier servants in farming. The 2nd trailer shows Ritsuka doing just that with Blackbeard leading an union strike against her.

''Fate/Grand Carnival'' is the 2021 spin-off of ''Fate/Grand Order'', similar to 2011's OriginalVideoAnimation comedy short series ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'', featuring the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters that now make up the roster of Type-Moon's massively successful ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' mobile phone game rather than just those from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' and ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' specifically. Which unsurprisingly leads to even more [[HilarityEnsues ridiculous situations]].

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* CanonForeigner: The different "Mysterious Necos" in the first episode are basically the different Neco-Arcs from ''Carnival Phantasm'' dressed up as the Servants their voice actors play as. Cue episode 2, and suddenly there is a "Mysterious Neco M" (Merlin) thrown into the mix, even though Creator/TakahiroSakurai doesn't have a Neco-Arc he voiced before.

** The opening has a brief scene of Ereshkigal streaming before it abruptly cuts off to Dumuzid looking at a banned streaming account. In the Servatube episode, it is instead [[spoiler:Osakabehime who gets banned after she goes way overboard with her fanservice when trying to beat Eresh in a popularity contest]].

** Osakabehime uses this to her advantage as a Servatuber. Unfortunately she goes overboard with it during her popularity contest against Ereshkigal [[spoiler:getting herself banned.]].

** Osakabehime in episode 2, providing ample cleavage during her Serva-tuber streams. When she's losing a popularity contest against Ereshkigal, she resorts to changing into her swimsuit variant, proclaiming that she'll stream that way exclusively if the viewers vote for her. She wins [[spoiler:Only to get banned and her channel locked immediately afterwards.]]

** The opening has a brief scene of Ereshkigal streaming before it abruptly cuts off to Dumuzid looking at a banned streaming account. In the Servatube episode, it is instead Osakabehime who gets banned after she goes way overboard with her fanservice when trying to beat Eresh in a popularity contest.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Ereshkigal is part this, part LoveMartyr in regards to her relationship with Ritsuka. She's upset that Ritsuka won't sortie her so they can spend time together and tries to catch her attention first by becoming a Servatuber and then by using a grail dropped by Dumuzid to create a singularity. However, once Ritsuka reveals that she had already reached max bond with Ereshkigal (implying that Ritsuka herself no longer cares about her), Ereshkigal is ''elated''.

* EvilLaugh: Dantes pretty much spends his entire appearance laughing his signature laugh while trapped on an island and multiplying himself to build a wooden castle. Gilgamesh unexpectedly joins in the cacophony of laughter and he ends up blasting Gil with his Noble Phantasm.

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: da Vinci gets out of dodge and leaves behind a cardboard cutout by the time Altria and Nero are about to wreck Chaldea with their Noble Phantasms.

* WeaksauceWeakness: Gawain's [[PowerOfTheSun Numeral of the Saint]] is completely useless even in the right time if he's in a place without the sun... like the indoor piste. D'Eon easily runs through him after pointing it out.

* {{Yandere}}: Artemis is this to Orion. Both times when she catches him attempting to hit on (and grope) Mash, she turns him into a pincushion — the second time, it even looks like [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Curruid Coinchenn]]!

* {{Mockumentary}}: The Servant Union Strike skit is presented as a ten-minute documentary show, following Blackbeard and a few servants in their everyday life and presenting the difference between the lifestyle of the lower rarity servants and the high-rarity [[FreezeFrameBonus (with some exceptions)]] ones in Chaldea.

* BadBoss: Ritsuka might not be as bad as [[Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO Riyo Gudako]], but she's still not a Master you'd want to work under. When presented with a choice to keep either her full paycheck or all her Servants she chooses her paycheck without a second thought, doesn't bother helping Mash when she's sexually assaulted by Orion, puts all her high-rarity Servants in a competition of literal life or death while flat out killing everyone worth 3 stars or less (with the exception of her personal favorite, Red Hare), kills Cú Alter (despite being a 5 star) to make sure the Cú Chulainn species goes extinct, and has the gall to act saddened by her Servants dying in a competition ''she chose to put them through.'' Likewise, from even the 2nd trailer, she turns out to be the kind of Master that overworks her existing Servants to the point that Blackbeard led a union strike against her.

* VisualPun: Why is Red Hare Ritsuka's favorite low-rarity Servant? Because Ritsuka has ''red hair''.

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** BrickJoke: During his fencing match against D'eon, Gawain says that the sun's power will grant him magnificent muscles. Later, [[spoiler:after Chaldea ends up falling down its slope foundation, Gawain, having survived the ordeal, emerges out of the snow half-naked, with magnificent muscles, thanks to being exposed to the sun.]]

* AlternateSelf: Frequently seen due to the game having them, having four different Cú Chulainn appear before being executed. Interestingly, Nero's Caster self is treated as her Saber counterpart in a swimsuit rather than a separate Servant.

* BrickJoke: During his fencing match against D'eon, Gawain says that the sun's power will grant him magnificent muscles. Later, [[spoiler:after Chaldea ends up falling down its slope foundation, Gawain, having survived the ordeal, emerges out of the snow half-naked, with magnificent muscles, thanks to being exposed to the sun.]]

* ContinuityNod: During the swimming event, Nero refers to herself as the personification of the beauty of Venus, prompting Ishtar to comment on the audacity of saying that in the presence of the ACTUAL Goddess of Venus. The two of them had this same conversation during the Setsubun event in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''.

* DownerEnding: Played for laughs with the first episode, where the Olympia Games end up causing Chaldea to slide down the mountain it is built on (represented by a silly ArtShift), and restoring the building makes the resource shortage even worse.

** While not as bad as her ''Webcomic/LearningWithMangaFGO'' incarnation, Ritsuka "recycles" numerous servants for utterly silly reasons, tells Mash ridiculous BlatantLies despite it being obvious Mash [[OnlySaneMan doesn't believe her at all]], and generally doesn't seem to care about anything but her pay not getting cut and hanging out with her CoolHorse Servant, Red Hare.
** Da Vinci suggests the Servant culling in the first place basically cause she's annoyed with them bothering her about silly things like rooms so they're not sleeping in the halls and mana to not suffer a CriticalExistenceFailure, and then just leaves halfway through the selection process for who's going to go, leaving a badly made cardboard cutout with nothing but "Gone Home" written on it.

* KilledOffscreen: Aside from the Cú Chulainns, whose deaths are part of a RunningGag, every servant who are three stars and below in the arena except for two (Nobukatsu and Red Hare) are never seen again, presumably burned into mana prisms like the Cú's.

** The second episode indirectly spoils that the servant Mash fuses with during the Fuyuki Singularity is Galahad, Lancelot's son from Arthurian Mythology.

* MagicalGirl: Shuten-Douji and Ibaraki-Douji appear at the end of the episode for a spoof commercial of an ''Oni-cure'' episode just like what Arcueid did in ''Carnival Phantasm''.

* MsFanservice: The swimming event is basically an excuse for the female Servants to wear their summer swimsuits, with a small subversion on Nitocris: While she has an attractive swimsuit, she spends all of her screentime covered with her Medjed sheet (part of her swimsuit costume), thus she's the least fanservice provider of the swimming Servants in the short aside from Meltryllis, who is wearing the penguin part of her swimsuit.

** In episode 1, not just Lancer, but every version of Cú Chulainn is eliminated in one fell swoop. Ritsuka and Mash even say the requisite lines. Episode 2 seem to go without killing the poor man off, but the Oni Cure section shows a chalk line that is clearly of Cú Chulainn, and the Tiger Dojo ends with Jaguar Warrior knocking poor Lancer out cold, with her and Sitonai saying the requisite line.

* WeirdTradeUnion: In the second season Blackbeard leads a union for Servants that are overworked from farming.

** Not just Lancer, but every version of Cú Chulainn is eliminated in one fell swoop. Ritsuka and Mash even say the requisite lines.

* ShoutOut: The Moriarty sagment is called ''[[Manga/TheLaughingSalesman The Laughing Bartender]].''