Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works Abridged

So anyone else watching this? Because Episode 3 is freshly out

For those who might be considering to watch it:

Abridged version of Ufotables Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] made by Project Mouthwash, the same group behind Bleach (S) Abridged. It has a cutely psycho Rin, a Limericking Lancer, Satan and a familiar sounding Shirou competing to win the Murder Death Kill Holy Grail War.

Edited by 3of4 on Aug 12th 2018 at 6:21:10 PM

I considered making a topic for this, but the massive gaps in the episode releases wouldn't leave much room for activity.

Watched Episodes 0-2.

I'm impressed by the general production values, episode length (these are so long for an abridged show what the hell), and comedy. I've never been one for the Fate series but I'm seriously considering watching it now.

I watched all of the episodes and I really enjoyed them. The dialogue and humor is very good. However I do think there's a bit too much stuff that assumes you already watched Fate/Zero, and a lot of the jokes about Shirou being Archer aren't very subtle at all.

Abridged series tend to work on the assumption that you've already watched the normal shows.

I followed it well enough without watching any of the source. Though later on I did go on Netflix and watch the first couple episodes.

I just discovered it yesterday. I really enjoyed it. The length of time between updates is pretty long, but then again TFS only makes Hellsing Ultimate Abridged once a year so it's not a deal breaker.

New episode for the holiday season.

Edited by VeryMelon on Dec 9th 2018 at 8:19:01 AM

Just caught up.

Giving Saber and Shirou a mother/son relationship is an interesting and funny way to portray them.

Tiger Mom is best mom.

Started to watch this series and just finished ep 0.

My God, Archer being called Actually Satan and Shirou having Sword Art Online Abridged Series' Kirito voice is...totally something. XD

-sighs- I wonder if this series will ever finish.

Updates are slow but coming steadfastly?

Episode 5 is here, call it a belated Halloween gift.

God, their Kotomine is great. I mean, all of the characters are great here, but him especially.

I wasn't hot on him at first, but over time it really grew on me.

I'm also excited at the news that the team is trying to finish the series by 2020. That means next year should have a constant release cycle instead of having one or two episodes a year.

A preview, full episode on the 16th, early access for patreon donators.

Episode's out:

Edited by RebelFalcon on Feb 14th 2020 at 7:33:07 AM

try [[youtube: and cut everything but the id

Thanks

Okay the way they edited Shirou summoning Kanshou and Bakuya there is just badass as fuck, holy shit.

And lelz at Archer, as always.

Edited by TheAirman on Feb 17th 2020 at 11:08:06 AM

I do wonder if they're implying Archer and Saber actually remember the Moon Cell when discussing the Moon. Cause if they do... that seems a bit problematic. It was Archer's time as "Nameless" and serving under Hakuno that had him Took a Level in Kindness, hence why in FGO he's a lot more cheerful and acting as the Cool Big Bro to the player and Mash, as well as being less obsessed with wanting to kill Shiro. But if he remembers the Moon Cell, why is he still so cynical, jaded, and determined to kill Shiro? Well, I mean, obviously the answer is that this is an Abridged Series and character personalities tend to be exaggerated for comedy, but it still makes the timeline weird. Only thing I can think of is if "Nameless'" time on the Moon Cell wasn't that good for him in the UBWA-verse, and he's still cynical because of that.

Pretty funny episode, but I really did not need to be reminded of that terrible Illya bath scene.

Welp, no one else has added this yet, but since I'm subscribed to them, here it is:

Wasn't very funny, but the episode is trying to focus more on drama and characterization, which is fair I suppose.

I do think the series tries a bit too hard to be "lore compliant" and making sure you understand the minutia of how things work, instead of playing fast and loose for the sake of humor or smoothness. Like, that they went over the details of how Berserker could lose multiple lives at once without playing it off as being dumb as fuck speaks to their priorities.

Humor never seemed to be their priority. This isn't something unique to UBWA, since they do this with Bleach (S) Abridged and did it with Digimon Adventure tri. Abridged. They're doing a different take on it, but are trying to be respectful to the original series' and faithful to the lore.

Plus, the God Hand thing is actually a Mythology Gag moment. Since as demonstrated in Fate/Grand Order, Heracles can have his God Hand rendered basically useless, and has had it happen numerous times. One time from touching David's Arc of the Covenant, another from being subjected to Artemis' Kill Sat twice.