My heart aches from watching this. As a longtime visual novel fan, it’s just painful to see what they did to a beautiful VN. Instead of adapting it thoughtfully, they tried to cram all the routes into one, and the result makes almost no sense.
As with many VN adaptations, I usually have issues with the choice of romance option — Shuffle! and Steins;Gate come to mind, but here, it’s downright outrageous. The main character has a convenient “plot ability” that lets the writers shoehorn all routes together, which could have been clever, but instead it just feels forced.
The romance choice is the worst part. Kujo,
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Oct 12, 2025
Fate/Apocrypha
(Anime)
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Hi, fellow Fate/stay night fans here. Let me start with what I actually liked: the cast is interesting, the premise is promising, and the first 7–8 episodes had me hooked. Seriously, the early setup looked like it could’ve been great.
But that’s about all the praise I can muster. Once the male protagonist..... yes, our “Mary Sue” MC steps in, most of the rules, lore, and internal logic of the show start bending around him. The characters that were intriguing early on? Gone before you even get to know them. The stakes? Quickly evaporate. And Jeanne the supposedly “neutral” Ruler-class Servant? Yeah… spoiler-free: she’s anything but neutral. Her ... |
