I want to get into the Fate series. Where do I start? Im

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>>144325522
Watch Fate/Zero, Unlimited blade works and you're pretty much done, unless you'll love it, than you may watch fate/stay night out of curiosity and get disappointed /spoiler]

Read Fate/Stay Night, the realta nua version, and go from there.

>>144325955
This.

Read all three routes of the visual novel then watch Fate/Zero, then you can watch the UBW anime if you want.

What's so fucking hard about production order?

Read Fate/Stay Night, try to forget the shit parts, read Fate/Hollow Ataraxia, and stop there.

>>144325522
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAx8f-VGzCw

>>144326412
What parts are shit?

>>144326508
Heaven's Feel

>>144325955
/thread.

>>144326562
Weird way to spell UBW but okay.

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Don't. Read Tsukihime instead.

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>>144326729
LOL!

>>144325522
Don't.

Step 1: Read the visual novel for about an hour.
Step 2: Realize how shit it is.
Step 3: Uninstall
Step 4: Continue on with your life pretending it doesn't exist.

I enjoyed Zero and recently tried to watch Stay Night, but I got about halfway through it and dropped it because it's fucking terrible (boring as hell). I'm told UBW is better and I'm thinking of picking that up.

>>144326962
>watch
You fucked up

>>144325522

Do >>144325836 this. Make sure you stop here, you'll realise that what you just watched was shit and that everything else in the franchise is actually worse. Save yourself the pain of knowledge.

What is wrong with the original fate anime?

>>144327142
I honestly can't even think of a single good thing.

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>>144327142
studio deen

>>144325522
Why would you want to?

>>144325522
Read the VN -> read/watch Zero + read Hollow Ataraxia -> read Prisma Illya. After that, just read whatever looks fun in the list of spinoffs

Without the bias of everyone else
OP watch fate zero, then fate stay night, and the unlimited blade works for a different telling of fate stay night.

Afterwards seek out heavens feel for another telling. And finally circle back and read fate stay night realta nua

>>144327417
This

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>>144325522
Dont listen to anyone else, this is the only way to watch it

>>144326962
>got through Zero
>thinks off the rails anime is boring
Urobuchishitters, not even once.

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>>144327417
Why would you watch all the adaptations and THEN read the source material? It should be the other way around.

should i just play the vn?

>>144329270
>should I just read the source material, the thing that spawned the huge franchise
Nah probably not.

>>144329270
Yes reading the VN is the best way to start the series(original(with sex) or realta nua(no sex)) would be fine but I prefer the original cuz ya know no censorship.

>>144329845
You can turn sex scenes on in realta nua.

wait, fate was just a shit eroge?

wtf how do you make a story out of that

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>>144325522
prisma illya is the only good one

>>144325836
ubw is worse than fsn tho

>>144325522
>Where do I start?
Don't

>>144325522
>I want to get into the Fate series.
Don't.

It's shit.

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don't listen to these retards, the vn sucks ass

they convinced me to read it, and it was shit

>>144331259
>just a shit eroge
Not just a shit eroge, THE shit entry level eroge
You get to fuck king arthur, how's that sound?
>how do you make a story out of that
You replace the awkard porn with "waa, don't look, ecchi! baka!" and hope the flashy CGI and stock sound effects draw attention away from it. Or in the case of certain spinoffs, make everyone a lesbian and it sort of works itself out (as it often does with modern day shows).

>>144325522
Play the Visual Novel. Good luck to find the latest version.
If you want to know if you like the universe first, watch the Fate/Zero anime, which is a prequel.

>>144327142
The original Fate anime is not bad. People meme is up hard as being shit, but the only really shit thing DEEN did was the UBW movie. Granted, the 2006 anime isn't really on the level of what Ufotable does, but if you go in with the expectations of it being a middling budget show from 2006, and you'll probably not hate it. It's like a 6/10.

Plus, you need the Fate story. You're not gonna enjoy Empire Strikes Back if you don't watch A New Hope.

Of course you can always read the VN, but if you want to watch an anime adaptation, the 06 series is essential.

>>144331819
>The original Fate anime is not bad.
It was bad.

>>144327417
just listen to this. No one likes reading only autists would read something they can watch

>>144331917
It told the story of the Fate route reasonably well. Did it have some weird moments where it tried to merge in stuff from UBW and HF? Yeah. Was it particularly flashy or well animated? No.

Was it Tsukihime 2.0? Fuck no. just plug your nose through the episodes with Caster and you'll be fine.

>>144331819
I nean I'd rather watch DEEN/Stay Night than UBW.

>>>/v/

Prisma Ilya.

>>144333407
The movie? Yeah, but I'd say the 06 was definitely several steps down from the 14 series.

Course though it had a lot going against it. Smaller budget, had to deal with selling not just the Fate route, but the whole VN. I won't say though it's a spectacular job. Its strengths lies in the fact that it is FSN, and FSN to a lot of people is an enjoyable story.

>>144331917
the visual novel was bad, therefore the anime was bad

ubw was worse

>>144333560
nah

>>144325522
Fate/Zero
Re:Zero
Fate/Stay Night UBW
Prism Illya
and done

>>144326351
This. People who watch prologues when they've been released years after the original are retarded as fuck.

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>>144333600
>Re:Zero

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>>144333503
>The movie?
I was talking about Unlimited Budget Works.
>Yeah, but I'd say the 06 was definitely several steps down from the 14 series.
The 14 series was crazy drawn out and boring, and had this habit of sucking life out of the characters the way Tsukihime did.

>>144334186
I disagree? UBW was slower paced, considering this series came out after a movie that tired to cram it all in 105 minutes, I think that's welcome.

I'm not sure how you can say the 06 is less boring, considering even with the added material there isn't a whole lot of action, and what's there isn't that well animated.

I like the 06 series for what it is, don't get me wrong, and it's definitely essential for understanding the story of Fate as a whole, but I'd never really watch it for anything past the story level. UBW has a level of very enjoyable visual merit beyond the narrative.

how do the japs make eroge trash bearable?