I suspect this is another one of those Fate eps where mainstream opinion and myself are two ships passing in the night. I confess I almost bailed on this episode a couple of times, but I’m glad I stuck it out because the last three minutes or so were the […] Read more
As is so often the case with Fate, this episode was a case of taking the bitter with the sweet. For an episode that featured the great triumvirate of Fate awfulness – TsundeRin, Loli and Shinji – this episode was remarkably good. Part of it was that we got the […] Read more
New cour, same Fate. I honestly didn’t expect a whole lot to change with UBW simply because three months have passed – this is very much one contiguous series, just as the split cours of Fate/Zero were. I like what I always liked – the production values are simply stunning, […] Read more
Memo to self: start future episodes of UBW at the 15:00 mark. Fittingly, the season finale of Unlimited Blade Works is a microcosm of everything the series is as a whole. Irritating, pandering, visually stunning, gripping, and too long. I really wonder if this adaptation would have been better served […] Read more
This tune is strangely familiar… It’s a weekend of farewells – Ferguson, Colbert, Mushishi – but Unlimited Blade Works is going to be with us for another cour, and even this one for another week. In fact, like Ace of Diamond it’s going to ring out 2014 with a double-episode […] Read more
And just like that, the switch is flipped… It’s hard to believe that in any season Unlimited Blade Works could be only the second-most maddeningly up-and-down series, but so it is this Fall. No, in first place would be Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso – I’m not sure I’ve ever […] Read more
If one is going to watch UBW, rolling with whatever you get is just part of the deal. You know the drill by now, so nothing about my take on this episode is likely to surprise anybody. It’s pretty damn frustrating when a show what can be as good as […] Read more
Like the wheel of life, the artistic fortunes of any Fate series are forever turning. This wasn’t an awful episode of Unlimited Blade Works by any means, but it certainly paled in comparison with last week’s sterling effort. Any series with an ensemble cast is going to rise and fall […] Read more
ufotable sure makes great-looking CGI look easy. So why can’t everybody do it? The answer, of course, is that it isn’t this easy – not remotely. That and the fact that the budget for these Type-Moon adaptations is off the charts, of course (that doesn’t hurt a bit either). I […] Read more
It’s a good think Archer is a better shot than he is a liar. As ever Fate/stay night follows up an action-packed episode with a mostly talky one, but this was the best of its type since UBW began this run. There were a couple of conversations here that rose […] Read more