Taking place years after the events of Fate/Zero, you have to wonder how the show will be able to keep up its hype.
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It’s 2019 and we now live in an age where another one of its light novel series gets an anime adaptation from the Nasuverse. Like the sands of an hourglass, the Fate franchise almost seems to be timeless since it started. And that is why El-Melloi is a mediocre work of detective fiction.Įdit Here is a Youtube review that raises many similar issues (better than my own review :P) Once you do understand them, they're laughably simplistic (essentially 1+1=2 quick Eldritch magic). Makoto Sanda's mysteries are impossible because you don't understand the rules needed to solve them. For all intents and purposes, the writer is essentially making up the rules on the spot, which ultimately leads to a boring experience for the audience. If Detective Fiction is a puzzle game, then the El-Melloi plot is like watching the writer playing both sides of a chess game. We cannot engage in the same problem solving as the protagonist. We do not understand anything that's going on until Waver spells out the solution. Unfortunately the average viewer is not a Cultist or a 400 year old Astrologer. The entire plot hinges on Waver realising that Fargo's ritual circle is using the Heliocentric model of the solar system instead of a Geocentric one. Where this show falls flat is that fact that readers do not know the rules. A character using necromancy to ask a corpse what they remember before dying? Even that works because it's magical CCTV footage. Waver finding Caster's hideout by measuring the concentration of mana in the river? You know the rules because it's analogous to dilution IRL. For example Sherlock finds a corpse in a room locked from the inside? You know the rules already because you know how locks work in real life.
The reader must therefore know these rules. When you read Sherlock Holmes, you're essentially playing a metaphorical puzzle game with the writer they are feeding you clues in a game with clearly defined rules. Detective Fiction is a genre where the excitement comes from the audience engaging in the same problem While this show is still worth watching if you're a Waver or Fate Zero fan, it's ultimately let down by it's mediocre writing that poorly emulates Detective Fiction.
Remember how Waver discovered Caster's lair in Fate/Zero? This show promises more of that with adult Waver and more dangerous mysteries! On the surface, the idea of Waver Velvet doing Sherlock Holmes things is genius. This show is set in the same timeline as Fate/Zero which means it was an autopickup because it's finally a Fate show that isn't a spinoff.
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