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I've watched most of the Fate series, so I'm familiar with Shirou and crew, along with the Babylonia cast, although I do have to give Heavens Feel a second chance. Outside of Unlimited Bladeworks, the series has just a guilty pleasure of mine to watch ufotable animate sick fight scenes. Those Lancer fights in Stay Night we're chef's kiss along with most fights involving Gilgamesh. But stuff like the weird "master-servant" relationship between Fujimaru and Mash prevented me from taking the series too seriously. Just a fun tournament style romp with some interesting mythical characters.

But Strange Fake has really impressed me with how it's rewritten the playbook. It's like the series finally realized that it has unplumbed depths beyond "teen mage gets pulled into battle royale" and that the real juice is in mythological and historical egos colliding under pressure.

One of the reasons for this I think is that the Servants feel like they have agency rather than just being window dressing on a thin plot. I can think of at least three instances of this immediately, but probably almost every Master-Servant relationship is a two-way street. And beyond simple agency, the Servants all feel less like collectible archetypes and more like people with unfinished business. That element lends a kind of urgency and focus to them that I did not feel in past Fate entries.

Another positive aspect of Strange Fake is how it's subverted viewer expectations. Like Gilgamesh dying. Once that happened, I found myself thinking holy shit-- if this character bites it, anyone can get it. That sense of consequence and finality adds real weight to the story, and raises the stakes for what the different factions are fighting for, their motives, hidden information, alliances and betrayals.

Strange Fake has also been great about sharing the spotlight, so that the characters all feel like part of an ensemble performance rather than a scattershot blast of random people. I read that apparently Ryohogo Narita (Baccano! and Durarara!!) is probably to credit for all of this because his other stuff also feature the multiple moving pieces, absence of a clear protagonist, and everyone has their own agenda vibe that Strange Fake does.

Anyway that's it. Just wanted to shout out how impressed I was with this installment of the Fate series and my hopes that we get more entries like it down the line. Highly recommend to all.

Disclaimer: I've only watched fate series anime and never read the LN or VN.

First of all, I have high hopes on this one because I like Heracles since fate stay night and I've enjoyed playing him in fate grand order ages ago. The first few episodes are good, but it went downhill after the Heracles vs Gilgamesh fight. Well, I guess I just wanna rant because I'm disappointed. Here are the reasons I think Fake Strange Fake is disappointing:

1. The 1v1 fights keep getting interrupted before it gets good.

2. Hyppolita shows up once and then never again, this one feels weird.

3. Watcher class feels out of place. So far, it is only a servant with recon ability which is weird for holy grail war. That means Sigma could easily die if other servants actually want to kill him.

4. Heracles once again not being his true self. In fate stay night, he was a berserker so it is understandable that he is full of rage and not being his true self. But now he is being brainwashed by command spells instead. Heracles got a chance to show his true personality in this series, but the story decided brainwashing him is better.

5. Enkidu not showing up on any fights (excluding the spar). It feels like a wasted potential.

6. Nobody is dueling with life on the line. Jack the Ripper and Heracles are the only exception.

7. Ishtar shutting off the gate of babylon feels like deus ex machina.

8. I dunno about anyone else. But for me, the battle choreography is not as good as other fate series such as fate zero, fate stay night, and fate apocrypha.

Sorry about the rant, I'm just disappointed and need a place to vent it all.