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Fate/Zero 1

I didn't care about the first scene with the revelation that Kiritsugu's wife is going to die because of him at all considering we literally just met them.

Tohsaka and Kirei's dad circling him as they give him instructions on what to do with the Grail War was v interesting visually, and I have a feeling it's meant to foreshadow something, tho I am not quite sure what yet. It felt very shark horro moviey, which was a cool vibe, hopefully that pays off later.

Rin was v adorable in this episode, and the politics around how the mages family work(they have their own laws rather than society's, only one kid, the nature of how you need the long bloodline in its society, etc) was def interesting.

Tho the grail war being every sixty years clearly isn't happening, unless Rin gets like frozen in time for 50 years.

Zouken Matou is extremely creepy, and I hate the vibes he's giving off when talking about Sakura and the powerful mages she will give his family. Gross AF.

El-Malloi is a name I recognize due to the anime going on this season... but the person in the visuals for that looks more like Waver. Also fuck El-Malloi, he's a total asshole.

I'm really curious as to why the rules of the holy grail war require one of each class... How would who gets which class even be determined? What if two of the seven selected mages both get one for an assassin class Servant, and neither has another one they've found. Does a new master get put in or...

I like learning the backstory on Kiritsugu, and I'm way more interested in him now, tho I would have liked to see some of it.

I didn't expect Kiritsugu's wife to still be alive when the Grail War started tbh.

The narration going back and forth between what Kiritsugu and Kirei think about each other is making it very clear they're going to be the two main people. I did like the cuts back and forth between their thoughts a lot.

I guess El-Malloi will give us at least an idea of how the Grail handles one of its seven being unable to attend due to a lack of a summoning relic and/or only having the relic for a class that was already summoned, since it has the limit on no more than one of each class.

"Once summoneed, [the servant] is just a tool for the master"... I can't help but suspect that Kiritsugu is going to be proven wrong over the course of the story on that. It's an obvious way for his character to grow now that it's been stated he thinks that.

"Once summoneed, [the servant] is just a tool for the master"... I can't help but suspect that Kiritsugu is going to be proven wrong over the course of the narrative on that.

Rin was my favorite in this episode tbh. But I also kinda don't expect her to show back up which makes me a bit sad.

I'm really liking this episode ED, but based on all the animation I have a feeling it's actually the OP lol.

Overall, it was an intriguing first episode but not one that actually wow'd me. It was a hell of a lot of exposition, and the double length really didn't help that feeling, but it had a strong ending point with the summons, and it def needed to be at that point at the end of the first episode so we could start getting actual fights next episode. I really expected to get some action in this one tho, considering what I know of Ufotable, and also that this is supposedly an action show in general lol. I would have appreciated seeing some of Kiritsugu's escapades as an assassin rather than just having them told to us.

I am def intrigued to watch more. I'm not sure I would have been if it was split into two episodes tho.
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