The wandering knight, Bedivere, reaches the end of his journey.
The year is A.D. 1273 in Jerusalem.
The Holy Land has been transformed into a massive desert, the people have been forced out of their
homes, and three major powers wage war with each other in this wasteland. The Knights of the Round
Table come together to protect the Holy City and their Lion King. With the whole of his kingdom
summoned into a strange land, Ozymandias, the Sun-King, quietly plots against the tyranny of this
bizarre realm.
The mountain people, protectors of those who were stripped of their land, await their chance at
rebellion. In order to fulfill his mission, Bedivere heads for the Holy City where the Lion King
rules. There he meets humanity’s final Master, Ritsuka Fujimaru, who has come to Jerusalem,
accompanied by his Demi-Servant, Mash Kyrielight, in their quest to restore human history.
Bedivere joins with Fujimaru and his companions to undertake this quest.
(Source: Official Website)
Warning: I'm not good with words but I really want to let out what I feel about this movie I have never seen such a lazy and atrocious adaptation as this one, unlike other Fate series adaptation that's not entirely perfect we can see studios like A-1 pictures for Fate/Apocrypha, CloverWorks for FGO Babylonia, Ufotable for the main series or Fate Zero or even Deen's Fate Stay Night put their heart and soul into the series for both anime only or source material reader to enjoy, hell even some people prefer the adaptation more to source material. ____SPOILERS AHEAD____ But this Camelot movie, nope. Not a single soul i've seen think it's good or decent. I watched this movie as both source material reader and an "anime only". It's such a lazy adaptation, the dialogue was changed entirely and the pacing was faster than Lightning McQueen. There was no impact whatsoever during Rushd's mother death or Da Vinci's sacrifice, there were more build up in the game and the very impact was there even for the minor scene possible. Not to mention that they cut Touta and Hassan and the Hundred Personas. It honestly sucks because THAT Sanzang scene in part 2 will not hold much meaning anymore. As of the characters here I feel like Mash, Sanzang and Da Vinci was butchered here, it's sad considering this is the singularity where Mash will get a huge character development resulting in her becoming on my favourite character in anime but here's hoping they'll do her justice in the next movie. That prison scene was SO AWKWARD. Considering how the mission in the game was saving Sanzang's disciple Touta, it's like there were no impact or significance during that scene. I may not remember correctly but there was supposed to be more of Serenity but it's alright I guess ____THE POSITIVE____ Now enough for the negative, here's the positive or what I like about this movie. No matter how bad the adaptation is I can't help but enjoyed it with all my heart, my heart will jump of joy no matter which type of Fate i'm watching, so there's that. Fight scenes was not bad as people said so it kinda exceeds my expectation there. The last 20 minutes were good for me but wasn't enough to cover up the atrocious remaining one hour. Ozymandias scene is pretty alright, liked it more than the game.. mainly because of the voice acting Nitrocis is pretty hot here, so that's a plus :3 Highlight of this movie was definitely Stella vs Rhongominyad, that was PERFECT. Exactly like I imagined honestly, so i'll give them credits for that. ____Overall Thoughts____ All in all, this was an atrocious and messy adaptation that can't be enjoy by many but I somehow enjoyed and honestly not really recommended to first watcher. It's better to just play the game. I'm just sad because I gave this singularity a perfect 10 in the gane, here's hoping that Camelot part 2 will be a better adaptation than this one.
This will be a quick review First of all, I've never played FGO. The only thing I knew before is that this singularity happens before Babylonia, which had received a wonderful anime adaptation that I love and adore so much. My knowledge on Type moon comes from watching previous Fate installments, and Kara no Kyoukai and interacting with some fgo and fsn vn players. Aside from Ufotable aesthetic which has been synonymous to Fate, other studios such as Aniplex owned A-1 pictures and Cloverworks also has done some fate works. Various studio gave different output, not to say the plot had many differences ; but one thing remain unchanged, marvelous character design and excellent fight animation. Be it Zero or UBW or recent Babylonia, Fate franchise never ceased to amaze me with shiny, cool-looking and sexy characters fighting with their all while providing meaningful (or less) dialogue which never stops being exciting. This movie however is the exact opposite of what I think Fate is, or at least I used to think. This 90 minutes long movie took place in Arabian desert featuring 3 key locations, the holy city near Jerusalem, sun king's palace and the secret village. All of where fights between servants happened, and I regret to say, all of them sucked. From fight choreography to animation, both hand drawn or digital effect, looked so generic and dull that it might lose to any generic LN adaptation's sword fight. How they made a whole movie from one of the most popular mobile game and struggles in comparison with any typical TV anime? A simple sword fight between Mordred and Bedivere had minimal dynamism, lack of weight balance, no perspective and basically "swords clash and they flash" type things. All of the new servants had less attractive design due to a lack of details, such as Caster priest. Some focused shots on her cleavage didn’t help the fact that they looked more like a bunch of lines than a proper design. Background art looked dull, sun-king's castle is as gloomy looking as his kingdom, CG debris felt like a slice of cake rather than made of stone, and the subpar effect animation only made me sigh thinking about HF 3rd movie.I'm not a huge fan of Ufotable's overabundant use of digital effects, but I'll happily take that over this dull looking mess. Above all, this movie doesn’t look or sound fancy, might be the most disappointing thing about this movie, but hold on the plot's there. I've heard praise of Camelot's storyline, of how it's the most philosophically rich singularity. This movie put a question mark on this statement. Aside from the fact that Fate servants always required you to know who they are, this movie went beyond and failed to provide whatever they were trying to do. Not only they failed to bring out the best of the emotions servants are facing, specially Bedivere since he's a main character, it also caused me to feel nothing for his job. Like why he's so sad, acting like a heartbroken prince who just lost his kingdom. I can get behind his sadness but not throughly, it's like mourning for a random person's death. Like every death brings sadness but it becomes something special due to the person involved sharing something meaningful, a deep bond. This movie failed to provide me enough emotional context to his state of mind. It's not only limited to him,all the other characters faced same consequence, as if it lacked any heart. Poor character introduction, then being stubborn to provide at least some context of why the characters are doing something or what. The movie did a poor job in handling the buildup to the climax, to the point that every supposed big moment felt very underwhelming. Dialogue wasn’t adding much, it's clear that they were skipping huge bulk of contents within this chapter. There should have been at least one exposition scene for a non player like me. Though it's clear they weren’t intending to attract new audience so I guess I was already doomed to begin with Music wasn’t anything standalone, rather they were disappointing in a sense that they failed to bring out proper emotion to the scene. Like the ending scene where something heroic was happening, but the music they played had a sad tone and I was wondering if I should feel proud for this heroic deed or mourn for his spoiled death? I was confused hence just like rest of the movie played out I was being stoical, something I didn’t expect myself to be from a fate installment. When this movie came out and every fgo fans were losing their temper I thought like every other movie adaptation they left out a lot of contents. What I didn’t expect that it actually had left out everything good about possibly every fate installments. This doesn’t even look like Fate. Coming from the exciting TV anime adaptation of Babylonia I was expecting at least some decent fight animation, cool looking characters and a whole load of waifu. I can certainly live with all the contents left behind but I can't accept an uncool fate. This first Camelot movie didn’t have one single good character or their moments I could cheer for, it's just like a bunch of unrelated stuff conjoined together having no logic no reason and no thoughts behind. From every angle I can't imagine a single good thing I liked about this. I'm utterly disappointed and heartbroken, want to erase this from my memory.Though I have a faint hope the next camelot movie will at least be better than this.
Fate ⁄ Grand Order Shinsei Entaku Ryouiki Camelot 1 - Wandering; Agateram Summary of my review: Really fun but could have been more Story or Plot = 9/10: - The story starts with a person walking through the dessert as he is trying to find the holy city which is Camelot. I love how this is probably a dark story on the world of Fate/Grand Order, where King Arthur lost her humanity as she and the round table just mercilessly kill civilians that are in need of help which goes against the character of Altria Pendragon only because majority of the civilians are impure and tainted and only the ones she selected can go in the Holy City of Camelot. Fujimaru Ritsuka, Mash Kyrielight and Leonardo Da Vinci ventured out to find out what is this 6th Singularity and it's problem and how they will solve it. I had a lot of chills while watching the movie most especially when it is Bedievere fighting members of the round table as seeing how he has no talent yet still manages to be in the round table only to be the only member that has the sense of knowing that what they are all doing are wrong and shouldn't kill innocent civilians that are just trying to live while the world is ending from the Singularity. Characters = 8/10: - Not one characters there in the movie are unlikeable to me, Ozymandias who has the voice of Dio Brando is like Gilgamesh but different, also the main characters are also enjoyable to watch as they travel to meet Hassan of the Cursed Arm and save Hassan of Serenity. - The antagonist are all interesting to me, seeing that King Arthur and The Round Table are the antagonist makes it really endearing for me to watch, sadly it might have been better if there was someone related to Altria other than Bedievere could have appeared like something that could make it all the more interesting to watch. Animation = 6/10: This may not be the strongest point of the movie, moreover this movie was animated by Studio Signal.MD which may not be the best studio to do the job but I still enjoyed and have fun watching the movie, it may feel stiff at some part which I won't point out but try to find out lol. Artstyle = 6.5/10: - May not be the artstyle that I would prefer to watch but ya get what ya get, as I watched CloverWorks animate Fate/Grand Order TV Series and find it satisfying and so smooth and clean to watch, this one though is different and it is really different but nothing that can really be really bad to point out other than the facial expression or face on some of the characters. Soundtrack = 7/10: - I love some of the soundtracks that are being presented in the movie yet it feels lackluster or feels the need to add some soundtracks/musics on some of the scenes to increase some of the intensity. Final Review: I may have fun watching the movie and love every second of it but I won't hesitate to point out some parts that feels lackluster or overall need improvement but I do recommend you guys watch this movie though you need to prior knowledge of the story but who cares. Summary of Grades: Story or Plot: 9/10 Characters: 8/10 Animation: 6/10 Artstyle: 6.5/10 Soundtrack: 7/10 Overall Grade: 8/10 Studio: Signal.MD Note To Self: Improve your reviews and quite possibly your grammar also this is my first time giving out a review on AniList.
I played the singularity and camelot is my fav singularity so i was so hyped when i heard camelot was getting an anime adaption. I watched it and if i need to summarize it into a one sentence that would be "its absolute trash". And yeah i know this movie is made for ,us, fans i will write my ideas considering the fact the movie was supposed to be seen by who played the first 5 singularity at least. I will start with the plot. But the problem is theres no plot to talk about, in game version the "plot" continued like go there do that go there do that until we defeat our enemy it wasnt great to begin. The movie makes it much worse and turns it into something like "teleport here do nothing teleport here" instead of traveling non stop.Most of the fight scenes were cut off and two major characters named Touta and Hassan of the Hundred Faces were cut off. Yet the studio made a freaking mash and nitocris bath scene. Yeah two hotties can have a bath scene but major characters cant get a debut. About the fights scenes they cut too much. I expected to fight scenes like where we fight ghosts and sphinxes etc were to be cut but oh boy... i was wrong they cut all of the hassans vs chaldea and ozymandias vs chaldea fights scenes which is a total bullshits cuz its IMPORTANT. And the dialogues werent that great. Camelot is the most depressing and philosophic singularity among the first 7. But we didnt even catch a glimpse of it in the movie. I would have said art was pretty good if the MALE SERVANTS WERENT ON STEROIDS. Whats the deal with the gawain and cursed arm what am i watching jojo or fate.And Bedivere's noble phantasm... Its terrifying but not for the enemies for our eyes. Every frame of it was bad. Except the male servants da vinci's mash's and gudao's character design was too much off the source. Mash literally didnt have a genuine human neck. Except the character design the art syle is pretty good. I loved how they animated the noble phantasms and the place designs. Temples were gorgeous. I think place designs did a good job reflecting the people there. The last think i will say about art is Arash's noble phantasm. I didnt expect much from the scene but its stunning. I can say the movies best part is that specific scene easily. Sound is the only thing thats great in the moviesi guess the ost's were great and the timings were great too. They are not on a masterpiece level but they are not bad. Conclusion: If u are a ozymandias/sanzang/rhongomyniad/mordred/arash fan watch this. If not its a total waste of time. Just play the game. The movie was 1.5 hours and only 4 minutes of it (which is the stella scene sanzang vs agravain scene and the speech of ozymandias) enjoyable.
__THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS__ ___ __ABBREVIATIONS/TERMS__ __Compositing__: Putting layers on top of the douga, like for example environmental lighting. Digital compositing allows to even utilize a “digital camera”, using 3D lighting and models. Photography artists are responsible for compositing and try to create a cohesive world by blending backgrounds and animated cels together. __Douga__: Cleaned-up drawings, which can be colored and sent their way to post-production. Douga artists clean-up the frames of the key animators, also do in-betweening and in some cases even color the frames. __KA__: Key Animation ___ As much as I love many of Nasu’s works like Fate/stay night or Kara no Kyoukai, and I gladly would indulge more into the Nasuverse as whole, getting into the gacha Fate/Grand Order has been difficult for me, despite trying it out multiple times. So instead I opted to experience Fate/Grand Order through the movies instead. Keep in mind therefore, that I only read the first couple chapters of the mobile game (I dropped afterwards) and watched the Fate/Grand Order OVA. So I was pretty much anime-only when starting this movie. img(https://imgur.com/0ZLKMM0.png) Surprisingly enough, this movie was pretty straightforward to follow. I initially feared that I would have trouble in getting the necessary gist of it, but most things were well-explained and even if there is cut content (they’re adapting a gacha game story told in VN-fashion after all, there is no way around it), it wasn’t noticeable and I had a pretty good time watching it. Delving a bit more into the time when Artoria was King, and seeing more of the Knights of the Table Round was fun in general, as it was mostly only covered vaguely in Fate/Stay Night. That goes for Bedivere especially, who was the last Knight of the Table Round to accompany Artoria when she died, and is for me personally the most interesting Knight to explore. So him being a main character is very nice, and I hope in the next movie we’ll see more of his relationship with Artoria and more about Artoria herself, who wasn’t shown much in this first movie. I also enjoyed seeing characters like Hassan having much more nuance, and also the different Hassans having different personalities. Fate/Grand Order is such a good concept to explore the servants individually, and so far I'm relatively satisfied with what the movie offered. img(https://imgur.com/4GOaxdB.png) What the movie, at least for me, really nailed was that the servants felt powerful. That goes both for the music, but also the sound effects. When Gawain revealed his blessing of the Sun, when Bedivere unleashes his weapon Agateram (my subs say a slightly different name, but I assume it’s Agateram because it’s in the title?), or when Arash used Stella, it had a lot of impact and felt powerful. That’s something which also really felt convincing in for example Ufotable’s adaptations of Fate/stay night, and I’m glad that it stays that way in this movie, because the first Fate/Grand Order OVA wasn’t as successful in that regard. The general visual design of the movie was nice in general, with some really great compositing and the backgrounds, while not a stand-out, were consistently well-done and sold some sequences which put focus on the travels of our main characters through the deserts well. webm(https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/a56c9a7068d6002e628854a408626740.mp4) _KA: Ryosuke Shinkai_ webm(https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/cc89dfbeddf74afebaa50ecaa4b84f84.mp4) _KA: Yuuta Araki_ Another impressive aspect is the integration of CG. We had quite a bit of CG crowds, but these have to be one of the most bearable CG crowds I have seen in a while. They look very similar to the 2D models when meshed together, the animation isn’t too awkward and it didn’t bother me really, even when I put my focus on observing them. CG was also used in backgrounds, and in some action sequences, and it meshed greatly in both. Great work by Kouji Tanaka (Director of Photography), Hideki Nakamura (Art Director) and Tadashi Mishina (CG Director)! img(https://imgur.com/EmTmm8X.png) _Only Fujimaru, Mash and Da Vinci here are 2D cels_ Interestingly enough we have six character designers who worked on this movie, maybe because of the different servants. It wasn’t really noticeable, although the detailed shading on Hassan, which I quite liked, stands out as other characters didn’t receive that treatment. img(https://imgur.com/XQlm9Rs.png) When speaking about quite solid aspects of this movie though, while I think the assets and the post-processing work in this movie are really very good, it was painfully visible that this movie was done under not a good schedule, which isn’t that surprising given it’s produced by Aniplex. img(https://imgur.com/BaGaQyx.png) Aniplex really is working their way up to the most evil company in the industry, because drawings like this are not movie quality - It’s generally not good, but forgivable in a TV-series environment, but for a movie, this is really bad. The douga was also pretty low quality most of the time, with very stiff lines and again, not really meeting the quality you would expect from a movie. The animation was good, with some great cuts in action scenes - Nothing too crazy as you normally expect from a Fate entry, as we have a track record of sakuga spectacles here, but I already heard that the second movie will be extraordinary in that regard instead. webm(https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/c55f68995bc64ea4328ef6df0953a6e2.mp4) _KA: Unknown, Akihito Sudo (0:10 - end)_ There is also definitely a lot more to explore in this movie, especially regarding Artoria. It’s not explained what exactly caused her to be different than the Saber we know from Fate/Stay Night, we also don’t really know much about her weapon, Rhongomyniad, and we also don’t know why the Knights of the Table Round are loyal to her to begin with, as they initially caused a rebellion because Artoria seemingly discarded her human heart and couldn’t understand her people - Which is something, which didn’t really change with the Artoria we have here. Their motive, why they intend to “save” humanity by only letting a selected few live, is also not explored. There is of course also some exploration potential regarding the Knights of the Table Round themselves, I doubt we will have much time in the second movie to delve into that, if it somehow worked out to include something nonetheless, it would be great. Also, a very personal complaint of mine, why are Mash and Fujimaru not sleeping together here smh. img(https://imgur.com/1Nldux4.png) In any case, it’s cool to watch some Nasuverse-related stuff again, and I enjoyed this movie. It’s definitely rough around the edges and not really movie quality, but I like the visuals for the above reasons nonetheless, and I’m curious now how the second movie will be.