Fate/stay night: Complete Collection 1 (Blu-ray)
 

Fate/stay night: Complete Collection 1 (Blu-ray) due out on 1/29/13.

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I think that I've seen that cover before... ^_^

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Well, this works really well for the series.

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Oh man, I can already see the drastic inferiority in just the character designs, compared to Fate/Zero. Well I loved Saber, and little Rin was loads of fun in her one episode, so without much more to base it on, I'm alright with this cover for the most part.

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F/SN (the anime) is utterly boring, I dropped it after episode 1 and with much pushing by the fans, I read the VN. Holy cow, reading text + still images + audio is much better than DEEN's butchering of the series. Still, I'd get this just to see how much of it was altered and would wait for a complete set (none of that $89.99/no extras crap Sentai)

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Nothing wrong with using that cover. It looks great and it suits the show very nicely.

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How'd you know how much they 'butchered' the series if you only saw one episode?

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Collection 1?....no thanks. I'll be waiting for a complete collection. I already own the DVD so I'm not in any hurry to get this

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That's often the case when you compare anime series that are 5+ years apart. And compare ufotable to Deen.

I had a similar experience. I started watching it shortly after it finished airing, and got bored after a few episodes. I didn't watch it as a whole until the BluRay set came out in Japan. Finished it, gave it a slightly above average rating, and called it a day. When UBW was announced as a movie, I played the VN due to suggestions from fans of the series. And wow, what a difference the true source material is compared to the adaptation.

And I wouldn't call it a butchering, so much as a typical Deen half-ass adaptation with typical forced Deen merging of routes (still Saber's route as a whole, but they toss in poorly done pieces of UBW and HF).

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I wouldn't call the Fate/stay night anime unwatchable. It's definitely nowhere near as good as the visual novel, but it's still worth a watch if you're interested in the series.

Though if you watch Fate/zero then watch the Fate/stay night anime then you're in for a reeeeal big surprise at the drop in quality from the writing to the animation.

I'd recommend Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works though. Sure, it rushes the route and isn't perfect by any means, but it's way better than Fate/stay night. And Shiro isn't stupid in Unlimited Blade Works, nor is he in the visual novel.