Because of the nature of MAL’s database, this review will not cover the episode 0 that introduces the story from Rin’s point of view. (total of 16 episodes actually if including episode 0) What’s more though is how the series is set up. So in a way, this series can be viewed indirectly as having more than 12 episodes in total time length. This series runs a lot longer than 2 hours with the finale extended to fit the double the time of a single episode. Luckily, Ufotable decided to step up to the plate deliver what fans want – a faithful adaptation of the route in TV series medium. To say the least, it’s inefficient when attempting to craft a story in such a short time frame. But even so, that only ran less than two full hours in a futile attempt to adapt the Unlimited Blade
Then, there was the movie titled ‘Fate Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works’ movie that was released four years later. And while it included the characters from the series, there were controversy regarding the actual adaptation. In 2006, an anime adaptation by studio DEEN was released in an attempt to adapt the visual novel. The franchise adapted from the highly popular Type-Moon visual novel has been around for a decade. If there’s one word that any anime fan can be familiar with, it may be ‘Fate’.
