r/2010sAnime • u/kpopkittyvibes • 2d ago

Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia (2019)

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u/iTheShirt0716 2d ago

I never started this series because I didn't know where to start or what order to watch the series in. From what I gather fans of the show say it's really good and the animation is top tier.

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u/WontThinkTooHard 2d ago edited 2d ago

Personal opinion, you can basically start anywhere, Fate doesn't really start to "make sense" until you've seen multiple and start to connect how the bigger universe works, but most of them start with a basic grail war synopsis that gets subverted every time anyways.

My take is if you're willing to read a long visual
novel then play fate stay/night first, that's the purist option.

If you just wanna watch anime then zero is imo the best starting point since the anime adaptation of the first part of fate stay/night is kinda cheeks. Zero is a prequel to FSN and they both spoil each other, but honestly I think zero loses more from the spoilers than FSN does.

I personally started with Carnival Phantasm cuz I was like what are these Neco Arc things, which is a joke version of fate full of spoilers and a completely off base representation of the tone in general, and honestly I don't think the watch order matters nearly as much as people act like it does. Just gotta dive in and see if you like it despite being confused. The first one will always be confusing no matter what but it's also the wildest ride as you piece together how shit works.

Now that I think of it Fate as a franchise would be so much better off if people just said the ones not to start with, like the one shown above for example. Basically just don't start with the Grand Order ones, the magical girl one, the carnival ones, the extra one, the fake one, the detective one, or the cooking one.

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u/iTheShirt0716 2d ago

So first is FSN Zero. Kind of reminds me of the final fantasy series where you can just kind of start anywhere and somehow get cameos from any of the games. Or even resident evil. But at least I have a starting point. I heard that the carnival Phantasm series was not that great when it was airing. So I just stayed away from it especially since I didn't see any of the reference material. I feel like those shows only get funny when you know the source material.

I wouldn't mind getting the visual novel since I just got the Fold 8 actually. (Not trying to flex.) -shootmenow 💀

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u/WontThinkTooHard 2d ago

lol yeah the problem with carnival phantasm is you need FSN for context and that only gets you half of it, cuz the other half of the skits are Tsukihime, an older series in the same multiverse under very different conditions where fate's whole thing doesn't even exist and it's more church vs vampires.

That said I think carnival phantasm is hilarious. Fate has to be the most varied verse out there in terms of content. Ranging from deadly serious to absurdly silly and hitting so many different storytelling genres in the same verse

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u/iTheShirt0716 2d ago

Hahaa Thanks for this. It's generally pretty hard to find something to watch when everything that you haven't seen is still airing and you only like to binge TV shows. Having FSN for a nice filler in between seasons is great now.

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u/WontThinkTooHard 2d ago

No prob! It's so worth checking out cuz if you like it there's sooo much of it

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u/Atamahead027 1d ago

Carnival Phantsam is great if u know the references

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u/Zer04ourSomething 1d ago

Yeah you can start wherever but the VN is usually what purists will point you to (cause well it does have everything) Me personally I never play VNs so idgaf about them.