shirou is a fucking moron. like incomprehensibly bad. his motivations make no sense and he has like zero development. saber has no arc at all. you hardly know any of the other servants. they try to mesh the grail war with horrid high school slice of life shit that is so bad lmao

it goes from fate zero with interesting adult themes and well developed characters with clashing motivations and philosophies and a very clear view of the grail war as it progresses to a half baked mess of a high school magic drama where none of the characters make sense

like legit every time the main character is within seconds of death the person just like decided to let them live randomly like every fucking time lmao. and it doesn’t even attempt to have the sort of knights honor thing stopping the fighting they just dont do it. lmao.

okay but like fate/zero is def worth it. kiritsugu emiya is such a fucking good character alone, and almost all the other characters are well written too. it’s absolutely fantastic