It’s essentially a passion projected, made to celebrate the game’s anniversary and voted for by the fanbase. No, I’m talking about how Babylonia was literally a service for the fans. And I’m not talking about Mash’s delicious booty mugging the camera in the name of The Cause (not that we should ever understate her enthusiastic efforts). To me, though, a fanservice anime is more accurately an anime like Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia. When people talk about ‘fanservice anime’ they’re often referring to ecchi harem rom-coms featuring characters with loose dress codes. But I’ll share some of my feelings on the adaptation, on top of what I’ve already said in these weekly posts. I don’t really think it’s appropriate to give ‘final impressions’, actually, since this arc of Fate/Grand Order will not be finalised without the final chapter i.e. There’s only one thing we’ll take away from it anyway: Temple of Time, Solomon adaptation is confirmed! And with that, let’s jump to the final impressions. Treat it as an indulgence for Nasu and a drama CD with bonus visuals for the rest of us. On my part I feel that Babylonia talks too much already so I don’t consider this episode necessary at all. It’s only natural that he gets to deliver our Aesop at the end and pin the medal on our heroes, so to speak. Gilgamesh, especially, could do well with a big Nasu speech, mostly because Seki Tomokazu is so good, but also because this anime adaptation basically made Babylonia all about him while turning him into a metaphor for humanity. And the three in this episode were arguably the most worthy ones: Quetzalcoatl had a tendency to get overshadowed by the other goddesses, Merlin is basically the author mouthpiece, and Gilgamesh is a character Nasu had been developing continuously since Fate/stay night. Nasu especially loves revisiting old characters and playing around with them (canon be damned), so with this anime adaptation giving him an excuse to revisit Babylonia you just knew he wouldn’t be able to resist.
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From a pure storytelling perspective, there’s not not much to do other than say some goodbyes and be swept away by the next call to adventure there certainly would normally be no need for a full episode for that.īut this is Nasu “Let Me Explain in Detail” Kinoko, so maybe we should actually be surprised that the production staff actually managed to fit all his words into 20 minutes. It didn’t actually need that much of an epilogue most of the cast were, by then, dead or gone and in any case the end of Babylonia basically lead straight into Solomon (as it did later in this episode as well). In the game, the Babylonia arc didn’t have an extended epilogue like this one.
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