Fate/strange Fake Episode 6 Discussion

Is it me or did the animation quality change from good to bad to good and so on all episode?

Really enjoyed Enkidu and Richard's fight !

One lightly spoilery question for Fate lore keeper though, when Enkidu referes to the black curse and the mud,


Sometimes the Fate metaphors kinda go over my head haha.

@MonsieurPapillon If by Pale Rider you mean Fake Rider (Tsubaki's servant), then yes.

He talks about a black malediction which is a direct reference to Fake Rider (also a dark apparance, spread a disease/malediction). He also already talked about him in EP0, when fighting Gil, Fake Rider went to investigate, Enkidu feels him arriving and describe him as something he doesn't like.

And for the mud, it is also to Alcides/Grail's mud, same color and when know it was used when invoking Alcides to corrupt him and make him a sort of Avanger. This one is definitely a danger for the Grail.

No idea why the Fake Rider would be dangerous to the Grail but considering that the invocation are unpredictable, he may be of the same type as Angra Mainyu (the Avenger servant that corrupted the Grail during the 3rd War).

I can't believe the commentators. Best episode?! Seriously?!
There's a huge gap between episode 6 and the previous ones! What's wrong with the animation?! Have you even seen good sakuga animation? Just compare the end of the previous episode and the scene with Sigma jumping out of the window in this episode. The quality has dropped sharply!
The pace of the narrative has accelerated and is very choppy, what are they rushing for?! And oh my god, they cut out the scene with the transformation into loli-Jack in the hospital, that was such a golden reference! There are a lot of cuts in general, which is not good.
I have very mixed feelings((((

@SchIachsahne Your IQ would need to be so incredibly low and understanding of animation nuances would have to be equally that lukewarm to come to this conclusion so, yes, it's probably just you.

@lesik You are unfathomably retarded.

That was the worst episode of anime that I've managed to sit through in memory.

Random disjointed scenes. Random extreme statements with no context given.

Obviously, there is an insane amount of effort put into the animation... but absolutely everything else about this episode in particular is absolute chaotic nonsense. Like, beyond just pacing problems (which are considerable). It's just a general lack of any sort of coherent plot, character development (the "MC" girl is still just some mystery girl that's sulky, mean, and still fully amnesiac apparently?).

Surely I'm not the only person who sees this?


Mod Edit: Removed trolling.

EPISODE OF THE YEAR, SO FAR. Shun Miyakawa and Hirotaka Mori, we don't deserve this masterpiece just by saying it's EOTY. At the very least, I want to make this one episode that I'll remember for the rest of my life.

Shun Miyakawa's debut as SB/ED. I knew about it and never expected Miyakawa to exceed my already EXTREMELY high expectations. Mori, what else can I say? His talent in this one episode speaks for itself.

I'm running out of words. Words alone are enough for me to GLAZE tf out of this single masterpiece of an art, and I'm sure it will be even crazier in the next episodes. 100/10 episode. (When it comes to Episode of the Week, it has to beat Journal with Witch, because that anime feels impossible to beat in terms of how much I'm immersed in it.

I can't believe the commentators. Best episode?! Seriously?!
There's a huge gap between episode 6 and the previous ones! What's wrong with the animation?! Have you even seen good sakuga animation? Just compare the end of the previous episode and the scene with Sigma jumping out of the window in this episode. The quality has dropped sharply!
The pace of the narrative has accelerated and is very choppy, what are they rushing for?! And oh my god, they cut out the scene with the transformation into loli-Jack in the hospital, that was such a golden reference! There are a lot of cuts in general, which is not good.
I have very mixed feelings((((

Bloody Hell, being a Fate fan for almost 20 years, the HYPE levels that this franchise can still reach are unbelievable!

A-1 Style with Sawano music on top, chef kiss!

Cool to see some of Enkidu and Richard's attacks being based on FGO animation!

Also, Richard being a total Artoria simp, ONE OF US!

@lesik Dude, I felt like I was going crazy reading the comments. This episode used every trick in the book to save money by animating as little as possible. Hopefully they got it out of their system by outsourcing this one, and the main team will be back for the rest of the season.

If there’s a reason why Richard is one of my fav servants this is one of them. Plus the past few episodes as well be it Innocently strumming a guitar or fighting ppl. Heck even he arrived early in FGO too bruh.


And Mind you he did an Excalibur…

with a stick.


A STICK.


Already an Early EOTY for me.