Do you think that Fate/Heaven Feel has the best looking fights in any anime?

trbautista1 said:
I just came back from watching Fate/Heavens Feel and it was amazing. The fight scenes were spread out in the movie and most of them were pretty short, but they looked amazing. The fight between Lancer and Assassin was choreographed great and the everything about the fight made me in awe.

So what do you guys think, is the Fate/Heavens Feel fights the very best looking fights in any anime?

AvidAnimeViewer said:
I just saw the film, but even before then I haven't liked the direction the fight choreography for the fate series has been going. Like in heavens feel, apocrypha, and UBW tv, I don't like how the fights are just multiple sonic booms with characters cutting from one side of the screen to the other only seeing the fighters for like a second. Proper fights like the fights between saber and lancer in fate/zero are cooler to watch imo. There are still some cool action sequences, and Ufotable looks gorgeous as always, but characters moving too quick to see, just slamming into each other with the force to bring down a city block isn't as entertaining as seeing each swing and reaction from both fighters.

MightyM16 said:


That's how servants are supposed to be though. Zero was actually wrong in that regard.

Aure0lin said:
not necessarily since zero fights were seen from the servants' point of view

DarkForgotten said:
No sound FX, no OST. I don't know if the works with italian dub ruined the quality, but I didn't enjoyed the fight scenes like UBW. Also the CGI truck scene was horrible to me.

YggdrasilTM said:


I watched both the original and the italian version. The OST and the FX were a lot quieter than they were in the original. In the Berserker-Saber fight the sword hits were extremely loud booms, for example.

The OST is less present than in other Fate products, but it's completely intentional. The most notable ones were the whole Sakura-Shirou double scene at the begininng (a lot of silence, then the swords of Lancer-Archer fight hits each other and that unsettling music starts), the Rider-Saber "fight", the shed dialogue, the Lancer-Assassin fight and the Saber-Assassin fight.
I mean, Zabaniya alone has one of the greatest Noble Phantasm activations ever.

Anyway, fights were never the strong point of HF (even if there will be a couple of really great fight in the third movie). They are all very short and anticlimatic. HF is a different animal from Fate or UBW. That's why the start of the movie is a 20 min. flashback about Shirou and Sakura and the whole saber evocation is just "Lol, let's skip this not very important stuff".

YggdrasilTM said:


The OST is less present than in other Fate products, but it's completely intentional. The most notable ones were the whole Sakura-Shirou double scene at the begininng (a lot of silence, then the swords of Lancer-Archer fight hits each other and that unsettling music starts), the Rider-Saber "fight", the shed dialogue, the Lancer-Assassin fight and the Saber-Assassin fight.
I mean, Zabaniya alone has one of the greatest Noble Phantasm activation scenes ever.

Anyway, fights were never the strong point of HF (even if there will be a couple of really great fight in the third movie - some even call them the best fights of the original game). The first ones in particular are all very short and anticlimatic, even in the original work. HF is a different animal from Fate or UBW, it's more about horror, mystery and character interactions. And A LOT of depression. That's why the start of the movie is a 20 min. flashback about Shirou and Sakura and the whole saber evocation and is just "Lol, let's skip this not very important stuff".