If I watch Fate Stay night do i have to watch UBW or are they the same?

Emad0140 said:
If I watch Fate Stay night do i have to watch UBW or are they the same?

Alexioos95 said:


You have to watch both of them , on top of the Heaven's Feel Trilogy.
Those 3 Animes uses the same characters and starts the same , but diverge greatly because of a different choice/development of the protagonist.

Fate/Stay Night (2006) develop Shirô and Saber. It's basically the introduction to everything , and is about the dream of Shirô.
Fate/Stay Night : Unlimited Blade Works develop Shirô , Archer and Rin. It confronts Shirô to the reality of his dream , and what it would mean to him.
Fate/Stay Night : Heaven's Feel develop Shirô , Kirei , Illya and Sakura. It forces Shirô to abandon his dream.

The 2006 Anime and Unlimited Blade Works feels very complete even as stand-alone , but they were meant to be experienced as 3 storylines. (It's 1 story splitted into 3 series.)

If you want to speedrun (literally no point in doing that...) , you can watch only Unlimited Blade Works. It compacted the whole development of Saber into around 30 seconds in one of the last episode , and the one of Shirô is satisfying enough to not warrant a run of the 2006 Anime.

Alexioos95 said:


You have to watch both of them , on top of the Heaven's Feel Trilogy.
Those 3 Animes uses the same characters and starts the same , but diverge greatly because of a different choice/development of the protagonist.

Fate/Stay Night (2006) develop Shirô and Saber. It's basically the introduction to everything , and is about the dream of Shirô.
Fate/Stay Night : Unlimited Blade Works develop Shirô , Archer and Rin. It confronts Shirô to the reality of his dream , and what it would mean to him.
Fate/Stay Night : Heaven's Feel develop Shirô , Kirei , Illya and Sakura. It forces Shirô to abandon his dream.

The 2006 Anime and Unlimited Blade Works feels very complete even as stand-alone , but they were meant to be experienced as 3 storylines. (It's 1 story splitted into 3 series.)

If you want to speedrun (literally no point in doing that...) , you can watch only Unlimited Blade Works. It compacted the whole development of Saber into around 30 seconds in one of the last episode , and the one of Shirô is satisfying enough to not warrant a run of the 2006 Anime.

Pendragon572 said:
Dude he just ask for directions for the entire road map, don't spoil the newbies just show them the way.

Pendragon572 said:
the newbies won't understand what really happened in the
Last episode, character development or who saber is.

Alexioos95 said:


He literally did not tho ?

And i didn't spoiled anything.
I just mentioned which characters would be developped in the Route , and gave the general direction of the plot of the Route.



Uh... ?

I don't understand what you mean by "what really happened in the Last episode".
There is no secret in it , and i didn't even talked about it , anyway.

Are you seriously telling me that people who didn't watched the Fate Series doesn't know what "character development" mean ?

And everyone know who's Saber. She's literally the mascot of the franchise , and makes products sell even to those who aren't familiar with her.
Worst than all , her real identity is a fact very commonly known by people who doesn't even know what the Fate Series is...
It's not even considered a spoil , when it originally should have been a good plot twist.

And all of that is without even taking into account that the OP had already watched 3/4 of the 2006 Anime...

Pendragon572 said:
I mean if you just say character development and don't say in what way wouldn't it just be bait to watch it and if you explain it, then it's a spoiler

Pendragon572 said:
And if you say that " everyone knows who saber is even they haven't seen it". I answer would be "don't underestimate humans".

Alexioos95 said:


Of course it's a bait.

We are talking about a story that use the system of Route. Without bait , it simply wouldn't work.
Why do you think we commonly refer the Route as "<Insert Heroine> Route" ?



Yeah , there'll always be people who goes completely blind.

But the question would then be : "Why the heck are you reading a forum about a very specific question ?".
In the best case you'll just not understand much , in the worst you'll be spoiled as heck.

Here , my reply is destined to the OP , who did watched the 2006 Anime , and know which character is who. I also phrased it so that it does not spoil anything , while also limiting the knowledge necessary. (The lurker will be able to understand what i said by watching literally 2 episodes.)

If a problem occur with a lurker , the fault is on him for looking at a thread that is not destined to/made by him...
It's the same for the people who read the discussions of episodes they did not watched yet.

Alexioos95 said:
And everyone know who's Saber. She's literally the mascot of the franchise , and makes products sell even to those who aren't familiar with her.