Fate/Stay Night

I want to get into this series but have no idea how. There's quite a few anime adaptations, as well as VNs and manga.
I'd prefer to watch the anime, but if I'm missing out on major plot details, perhaps the VN is the better option. Also, are the anime productions in chronological order? Can I watch them back to back and not be confused?

Fate/Stay Night thread, I guess.

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Read the VN.
The rest will come later.

F/Z then UBW. Don't touch the VNs as all VNs are pure garbage. Anime is always an improvement to VNs and LNs.

Here's a handy dandy guide to fateshit

This
VNs are the lowest form of entertainment
I dare any person to name one (1) VN that was better than it's anime adaption

Don't
Run away as fast as you can

Umineko No Naku Koro Ni
/discussion

All of them.

seems like the right place to ask - where is a good place to download the VN?

Here is the actual guide

This. Fuck that long as guide this faggot posted. This one is more relevant.

So Zero, then the Deen adaptation, then UBW the anime (heard it got a nice budget and was done by ufotable), am I correct here?

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nice Mega.nz DDL mirror with the English patch added already.

FSN VN -> F/Z Light Novel or Anime OR Fate Hollow Ataraxia VN -> The other one from 2 that you didn't read/watch/play. After that, whatever look interesting

You've got it all wrong pal. First you have to watch the Tsukihime anime. After that the Ilya spin offs and lastly Carnival Phantasm. Only then you'll be prepared for F/SN.

But the earlier works sounds terrible, and that info pic makes it sounds like things only got great with Zero.

AGREED!

bait

Watch Fate/Zero. It'll spoil the hell out of the FSN VN, but that, and the rest of the franchise, is unadulterated garbage that's not worth your time anyway.

If you want to watch some enjoyable action anime with magic use and great fights, Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay UBW are a good place to start,
Fate/zero comes before UBW but you could watch UBW then Zero since zero just fills in some extra details and character development.

IF you like lolis that fight and SOL and some ecchi, Fate/Kaleid has got you covered, 4 Seasons of it in fact.

Fate/Go is shit but if you are thirsty for some more fate its still in the same universe.

Ideally the VN but only if you have an interest in reading, enjoy history and the occult and have weapons autism. Most people try to rush the VN but that just kills the pacing and makes the story slow for yourself all throughout. You have to keep in mind that you're going to invest a bit of time in it since it's pretty long. I've read a number of type moon works but with the exception of Tsukihime, none compare to the atmosphere the VN has as pretentious as that sounds.

The game is long but it's long for the wrong reason and is in need of trimming

The anime has a bigger problem and feels hollow in comparison. I don't know why they thought it is a good idea to make one but I guess it prints money

Why is Saber so popular? I get all the pure and honorable waifu stuff, but the sheer amount of Saber clones is astonishing.

Read F/SN then HA then watch Fate/Zero. Then you can read F/GO. (First few orders are mediocre, especially Septem but it starts to pick up in America)

If you want more Fate then read Extra, CCC, Extella, Strange Fake, Apocrypha, Prisma Illya, and watch Carnival Phantasm.

Takeuchi's Reality Marble.

Wait for the Heaven's Feel movies, that's the best route anyway.

Why do people hate F/SN?
Go to any 3x3 thread and there are way more anons giving -'s to "Fateshit" than actually mediocre shows like SnK, FotM SoL, etc
What the fuck?

Then lurk forever and stop making shitty threads.

This is your last warning Sup Forums. You have 48 hours to deliver the heavens feel preview or you face the consequences

Angra dindu nuffin, he was a good boy!

It's popular.

It's mediocre and putting it on your 3x3 means you're a newfag? Hell putting it on your VN 3x3 means you're a newfag

its fun and putting it in your 3x3 means nothing
putting a VN in your 3x3 means nothing as well
fucking lurk moar

You sound like some highschooler trying to fit in.

I was on Sup Forums when you were in grade school fag. I said "VN 3x3" which is a 3x3 some dipshits create for VNs. People don't put F/SN on their 3x3 because they think it's fun. They put it on there because they think it's epic or some shit

I can't believe you participate in 3x3 threads and think you get to look down on anyone.

see

Never said I did. You and the other fag in this thread are the ones making all the assumptions. I've browse them and make fun of the people who have anime like fate in their 3x3s though

3x3 threads are newfags hives.

I had the same question a few months ago.
Eventually I went like this:
Fate/Zero -> F/SN UBW (TV)
Don't think you need anything else unless you want to get into VNs and see alternative routes.
There were a couple of things that I didn't understand but nice people on the internet were kind enough to give me a quick tl;dr on them.

Congratulation for ruining it for yourself, lazy fuck.

This

Ruining? How?

>nice people on the internet were kind
who did you talk to?
because it certainly wasn't the pathetic faggots like on Sup Forums

There is no tsukihime anime wtf?

Fate
Majikoi
etc.
Zerofags being retarded, as usual.

I actually can't think of a VN adaptation that was better than the VN, maybe Clannad AF.

>Clannad AF
You have to be joking. They didn't even explain dragonballs in the anime. It was just "welp, she's back and everyone lives happily ever after"

I would suggest watching fate stay night UBW prologue first and then decide how much you are going to invest in the series:
-It shit but looks good -> watch fate zero
-Its quite interesting but nothing ground breaking-> watch UBW then zero
-Its awesome and im fine with reading everything about it -> read VN, then everything else

So if Ryuunoske was given Caster by the Grail out of random, why didnt like, Issei or some other random High School Student get Assassin? It took like 5-7 days for somebody to summon Assassin too.

Not on Sup Forums that's for sure.
I mean, there are some decent people lurk here but 99% of the time it's not even worth it to ask serious and not retarded questions here.

Read the VN you secondary

ryuunoske attempted a summoning - he just didnt have a catalyst

Ryuunoske was doing a summoning ritual with the people he was killing. He happened to be the right crazy person at the right place.

OP TAKE MY ADVICE DON'T READ FATE/STAY NIGHT VN! IT IS BORING MELODRAMTIC AND RETARDED WITH THE MAIN CHARACTERS BEING WEAK PIECES OF SHIT AND NEVER IMPROVING OR LEARNING ANYTHING ABOUT THE STORY. INSTEAD WATCH FATE/ZERO, IT'S A MILLION TIMES BETTER WITH RELATABLE CHARACTERS AND A BETTER PLOT.

Higurashi

>RELATABLE CHARACTERS
Like who?

Bluebeard

He's kidding.

I guess...
Unless he finds characters like >Bluebeard
relatable

Just finished HA.

So what would Kotomine have thought of Avenger if he had been present there? Would it have answered his question?