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73.Anon.52 wrote:

edit: was ninja'd live... been looking at multiple threads simultaneously, so I miss things when everything moves this fast, and I haven't a clue about Stay night... I want to start it from the beginning and haven't a clue what order to watch them in, but I somewhat know the art style from commercials(and the pic looked similar). Alright. Funnily enough, Shielder was at first supposed to appear in Stay Night, but was removed at some point and replaced with Rider and Caster. She was supposed to be a "Stray Servant", who killed her Master in one of the wars and survived until the 5th Holy Grail War. Like a certain other Servant whose name I won't reveal until knowing you at the least watched Fate/Zero.

As for in what order to watch it, the visual novel had 3 routes. First comes Fate, which is the most idealistic one and gives Saber more focus. After comes Unlimited Blade Works, which is less idealistic and focuses more on Rin. Finally, comes Heaven's Feel, which is definitely not idealistic and grants more focus to Sakura. They are unlocked in that order.

Each route is basically the exact same story, but with things going a different way, with certain servants being killed sooner or later in some routes than in others. And also, on the VN, each route had multiple endings. And many ways to die.

The first F/SN anime was a less-than-great mish-mash of the 3 routes, though it focuses more on the Fate route. The 2nd anime however, focuses entirely on the UBW route. And there's a movie on the way focusing entirely on Heaven's Feel. Fate is the less cool of the routes anyway, it basically is "Shirou and Saber fall in love though Saber is rather tsundere about it for rather-understandable reasons, Shirou remains an idealistic idiot".