Manga & novels that I would like to see animated or re-animated

Animated:

• Time Patrol Bon
• All the "Fate" games:  Hollow Ataraxia, Grand Order, Extella, Prototype, Unlimited Codes

Re-animated:

• Berserk
• Doraemon
• Esper Mami
• Glass Mask
• Guin Saga
• Mermaid Saga (Rumiko Takahashi)
• Perman
• Ranma 1/2
• Rurouni Kenshin 
• Vagabond

Fate/Stay Night: Shirou's plot armor

One cannot talk about "plot holes" without mentioning the plot armor that Fate/Stay Night gives Shirou.  First, no, I am not salty because I'm a Gilgamesh fan.  Hell, I have hated this plot armor ever since I've watched UBW (without having watched any other Fate series prior) and before I became a Gil fan.

1.  Shirou vs. Gilgamesh fight:

The story can go on and on about how "Shirou has absorbed Archer's skills" and "Gilgamesh lets his pride get in the way" all it wants.  It would be believable if the story let Archer win against Gilgamesh, but not Shirou.  And here's why:

• Even Archer would have a bit of trouble defeating Gilgamesh.  Shirou - who would lose to Archer in a fair fight (reminder: in his fight with Archer, Archer let him win) - should in no way defeat Gilgamesh. Shirou has gained UBW but his agility and skills were lacking; he was someone who didn't even know how to sword-fight 2 weeks ago. Meanwhile, Gilgamesh is famous for many forms of combat, battled gods and demons in his life, can manually use all the weapons in his GoB, single-handedly supplied several Servants at once while protecting Uruk with a magical barrier. Yet FSN dares use the excuse that "Gilgamesh is a king, not a warrior" (Hello, he is both!) for why a high-schooler would defeat him in swordfight. 
• Gilgamesh isn't an A-rank melee combatant. But GARcher himself isn't an A-rank warrior at melee combat, either.
  Gilgamesh < Lancer in melee combat.
  GARcher < Lancer in melee combat.
  Shirou < GARcher.
• While UBW is a decent counter to Gate of Babylon, Shirou can't realistically physically keep up with Gil due to Gil being a demigod and Shirou being a human.
• Gilgamesh had 2 perfect chances to kill Shirou and co. when they were face to face before the showdown:  in the first instance: Shinji stepped in (as if Shinji had any importance to him);  the second instance, Gilgamesh has opened a dozen Gates of Babylon about to launch but the story doesn't forget to have Rin threaten to shoot Shinji as if she were a threat. Gilgamesh himself said that even if she killed Shinji, it'd be no problem to him. Yet he went, 'Ahhh, I've opened a bunch of GoB but I'll withdraw for now 'cuz I don't want dust on my clothes' - haha... what a ridiculous reason! This is the person who had crawled in dust to battle many things in his life. Not to mention that retreating is totally not Gilgamesh's style.  
• UBW itself is a huge mana cost, while GoB costs much less mana and has the most powerful weapons in the universe.
• The weapons projected by Shirou are B-rank so they shouldn't be able to shatter Gilgamesh's A-rank weapons. It's only wistful thinking that UBW can match GoB:  GARcher, while having Rin as a Master, could only take half of Heracles' lives and died in the process. Gilgamesh, while having a crappy Master like Kirei, took all of Heracles' lives effortlessly.  
• Even if Gil didn't want to use Ea, he has numerous magical weapons in his GoB. Yet he only used swords against Shirou. Shirou is able to trace things that aren't swords but it's much more costly for him. Gilgamesh could have easily overwhelmed him with things that Shirou can't replicate repeatedly or replicate at all. 
• The number of times you see Gilgamesh shooting hundreds of weapons from his GoB and suddenly he couldn't hit Shirou.
• The story never shows Gilgamesh in his golden armor, even in his fight with Heracles, because it has to make him look as vulnerable as possible.

2.  Shirou vs. Kirei fight:

Shirou is also shielded heavily by plot armor in his fight with Kirei.  Did you see Kirei vs. Kiritsugu fight in Fate/Zero?  That man fought like a demigod against Kiritsugu - who was an experienced assassin and well-versed in the defense art himself, who used Double and Triple Accel and still couldn't "get" Kirei. Shirou is a lesser mage and a lesser fighter than Kiritsugu, is simply no match for Kirei.

This is a pretty typical hero's journey BS where the protagonist wins by plot armor and a lot of dumb luck.

Fate/Stay Night: Ufotable vs. Visual Novel

Let me sing my praises to UFOTABLE - for doing a phenomenal job adapting the Fate/Zero and Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works visual novels (VN) into two anime series!  The GLORIOUS artwork, animation and soundtracks easily put them among the top 5 anime series in this decade!

Fate/Zero set the bar for animation in a TV series, and Unlimited Blade Works exceeded it!

I must say, watching Ufotable's adaptation is much more satisfying than reading the VN, because I get to see the most fantastic, epic, eye-gasmic battles that one can ever see in the anime world.  I also get to see the characters' movements and interactions - which I can only imagine in my head when reading the VN.  I also am extremely pleased to see that Ufotable's anime adaptation stays faithful to the original VN work! 

Seeing on screen what I remember from the VN is truly a treat to behold. The backgrounds and characters are absolutely stunning. All the fight scenes are so beautifully choreographed and when the deciding blow occurs, you can almost feel what the loser is feeling. There is real weight to the fights due to how great the animation and artstyle are conveying the conflicts. This is a real stand-out feature for me.

Although all internal monologues are cut out, the anime - through its amazing animation - successfully conveys all the subtleties in the ways the characters interact and fight.  [ For instance: the farewell scene between Archer and Rin was done perfectly in the anime:  The scene is only 2-minute long, and no description of the characters' inner thoughts and feelings are given, but it successfully conveys all the emotional subtleties of this scene.  Here's the scene in the VN for comparison. ]

There is no other company that I would entrust this franchise to.  Ufotable + Fate = dream team.  I am looking forward to Ufotable's adaption of Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel which are coming in 3 movies.  I have high hope that they will adapt Fate/Hollow Ataraxia as well.

On the other hand:
The VN is the place to go for clarifications and to gain a better understanding of the characters, since a lot of dialogues and internal monologues are cut out of the anime.

One thing I disapprove of Ufotable is its censorship of sex scenes. When I first watched UBW, I just thought that the "magic circuit transfer" scene between Rin and Shirou was an awkward scene ("Rin just took off her sweater... what's she so upset about? It's not like she was naked or even just wearing a bra. She still had a shirt on!") - until I found out that it was supposed to be a sex scene. In the VN, this was not just mana transfer between these two; they wanted to actually have sex because they had feelings for each other. How the characters react to the initial request of "mana transfer" is also part of their characterizations. Why did they not make the sex scenes like that in Parasyte, for example, just briefly, and the audience will understand that it's a sex scene? I don't need to see the explicit details. I only need them to show that these characters (who have feelings for each other) had an intimate moment.

Fate series: My favorite Servant for each Class

Saber:  Arthur (male), Nero
Archer:  Gilgamesh
Lancer:  Cu Chulainn
Rider:  Iskandar
Caster:  Merlin (male)
Berserker:  
Assassin:  King Hassan

[ to be updated ]

My Love-hate Relationship with Fate/Stay Night

LOVE:

• FSN's strength is characterizations: Each character has a unique design and unique abilities.

• Interesting magical abilities.

• Some really interesting characters that should have got more screen times (eg, Cu, EMIYA, Iskandar)

• A carefully thought-out plot showing how "fates" intertwine from events in Fate/Zero to UBW.

• Ufotable's unbeatable artwork + animation!


HATE:

Trying *too hard* to appeal to viewers, and that consists of:

• Gender-bending, fanservice (especially F/GO and F/Prillya)

• The typical harem trope with 3 types of girls: the flat chested, the medium-sized chest and the E-cups. The flat- or medium-chested girl tends to be assertive and the big-chested girl tends to be shy.

• Making Illya a loli, because the story really needs her to be a loli  /sarcasm.

• All of the main girls go for the MC. No girl ever goes for the grown men in FSN, not even in Hollow Ataraxia because god forbids a potential waifu to show interest in anyone else.

• Japanese "morality": 'Listen, although you're 17 years old, you shall not bring a girl home' without the female in the house getting jealous/territorial and proceeding to give you a lecture on morality.

• Saber and Shirou are given too much spotlight. Ok, I know they are the main characters of FSN, but is it necessary that 4 of the 6 fights in HF part 1 be given to Saber? UBW is not her route but you see her in most of the scenes nonetheless. Shirou is always given the final fights in all routes - like how Sailor Moon is always the one to save the day in every final battle in SM anime. I'd prefer the Servants playing a more active part.

• Romance in general is not very well done. There's either something missing or not right in all 3 romances in FSN. I think this can be overlooked when romance isn't the main focus in a particular route.

• The soap drama that is most of Heaven's Feel what tries too hard to guilt-trip viewers into liking the heroine. While I enjoy the dark plot and the fights in HF, the romance consists romantic tropes such as asking your love interest cheesy questions like, "Am I dirty?", "If I become a bad person, will you forgive me?", and the infamous, "I'll kill you [Shirou], then you'll be with me forever" (an extreme version of the failure in thinking that many people seem to have that they find killing your lover to seek "eternity" to be romantic).

• the damsel-in-distress proceeding to hatefuck the world trope.