How to get into the Fate series

FATE is originally a visual novel (VN) and light novel (LN) series that has  been adapted into manga and anime.   

I suggest watching FATE anime series in this order:

1. Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works (watch the 2014 TV series by Ufotable Studio, not the movie by Deen Studio): I suggest you start with this one to get familiar with the Fate world first.
2. Fate/Zero 
3. Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel (3 movies) 
4. Fate/Stay Night (2006):  the animation isn't good and the plot isn't faithful to canon. You can watch it or skip it, your choice.

After watching those first 3 series, then you can watch other Fate anime in whatever order you want. So far there are:

• Fate/Extra: Last Encore 
• Fate/Grand Order: First Order (movie)
• Fate/Grand Order: Babylonia - The Absolute Frontline Against Demonic Beasts (2019)
• Fate/Grand Order: Camelot (2021 movies)
• Today's Menu For the Emiya Family (spin-off)
• Lord El-Melloi Case Files
• Fate/Apocrypha
• Carnival Phantasm (parody)

Here is Fate/Zero Light Novel if you're interested in extra dialogues among the characters.

A timeline of how all the Fate projects relate to one another

There are also several other Fate series that have not been animated:

• Fate/Prototype (earliest script)
• Fate/Hollow Ataraxia
• Fate/Extra CCC
• Fate/Extella
• Fate/Grand Order (other Arcs)
• Fate/Unlimited Codes

Ufotable is the best studio for the FATE series

Having seen Fate/Apocrypha by A1 Studio, Fate/Extra by Shaft, Fate/Grand Order by Lay-duce, FGO Babylonia by Cloverworks, I conclude that all those studios did not adapt Fate nearly as well as Ufotable did.

I want Ufotable to animate ALL of Fate series - especially my favorite Arcs: Babylonia and Solomon!

Ufotable's quality animation is what brought me to, and kept me hooked on, the Fate series in the first place.

What other studios did better than Ufotable:  Shaft - for example - did a better job than Ufotable at delivering the chemistry between the 2 main leads in Fate/Extra and making Nero very likable.

Ufotable's artwork is superior to most other studios.  They make the characters' faces look very beautiful.  My only pet peeve with their artwork is how characters seem to lack noses (LOL).

Ufotable did a splendid job at showcasing each character's personality to the fullest.  Every moment delivers.  Every character gets their personality shine perfectly. I doubt that other studios would be able to deliver interesting characters like Gilgamesh, Iskandar and Archer as perfectly as Ufotable did.

Cloverworks' animation is very good but the artwork is lacking: there is a "same face syndrome" and the faces lack depth/shading and also look 5 years younger than how they should look. It's not comparable to Ufotable.

UFOTABLE's strength is not only animation and art but also at delivering epicness and emotional impact, such as:

1. eg1, summoning scene
2. eg2, Iskandar vs. Gilgamesh
3. eg3, Archer
4. the moment when Kiritsugu saved Shirou 
5. UBW ending scene

The only studio that I've seen that is equally good at delivering scenes is WIT Studio.

Ufotable + Fate = dream team!

The Charm of New York City

I interned and lived in NYC for 5 months and it was the best 5 months of my life. I'd go wandering the streets every evening after work and seeing where it would take me. It felt like adventures were waiting around every corner.

I stumbled upon all kinds of fascinating places, from obscure bookshops to thrift stores to tiny art galleries to amazing hole-in-the-wall restaurants I never managed to find again. I didn't have to plan ahead for weekends - I'd just walk, and experiences opened up. I got to see a huge cross-section of society that felt like all humanity represented in one place. I loved the disorganized coziness of Greenwich Village and how every building felt rich with history. I'd trek west through open avenues and hang by the piers, listening to the waves rush against the concrete; I'd watch the sunset over the Hudson River and feel at peace with the universe. I'd walk through the streets near midnight and see the city alive with lights and sound and life and distant skyscrapers with glowing windows hinting at the thousands of lives going on all around me. I'd get lost in Central Park as the evening darkened into night and left me wandering through fields of fireflies towards the far-off glimmer of civilization, and I never felt more alive.

I rode a train to Coney Island, gazing out the window as whole neighborhoods whizzed past. I felt the wild sea breeze against my skin and walked the beach beneath an overcast sky. I rode the ferry to Staten Island and got lost among streets of silent houses, braving the light rain until I found a bus shelter and got on a bus of people quietly chatting or dozing away in the afternoon lull.

I loved the subways with all their weird smells and assortments of people; the way that peak hour subways were packed tighter than I thought was physically possible and it almost felt like a daily hug. Off-peak, I watched empty stations zoom past like mysterious places from some fascinating dystopia, portals to yet more streets waiting to be explored. It felt like the whole world was out there, calling to me. All I had to do was go.