Animation Analysis: "Fate/Grand Order - Memorial Movie 2023"

I want to try to answer some of the questions asked in the video and explain some key concepts in as simple terms as possible so that even non-fgo fans can understand. 17:50 It's mercury! That character's the first emperor of China in a version of history where he successfully attained immortality. (FGO has several arcs exploring alternate timelines) and has the power to freely control mercury. The reason they went so crazy on the fluid effects is most likely to sell the POLISH of a metal surface with the fluidity of a liquid. 19:55 That's (genderbent) King Arthur, reflecting on the events of her kingship leading up to the Battle of Camlann that ended with the collapse of near everything she held dear. You're absolutely right in your inference of her reflections on her life and decisions. In the original Fate/Stay Night series, she is presented as initially being wrecked with guilt and regret as she died watching everything she built crumble around her. Her original arc was about her coming to terms with her history and being content with how things turned out.(Massively simplified) FGO offers a slightly different stance. FGO argues that while humanity can oftentimes be terrible and cruel, it is still worth saving and trying your best to do good in this world is inherently valuable in itself. It validates her motivations, acknowledges the tragedies, and then offers her a second chance to serve and save humanity. This is why 20:59 is so important. It shows a genuine acknowledgement of humanity's cycle of trife, misfortune and war, and understands that the cycle continues to turn till this day. This leads us to 21:46 where the "second chance" manifests in her being summoned into the present day to join FGO's quest to save humanity, and it's really beautifully depicted not as the destruction of mankind's enemies but instead places its focus on the PEOPLE that are being saved, showing cultures and time periods from all over the world(and I suspect even theoretical future cultures, which fgo has explored in past events) And in being offered a chance to once again defend humanity, she herself is saved too as she gets to protect the humanity that she continues to treasure dearly despite all of the tragedies she has experienced. 3:52 is there to show that this motivation ISN'T unique to King Arthur. Nearly all of the characters summoned in the game chose to let themselves be summoned, because they share the common wish of defending humanity despite their lives being filled with tragedy. They share a hope in the future of humanity despite not being blind to the rampant cruelty of our reality. I think it's a wonderfully optimistic yet not naive message for this silly mobile gacha game from 2015 to carry. “We Heroic Spirits are merely shadows of times long past, people like you who live in this time are treasures to us, everything we fought for was for the sake of the future.” -Karna, Fate Grand/Order 25:52 Yes please! If that's such a stream I WILL be there even though your streams usually start at 2am or so. 11:36 Me! It's me! And like thousands upon thousands of other whales. Our collective spending on last year's summer banner alone probably bought all the man hours required and then some to produce this video. I like to think all my spending has contributed to funding a single frame of this video ayyyy lmao

A lot of FGO fans were probably disappointed by the anniversary servant (playable character) gacha pick up, but to me, this memorial movie is a clear sign that the Type-Moon company, FGO studio at Lasengle and Aniplex are fully intent on continuing this wonderful series as long as possible. To me, that's enough because I basically grown so much while playing this game for the past 8 years. Playing this game made me excited and lively every four season, every holidays, every anniversaries and new year's eve and day. So I truly recommened new players into this expansive world that is Fate/Grand Order.

This was made to celebrate FGO's 8th anniversary, and considering how much money they make, no surprise they gave it their best

Ever since I saw the community post 2 days ago that this breakdown was coming out soon, ive been IMPATIENTLY waiting for it. As a longtime fate fan I naturally love this memorial movie. But even beyond that, just visually its just so stunning! Like its literally a contender for the most beautiful piece of media ive seen EVER. Ive watched it numerous times and theres always something more to discover. Anyways hype comment over im off to get a cup of coffee so i can really sit down and pay attention to the breakdown of this beautiful MV

If you want more context in this video, you can watch Tsiah IV video analysis for this video. If you do not want to make a video of you watching the video analysis, that's fine as long as you understand some of the context for this music video and and part of the reason why we all love Fate Grand Order stories. Also the one that animated this was also the one that animated the fifth ending for the Chainsaw man anime, if you're also interested in that.

20:44 Nope, it's not Excalibur, probably just a regular sword (although there is one theory that this is Galahad's sword)

fate/grand order is like my baby, seeing i've spent five years playing it on the north american side of things; so it made me happy to know that you got to this. humanity, that's what this game shows us. both the good and the bad. we're set in the time where our future is threatened, that the world will not live past a specific year unless we go back and fix mistakes made by our enemy. and to do that, we gain the aid of hundreds of heroes, anti-heroes, hell even some terrible people from history -- people who have given their lives, their stories, in order to set a bright future for those in the present. this mv is like a love letter to every single character we're able to summon, and raise, and pour incredibly amounts of love into. and i utterly adore it for that fact.

Its no small project its a big project actually.. since this video is supposed to be for anniversary for the game. They got Hiromatsu Shuu and Cloverwork to work on this project.

I highly recommend you watch Fate/, yes I am biased it is one of my favorite franchises... even if you don't understand a single thing because the timeline of the entire universe is so complicated, the animation, music and overall vibe is here and it's here to piledrive you into a table. As an animator you'll probably enjoy it a lot. Zero, Unlimited Blade Works, the Heaven's Feel movies, Babylonia, the second Camelot and the Solomon movie and lately the Strange Fake OVA all have some of the craziest/coolest animation, sound design and music. The vibe is immaculate. Fate/ is such a colossal franchise it's bound to have insane production quality.

im late but great vid, thank you! I was too busy bawling over the message of the video to appreciate the animation in the first few watches lol But goddamn yeah I agree they seriously put an unbelievable amount of time into this animation, so many things to talk about and nerd out over

20:50 if anything that’s not exactly it but caliburn the first sword Arthur recieved to symbolize his kingship.

Its a love letter for US, the player, and the fans. I cried when the first time I see it, and still sometimes do when watched it again

20:59 in this particular case they are using the previous explosión that refers to Nobel's invention of dynamite (just history, it hasn't been talked about in the franchise yet) to symbolize that progress changing wars and in contrasts killing warriors.

Fgo spent our anniversary reward into this good shit

a lot of reference in this video has real historical reference rather than just fate franchise reference 1:19 its about iskandar's death, a long and painful death due to illness (hence the people visiting his bed looked distressed) and also a reference to a painting of the imagined visual of the army bringing his corpse in that massive house-like carriage (he died in a different country than the one he wished be buried on) 1:22 its frankenstein monster (in fate franchise there is only the female one) and this is a reference to the climax of its story where dr victor frankenstein died in the arctic after being chased by the monster 1:52 its about how the hassansins cult met their end at a war against mongolian, in which case 2:10 could be the stairs of masyaf castle 2:08 im not sure but i think its about shi huang ti's grave that has thousands of soldier statues (and some rumors that the grave has some mechanism that utilize mercury to make stuff moves or something) 2:20 jeanne d arc's public execution by burning, i wonder if they really let her carry that small cross as she is being burned (they probably didn't due to her execution is based in the accusation that she is a witch... maybe it is symbolism of her faith never waver until her end) 3:33 a bunch of soldiers offering excalibur to arthur... but i think these soldier's armor are that of anglo saxons? which makes it weird because the saxons were supposed to be arthur's enemy in his story... so im not sure what is happening as well extra: 11:55 jeanne is short, she doesn't even get to the shoulders of the other soldiers, perhaps it is about the part where she was a 16 year old girl from peasant family when she joined the war... or maybe they just like their animated girls short 3:59 ancient soldiers killing each other (but in reverse) and the next frame world war soldier trying to protect a child (but in forward) and then world war weapons explodes (but in reverse)... don't know if it means anything, but looks great

I believe the one at 24:00 is actually 2d based on the booru. The only cgi there are the stairs. Maybe they used some rotoscoping but idk.

May fate and the nasuverse permeate everyone for decades.

Hello greetings from Chile. I liked your video. But I had a question, what program do you use to be able to highlight and write about the video? I found it a very interesting application.

I didn't follow community post so this is the most unexpected thing I've seen. Well done.

Now you need to watch every Fate/GO TV CM.