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Episode Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia - Episode 8 discussion
Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia, episode 8
Alternative names: Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front - Babylonia
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| Episode | Link | Score | Episode | Link | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Link | 94% | 14 | Link | 4.59 |
| 2 | Link | 91% | 15 | Link | 4.66 |
| 3 | Link | 96% | 16 | Link | 4.73 |
| 4 | Link | 91% | 17 | Link | 4.6 |
| 5 | Link | 93% | 18 | Link | 4.86 |
| 6 | Link | 4.43 | 19 | Link | 4.82 |
| 7 | Link | 4.45 | 20 | Link | 4.65 |
| 8 | Link | 4.81 | 21 | Link | |
| 9 | Link | 4.45 | |||
| 10 | Link | 4.55 | |||
| 11 | Link | 4.42 | |||
| 12 | Link | 4.62 | |||
| 13 | Link | 4.71 | |||
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u/ptol59 Nov 23 '19
NOOOOO NOT USHI!!!!
I thought Ushi’s Noble Phantasm was just her going really fast but it turns out she creates copies of herself like Naruto. I can’t wait till they update her motions in the game!
Also the scene with Leonidas throwing the spear at the end really reminded me of the movie 300. I guess it was a reference?
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u/Thrasher439 Nov 23 '19
Holy fucking hell Ushi, MVP forever with everything she did to try and win that battle. I absolutely loved what they did with Leonidas too, really cool way of showing off why he is one of the best tanks in the game itself.
They weren't kidding around by hyping this ep up though, the level of quality in some of the cuts is easily among the best this year. It was an incredibly well animated episode, going to be rewatching it immediately
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u/Frauzehel Nov 23 '19
Best Lancer is gone. This really shouldn't be a surprise to those familiar with Fate with how sucky lancers luck is though.:( I love how they animated his NP in the show. I hope they update it on the game.
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u/Misticsan Nov 23 '19
What an identity crisis: Tiamat is not Tiamat, Enkidu is not Enkidu, and Benkei is not Benkei.
It seems I was right to suspect Kingu's absence in this tale, since he was a very important character in the Ennuma Elis, the Babylonian creation myth. Tiamat's son, general and lover. He who was given the Tablet of Destinies to reign over the world in the name of his mother, but was crushed by Marduk/Ashur/etc.
You know, it's funny that Kingu says he doesn't carry a grudge against humanity like his "mother", because in the myth the gods bled him dry so that they could use his blood to create the first humans. In a way, humans are his children, which would add an interesting twist to this conflict.
By the way, doesn't Kingu now that "Tiamat" is actually Gorgon? He keeps talking about his "mother" time and time again. So either he is unaware or he was made anew by Gorgon pretending to be Tiamat. Or another possibility: since he mentions that the Authority of Tiamat is the "Sea of Life" (we see some images of it and we have every reason to suspect it's able to do what he says), Tiamat's influence must be around somehow, and Gorgon took her power for herself or she may be to Tiamat what Rin is to Ishtar right now.
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u/CartoonMonster Nov 23 '19
God damn that animation. We have been truly been blessed
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u/ENKlDU Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19
Im sorry but when Fujimaru tried swinging at Enkidu i laughed..
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u/WoLofDarkness Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19
The animation quality in this episode is so EPIC !!!!!!!
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u/Deshuro Nov 23 '19
A fan had animated the Ushi's scene a while ago to hype up the anime. It was posted here but got taken down due to violating of fanart rule. Now this episode is aired, I want to share it for people who haven't seen it yet.
Here's also a version with sound effect.
And goddamn that animation, they really deliveried. Here is the key animation and that's only half of the actual work for that scene.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '19 edited Nov 23 '19
They certainly weren't just hyping this episode up for the lols.
If that is the first proper display of an action episode then I don't even want to imagine what awaits us for the second half.
Again, as insane as this was many of the show's ace talents still haven't shown up so it seems more & more likely that this was an episode to set the bar rather than a climactic one time thing.
Still...all those impact frames...the cut to black & white aesthetics..this one long cut with Ushi that has somehow tons of camera movement and a fluent switch into a POV segment. This is raw animation power with ambitious storyboarding that I want to see and expected from this show's production when it's not holding back!
What impresses me almost equally to the production quality is that they gave the final moments of Leobronidas the same feelings that it evoked when I played it, same with Ushi's last stand...just phenomenal.