Fate/Stay Night

     Fate/Stay Night was an enjoyable anime about magic users, Magi, using Epic Heroes called Servants to battle each other to the death in the hope of winning the Holy Grail to get any wishes they want granted. The anime focuses on a guy named Shirou Emiya and his Servant Saber. Emiya only wants to fight to end the fighting. He's interested in protecting people and even not making Saber fight unless he ultimately has to. He teams up with a master Magi girl named Tosahka to protect each other and fight against the other Servants and their Masters.
     First off, this anime is really slow and takes a while for it to really get going. I think it took a good four or five episodes before the anime really got beyond just telling the introductory story and into the main plots. One of the highlights of the show is that the female Servant Saber was actually King Arthur, or Arturia in her own time. She uses her blade, Excalibur against other Servants and she was actually one of the most powerful servants. Until they ran into this little girl with blonde hair, Illyavasiel Einzbern. She had an Epic Hero from Greece named Hercules and he could not be defeated unless he was killed twelve times. Pretty epic right? The way they defeat him is that Tossahka's Servant, Archer, goes one on one with the big brute Hercules and kills him several times before he actually gets mauled to death. By the way, this anime is mildly violent, there's blood and people die but its not graphic. Then, Tosahka uses her magic gems on Hercules, killing him yet again. But it was Saber's Noble Phantasm, or special move that kills Hercules seven times in one strike. Her Noble Phantasm is her swords scabbard.
     Next, other parts of this anime that was interesting was the ending. There was this Epic Hero from the last Holy Grail Wars that was still somehow in the world physical because he was "eating" human souls to keep his physical body in that current world. Usually after the Holy Grail Wars are over, Servants return back to their own time I guess until summoned for the next one. Anyways, there was this Epic Hero named Gilgamesh, the first true King of the world when the world was still one. Gilgamesh was very cool and stylish. When not fighting he wore a white coat with fur on it. When fighting he had this red armor on. His specialty was that he had hundreds of great epic weapons at his disposal. He was just super cool because he was using all these interesting weapons. Oh, and also he had a thing for Saber, saying that she was his. In the end Saber ends up winning the fight because of her scabbard. The thing that was powerful about Excalibur was the scabbard, not the actual sword itself. In the end Emiya has Saber destroy the Holy Grail. It was decided earlier the show that they would destroy the Holy Grail because they heard that if they actually ask for wishes, the world could be destroyed just like ten years ago when the last Holy Grail Wars occurred. Anyways, in the end Saber says that she loves Emiya and goes back to her own time. Once she's back she has a female knight of hers to return Excalibur to the Lady of the Lake.
     Lastly, this anime was pretty good. But it was just so slow, especially the beginning. There is a movie called Unlimited Bladeworks that I have to see that goes along with the anime. I would recommend this to any anime fan.