Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel

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***Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel*** is a Japanese anime film trilogy produced by Ufotable, directed by Tomonori Sudō, written by Akira Hiyama, and featuring music by Yuki Kajiura. The trilogy adapts *Heaven's Feel*, the third and final route of the *Fate/stay night* visual novel. It focuses on Shirou Emiya and Sakura Matou who are affected by a conflict between mages known as the Holy Grail War.

## Plot

### Part I - Prestige Flower

The Holy Grail War: a violent battle between mages in which seven masters and their summoned servants fight for the Holy Grail, a magical artifact that can grant the victor any wish. Nearly 10 years ago, the final battle of the Fourth Holy Grail War wreaked havoc on Fuyuki City and took over 500 lives, leaving the city devastated.

Shirou Emiya, a survivor of this tragedy, aspires to become a hero of justice like his rescuer and adoptive father, Kiritsugu Emiya. Despite only being a student, Shirou is thrown into the Fifth Holy Grail War when he accidentally sees a battle between servants at school and summons his own servant, Saber.

When a mysterious shadow begins a murderous spree in Fuyuki City, Shirou aligns himself with Rin Tohsaka, a fellow participant in the Holy Grail War, in order to stop the deaths of countless people. However, Shirou's feelings for his close friend Sakura Matou lead him deeper into the dark secrets surrounding the war and the feuding families involved.

### Part II - Lost Butterfly

The Fifth Holy Grail War continues, and the ensuing chaos results in higher stakes for all participants. Shirou Emiya continues to participate in the war, aspiring to be a hero of justice who saves everyone. He sets out in search of the truth behind a mysterious dark shadow and its murder spree, determined to defeat it.

Meanwhile, Shinji Matou sets his own plans into motion, threatening Shirou through his sister Sakura Matou. Shirou and Rin Toosaka battle Shinji, hoping to relieve Sakura from the abuses of her brother. But the ugly truth of the Matou siblings begins to surface, and many dark secrets are exposed.

### Part III - Spring Song

The Fifth Holy Grail War in Fuyuki City has reached a turning point in which the lives of all participants are threatened as the hidden enemy finally reveals itself. As Shirou Emiya, Rin Toosaka, and Illyasviel von Einzbern discover the true, corruptive nature of the shadow that has been rampaging throughout the city, they realize just how dire the situation is. In order to protect their beloved ones, the group must hold their own against the seemingly insurmountable enemy force—even if some of those foes were once their allies, or perhaps, something more intimate.

As the final act of this chaotic war commences, the ideals Shirou believes will soon be challenged by an excruciating dilemma: is it really possible to save a world where everything seems to have gone wrong?

## Why They Rock

1. It acts canon to its predecessor *Fate/Zero*, and an alternate What-If story of *Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works*. The trilogy takes place in an alternate timeline where Sakura Matou becomes the focus character just the visual novel it's based on.
2. As expected from Ufotable, there are plenty of impressive and stylish animation, and awesome choreography to appreciate.
3. Awesome choreography and fight scenes.
4. The voice acting is superb, even alongside the actors/actresses from the original anime adaptations have also reprised their roles.
5. Shirou Emiya gets more traumatized by PTSD, sees what his future with Sakura would be like, and learn what Kiritsugu's struggles with justice is very effective and great character development for him.
6. As mentioned in WTR#1, Sakura's characterization and development of being mentally broken, used as a tool by her "family", and now destined to have the Matou's wish become a reality by falling into darkness has been linked together in the *Fate/Zero* prequel.
7. Rin Tohsaka is still an awesome character.
8. Major characters are now finally having their chance to shine.
	* Kirei Kotomine still retains his charm and fighting abilities from *Fate/Zero*. Not to mention, he's been given with more depth to his background.
	* Illya and Rider/Medusa both get development and screentime compared to the TV series, rather than just be killed for the sake of it.
		+ Even in just a few battles, Rider is a badass character.
		+ Illya also shows to be a great sister figure to Shirou, and having her mana joining her mother Irisviel and granting Shirou's wish using the Holy Grail was a much more fitting send-off for the character.
	* Saber Alter is a badass antagonist with the unique dark armor, even how little screentime she had.
	* To make up his absence in *Unlimited Blade Works*, Zouken Matou now has a villainous role that takes part of his granddaughter, Sakura's downfall.
9. The eighth class, The Avenger, is a creative addition to the lore.
10. Sakura's dream in the second film matches the storyline's creepy tone.
11. The soundtrack and the score fits well with the *Fate* series.
12. This is one of the few anime that has aspects for everyone. It can please action fans of fantasy, shonen-battle, incredible visuals, horror, and even romance, the one of those aspects that it's prequel didn't have.
13. The final fight between Rin and Sakura adds weight and emotion to the story, whereas both long-lost sisters are now being forced to go against each other, and being pawns of the Holy Grail.
14. It also gives emotional send-offs to Shirou, Illya and Saber.

## Bad Qualities

1. You still have to watch the first few episodes of *Unlimited Blade Works*, the entirety of *Fate/Zero*, or play the visual novel to understand what's going on.
2. The pacing in *Prestige Flower* was very sluggish, and the only time it starts to progress was at the end of the film.
3. Not only is Shinji Matou still an annoying character and a lousy villain, but he is even more unlikeable when he tried to rape his adopted sister Sakura in order to keep Shiro away from her. But on the bright side, Shinji gets killed seconds before he tries to do much worse things for "fun" with Sakura.
	* Not to mention, he's still the same cowardly brat and loser when Rider got defeated with his grandfather, Zoken treating him poorly to the source of his haughty, yet narcissistic nature.
4. Gilgamesh, one of the series' threatening villains from the *Unlimited Blade Works* route, was completely wasted and is treated like a disposable background character until Sakura "eats" him to death.