Fate/Apocrypha

Fate/Apocrypha is an new entry to the fate franchise and was produced by our good old friends A1 Pictures, which is totally.. acceptable?
It describes the alternate story of the 4th holy grail war and that war is kinda different from that what we used to see in Fate/Zero.. for example. It's not an 7 Masters and 7 Servants free for all this time it's an 14 v 14 war with 7 servants and 7 masters on each side. Team Black vs Team Red

After reading some reviews on the glorious internet it's easy to see that some people are confused about this anime or are just disappointed.

Some people stating that it's just a bad try to get the Fate formula running.

I mean Heroic spirits fighting against each other with the goal to obtain the holy grail.. that's fucking awesome holy shit

But the thing A1 Pictures missed while creating Fate/Apocrypha wasn't the formula, Apocrypha had an interesting plot with interesting characters.. just like fate/zero.. but where did A1 Pictures mess up?

That question is easy to answer.. time
They had the perfect formula to make an great anime like Fate/Zero and Unlimited Blade Works.
Interesting Plot
Cool characters
but it doesn't work if you try to fit this formula into 24 episodes while you contain more mass than Fate/Zero for example (ca. 16 characters)
Like shit spills over and if you put it into the oven it's not even completely baked and still semi – liquid at the end

There was not enough time to introduce 30 characters in this anime so the characters suffered from bad writing or better said they had only a bit to no writing and the anime left us after 24 episodes without the viewer knowing anything about more than 50% of the characters which makes
Jack the Ripper really awkward sometimes as a character.. I mean a 12 years old girl is the famous jack the ripper.. I mean what.
If there is no time to introduce characters then there is also no time to explain some plot points which also leaves the viewer back with some question marks.

To get closer to some of the characters:
We have our main character couple with Sieg and Jeanne d'arc.
Siege is a homunculus who escapes from team black which intended to use him to create a big fucking golem. And it's just about how he gets his own ideals and finds the the reason why he wants to fight. And he also falls in love with Jeanne d'arc.. well if that wasn't obvious
Jeanne d'arc is the 15th servant in this war as the ruler class, which means she has some more punch than the other servants. As her class name states she has to observe the great holy grail war and pays attention that everybody is following the rules... am I right Shirou Kotomine??

Saber of Red (Mordred) is confusing for people who are not familiar with the fate verse or only have seen the other fate anime so of course their question is going to be: Why does she look like Saber from UBW?? And why is she the son of king Arthur? She is a girl that doesn't make sense..

Well King Arthur is also a girl in the fate verse and it makes it really strange when Mordred refers to Artoria as “father”. But don't worry there is no need to be confused a short look into the Type Moon wiki explains everything.

So she is infact a clone of Artoria and was raised, by Artorias sister, to believe that she is Artorias son and that she is going to be king one day and didn't know that Artoria also was a girl...
Artoria is master in crossdressing as it seems

But Mordreds relationship with her master and the way she acted was really entertaining to watch. She was the opposite of Artoria which means that she was loud and aggressive.. and don't you dare to call her a girl.

And while we are talking about cross dressing we have this thing..

no not him also not him, pls give me the right one there he is

Astolfo the trap already everybody knew about.. no seriously everybody was referring to him as a he since he had screen time and his master was a total creep.. WHAT IS SHE DOING
He was even if he was just a trap an actually love able character.. because he didn't try to make many situations awkward for the viewer.. ok most of the time.
BUT WHY IS HE WEARING A FUCKING SKIRT

What else do we have?

Hercules only with more steroids, less lives and an serious crack addiction (actually Spartakus)

Karna who is Gilgamesh with bleached hair

Fucking Alucard.. haha you know Alucard = Dracula spelled backwards.. WE GET IT

Jack the Ripper who is a disturbingly cute loli with an mental crack and no pants

Frankenstein.. WHO IS ALSO A FUCKING GIRL

Dr. Octopus

Nazi Mage

fucking William Shakespeare... I told you the cast is interesting

and Holy shit is that a crossover episode!?

So you guys know now the basic story and some characters.. right? Right

Let's come to the fun part now Animation and Music,

and I have to say that anime is looking good. Well that's something A1 Pictures is kinda decent at
Characters are looking beautiful and the set building as well but there is one thing that was striking my eyes every time it came to an fight.
The downgrade of details to make an more fluid animation which is totally acceptable.
The fights were looking great and it was fun to watch but it was noticeable to a certain degree.. especially in the last six episodes..

Same thing goes for the music, the music is good nothing outstanding but it supports the fights and the different scenes pretty decent.
PLUS the openings are really really nice. I didn't like the endings that much, well they are just normal endings. Not every ending can be like Kekkai Sensens.. I love that fucking ending or that one from Youjo Senki.. that damn nazi loli

All in all Fate Apocrypha was an ok viewing experience and would be even more enjoyable if you just watch and don't use your brain.. the same reason why we are having fun with stupid harem and ecchi shows.. I mean maybe you enjoy watching it.. or you just hate it
To be honest this anime is ok,
I would recommend it to people who like action anime and don't really mind how the characters are written and so on.
And if you are just starting with the Fate series, Just watch Fate/Zero and UBW first and then watch apocrypha if you still want to.

I'm not going to give this anime a score (that's why there is a 0/100),
I'm just gonna say watch it if that what I wrote sounds interesting to you or don't watch it and move on to watch different shows.