The Best And Worst Anime Episode Ever
Spoilers for Fate/Apocrypha ahead
It's often slept on how important «Episode Directors» are, and when a particularly talented fellow takes the mantle of an episode, the result can sometimes dwarf the quality of the rest of the series. Fate/Apocrypha might not be the most beloved of the Fate entries, but when its 22nd episode aired, it shook the community to its core and got quite a bit of attention.
Storyboard Artist, Episode Director, and Animation Director (AD), Hakuyu Go helmed this episode close to the end of Apocrypha's 25-episode run with Yurie Hama and Rio, who also served as ADs. Over this 24-minute episode, aired on December 9, 2017, the animation never seemed to slow down or regress to some state of normalcy, opting to burn brightly until the tank was empty.
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Episode 22 doesn't so much mark the beginning of the climax, so much as it is the beginning of said climax's descent into madness never before ventured by the series up to that point. When we join the characters, Jaune D'Arc, Sieg, and the rest of the heroes — a smattering of remaining masters and servants — have launched an assault on the antagonists.
The villain, Amakusa Shirou Tokisada, and the remaining Servants of Black, are preparing to use the Holy Grail in their floating fortress, the Hanging Gardens. Jaune D'Arc and Achilles are defending two planes being flown in with the allied Masters and have already come head to head with Servants Chiron and Atalanta.
When the episode begins, Atalanta, still enraged at Jaune for her past actions, undergoes a transformation into a feral beast and attacks her. She must hold out until Achilles arrives, who has defeated Chiron but chooses to fight Atalanta to stop
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