Was Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel A Successful Adaptation?
When studio Ufotable created Fate/Zero, they became what many considered the definitive studio to bring Kinoko Nasu's Fate series to life. After a successful TV adaptation of the Unlimited Blade Works route of the original visual novel, fans eagerly awaited when Fate/Stay Night: Heaven's Feel would be put to animation.
Starting in 2017, Ufotable and director Tomonori Sudou produced Heaven's Feel as a trilogy of films rather than a TV series like UBW, with the second film releasing in 2019 and the third in 2020. The film tells of Shirou's twisted romance with Sakura Matou, who descends further into darkness under the corrupting influences of evil magic. There are many reasons why people enjoy the Heaven's Feel route and feel that it is one of the best of the three. It's one of the darkest and while all three routes are in some way love stories, it is the most tragic and dramatic of all the romances. There is a sense of finality in the way characters are picked off one by one in this route that builds to a crescendo on another level from the other routes.
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The first film, I. Presage Flower, could not be a more promising start and for many, it was the peak of the adaptation (consider that praise as well as a premonition of criticism to come). The pacing lays the groundwork for its central romance with a delicate hand while simultaneously flowing between action set pieces that are some of the best in the franchise.
The introductory film also justifies itself as a film in how it sidesteps the necessity for unnecessary repeats of exposition. In the original visual novel, the three routes weren't stories that all happened one after the other, but different possibilities decided by the
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