THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS ABBREVIATIONS/TERMS KA: Key Animation While I already enjoyed the first movie given what I briefly heard about this sequel I was ready for it to step up its game and become something greater. Im not sure if its exactly greater because this movie in more ways than one was extremely experimental chaotic and wild in its nature. Its like Mob Psycho II Episode 5 where its just a pure spectacle to behold but not only Hakuyu Go is holding the strings here Be it the abysmal schedule or just the need to push a Fate/Grand Order adaption to a new level of experimentation director Kazuto Arai decided to turn the second Fate/Grand Order Camelot movie into a playground for some of the biggest animators out there. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/023d460ec3a4d494a8e1ed92f490ff85.mp4 KA: Hisashi Mori This is not simply recruiting a bunch of animators through contacts and having each of them animating one cut no: Arai decided to give certain animators selected by him entire segments of the movie not only allowing them to animate large portions but also storyboard and direct their sequences entirely. Ryota Furukawa entirely storyboarded and key animated Mash against Lancelot Takumi Sunakohara was in charge for Tristan against the assassins Itsuki Tsuchigami handled the battles against Gawain and Hakuyu Go mastermind behind Mob Psycho II Episode 5 and Fate/Apocrypha Episode 22 dealt with the content centered around Agravain. Hakuyu Go in fact went the extra mile and also heavily assisted in the climax drawing the rough layouts for roughly +130 cuts giving it the visual flair Arai wasnt able to create himself. Add to the mix a bunch of other animators filling the gaps these monsters couldnt handle and as a result you have something which can be called a true sakuga spectacle. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/119f9bbfb6e10f7f16b4195fcf9a7002.mp4 KA: Weilin Zhang Hakuyu Gos part https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/6f2babc7f5f9e02006ad19deeb07a589.mp4 KA: Bahi JD Hakuyu Gos part https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/4a10abbbf0e8a569098e704083cba36e.mp4 KA: Hakuyu Go The experimentation and the range of different styles in each fight is insane either with strong background animation emphasis on scale or just unique direction with very aggressive sound direction in some parts. Sometimes it was decided to take an occasional breather in other parts we got a breathless two minutes sequence like the fight between Bedivere and Gawain completely animated by Itsuki Tsuchigami. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/49831bf7d0bd906c8e00267ac5449b09.mp4 KA: Itsuki Tsuchigami Background line thickness texture character art couldnt care less with consistency changing at whim depending on the artist although it kinda got away with it because each artist is just that good successfully establishing his own style aggressively. There was no overarching presence above limiting each person working here this is individual artistic freedom in its strongest form. The legend of Arthur in the end of the movie was also depicted by a Danish studio Sun Creature as if the movie doesnt have enough artists on board already. https://blog.sakugabooru.com/wpcontent/uploads/2022/01/bediyouliterallyhadonejob.mp4 However its difficult to say that this movie even as grandiose as it is is necessarily good. With every artist making his own short movie within a grander story it certainly can bite itself in the ass as none of the individual segments are willing to compromise. In fact with so many breathless moments the movie is equipped with it was certainly difficult to attribute special meaning to each of them especially if you are an animeonly like me. I got the gist of the story I also got the general idea of most of the Knights of the Table Round but I cant help but feel like I miss some background information and emotional attachment to each of them. The movie doesnt really give you time to breathe let the characters breathe if anything it continued to deliver one spectacle after another and while I certainly was amazed by how good it looked it didnt feel truly special. Especially as a whole this movie is a big mess a chaotic product born out of insanity. It disrupts how normally animation productions take place endorsing individual madness. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/4960b60b72750bf5e6144d5652ea11f1.mp4 KA: Kai Ikarashi But even if its a mess overall and pretty much a giant sakuga MAD if you want to put it bluntly it doesnt change that in this movie we saw some of the best works ever of some of the greatest artists in this industry here this movie was a spectacle to behold and I did like the final conclusion a lot. Bediveres journey came to an end and he was finally able to atone for his sin in front of Artoria. This movie is not a masterpiece not the greatest but it still is for me a very good movie some of the craziest experimentation I saw in anime movies so far and Im glad to have watched it. https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/97edbd6ff873c60619e84568ff3288d3.mp4 KA: Fei Hung Satoshi Hattori Vincent Chansard I also recommend reading this articlehttps://blog.sakugabooru.com/2022/01/14/fategrandordercamelotschaoticspectaculardisruptionofanimeproductionstandards/ from Kvin about the production of this movie I also got a lot information for this review from that article