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What to Watch to Get the Most Out of Fate/strange Fake

Narita is so obsessed with obscure lore that you’ll never honestly catch everything, I’m pretty sure he deliberately for obscure points everyone forgot because he thinks it’s fun. So I’ve always seen it as kind of a “the more you’ve seen the merrier” thing, but you also have to accept sometimes you won’t catch it. But… yeah probably watch Zero.

Does this mean the Heaven's Feel movies aren't required watching for this series? I've been putting them off for years, but I fully intend to watch them eventually. Now that Fate/strange Fake is officially here, I can finally watch Whispers of Dawn and Episode 1 after waiting all these years. I'm just wondering how much I gotta binge this week. It might be a busy, Fate-ful few days for me.

Does this mean the Heaven's Feel movies aren't required watching for this series? I've been putting them off for years, but I fully intend to watch them eventually. Now that Fate/strange Fake is officially here, I can finally watch Whispers of Dawn and Episode 1 after waiting all these years. I'm just wondering how much I gotta binge this week. It might be a busy, Fate-ful few days for me.

Compared to that understanding the fate specific stuff about Jeanne is pretty irrelevant (like she's a well known enough historic figure and nothing about her fate specific lore is really important here) and understanding the basics of dead apostles really isn't complicated with this alone

Honestly, as a light novel reader, there's a glaring omission that I'd say is actually way more important to understanding certain stuff in Strange Fake than any of the second set of three series that were listed here, and that's Grand Order Babylonia (The good news is it's only Babylonia specifically so any other Fate Go knowledge isn't really necessary). Aside from giving more context for Gilgamesh, there's a number of details that heavily draw from stuff there in the back half of the novels (granted this means they won't be as relevant until a potential season 2 since this season seems like it'll only cover until volume 5), and there's at least one moment in that back half that will make way more sense if you're familiar with some stuff that's important in Babylonia.

If you want a quick breakdown of magic and how it works in Fate (including an explanation of what the Holy Grail really is), I wrote up a primer on it a while back titled "Why Are the Mages in Fate Such not-so-nice-people?".

It's also more than a little helpful explaining the politics at play in Fate/strange Fake.

You know, now that I think about it, you're right. If I were to write this again, I'd include Babylonia. When I was considering it, I left it out because I didn't feel that the Gilgamesh/Enkidu stuff was enough to warrant watching the whole thing--especially because Fate/strange Fake shows us their relationship just as well all on its own.

However, for some reason I spaced on the fact that Babylonia also introduces us to spoiler[Ishtar] who plays a huge role in Fate/strange Fake. Seeing her interact with Gilgamesh in Babylonia--setting up how their relationship was back in the day (even with spoiler[Rin] acting as her host and positively affecting her personality) certainly adds to how things play out in Fate/strange Fake.