Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works

This series burns with the fire of human striving—heroes brandishing ideals as if they were blades. Yet even in its brilliance, one sees the abyss: ideals shatter, repetition gnaws, beauty is both radiant and hollow. It intoxicates like a hymn to struggle itself, where glory and futility dance, neither yielding, each eternal. - Full Review

s1,s2

Yet another case of making a dark and unforgiving world, then throwing in an actively idealistic protagonist whose ideals trump everything else and thus proving that the world is actually very bright and forgiving thus dispelling all suspense. Tohsaka was annoying and there were no meaningful consequences for any dumb moves, just believe harder. It was so predictable that it felt like watching paint dry. Some moments were straight-up cringe.

s1,s2

s1 80, s2 81