User blog comment:OtakuSamaOfficial/Is Fate/Apocrypha Going To Surpass Its Predecessors ?/@comment-4616657-20170725192327

The anime incarnation of the novel is attrocious. If you've seen M. Night's rendition of The Last Airbender, that's how this anime feels. Nothing is drawn out, everything feels crammed together and rushed, major portions of substance are left out just to cram what you can tell they consider to be "the important bits" into the scene.

I feel like Spartacus himself is the best case example of what's wrong with it. His first segment was 13 seconds. Not bad when you don't realize they removed ALL the dialogue of him talking to Atalanta, and Achilles discussing with her why it's pointless to stop him while on the move following him. In his second segment, he actively cuts off a character in the middle of dialogue they got to finish in the novel, as if to say the Show doesn't have the time to let him finish.

The artstyle is fairly terrible inside of combat, but looks nice outside of it. In all honesty, they should have waited to make Apocrypha until Ufotable was done with the Heaven's Feel series, so we could get an anime of Actual Quality rather than an anime that is so rushed it ends a full novel in 4 episodes with so much wrong with how they did that alone.