Correct Watch Order

kakashis_sidehoe said:
It depends on what you mean by “correct”. I would say the most correct order is the chronological one. In this case it would be fate zero followed by any of the fate stay night routes (they’re all the same timeline but differ based on love interests and then things change from there). When it comes to fate stay night I recommend watching ubw then heavens feel. I personally skipped the original because the adaptation apparently isn’t good. The reason why there are so many different orders is because fate zero and fate stay night actually spoil each other in different ways. I personally started with stay night and found that it spoiled way more things that happened in fate zero than vice versa but either way you can’t go wrong. Make sure you watch zero and stay night before any of the other fate series for things to make sense but you can basically watch the other series in any order (at least I did) because they aren’t really related at all. Hope this helped a bit:)

FAANGZ said:
Hey I wanted to ask if anyone can give me the "real" or "correct" order of the fate series bc i want to start it someday and im a little bit annoyed that on Google you can find trillions of "right" watch Orders. So im just asking yall bc i just trust you more. Thanks

FAANGZ said:
I wanted to ask if anyone can give me the "real" or "correct" order of the fate series

FAANGZ said:
So im just asking yall bc i just trust you more.

kakashis_sidehoe said:
I personally started with stay night and found that it spoiled way more things that happened in fate zero than vice versa

kakashis_sidehoe said:
but you can basically watch the other series in any order (at least I did) because they aren’t really related at all.

Alexioos95 said:


The real/correct order is 2006 > Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel > Zero.
But for a few reasons , peoples watch Zero first and skip the 2006 Anime.

If you want the complete order with a few explanations about it :









Wrong move , the battle of order is exactly the same on MAL.
Actually , it's not impossible that it's the users of MAL who do such sites to spread those millions of orders.



Fate/Stay Night can't spoil anything , as it's the Original story.
Zero is merely a long flashback.

It's as if you said the Seasons of Gintama spoiled the Final Movie , because we see flashbacks of Utsuro...
Meanwhile , Zero legit spoil 80% of everything that happens in the 3 Routes.



What happen in each Route isn't related for the characters because it indeed use a Multiverse/Alternative timeline excuse.
But it completely does for the viewers.

The thematics of each Route build up on the preceding one , which create a game of twists/reveals on top of twists/reveals the viewers experienced in the previous Route.
It makes a huge crescendo in tension and thematics play , which is why you are forced to play the 3 Routes in this order in the Visual Novel.
That's also exactly why the Visual Novel became popular to begin with...

Skipping/Alternative the order of a Route ruins all of that , which is why it's so bothersome to not have a 100% faithful adaptation of the 1st Route.

kakashis_sidehoe said:
I mean that stay night spoiled basically everything from zero lol

kakashis_sidehoe said:
Also though this is nothing like gintama😭😭 gintama only showed Utsuro’s character and there was never any hint that there would be a connection between Shoyou and Utsuro. Stay night spoils the actual events of fate zero.

Alexioos95 said:


The real/correct order is 2006 > Unlimited Blade Works > Heaven's Feel > Zero.
But for a few reasons , peoples watch Zero first and skip the 2006 Anime.

If you want the complete order with a few explanations about it :









Wrong move , the battle of order is exactly the same on MAL.
Actually , it's not impossible that it's the users of MAL who do such sites to spread those millions of orders.



Fate/Stay Night can't spoil anything , as it's the Original story.
Zero is merely a long flashback.

It's as if you said the Seasons of Gintama spoiled the Final Movie , because we see flashbacks of Utsuro...
Meanwhile , Zero legit spoil 80% of everything that happens in the 3 Routes.



What happen in each Route isn't related for the characters because it indeed use a Multiverse/Alternative timeline excuse.
But it completely does for the viewers.

The thematics of each Route build up on the preceding one , which create a game of twists/reveals on top of twists/reveals the viewers experienced in the previous Route.
It makes a huge crescendo in tension and thematics play , which is why you are forced to play the 3 Routes in this order in the Visual Novel.
That's also exactly why the Visual Novel became popular to begin with...

Skipping/Alternative the order of a Route ruins all of that , which is why it's so bothersome to not have a 100% faithful adaptation of the 1st Route.

huyu00 said:
looks very helpful, any way to save this in mal?

you can always start with Zero though it's the best anyways

AWGXXX said:
1. Fate/Zero
2. N/A

kakashis_sidehoe said:
It depends on what you mean by “correct”. I would say the most correct order is the chronological one. In this case it would be fate zero followed by any of the fate stay night routes (they’re all the same timeline but differ based on love interests and then things change from there). When it comes to fate stay night I recommend watching ubw then heavens feel. I personally skipped the original because the adaptation apparently isn’t good. The reason why there are so many different orders is because fate zero and fate stay night actually spoil each other in different ways. I personally started with stay night and found that it spoiled way more things that happened in fate zero than vice versa but either way you can’t go wrong. Make sure you watch zero and stay night before any of the other fate series for things to make sense but you can basically watch the other series in any order (at least I did) because they aren’t really related at all. Hope this helped a bit:)

Rishon007 said:
1. Zero
2. unlimited blade works
3. Heaven's feel

Faantum said:
Zero > Unlimited Blade Works > Heavens Feel
People really flame you for watching Zero first but that order is the best imo.

MonocerosViatrix said:
Fate Zero first.

quietkun27 said:
Fate/grand order first order
Fate/prototype
Fate/Apocrypha
Fate/Extra last encore
Fate/Grand Order – Absolute Demonic Front: Babylonia
Fate/kalied liner permisa iliya the movie
Fate/Grand Order THE MOVIE – Divine Realm Of The Round Table: Camelot 2 movies
Fate/carnival
Fate/Grand Order: Final Singularity – Grand Temple Of Time: Solomon

quietkun27 said:
kalied I only watch the movie u can watch it after heaven's feel even and highly recommend

FAANGZ said:
Hey I wanted to ask if anyone can give me the "real" or "correct" order of the fate series bc i want to start it someday and im a little bit annoyed that on Google you can find trillions of "right" watch Orders. So im just asking yall bc i just trust you more. Thanks

OneCrunchMan said:
I watched a video on YouTube going into this and the guys basically took all of their friends who never watched fate before and had them watch it in different orders. turned out the people who liked the series best all started with Unlimited Blade Works. there's probably a ton of reasons for this and no real "right order" but starting with UBW is a good route imo because 1) it's a good show with good animation 2) you learn about the verse as the protagonist does which helps limit confusion 3) it limits spoilers if you care about all that. fate zero is amazing but it was written and intended as a prequel, once you already kind of know what's going on and can be excited to get characters backstories. fwiw I watched in chronological order (zero > stay/night 2006 > UBW > heaven's feel) but now I recommend UBW > zero > Heaven's feel, then 2006 if you really like the story and want to see every route

Raito_06 said:
according to the Type-Moon's official discord Server's

human4ever said:
There's no correct watch order

FAANGZ said:
Hey I wanted to ask if anyone can give me the "real" or "correct" order of the fate series bc i want to start it someday and im a little bit annoyed that on Google you can find trillions of "right" watch Orders. So im just asking yall bc i just trust you more. Thanks

PerrySnipez said:

People are always thrown off by the release date of the fate series but you aren't supposed to watch it that way. This is the watch Order based on the time line and you'll understand everything.

1. Fate Zero
2. Fate/Stay Night (2006)
3. Fate/Stay Night
4. Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel - I. Presage Flower
5. Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel - II. Lost Butterfly
6. Fate/Stay Night Movie: Heaven's Feel - III. Spring Song
7. Fate/Apocrypha
8. Fate Last Encore
9. Fate/Grand Order: First Order
10. Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table - Camelot Paladin; Agateram (Movie)
11. Fate/Grand Order: Divine Realm of the Round Table Camelot Wandering; Agateram (Movie)
12. Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front Babylonia
13. Fate/Grand Order: Final Singularity - Grand Temple of Time

FAANGZ said:
What about UBW and Heavens Feel?

Alexioos95 said:


He probably meant UBW by his #3.
And Heaven's Feel is his #4-6.

offcrack said:
Absolutely not unless you are a pseud or a teenager
It costs you nothing not to type retarded shit on the internet
The thing is that you can't have a proper understanding of the characters without seeing saber's route in some form.
And fate zero can't be spoiled because it's not a proper entry, it's like saying watching episodes 4 5 6 of star wars spoils the prequel movies which came out later as a supplement to the original trilogy. Watching it first completely ruins the mystery aspect (that the anime fails to capture in many cases tbf) that is meant to be present throughout the story. You are not meant to know about sakura, about rin, about kiritsugu's past, all until heaven's feel, which is also the route that takes all these plot points to their conclusion ultimately, while fate zero introduces them for no reason other than to show you "how they happened" instead of letting them build up like proper mystery plot points that they should be. 
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