What studio adapts a game or manga series into ananimebecomes an incredibly important factor in whether the show sees any success or not. Among the many studios that exist, any author getting their story adapted by Ufotable can relax all their worries about failure.
While most people know Ufotable from Demon Slayer, the studio has a very good track record under its belt. If you’re a fan of what it produces, it’s a good idea to watch every Ufotable show, especially the best ones we’ve mentioned here!
7On Today’s Menu In The Emiya Family
Ufotable is most famous for its gorgeous scenic animations and adrenaline-inducing action sequences. However, one of its best shows is a lighthearted, wholesome slice-of-life anime about the cast of Fate/Stay Night cooking and eating food together.
If you like Ufotable for the fight scenes, you might not enjoy this entry as much as the others. However, the comedy hits all the right marks, and On Today’s Menu For The Emiya Family, also called Fate/Emiya, is a good comfort show to relax to while taking a break from all the stress daily life can put on you.
6God Eater
God Eater is one of Ufotable’s older works, and you can certainly see the style evolve by watching through their adaptations chronologically. The art is still great, it just has a different spark than what present-day Ufotable shows have. Based on a popular JRPG of the same name, it’s a treat for those who like action.
The story is reminiscent of Attack on Titan, following a young Lenka, someone whose loved ones died to the Aragami, vicious monsters that consume humans. Lenka and other humans use special weapons to become God Eaters, holding their fates in their own hands as they defend themselves and those they hold dear with their lives on the line.
5Fate/Stay Night: Heaven’s Feel
The Heaven’s Feel movies are based on Sakura’s route in the Fate/Stay Night anime. Even if it’s the same setting, the story is completely different from Unlimited Blade Works, with a side character like Sakura becoming the catalyst for everything that happens in this route.
As expected from Ufotable, the animation and choreography are some of the best in the industry, beating even their own shows due to the higher budget and time given to movies. It’s so good, in fact, that every single keyframe is worth becoming its own wallpaper!
4Garden Of Sinners
It’s best to go into Kara no Kyoukai blind, as the feeling of not knowing what’s going on as you slowly find out more about the world Shiki inhabits is one of the main factors that makes this series so good. Instead of going into the story, we’d like to focus on what makes these movies an amazing watch for any fan of the mystery genre.
Taking place in the same universe as Nasu’s Fate/Stay Night anime, there are magical beings, ghosts, spirits, and all sorts of interesting supernatural phenomena happening for Shiki to interact with. The artistic direction is some of Ufotable’s finest work to date, despite being older than many shows that came after. It’s important to note that the first movie might be confusing for first-time watchers, but things start making sense as you continue!
3Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works
We don’t usually rank entries from the same series differently. However, each adaptation of Fate works more as a standalone story than a piece in a linear chronology. Where Heaven’s Feel requires some knowledge of what Fate is to enjoy fully, you can get into UBW completely blind.
Fate/Stay Night: Unlimited Bladeworks has everything the Heaven’s Feels movies had, and so much more. It focuses on Rin’s route but focuses more on Shirou Emiya as a character, as well as the servant Archer. It’s one of Ufotable’s most popular shows and a very splendid watch!
2Demon Slayer
In terms of popularity, Demon Slayer would undeniably be at the top of the list. In its few years of runtime, it has gained a remarkably loyal and widespread fan base, largely due to Ufotable’s added visual appeal.
The story follows Tanjiro, a hard-working yet pure-of-heart boy who loses all his family but his sister, Nezuko, to demons. His sister, now half-demon, becomes his goal to find Muzan, the mastermind behind the demons. While it may seem like a simple story, Ufotable goes above and beyond just adapting it, turning a straightforward fable into the cult phenomenon that Kimetsu no Yaiba is.
1Fate/Zero
Even if Demon Slayer has become Ufotable’s poster child, it’s hard to ignore the influence the Fate series has had in making it popular. Among the many Fate adaptations that the studio has under its belt, Fate/Zero is likely the most complete, as well as the most popular. If you ask a casual anime fan what they know about Fate, this is likely the series that pops up in their mind.
The setting of Fate gives Ufotable the perfect chance to flaunt its stunning art by animating these heroic servants battling against each other, and the studio does just that. Being an episodic series, the visuals can’t fully compare to Heaven’s Feel or Garden of Sinners, but you can’t call it lacking in any way.
