It has its bumps and messily slain jokes, but Good Luck Girl! is a hugely enjoyable comedy—one of the rare gagfests to successfully find and nurture an honest-to-goodness heart.
Funimation's new release is primarily for those who have never owned the movie and/or those who also want the original Streamline English dub. Even at 25 years old, though, it still shows clearly why it has long been one of anime's standard-bearer titles.
Fate/Zero comes in announcing that there's going to be an epic war involving Big Ideas—but maybe 25-minute episodes and a 2-D screen are too small a space for those ideas.
It's Last Dark's job to clean up Blood-C TV's mess and patch up the damage it did to the franchise at large. That it succeeds is suitably impressive, but that doesn't necessarily make for great filmmaking.
While the Sword Beast sub-arc is far from being a highlight of the series, neither is it anywhere near being a lowlight. It is entertaining enough that slogging through it to get back to the main story is not too tedious.